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Network Consolidation: A Step Forward for Market-Driven Value Networks?

Supply Chain Shaman

Today’s supply chain processes are inside-out with a focus on orders and shipments. We have automated transactional data; but there are no systems available to take independent demand data (channel data_ and move it through a multi-tier supply chain planning system. It has been too long coming.

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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 1.14 - 1.18

Freight Plus

In fact, in 2018 we saw investments go up across the entire supply chain technology spectrum.” Between 2016-2019, Texas plans to spend $6.6 FedEx Freight Direct will offer heavy and hard-to-handle item delivery to last-mile destinations in Atlanta, Omaha, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Dallas with a two-hour delivery window.