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Flexible Warehousing with Flexe CEO Karl Siebrecht

The Logistics of Logistics

Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, Flexe brings deep logistics expertise and enterprise-grade technology to deliver innovative eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution and network capacity programs to the Fortune 500. About Flexe Flexe solves the hardest omnichannel logistics problems for the world’s largest retailers and brands.

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5 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

The following five mini case studies explore a few high-profile companies that have managed to sustain their supply chain cost reduction efforts and keep expenses under control. In 2014, Deere & Company was listed 80th in the Fortune 500 America’s ranking and in 2013 was 307th in the Fortune Global 500 ranking.

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7 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

The following five mini case studies explore a few high-profile companies that have managed to sustain their supply chain cost-reduction efforts and keep expenses under control. In 2014, Deere & Company was listed 80th in the Fortune 500 America’s ranking and was 307th in the 2013 Fortune Global 500 ranking. Sunsweet Growers.

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Study raises hopes for increasing digitalisation

Logistics Business Magazine

The key results of the study: Digitalisation projects: The companies surveyed identified the following as the most critical solution strategies over the short to medium term: JIT/JIS supply (48%), driverless transport system (DTS) implementation, (47%), and transport control system implementation (42%). DOWNLOAD the study here: [link].

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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. We started as purely modelers, did the study, and handed it off. We don’t want to be as reliant on long supply chains that can easily be broken.” One key tool they use to accomplish this is a supply chain design solution from Coupa.

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Supply Chain Management:Infosys Team at IBM Pulse 2013

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Case Studies. |. « Dynamic Pricing : Is it really worthy | Main | Linear Asset Management and Dynamic Segmentation- Part I » Infosys Team at IBM Pulse 2013. I am back again in Vegas for IBM Pulse 2013. Posted by Praveen Kumar Agrawal on March 11, 2013 2:26 PM | Permalink. December 2013. November 2013.

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World Shipping Council report on containers lost at sea identifies several active safety improvement initiatives

Shipping and Freight Resource

While the disasters of 2013 (MOL Comfort), 2020 (ONE Apus) and 2021 (Maersk Essen/X-Press Pearl) were the worst in recent times, across the period of 2008-2021 the WSC estimates that there were on average a total of 1,629 containers lost at sea each year. Discrepancy in container stacking strength.

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