Freightos

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

So we’ve mapped out five changing Chinese trends that will echo throughout global logistics this year, carving out opportunities for ambitious logistics experts to realize serious gains. Image Source: Brics-Info.org. Source: Trading Economics. “Uber for Truck” Platforms. Forwarders, get ready.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Our interactions spanned the full range of Customer-Supply Chain activities: materials costing, planning, materials availability, inventory, delivery performance, and logistics. In my case I graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree in 1990 and started my career with IBM Manufacturing in Toronto, doing test engineering.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 30, 2013

GDP growth and limited new Class 8 truck purchases will push pricing power back in the favor of carriers, with large and mid-size carriers dominating many of the smaller carriers. in the US economy and an expanding manufacturing PMI, the US is on track for growth. Also visit the Carrier Direct website – carrierdirect.co.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 24, 2014

In this environment, the supply chain and logistics task becomes even more complex, as it involves delivering and fulfilling product and service support to deliver a lifestyle “vision” around the world. The supply chain design is very much focused on contract manufacturing to a network of factories.

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Elementum

AUGUST 2, 2022

The direct impact of this phenomenon is weakened purchasing power of other currencies relative to the Dollar. However, outside the emergence of a newly discovered technology or energy source, an economic boom seems unlikely at this time. Other car manufacturers are expected to do the same. Now, the Euro is at $1.02.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 11, 2018

If upstream partners fail, as in the case of Thai computer disk drive manufacturers (factories hit by flooding) or Japanese semi-conductor producers (the 2011 tsunami), supply chains running too lean may have no fallback solutions. While the lean concept was born from the world of manufacturing, agility came largely from software development.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Strategic global trade decisions take on a variety of postures, including defensive, offensive, informing sourcing strategy when it comes to trade agreements, duty positioning, country pairings, and and sourcing shifts to reach some sort of global optimization, which must also consider supplier capability, capacity, and duty.

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 22, 2023

We work at the intersection of sourcing, logistics, legal, finance, and government affairs, and I spend 25% of my time helping our GA team form trade affairs strategies. In the end, we have had to set up playbooks for each of these situations, which we do through our sourcing organization in China. This is all very real.

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