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This Week in Logistics News (September 5-9, 2016)

Talking Logistics

The kids are back at school, we have air conditioning again, and North Korea tested a nuclear bomb yesterday. “If Moving on to software news, Oracle announced that it is acquiring LogFire, a provider of cloud-based warehouse management applications. Everything is back to normal. I’m rooting for love.

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I Will Be Wrong Again: Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2017

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Russia, Iran, North Korea, and ISIS : Call them “The Unpredictables” (you can probably add China to the mix too). planes and ships ); Iran and North Korea and their nuclear ambitions; ISIS exporting its brand of terrorism around the world; and China building islands in the South China Sea (and reportedly putting weapons on them ).