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CONA Services Embraces Supply Chain AI

Logistics Viewpoints

In 2009, The Coca-Cola Company unveiled its 2020 Vision and Roadmap for Winning Together. The system can detect a deviation from a forecast, for example, and yet understand if the deviation is in an allowable range and that an alert does not have to be generated. Snowflake is their BI environment. However, unexpected events do happen.

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School Fleet Running 100% Propane Autogas Buses at $1.68 Per Gallon

NGT News

What initially seemed like an impossible task for Indian River County School District 15 years ago has now become one of the most successful initiatives the district has implemented and a flagship example of alternative fuel implementation for schools across the nation. Per Gallon appeared first on NGT News.

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What are Reverse Logistics?

Logistics Bureau

Looking to real-life examples for inspiration, we can ask, ‘Who does reverse logistics well?’ For regulators and the public, reverse logistics may be judged by how safe and how green the process is, for example, recycling products instead of throwing them into a landfill. Persuade the customer otherwise.

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Automation To Help Smooth Singles’ Day Peak

Logistics Business Magazine

Single people mark the occasion by spoiling and treating themselves to gifts and presents, but it wasn’t until Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba chose the date to offer heavily discounted merchandise on its platform for 24 hours, starting at midnight on the 11th November, 2009, that Singles’ Day became a major commercial event.

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Mike Rother: The Toyota Kata Practice Guide

The Lean Thinker

From my perspective, I think Toyota Kata as a topic has evolved quite a bit since the original book was published in 2009. On the one hand, the practice has become more sophisticated as people explore and learn application in contexts other than the original industrial examples. As I see it, that evolution has taken two tracks.

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Piracy Off the Coast of Somalia is No Longer Considered a Risk

MTS Logistics

The film Captain Phillips provides one of the most prolific examples of piracy in the region. In 2009, the Maersk Alabama, a U.S. The channel, which proves a pivotal shipping route from the Middle East to Continental Europe, sees roughly 10% of the global petroleum trade run through the Gulf of Aden according to the U.S.

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Editor’s Choice: Singles Day – A Retail Revolution

Logistics Viewpoints

11 th in 2009 and subsequently adopted by other e-commerce platforms and retailers. For example, the gross merchandise volume of Alibaba Tmall has increased from $5 billion in 2013 to $78 billion in 2020 as below chart. For example, JD’s Single Day Grand Promotion started at 8pm on Oct.31