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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

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The goal is to reduce or avoid one billion metric tons (a gigaton) of greenhouse gasses from the global value chain by 2030. The state of New York is now permitting trucking companies and other qualified third parties to administer road tests for commercial driver licenses, a move to help address a shortage of commercial drivers in the state.

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Traditional Retail Performance Metrics Aren’t Measuring Up

Logility

New market dynamics should spur the retail industry to seek new ways of measuring performance. It may not be the news you were hoping for, but traditional retail success metrics are fast becoming obsolete in today’s economy. The current suite of metrics were built for a time that no longer exists. Time for action.

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Better ESG Performance Will Unlock Fashion’s Supply Chain Resilience in 2022

Logility

Technology purpose-built to support a sustainable supply chain provides the level of visibility and resources needed to help fashion and apparel brands navigate this swiftly changing landscape, monitor suppliers across all tiers, and capture the data and insight necessary to comply with new laws and fulfil stakeholder expectations.

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Infor’s Strategy for Differentiation

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Infor held an Innovation Summit at their headquarters in New York City on March 18 th and 19 th. The software architecture allows the value to be measured and those metrics are visible to the customer and the Infor success team. This in turn rests on developing solutions far more industry-focused than their competitors.

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Top Solutions for Supply Chain Agility

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Significant product enhancements include new environmental, social, and governance (ESG) features to allow planners to make emissions-informed decisions at the time of booking transportation, and a voucher payment process to compensate truckers for container moves in countries where the traditional prepaid model is not permitted by law.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 4 – 10)

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The chip manufacturer will establish dedicated production capacity exclusively for key auto suppliers of the Detroit automaker at its semiconductor facility in upstate New York, according to the companies. Once again warehousing metrics are the primary driver of logistic activity.

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The New Reality of Amazon FBA with Ephraim Ausch

The Logistics of Logistics

Ephraim started his career at a bulk candy company that had retail locations in New York. The new reality of Amazon FBA: Carriers picking up and delivering to Amazon locations will now be measured on a carrier performance scorecard. The new performance metrics were a result of carriers arriving late and or missing appointments.