Sea change: global freight sails out of the digital dark ages By Reuters – Investing.com
- Date: 24-May-2021
- Source: Investing.com
- Sector:Technology
- Country:Kuwait
Sea change: global freight sails out of the digital dark ages By Reuters – Investing.com
By Nick Carey and Lisa Baertlein
LONDON (Reuters) - If suppliers in China fail to pick up freight containers to fill an order for MediaShop, Marcel Schneider gets an alert via a digital freight system, allowing the retailer to reach out and fix the problem swiftly.
Before July 2020, Austria-based MediaShop's deputy supply chain director says he would discover problems in his supply chain only when containers failed to arrive in Hamburg as scheduled.