Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Which is why a drone took flight from the stage during Ryan’s keynote address at the Descartes Evolution 2017 Conference a couple of weeks ago and broadcast real-time video of the audience as it flew across the front of the hall. Descartes (@DescartesSG) March 28, 2017. million in FY 2017 (net income has grown from $12.0

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Women in Trucking

MAY 18, 2020

Valerie Alexander, CEO of Goalkeeper, author and keynote at Women In Trucking’s 2017 Accelerate! Conference, suggests that women adopt these three traits to help level the playing field: 1. To build your credibility even further, present your idea clearly and concisely — in 10 words or less. Make quick decisions. Learn More

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The offering was unveiled this week at Amazon Accelerate, a conference that drew about 2,000 online merchants to Seattle. Newsom has a reputation for being friendly to the tech industry, and is expected to veto AB 316. Robot drivers are exempt from hours-of-service regulations limiting humans to 11 hours of driving in a 24-hour period.

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Logistics in War

JUNE 17, 2018

This is the final post from the LIW archives on strategic logistics and logistics challenges prior to the Australia & New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference. In 2016, the Australian Government released its 2016 Defence White Paper and the supplemental Defence Industry Policy Statement.

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FourKites

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Since 2017, FourKites has convened a panel of the most involved companies within our global customer base for our Customer Advisory Board (CAB). We leverage these panel discussions to validate product ideas and guide our product roadmap, create champions and buy-in for our brand, and gather intelligence about the state of the industry.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

4] The ongoing conflict in Ukraine, too, has brought national industrial mobilisation to the fore in terms of Ukraine responses to Russian aggression, but also in the context of European, US and other logistics support to Ukraine. When Defence made mobilisation an agenda.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Industry leaders have been complaining about a truck driver shortage for a while, but unlike other industries that have been complaining about worker shortages, we have real evidence both in employment numbers and in business activity that the shortage is starting to have an impact on the economy,” writes Conor Sen, the article’s author.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 27, 2018

From May 2016 through the end of August 2017, “17 CEOs of public Big Food manufacturers and retailers had departed, or announced their intention to,” according to an article published last September in Fortune. The theme of the conference was “Go Boldly Together.” Video Interviews with Industry Executives.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 19, 2018

Container shipping volumes in December of 2017 were 5 percent higher than in the same month of 2016, noted Yin Ming, deputy secretary general of the Shanghai International Shipping Institute and professor at Shanghai Maritime University. He presented his outlook for container shipping to the TPM Annual Conference in Long Beach, Calif.,

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The average young professional responding to the survey has worked in the supply chain industry for about four years and is employed by a third-party or fourth-party logistics provider, manufacturing, merchandising or retail trade, or an information technology provider. A full report will be available in Supply Chain Quarterly this December.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2017

A notable exception is MercuryGate (a Talking Logistics sponsor), which was founded 17 years ago and recently held its annual user conference in Las Vegas. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘The Future of Delivery,” which I love because it raises a lot of questions and possibilities (see my recent post on the topic).

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The average young professional responding to the survey has worked in the supply chain industry for about four years and is employed by a third-party or fourth-party logistics provider, manufacturing, merchandising or retail trade, or an information technology provider. A full report will be available in Supply Chain Quarterly this December.

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Women in Trucking

MARCH 9, 2020

Presenters at the 2018 Accelerate! Conference shared a variety of best practices. percent increase in female drivers from 2017 to 2018, Shaver says. In fact, Walmart just announced that the company is raising the average salary to nearly $90,000 to attract more drivers – an unprecedented move in the industry. Learn More

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247 Customs Broker

DECEMBER 3, 2018

For even more human-robot collaboration, Volkswagen is teaming up with Dresden, Germany-based startup Wandelbots to more efficiently train industrial robots using an innovative jacket fitted with sensors and actuators. Industry Week, March 7, 2018. Bostonia, October 4, 2017. Preparing for Change. Parnell, Ph.D. “ Hitch, John.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2018

So stated Ken Hughes , a leading consumer and shopper behaviouralist, in his keynote presentation at Trasnsplace’s 16th Annual Shipper Symposium a couple of weeks ago. There were a lot of great sessions and speakers during the conference, but I don’t have the time or space to summarize them all today. Digital Freight.

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Freightera

JUNE 29, 2017

Transport News INTL has just selected Freightera as “Best Online Freight Marketplace – North America” in their Logistics, Warehouse & Supply Chain Awards 2017! In Q2 or Q3 2017 we will start offering air and ocean rates as well. Looking ahead, Freightera is rapidly expanding in North America in 2017.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 6, 2017

I’ve never given a supply chain presentation in Spanish. I’ll be doing both for the first time in a couple of weeks at Seminarium’s Logistics & Operations Conference 2017 (October 18th in Santiago, Chile). Truckstop.com and FTR Release Industry’s First Lane-Specific Rate Forecast. ATA urges U.S.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 3, 2019

While that still “seems” high, it is actually the lowest point going back to the first quarter of 2017, when it checked in at 74%. What’s more, it helps to counter the 4% increase in the second quarter, which brought the annualized rate to 98%, which was 10% above the large carrier turnover rate at the end of 2017.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 20, 2020

Addressing port and terminal operators during an online forum last week, Robert Rizika, Naval Dome’s Boston-based Head of North American Operations, explained that in 2017 there were 50 significant OT hacks reported, increasing to 120 in 2018 and more than 310 last year. They can penetrate these systems directly.”.

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The Lean Thinker

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Background: I wrote an article appearing in the current (October 2017) issue of AME Target Magazine (page 20) that profiles two very different organizations that have both seen really positive shifts in their culture. Sara Abshari and Eileen Jaskuta are presenting the Meritus story at the AME conference next week (October 9, 2017).

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Bilateral forums, conferences, meetings and seminars happen more often than one can count, and usually result in numerous announcements – ranging from memoranda of understanding (MoU) to billions of financial commitments. The forum, in its 5th iteration since 2010, positions Singapore as a gateway to Asia for African companies.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 25, 2017

Addressing this problem is at the heart of Manhattan Associates’ Active Solutions, which the company introduced a couple of weeks ago at its Momentum 2017 conference. Director of Transportation at Giant Eagle, presented a great customer case study on how the company transformed its transportation operations.

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Freightera

MAY 4, 2017

VANCOUVER, BC (PRWEB) MAY 04, 2017. Industry and governments need workable solutions that can be implemented right now.”. Freightera Logistics Inc. has partnered with Natural Resources Canada’s SmartWay program in an initiative to reduce fuel costs and emissions from freight transportation.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Logistics experts shared their research findings during the Council for Supply Chain Management Professional’s (CSCMP) EDGE Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. Presenters included Balika Sonthalia, a vice president at A.T. State of the Supply Chain. Supply Chain Costs. Inventory led the way with a 13.2%

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

I’ve been an industry analyst for over 20 years, which is hard to believe sometimes. A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Descartes Evolution Global User & Partner Conference 2019. One of Descartes’ most high-profile acquisitions was its purchase of MacroPoint for $107 million in August 2017. Takeaways from Evolution 2019.

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Logistics in War

JUNE 15, 2018

In 2017, Logistics In War was privileged to have been given permission by the author to publish this essay. It is especially relevant to participants of the Australian and New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference and others elsewhere. By Hayden Marshall.

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Automotive Logistics

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Europe’s finished vehicle sector faces several big challenges in coming months, as speakers at the recent ECG conference in Germany made clear. At last week’s annual conference of the Association of European Vehicle Logistics (ECG), held in Mainz, Germany, speakers discussed what they were doing to tackle these problems.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Logistics experts shared their research findings during the Council for Supply Chain Management’s (CSCMP) annual EDGE Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Penske is once again a major conference sponsor. Kearney and a presenter of CSCMP’s 29 th Annual State of Logistics Report, both of which are presented by Penske Logistics.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Logistics experts shared their research findings during the Council for Supply Chain Management Professional's (CSCMP) EDGE Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. Presenters included Balika Sonthalia, a vice president at A.T. In 2018, demand softened, but not to the point where a steep decline was visible.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 15, 2018

In 2017, it saw a recovery in the automotive sector in Europe and a shortage of transport capacity in the market. At the press conference in Paris in January, Nadal said the company was opening up to new industrial sectors including aviation, manufacturing, energy, life sciences and healthcare, among others.

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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

It has created a wireless product for tracking inventory on car dealers’ sites, but earlier this year spotted even bigger opportunities in finished vehicle logistics. “We were invited to a logistics conference,” recalls Mark Sargeant, vice-president of business development at AutoMap. It’s like crowd-sourcing,” Sargeant says.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 27, 2018

That was the key message Doug Braun, CEO of BluJay Solutions (a Talking Logistics sponsor), delivered in his keynote presentation at the SOAR 2018 Customer Conference last month. Delivering an enhanced customer experience is also becoming a differentiator in the software industry. Source: BluJay Solutions.

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Automotive Logistics

MARCH 21, 2019

Salgado regards the logistics industry as large, fragmented and technologically behind the times. So I found a unique opportunity to bring technology to this industry and that’s how I decided to build [Loadsmart],” he told Automotive Logistics at last year’s Supply Chain Conference in Atlanta. That is a big issue.”.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

As the fortunes of the logistics industry rise and fall with the automotive sector it serves, Turkey looks on the face of it to be a gloomy place to do business right now. That was almost twice the amount exported to the EU by Japan, the second-largest supplier of vehicles to the EU based on 2017 figures. Parts worth $1.4

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

The FMC is uniquely positioned to set guidelines and a common understanding of what is fair and what is not fair,” said Alex Cherin, representing the California Trucking Association Intermodal Conference. Intermodal Conference. They also lamented the idea that they should bear sole risk during periods of intense congestion.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

15, 2017 Apparel Importers Trade and Transportation Conference in New York. “A It chose the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to get its start. By the end of 2017, AIM had more than 4,000 chassis deployed in its fleet.

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Freightera

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Freightera continues to build the freight transportation marketplace with a mission to transform the whole industry, releases the Green Future of Freight infographic. . Vancouver, BC Jan 30, 2017.

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