Category Archives: Global Trade Management

Automotive Supply Chain Faces Fresh Challenges…

Good news: You got a message from a customer and it starts with “I want to purchase…” Bad news? What if the same message started with… 1001110001011100 (binary)… or Quiero comprar…, or Chcę kupić…,or Je veux acheter…, or <xsd:element type=”PurchaseOrderType”/> (XML … Continue reading

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Supply Chain Management – Why Inventory Levels are the Current Hot Potato

It may come as a surprise that many companies have still not reduced the amount of inventory they keep in their supply chains.  In a recent post by Dan Gilmore at Supply Chain Digest, he details by industry how many companies … Continue reading

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Shift toward Supply Chain Management Cloud Unstoppable

The latest technology software report from investment bank Goldman Sachs confirms what IT industry analysts have been seeing as an unstoppable shift toward on-demand IT services and what we now consider to be cloud applications, especially among small businesses. According … Continue reading

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FCMG Companies Face Rising Supply Chain Pressures

Major retailers are under tremendous pressure to go green and reduce their carbon footprint. To achieve this, they first turned to initiatives close at hand, including the reduction of energy consumption at the store level, product packaging resizing and the … Continue reading

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Supply Chain Collaboration Deciphered

During the 1970’s and early 80’s many of us believed that supply chains would seamlessly communicate with each other via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). Unfortunately, due to multiple standards, clunky translation software, expensive teams of technicians and the requirement for … Continue reading

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Perceptant Unveil Global Import-Export Solution for Freight Forwarding, Third Party Logistic (3PL) and GTM Companies

“Perceptant iHUB Import Export (IE) 2.0 brings Freight Forwarders, Third Party Logistics companines and Global Trade Management providers an on-demand, fully-mapped messaging solution for the global exchange of import and export documentation”. Perceptant, the on-demand supply chain management company, today … Continue reading

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