World Food Programme Logistics

JUNE 15, 2020

In 2017 only one female worked in its IT department, now there are 10 and is likely to increase. She qualified to pursue her dream course in civil engineering. The funny thing is I never had a dream of studying Information Technology,” she says with a hearty smile. “I She scored highly in science subjects at school.

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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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Bringg

AUGUST 5, 2020

Back in 2017, the Click & Collect Retail Consumer Preference Study revealed that nearly one third of shoppers made an online purchase and subsequently picked their order up at a store during the 2016 holiday season. And, of course, the chain of custody gets tricky and will require digital proof of delivery.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 30, 2018

There is a significant gender disparity – for example, in 2015, 84% of trips were made by men. And of course, it doesn’t take into account the number of defectors, most of whom leave North Korea over the Chinese border. A Washington Post investigation found that 1,086 North Korean postgraduates studied in China in 2015.

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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. 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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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

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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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 20, 2018

units in 2017, up 18% from the year before, according to figures from global automotive association, OICA. However, the US administration could quite easily target linked companies – for example Renault’s alliance partner, Nissan – and no-one is willing to take the chance. Vehicle production in Iran had climbed to 1.5m Pulling out.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 19, 2018

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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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 13, 2018

This article was produced for the NTU-SBF Centre for African Studies , a trilateral platform for government, business and academia to promote knowledge and expertise on Africa, established by Nanyang Technological University and the Singapore Business Federation. Sub-Saharan Africa is undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in history.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 31, 2018

To become better in tune with its non-Japanese customers, Nippon Express has increasingly appointed senior managers throughout the world who are most familiar with their respective markets. In the United States, the company in 2017 appointed Hassapis, formerly of UTi, who along with Steve Concannon as vice president of U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2022

A press release from October of 2021 stated that solutions sold by the Group over the course of one year result in the avoidance of around 1,300 million tons of CO2 emissions over those product’s lifespan. The Coupa tool provides a much more efficient way to conduct cost saving/sustainability studies. There were also freight savings.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 21, 2019

Of course, West Coast ports may see short-term volume adjustments from trade policies due to concentrated trade with the Asia-Pacific region, a trend observed in the second quarter and third quarter of 2018. This differs from the relatively balanced cargo growth in calendar 2017 for both the East Coast (up 7.8%) and the West Coast (up 6.3%).

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The Logistics Academy

JUNE 29, 2017

Collecting data from sensors to monitor activities in real time is valuable, of course. For example, if a truck hits an object with substantial force, it might send a text or e-mail to a supervisor. LIFT TRUCK NETWORK. “The network effect is greater than any one thing inside it.”

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Automotive Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In late August 2017, Hurricane Harvey – the storm that devastated the Caribbean, flattening Puerto Rico – made landfall on the Texas coast. Globally, extreme weather events are not uncommon, of course. Independent scientific studies show a similar picture, adds James Sadlier, director of claims agent and risk adviser Sevatas.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

retaliation. At the end of 2017 and beginning of 2018, a few senators slowed the confirmation process for several trade nominees. Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., in January announced he would hold all trade nominees over unspecified concerns about USTR engagement with his office. William Reinsch, Scholl chair, Center for Strategic.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

The skills enhancement program, dubbed Strategic Capabilities Planning, will include a mix of internally supply chain programs, systems education and external APICS courses – APICS is now part of the Association for Supply Chain Management. The premise of the study was interesting.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Of course, there can be no stronger motivation than legislation, but money comes a very close second, and the potential cost savings offered by the circular supply chain are substantial. A single mistake at the beginning of the supply chain, for example, can jeopardise the ability to meet service-promises to hundreds of customers.

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Freightos

JANUARY 17, 2017

Where Freight is Going in 2017. For example, note how prior to the Hanjin bankruptcy there was a 30% markup from the 10% percentile of pricing to the 90%. The 90% percentile prices, of course, stayed the same. The post Transparency and Overcapacity: Where Freight is Going in 2017 appeared first on Freightos.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The shift to full end-to-end integration, of course, leaves no one else in the middle. The first is size , of course, with Maersk running over 17% of global ocean capacity , but also selling land-services to just under 20% of those same customers. Other sources reported that DB Schenker was not the only forwarder making this shift.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JULY 11, 2018

Kearney study. imports from traditional offshoring countries in 2017. Kearney partner and co-author of the study. Kearney principal and co-author of the study. Study Findings. The 2017 data shows a return to the historical offshoring trend for electronics," notes Brooks Levering, A.T.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

As the phenomenon of Big Data has taken hold in the private sector, many firms which as recently as 10 years ago devoted minimal resources to large scale database mining and analytics have reversed course. For example, the NIST demonstration shows an assembly operation. Once in, you’ve got to stay the course. Blockchain.

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