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No Supply Chain Strategy? Here’s How to Develop One

Logistics Bureau

As a result, and as we’ve mentioned in several previously published articles, we’ve discovered that many companies lack a defined and documented supply chain strategy. Will barcode tracking prove satisfactory for the needs of your new strategy, or will you need to upgrade to RFID? Include Your New KPIs in Your Strategy Document.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling and Logistics

Jim Shephard, president, Shephard’s Industrial Training Systems. ? Instead of using Google to search scientific literature, imagine hundreds of women using massive mainframe computers searching for physical documents based on key words submitted by scientists. Jim Tompkins, CEO, Tompkins International. ? I tell this story for a reason.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling and Logistics

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has implemented a new process to allow shippers to submit original vehicle export documentation electronically in lieu of delivering physical copies to their local CBP trade office. The platoon consisted of three trained, professional truck drivers in Volvo tractors, each pulling double 28-foot trailers.

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Delivering a smarter factory

Automotive Logistics

Carriers were brought onboard, transport routes and schedules crystallised, equipment and software sourced and delivered, and ‘key user’ training undertaken. An initial test saw the wrinkles ironed out and documentation refined. This printed documentation, says Dachs-Wiesinger, is now the only paper in the system.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

247 Customs Broker

“The dire predictions that robots are going to take our jobs are overstated,” said Susan Lund, co-author of the study for McKinsey, adding “There will be enough jobs for everyone in most sectors.” There will be a document to refer to at any time by any one who needs clarification. Www.gwtp.org. (It

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

247 Customs Broker

Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. There will be a document to refer to at any time by any one who needs clarification. Posted on: Jun, 27 2016.