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Takeaways from the 2018 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference

Kinaxis

In a highly inspiring key note presentation at the supply chain conference, Fareed Zakaria of CNN spoke about how the jobs recovery following the 2008 recession lagged the economic recovery by as much as 64 months while the same metric for the previous recessions was significantly narrower. Digital process prototypes.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Many metrics can be used to determine the top 3PL warehousing companies, such as company revenue, the number of warehouses, total warehouse square footage , etc. This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. Nippon Express owns more than 31.7

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Global Manufacturing PMI Levels Rise in January 2024

Supply Chain Matters

Further reported was that supplier delivery performance levels deteriorated for the first time attributed to trucking and transportation delays. This metric bears continual observation in the coming months. The separate Manufacturing ISM Report on Business® reported a January PMI value of 49.1, up 2 percentage points from the 47.1

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Q3 Economic Indicators and Statistics

American Global Logistics

Trade, transportation, and utilities cut jobs by 13, 000. It assesses supply chain conditions by integrating transportation costs and manufacturing. The GSCPI combines variables from several indices in transportation and manufacturing. Transportation utilization is increasing, and transportation prices are decreasing.

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Data is the New Gold

QAD

And both only started to become valuable for humans once we learned how to dig them out of the earth and process them as resources to become jewelry, or fuel for light, heating, transportation and energy. Starting in 2019, QAD Adaptive ERP includes a Cassandra data lake to capture both ERP and production execution data.

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Transportation. A KPI is a metric… but not just any metric. A KPI is a metric focused on a KEY element of business, departmental, or team performance. There is really nothing wrong with capturing a lot of metrics, especially with today’s powerful analytics software solutions to help. Warehousing.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

Some of the robots zip around the hulking facility transporting pallets of merchandise fresh off delivery trucks. The February Transportation Intelligence report from economic forecasting firm FR showed that U.S. Another resembling a giant arm moves the pallets onto conveyor belts. A third group are labelers. That’s all for this week.