Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Last November, executives from all segments of the Heavy Building Materials (HBM) ecosystem got together at the inaugural Leadership Roundtable meeting organized by Command Alkon (a Talking Logistics sponsor) to discuss a couple of simple questions: Are there opportunities to elevate the performance of the HBM industry?

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

What’s becoming clear, however, is that digital supply chain transformation is not enough; companies also have to transform their physical supply chain networks to adequately meet the more demanding challenges and opportunities before them. The approach, now in pilot mode at a warehouse in Perth Amboy, N.J.,

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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. The Need for Agility.

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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. The requirement for 62.5%

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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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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Failure to meet these requirements could mean a 3 percent chargeback per case value of each missing item. Failure to meet these requirements could mean a 3 percent chargeback per case value of each missing item. As of April 1st of 2018, the company made the policy even harder. But that’s not all it can do. Far from it, in fact.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

That can make it difficult to meet your delivery times unless you take proactive steps now to minimize the risk in your supply chain. There may be instances where you will have to work more closely with carriers and book further in advance to ensure you can meet critical deliveries. Peak season for ocean freight shipping is underway.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Well-rehearsed mechanisms would be established that would assess the ability of the national support base to mobilise to meet the need, and plans developed to enable this to occur. For example, the US national security community uses the term ‘defense technology and industrial base’. [6] 1] Beaumont, D., 2] Beaumont, D., 3] Marles, R.,

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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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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. Kenya’s Government celebrates the handover of School Meals Programme.

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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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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

At a meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in July, member states agreed that import duties on automotive components could only be increased by Russia after being officially signed off at the next EEU Council meeting on August 24, says Shavshina. . Complex impact. Finished vehicle imports to Russia are on the rise.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 7, 2017

The new Mobile Workforce Management platform allows Blackbay’s customers quickly, within hours rather than days, to configure changes to Delivery Connect’s T&L applications ensuring that they meet specific business processes. wants to introduce the system by 2018. Peloton, based in Mountain View, Calif.,

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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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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Shippers and third-party logistics providers are continuing to collaborate as they find solutions to meet their supply chain goals, improve efficiency, and manage their overall transportation spend. In 2018, demand softened, but not to the point where a steep decline was visible. State of the Supply Chain. Supply Chain Costs.

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Freightos

JANUARY 8, 2019

At our FreighTech 2018 conference, I spoke to 50 top-tier logistics executives about the major themes – four of them – that should guide our evolution. See the 2018 State of Online Freight Sales. We were pleased to host one of them (Loggino) at FreighTech 2018. EasyJet, for example, uses dynamic pricing.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Shippers and third-party logistics providers are continuing to collaborate as they find solutions to meet their supply chain goals, improve efficiency, and manage their overall transportation spend. In 2018, demand softened, but not to the point where a steep decline was visible. Inventory led the way with a 13.2%

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

According to one survey , only 27% of leaders believe that they have the talent needed to meet current supply chain performance requirements. Here is what Mr. Toornman said at the conference. “We Mr. Frasquet views the years 2018 and 2019 as years when the maturity with which they were able to use these solutions greatly increased.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

This transcript is the final half of a speech given at the 2018 Australian and New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference. For example, abortive attempts to introduce logistics information systems technology and tracking in the past have resulted from choices made by logisticians based on our own comfort. What we need to be.

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Logistics in War

JUNE 21, 2018

This transcript is the final half of a speech given at the 2018 Australian and New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference. For example, abortive attempts to introduce logistics information systems technology and tracking in the past have resulted from choices made by logisticians based on our own comfort. By David Beaumont.

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Now, That's Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Yet, according to PwC’s Global Digital Operations Study 2018, most business leaders have still not come to terms with the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation or with the conceptual leap it represents. Sensors installed on the assembly line, for example, allow insights to be accessed and utilized in real-time (i.e.,

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 18, 2019

For example, conventional labels must be scanned by operators with barcode readers, which can be an unreliable process thanks to such factors as dirty labels, mixed boxes and high-volume operations. “The OEMs usually meet with their own supply chain, while tier two players act as intermediaries or thought-leaders to bridge the gaps.”.

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247 Customs Broker

AUGUST 17, 2018

Wide range of experts and fields of expertise “At the four-day SMM decision-makers and experts will be able to meet up with colleagues from around the world in one place, which will spare them many weeks of business trips. Visitors who would like to learn more about the “Ecoship” should go to Stand 110 in Hall A5.

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Automotive Logistics

JUNE 19, 2018

That marriage of technology and talent was one of the central points of discussion at this year’s Automotive Logistics Europe conference, held in Bonn, Germany, last week. Digital acceleration. That control helps focus innovation, however, according to Lehmacher. He also said it was important to minimise the impact of the failure. “We

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Automotive Logistics

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The first phase, which began in September 2016 and runs to June 2018, eliminates car transporters with double rows pulled by a single central tractor. However, there may be problems for smaller manufacturers who do not have experience in the country, or who lack local partners and the designs and infrastructure to meet the regulatory changes.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 4, 2018

Is this another example of us going after the “next new shiny thing” versus investing to improve what we currently have? Last September, for example, Trucker Tools launched its Smart Capacity freight matching platform. The bigger question for me is, do we really need it? Song of the Week: “Pink Lemonade” by James Bay.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

ARC recently attended the August 2021 New England Public Power Association (NEPPA) conference, where Gordon Van Welie, President & CEO of grid operator ISO New England (ISO-NE) described the challenges to maintain reliable, low-cost power, while meeting the urgent goals to decarbonize electric power.

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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

India-Russia Joint Statement during visit of President of Russia to India (October 05, 2018). Putin met for the 19th edition of the Annual Bilateral Summit in New Delhi on October 4-5, 2018. . WATCH: India, Russia ink major deals during PM Modi-Vladimir Putin meeting . India-Russia: an Enduring Partnership in a Changing World.

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Friday, September 21, 2018. Some railroads are spending more than 20 percent of revenues on capital improvements to meet the growing demand for intermodal services. .

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 18, 2018

Although the Dubai example is perhaps a long shot, the promoters of Smart City Lagos are right to aim that high. For instance, staff in the Lagos central business districts (CBDs) had their training session in January 2018. In early May 2018, Lagos Innovates will be sponsoring the “Secure Lagos Hackathon” event.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JANUARY 25, 2019

Photo: WFP One early autumn day in 2015, Chief Information Officer Jakob Kern sat in a reassuringly beige New York conference room, explaining how the aid world’s tech teams are turning to data to help feed people. Meetings and negotiations abound, jammed between piles of paperwork here and yet another checkpoint there.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

He said port customers and stakeholders were looking for better visibility of their cargo – when it was going to arrive and where it was at any point in the supply chain – and meeting those needs was another way of highlighting the importance of the ports. Take service parts as an example.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Since I’ll be speaking in three sessions at next week’s CSCMP Edge 2018 conference , I’ll be busy today finalizing my preparations. Home Depot was one of the examples I cited. The post This Week in Logistics News (September 24-28, 2018) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 2, 2019

Just over a year ago, Robert Farrell of the American Trucking Associations (ATA) was celebrating the inclusion of three key automotive transport initiatives in a US government spending bill signed into law in March 2018. Stringent regulations. What if it’s just other [wheeled] freight?” Political machinations. Democrats like to spend money.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Participating in the 2018 roundtable (in alphabetical order) are: ? For example, the NIST demonstration shows an assembly operation. At MODEX 2018, I saw a robotic system capable of unloading a trailer packed with various sized boxes, and there was considerable interest amongst attendees.

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