Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 28, 2018

Submissions consist of case studies describing your company's supply chain innovation that emphasize innovative and measurable results. Finalists are asked to present their case studies at CSCMP's 2018 EDGE Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. You must be a CSCMP member to submit a case study. 2017 Winners and Finalists.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Supply chains are ‘strangling strategy’, with the movement of commodities so significant an issue that logistics is securitising. [1] 2] The integration between military and civilian sources of logistics and support are now extolled as underpinning the ADF’s ability to respond to crises in the future. [3].

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2018

The real-time freight visibility space was particularly hot in 2017, with two major acquisitions announced last year, including Descartes’s acquisition of MacroPoint in August 2017. In case you missed it, check out my short video interview with William and David and our write-up of the case study.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2018

While a degree of uncertainty over the future of free trade between Mexico and its Nafta neighbours to the north once again hung over discussions at this year’s Automotive Logistics Mexico conference, it was more than matched by confidence in the future of the automotive sector. vehicles were exported last year, up 12% on 2016.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The VP of Supply Chain and Logistics at our house (aka my wife) has been out of the country this week. So, while I count the days and hours and minutes until she gets back, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) Activates For Latest Major Hurricane Of 2018.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Shippers and third-party logistics providers are continuing to collaborate as they find solutions to meet their supply chain goals, improve efficiency, and manage their overall transportation spend. Penske Logistics sponsors both studies. The State of Logistics Report was unveiled earlier this year in Washington, D.C.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Here’s a Varsity Math question for you: The ATA projected a 50,000 driver shortage by the end of 2017 , but that’s off their estimate that there are 3.5 Talking Logistics episodes and posts related to transportation procurement and shipper-carrier relationships: Time to Squeeze Carriers for Better Rates? million truck drivers overall.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Shippers and third-party logistics providers are working to find efficiencies, improve service and develop innovative solutions as they navigate increasing freight levels, tight capacity and stricter consumer and retailer demands. Penske is once again a major conference sponsor. The 3PL Study is produced by Dr. Langley and Infosys.

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Women in Trucking

MARCH 9, 2020

Conference shared a variety of best practices. And more promising news: 76 percent of female 18- to 26-year-olds have a favorable impression of professional driving, according to a recent nationwide study by the Adcom Group, a marketing and communications firm. percent increase in female drivers from 2017 to 2018, Shaver says.

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Logistics in War

JUNE 15, 2018

In 2017, Logistics In War was privileged to have been given permission by the author to publish this essay. It is especially relevant to participants of the Australian and New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference and others elsewhere. By Hayden Marshall. It therefore does not reflect any official position.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Shippers and third-party logistics providers are continuing to collaborate as they find solutions to meet their supply chain goals, improve efficiency, and manage their overall transportation spend. Penske Logistics sponsors both studies. The State of Logistics Report was unveiled earlier this year in Washington, D.C.

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247 Customs Broker

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. Again and again, the quality of supply chain and logistics data is too low for companies to jump to the next maturity stage. Many of you have had the same observation. Compliance to U.S.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 25, 2017

A similar problem exists with supply chain and logistics software. Addressing this problem is at the heart of Manhattan Associates’ Active Solutions, which the company introduced a couple of weeks ago at its Momentum 2017 conference. Appointment Scheduling and Yard Management enhancements. User Experience improvements.

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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.

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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. Again and again, the quality of supply chain and logistics data is too low for companies to jump to the next maturity stage. Many of you have had the same observation.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

I got started just as the dotcom craze was taking off, with new logistics startups coming to market every day (all of them announcing they were “The world’s leading provider of X” even though they were just a few months old). Descartes has 20,000+ customers on its Global Logistics Network, which experienced 21% growth and processed 18.6+

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

Editor's Note: This is a guest blog from Freightos , is a SaaS-enabled marketplace for the logistics industry. As a bonus, at the Imagine 2014 Magento e-commerce Conference, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Malcolm McLean (just as he did in this Inc. Ceiling year of a study of 22 industrialised countries (Uni. Readers' choice!

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

AGCO Logistics Team Accepts Prestigious Supply Chain Award. Greg Toornman – vice president global materials, logistics and demand planning at AGCO – told more of this story in a panel at ARC’s Supply Chain Forum. Here is what Mr. Toornman said at the conference. “We The premise of the study was interesting.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 27, 2018

That was the key message Doug Braun, CEO of BluJay Solutions (a Talking Logistics sponsor), delivered in his keynote presentation at the SOAR 2018 Customer Conference last month. The interviews are a follow up to a research study I conducted this spring on behalf of BluJay focused on customer experience and supply chain innovation.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

As the fortunes of the logistics industry rise and fall with the automotive sector it serves, Turkey looks on the face of it to be a gloomy place to do business right now. For delivery firms such as ANT Logistics, the effect is not just a drop-off in business. billion in 2017, according to OSD figures. Parts worth $1.4

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

Given the swiftly changing logistics environment, those who navigate the new world we live in need a roadmap to guide their actions. The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals' annual State of Logistics report attempts to offer just such a map -- accompanied by some timely warnings. trillion in 2017, up 6.2%

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 3, 2019

Impressive advancements have been made in drone technology over the last few years and many believe that drones will play a key role in the logistics of the future, for internal business functions as well as deliveries to consumers. In fact, NASA estimates that there will be 7m drones in US skies alone by 2020. billion ($1.6

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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.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 5, 2019

Data from Dynamar, a Dutch maritime intelligence and consulting firm, shows that container traffic through Lomé grew threefold over the five years from 2013 to 2017. Lomé processed 311,500 20-foot equivalent units (TEU) in 2013, but more than 1,193,800 TEU in 2017. This connects the border of the country to the capital, Ouagadougou.

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247 Customs Broker

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. In May 2017, they started the installation of free wifi infrastructure across the city.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

ARC recently attended the August 2021 New England Public Power Association (NEPPA) conference, where Gordon Van Welie, President & CEO of grid operator ISO New England (ISO-NE) described the challenges to maintain reliable, low-cost power, while meeting the urgent goals to decarbonize electric power.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 24, 2018

A spokesperson for GM told Automotive Logistics this week that the company supported efforts to modernise Nafta in a way that would strengthen the North American automotive industry and position it for long-term success. The study also suggested withdrawing from Nafta altogether could more than double the number of jobs at risk.

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247 Customs Broker

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. India complimented Russia for successful organization of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 28, 2018

Another delegation was in Singapore to discuss logistics. ’ Here she arrives at the 2017 Moscow Nonproliferation Conference at the Centre for Energy and Security Studies. .’ ’ Here she arrives at the 2017 Moscow Nonproliferation Conference at the Centre for Energy and Security Studies.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 16, 2018

Indeed, digitalisation is now a buzzword in supply chain circles, as logistics innovators look for ways to improve operating platforms. Behind the frenzied hype of cryptocurrency and the attention bitcoin has received in the financial markets, blockchain has emerged as a digital technology tool that will transform the logistics landscape.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 2, 2019

As executive director of the ATA’s Automobile Carriers Conference (ACC), Farrell regularly coordinates lobbying efforts between the US House of Representatives and Senate, as well as related government oversight agencies, on issues pertaining to the transport of finished vehicles by truck. Democrats like to spend money.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

At NIST, we began an Internal Review Board Study to test the PoLoTAE on 180 subjects (30 subjects performing tests on six different PoLotAE tasks). This method is also a part of the IRB study to test it on 30 people. . To really do this well, sellers must join a distributed logistics ecosystem. . Blockchain.

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