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KRONOS Worldwide Improves Service and Reduces Costs with Managed Trans

Logistics Viewpoints

The titanium dioxide market has become far more competitive, and the industry is becoming commoditized. Autonomy led to a complex supply chain with shipments that traveled too many miles and required too many touches across the nodes. The company has thousands of 3,000 customers in over 100 countries.

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Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree

The Logistics of Logistics

MetaExperts align with your industry and OpEx initiatives (i.e., The upshot of all this is the result of now we very brittle supply chains, now inherently susceptible to massive disruption – even by a single event – such as the tsunami event in Japan. Response to node failures is robust. High Responsiveness.

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Is It Time to Move Beyond the Traditional Approach to IBP?

Logistics Viewpoints

Event-driven IBP – technological capabilities to monitor internal and external events (Supply Chain Control Tower) in real time. Contextualize and quantify event impact and be able to trigger re-plan in an integrated supply chain planning solution to create an executable and feasible plan.

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ASCM Connect Brussels

Logistics Business Magazine

ASCM, the global leader in supply chain organizational transformation, innovation and leadership, provides industry professionals with essential insights about the global technologies, trends and innovations. Throughout the event, attendees will have a variety of opportunities to connect with other industry leaders from around the world.

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A New Era in Transport Logistics with Big Data and Self-Driving Trucks

Logistics Viewpoints

A recent survey conducted by the International Road Transport Union (IRU) industry association shows that this bottleneck has exacerbated worldwide over the past two years. This requires complete transparency across all steps and events along the entire supply chain. Look at the big picture.

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2022 and Beyond

Logistics Viewpoints

However, such pivots will take several years and will be extremely capital intensive in some industries such as semiconductors or pharmaceuticals. This is creating the need to shrink the time between identification of a sourcing need and executing on a sourcing event. Wanted to share these thoughts here.

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Potential solution for drone collision avoidance

Logistics Business Magazine

Merging HHLA Sky’s drone control centre software with Iris Automation’s ground-based aircraft detection technology Casia G opens up a whole new spectrum of use cases for industrial- and security-related drone operations worldwide. transmitting real-time video feeds) and inspections at ports, plants, and industrial sites (e.g.