Automotive Logistics

JULY 3, 2018

According to Fitch Group company BMI Research, 2018 will see a 4% growth in new vehicle sales in the UAE. Ross Thompson, chief commercial and strategy officer at Abu Dhabi Ports, emphasises that vehicle logistics is very important to most ports. . “We The system is definitely a key asset for Autoterminal,” Pierre Algeo says. “It

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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

A bill laying down the basis of a new national localisation strategy was published in August that is designed to replace the current industrial assembly agreements. . In 2017, Russia imported a total of 267,700 finished vehicles worth $6.7 What is clear, however, is that change is most definitely in the wind. .

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

But while China’s recent Africa strategy remains largely linked to the development of its ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative, Beijing seems to be shifting away from concessional debt lending and introducing new financing instruments that place greater emphasis on private-sector-led investments in project finance, including trade.

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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. How much is somewhat hard to say, but there is definitely some to be sure.

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APRIL 6, 2018

However, they tell our analysts at Peerless Research Group (PRG) that they’re still being charged with doing more with fewer resources—indicating that managing the complexity of e-commerce is adding a new layer of crisis management to the current job descriptions. However, managers are earning good money in their twilight years.

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APRIL 13, 2018

According to the 2017 U.N. For those advising companies on climate strategy, there is a well-established hierarchy of action. “If your company emits carbon, and you want to negate those emissions, it’s definitely the case that offsets can do that.” Billions of dollars are being invested in low-carbon technologies.

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Material Handling and Logistics

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The demographic makeup of the survey respondents didn’t change dramatically from last year to this year, so the obvious explanation—though certainly not a definitive explanation—is that we heard from more lower-salaried people this year than we have in the past.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 21, 2018

You are definitely seeing suppliers who have their main manufacturing operation in a central location here in the south-east but are also working with logistics service providers who are next to the plant. We separate our inventory into two groupings. For flexibility purposes, we see that as the key to our operational strategy. . “I

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In late 2017 I published a post of anecdotes, observations and lessons given by senior officers contacted through the course of academic research. The disclaimer provided in 2017 applies: This post is a collation of pertinent points imparted through these conversations. By David Beaumont. Logisticians and the ‘spirit of the age’.

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Logistics in War

DECEMBER 7, 2019

In late 2017 I published a post of anecdotes, observations and lessons given by senior officers contacted through the course of academic research. The disclaimer provided in 2017 applies: This post is a collation of pertinent points imparted through these conversations. By David Beaumont. Logisticians and the ‘spirit of the age’.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 16, 2018

That bruising experience forced carmakers to rethink their strategies. In November 2017, ICDP’s data suggests that inventories of landed stock for volume brands in Europe stood at over 80 days, up from 55 days in the early 2000s. Swennes estimates they were 15-20% higher than their typical pre-summer peak in 2017.

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

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

billion net loss, which was steeper than the FY 2017 $2.7 And between fiscal years 2017 and 2019, total USPS net losses came in at $69 billion and is expected to lose tens of billions over the next decade. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. billion net loss, while not as severe as the $5.5 billion net loss in FY 2016.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 15, 2015

In this bylined article , Ralf Russ, Accenture Managing Director, writes that by 2020, connected and intelligent products are predicted to be the biggest “user group” of the internet, estimated at 24 billion devices. ” Schulze says “orchestrated manufacturing” is a strategy for capitalizing on change wrought by Industry 4.0

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

Michael D’Angelo, manager of port operations for Volkswagen Group of America. We saw longer lead times that definitely impacted our customers.”. The shortage of rail cars that hit the industry through 2017 and to an extent is still a problem in North America has had knock-on effects that have compounded the capacity problem.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

administration apparently still settling its strategy for economically engaging other nations? Officials from the 11 member governments of the sans-U.S. retaliation. At the end of 2017 and beginning of 2018, a few senators slowed the confirmation process for several trade nominees. Sen. involvement in TPP stand?

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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. Be part of the technological advances sweeping the SCM world—a don’t resist them.

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