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The Dawn of the Age of the 3D Printer

It makes sense that a running shoe would stand for an increase in the speed with which manufacturers can "print" products on demand.

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Amazon's Latest Hat: A Freight Forwarder From China

Is there any aspect of the e-commerce buying experience that Amazon.com Inc. doesn't want to directly control?

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Post-Recession, Mid-Sized Suppliers Seek New Avenues of Trade Financing

Global businesses are still experiencing the aftereffects of the Great Recession of 2007-2009. But perhaps no sector has felt the pain more acutely than mid-market suppliers.

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A Cryptocurrency Makes a Bid for Legitimacy

Cryptocurrency: The very word suggests shady dealings. But a new purveyor of an alternative digital payment method - to put it in more mundane terms - is seeking to change that.

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Are Carriers Changing Their Minds on Megaships?

It takes a lot of time and energy to turn around one of those massive new containerships in mid-ocean. The same goes for reversing the assumptions that led to the construction of those behemoths in the first place.

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Why Supply Chain Has Taken So Long to Migrate to the Cloud

Supply-chain has gone to the cloud. The only question is: What took it so long?

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How Technology Is Boosting Risk Levels at Ports and Terminals

Without question, technology has been a boon to global trade. But it's also responsible for raising the risk factor at every stage of the supply chain - and especially at ports and terminals.

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The Air Waybill Is Going Paperless - Slowly

The electronic air waybill (eAWB) has arrived. But certain air freight forwarders and carriers are still holding on to the paper version for dear life.

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Solutions to Bridging the Supply-Chain Talent Gap

All the uncertainty surrounding global trade and the economy doesn't appear to have put a dent in the market for supply-chain talent.

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Container-Weighing Rule: And You Put the Load Right On ... Who?

Just who's responsible for weighing that ocean container? After several years of thrashing out a rule to combat the problem of misdeclared weights, regulators and rulemaking bodies still can't seem to agree.

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Sharks vs. Jets on the West Coast Waterfront?

Here's a question for U.S. exporters who were grievously harmed by the West Coast longshore labor slowdown in late 2014 and early 2015: Would it make you feel any better to learn that you were the victims of "a street brawl"?

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So Your S&OP Initiative Isn't Working Out? Here's Why

A lot of companies are falling short in their efforts to derive full value from the sales and operations planning (S&OP) function. But the main reason for their failure might surprise you.

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