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Top 15 Logistics Blog Posts of 2014

GlobalTranz

Warehouse Metrics to Track to Improve Profitability and Operations : Today’s warehouse managers often accrue massive amounts of performance data, but sometimes find they can apply little of it toward making productivity gains or customer service improvements. Read the Full Post. People are your most important product.

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Loop Integrated Solutions – When the Fortune 500 Meets the Indianapolis 500?

Envase Technologies

Giving customers and carriers access to data and information more quickly is a key part of Loop’s business strategy. “We We are strong believers in running an information-based business — in using data to drive better decision making. Nate Fry, CEO, Loop Integrated Solutions. Tailwind centralizes all of our information.

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Little takes over as MD at Evolution Time Critical

Automotive Logistics

Graham Little (pictured) has taken over as MD at emergency logistics provider Evolution Time Critical, replacing Brad Brennan, who is moving to join a newly-formed advisory board set up by Evolution’s parent company, Metro Supply Chain Group, on April 1.

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Logistics Technologies: 4 Benefits of RFID, AIDC, and IoT Based Technologies to Shippers

GlobalTranz

The supply chain is playing host to emerging logistics technologies and modern marvels of an industrialized society. To improve this connectivity, the use of radio frequency identification (RFID), automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) , and Internet of Things (IoT) come into play. Competition.

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Aptiv takes a global approach to mobility

Automotive Logistics

Aptiv is taking a highly centralised approach to the logistics operation supporting the new division and has made Jeffrey Richards its global director of logistics and supply chain operations, responsible for the sourcing, network design, continuous improvement and emergency logistics for all operating units.

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Disaster recovery: Prepared for the worst?

Automotive Logistics

Data feeds, many of them free, provide rich, real-time information on weather, seismic activity, traffic congestion, aircraft and shipping movements, and many other sources of risk and disruption. If you have the data, use it. It’s a path since followed by others. BMW has started to go further than supply chain mapping.

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Three Logistics Imperatives for Managing Uncertainty in 2022

Logistics Viewpoints

And, once again, it will be incumbent on logistics teams to deliver better, faster service, at a lower cost, to get products to market in the face of these continuing issues. As I write this in the fourth quarter of 2021, there’s just no telling what the new year will bring in terms of emerging logistics challenges.