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This Week in Logistics News (January 27 – February 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon achieved its fastest-ever global shipping times last year but isn’t resting on its laurels. technology from helping China’s military. percent year-on-year decline in cargo ton miles to 1.8bn, although this metric increased by 9.5 While I like his optimism, I’ll believe it when I see it.

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Red Sea Ocean Transport Disruption Update

Supply Chain Matters

Shipping Lines Warn Red Sea Security Continues to Deteriorate Bloomberg reported last week that the CEO’s of two major shipping lines, which being Maersk and Norden, have both of the view that the security threat level of shipping traversing the Red Sea to and from the Suez Canal has continued to escalate. percent to 4.5

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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

Organizations then convert those demand forecasts to the associated quantities of raw materials to purchase, goods to be manufactured, or finished products to ship. It is important to benchmark forecast accuracy and similar supply chain metrics against your peers. Doing this, increases the benefits.

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NASCES 2016: End-to-End Supply Chain Management Transformations

Kinaxis

What kept nagging at me though is that the presentations were largely about “righting the ship” rather than “moving from ship to air.” And yet we continue to perpetuate organizational structures and work practices that were established in the Industrial Revolution based upon military concepts of command and control.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

It will allow for the automation of more complex warehousing tasks, such as unloading shipping containers and picking packets or individual e-commerce orders. Department of Defense has contracted with Savi on a multi-million dollar project designed to enable the DoD to track and monitor nearly 24,000 high-value military assets.

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Logistics Management Software – A Complete Handbook for Manufacturers

ThroughPut

With the help of a sound Logistics Management Software, manufacturers can effectively manage the multifaceted process involved right from the production cycle to the delivery of raw materials to shipping the finished products to the consumers. Before the 1950s, logistics was perceived in purely military terms.

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Logistics Management Software – A Complete Handbook for Manufacturers

ThroughPut

With the help of a sound Logistics Management Software, manufacturers can effectively manage the multifaceted process involved right from the production cycle to the delivery of raw materials to shipping the finished products to the consumers. Before the 1950s, logistics was perceived in purely military terms.