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Managing Logistics for The World’s Largest Company with Gary Sostack

The Logistics of Logistics

We also searched for people with the best ideas and moved them to Saudi Arabia. We once had to move a prototype oil rig from Texas to Saudi Arabia. 11:47] Up until July of this year, Saudi Aramco was their own 3PL. The expected metrics were part of the contract. It had 2,500 pieces.

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How America's Clean Coal Dream Unravelled

Supply Chain Brain

The $7.5bn Kemper power plant once drew officials from as far as Saudi Arabia, Japan and Norway to marvel at a 21st-century power project so technologically complex its builder compared it to the moonshot of the 1960s. It’s promise? Energy from “clean coal.” “I’m

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Al-Soukya Selects SalesWarp Distributed Order Management Solution

Saleswarp

Al-Soukya, selects SalesWarp to improve operations, fulfillment, and customer service across Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Al-Soukya will also leverage the patented SalesWarp workflow engine for ongoing improvement as it continues to provide excellent fulfillment and service metrics to key customers like Nespresso.

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The Supply Chain Response to India’s Second Wave of Covid!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Saudi Arabia shipped 80 Metric tonnes of liquid oxygen to India and Portugal assured 20,000 litres of oxygen per week to India along with 5503 vials of Remdesvir. It also announced the supply of 3 to 4 lakh units of Remdesvir Injection, a Covid drug that India was falling short of.

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Make Bottleneck Management Your Biggest Priority

ThroughPut

Many intelligence tools aggregate data into a static series of metrics. It’s relatively easy to make changes to a supply chain that boost the performance metrics minimally or temporarily, but this is not the same thing as actually removing bottlenecks. Understand the objective. is the co-founder and CEO of ThroughPut Inc. ,

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This Week in Logistics News (August 13-17, 2018)

Talking Logistics

With parcel becoming a growing part of virtually every company’s transportation operations, gaining more real-time visibility to delivery status and other metrics is critically important. Any Parcel capacity providers not already on the network can be integrated in just two short weeks, free of charge.

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AI and Climate Change, Can Technology Save The Planet, and What’s Next for Green City Vancouver

Freightera

I grew up there, but also spent some time in Saudi Arabia, and because my family is from Pakistan, I spent some time there too. And then in Saudi Arabia, I saw how the Bedouins live in the desert, very in tune with their environment, and it’s a harsh environment. Some companies don’t disclose EST metrics.