Supply Chain Collaborator

JANUARY 8, 2018

Take it from a marketing guy. Performing cost benefit analysis to decide which TMS solution to implement? Understand this! There is NO SUCH THING AS PRE-ONBOARDED CARRIERS! It’s a head fake. A brilliant piece of marketing designed to entice. In fact, the notion of “pre-onboarded carriers” is designed to make shippers think this critically important and detailed process of onboarding freight carriers into your system can be standardized or otherwise easily bypassed.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 12, 2018

Logistics and transportation providers have been reaping the benefits of strong demand for product, driven in large part by the increasing dominance of e-commerce and the internet. But they can’t afford to be complacent. In the months ahead, they’ll be grappling with a multitude of uncertainties, including questions about rates, regulations and driver availability.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 11, 2018

Partners include Amazon, Uber, Pizza Hut and China’s DiDi. Toyota President Akio Toyoda, the grandson of the carmaker’s founder, debuted the e-Palette vehicle and e-Palette Alliance to a packed crowd at CES 2018 in Las Vegas on Monday. Along with eventually slotting future versions of the concept electric vehicle, which can be configured for deliveries, mobile stores, ridesharing or a rolling office, alliance partners will work with Toyota’s Mobility Services Platform to create a range of connec

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 10, 2018

Months earlier, cybersecurity researcher Anders Fogh had posted a blog suggesting a possible way to hack into chips powering most of the world’s computers, and the friends spent part of the evening trying to make sense of it. The idea nagged at Prescher, so when he got home he fired up his desktop computer and set about putting the theory into practice.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 9, 2018

The flaws, called Meltdown and Spectre, exist within virtually all modern processors and could allow hackers to steal sensitive data although no data breaches have been reported yet. While Spectre affects processors made by a variety of firms, Meltdown appears to primarily affect Intel processors made since 1995. Three separate class-action lawsuits have been filed by plaintiffs in California, Oregon and Indiana seeking compensation, with more expected.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 8, 2018

Don’t count on that happening in the immediate future. But several recent developments suggest that cryptocurrency mania is entering a new phase of maturity, driven by regulators and new coin offerings that strive to comply with them. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s new Cyber Unit , created last September to address a broad range of cyber-related threats, announced its first action against an initial coin offering (ICO) in December.

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