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Amazon and Anticipatory Shipping: Revisiting This Highly Publicized 2013 Patent Ten Years Later

Logistics Viewpoints

But specificity is sufficient to perform a majority of the routing to the likely final destination (for example, a portion of a postal code such as the three most significant digits). The post Amazon and Anticipatory Shipping: Revisiting This Highly Publicized 2013 Patent Ten Years Later appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Learning to See in 2023

The Lean Thinker

ago titled Learning to See in 2013 *. That being said, I think the 2013 post has actually aged pretty well. I asked this question in the 2013 post: “Why are you doing this at all?” Pat’s comments on my last post reminded me of another post I had written a decade (!!!)

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The New Generation of Microservices-Based Applications Can Create ‘Cliff Events’

Logistics Viewpoints

A blog from Atlassian explains that “until about 2013, companies usually built enterprise software by constructing applications as single units with large codebases, a monolithic architecture. Blue Yonder, for example, has created a microservice for transportation optimization. Much of that investment is at the platform level.

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Impact of War on Maritime Trade Flows – AMICIE Webinar

Shipping and Freight Resource

Although the current clauses recommended by BIMCO are CONWARTIME 2013 and VOYWAR 2013, there are several other versions that are in use making it essential for these clauses to be examined and considered carefully.

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Schneider Electric’s Supply Chain Design Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

In 2012 and 2013, they began using external consultants to model their Asian supply chain. For example, at one point, they modeled Brazil and factored tariffs and tax considerations into the total landed costs analysis. We don’t want to be as reliant on long supply chains that can easily be broken.”

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Sustainability Strategy with Climate Tech

Logistics Business Magazine

In NX Group’s pursuit of reducing its CO₂ emissions by 50 percent by 2030 as compared to 2013 (Scope1,2), the parent company, Nippon Express Holdings Inc., ” Helen Tacke, Co-founder and CEO of Cozero GmbH, commented, “The NX Group is an exceptional example of the integration of financial and sustainability performances.

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Editor’s Choice: 4 Factors to Determine if Self-Distribution is a Viable Alternative for your Health System

Logistics Viewpoints

Distributors are also governed by the 2013 Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), which outlines steps to achieve interoperable, electronic tracing of products at the package level to identify and trace certain prescription drugs as they are distributed in the United States.