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The Global Trade Compliance Market is Crazy!

Logistics Viewpoints

Many multinationals have engineered their global supply chains to minimize taxation by creating subsidiaries in low taxation nations like Switzerland, Ireland, and Singapore. Secondly, one core supply chain application is a transportation management system. That approach to taxation engineering is less potent than it used to be.

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ABB’s Daniel Helmig: “We are moving to virtual centres of expertise”

Supply Chain Movement

Daniel Helmig, head of ABB’s Supply Chain management, is currently busy implementing supply chain transformation throughout the company’s 450 plants and many project sites as the company consolidates back end processes and establishes ten global transportation management centres. “It Written by Helen Armstrong.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 7-11, 2019)

Talking Logistics

Source: “Competing on Customer Experience: The Driving Force Behind Supply Chain Innovation,” Adelante SCM & BluJay Solutions, 2018. New in Transportation Management Systems (TMS). In other TMS news, BlueGrace Logistics announced a new release of its BlueShip® Transportation Management System (TMS) software.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 15-19, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Second, IBM announced that it has made “nearly 44,000 lines of code available to the Linux Foundation’s open source Hyperledger Project to help developers easily build secure distributed ledgers that can be used to exchange most anything of value.” The company also launched IBM Garages for blockchain app design and implementation.

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Complex costs of transportation

Supply Chain Movement

Supply Chain Movement and software vendor Eyefreight have developed this checklist to provide to pinpoint the key drivers of Freight Spend Management. To anticipate and respond to high customer demand, a modern Transportation Management System (TMS) needs to optimize inventory allocation. Saint Lucia. Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

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Three Keys for 4PL Success

BlueYonder

As the world’s supply chains grow larger and more complex, and face increasing disruptions, it only makes sense for companies to rely on a single source of expert guidance for storing, transporting and distributing their products worldwide. Based in Singapore, Ryan has a keen understanding of global logistics success factors.