Supply & Demand Chain Executive

Sourcing & Procurement

Becoming a Demand-Driven Enterprise

Companies need visibility and collaboration from their supplier’s dock to their customer’s dock to gain insight

Ed Rusch

Amazon Express: Reincarnation of the Old Airborne Express?

Amazon found an almost move-in ready facility to process its shipments for next-day delivery to U.S. customers

Rob Schroeder

Risk/Compliance

Heraeus Centralizes Global Product Master Data with Amber Road

Amber Road, division of E2Open

The global precious metals and technology company embarks on its first step to a full export controls program

Centre Point Logistics to Open State-of-the-Art Warehouse at Dubai South

Centre Point Logistics (CPL)

The 22,550-square-meter facility will help capitalize on the growing opportunities in logistics in Dubai and the UAE

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Fuel Prices Keep Falling For U.S. Fleets

The U.S. average retail pump price for gasoline also declined this week by 3.4 cents to $1.822 per gallon, which is 24.6 cents cheaper compared to the same week in 2015.

The U.S. average retail pump price for gasoline also declined this week by 3.4 cents to $1.822 per gallon, which is 24.6 cents cheaper compared to the same week in 2015.

Maersk Vessel Released after Brief Hijacking off Nigeria

Maersk Container Industry (MCI)

Nigeria remains a hotspot for violent piracy and armed robbery, which has died down off of Africa’s east coast

Safmarine Kuramo, a 2,500 twenty-foot-equivalent-unit (TEU) boxship briefly hijacked off the Nigerian coast on Feb. 5, was released the following day with all crew members reported to be safe, according to Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority (MPA).

Risk/Compliance

Google Wants to Deliver Packages from Self-Driving Trucks

The trucks would be fitted with lockers that could be unlocked with a code sent to the person waiting for the delivery

A new patent awarded to Google suggests that the search giant is looking into developing self-driving delivery trucks, just as Amazon readies its autonomous delivery drone fleet, according to Quartz.

Five Steps to Get the Most out of Your Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning System

TriCore Solutions, LLC

Before adopting cloud-based ERP, understand the areas where it can have the greatest impact to your business

Gina Murphy

Sourcing & Procurement

Procurement Offers Revenue-Generating Ideas for Life Sciences Companies

Procurement, bridging the business and its suppliers, is positioned to capture and help drive revenue-generating ideas

Tom Papa

Mobile Loyalty Cards to Reach 3 Billion by 2020, Doubling over Five Years

Juniper Research Limited

Many retailers now offer customers the opportunity to store their loyalty cards within a dedicated digital wallet

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Nadia Ribeiro Returns to CEVA Logistics to Head up South America Cluster

Executive vice president Nadia Ribeiro has extensive knowledge of the international freight and logistics market

Nadia Ribeiro

Dacotrans Merges with GH Transport and Key Logistics

Key Logistics AB

The company offers freight forwarding, including air, ocean less-than-container load/full container load and projects

In charge of the new company is Stefan Hansson as CEO; he was formerly the managing director of Dacotrans.

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