Visible Supply Chain Management

What is value in the health care supply chain?

Value statements, or Value propositions

Each have different definitions and objectives, but they are relatively the same within various industries. And then there’s the health care supply chain. What’s the value proposition?

Pinpointing the priorities:

Supply chain in health care has many competing value statements within any given organization. The elasticity and influence of the supply chain in health care have many competing objectives — values — inside the same organization. The ability to...

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Maersk is making an e-commerce play

Maersk acquires Visible SCM supply chain logistics fulfillment ecommerce

A.P. Moller – Maersk further bolstered its position in the e-commerce space on Friday when it announced the acquisition of Visible Supply Chain Management (Visible SCM), a U.S.-based business-to-consumer, e-commerce logistics and parcel delivery company. Denmark-headquartered Maersk said the acquisition will allow its B2C segment to reach three-quarters of the U.S. direct-to-consumer market within 24 hours and 95% within 48 hours.

“We have set out to build strong e-commerce logistics...

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Logistics orchestration platform Slync.io scores $60M in funding

Slync.io, a Dallas-based company that offers an automated orchestration operating platform for global logistics, announced the close of its $60 million Series B funding round.

Venture firm Goldman Sachs Growth led the Series B investment with participation from ACME Ventures, 235 Capital Partners, Correlation Ventures and other existing investors. 

The new funding brings the total amount raised for Slync.io to more than $70 million over the last year. The company announced a Series A round of...

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