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What is Supply Chain Visibility and Why Isn’t It Enough?

Logistics Viewpoints

In a survey of 150 global manufacturing executives, 47% committed to improving supply chain visibility and tracking. According to the Global Supply Chain Disruption and Future Strategies Survey Report, this goal was the top-ranked planned tool investment. This example illustrates why supply chain visibility isn’t enough.

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Energy Efficiency Is Key to Better Logistics

Material Handling and Logistics

Logistics providers have discovered that sustainability in the supply chain delivers a good ROI. This is where it gets tricky, according to Yossi Sheffi, director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. This solution has not been overlooked by logistics companies. Last-Mile Delivery.

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Manufacturing Mobility Movement: The 5 Pillars & Why Executives Must Pay Attention

GlobalTranz

On January 9, 2007, Apple radicalized how the modern world functions with the announcement of the iPhone. Since 2007, the face of mobility has changed, although a term used to describe the movement of a person, object, or body part, manufacturing mobility refers to how a manufacturer can connect and improve technology.

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Deutsche Post DHL Group | Apr 24, 2018: CEO Frank Appel at the Annual General Meeting: “We are strongly positioned for a successful future”

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. “We manage our business in a way that ensures we make a positive contribution to society,” he said, adding that Deutsche Post DHL Group had achieved this again in the past year, as regular customer and employee surveys had shown. ” Shaping the future of logistics. It is now time to go up a gear.”

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Air Cargo Tech Is Falling Behind. It Doesn’t Have to.

Freightos

Electronic airway bills (eAWB) are a familiar example. While electronic passenger tickets were introduced in 1994 and reached a 97% penetration rate by 2007, the eAWB standards was adapted as an IATA standard in 2010, and adoption in 2018 still hovers at 53%. To date, the industry has a poor track record of creating usable standards.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

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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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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

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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