Supply Chains Rock

JUNE 17, 2011

Who said supply chains are boring? Whenever I tell a friend, colleague or family member about my job as soon as the words "supply chain" are muttered I immediately see glassy eyes followed by a yawn or two. By the Numbers: IBMs Supply Chain in 2010. billion North America; $12.2

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

As was confirmed for me yet again this week at a conference, the most utilized supply chain and logistics application, the reigning champ of them all, is the Excel spreadsheet. XPO Logistics Announces Third Quarter Earnings 2013. XPO Logistics Announces Third Quarter Earnings 2013. On the 3PL front, C.H.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2015

Here are some of the headlines, along with a few excerpts: Bar Association warns corporations: Clean up supply chains (Star Tribune, Nov. 29, 2014): By year’s end, chief executives at all of America’s Fortune 500 companies should get a letter signed by the president of the American Bar Association. Even though a recent U.S.

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Supply Chain Network

JUNE 15, 2011

The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) released its 22nd “Annual State of Logistics Report®,” presented by Penske Logistics, today at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The report reveals that business logistics costs rose to 8.3 supply chain since 1988.

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Supply Chain Network

OCTOBER 3, 2011

At the same time, the report indicates an average of 42 percent of total logistics expenditures being spent on outsourcing, the same as last year’s study. The 2012 Third-Party Logistics Study is based on over 2,250 responses from both shippers and logistics service. significant further contributions to supply chain success.

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Supply Chain Network

JULY 10, 2011

Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) announced today (June 30th) that Daniel Myers will join the company in September as Executive Vice President, Supply Chain. Myers, 56, will lead the functional groups that make up the company’s integrated supply chain, including Procurement, Manufacturing, Engineering and Customer Service and Logistics.

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Freightera

APRIL 28, 2020

Interview with Benoit Montreuil, Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Director, Physical Internet Center; Director, Supply Chain & Logistics Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Europe has been aware and active since 2010. Interviewed by Eric Beckwitt, Founder and CEO, Freightera.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JULY 26, 2013

Logistics and Distribution. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Supply Chain Management.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The biggest challenge for supply chain professionals today is the is the accelerated pace of change, according to APICS CEO Abe Eshkenazi. Since 2006, Abe Eshkenazi has served as CEO of APICS, a trade association focused on offering research, education and certification programs in supply chain management.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

Editor's Note: This is a guest blog from Freightos , is a SaaS-enabled marketplace for the logistics industry. It has radically transformed supply chains, fundamentally changed domestic and international economies across the world, and changed societies in the process – all the while driving trillions dollars in annual trade.

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Supply Chain Network

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

president and CEO, who has served as interim President of Con-way Freight since August 2010. He joined Con-way Freight in August 2008 from sister company Menlo Worldwide Logistics. Before joining Menlo in 2001, he held logistics and operations management positions with Delphi Automotive Systems and Penske Logistics.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

APRIL 17, 2015

From monitoring carrier capacity and driver shortages to tracking diesel pricing and government regulations, staying current on relevant news means you will be better equipped to make knowledgeable business decisions and drive growth and efficiency into your supply chain. Large Scale Market Indicators.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 30, 2022

As part of LogiSYM Asia Pacific 2022, we had the opportunity to chat with Vittorio Favati, Chief Executive Officer – TVS Supply Chain Solutions GFS. He also went on to share what he sees as the five key changes making a global impact to supply chains today and gave advice for those working in or considering a career in our industry.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 5, 2012

Logistics and Distribution. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Supply Chain Management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Located in the United Kingdom (UK), he has more than twelve years of experience in progressive roles driving demand-drive projects for their global supply chain. At the Supply Chain insights Global Summit , Nick shared his story on driving demand-based improvements. Understanding the Lubricant Supply Chain.

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Material Handling & Logistics

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Supply chain disruptions continue to grow at an alarming rate, according to a new study, 2018 EventWatch Supply Chain Disruption Report, by Resilinc. In the first half of 2018, Resilinc notified a record 1,069 events within a six month period, the highest since Resilinc began monitoring in 2010.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 21, 2014

When a company decides to outsource its logistical needs to a 3PL, the success or failure of the venture will be determined by how well the two companies work together. Admittedly, to anyone who has never attended business school, most concepts in supply chain logistics can seem really foreign. This is exciting stuff!

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

If you were to tell me that your company had never looked at its supply chain costs and sought to deliver reductions, I would be mightily surprised. On the other hand, if you told me your company hasn’t been able to sustain any progress in supply chain cost reduction, I wouldn’t be surprised at all.

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Supply Chain Network

APRIL 4, 2011

.” Mode Transportation consists of about 300 IBOs who sell and operate the business throughout North America, corporate offices in Dallas and Memphis, a Company Managed Operation in Dallas and a temperature protected services division, Temstar, located in Lombard, IL. ABOUT HUB GROUP: Hub Group, Inc.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

That’s because Moser founded the Reshoring Initiative in 2010 and, ever since, has made it his mission to educate companies to understand their total cost of ownership when offshoring. Moser: The goal of the Reshoring Initiative is to bring good, well-paying jobs back to the United States and all of North America.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

That makes China a highly attractive market for imports, if you have a logistics provider who knows how to deliver your imports. Logistics companies in China are not created equal. Requirements for importing goods to China are stringent, and not all logistics providers will have the capabilities to ship where your products are going.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The Suez Canal is the shortest route for container traffic from Asia to the Mediterranean and Europe, and is also used for some volumes from the Far East or Southern Asia to North America. As frequently happens in supply chains, this could have a potential knock-on effect.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

Third-party logistics companies ( 3PLs ) specialize in distribution, warehousing and fulfillment services. The core competency of these companies is logistics , and they do it well. Even Amazon used third-party logistics companies when the company first started, until reaching sufficient scale to have a logistics arm of its own.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

After two rounds of shoveling more than a foot of snow yesterday, I am in catch up mode today, so let’s go straight to the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: FedEx Supply Chain Launches FedEx Fulfillment. CX North America Releases Next-Generation Mobile App for Drivers.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 26, 2021

We’ll begin with a look at which of the larger, most well-known companies have already shifted some of their supply chain activity away from China, are in the process currently, or have announced plans to do so. Let’s see what the evidence suggests. Which Large Enterprises are Pulling Back From China? Best Regards, Rob O’Byrne.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The “ New Supply Chain Model “ A lot has happened in the last two decades, and I’m hopeful that I’ll still be around at the end of the next one to see how many of these predictions have come to pass! (If you drive to work, get used to the fact that it is going to take you longer to get there, not less time.).

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 30, 2023

I am getting questions from friends and acquaintances about whether the US’s supply chain woes are over. The people I talk to are surprised when I say supply chain challenges are not going to disappear any time soon. There were two excellent articles in the Financial Times (FT) on the Apple supply chain.

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