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Ocean Ports & Carriers
Another Hurdle for The Ocean Alliance
Federal Maritime Commission (FMC)
Using proposed buying power through joint purchasing agreements could harm both downstream and upstream participants.
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Sponsored Content
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Labelmaster
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Risk/Compliance
Uber for Couriers: Logistics Software Promises to Minimize Traffic and Emissions
Uber Freight
The new software reroutes trucks and delivery vehicles with real-time data and machine learning.
Premonition’s technology can optimize large job sets, rerouting multiple vehicles in real time based on a plethora of factors: changed traffic conditions, weather, delivery windows, incoming orders and returns, truck capacity, a driver’s final destination and consumer requests such as redirected parcels.
E-Commerce Solutions
CommerceHub Expands Partnership with Wal-Mart, Adds Integration with Wal-Mart Marketplace
Rithum (formerly known as CommerceHub)
Wal-Mart taps into CommerceHub’s retailer and brand network, broadening its online marketplace product assortment.
CommerceHub’s network of approximately 9,500 customers, including many of the largest retailers, marketplaces and brands in North America, will be able to team up with Walmart.com, one of the largest online retailers.
Fleet Management
Omnitracs Launches Critical Event Video to Enhance Driver Training and Improve Risk Management
Omnitracs | Solera Fleet Solutions
The solution increases driver behavior accountability and exoneration during accident litigation.
Omnitracs Critical Event Video (CEV) is a fully integrated in-cab video solution. CEV is a tool used by fleets to improve driver training and mitigate the liability risks associated with accidents and other critical events, such as hard braking, hard stops, loss of stability control and improper following distance.
ERP
Logility Acquires AdapChain
Logility, an Aptean company
The AdapChain solution simplifies and accelerates supply chain and enterprise resource planning integration.
The announcement builds on years of collaboration between AdapChain and Logility to develop an application with ERP templates that redefine and simplify supply chain integrations for companies around the world.
Retail
Worldwide Retail E-Commerce Sales Will Reach $1.915 Trillion this Year
Retail e-commerce sales will account for 8.7 percent of total retail spending worldwide.
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Manufacturing
Private Equity Giant Is Betting It Can Build a New Manufacturing Backbone for Nike
Apollo Global plans significant additional investment to create a vertically integrated manufacturing hub for Nike.
Private equity (PE) giant Apollo Global Management is betting it can build a regional apparel supply chain for Nike in the Americas, helping the Beaverton, Oregon-based sporting company to become more nimble and bring its manufacturing closer to home.
Risk/Compliance
HAVI Group Aligns Global Operations under One Brand Name—HAVI
HAVI Global Solutions
The simplicity of the new name reflects its streamlined global supply chain services and integrated solutions.
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3PL/4PL
Cargo Chief Launches Tracks Transportation Management System
Cargo Chief
Tracks TMS includes dispatching, load tendering, track and trace, customer invoicing and calculating driver pay.
Tracks TMS is a web-based transportation management system that improves efficiency and scalability for small and midsized carriers by connecting their entire business in one system, including dispatching, load tendering, track and trace, customer invoicing and calculating driver pay.
Retail
Target Cuts Ties with India Textile Company Welspun over Fake Egyptian Sheets
Target Corporation
The supplier was providing counterfeit Egyptian cotton 500-threadcount bed sheets for Target’s consumers.
Following the investigation, Target removed the counterfeit products from its store shelves and its online retailer, and are offering refunds to customers who purchased the bed sheets between August 2014 and July of this year.
Risk/Compliance
Latest Foxconn Worker Deaths Build Case for Apple to Move Operations from China
Samsung Electronics
The deaths of two Foxconn workers are a reminder of the stresses and hazards that can come with factory jobs in China.
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Risk/Compliance
Companies Optimistic about Future Trade Activity with the U.S.
Forty-three percent of companies expect trade to increase by more than 10 percent over the next five years.
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