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SYNOPSlS: Augmentation of the Logistics Workforce

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Raymon is currently the President of the Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society and under his stewardship the Society has been nominated the Best Logistics Education Provider in ASIA in 2003 & 2004, In 2008, the Society won the Supply Chain Asia Education Award and was again nominated for the award in 2010.

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. Linkedin Comment Donald Cavin Data Warehousing Consultant at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute. The list goes on and on.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

Micro-Warehouse Provider Pivots as Retail Consumer Market Shifts. since 2004, hit an all-time high of 4,586 points in late March. And now to this week’s logistics news…. Philly Cheesesteak Delivered by Drone? Walmart Opens First of Four Next Generation Fulfillment Centers. Container Ship Leasing Trends Downward.

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The Supply Chain Merry-Go-Around

Supply Chain Shaman

The evolution of the e-commerce market and the required transformation of warehouse management to support the shipment of the “each” fueled Manhattan’s rise as a global player. I first experienced the implementation of OMP and SAP at Eastman Chemical in 2004. The focus needs to be on outcomes.

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PINC Receives Significant Growth Equity Investment From Accel-KKR

PINC

Since its founding in 2004, PINC has been a pioneer in providing real-time visibility and workflow orchestration to yard operations across distribution centers and manufacturing plants worldwide – achieving Gartner’s “best of breed” status in this category. “As

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Measuring Transportation Vehicle Utilization: The KPIs

SCMDOJO

Warehouse constraints: Warehouse racking systems, especially in the fast-moving consumer goods sector, often have standard slot heights that limit stack height in vehicles (McKinnon, 2006). Research indicates that a significant portion of a truck’s time is spent idle or empty (McKinnon and Ge, 2004; IGD, 2003). Mackie, P.

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7 Rules of Fashion Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Opz

The result showed that materials were in the warehouse or in transit as long as 40 weeks! In 2004, Kasra Ferdows, Michael A. 6) Automate production and warehouse facilities : since Zara believes in time based competition, automation is the key to help them to increase the speed and the accuracy of the operations.