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Private Blockchains Could Hurt the Shipping and Logistics Industry

Shipchain

Some companies are even hopping on the “blockchain bandwagon” without considering whether it’s actually useful in their industry. In the shipping and logistics industry, enterprises are already beginning to realize that private blockchains are simply not the solution they’ve been sold. EDI is prevalent in the industry today. .

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Intelligence…Sometimes Artificial

AIMMS

Tens of thousands of demand nodes, 2,000 supply nodes and industrial pricing are all synchronized to best effect every 15 minutes. The post Intelligence…Sometimes Artificial appeared first on AIMMS SC Blog. What about Configure, Optimize & Respond?

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Managing Supply Chain Disruptions in the Middle East

Locus

With heavy volumes of goods and sensitive information to be handled, it is necessary for the supply chain industry to strengthen its cyber security systems. Supply chain risk management maturity levels define how well a company has developed the risk management processes in comparison to industry benchmarks. Cyber attacks.

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The Impact Of The Amazon Effect On Traditional Freight Transport

Blue Grace Logistics

While the need for visibility and expedited shipping have long been an expectation within the supply chain industry, they are not possible without digitalization. While the need for visibility and expedited shipping have long been an expectation within the supply chain industry, they are not possible without digitalization.

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SHIP Staking and What it Means for ShipChain

Shipchain

In this blog post, we will explain its importance and provide you with the necessary tools to become a ShipChain network validator. Currently, several high-performance validator nodes are helping to secure the ShipChain network. It’s a massive milestone for us, and we are extremely proud of what we’ve built. Next Steps.

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How Blockchain Can Increase Your Supply Chain Security

Shipchain

And because public blockchains are backed up by the whole Ethereum network, with the entire community required to verify every node, supply chain security is boosted. While the benefits that blockchain could bring are clear, the industry has been slow to make big changes. This can help make data breaches a thing of the past.

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The Dispatch Report | March 2019, Issue No. 11

Shipchain

Dear Community, After over a year of round-the-clock development, we officially launched our state of the art platform in January 2019 , and now, we’re ready to take on the industry. ShipChain’s ideal customer is anyone managing a complex supply chain in essentially any industry that strives to stay ahead of the competition.