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A Safe Bet: Cold Chain Logistics with Secure Supply Chain Management

Insight Into Action

When it comes to critical medicines, entrusting your high value, highly sensitive product to a cold chain logistics provider is not always a safe bet. Security is becoming steadily more challenging, as logistics teams find new ways to protect your product with integrated supply chain security strategies. Certainly, healthcare companies face fresh challenges to maintain product integrity: requiring a partner who connects the dots throughout the supply chain to deliver robust, comprehensive soluti

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The State of Supply Chain Trends Part II: AI, Procurement, & the New Lean

GlobalTranz

Understanding how different factors affect the supply chain remains a top priority for research firms around the globe. This unwavering drive represents the continued interest in advancing today’s capabilities with state-of-the-art technology and adaptability. From artificial intelligence to refocusing on procurement, the state of supply chain continued to explode throughout 2016, and you need to understand why.

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Why Your Apparel Brand Needs Transparency

Apparel Logistics

Transparency is a key concern for many online shoppers, according to the Dotcom Distribution eCommerce Packaging Study 2016. This report found more than 45 percent of consumers have ceased shopping with an online retailer due to lack of transparency. Learn why transparency is so important and how your third-party logistics provider can help your business operate more transparently.

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Air Freight Explained: Calculating Costs and Price Trends

Freightos

International Air Freight Shipping: Definition. Air cargo is used by global importers and exporters when they need to get goods somewhere rapidly and reliably. While 90% of everything is shipped by ocean, air connects the world faster, cutting China-US freight shipping time from 20-30 days by ocean to only 3 days by air cargo. International air freight and express freight shipments are not the same thing.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Client Testimonial: Dassault Falcon Jet & Mazars

Mazars Ledger

CLIENT TESTIMONIAL: Dassault Falcon Jet & Mazars Aerospace | Manufacturing & Distribution January 2017 Louis Osmont | Partner | Mazars USA LLP Claude Draillard | Chief Financial… The post Client Testimonial: Dassault Falcon Jet & Mazars appeared first on Insights Center - Mazars - United States.

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5 Reasons More Businesses are Adopting Third Party Logistics

3PL Insights

Third party logistics, or 3PL, have become increasingly important in nearly every industry. There are a few reasons for this, such as increasing complexity of global markets, the rapid advancement of related technologies, and a general increase in appreciation for effective, efficient logistics. If you’re still on the fence about hiring out your logistics, consider these five reasons to do so: 1.

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8 Green Freight Trends to Watch in 2017

Freightera

1. Demand for greener supply chains will be driven by the largest firms. Demand for greener freight transport is coming primarily from the largest companies. It’s coming from the Walmart’s and Whole Foods of the world, and the very large logistics companies. Once these services are set up, and capacity is established, it will be made available to smaller firms. 2.

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11 Ways Tech Will Change Logistics in 2017

Freightos

11 Ways Tech Will Change Logistics in 2017. By Zvi Schreiber, CEO of Freightos. In 2016, LEGO and Old Navy chose supply chain professionals to lead their organizations. There are precedents for tapping supply chain professionals as CEOs, such as Apple choosing Tim Cook after Steve Jobs. This year, supply chains reached Silicon Valley (and not just in the form of logistics startups ).

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5 Substantial Benefits for Utilizing Cloud Solutions in your Manufacturing Plant to Mitigate Risk

GlobalTranz

Cloud solutions are usually associated with office environments, but they are usually incredibly versatile. And they can be the best tool to handle plant risk assessment, a vital and often arduous task. Depending on the size of the plant and the number of employees, risk assessment cloud solutions can quickly become indispensable. . They can help entrepreneurs save money and time, and most importantly, improve the quality of maintenance services.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Transportation Industry

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.

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How a Trump Presidency will Affect Logistics Across the Border

Carter Logistics

How a Trump Presidency will Affect Logistics Across the Border. While his campaign has seemingly divided a nation, Donald J. Trump will officially be the 45th president of the United States. One of his major campaign promises was to build a wall along the border of Mexico to reduce the amount of illegal immigration and smuggling that occurs there. The plan details have not been finalized and it continues to come under pressure.

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The State of Supply Chain Trends Part III: Circular Supply Chains, Collaboration, and Risk

GlobalTranz

Supply chains have traditionally followed a linear path, manufacturing products and sending them through warehouses and distribution centers to consumers. However, the age of the internet and omnichannel sales has created vast opportunities to change how the supply chain functions, creating more cohesive, collaborative, and circular supply chains. The predictions for 2016 hinted at these trends, but recent reports suggest the need to alter the common perception of a functioning supply chain is g

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[Infographic] The State of Supply Chains: The Supply Chain Has Gone Digital

GlobalTranz

We are continuing what will become a tradition of re-evaluating the progress of supply chains throughout the year in relation to our predictions, as explained by this blog post. Let’s look at how supply chains kept up with expectations and where they fell short, if at all. Supply Chains Went Digital. 2016 marched onward with a drive to improve the use of digital technology throughout the supply chain.