Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 21, 2021
A fire at a semiconductor factory in Japan, cold weather in North America and ongoing competition for chips are all hitting the global auto industry at the same time, threatening to exacerbate supply shortages of a key component that began late last year.
Logistics Management
MARCH 21, 2021
The footprint of the North American Class I railroad landscape is dramatically changing form, with this weekend’s landmark announcement that Calgary-based Canadian Pacific (CP) is acquiring Kansas City Southern (KCS) for $29 billion, in a deal that will establish the first freight railway connecting the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
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Supply Chain Brain
MARCH 21, 2021
Canadian Pacific Railway is aiming to create a 20,000-mile rail network linking the U.S., Mexico and Canada in the first year of those nations’ new trade alliance.
Talking Logistics
MARCH 21, 2021
As we begin 2021, the parcel market is very different than it was a year ago. Simply put, the surging growth of e-commerce, driven in large part by the pandemic, has created a capacity crunch in the market. How should shippers respond? What’s required from a technology standpoint to move up the parcel shipping capabilities. Read more [Video] When Parcel Demand Exceeds Capacity: What Should Shippers Do?
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Artificial intelligence has quickly become a feature of everyday life: Using face ID to unlock a phone, communicating with online chatbots, and letting “smart” appliances help manage our homes are just a few of the ways that we interact with AI regularly. Forward-looking businesses are also using AI to transform their operations and gain a competitive edge.
SYSPRO Smarter ERP
MARCH 21, 2021
In 1969, the largest computer company in the world at that time, IBM, decided to unbundle its software from its hardware. This opened up the world to a new business – the independent software vendor – and led to partnering between different vendors. By the 1990s, many IT companies were establishing formal partner or alliance […]. The post Managing Your ERP Vendor’s Software Partnerships appeared first on SYSPRO US.
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Logistics Viewpoints
MARCH 21, 2021
According to one survey , only 27% of leaders believe that they have the talent needed to meet current supply chain performance requirements. What should supply chain leaders be looking for to close the talent gap? AGCO Logistics Team Accepts Prestigious Supply Chain Award. AGCO has received well deserved acclaim for the agility with which they navigated the pandemic ( How They Did it: AGCO and COVID-19 ).
Logistics at MPEPS at UPV
MARCH 21, 2021
GLOBAL OUTLOOK. The smart sensor market is growing at a 19 percent annual rate and is expected to reach 60 billions of $ by 2022. Technological advances have miniaturized and energy efficiency and reduced production costs. This smart sensors interacts closely in the supply chain, decressing operation costs, increasing asset efficency, improving demand planning and provide critical insight into costumer behavior.
ShipLilly
MARCH 21, 2021
During the Trump Administration, US-China relations were marked by mutual aggression and quasi-trade sanctions. There was a barrage of tariffs and trade barriers between the US and China throughout the Trump Administration. To cool things down, a Phase One Deal was agreed to set out the parameters of the future trading relationships between two of the biggest economies in the world.
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