The Lean Thinker

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Sara Abshari and Eileen Jaskuta are presenting the Meritus story at the AME conference next week (October 9, 2017). Eileen is now at Main Line Health System, but was the Chief Quality Officer at Meritus at the time Joe was presenting at Ka taCon. You can actually download a copy of his presentation here: [link].

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The Lean Thinker

MARCH 6, 2019

One of the themes that emerged at both conferences – and to be clear, something I had a hand in influencing as well – was mechanisms for altering the culture of the organization. Actually the message of “adaptive leadership” has been present since at least the first KataCon back in 2015.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The catalyst was fairly simple – there are freight conferences and tech conferences, but few that really mesh both very well. After attending dozens of conferences, it was thrilling to put together our own little gathering. billion in 2015. Plus, the conference was awesome. Consumer behavior isn’t changing.

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Freightos

MARCH 10, 2016

For shippers, carriers and logistics providers, the JOC ’s TPM (Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference) is one of the must-attends on the annual events calendar. I caught up with one of Freightos’ delegates after the conference and scoured through the presentation material for insights. Transpacific Shipping in 2016.

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WorkWave

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

While the theme of the convention this year was focused on the future of franchising, and this was definitely intertwined throughout the conference sessions, the takeaway for me was different. To me, the theme that really resonated was engagement and connection. In other words, how can we better engage and connect with our employees?

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 22, 2021

The technollogy keeps evolving and The Pegasus already has a succesor, The Xanthus, first presented at the Amazon MARS conference in June 2019. Since 2015 deep learning AI has been predicting what is going to be bought, and getting it to the nearest fulfillment center, before it is even ordered.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

As reported by The Guardian : The items included lithium-ion batteries and flammable aerosols, which were flown in and out of the UK between January 2014 and June 2015. In my keynote presentation at the conference, I made the case that DG professionals need to adopt a broader and more strategic answer to “What business are you in?”

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

million truck drivers in the country (as of 2015), but a new report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the number of long-haul truck drivers somewhere between 1.87 Simple question, but it turns out that answering it is not so simple. Number of Truck Drivers: The ATA vs. Bureau of Labor Statistics. million and 2.125 million.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 19, 2018

He presented his outlook for container shipping to the TPM Annual Conference in Long Beach, Calif., What’s more, the global orderbook for new ships stands at half the level of 2012-2015. sponsored by IHS Markit. Carrier services have stabilized as well. Carriers nevertheless have work to do. The bankruptcy of Hanjin Shipping Co.,

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

The surveys are being presented today at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Global Conference by their author, Dr. Robert Lieb , Professor of Supply Chain Management at Northeastern University 's D'Amore-McKim School of Business, and Joe Carlier , Senior Vice President of Global Sales for Penske Logistics.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 15, 2018

Furthermore, DHL will continue to present the DHL Fastest Lap Award and the DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award, two prizes for exceptional performances by racing drivers and teams. As in previous years, DHL will present two awards again this year after the last race in Abu Dhabi on November 25, providing additional excitement during the season.

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247 Customs Broker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Committees from both sides worked to develop a contract package to present to the ILA’s 200-member wage scale committee “in the near future,” the ILA and USMX said in a joint statement. The ILA-USMX contract was a prominent discussion topic at the JOC’s recent TPM 2018 conference in Long Beach, California.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Descartes Evolution Global User & Partner Conference 2019. Another is that visibility enables companies to deliver an enhanced customer experience, which was the theme of this year’s conference. presented a great case study on the company’s journey and success with real-time freight visibility.

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Bilateral forums, conferences, meetings and seminars happen more often than one can count, and usually result in numerous announcements – ranging from memoranda of understanding (MoU) to billions of financial commitments.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Logistics experts shared their research findings during the Council for Supply Chain Management’s (CSCMP) annual EDGE Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Penske is once again a major conference sponsor. Kearney and a presenter of CSCMP’s 29 th Annual State of Logistics Report, both of which are presented by Penske Logistics.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

West Coast longshore labor strike in late 2014 and early 2015, or in the aftermath of liner carrier Hanjin Shipping declaring bankruptcy in August 2016. Cargo owners and trucking companies are normally given a certain number of free days to pick up containers of imported goods from ports after they have been unloaded from ships. “The

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

I think political uncertainty, and where this will take the economy, is the biggest risk, but it looks at the moment as if OEMs that are already present are going to stick with Turkey,” says LMC’s Thomas. The FT quoted a 2015 study estimating the cost of all this border friction at around €3 billion ($3.4 billion) a year.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 5, 2019

Customs statistics from Nigeria show that 131,994 vehicles, both new and used, were imported through Apapa port in 2015. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) puts Togo second only to South Africa – the continent’s largest industrial economy – in terms of port efficiency. .

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 18, 2018

Such is Andela’s stellar reputation for excellence that American TV network CNN in June 2015 called it “the startup that’s harder to get into than Harvard”. The smart city vision of the state government was discussed extensively at a conference it sponsored during its “Lagos at 50” celebrations in May 2017. Lagos Innovates’.

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