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From Industry Week: ” Unless you are a hermit who has been stranded on a deserted island for the past 12 months, you get it — we are in a recession. Let’s see what all the “smart” companies are doing, in manufacturing and in other industries. Many are cutting payroll, cutting advertising, cutting consulting, and [...]

From husdal.com: “With the memory of attacks by Somali pirates still fresh in mind, supply chain security has come to the attention of supply chain managers. Already in 2005, the IBM Center for the Business of Government published “Investing in Supply Chain Security: Collateral Benefits”, a report which highlights how certain security investments can create [...]

From livemint.com: “The 17.5% year-over-year decline in China’s exports in January brings it closer to alignment with other major Asian exporters. Meanwhile, its huge drop in imports that month and its declining power usage together suggest that its economy may now be shrinking. Asian emerging markets are economically underperforming the West; this is both a [...]

From mbtmag.com: “For decades in Europe, traffic flow has been mitigated by the use of the roundabout, a small traffic circle that allows continuous movement of vehicles through an intersection at lowered speeds without any full stops. Unlike traditional intersections with stoplights, vehicles in roundabouts slow to yield to other vehicles in the circle and [...]

How does innovation happen in given industries? Specifically how has it been ocurring in the global logistics industry? This chapter of the the book Innovation in Global Industries: U.S. Firms Competing in a New World (Collected Studies) (2008) ,Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) tries to answer these questions and is food for [...]

Cadec Global, a leading provider of advanced fleet management solutions, and Blue Sky Technologies, Inc., a real-time supply chain visibility software provider, announced today a technology partnership intended to help trucking fleets collect objective data that will help them make better business decisions. Cadec’s Mobius TTS® fleet management software helps trucking fleets monitor driver behavior, [...]

If you haven’t seen it yet, the FAIL Blog is a continuous source of true failures of all sorts and in today’s stressful world we’ve found these items can be a momentary source of immense entertainment and instantaneous amusement. There are a number of entertaining logistics examples and we will bring them to you as [...]