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Warehouse Creates Entirely New Revenue Stream and Increases Utilization 40%!
Challenge: A respected provider of direct marketing, printing and fulfillment services operates a ten-thousand-rack space warehouse. While their core business generally keeps their warehouse busy, the management team realized they had unused capacity. Their challenge was to find a fast, efficient way to increase their warehouse utilization.
Spot Rates Fall as Price of Diesel Dips Below $2
With the national average diesel price falling below $2 per gallon, truckload rates on the spot market continued on a downward trend. Freight brokers usually quote a one-time price that includes both a line-haul portion and the fuel surcharge; declining fuel prices influence spot market rates significantly.
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Corning Awards Life Sciences Business to Kuehne & Nagel
Corning Incorporated has appointed Kuehne & Nagel to manage the distribution requirements for its Corning Life Sciences business in the Asia-Pacific market.
Fifth of Large Food Manufacturers Surveyed Know Little or Nothing About Their Suppliers
Food manufacturers across the globe have admitted failing to put in place basic safeguards to protect vulnerable workers in their supply chains - almost one year on from laws to stop slavery, child labor and unethical working practices.
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Database Created on Toxicity of 10,000 Chemicals Used in Europe
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have created a safety database on 10,000 chemicals registered in Europe for predicting the toxicity of many of the 90,000 or more other substances in consumer products.
Service Parts Operation Delivers: 500 Orders/Day - 40% Less People
Challenge: This service parts organization needed to handle over 500 orders per day and 170,000 items in their inventory. They needed to move from a paper-base to automate through system-directed processes, gain real-time visibility and tracking of parts and orders throughout their supply chain.
Long-Term Transportation Management Partnership Saves Client Millions
Challenge: Wide transportation footprint; Different ERP systems across multiple platforms; Gaps in existing transportation network; Maintain core competency of steel-making/processing; Maintain quality/safety culture; Consolidating transportation metric source data
TMS for Multi-Modal Inbound Logistics and Improved Spot Bidding
Challenge: Help a leading protein processor with: Increased demand from vendors seeking customer assistance in securing equipment; Insufficient visibility for auditing spot market spend; Inability to convert frequent spot lanes to routed lanes; Inefficient manual processes prone to error
Most Customers Will Bolt Retailers Who Can't Fulfill Online Needs, Study Sales
Digital services are now expected as standard by consumers, with retailers needing to adapt or risk their losing business altogether, according to a report from Kibo, a cloud-based omnichannel platform.
European Automobile Market Begins 2016 Strong in Virtually Every Region
Passenger car registrations in the European Union continued to grow during the opening month of 2016. According to the latest data released by the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA), registrations during January grew by 6.2% year on year (y/y) to 1,061,150 units. In addition, in the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) area - comprising Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland – registrations grew by 9.5% y/y to 32,415 units.
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Worker Skills Gap Widens as Manufacturing Grows Smarter
As manufacturing gets smarter with Industry 4.0 and the ever-expanding Industrial Internet of Things, the workforce skills needed to deploy new technology are falling behind.
Top European Airfreight Carriers Start 2016 Off Well, But Caution Urged
The big three Western European air carriers have all reported their January cargo results, and all three show improving performance.
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