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6 Tips to Build a Logistics Metrics Scorecard That Guides Decisions

FreightWaves SONAR

Partners need to be empowered and have full visibility to shift suppliers, manufacturers or even global production locations based on uncontrollable events at a moment’s notice. Industry events, whether held online or in person, are also great opportunities to discover new partners and connect with new vendors outside your standard network.”.

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How Big Data And Analytics Are Transforming Supply Chain Management

The Logistics Academy

Of course supply chains have for a long time now been driven by statistics and quantifiable performance indicators. But the sort of analytics which are really revolutionizing industry today – real time analytics of huge, rapidly growing and very messy unstructured datasets – were largely absent.

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Another liner shipping crypto-token emerges

247 Customs Broker

Smart contracts are based on blockchain technology that allow specific business events to trigger payments. The GSCP is meant to provide the industry with a single registry, with the tokens designed to foster “all kinds of transactions related to container handling” within the platform, Blockshipping said.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

247 Customs Broker

I often think of that story when I ponder the impact of “robots” of all sorts on jobs and thus society itself. There are many estimates out there about the impact of robots all sorts on employment, some more gloomy than others, but most to my mind rather depressing. Of course we all need to up our game.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

247 Customs Broker

And of course most can’t. Of course, consumer brand companies are especially at risk from being tarred with an anti-sustainability brush. Of course we all need to up our game. Who can really get control of that is the question. Jade. Posted on: Oct, 02 2016.