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Shipsta by Freightos Introduces Rate Refresh: The Future of Agile Procurement in 2025

Freightos

From COVID to geopolitical tension, the past five years have emphasized the need for procurement agility. From COVID to geopolitical tension, the past five years have emphasized the need for procurement agility. These external factors are near-impossible to predict, forcing more frequent tender updates to remain inline with the market.

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Welcoming Shipsta to Freightos

Freightos

Together, we can offer a complete solution that covers the digital procurement of both spot and contract freight services, across air, ocean, road, and rail. We estimate that tenders account for some 50%-70% of freight procured, at the lower end for air, at the higher end for ocean. The team is also a fantastic addition.I

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In respect to logistics and transport something remarkable happened at COP26. The initiatives launched at COP26 will significantly reshape the transport and logistics ecosystem, its fleets, its infrastructure and its practices. COP26 has received more attention than previous summits.

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Mindmap for Supply Chain Execution 24/7

Supply Chain Movement

Together with Consafe Logistics, a supplier of supply chain execution software, Supply Chain Movement has created this Supply Chain Execution Mindmap to outline the route, including road signs indicating potential hazards along the way. >>Please Luxembourg. Korea, Democratic People's Republic of. Korea, Republic of. Kyrgyzstan.

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Complex costs of transportation

Supply Chain Movement

To anticipate and respond to high customer demand, a modern Transportation Management System (TMS) needs to optimize inventory allocation. By consolidating at the source, several shipments can be combined into one, thereby reducing the number of shipments even before the shipments arrive at the Logistics Service Provider (LSP).

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Where Governments Fall Short in Combating Forced Labor in Supply Chains?—?And How They Can Improve

MIT Supply Chain

And How They Can Improve Media reports detailing abuses suffered by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang region of northwestern China cast a spotlight on society’s long-running failure to eradicate the use of forced labor from supply chains. Moreover, abuses may be occurring in the alternative sources of supply. If Xinjiang?—?or

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Mindmap High-Tech Supply Chain 4.0

Supply Chain Movement

Luxembourg. The sourcing department is challenged by increasing compliancy issues. The omni-channel business contributes greatly to Logistics headaches, even more because of the huge amounts of returns, frauds and claims. Korea, Democratic People's Republic of. Korea, Republic of. Kyrgyzstan. Lao People's Democratic Republic.