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The Rhenus Group Launch Operations in New Zealand

Logistics Manager

One of Europe’s leading logistics service companies, The Rhenus Group has recently opened their own New Zealand entity, Rhenus Logistics NZ. The Rhenus Group CEO for Far East Asia, Jan Harnisch had this to say, “We’ve been investing in the expansion of our network in the Asia-Pacific region for several years.

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Digital Control Tower Manages Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

NOKERA, a German green-tech firm for serial production using timber, has placed an order with 4PL Central Station AG (4PLCS) to centrally manage its road transport logistics operations. These include, for example, tender procedures for transport services, checks on freight costs and damage management.

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Why Large Companies Increasingly Opt for 4PL Services

Logistics Bureau

SUMMARY: Because 4PL providers handle a company’s entire chain, including challenges that are thrown up by advances in technology, they are increasingly being favoured over third-party logistics (3PL) providers, especially by big companies with complex supply chains. The Differences between 4PL and 3PL. What is 4PL? What is 3PL?

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Calling ‘order’ on Inbound Goods

Logistics Business Magazine

Dan Migliozzi, Sales & Marketing Director, at independent systems integrator, Invar Group , gets to the root of the problem. The supplier, after all, isn’t presenting a chaotic mix of items just to be awkward – they will have their own constraints, for example on batch sizes and times, or on their own storage capacities.

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Opel tasks Gefco with further cost reduction

Automotive Logistics

Opel/Vauxhall has renewed its fourth-party logistics (4PL) contract with Gefco for a further four years, starting in January, tasking it with finding further cost reduction measures and intensifying its optimisation and network engineering activities. Its remit includes purchasing, tenders, contracting and invoicing.

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Stepping up the pace

Automotive Logistics

When Groupe PSA bought Opel/Vauxhall from GM in 2017 for €2.2 Then, when Opel/Vauxhall renewed its contract for fourth-party logistics (4PL) services with Gefco in October 2018 for a further four years, Gefco was tasked with finding further cost reductions and intensifying its optimisation and network engineering activities.

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Penske Logistics Positioned as Visionary Within 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Third-Party Logistics, North America, Report

Penske Move Ahead

So that is a practical example of where technology is helping front-line supervisors intervene and make decisions to keep people engaged with our customers," Moses added. There are a myriad of things the depth of relationship brings to the shipper-3PL/4PL relationship," Moses said. That can't typically be discerned to the naked eye.

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