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Excel Goes Blockchain (Microsoft and IBM Partnership)

Talking Logistics

Microsoft Excel is arguably the most widely used supply chain and logistics application , while blockchain is one of the most talked about emerging technologies in the industry, promising to transform the way companies share data and execute transactions with their trading partners. That’s where blockchain technology comes in.

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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.

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Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

Logistics Viewpoints

A graph database stores nodes and relationships instead of tables, or documents. The data required will be different in different industries. Companies in an industry need to collaborate more effectively to accelerate the ability to plan based on high quality ESG data. Gottemukkala asserts.

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Announcing the Launch of ShipChain Mainnet

Shipchain

Its mainnet provides one of the highest levels of functionality available in the freight and logistics business today; and its exciting capabilities provide public tools for the supply chain industry to improve itself. Robust document management. Becoming a ShipChain Validator / Node Operator. Higher Transaction Throughput.

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DHL and Accenture Develop Blockchain for the Logistics Sector

Logistics Manager

This joint venture allows both DHL and Accenture to track pharmaceuticals throughout the supply chain by using blockchain-based serialization prototype with nodes in six geographies. Using a common, indelible and secure ledger, the industry can achieve much higher safety standards – from the factory to the patient – at much lower cost.

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Achieving Maturity in Risk Management Takes Years

Logistics Viewpoints

If a supplier’s continued material flow becomes questionable for a wide range of reasons, the way that supplier’s components flow to various factories and nodes in the supply chain is graphically illustrated and the appropriate commodity managers are automatically notified. In riskmethods risks are elevated using heat bubble maps.

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Freight expectations

Automotive Logistics

Moving cargo intermodally is a complex, billion-pound industry, yet many of the processes that could be simplified with technology have traditionally been done over the phone, by fax and email or even jotted down on scraps of paper. Delays occur, paperwork piles up and costs are often not clear. ” – Richard Fattal, Zencargo.

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