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How to Successfully Implement a Transportation Management System

Talking Logistics

The cost saving and service improvement benefits of a transportation management system (TMS) are well documented. Geoff says you still have to do the requirements document and set priorities, but it’s important to get the right people involved. What are the key ingredients to a successful TMS implementation?

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The 3 Pillars of Supply Chain Management (And Why Their Alignment Matters)

Logistics Bureau

In this case your supply chain service policy will need to support that promise , perhaps by specifying automatic use of expedited last-mile transportation as a response to upstream supply delays. Costs associated with transportation. It’s also about the trade-off between warehouse and transportation costs.

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GE Transportation selects project44 to enhance multimodal data connectivity capabilities

247 Customs Broker

GE Transportation has selected project44’s modern SaaS platform to expand its multimodal data connectivity capabilities. The project44’s advanced SaaS platform will be integrated with GE Transportation’s railroad and shipper product suites, helping to maintain a better port-to-door supply chain ecosystem. LBR Staff Writer.

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Excel Goes Blockchain (Microsoft and IBM Partnership)

Talking Logistics

With so many people revising the document and so many emails going back and forth, it’s nearly impossible to keep track of the changes made, who made them, and which attachment is the most current version. We’re taking people off the email copy list and making them nodes on the blockchain,” explained Lars Ulrich from IBM. “The

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Programming Languages Applied to Logistics

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

Now the data is grouped in documents or in key-value pairs that contain all the information related to the topic, with more complex properties being represented by an incrusted document or by their own group of key-value pairs, which also simplifies the development of the queries.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling and Logistics

Content Summary: Personal Mover Transports Employees around BMW Plant. To eliminate some of this traveling BMW’s R&D group developed a Personal Mover solution—a one-person means of transport for covering short distances within an operating site. Moving around a large factory can be exhausting. Printer-friendly version.

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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.