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Tool Enhances Ukraine-EU Rail Visibility

Logistics Business Magazine

The Visibility Map is the first large-scale European-wide tool that provides an end-to-end view of key rail corridors in and out of Ukraine. In the course of one year, roughly €55bn in freight is being processed on our platform. The post Tool Enhances Ukraine-EU Rail Visibility appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Top Tools for eCommerce Businesses

Ship Monk

Every fairy godmother needs her magic wand, every knight needs his shining armor, and every eCommerce business owner needs their tools. Tech tools, that is. Tools for Marketing (and Sales). Drift , a tool we use daily here at ShipMonk. The digital gadgets that allow for a smooth operation, day in and day out.

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Toyota Kata: What If There Is No Takt Time?

The Lean Thinker

If I need to make 96 units during the course of an 8 hour day, then I need to have made 48 units in four hours. We have to attack a source of variation and work on stability. Asking and answering these questions is the purpose of many of the “lean tools” – including takt time. Think of it this way.

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Trimble Completes Transporeon Acquisition

Logistics Business Magazine

As a leading cloud-based transportation management platform, Transporeon provides modular applications that power a global network for more than 150,000 carriers and 1,400 shippers and retailers with an integrated suite of best-in-class sourcing, planning, execution, monitoring and settlement tools.

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Philip Morris International’s Pivot to Smoke-Free Products Complicates their Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

But in 2016, Philip Morris International decided to change the course of its history by leading a transformation in the tobacco industry to create a smoke-free future based on products, which while not risk-free—are a better choice for adult smokers than continuing to smoke. The tool was able to create a model going out multiple years.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Everything from contrast dye, to tubing, to medical devices with embedded semiconductor chips would suddenly become difficult to source. Of course it would! What’s Next One of the tools Interos provides is the i-Score. But in 2021, “all of a sudden there were just completely random shortages that occurred with no warning.”

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What to Expect in 2019: MIT Business Experts Weigh In

Material Handling and Logistics

One of the biggest sources of financial uncertainty in 2019 will be international tariff policy and its impact on product demand. Software has always been a tool help companies become more profitable. Easier funding is, of course, important to business leaders, as is a modernized proxy system. Human Capital Management.