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The Power of Outsourcing for Supply Chain Improvement

Logistics Bureau

Across our many blog posts, videos, webinars, eBooks, and other shared content, you’ll find a wealth of information about various aspects of outsourcing in the supply chain. However, I can’t recall writing a general guide about exploiting outsourcing opportunities to improve your supply chain.

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Freight Innovation and the Lesson from a Dead Remote Control Tech Play

Freightos

Freightos and WebCargo have put out a unified global freight booking platform, connecting carrier pricing, capacity, and ebooking with forwarders (that’s WebCargo), while connecting forwarders with importers (www.freightos.com). Of course, we’re not the only solution. And it’s where I think potential disruption lies. Source: Apple ).

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The Top 5 Manufacturing Blogs of 2016 …So Far

GlobalTranz

Get Your FREE eBook Here. Over the past decade, the application of e-commerce in manufacturing and industrial distribution, has evolved from basic communication and transaction channel between buyer and seller, to an end-to-end collaboration medium between all stakeholders. 6 Manufacturing Trends to Watch Out for in 2016.

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Bridging Two Realms: The Digital-Analog Dance in Logistics

Freightos

Carriers representing half of global capacity digitized, means that half are not and, of course, even those that are still have huge, sometimes the majority – of their pricing, capacity, and booking taking place either offline or in disparately siloed platforms. All inline with the initial digital booking. Both are key.

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Industry Experts Discuss Technology Trends & Solutions for Efficient Ecommerce Logistics – Supply Chain 24/7

247 Customs Broker

Of course, TMS still needs good analytics and planning logic, especially when it comes to what Clark calls “deconstructing” truckloads into less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments to see if breaking orders into LTL moves makes sense for both service level and costs. Distributed Order Management (DOM) Evolves. Blockchain Meets Supply Chain.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

As a disclaimer, WebCargo , a Freightos Group company, does offers digital services to global forwarders and carriers, including online sales portals, digital eBooking, multimodal rate management and the Freightos.com freight marketplace. . The shift to full end-to-end integration, of course, leaves no one else in the middle.

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7 Key Supply Chain Leaders’ Skills and Why You Need Them

Logistics Bureau

In any case, an excellent place to start is by knowing what the most vital supply chain leaders’ skills are and, of course, why you need them. It will help if you know automation technology, too, since more and more companies are applying automation in distribution centres and warehouses. Project Management Skills.