Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2018

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. He pointed to Estonia as an example: Estonia is a great example of what can happen with a concept like blockchain if you’re able to start with a clean sheet of paper.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

If managers embrace the idea of giving employees responsibility and decision-making autonomy in their respective areas of expertise – in agile teams, for example – then the parameters can also be defined together. Bohlmann: By eliminating ineffective communication loops, for example. November 20-21, 2018.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 8, 2018

ISM 2018 got underway in Nashville yesterday, May 6. My personal theme for this year’s conference is Why procurement matters! On the one hand, Derry noted, the economy is doing very well, which may be reflected in the strong attendance at this year’s conference. I tossed that out to Tom Derry , ISM’s CEO this afternoon.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Remember that there was zero airline ebooking at the beginning of 2018. For example, some carriers shared with us their APIs for contract rates, others for spot rates, some for rates but not ebooking, others share APIs via third parties who charge an exorbitant price for accessing the API.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 30, 2018

I’ll just repeat what I said back in January: The bottom line is that product returns is yet another example of how “the way we’ve always done it” is just not going to cut it any more. This is self-contradictory,” said Jansen at the [Global Liner Shipping Conference].

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 8, 2018

ISM 2018 got underway in Nashville yesterday, May 6. My personal theme for this year’s conference is Why procurement matters! On the one hand, Derry noted, the economy is doing very well, which may be reflected in the strong attendance at this year’s conference. I tossed that out to Tom Derry , ISM’s CEO this afternoon.

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Automotive Logistics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The shortage of skilled and unskilled labour is now a major concern for the automotive industry whether in the transport, warehousing or IT parts of the business as delegates heard at this year’s Automotive Logistics Global conference in Detroit. To access the full report, please complete the form below.

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Penske Move Ahead

MARCH 12, 2018

Spring is just around the corner, and 2018 is already shaping up to be a memorable year in trucking. Attending the Stifel Conference in February, I had the opportunity to hear several seasoned industry executives express that they had never seen a January like this past January in their entire careers. Secure Dedicated Transportation.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

As you read this, I will be flying home from project44’s Transform conference where I moderated a panel discussion on real-time freight visibility and I recorded several video interviews with project44 customers and partners. Ok, so did everybody else who attended the conference, but it was cool nonetheless. What’s in the Amazon box?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 15, 2023

Steve Lewis, the president of GXO Direct, the shared services division of GXO Logistics, spoke at Blue Yonder’s ICON user conference. Since its introduction in 2018, GXO Direct has grown exponentially, adding millions of square feet each year. Their selection of Blue Yonder is another example of this. and Canada.

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Women in Trucking

MAY 25, 2020

Conference & Expo. For example, about 14 percent of active Women In Trucking members are male, and five of the association’s board members are men. Conference & Expo, listening and asking questions to learn more about the perspective of women in the industry. We help to educate them.”

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Talking Logistics

MAY 3, 2018

A few weeks ago at the Descartes Evolution 2018 User Conference , I had the opportunity to interview William Wehrle, Director of Supply Chain at BASF, and David Bazzetta, Business Advisor – Process Optimization at BASF, about the importance and value of having real-time freight visibility.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2018

It also matters because federal and state agencies and competitive pressures will also demand it (see, for example, the Federal Highway Administration’s e-Construction and Partnering initiative). Getting Started with Digital Transformation.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 8, 2024

Silke: “Going to Chile in 2018 as an MD. There were some very standard questions directed to me, for example ‘what do you know about repairing forklift trucks?’ This was my message at last year’s conference: everybody has an important role to play, some at the front and others at the back office.

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Airfreight Logistics

JULY 10, 2018

Emirates Airlines Freight Division, Emirates SkyCargo recently announced that they have received the prestigious Carrier Award for Reliability and Excellence (CARE) 2018 from DHL Global Forwarding. The award was made in recognition of their outstanding service for the transportation of temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 15, 2018

Formula 1 will open the 2018 season with the Rolex Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on March 23-25. Many new features in 2018 Formula 1 season. The DHL Fastest Lap Award has existed since 2007 and is conferred to the driver who has achieved the greatest number of fastest laps during the season. www.dpdhl.com.

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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. So far, e-commerce growth has continued in 2018. percent in the second quarter of 2018. It ticked up from 9.4

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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Technology October 16, 2018. Taken together, those movements have the potential to create exponential growth by combining with each other and creating entirely new, holistic capabilities, Leonhard said at MHI’s 2018 Executive Summit and Annual Conference. By Ben Ames. ” About the Author. . ” About the Author.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Here are some examples from the past few months: P&G : P&G is undertaking “a multibillion-dollar effort to remake an antiquated and inefficient network of factories, warehouses and offices into a new model that gets goods to stores more quickly,” reported Sharon Terlep in the Wall Street Journal this past February.

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Now, That's Logistics

JULY 13, 2018

As attendees at this year’s SEMICON West conference saw this week, advanced technology is playing a major role in these new “connected” logistics, warehousing, and transportation networks. IoT and blockchain, for example, can facilitate the recording of every transaction across multiple copies of the distributed ledger.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JANUARY 24, 2019

A few months earlier, in September 2018, the same government staff who directed drones over Beira this week stood in a field in Madagascar with a remote control in their hands, practising their piloting skills. UAS Coordination Training Madagascar, August 2018. UAS Coordination Training Madagascar, August 2018.

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Automotive Logistics

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Eduardo Solis, executive president of the Asociación Mexicana de la Industria Automotriz (AMIA), told delegates at the Automotive Logistics Mexico conference last week that the industry there had been “growing significantly” and now represented 20.2% Yet while exports grew by 6% in 2018, production was flat.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2018

In the first half of 2018 EURODIS, the international network for parcels and pallets covering 36 European countries, says it has further continued its growth path with double digit increase. The awards are based upon the performance of all members of EURODIS from June 2017 until May 2018. There are strict criteria for every category.

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Freightera

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Increasingly even Chinese manufacturers are looking abroad, moving operations to Mexico and Vietnam, for example. He wrote “A Green Future for Freight” in the 2016 and 2018 G7 Summit editions of Climate Change: The New Economy. He was a speaker at COP22, the UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakesh.

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IoT World Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

For the sake of comparison, Rawlings points to the international Sigfox conference he attended last year, “There were about 125 booths there with product manufacturers displaying their devices,” Rawlings said. One example might be tracking the location of a block of metal at a landing-gear manufacturer.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

I learned that fact (and many more important things) at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference in New Orleans this week. This week, for example, CCJ reported that “60 percent of fleets running between 1 and 100 trucks have yet to adopt ELDs, according to a recent survey conducted by CarrierLists.” How will it impact productivity?

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247 Customs Broker

AUGUST 19, 2018

With all that’s occurred in 2018, I’ve had some very interesting conversations, especially with shippers. In fact, I told him that I have talked to hundreds of shippers, and the number of organizations that accurately forecast their freight costs for 2018 could be counted on one hand—with some fingers left over.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 14, 2018

While OEMs and logistics providers hope this signals a major recovery in the market, 2018 looks like it could be a year of further uncertainty for the automotive industry in Russia. . IHS Markit expects slightly higher growth rates for 2018, compared to last year,” she confirms. For example, on the route between Moscow and St.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

For example, this year, Chinese New Year occurred later in the season than usual, so we started planning with customers in mid-January, not mid-December, as we do in some years. On September 30th, 2018, it’s the East Coast’s turn for a potential labor strike. This is a week-long celebration in China. Union labor contracts.

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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. FOCAC 2018 indicated the recalibration of China’s strategy in Africa. Finally, Beijing.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 10, 2019

Leading intralogistics automation provider, KNAPP AG, has announced its results for the business year 2018-2019, which it says show another period of solid growth. One example in the past business year is the ‘KNAPP goes green’ campaign to promote the use of electric vehicles and public transport, which received 1.4 million euros.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 23, 2019

Long distance rail connections are central to this trade and, at the Automotive Logistics Global Shanghai conference last week, speakers from China Railway International and Beijing Changjiu Logistics talked about the latest developments for vehicle and parts shipments on the China Railway Express (CR Express) between China and Europe.

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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.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MARCH 1, 2019

Spurring innovation, food safety and quality capacity strengthening and economic resilience This year’s Africa Day of School Feeding comes at the heels of the first ever Future of Food Safety Conference held at the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. million schoolchildren across the nation every week.

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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 1st of 2018, the company made the policy even harder. Analytics turns this vast amount of information into insight, according to the 2020 Third-Party Logistics Study by Infosys Consulting, Penn State University and Penske Logistics presented at the CSCMP Edge conference in Anaheim, California. But that’s not all it can do.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 30, 2018

This year’s Supply Chain Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, was held alongside the inaugural automotiveIT International conference last week in an effort to promote the kind of communication and cross-fertilisation of ideas that could help to solve these issues. “We Speeding up response times. Turning to academia.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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