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The State of Supply Chain Trends Part IV: Data Analysis, Wearables, and the Cloud

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In fact, up to 70 percent of companies surveyed in Europe have already implemented cloud-based solutions to enable rapid scalability and flexibility. While this idea seemed ground-breaking in 2006, it has become a commonplace aspect of nearly all Walmart locations.

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Retail Container Traffic Is Falling.

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The ports surveyed handled 1.46 million TEU set in October 2006. percent from August 2006 and September was down 1.9 percent from September 2006.) "Matching supply to demand is a basic principle of sound business practices." That's down 1.3 percent from September's 1.48 million TEU, and 3.5 percent from the record high 1.51

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Same concerns remain, when it comes to the truck driver shortage

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A good example of that was apparent in an October 2017 survey of 1,500 motor carriers conducted by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI). The ATRI survey found that the driver shortage topped the list of concerns the industry is facing, marking the first time since 2006 that it was the chief concern.

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Back to Basics in 2007 - 3PL Defined

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3PL Partnerships Are Growing According to a 2005 Cap Gemini study, North American organizations planned to outsource 56% of their logistics expenditure by 2006 – 2008, with Western Europe planning 81% and Asia-Pacific 60%. Achieving Strategic Outsourcing Unfortunately, only a few 3PL companies achieve strategic status with their customers.

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C-TPAT Survey - Be careful what you ask for.

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C-TPAT survey gives members chance to sound off Are companies who participate in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism really achieving tangible efficiencies by partnering with the U.S. CBP turned to the University of Virginia to help design and conduct the survey. government to secure their international supply chains?

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

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“Although a number of surveys show consumers say they want sustainable products, only a small percentage of them are actually willing to pay more to buy sustainable products,” Sheffi notes. Please check out my blogs on the subject at www.zipxpress.net. Carsten Baumann.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

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. Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. Please check out my blogs on the subject at www.zipxpress.net. Carsten Baumann.