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Why Logistics Companies Must Adopt Big Data and Cloud Technology

More than 50% of companies are using big-data analytics, a recent survey says, but a closer look reveals that adoption rate varies significantly by industry.

1111 Logistics Companies Must Adopt

Why It’s Time to Improve Employee Scheduling

Research shows about 10% of the U.S. workforce deals with irregular or on-call scheduling, while 7% works split or rotating shifts.

1107 Improve Employee Scheduling

Five Things to Know Before Shipping Across the U.S.-Mexico Border

More than $1.7 billion in goods cross the border each day from Mexico into the U.S., with more than 70% traveling by truck. For businesses on both sides of the border, getting goods from point A to B can be a complex, confusing and expensive process.

1106 Shipping Across Us Mexico

How AI Can Help Businesses Cope With Cyberthreats

Cyberattacks have become common to the point of being considered one of the strategic risks that businesses across all industries face today.

1105 How Ai Can Help

Is Blockchain a Perfect Fit for the Supply Chain?

Is blockchain technology a natural fit for the supply chain? Or is it just “a solution looking for a problem”?

1104 Blockchaina Perfect Fit

Overcoming Obstacles to Supply-Chain Collaboration

As companies seek to derive the benefits of supply-chain collaboration, it’s time to replace a culture of distrust with something better.

1104 Overcoming Obstaclesto Collaboration

How a TMS Can Enable Visibility Within Global Supply Chains

Transportation management software is key to managing today’s complex and ever-changing supply chains.

1101 Howa Tms Can

Rethinking the RFP: Using Data to Achieve Accuracy and Agility

Access to better data is changing the way organizations operate, and it’s time transportation procurement strategies changed as well.

1031 Rethinking Rfp Using Data

Amazon-Whole Foods: Two Years After the Deal

It’s been two years since Amazon bought Whole Foods. At the time, analysts touted the deal as an Amazon initiative to dominate food retail. But is that what really happened?

1030 Amazon Whole Foods

Calculating Total Cost of Ownership in the Age of Big Tariffs

Companies managing global supply chains need to go well beyond what they pay their suppliers to calculate the true cost of ownership.

1030 Calculating Total Cost Ownership

The Differences Between Mexico and U.S. Customs Brokers

While there are similar regulations and overlapping requirements governing both Mexico and U.S. customs import processes, there are drastic differences that savvy shippers should be aware of.

Source: Bloomberg

Supply-Chain Planning and Execution Work Better Together

The modern supply-chain management system should be able to predict the impact of external events — and react accordingly.

1028 Supply Chain Planning

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