Talking Logistics

MAY 15, 2017

Comparing the headlines (September 7, 2016 and May 12, 2017). The French automaker Renault, for example, was forced to shut down factories across Europe. For example, cyber security was one of the topics we discussed at the Executive Forum track at the Descartes Evolution 2017 conference last month.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 27, 2018

From May 2016 through the end of August 2017, “17 CEOs of public Big Food manufacturers and retailers had departed, or announced their intention to,” according to an article published last September in Fortune. The theme of the conference was “Go Boldly Together.” Carl Melville (The Melville Group). Tim Koers (Visual Pak).

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Transplace Acquires Yusen Logistics’ Intermodal & Freight Brokerage Group. A TMS user, for example, can say to the system, “Show me all uncovered loads,” or an inventory manager can ask, “Which stores have less than three days inventory of product X?” Transplace Acquires Yusen Logistics’ Intermodal & Freight Brokerage Group.

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MARCH 20, 2018

It is a topic of daily discussion at every industry trade show and conference, while also getting a ton of attention in the form of commentary or data being issued fairly frequently. 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).

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MARCH 15, 2018

The brand is therefore an integral component of this highly emotional sporting and entertainment experience with global reach,” says Arjan Sissing, head of Corporate Brand Marketing at Deutsche Post DHL Group. In 2017, the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport team took home the award. Last year, the award went to Lewis Hamilton.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I will be wrong again,” I stated last year before making my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2017 , and I was right. But I was right with some of my other predictions, especially my prediction that we would see a rise in cyber attacks in 2017, with supply chain and logistics operations becoming new targets. per barrel.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MARCH 1, 2019

Spurring innovation, food safety and quality capacity strengthening and economic resilience This year’s Africa Day of School Feeding comes at the heels of the first ever Future of Food Safety Conference held at the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. million schoolchildren across the nation every week.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

LMC warns that OEMs facing the biggest challenges are those most exposed to the local market, such as Fiat Tofas, which saw production drop from 384,174 in 2017 to just over 300,000 last year. That was almost twice the amount exported to the EU by Japan, the second-largest supplier of vehicles to the EU based on 2017 figures.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Bilateral forums, conferences, meetings and seminars happen more often than one can count, and usually result in numerous announcements – ranging from memoranda of understanding (MoU) to billions of financial commitments. This makes Australia the largest international miner in Africa. Finally, Beijing. of China’s overall FDI.

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MARCH 27, 2018

At this year’s SMC3 JumpStart conference, which was held in Atlanta in January, keynote speaker Adrian Gonzalez, head of Adelante SCM, explained to attendees that despite the early traction blockchain has received, it is still too early to gauge its impact. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. About the Author.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2018

Last fall after attending the CSCMP conference in Atlanta, I shared my observation that digital transformation is now a central theme in the industry. The Hackett Group provides a useful visual for describing the maturity stages that supply chain is moving through as the industry strives to leverage data and advanced analytics.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2019

passenger cars were produced in the Czech Republic in 2017. As of 2017, the UK ranked second in terms of exported cars with a share of 10.5% In 2017, assembly plants in Slovakia manufactured 1.03m finished vehicles, estimates Alexander Matusek, president of the Slovak Automotive Industry Association. “The

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Local Caption Defence’s Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG) together with BAE Systems Australia have delivered an essential ammunition capability to the Australian Defence Force three months ahead of schedule. Logistics and the strangling of strategy, 2017, Logistics and the strangling of strategy – Logistics In War. [2]

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 16, 2018

Apparently in response to this cyber attack, Maersk announced a new partnership with IBM in December 2017 that would use blockchain technology to digitise the logistics company’s operational platform, enhance cargo visibility and mitigate future data breaches across its end-to-end supply chain. Make no mistake,” Mike White commented.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 15, 2018

In 2017, it saw a recovery in the automotive sector in Europe and a shortage of transport capacity in the market. At the press conference in Paris in January, Nadal said the company was opening up to new industrial sectors including aviation, manufacturing, energy, life sciences and healthcare, among others.

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Automotive Logistics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

cars between January and August this year, virtually unchanged from the same period in 2017. Its facility is surrounded by its main tier one suppliers from Hyundai Motor Group, such as Hyundai Mobis, WIA and Powertech. According to VW’s Minutti, for example, Volkswagen is strengthening its “model offensive” in the area.

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Automotive Logistics

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Europe’s finished vehicle sector faces several big challenges in coming months, as speakers at the recent ECG conference in Germany made clear. At last week’s annual conference of the Association of European Vehicle Logistics (ECG), held in Mainz, Germany, speakers discussed what they were doing to tackle these problems.

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APRIL 18, 2018

With a gross domestic product (GDP) of about US$136bn in 2017, the city is already acclaimed to have the seventh-largest GDP in Africa. So did Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichal in July 2017. Although the Dubai example is perhaps a long shot, the promoters of Smart City Lagos are right to aim that high.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The company was founded by a small group of former APL executives and staff who spent their time at the ocean carrier devising the most efficient means to move containers from the ships, on and off the piers, and into the nation’s commerce. 15, 2017 Apparel Importers Trade and Transportation Conference in New York. “A

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2018

In a further example of Android-based ‘micro-applications’, another customer’s requirement for vehicle data capture had outgrown the capabilities of a simple yard scanner, and so was supplemented by paper-based data capture, recorded on a batch basis. The Volkswagen Group has become a prime example. Not so monolithic any more.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 3, 2019

They operate with less infrastructure than other technologies, for example–stocktaking without forklifts and personnel.”. BMW, for example, has started to use dronesat its factory in Leipzig to count external storage bins for parts – work that was previously done by personnel. Robert Garbett, founder of Drone Major Group.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In recent years, firms both large and small have launched new “Data Science” or similarly named groups. I personally know of several Fortune 500 firms today that have large internal data science groups which literally did not exist five years ago. For example, the NIST demonstration shows an assembly operation.

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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Using localised engines or transmissions will score 40 points, for example, while electronic systems or aluminium of Russian origin will score 20 points. . In 2017, Russia imported a total of 267,700 finished vehicles worth $6.7 During the first six months of 2018, the country imported 138,300 vehicles worth $3.43

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 24, 2018

of them driving around it, making it the second largest in China for vehicle numbers behind Beijing – and it was to Chengdu that delegates headed last week for this year’s Automotive Logistics China conference. CATRC’s director of policy research, Wu Songquan, said China had seen 14 consecutive months of growth since January 2017.

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

Subsequent to the successful implementation of the Protocol on Foreign Office Consultations for the period 2017-18, the Sides agreed to extend the period of Consultations for five more years (2019-2023) and signed a Protocol to this effect. The Sides expressed their support to promoting bilateral trade in national currencies.

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MAY 10, 2018

Earlier this month, LM Group News Editor Jeff Berman caught up with Greg Gantt president and CEO of national less-than-truckload carrier Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL) at the National Shippers Strategic Transportation Council (NASSTRAC) conference in Orlando, Fla. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. About the Author.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

One example is the port of Los Angeles, which has worked with GE Transportation and last year introduced a cloud-based port optimiser that provides real-time information on cargo through a single portal that is made available to all the partners involved in the processing of it. Q&A: Anu Goel, Volkswagen Group of America.

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APRIL 17, 2018

Last fall after attending the CSCMP conference in Atlanta, I shared my observation that digital transformation is now a central theme in the industry. The Hackett Group provides a useful visual for describing the maturity stages that supply chain is moving through as the industry strives to leverage data and advanced analytics.

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