Guest Blogger Ann Grackin is the CEO of ChainLink Research, a thought leader in Supply Chain Management.
With all the buzz about same day, it is time to look at the time of delivery issue.
Though same day will be popular with some consumers, the real issue is: is your logistics process up to meeting the customer’s expectation, no matter what the service delivery expectation?
We (ChainLink Research) recently wrote a research report where we looked across the whole global market. Our research included many Descartes customer cases to review the variety of methods—from B2C same day grocery or B2B service response delivery across the world, to free shipping multi-day (or longer) time frames.
Descartes recognizes one employee each quarter, from nominations by their peers, for their contributions in helping make our customers and partners successful. Employees eligible for Descartes' Excellence & Innovation Award must have demonstrated Innovation by championing new and valuable ideas to develop new or better processes, tools, methods, systems, products or services in support of Descartes’ mission; and Excellence by performing their job with pride and to the highest professional standards, exceeding expectations while achieving exceptional results for external and/or internal stakeholders.
The last few years in the air freight industry has seen initiatives such as e-freight and C2K continue to make slow progress, while information and communication technologies and channels have been evolving rapidly throughout business and society.
Having recently returned from a Descartes hosted-session in Toronto on the eManifest initiative, I can confirm that the trade is keenly interested in the third-phase of Canada’s ACI (Advanced Commercial Information) program. The Q&A at the end of the event centered not only on the ‘Big Picture’ questions on the global regulatory landscape, but also focused on the practical: How will this affect me? When will this affect me and what impact will this have on my business?
Descartes has been busy working with the Nippon Automated Cargo and Port Consolidation System (NACCS) to prepare ocean carriers and forwarders for the upcoming Japan Advance Filing Requirement (AFR) by hosting a number of educational sessions around the world, supplemented by online web seminars for those who cannot attend one of the hosted sessions.
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