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Case Study: How Yale Dealer Helped Soft Paper Producer

Logistics Business Magazine

At the same time, it is necessary to move large quantities: the paper machines have an almost insatiable appetite for waste paper and pulp – the two key raw materials in paper making. Two electric forklifts are fitted with bale clamps and one heavy-duty forklift even has shears to cut the wire on waste paper bales.

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Sitma named “outstanding company” by Kotler

Logistics Business Magazine

Sitma, a specialist in designing and producing solutions for automation in the logistics industry, has been chosen as a case study for the book Essentials of Modern Marketing by Philip Kotler together with Weevo, which looked at more than 30 examples of outstanding Italian companies in different fields of production.

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Managed Services Clarifies Data In The Chemical Supply Chain

Trinity Logistics

Examples of basic reports include freight spend totals, shipment statuses, and shipment volume reports. For example, with carriers you can view costs of carriers used, late fees accrued, any unnecessary detention charges and more. Money is often wasted on unknown and unnecessary expenses. Reporting & Analyzing.

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Cost to Serve Analysis—And the Costs of Neglecting It

Logistics Bureau

Discounting prices for a known loss as part of a deliberate strategy to gain customers and increase sales is one thing, but unwittingly selling products at a loss is simply a waste. View case study Learn more about cost-to-serve benefits. How can you assess the effect of price discounts without understanding your service costs?

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The Secret of Getting Ahead (Takeaways from Command Alkon ELEVATE 2018 Conference)

Talking Logistics

It also matters because federal and state agencies and competitive pressures will also demand it (see, for example, the Federal Highway Administration’s e-Construction and Partnering initiative). Business Cases and Success Stories. Getting Started with Digital Transformation.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

247 Customs Broker

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. Most sustainability books in my view do not present the full 360 view. What do you say? .

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

247 Customs Broker

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