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Combating Illicit Cargo

Logistics Business Magazine

The global maritime and transportation industries have long played a vital role in facilitating the movement of goods and people across borders, writes Captain Steve Bomgardner, VP Commercial Markets, Pole Star Global. What types of DSP’s are there? How can this issue be addressed?

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Supply Chain Design Crosses the Chasm

Logistics Viewpoints

The product flow paths and modes of transportation altered radically as well even without accounting for any network node changes, owing to port closures or shortages in various transportation lanes. Some companies have taken extreme measures such as chartering private cargo ships to sail around port delays.

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Flexibility in the Face of Uncertainty

Freightos

While COVID did see some modal shifts of everything from wheat to Peloton exercise bikes, there are certainly products that are less likely candidates for shifts. The Bottom Line: Agility Matters The takeaway here shouldn’t (only) be that shipping Sea/Air through Los Angeles presents a superior alternative to Dubai.

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Fleet Route Optimisation in the Past, Present, and Future

Logistics Bureau

Over a relatively short period, a transport or fleet manager’s ability to support an efficient distribution network through route and delivery optimisation has shifted from almost nil to almost limitless. Simon’s employer was a supplier of beer, wines, spirits, and soft drinks to retail outlets in the United Kingdom.

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Decision-forcing cases for logistics: practicing logisticians to overcome ‘wicked problems’

Logistics in War

Also known known as a ‘historical immersion problem,’ a decision-forcing case is an exercise in which participants take on the role of an actual person who, at some point in the past, was faced by a particularly challenging problem. The Road to Habbaniya’ is a two-problem exercise.

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Bottom Line: What is the ROI of Supply Chain Network Design Software?

AIMMS

While businesses differ in complexity and size, for this exercise we extrapolated based on these $7.5Bn baselines. Having justified the project investment, it’s now time to get into the more substantial opportunities that present themselves in these sample $7.5B Looking into opportunities.

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Why Benchmarking In Its Current State for Transportation is Dangerous

10xLogistics

What I find about benchmarking is it is often an internal exercise to justify what someone is doing to higher management. It is also incredibly inaccurate because there are so many external factors that effect the price of transportation beside just the zip to zip and the rate. My question always has to do with expectations.