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Importance of declaring the correct cargo weight

Shipping and Freight Resource

In a recent article, I wrote about the basics of container stowage planning and why it is so important. In this article, I thought it would be worth reiterating the importance of being accurate in the declaration of the weights. For example, a client has some containers that weigh 27.5 instead of 27.5

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Walmart: 3 Keys to Successful Supply Chain Management any Business Can Follow

GlobalTranz

And on the subject of sustainability, SCDigest.com covered Walmart’s 2015 Sustainability report : Walmart, the world’s largest corporation, is fresh out with its 2015 sustainability report, the eighth such document it has produced. ” Walmart states early on. ” Walmart states early on. Decades in the Making.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

For example, how would you deal with the following situations in procurement? Read on for more about these examples in the text that follows. Stolen and black-market supplies are further examples. For example: If senior management does not know about the lack of ethics, or if it takes no action, then it is essentially inept.

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Understanding container weight misdeclaration

Shipping and Freight Resource

The penalty fee is applicable if there is a misdeclaration of cargo weight details at the time of submission of booking submission and if the weight deviates +/- 3 tons/TEU from the weight on the final Bill of Lading Instruction details and Verified Gross Mass (VGM) documentation. Few examples below.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

247 Customs Broker

An off-cited analysis from McKinsey in late 2017, for example, found automation could destroy as many as 73 million US jobs by 2030, about one third of all jobs in the country. For example, in a story I remembered that we ran in 2014, a company called Parkdale Mills had recently re-opened a factory near Gaffney, SC that now produces 2.5

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

247 Customs Broker

Gilmore Says… In a great example of the balance in this book, Sheffi notes the actual evidence of consumer preference for Green products is tenuous at best. In fact, after reading Sheffi’s examples, I’m surprised more companies haven’t been forced to be zealous advocates.

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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. . In the world of economics, articles abound regarding the controversial issue of whether in the future the U.S. For example, the NIST demonstration shows an assembly operation.