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This Week in Logistics News (July 15 – 21)

Logistics Viewpoints

While still in the early stages of development, the emerging technology will instantly transport an item once it is picked at a warehouse or store to your living room. The prime minister’s office convened a meeting of its crisis cabinet committee to discuss the situation. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Insights from Ryder Innovate 2014

Talking Logistics

The value of peer-to-peer learning and networking was evident at last month’s Ryder Innovate conference — “an exclusive gathering of senior leaders in transportation, logistics, and supply chain seeking strategic insight, new ideas, and thought leadership to improve their supply chain and fleet operations.”

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New Opportunities for Students in Supply Chain!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Students studying supply chain management have a greater opportunity to learn and seek ways to benefit from the present and future opportunities. Talent development. Finding and recruiting new talent is not business as usual for companies because the new normal demands are attracting digital talent to enhance the supply chain.

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Planned Obsolescence in the Durable Goods Industry

Logility

percent in May as demand for transportation equipment fell 1.0 Durable goods companies need to aggressively pursue the adoption of advanced supply chain capabilities by building a robust multi-phase plan to improve business process and data management capabilities, enabling systems, and talent management processes.

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Planned Obsolescence in the Durable Goods Industry

Logility

percent in May as demand for transportation equipment fell 1.0 Durable goods companies need to aggressively pursue the adoption of advanced supply chain capabilities by building a robust multi-phase plan to improve business process and data management capabilities, enabling systems, and talent management processes.

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Robotic Process Automation and the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

Quirk cites a 2017 study published by the Information Services Group (ISG) that concluded, “This kind of automation technology is allowing for a 43 percent reduction in resources needed for order-to-cash processes, 34 percent for invoicing, and 32 percent for vendor and talent management.” ”[6].

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ThroughPut Inc. Appoints World-Renowned Just-in-Time, Lean & Kaizen Expert Mr. Takao Sakai to Executive Advisory Board

ThroughPut

As Ali showed me at our first meeting at the San Jose Marriott in 2017, ThroughPut’s Kaizen AI is truly unique in its current capabilities and ambitions.” He gives seminars globally, evangelizing the Toyota-Way of product development, product development organizations, and talent management. ThroughPut Inc.