global supply chains
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Last Mile
Is the U.S. final mile market size $8 billion or $417 billion?
Market Expert David Faulkenberry writes about the increasingly important "final mile" and why estimates of its size vary so widely.
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New Tech
Innovation in global supply chains will be driven by consumer attitudes towards climate change
For a long time supply chains have been regulated to the very distant background. That is changing, and I think it is faster than we…
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Company earnings
Agility reports large increase in second quarter profitability
Global logistics provider Agility (DFM: AGLTY) reported a 20 percent increase in net profit for the second quarter of 2019. Agility reported a more modest…
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Blockchain
Commentary: Three observations about the adoption of distributed ledger technology in supply chain
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and blockchain is becoming more mainstream. Information about a new study of DLT provides details.
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Maritime
Maritime agency wants feedback on U.S. port automation
Information and data request to be used to inform future research.
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Supply Chains
Commentary: Are the cycles of destruction to Louisiana’s freight infrastructure inevitable?
In the wake of Hurricane Barry, Brian Aoaeh writes about the disruption to supply chains that hurricanes and flooding can do. In particular, the state…
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Digital Supply Chains
The return of geopolitical risk
In partnership with Slync... data integration layers are crucial for managing and adapting to new risks to supply chains.
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Air Cargo
Commentary: Tariffs are terrible taxes
Donald Broughton explains the harm that tariffs can do to the economies of the United States, the country(ies) that tariffs are imposed on and the…
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Economics
Which economy? – Three heartbeats to monitor: the technology economy
Donald Broughton explores the technology economy and its impact on the overall economy.
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Blockchain
Bumble Bee Foods is tracking seafood across global supply chains through blockchain
Bumble Bee Foods is now using the SAP cloud platform blockchain service to trace the journey of yellowfin tuna from the Indonesian ocean to the…
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