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. In Southern California, for example, they have a 670,000 square foot warehouse that serves eight different fast-growing ecommerce retailers. Their selection of Blue Yonder is another example of this.

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UL EHS- Sustainability

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Passion for safety Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel kicked off the conference by sharing some statistics about his organization’s work: The Philadelphia fire department handled more than 300,000 medical emergency care incidents per year. In EHS, we are part of an energetic, committed, intelligent and innovative community!

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 19, 2021

On Monday, March 8th, a vice president of supply chain for a large retail chain – a chain with over 5,000 stores – spoke at Körber’s supply chain conference Elevate. For example, it should take this long to reach up to the third shelf in this location and pick three items. There is high turnover in warehouses.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

David Priestman attended Dexory ’s Supply Chain Fast Track conference. For example, the Dexory View dashboard enables pick face analysis of volumes. Extended reality, or VR, is used by Neovia for training, using tech from Elm Park Labs. Generative AI may create new strategies in logistics, for example in transport routing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It also helps with training and monitoring delivery drivers in safety and performance, managing assets and resources, and analyzing the efficiency of logistics operations. Retailers in the U.S. The prototype will ideally be developed into an inexpensive piece of sorting equipment that can be easily integrated into a MRF’s current technology.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The new HQ includes offices for 75 employees and a training centre for use by customers and JCB Germany’s network of dealers which employ a further 2,000 people. Lord Bamford unveiled a plaque to mark the opening during a conference at the new HQ attended by JCB’s largest 50 dealers from around the world.

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Airfreight Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Companies in the development of drones, autonomous vehicles and unmanned aerial systems/vehicles for example are creating new opportunities for the air cargo industry. The partnership allows both TIACA and NAP to work together on programs, conferences, training and communication.

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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. Online training and intranet career portals that offer guidance and identify steps for advancement are available. is one of the newest male members of the WIT board of directors.

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Conger

JULY 28, 2022

Plenty of examples of warehousing. Companies often choose private warehouses because of the high degree of control that they confer over the handling and storage of goods. No need to hire, train, and manage staff as the warehouse owner is responsible for these. For example, take Co-op Partners Warehouse in St.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 1, 2017

In the UK, for example, industries are expected to require more than 180,000 skilled people every year to maintain growth by 2024. Instead, these companies need to start providing training for their existing workers. Focus on easy to understand and easy to consume training content.

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Trinity Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Jennifer Hoffman of Trinity Logistics is sharing freight market information at Trinity’s 2022 Freight Agent Conference. For example, we have a very successful Freight Agent in our network who makes an amazing living and has a lot of very predictable freight shipping every day. Do it now, as Arnold Schwarzenegger says.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 31, 2019

If we look at AsstrA’s “eastern” divisions in, for example, Shanghai and Istanbul, there is no such labour shortage. In CIS countries like Belarus, for example, job-seekers believe they will find the most promising career growth in the IT and logistics industries. Not every candidate is ready for such working hours.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Transport management and visibility specialist Transporeon recently staged an online conference which very neatly replicated the format of the real-world version with a quirky navigation that allowed attendees to enter different rooms in a faithfully reproduced virtual ‘venue’. Let a futurist explain, reports Paul Hamblin.

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The Logistics Academy

JUNE 11, 2017

I recalled that scene walking to a morning session recently at ISM 2017 , the annual conference for procurement professionals sponsored by the Institute for Supply Management. One example: GM is working with Shell and Exxon Mobile to enable a driver to use a connected key fob to enable payment at the pump.

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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. Additionally, each school received training materials to disseminate the knowledge.

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Globalior

JUNE 30, 2020

Council and Trade Negotiations Committee Division: Provides support to other functions such as the Ministerial Conference and the Dispute Settlement Body. Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation: Provides technical assistance to WTO members in areas related to trade. How does the WTO work?

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2019

Within the carmaker’s production halls, tugger trains or smart transport robots (STR) are increasingly used to transport parts, with 30 STRs set to be in operation this year. We also had a proof of technology for high-voltage batteries, where we had to give an example of how to move them around corners,” added Maidl. “We

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Industry leaders discussed several topics at this year's CSCMP EDGE conference in Atlanta, and no subject was more important than how companies managed supply chain disruptions over the past year and the top priorities for the future. Despite some sectors being down quite significantly, they really rebounded.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JULY 11, 2019

The programme includes two months of technical skills training and an additional 2 months on-the job training at a partner hotel, restaurant or café. But by the end of the training, this same person hugged us all. Sevgi, for example, has started looking at cooking from a different perspective. She pushed me.”

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Logistics in War

AUGUST 18, 2019

Part Two offered examples where militaries get it right, and a number of examples where events did not transpire as well as they might. In the Australian example, this ratio has featured in every review of Defence undertaken in the forty years since the ADF was formed. I described the interplay between logistics and readiness.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JANUARY 24, 2019

Training led by the World Food Programme (WFP) in the Southern Africa region expand the options for emergency response Aerial assessment of Mozambique floods using drones, January 2019. These new skills are the result of multiple training opportunities led by WFP on how to fly, map, and coordinate with UAS.

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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 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. None of us can be trained to the depth we require; the attempts that Defence has made over the last thirty years of effort have achieved the best that could be expected, but we all know that it is still not enough.

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Logistics Manager

MAY 1, 2018

However, with the abolishment of the conference system and as carriers began sharing space on vessels, carrier services and offerings became narrower in scope. This is just one example where having a local on the ground person has a big impact on improved service levels for customer satisfaction.”. Training for Future Success.

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Logistics in War

MARCH 6, 2020

Part Two offered examples where militaries get it right, and a number of examples where events did not transpire as well as they might. In the Australian example, this ratio has featured in every review of Defence undertaken in the forty years since the ADF was formed. I described the interplay between logistics and readiness.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Well, by golly, let’s turn this freighter (or truck, train or cargo jet) around! Quick example: we just helped a client of ours, a small fleet owner, save $2,000 with just one expense. Depressed now? That also means, then, that for every additional dollar of expenses that you can deduct on your tax return, you SAVE 40 to 50 cents.

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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% of GDP, second only to the food industry at 20.7%. Crime on the rise.

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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. None of us can be trained to the depth we require; the attempts that Defence has made over the last thirty years of effort have achieved the best that could be expected, but we all know that it is still not enough.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MAY 11, 2019

I’ve been to a lot of concerts, conferences, festivals… But nothing as big as the World Cup. Bovy, as part of a training seminar for the organization of the event. As we are digging up into flow management during the Logistics class, I wondered myself about events that required a really complex organization and planning.

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Trinity Logistics

JUNE 3, 2021

Some examples of these are: U.S. This regulation covers the cleanliness and function of equipment, protocols set in place for transportation, employee training on the proper handling of food in cold chains, and records of all FSMA compliance. Each region has its own regulations, compliance mandates, and enforcement agencies.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Human Resources should be trained for continuous improvement. Process improvements and Continuous Improvement Opportunities. Strategic Human Resource Development System. Both parties must develop human resources to improve operations. With LEAN initative implementation , human resources become process and problem solvers.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 9, 2015

Unfortunately, this amount of time equates to a higher cost of waiting for more drivers to finish their training, thus driving up trucking rates. told the conference. For example, Major Shipping Company A may have extra room on Truck 1245 and “sell” this space to the 3PL for a fraction of the typical shipping cost.

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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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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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Talking Logistics

JULY 14, 2017

It’s a bike ride I’m participating in as part of my training for our Logistics Leaders for T1D Cure team ride this September in support of JDRF. Check them out: My other teammates, James Coon (BluJay Solutions) and Ken Wood (Descartes) have been training hard too; I’ll share their photos in a future post. Well, not literally.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 2, 2020

Travel activities and all international corporate conferences are currently suspended. For example, hand hygiene stations have been set up at all neuralgic points in the company. Visits from outside, for example from customers or suppliers, do not currently take place. Communication now takes place only via digital channels.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a bonus, at the Imagine 2014 Magento e-commerce Conference, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Malcolm McLean (just as he did in this Inc. Early examples of intermodal containers include railroads from 1830s (various sized containers), and Pennsylvania Railroad regular container service (1929). Readers' choice! Did You Know That ….

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