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Integrating Planning & Execution: Supply Chain's Holy Grail

Integrating supply chain planning and execution is vital to today's businesses, but 80 percent of the data that most companies need to achieve this integration lies outside their four walls. Mark Cosway, vice president of industry sales at GT Nexus, explains a new approach to solving this problem.

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Following Two Years of Decline, Airfreight Industry Is Cautiously Optimistic in 2013

IATA says the global air cargo market shrank by 1.5 percent in 2012, a second successive year of decline following a 0.6 percent contraction in 2011. Freight capacity was almost unchanged, growing by 0.2 percent over the year, but the load factor was just 45.2 percent. But the industry is guardedly optimistic cargo will pick up.

In War, Logistics Is Better Ally Than Strategy, Two Books Suggests

It's a military truism that amateurs talk strategy while professionals study logistics. Two engaging new World War II histories remind us why logistics matter more. In fact, in wartime, logistics eats strategy for lunch.

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The Runup to the Panama Canal Expansion Is Crucial

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Agentrics Changes Name to NeoGrid

Agentrics, a vendor of cloud-based applications to support supply-chain collaboration, has changed its name to that of its parent company, Brazil-based NeoGrid.

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FedEx Trade Networks Opens Its First Office in Thailand

FedEx Trade Networks, the international freight-forwarding subsidiary of FedEx Corp., has opened its first office in Thailand.

Red Star Traders Takes Control of Import Supply Chain

A case study examining the challenges that Red Star Traders faced in retooling its import supply chain to meet growing demand, with managing principal Lenny Vainberg.

Rise of the Machines: The Brave New World of Management in the Automated DC

One of the most constant staples of science fiction is its view of the automated world of the future. Whether it was the giants of the genre (H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Jules Verne), animated movies or the Tomorrowland section at the Disney properties, all envisioned a world where manual labor was largely replaced by intelligent machines rapidly performing dull, repetitive tasks.

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UPS Plan to Acquire TNT Express Was Anti-Competitive, European Commission Says

The European Commission has explained why its members felt that EU merger regulations forced the body to block the proposed acquisition of TNT Express by UPS.

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Lack of Competitive Rail Service Costs Chemicals, Plastics Shippers Billions, Report Says

The American Chemistry Council issued new research documenting how a lack of freight rail competition is costing U.S. chemical companies billions of dollars in excess shipping costs each year. Showing shipping rates that often exceed 300 percent of the revenue-to-variable cost (RVC) ratio, the ACC study estimates that if the $3.9bn premium on chemical shipments were reduced, the chemical sector could create up to 25,000 additional American jobs, with $1.5bn in new wages, and $6.8bn in new economic output.

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Intermodal Conversion in the Restaurant Temp-Controlled Space

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APL Introduces New Feeder Service Between Germany, Poland

APL has introduced a new feeder service for the movement of containerized cargoes between Germany and Poland.

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

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