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Epicor Issues New Version of Business Intelligence App for Retail
Epicor Software Corp. has made available the latest version of Epicor Retail Business Intelligence.
Distribution Centers Lose Nearly 3,000 Hours a Year on Unproductive Workflows, Study Says
Recent Intermec research reveals that in the last six months alone, 79 percent of warehouse managers have been tasked with finding an average 19-percent cost saving from existing operations. Despite this mounting pressure to cut costs and the need to find efficiency gains in every process, managers admit to losing time and money through known inefficient workflows.
Container Lines Hit Record High in On-Time Performance
October saw an increase in container carriers' global on-time performance to 84 percent, which is a record high, according to the monthly Global Liner Report from SeaIntel Maritime Analysis. This was driven by improvements in 25 out of the 32 trades covered.
TSA Carriers File Amendment to Include Westbound Trans-Pacific Trade
The 15 member lines of the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (TSA), who until now have limited their rate and service discussions to eastbound container movements from Asia to the U.S., are seeking to expand the group's scope to include the westbound trade.
LeanLogistics Debuts On-Demand TMS for NetSuite Platform
LeanLogistics, a vendor of transportation-management system (TMS) software, has created the On-Demand TMS SuiteApp.
Memo to Megaports: These Guys Want Your Business
The reshoring of manufactured goods from Asia to North America is bound to take some import business away from U.S. ports. But there are other developing threats to the continued dominance of gateways like Los Angeles-Long Beach - specifically, a couple of upstarts to the north and south.
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Judging by Global Flow of Trade, Capital, Data and People, the World's Connectedness Is 'Declining'
The DHL Global Connectedness Index, a comprehensive analysis of the state of globalization around the world, concludes that the world is less globally connected today than it was in 2007. The report, drawing on over one million data points from 2005 to 2011, documents how global connectedness, measured by international flows of trade, capital, information and people, grew robustly from the report's baseline year of 2005 to 2007, and then dropped sharply at the onset of the financial crisis. Despite modest gains since 2009, global connectedness has yet to recapture its pre-crisis peak.
Consumers' Concern About Product Safety Impacts Manufacturers' Supply Chains
A survey that examines manufacturer and consumer perceptions about how products are made, sold, bought and consumed reveals a focus on quality, supply chains that are more transparent than ever but a decline in overall optimism, according to Underwriters Laboratories.
Shipbuilding Forecast Sees New Production Dropping Off After 2014
Shipbuilding production levels have remained at record high levels, exceeding 50 million compensated gross tons (cgt) for two consecutive years (2010 -2011), with 2012 forecasted to remain close to 2011 levels, according to Drewry Maritime Research. However, the orderbook that forms the contracted forward workload has diminished rapidly and tails off to very low levels for 2014 and beyond.
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