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Big changes coming to the supply line, just not where you thought they’d be

Kinaxis

As reported by The Guardian a number of European truck manufactures recently collaborated on creating a convoy of more than six semi-autonomous (semi-autonomous because there was still a back-up human driver) trucks that drove from Sweden and south Germany to a port in Rotterdam, Netherlands. But the story doesn’t end there.

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Shipping Containers and Supply Chain Snarls: Is There a Way Out?

Enterra Insights

Correspondent Bill Whitaker ( @BillWhitakerCBS ) reported, “Getting the goods from here to store shelves is proving to be a lot more daunting. Marketing expert Robby Pedraza explains, “During World War II, standard sized shipping containers were developed to ship military cargo to the front lines. Now, it takes nine.

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Supply Chain Movement Q3: Control Tower

Supply Chain Movement

Speaking from Seed Valley in the Netherlands, Global Head of Supply across Syngenta, Scott Kuhn, describes some of the challenges in evolving to a more customer-focused operating model. The military calls this environment “VUCA” and it stands for: Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity.

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Doing Business in Brazil

QAD

It abolished the monarchy and became a republic in 1889 before being thrown into several dictatorships and military rule. Argentina and the Netherlands. Brazilian businesses can pay tax rates as high as 64 percent of revenue, and it can take an average 2,000 hours per year to file all the reports and forms.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 16-20, 2016)

Talking Logistics

This follows last month’s demonstration of the European Truck Platooning Challenge , where “six brands of automated trucks – DAF Trucks, Daimler Trucks, Iveco, MAN Truck & Bus, Scania and Volvo Group – have been driving in columns (platooning), on public roads from several European cities to the Netherlands.”

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Experts Choice Of Top Online Logistics Resources

Freightos

So I went straight to the source and asked consultants, trade reporters, Wall Street Journal reporters and others, what their go-to logistics and supply chain sources were. This is the experts’ selection – but if we had to choose just one, our go-to read is the fast-rising WSJ Daily Logistics Report. Weekly/Monthly.

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We need more FEM in STEM

Enterra Insights

She was also extraordinary because she did these things in a military dominated by men and a field that over time became dominated by men.”[1] Ross reports, “The study found little difference between males and females in science literacy. Ben Paynter ( @bpaynter ) reports, “The Girl Scouts hopes to prepare at least 2.5