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Gartner Announces Rankings of the 2020 Supply Chain Top 25

Cisco Systems Takes Top Position; Six New Companies Join Ranking.

Gartner, Inc. has released the results from its annual Supply Chain Top 25, identifying supply chain leaders and highlighting their best practices.

“In our 16th edition of the Supply Chain Top 25 we have an impressive group of leaders with new lessons to share, including a diverse set of six new entrants,” said Mike Griswold, vice president analyst with the Gartner Supply Chain practice. “With substantial amounts of the economy closed due the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders need an agile strategy that allows the supply chain organization to sense and respond to changes in the business context as they happen. Our ranking highlights companies that possess these strategies and other differentiating capabilities.”

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2020-05-20-gartner-announces-rankings-of-the-2020-supply-chain-top-25

PACCAR puts charge into electric trucks with infrastructure plan

Kenworth and Peterbilt expect to sell a few hundred electric trucks in coming years. They will account for less than 1% of total revenue for parent PACCAR Inc. (NASDAQ: PCAR). But bundling charging units with the trucks improves the revenue picture dramatically.

“We like to make money in everything we do,” PACCAR CEO Preston Feight said on the company’s third-quarter earnings call Oct. 20. “And that’s our model for electric vehicles (EVs) as well as for anything else we do.”

PACCAR is taking...

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Gartner: Supply chain IoT hits ‘trough of disillusionment’

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Gartner, the global research and advisory firm, has released its Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020 report showing that Internet of Things (IoT) applications have reached a low point known as the trough of disillusionment.

“Companies have gotten past the hype; they know what IoT is and how it works,” Mike Burkett, vice president and analyst with the Gartner Supply Chain Practice, told FreightWaves. “Now they are just trying to figure out where to use it. That’s why it’s in the trough.”

The...

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Workhorse perfecting HorseFly truck-based drone delivery

Workhorse Group (NASDAQ: WKHS) positions itself as an electric truck maker capable of using a truck-mounted drone for package delivery. With its composite body electric delivery vans in early production, the company’s aircraft business is closer to taking off.

“Last-mile transportation is hard, aerospace transportation is harder and integrating the two even harder,” Workhorse aerospace lead John Graber said on Monday during the company’s second-quarter earnings call.

But it’s doable. In four...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/workhorse-perfecting-truck-based-autonomous-drone-delivery

Weekend Wrapup: Amazon deals, emergency air cargo, and vaccines

Every FreightWaves article is designed to help our readers become the most informed professionals in the transportation and logistics industry. These articles may have flown under your radar this week, but we consider them essential reading:

Talk of Amazon deals heated up this week, with rumors of the e-commerce giant looking at acquiring one of several department store chains, along with several large real estate deals, before ending the with week announcing the acquisition of self-driving...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/weekend-wrapup-amazon-deals-emergency-air-cargo-and-vaccines

Gartner releases Supply Chain University Top 25 for 2020

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Global research and advisory firm Gartner on Wednesday released its 2020 Supply Chain University Top 25, showcasing the best in North American undergraduate and graduate education.

The top three undergraduate programs, in order of ranking, were the University of Arkansas,* Rutgers University and Penn State.

The top three graduate programs, in order of ranking, were Penn State, the University of Tennessee and Georgia Tech.

The rankings were based on three categories of criteria: program scope,...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/gartner-releases-supply-chain-university-top-25-for-2020

Surprises as Gartner publishes its ‘magic quadrant’ of 3PLs

Unfortunately, we don’t have the text to go with it, but Gartner has published its latest Magic Quadrant of 3PLs worldwide. There are some, perhaps, surprising ‘challengers’ – Maersk very nearly makes it into that list, above many other large 3PLs. At The Loadstar, we are also a little surprised that Bolloré has made it into the list as a ‘visionary’. It’s also worth noting that DSV Panalpina is mid-way …

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Today’s Pickup: Gartner releases annual Supply Chain Top 25

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Good day,

Gartner, Inc. released the results from its annual Supply Chain Top 25, identifying supply chain leaders and highlighting their best practices.

Cisco Systems scored the top spot in the ranking, followed by Colgate-Palmolive, Johnson & Johnson, Schneider Electric and Nestlé. Six new companies joined this year’s list – Lenovo, AbbVie, British American Tobacco, Reckitt Benckiser, Biogen and Kimberly-Clark.

Three key trends stand out this year for the companies that made the list, Gartner...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/todays-pickup:-gartner-releases-annual-supply-chain-top-25

Duck Creek Technologies Noted in 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report for Non-Life Insurance Platforms, Europe

Bart Patrick

London, UK, 4/12/2018 – Duck Creek Technologies Europe (DCTE) is delighted to announce that its parent company, Duck Creek Technologies, has been positioned as a Leader in the 2018 Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Non-life Insurance Platforms, Europe”.

Headquartered in Boston, USA, Duck Creek Technologies is historically a North American technology expert, but accelerated its expansion in the EMEA market with the launch of a London, UK, office in 2017.

This independent Gartner report –...

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