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3PL Providers: 7 Core Reasons to Outsource Non-Core Functions, Like Transportation Management to One
Oct 17, 2014
In today’s up and down economy every shipper is looking to find strategic advantages over their competition. The biggest hurdle for logistics and transportation managers continues to be, how I get my product to my customer in the most cost effective,...
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Supply Chains Darlings – 6 Supply Chains the Industry Has Obsessed Over - #3, Amazon
Oct 13, 2014
‘Supply Chains Darlings’ – the companies that tend to dominate the headlines of the supply chain world every-so-often for their innovative thinking, and re-imagination of the industry. Here’s part 3 in our series.
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Strategically Managing Your Spend: An Infographic
Oct 13, 2014
Looking strategically at supply chains can lead to more complex questions than when looking for short term, easy to achieve savings. However, while improving in these areas is a great way to better manage spending for the long term; few organizations are...
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Transforming Tribes
Oct 8, 2014
Many retail organisations are essentially tribal. They are all too often made up of separate and often competing groups. These tribes worship different gods. The functional areas of Buying and Merchandising, Logistics and Operations, Finance and...
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eft Weekly Newsletter 2nd October 2014
Oct 6, 2014
Wearables in the warehouse; eBay - a supply chain darling; DHL webinar; Latest logistics stats, Logistics CIO's to meet
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China Logistics stretched by exponential growth in e-Commerce
Oct 6, 2014
Asia Supply Chain Insights by Mark Millar -Hot on the heels of the Alibaba multi-billion dollar IPO frenzy in New York, let’s explore how the exponential growth of e-commerce is stretching the capabilities of China’s logistics sector.
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A Quick Glance Into The Logistics Market - September 2014
Sep 30, 2014
Georgia Logistics compiles a monthly set of facts and figures regarding the Logistics Markets. We selected a few facts to share with you.
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Wearables Offer Huge Potential To Transportation Industry
Sep 30, 2014
"Use of smartglasses within transport and logistics can be compared to voice technology, whereby commands are spoken by an operator and actioned by a local device or remote service, which helps to increase productivity levels and eliminate errors....
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Borderless shopping with Borderfree
Sep 23, 2014
E-commerce is expanding, worldwide. McKinsey has predicted that by 2020, 15% of e-commerce will be cross-border. Whereas today consumers still form only a small niche market for the global parcel-delivery companies, in 2020 as many as half of the...
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Supply Chains Darlings – 6 Supply Chains the Industry Has Obsessed Over - #6, Dell
Sep 22, 2014
eft's 1st piece of content for the ‘Darling Supply Chains’ – the companies that tend to dominate the headlines of the supply chain world every-so-often for their innovative thinking, and re-imagination of the industry.
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M2M set to surpass RFID and bar-codes as a tool to gather information along the supply chain
Sep 18, 2014
A new report published by leading supply chain and logistics business intelligence and networking company eft (eyefortransport) and AT&T has found that ‘Machine to Machine’ (M2M) technologies will surpass both RFID and bar-codes as a means of...
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Score a Supply Chain Touchdown Using Social Media
Sep 2, 2014
Social Media expert Greg Riemer gives an insight into his very personal social media strategy applied to supply chain practices; exploring LinkedIn, Twitter & YouTube.
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eft Weekly Newsletter 28th August 2014
Aug 29, 2014
SVP of Supply Chain Asia at Estée Lauder; Renew Your Freight Broker Bond with Bad Credit; Georgia Logistics Market Snapshot
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A Quick Glance Into The Logistics Market - August 2014
Aug 28, 2014
Georgia Logistics compiles a monthly set of facts and figures regarding the Logistics Markets. We selected a few facts to share with you :-
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ZIM Q2 2014 Results
Aug 28, 2014
ZIM concludes second quarter with about $29 million EBITDA and around $19 million operating cash flow
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Contract Packagers: 4 Reasons Your WMS Is Stunting Your Growth
Aug 28, 2014
Mike Melito from Nulogy examines potential shortfalls with warehouse management systems in order to suggest how problems can be avoided or solved
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Crane Worldwide Logistics Ranks on Inc. 5000 List for Second Consecutive Year
Aug 26, 2014
Crane Worldwide Logistics was recently ranked No. 3030 on Inc. magazine’s annual Inc. 5000 list, a ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States based on three-year revenue growth
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eft Weekly Newsletter 21st August 2014
Aug 26, 2014
TomTom’s new Mapcodes to replace zipcodes; 3D Printing reality or Hype?; Changes in the southern African economy
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Will Back-To-School Live Up to Economic Expectations?
Aug 22, 2014
John Wagner Jr examines the deficit in economists predictions for back to school spending as well as analyzing figures from June, July and August in the trucking & logistics industry
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Track and Monitor Shipments at a Higher Altitude with AT&T Cargo View with Flightsafe®
Aug 21, 2014
AT&T outlines the key features of its FlightSafe software and explains how it can benefit logistics companies with locating deliveries and monitoring the condition of valuable goods.
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UPS Opens Six New UPS Express Centers Across Mexico
Aug 20, 2014
UPS a global leader in shipping services and logistics has announced the opening of six new UPS Express® centers strategically located across Mexico.
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SEKO Logistics Worldwide Finishes Implementing CargoSphere Systems
Aug 18, 2014
CargoSphere today announces SEKO Logistics has completed implementation of CargoSphere’s contract and rate management system and Rate Mesh.
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eft Weekly Newsletter 14th August 2014
Aug 15, 2014
Campbell Soup Supply Chain Interview; Electronics Supply Chain Report; M&A activity; Charity Request
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Roadrunner to Acquire Active Aero Group
Aug 13, 2014
Roadrunner Transportation Systems has announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Active Aero Group