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.

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World Food Programme Logistics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The event built on the recognition of the rising importance of South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC), and the call for more investments in this area which found global endorsement earlier this year at the Second High-level United Nations Conference on South-South Cooperation (BAPA+40), held in March in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 19, 2018

“Strong results for air freight, container shipping and export orders in particular suggest that, while the trade recovery may moderate in due course, it will likely continue in the coming months and remain above trend,” the report says. 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

That shifted slightly from the 2017 results, which showed 81% strongly agreed and 19% agreed that the supply chain is a good career choice. In 2017, 69% strongly agreed and 31% agreed that they would recommend that others consider supply chain as a career. The survey provides useful insights into hiring and employment trends.

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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

That shifted slightly from the 2017 results, which showed 81% strongly agreed and 19% agreed that the supply chain is a good career choice. In 2017, 69% strongly agreed and 31% agreed that they would recommend that others consider supply chain as a career. The survey provides useful insights into hiring and employment trends.

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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.” Nulogy xChange 2018: Why Courage is So Important Today.

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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. She sees a trend toward formalized outreach programs. Finding and keeping drivers has never been more critical. While they make up 47 percent of the workforce, just 7.9

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This paper presents the exemplar concept of national support as an approach upon which a future civil-military relationship in Australia is based. A new narrative could be presented to Government in the wake of Defence’s mobilisation review currently underway and would help to guide whole-of-Government planning for military-based crises.

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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. About the Author.

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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.

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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). MecuryGate provided an extensive demo of the solution at its user conference, so I was able to see it firsthand.

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247 Customs Broker

DECEMBER 3, 2018

However, this new approach would give greater coverage and higher rates of identification of the drug submarines ( Levin 2017 ). Transportation: Although autonomous cars present a multitude of benefits, this is one robot that might struggle to work harmoniously with humans. Bostonia, October 4, 2017. 1 (2017): 96-108.

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Logistics in War

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

In 2017 Major-General Chris Field wrote of two reasons to write; education and humility. The recent explosion of blogs including my own Logistics in War , professional military education sites such as The Cove , and other forms of ‘accessible’ writing are all part of this trend. Writing is valuable, and valued.

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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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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. Much is made of the trends in e-commerce and the influence on the supply chain.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

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. presented a great case study on the company’s journey and success with real-time freight visibility.

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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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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 4, 2017

I’m heading back home today from the MercuryGate Velocity 2017 user conference in Las Vegas. Luckily, nobody associated with the conference was killed or injured. Instead of a spirited start to the conference, Monica Wooden, MercuryGate’s CEO, called for a moment of silence to remember the victims and their families.

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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. Year-over-year revenues grew over 10 percent and customer satisfaction increased to 93 percent. Source: BluJay Solutions. How do you define it?

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

LMC warns that OEMs facing the biggest challenges are those most exposed to the local market, such as Fiat Tofas, which saw production drop from 384,174 in 2017 to just over 300,000 last year. 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.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 2, 2019

As executive director of the ATA’s Automobile Carriers Conference (ACC), Farrell regularly coordinates lobbying efforts between the US House of Representatives and Senate, as well as related government oversight agencies, on issues pertaining to the transport of finished vehicles by truck. “A Democrats like to spend money.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

NOTE: Ron Giuntini also participated in the roundtable, but his contribution on the servitization trend will appear in a separate article. . They also agreed that the currently hot economic growth trend will cool down but not reverse its advance next year. Jim Tompkins, CEO, Tompkins International. ? Automation, Robots and AI.

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