Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2020

In the review of my first book, Bricks Matter , Keith Harrison, former Global Director of Product Supply at P&G asked me, “You mention the need for supply chains to shift from a focus on cost to value. Improving the portfolio increases the price-to-tangible book or market capitalization. Here, in this blog, I explain.

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Freightos

JUNE 15, 2021

When trying to book a specific slot on a container ship (yes, the ones that can handle the equivalent of 20,000 containers), prices have exceeded $16,000 (!). On our end, Freightos has been working on digitizing the space for the past eight years, helping players within work more transparently and smarter on a global booking platform.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 1, 2021

Reduce confusion over bookings, pickups, and deliveries by sharing critical documents within an overarching TMS platform. Quote, book, and track all aspects of your shipment, from booking to delivery. Use analytics to identify trends contributing to higher-than-anticipated returns, repairs, or recycling levels.

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Freightos

JANUARY 26, 2023

As of this morning, Freightos is a public company trading on Nasdaq with the ticker CRGO , taking the next step in our journey to make global trade more efficient with the world’s global freight booking and payment platform. Meanwhile, other industries had gone through their digital revolutions for booking and payments.

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SCM Research

OCTOBER 10, 2022

These books are great, otherwise they wouldn’t be so popular. I could also have imagined at least a few more critical and sustainability-focused books in the list. Of course, my simple approach has limitations due to the search for only one term and, therefore, some books may have been overlooked.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 25, 2022

Kary is the CEO of Trucker Tools , the leading carrier relationship management platform that helps brokers grow their carrier network, book loads digitally, track freight, and build enduring relationships with carriers to drive reuse. Digital freight matching – easily find and book the right freight. About Kary Jablonski.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of “Factoring CO2 Emissions in Transportation,” an e-book by Adrian Gonzalez published by Manhattan Associates.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2023

Yossi Sheffi and Joe Lynch discuss AI and the future of supply chain, which is the central theme of Yossi’s latest book, The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, A.I., His latest book, The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, A.I., and the Future of Work. and The Future of Work, was released in April 2023.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Kara’s new book “The Revenue Engine” offers readers a guide to effective revenue-generating strategies. The book goes beyond theoretical concepts and serves as a playbook for crafting data-driven go-to-market strategies. Kara has written a book titled “ The Revenue Engine: Fueling a B2B High Octane Pipeline.”

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 13, 2023

“I am haunted by humans.” – The character Death from ‘The Book Thief’ by Markus Zusak My daughter’s friend’s husband was killed in Israel this week. He and his wife were not married for very long. He was only 23 years old.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Advantages Beyond Shipment Booking and Execution. But the Maersk website, which the company cites as one of the top ten global B2B websites by revenue, likely generates far more in terms of searches, booking, and tracking data. By the end of 2019, 24% of spot shipments were booked using Spot. It’s worked.

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Freightos

AUGUST 19, 2024

Crossing one million bookings annually in 2023, we’ve made significant headway in digitizing spot freight pricing and bookings, especially in air cargo. But, as we hear from our freight forwarder and shipper customers again and again, spot bookings aren’t everything. And it’s happening.

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SCM Research

APRIL 25, 2024

I am pleased to announce that our new book, The Supply Chain: A System in Crisis , co-edited with Stefan Gold, is now available. Our book highlights the multifaceted challenges facing modern supply chains. It contains very insightful chapters by fantastic colleagues.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 8, 2022

Just music and books and the great outdoors. It’s time to unplug and get off the grid. No email, no social media, no television. Before I disconnect and head to the land of ice, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Walmart Tells Suppliers New Fuel and Pickup Fees.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 6, 2023

EchoShip – A self-service shipping platform giving shippers the ability to quote, book, ship, and track, as well as manage invoices, all online. With consistent updates and new location management features, clients have more control over managing their location details, making the booking process faster and more efficient than ever.

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

But easing rates – even slight declines – in the weeks just before Golden Week when there’s typically upward pressure on prices, together with many anecdotal reports of decreasing ocean bookings, point the other direction.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 24, 2024

In Figure 1, we share the results on growth, inventory turns, operating margin, ROIC, Price to Book, and Market Capitalization for the companies making the Gartner Top 25. And why discrete companies exhibit more resilient patterns at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns? The insights would be helpful to the industry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Last year, Rebecca Henderson’s, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire , was on the short list for Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. But then,” according to the book, “something unexpected happened. Walmart has used TMS to both save money and reduce carbon emissions. That is not surprising to me.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

This book, now in its seventh year of publication, is a compilation of my best-read blog posts from the prior year. I usually publish this book for my Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , but with the COVID-19 shutdown, I am sharing it virtually. Flipping Book link: [link]. This is the subject of my new book.

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Freightos

APRIL 15, 2024

Similarly, fifteen years ago K+N’s homepage didn’t even mention tech: Today, it’s the core focus, offering complete self-service control across freight quoting, instant bookings and shipment tracking from any device. Standards have evolved.

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Logility

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In 1904, a writer researching a new book went undercover for nine months in a Chicago meatpacking plant. In early 1906, an influential politician read the book. The writer and book: Upton Sinclair, The Jungle. These systems have (thankfully) matured since Sinclair’s book shocked Teddy Roosevelt. That’s now forbidden.

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Freightos

AUGUST 6, 2024

But reports of forwarders and shippers having greater ease securing allocations and spot bookings, and projections for arriving US imports to start declining in September are contributing to expectations that rates will start decreasing in the coming weeks. Prices from Asia to N.

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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

This is without losing track for even a moment of any one item, order, shipment, inventory movement, transfer, shipment, delivery, launch, promotion, project, resource, person, booking, lorry or vessel… plus much more.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 27, 2024

Timestamps (00:00:02) Today’s Topic: Building Resilient Sales Teams (00:00:24) Stride Motivation and Nick Klingensmith (00:00:56) Logistics Sales Challenges (00:05:15) Trimble Insight Conference 2024 (00:08:09) Nick’s Background and Career Highlights (00:10:23) Four-time Cancer Survivor’s Journey (00:16:27) Pursuing Better Habits (..)

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Freightos

MAY 23, 2024

Air cargo for example, though continuing to make digital strides, is still behind – and is often compared to – passenger travel where digitized capacity, pricing and online bookings have been around for decades and is in some ways the digitalization template air cargo is referencing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I just went live this year with a Fortune 25 company, and their factories book against their orders online. I am a consultant, and I am meticulous in implementations. I do not have a website and have not updated it in more than ten years. ” Traditional View What does end-to-end planning mean?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2022

This work started in 2014 when the Colgate team challenged me for giving so much admiration for the P&G team in my first book, Bricks Matter. I often laugh at the number of consultant signatures on the book at the entrance of most large companies. The question was, “What mattered?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In my research, I find that the lack of alignment has a direct impact to value (operating margin and market price to book value). As a result, planning teams and functional organizations became more insular and self-serving. If you answer the survey, I will gladly give you a custom analysis of your organization against the peer group.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 20, 2024

One of the last books written by the late Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen was entitled Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice , coauthored by Karen Dillon , Taddy Hall , and David S. In the book, they discuss the Theory of Jobs to Be Done.

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Freightos

JULY 23, 2024

Weekly Freight Updates July 16, 2024 Update Weekly Freight Updates July 9, 2024 Update Put the Data in Data-Backed Decision Making Freightos Terminal helps tens of thousands of freight pros stay informed across all their ports and lanes Book a Demo The post July 23, 2024 Update appeared first on Freightos.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2021

Companies that outperform their peer group while driving improvement and driving value (either by price to book or market capitalization) make the winners list. It seems easy, right? Trust me; it is not. In the past study, of 600 companies studied, 4% make a list. This year 21 companies (out of 600) make it to the Winner’s Circle.

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