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This Week in Logistics News (April 16-19, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Back in 2013, I wrote the following under the banner of “Siri Comes to Enterprise Apps”: Instead of manually executing tasks with a mouse or touch screen, why not speak them? Sticker Snafu Has Millions in Imports Stuck in Argentina’s Warehouses (Bloomberg). OOIDA Leading Fight Against House Bills to Allow Younger Truck Drivers (HDT).

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This Week in Logistics News (May 8-12, 2017)

Talking Logistics

I remember meeting Karl Siebrecht, co-founder and CEO of FLEXE , a few years ago at the CSCMP Annual Conference not long after the company had launched. According to a Bloomberg article : Iron Mountain signed on with Flexe two years ago to sell extra space in its 1,000 facilities in 90 markets. and up come the results on the screen.

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Trucking Rates Looking to Increase: The Driving Factors & What You Can Do About It

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Further, as JOC.com wrote in a recent article about the Wall Street Journal an alysis: At the moment, shippers at the NASSTRAC conference said capacity is more balanced than a year ago, in the aftermath of the disruptive polar vortex cycle of winter storms. told the conference. . told the conference.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

Part Two offered examples where militaries get it right, and a number of examples where events did not transpire as well as they might. These articles might suggest to some that any attempts to devote time to addressing logistics readiness are likely to fail. I described the interplay between logistics and readiness.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 10-14, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Some examples of what a user could ask Coleman: – “Coleman, what is the accounts receivable balance for ACME Corp?” According to an article in the Wall Street Journal : Transfix has raised a total of $78.5 million since its founding in 2013.

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Preparing for preparedness – how should we begin?

Logistics in War

Part Two offered examples where militaries get it right, and a number of examples where events did not transpire as well as they might. These articles might suggest to some that any attempts to devote time to addressing logistics readiness are likely to fail. I described the interplay between logistics and readiness.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

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As a bonus, at the Imagine 2014 Magento e-commerce Conference, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Malcolm McLean (just as he did in this Inc. Magazine article) as a goliath looking to take on the entrenched "David" shipping industry. Example of the massive decrease in dock workers as a result of containerisation. Readers' choice!