Talking Logistics

APRIL 6, 2017

While these approaches can certainly deliver a significant return on investment (ROI), other strategies that can positively impact their transportation network are often overlooked – for example, thinking more strategically about capacity. Big or small, capacity solutions are not one-size-fits-all.

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IoT World Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

“Of course, you can build more tracks and there are places in the Netherlands where it would be easy to do this, but in areas like the Randstad conurbation, where extra capacity is needed most, it’s going to be difficult,” said Pier Eringa, CEO of ProRail in an article on the railway’s efforts to boost capacity and speed.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

JULY 31, 2021

This cargo is further divided into goods carried in: Frozen state example meats, fish, and butter, Chilled state example beef, vegetables, cheese, and eggs and. Air cooled condition example Fruits and vegetables. Such examples include: Secondary Information. Determine if cargo in holds can proceed to its destination.

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CH Robinson Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This begs the question: Even if the industry gets more truck drivers, just how much is enough to relieve the strain on trucking capacity? Robinson’s own technology and data from the largest network in the freight industry, help our customers stay on top of the trends that influence their supply chains. Analysis of employment data.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 20, 2024

Like us, they work most consistently and efficiently when presented with standard, predictable, ordered tasks. There is little consistency in how labels and bar codes are presented. There is a lot of data-driven software involved, but the benefits will be significant. Because, in a strange way, the robots are only ‘human’.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 19, 2021

Svend Lassen, head of reporting & data analytics for commercial and supply chain at Tata Steel Europe, explained that there needs to be a clear understanding of how any digital project will improve margins before the project is approved. “We Planners come up with data-proven forecasts on what the market may buy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 19, 2021

The supply chain is evolving, and the standards used for managed logistics transportation services today are more data- and technology-driven than those of the past. Inventory tracking and visibility must be present from the first mile through the final mile, reflecting the entire shipment lifecycle through white glove services.

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Blue Grace Logistics

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Digitization takes living, real-time data from once futuristic fantasy to practical present-day tools. Having uniform data instantly updated across many locations translates into an efficient organization. The answer is simple: having uniform data instantly updated across many locations translates into an efficient organization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Those industries include data communications, medical, industrial, automotive and consumer electronics. The company is present in 38 nations and has more than 40,000 employees. The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruptions in Iceland, for example, caused enormous disruption to air shipments across Western Europe. What’s Next?

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FreightWaves SONAR

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

According to Derrick Steiner of Digitalist Magazine , “Today’s leading companies are working very hard to be intelligent enterprises, capable of harnessing the power of end-to-end experience and operational data, to connecting their demand chain with their customers, who are social, mobile and shop in many channels, to their supply chain.

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 1, 2021

Many LTL industry trends, including capacity limitations, increasing accessorials, surcharge rates, changes in market trends and buying patterns, are almost certain to continue through 2021 and for some time to come. Major shippers and transporters have only so much space available to work within LTL shipping capacity.

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Turvo

JULY 20, 2021

Even changes within capacity can require exception management, rerouting shipments, and redefining the loads accordingly – moreover, the issue of capacity weighs largely on the minds of today shippers.” Collaborative Shipping Exception Management Depends on Real-Time Data, End-to-End Transparency, and Context.

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Now, That's Logistics

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The global pandemic threw the ocean freight sector into a frenzy that’s slowly beginning to wind down as rates stabilize, capacity frees up and the number of ships waiting outside of global ports wanes. This, in turn, may impact ocean shipping availability, capacity, movement and rates. million TEUs in 2023 and 2.83

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

On the supply side, material shortages, staffing challenges, and shipping capacity constraints are all happening at the same time. Pop up warehouses, micro fulfillment centers, and warehousing-on-demand are all examples of how the nodes are becoming increasingly dynamic. They are designing career paths to retain and grow such talent.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 19, 2021

By doing this, you can run a day or a week in the life of your operation and get back data on its performance capability. Storage capacity. Examples of use. If you are using warehouse simulation as an improvement tool to current operations, the first step is to create an exact computer model of your present end-to-end processes.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 28, 2023

KNAPP’s innovative robot solutions help lower costs in logistics processes while increasing shipping capacity. At LogiMAT in Stuttgart, Germany, KNAPP presented technologies that help companies meet these goals. The best automation solution is only as good as its master data. KNAPP calls this new approach zero-touch fulfilment.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 27, 2021

It presents to dispatchers and owner-operators, on their smartphone or tablet, real-time available loads with pricing and enables one-click load acceptance and confirmation. “As This week the company went live with Book-It-Now®, which provides truckers with easy-to-use, automated one-click load booking and confirmation. Based in Reston, Va.,

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CH Robinson Logistics

JUNE 18, 2021

A good example of how this plays out is in the case of congestion at the Port of Oakland. Fact remains, ocean carriers are deploying the most capacity on the U.S. Don’t dismiss historical data. However, a unique situation does not mean historical data no longer lends itself to helping us find solutions. The result?

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Logistics in War

APRIL 16, 2021

This article is adapted from a presentation given at the Williams Foundation seminar on ‘Next Generation Autonomous Systems’ delivered in Canberra in April 2021. It becoming easier to find such opportunities given the vibrancy of the industry sector, and the enthusiasm robotics presently generates in defence circles.

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ShipLilly

JULY 28, 2021

For example, reliability for ferrying and picking up cargo on time is standing at as low as 5%. Carriers need to manage their capacity creatively to overcome the long backlogs and shortages. For example, there are reports of rail congestion and chassis shortages. Third Solution: Make strategic use of historical data.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2022

With capacity constraints, ecommerce growth and driver shortages creating dilemmas for many as well as the increased focus from the industry on environment and machine learning, it was a year that was definitely not without its tests. This clearly presents both an opportunity and challenge for retailers and last mile logistics companies.

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IoT World Today

MAY 14, 2020

The industry is moving in that direction, as augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) systems begin delivering fresh new Internet of Things (IoT) data analytics to workers in a variety of fields. “We AR Puts IoT Data in Context. Connecting workers to useful IoT data feeds is a major goal of AR initiatives.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The markets, in general, have experienced a strong shift in favor of shippers in terms of pricing and capacity availability,” said Josh Brogan, a partner with the global consulting firm Kearney and co-author of the 34th Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals ( CSCMP ) Annual State of Logistics Report. That is counterintuitive.

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Now, That's Logistics

MARCH 16, 2021

Coming off a challenging year in 2020, shippers around the world found themselves dealing with many of the same obstacles they faced during the prior year along with some international trade issues that could present more hurdles in 2021. This will present both challenges and opportunities for shippers. The stakes couldn’t be higher.”

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Trinity Logistics

JULY 29, 2021

Challenges that include overwhelming demand, tight capacity, rising freight rates, and shortages in materials, products, labor, and drivers. These industries have been dealing with capacity challenges throughout the pandemic as they have remained in high-demand. Finding truck capacity of any type is proving to be difficult.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Indeed, the transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. The next generation of solutions could also plan and configure loads based on packaging dimensions and the capacity of vehicles.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

The usual themes were still very present as solution providers and retailers alike were more than happy to talk about omni-channel, mobility, robotics, and machine learning, to name a few. This year, a recurring theme that I saw was about using supply chain data to improve the customer experience across the entire value chain.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Given that we are a data-driven (math-loving) company, we wanted to test this range by running some scenarios to see what kind of results companies can expect across a variety of verticals. Having justified the project investment, it’s now time to get into the more substantial opportunities that present themselves in these sample $7.5B

Supply Chain Design Software 116

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Conger

DECEMBER 13, 2022

RF scanners are handheld devices used for automatically entering data about physical items. Radio frequency scanners – or “RF scanners” for short – are electronic devices used to automate data entry of physical items into databases or computer systems so they can be logged, tracked, and managed. Other Names for RF Scanners.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 27, 2021

It presents to dispatchers and owner-operators, on their smartphone or tablet, real-time available loads with pricing and enables one-click load acceptance and confirmation. “As This week the company went live with Book-It-Now®, which provides truckers with easy-to-use, automated one-click load booking and confirmation. Based in Reston, Va.,

Logistics Network Optimization Software 68

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 11, 2021

The supply chain is evolving, and the standards used for managed logistics transportation services today are more data- and technology-driven than those of the past. Inventory tracking and visibility must be present from the first mile through the final mile, reflecting the entire shipment lifecycle through white glove services.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 117

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

Employing over 1000 staff, including over 800 engineers, last year Hikrobot manufactured approximately 8000 robots, with a current capacity to produce 1000 robots per month. Planned expansion to the production facility will boost capacity to 3000 robots per month, to support a rapidly growing share of markets across the globe.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 1, 2022

Often, in our experience, the problem is a human one… It’s not the data, not the process, not the technology, or the strategy, but the people. Pundits typically emphasize data and digital technology when proselytising for the S&OP concept. But what makes it so challenging to implement S&OP successfully? The Demand Planner.

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Parade

APRIL 22, 2019

For example, earlier this year, Redwood Logistics bought Strive Logistics, and combined, they now have over $1 Billion in freight under management. Because digital brokerages collect data that allows them to predict what loads and opportunities truck drivers will accept. Book more loads and create consistent capacity for carriers.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 26, 2017

For example, you probably heard about how a machine learning algorithm allowed the machine to beat the best humans in Go or in Poker in the past year. What are concrete examples of machine learning intervention in S&OP? Take IBM’s Watson for example. Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are at their peak.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 16, 2018

For example, a U.S. The document is presented to the customs agent at the border as proof that the goods and/or materials originated in the United States, Mexico, or Canada. With the US facing a major driver shortage, some carriers are now sourcing Mexican drivers to add additional capacity, using trip-level work Visas (B1 Visa).

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

In my Logistics Viewpoints article in April 2021, Building Profitability with Agility while Digitally Transforming the Supply Chain , I mentioned that we will continue to explore here the concrete steps in the digital journey and examples of determination from the top in addition to logistics operations. How great can the impact be?

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