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Editor’s Pick: Be a Digital Disruptor and Win

Talking Logistics

Yet in 2001, the Polaroid Corporation filed for federal bankruptcy protection because the company failed to make the smooth transition from analog to digital cameras. By keeping abreast of changes in demand, businesses can follow the trends and adjust their strategies to embrace these changes, which will help them to thrive and grow profits.

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Fritz inducted into Logistics Hall of Fame

Logistics Business Magazine

Entrepreneurs and managers from the transport and logistics sector are honoured who have been particularly successful in promoting their companies or who have set a trend-setting impulse. “Lynn C. With the TRATON Logistics Leader of the Year Award, the organisation honours those who set the pace and create the future of logistics.

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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations

Logistics in War

Supply chains are ‘strangling strategy’, with the movement of commodities so significant an issue that logistics is securitising. [1] Of all the ‘pillars’ of the national support strategy, the most consequential was the issue of mobilisation. 1] Beaumont, D., 2] Beaumont, D., 3] Marles, R.,

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The State of Your Supply Chain Affects the Level of Your Inventory 

Blue Grace Logistics

When organizations use this strategy to design their supply chain they inevitably improve their inventory management. When organizations use this strategy to design their supply chain they inevitably improve their inventory management. The reports and trends can be used for making informed decisions.

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What Is Connected Vehicle And History of Connected Vehicles

FueLoyal

In 2001, vehicle manufacturers would install remote diagnostics in their connected vehicles, to let them diagnose problems within the vehicle much quicker. What Are Some Connected Vehicle Trends? This is all the use of open and closed-loop control strategies used in car mechanics. Additional connected vehicle features.

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[Infographic] How did Reshoring and 3rd Party Logistics Operations fare in 2016?

GlobalTranz

Reshoring was set to become a major trend as well, but at the close of the year, actual reshoring and nearshoring efforts did not surpass most logistics trends. Meanwhile, expanding the level of services offered by 3PLs stood out as the leading logistics trend throughout the year. As explained by Apple Rubber , more than 2.4

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling and Logistics

NOTE: Ron Giuntini also participated in the roundtable, but his contribution on the servitization trend will appear in a separate article. . They also agreed that the currently hot economic growth trend will cool down but not reverse its advance next year. Jim Tompkins, CEO, Tompkins International. ? Automation, Robots and AI.