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This Week in Logistics News (October 9-13, 2017)

Talking Logistics

According to the press release: SMC³’s pricing API is the newest tool in the company’s ever-growing collection of Execution and Visibility APIs – solutions that are tailored for efficient, fast and powerful direct-to-carrier communications.

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Pitfalls of digitalisation in shipping and freight

Shipping and Freight Resource

Whether digital or manual, the business of shipping involves a lot of documentation. Or forgetting the minus in -25° C when submitting the shipping documents to the shipping line or port. The Finished Product Name given by the client in the trade documentation could be Cover Girl Continuous Color Nail Polish. Image from : APL.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling and Logistics

Click the links below to compare this year's innovations to those from previous years: Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2017 : exoskeletons, autonomous forklifts, flying warehouses, last-mile delivery, and more. Content Summary: Blockchain Powerful Tool for Transparency in Complex Supply Chains. To save both time and money, U.S.

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Kuehne + Nagel sets benchmark with IATA CEIV re-certification

Airfreight Logistics

In 2017, Kuehne + Nagel was the first to achieve IATA CEIV Pharma certification for its entire KN PharmaChain Air network. A unique web-based risk assessment tool is used to complete a risk assessment at a lane level, which allows for agile and reliable risk mitigation.

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What are supply chain professionals using to make network decisions? 

AIMMS

It’s great to see the enthusiasm for this interactive tool. . These quiz responses are fairly consistent with a 2017 survey by Lora Cecere’s Supply Chain Insights, which revealed that 65% of companies use spreadsheets for network design. In fact, as Market Watch reports, close to 90% of spreadsheet documents contain errors.

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Foreign Trade Zone Update: Two Developments You Must Watch Today

Now, That's Logistics

Last year the National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones (NAFTZ) asked CBP to delay the planned September 16, 2017 transition of the Application for Foreign-Trade Zone Admission and/or Status Designation from the agency’s legacy computer system to the new Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) platform, American Shipper reports.

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The time to go out to bid is now

Transporeon

Quantitative data points to an increase of procurement activity even earlier this year: There has been an increase of 1,000 RFPs through the Ticontract transportation sourcing platform year over year between July 2017 and July 2018, a symptom of the unprecedented levels of increased demand.