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Transportation is the Great Enabler of Supply Chain Excellence

Talking Logistics

I believe transportation is the least complex, yet most critical component of the supply chain. And so, the role of a transportation manager today is very important. Given that transportation managers are responsible for enabling excellence in transport operations, how should they proceed and get started?

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The Backorder, March 20 2024

Unleashed

Audit overhead costs such as rent, utilities, insurance, and transport. To relax, I read Adam Gnade : he’s a modern day John Steinbeck out of San Diego and living on a farm in Kansas. Are you paying for pre-covid levels of space, when half your workforce is now remote? Maybe it’s time to change premises.

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Supply Chain Strategy and the Post-pandemic World

Enterra Insights

The design of the global supply chain at the start of the pandemic assumed frictionless borders, availability of transportation resources, and supply with few constraints.” The risk management concern of business leaders in January 2020 was climate action failure. ”[5]. Post-pandemic supply chain strategy.

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Questions Companies with U.S.-Mexico Trade Should be Asking

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Kass testified before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and Security. Specifically discussing how the internet of things will impact supply chains, he said: The internet of things provides companies the ability to source parts and inputs, and sell, globally.

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Will the IoT Revolution Force Government to Embrace Silo-Busting?

TMC

Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security, on how the IoT impacts supply chains, logistics, and the movement of goods. The IoT gives companies the ability to source parts and sell products globally. I recently had the privilege to provide a testimony before the U.S.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2015

Talking Logistics

In my opinion, the best source of practical knowledge and advice are your peers — that is, executives just like you who have already met and overcome the same challenges and opportunities you face today. Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Global Conference , September 27-30, San Diego, CA.

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Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking: Cubic Global Tracking.

Global Trade Management

By having many service providers involved, which among each other are often not connected, the friction in moving goods from source to destination are very high. SAN DIEGO, Calif. Cubic Corporation is the parent company of three major business segments: Transportation Systems, Defense Systems, and Mission Support Services.

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