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Leveraging Your Bargaining Power in Logistics Service Provider Negotiations

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Coupled with softening customer demand and the return of air-cargo belly capacity, the current airfreight market condition presents a perfect opportunity for shippers to regain, maintain and balance influence and control. This engagement advances knowledge and expertise for logistics practitioners across the spectrum of supply chain topics.

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Smart Glasses and Beyond: Harnessing the Full Potential of Augmented and Mixed Reality

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This is made possible in the -Industrial Metaverse, where information and data are digitalised and are presented using augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) tools to target the needs of businesses and blue-collar workers on the shop floor and enable efficiency and productivity in industrial environments. of overall GDP.”

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This Week in Logistics News (October 10-14, 2016)

Talking Logistics

As I drink another glass of water and eat some salty snacks, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Descartes Acquires Appterra. Rwanda Launches World’s First National Drone Delivery Service Powered By Zipline. Amazon to Expand Grocery Business With New Convenience Stores (WSJ – sub.

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Supply Chain Comment onTrip Report for CSCMP Edge 2018 in Nashville

Supply Chain Digest

Content Best in Quite Some Time, with Outstanding Keynote Presentation from Zipline CEO on Drone System, in Rwanda

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From the Farmer to the Foil: The Cacao Supply Chain Challenge

SupplyShift

The drop in prices has stressed both labor and natural resources at the source, but one company has embarked on a mission to alter the historical marketplace and ensure success and stability for every actor in the cacao supply chain. Such efforts are impossible without being able to trace the cocoa to the source.

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From the Farmer to the Foil: The Cacao Supply Chain Challenge

SupplyShift

The drop in prices has stressed both labor and natural resources at the source, but one company has embarked on a mission to alter the historical marketplace and ensure success and stability for every actor in the cacao supply chain. Such efforts are impossible without being able to trace the cocoa to the source.

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Manufacturing Pulse Report 2016

Supply Chain Movement

This shift to direct selling is making itself felt on manufacturers’ supply chains and their profitability. As the online channel grows in popularity, how will manufacturers build a digital supply chain that supports the burgeoning digital relationshipwith their customers? Manufacturing Pulse Report 2016. Philippines.