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The Power of the Network: ERP vs. Spend Management

Logistics Viewpoints

GEP and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Supply Chain Resource Cooperative surveyed supply chain, procurement and IT professionals across a range of industries to gain insight into their priorities and strategies regarding supply chain resilience and optimization. Business Spend Management Solutions are Networked .

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Making Drivers Happy with Elisabeth Barna

The Logistics of Logistics

About Elisabeth Barna Elisabeth Barna is a seasoned veteran in the trucking industry with 34 years of experience. In 2023, she founded EAB Strategies, LLC, a consulting business where she continues to work within the transportation and logistics industry. She steered the industry-wide image movement Trucking Moves America Forward.

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Disruptions in the Supply Chain Affect the Automotive Industry

Logistics Business Magazine

The automotive industry’s reliance on its supply chain running smoothly is important to ensure the consistent production of vehicles for consumer and corporate demand, especially considering that most vehicles can contain between 15,000 and 25,000 component parts. How does the industry respond to these challenges?

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Survey Finds Significant Success in the 3PL Industry Across the Supply Chain Industry

GlobalTranz

This post is from a press release sent to us regarding the recent survey of the 3PL industry. This survey continues to point towards the success 3PLs are having for their clients. Survey Points to Continued Success of Shippers and the 3PL Industry. percent and 11.50 percent, respectively.

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Network, not Supply Chain

Logistics Business Magazine

Are transport sector network orthodoxies in the process of being supplanted by a tech-driven collaborative model? Indeed, in a significant 2021 German-government sponsored survey reviewing digital adoption across a range of sectors, the transport sector ranked last. Collaboration Network. We watch closely.

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Survey Reveals Switch away from China

Logistics Business Magazine

A Gartner, Inc, survey of 260 global supply chain leaders in February and March 2020 found that 33% had moved sourcing and manufacturing activities out of China or plan to do so in the next two to three years. Survey results show that the COVID-19 pandemic is only one of several disruptions that have put global supply chains under pressure.

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Shipping Industry Remains Easy Cyber Target

Logistics Business Magazine

New research has found that the maritime industry remains an “easy target” for cybercriminals, and that the cost of attacks and demand for ransom payments across the sector have skyrocketed over the past 12 months. ” The post Shipping Industry Remains Easy Cyber Target appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.