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The Amazing Supply Chain of Chocolate Easter Eggs

All Things Supply Chain

At the end of this month, the festival of Easter will begin.

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UltraShipTMS named a “Notable TMS Vendor” in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant Report on Transportation Management Systems

Supply Chain Collaborator

For the Second Consecutive Year, UltraShipTMS Recognized in Highly-Regarded industry Report. March 21, 2018 – Fair Lawn, NJ – UltraShipTMS has again earned recognition as a notable vendor of enterprise transportation management systems and associated logistics IT solutions in Gartner’s esteemed Magic Quadrant report for Transportation Management Systems.

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How to Optimize Port Throughput in Global Supply Chains

The Network Effect

Ports play a critical role in international trade, yet they remain major sources of friction in global supply chains. It’s. The post How to Optimize Port Throughput in Global Supply Chains appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Robots in the Warehouse: A Progress Report

Supply Chain Brain

The trend within many warehouses and distribution centers today is clearly toward the use of more robots and fewer people. In fact, the most recent peak holiday shopping season found robots performing better, and in great numbers, than ever before. So what jobs are robots actually doing? And where do humans fit in? On this episode, we get a report card on robots in the warehouse from Karen Leavitt, chief marketing officer with Locus Robotics.

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Load Optimization: A Sustainable Way To Reduce Transportation Costs

Discover strategies to optimize load building and achieve significant transportation cost savings. Plus, learn how load optimization can help reduce CO 2 emissions and align with climate regulations and consumer expectations. Finally, discover best practices for sustainable load optimization.

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5 Things I Learned as a Data Scientist

Solvoyo

If you ask a kid what they want to be when they go grow, is the answer ever “A data scientist?” Well, at least when I […]. The post 5 Things I Learned as a Data Scientist appeared first on Solvoyo.

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UltraShipTMS Releases Update to Award-Winning Transportation Management System (TMS) Software Platform

Supply Chain Collaborator

Significant Updates in Version 5.14 Successfully Deployed – Efforts Already Under Way in Support of Version 5.15 to be Released Later in 2018. March 22, 2018 – Fair Lawn, NJ – UltraShipTMS development teams successfully rolled out UltraShipTMS version 5.14 several days ago and product teams report the new version has achieved stable, steady-state operation for all customers on the platform.

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Big Health-Care Players Are Turning Their Partners Into Prey

Supply Chain Brain

Then, in 2016, 20 percent of Komoto’s business vanished, practically overnight. The insurer Centene Corp. purchased the health plan that covered his patients — many of them Hispanic farm workers who had developed a level of trust with Komoto’s traveling nurses. Centene had its own mail-order pharmacy, and it told the patients to go there instead, he said.

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Clear Sailing for Ocean Carriers in 2018 — If They Don’t Blow It

Supply Chain Brain

The World Trade Organization’s latest release of its World Trade Outlook Indicator shows merchandise trade volume experiencing above-average growth in early 2018. “Strong results for air freight, container shipping and export orders in particular suggest that, while the trade recovery may moderate in due course, it will likely continue in the coming months and remain above trend,” the report says.

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'Not Welcome Here': Amazon Faces Growing Resistance to Its Second Home

Supply Chain Brain

That proposition has united an ideologically diverse group of dissenters to Amazon’s grand HQ2 competition, ranging from rightwing organizations linked to the Koch brothers to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Groups and individuals that would normally agree only to mutual disdain and distrust have somehow come around to the same conclusion: that Amazon’s decision to pit 20 cities against each other in a fight to host a future hub is a bad deal for everyone except Amazon.