Talking Logistics
JULY 10, 2024
Note: Today’s post is part of our “Editor’s Pick” series where we highlight posts published by our sponsors that provide practical knowledge and advice on timely and important supply chain and logistics topics. This recent post from Uber Freight’s blog provides a guide to managed transportation services, including its core components, how to implement managed.
Logistics Viewpoints
JULY 10, 2024
ARC Advisory Group has been covering the Supply Chain Planning ( SCP ) market for 17 years. The market has been growing at double-digit rates for several years, even during the pandemic. The pandemic brought home the need for companies to run agile and resilient supply chains. SCP is a critical application to help companies achieve better agility. Supply chain agility reflects a company’s ability to respond quickly to surges or plummeting demand.
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Supply Chain Brain
JULY 10, 2024
As e-commerce giants Temu and Shein continue to gain traction in the U.S., Amazon is firing back with a low-priced store mirroring the model of their Chinese competitors.
Loginext
JULY 10, 2024
Explore the top supply chain technology trends for 2024, including risk management, quality management, packaging and labeling, sustainability, visibility, and analytics. Learn how to leverage these advancements for a competitive edge. The post Top Supply Chain Technology Trends to Boost Efficiency in 2024 appeared first on loginextsolutions.com.
Heico Sandee, CEO of Smart Robotics, explores how automation redefines warehouse culture. By shifting repetitive tasks to skill-based roles, automation improves safety, fosters collaboration, and makes warehousing more appealing to today’s workforce.
Supply Chain Brain
JULY 10, 2024
How can supply chain leaders implement a sense of predictability in an unpredictable market? By investing in talent and technology, such as artificial intelligence, that can support modern-day challenges.
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Supply Chain Brain
JULY 10, 2024
More than 6,000 unionized workers with the chip-maker's semiconductor division walked out on July 8.
MTS Logistics
JULY 10, 2024
Could relief be coming – in the future – for the Panama Canal and its low water issues? Panama’s Supreme Court has issued a new ruling that could clear the way for a new reservoir to solve the canal’s low water level issues. Due to low water levels in the Panama Canal, the Panama Canal Authority has been limiting the number of ships that can pass through the canal per day.
Supply Chain Brain
JULY 10, 2024
The MV Ultra Galaxy beached at Brand se Baai northwest of Cape Town late July 10, the South African Maritime Safety Authority said on its website.
NGT News
JULY 10, 2024
ATEL Ventures Inc., a division of ATEL Capital Group and a provider of venture debt and equipment financing solutions to growth-stage companies, has agreed to provide equipment financing to Harbinger, a Southern California-based manufacturer of electric trucks, to enable the company to expand its manufacturing capacity. Harbinger is focused on meeting the demand for medium-duty […] The post Harbinger Receives Financing to Expand Electric Truck Production appeared first on NGT News.
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Supply Chain Brain
JULY 10, 2024
This marks the latest move from China in retaliation against new provisional EU tariffs of up to 38% against imported Chinese EVs.
Locus
JULY 10, 2024
Technology adoption is a must for ensuring competitiveness in retail. As companies scale up, it enables efficiency at scale, reduces costs and provides superior customer experiences. However, simply adopting technology is not enough. It needs to be effectively used by the workforce to see real-time benefits on the ground. Often there is a lot of resistance to its adoption by those on the ground over multiple factors.
Supply Chain Brain
JULY 10, 2024
Heather Wheatley, vice president analyst with Gartner, explains how companies can balance considerations of resilience and cost to protect against disruption in their supply chains.
Logistics Business Magazine
JULY 10, 2024
As part of its ongoing partnership with DHL Supply Chain, Tesco Ireland has taken delivery of 50 state-of-the-art biomethane fuelled trucks which will operate across its country-wide distribution network. The trucks will immediately replace 50 diesel units, cutting down tailpipe carbon emissions by up to 90%. The biomethane fleet will be operated by DHL and used to transport produce to stores from Tesco’s distribution centres in Dublin.
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As early as next year, procurement and supply chain operations will begin to adopt AI agents, often called “agentic AI,” to work alongside employees to make and execute decisions with precision across procurement and even the most complex global supply chains. Unlike LLM-based generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, these AI agents do not require prompts from humans.
Logistics Business Magazine
JULY 10, 2024
Berlin-based startup Northbound has successfully closed a pre-seed financing round of €1.3 million to expand its software-as-a-service solution. The company is developing a SaaS platform to streamline operational control within the container supply chain. Northbound optimizes the flow of goods from the port to the warehouse, considering penalty fees (e.g. demurrage and detention, “D&D”), capacities, and delivery promises.
Logistics Business Magazine
JULY 10, 2024
As supply chains and logistics becomes ever-more complex, companies increasingly need agile technology providers that can help them navigate challenges and meet the continuously evolving expectations of the end customer. To meet the soaring demand for bespoke customer experiences, Gregory Distribution, one of the UK’s top independent logistics businesses, has chosen Manhattan SCALE, from Manhattan Associates , to optimise its warehouse operations and deliver improved satisfaction to its 400+ cus
Logistics Business Magazine
JULY 10, 2024
PSA Singapore (PSA), a major global transhipment hub, has significantly ramped up its capabilities to support increased activity and mitigate the impact of global supply chain disruptions since the beginning of 2024. This includes reinforcing its frontline capacity, commissioning new berths at Tuas Port, and reactivating berths and yard space at Keppel Terminal.
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