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A Brief History of WMS in the Supply Chain

GlobalTranz

However, few understand the history of WMS and how it evolved to encompass item tracking, storage data, inbound and outbound shipping, picking and much more. The concept of warehouse management originated in ancient Egypt as people sought ways to manage grain gathered from crops.

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Three Supply Chain Risk Management Lessons You Can Learn from the Suez Canal Block

CH Robinson Transportfolio

The Ever Given vessel is floating, but the ship is not out of hot water. Although the cargo on the Ever Given is still at a standstill, other ships have been able to freely move through the canal over the past few weeks. The BBC reported that 369 ships were stuck waiting for the Ever Given to be refloated.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

Spire provides real-time information and analytics based on global maritime automatic identification system (AIS) technology—Spire’s constellation of small satellites captures the courses and current status of container ships across the globe. In 1956, manually loading a ship cost $5.86 A world transformed.

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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

I think what’s happened particularly in the last ten years is that the focus on cost reduction and being competitive has really driven that need for rationalization in the supply chain, and of course for the globalization that we’ve seen. It’s always about reduction of costs. There are much better planning and forecasting systems now.