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Opinion pieces about the shipping and logistics industries

What Will You Buy? How Will You Source?

In recent years, digital commerce has grown tremendously and this has greatly…
  • August 28, 2018
  • 3 minute read

Putting up the Case for Business Automation

This may now be a cliché but there is substance to the…
  • August 19, 2018
  • 2 minute read

The Right Time

  Why is now the right time for us at SCMAP to…
  • August 19, 2018
  • 4 minute read

The Trade Compliance Profession

Except for a brief stint in government, I have been in the…
  • August 12, 2018
  • 4 minute read

Building on Business Capabilities Using ERP

Imagine this scenario: your customer has an urgent shipment but he has…
  • August 7, 2018
  • 3 minute read

60th

  The headline figure is encouraging: the Philippines has jumped from 71st…
  • August 7, 2018
  • 3 minute read

Container Tracking Technology Implementation Updates

More than 5 years ago—January 2012 to be exact—I wrote an article…
  • July 30, 2018
  • 2 minute read

Technology Blurring Line Separating Large and Small Freight Companies

New technological trends are emerging in the logistics market that would be…
  • July 25, 2018
  • 2 minute read

Marshals

  Whenever I wrote about supply chain—whether it be for this column,…
  • July 25, 2018
  • 4 minute read

Hate It Or Love It, Technology Can’t Be Ignored

Technology is commonplace in current times, having already pervaded every aspect of…
  • July 8, 2018
  • 2 minute read