FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 14, 2021

Therefore, in the absence of hedging, CPG companies should utilize as much freight-related data as possible to mitigate freight costs more effectively and improve supply chain efficiency. Those data sets and use cases include: Using data from electronic tenders and carrier surveys to assist in negotiations with carriers and 3PLs.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Your products are different, your sales cycle might be longer or shorter, your customers are different — so it’s useless to compare your conversion rate, for example, to an industry average. Of course, what you say is just as important as how you say it. Anywhere from 15 to 98 characters and 3 to 9 words seems to be okay.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 27, 2021

Improving predictability in outcomes is valuable, but ensuring your supply chain is nimble enough to act on the data is even more so. We explore how predictive analytics and big data with human sentiments can add value and amplify their supply chain strategies. The presence of data throughout the supply chain is vital to its evolution.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 1, 2022

Over the past two years, many things have changed fundamentally in the industry, including purchasing and consumer behaviour. Let’s stand together to tackle everything the industry faces in terms of new customer requirements, market conditions and technological issues. That is why we have conducted extensive surveys and analysis.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

Over the past two years, many things have changed fundamentally in the industry, including purchasing and consumer behaviour. Let’s stand together to tackle everything the industry faces in terms of new customer requirements, market conditions and technological issues. That is why we have conducted extensive surveys and analysis.

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Morai Logistics

OCTOBER 18, 2018

In fact, a staggering 88% of consumers who participated in the 2018 Global Consumer Insights Survey , confirmed they would pay more for ‘same-day or faster delivery’. Over the course of the past several months, Morai Logistics has highlighted a significant rise in e-commerce shopping. Delivering to E-commerce Markets. Trillion by 2021.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

Even before the emergence of COVID-19, next-day and same-day delivery promises from mega retailers, as well as new delivery models such as store pick-up, were driving increasing customer expectations — not just in retail, but in every industry. In fact, the on-demand industry was estimated to account for $75 billion in 2018. [1]

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FLS Transport

JANUARY 20, 2021

Industrial volume jumps will add to capacity crunch. Even after a surge in retail volume, overall truckload volume is down 4% year-over-year because of lagging industrial freight. This means increased freight volumes and of course, price. New surveys show that 50% plan to identify backup suppliers to avoid disruption.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MAY 29, 2018

“Digital” has become one of the biggest buzzwords in the transportation and logistics industry. Procurement services and digital platforms are being created, revised, and improved at a pace that the industry is completely unaccustomed to. The Survey By the Numbers . Everything, it seems, is going through a digital revolution.

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RPA Labs

AUGUST 26, 2021

Robotic processing automation (RPA) and chatbot technologies are now accepted more readily and are more commonly used across a growing number of industries. This, of course, includes using RPA to handle email inquiries and keep the communication going strong. Confusion in communications due to inaccurate or outdated data.

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RPA Labs

AUGUST 26, 2021

Robotic processing automation (RPA) and chatbot technologies are now accepted more readily and are more commonly used across a growing number of industries. This, of course, includes using RPA to handle email inquiries and keep the communication going strong. Confusion in communications due to inaccurate or outdated data.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 21, 2022

Despite the accelerating speed of IoT adoption over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, improvements are still needed to draw the optimum benefits from the technology. Unreliable connectivity, inadequate data strategies, and a lack of skills are hampering many businesses’ ability to reap the rewards of IoT.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In fact, two-thirds of the companies surveyed characterized their omni-channel fulfillment performance (relative to peers in their industry) as average or below, with 30 percent characterizing it as below average. Source: “Omni-Channel Logistics Leaders: Top 5 Inventory Insights,” Adelante SCM & LEGACY SCS.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The American and Canadian militaries believe that the balloon was for surveillance, while the Chinese government said it was a civilian meteorological research airship that had blown off course. In its January survey of grocery executives and consumers, Grocery Doppio, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based West Coast was $2,618 as of Feb.

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Ship Monk

JULY 27, 2022

We’re talking, of course, about demand forecasting, or the process of predicting customer demand for a product or service. Put simply, demand forecasting uses a variety of data to foresee customer demand and inform major business decisions, from launching new products to finding the perfect 3PL partner. What is Demand Forecasting?

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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

As companies mature and the market changes, our understanding of crucial operating components of any industry has also grown. Transparency within the supply chain has gone from an unrecognized concept to a focus item for the C-Suite across a vast number of companies and industries. Understanding the Need Transparency.

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Freightos

MARCH 17, 2019

Technology rewrote industry rules and improved our listening to music. The same phenomenon has been replicated across other industries as well, from hotel booking (Priceline giving way to Airbnb) to glasses (LensCrafters to Warby Parker). So we asked them by conducting a survey in November 2018.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 16, 2018

As part of an annual effort, Accenture surveyed 30 A&D companies, encompassing original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) as well as tier 1 and 2 suppliers. They were part of a larger report, Accenture Technology Vision 2018 , which covered 18 industries. Accenture plans to demonstrate blockchain applications at the U.K.’s

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Bringg

MARCH 24, 2021

Now that the elements and phases of a supply chain are clear, here are some best practices for how to optimize your supply chain that are applicable to every industry: . When you have a particularly large supply chain network, with multiple third party teams and partners, data can too easily become siloed. GlobalTranz ).

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The majority of respondents taking part in the 2019 Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals/Penske Logistics Young Professionals Survey, which surveyed more than 100 supply chain professionals under age 30, said they enjoy working in the supply chain and that it makes them content.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2020

A recent study by the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society in partnership with Kearney revealed that 35% of firms across a range of industries surveyed in Europe and North America have a supplier diversity programme, and a further 18% intend to develop one within the next three years. In the modern world, visibility means data.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2020

A recent study by the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society in partnership with Kearney revealed that 35% of firms across a range of industries surveyed in Europe and North America have a supplier diversity programme, and a further 18% intend to develop one within the next three years. In the modern world, visibility means data.

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Blue Grace Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The study continues to find that shippers and their 3PL partners are developing a much greater awareness and synchronicity of goals, as well as how data sharing and new technology can help them advance those goals. The logistics and freight industry is in a state of flux currently. Current Global Market Challenges.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 10, 2022

64% of companies in one Gartner survey stated that lack of tech talent was their most significant barrier to the adoption of new technology. If you don’t have the internal IT staff to spare, you might consider contracting out those services for the course of your new software implementation.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 26, 2020

In a 2014 survey of supply chain professionals, 9% of respondents saved more than 12% on freight costs through managed transportation services. Unlike traditionally maintaining independent transportation management programs in-house, outsourcing the process allows companies to reap a stronger return on investment.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The majority of respondents taking part in the 2019 Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals/Penske Logistics Young Professionals Survey, which surveyed more than 100 supply chain professionals under age 30, said they enjoy working in the supply chain and that it makes them content.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Solving the challenge and underlying issues will require focus and attention to internal processes, better communication with carriers and partners, and using technology to gather and make sense of the vast amount of data flowing through transportation networks. Focus on the Right Data.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 27, 2022

It does present a training requirement, the need for new skills for industry 4.0 Together they conceived the Unimate, the very first industrial robot. Of course, robotics does not tell the full story, as the world of manufacturing has evolved even further over the last few decades, with the rise of data and smart, autonomous systems.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

China’s efforts to control the spread of the virus at the end of January started with shutting down the Yangtze River port city of Wuhan, an industrial city of 11 million people that ships 1.5 FBX data shows prices for containerized freight spiked ahead of January 2019 tariffs. . And that’s what the data is showing.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 7, 2018

To gain a sharper picture of what ecommerce-related technologies logistics professionals should be watching, we reached out to industry experts to develop a short-list of trends and solutions that need to be top of mind for today’s logistics professional. Dynamic Routing.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Why all Bosses need to Hear This ONE Thing : I had data. Efficient Consumer Response (ECR): Adding Customer Value to the Supply Chain using Collaboration : Efficient Consumer Response is a strategic concept created by the processed food distribution industry in the U.S. Read the Full Blog Post. Can they Handle it? I had solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

For most companies, margins only declined further in 2021, as product shortages and transportation roadblocks forced all supply chain participants to make critical decisions on the fly, acting without complete information or hard data. Often these solutions execute a seamless, autonomous response based on pre-defined objectives.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Of course, it is helpful to have some statistics on hand to validate the statement above. According to a survey by Deloitte from 2014, 79 % of companies with high-performing supply chains achieve revenue growth superior to the average within their industries. If you want business success (and who doesn’t?),

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Freightos

JANUARY 4, 2018

However, despite formidable challenges, the logistics industry has been anything but stagnant. Dr. Schreiber concludes by covering the players (from startups to billion-dollar companies) and the trends changing the industry. Customer management can be expensive and hands-on, especially in an error-prone industry like freight.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Rigorous data is scarce is in this area. Data from the National Science Foundation’s 2015 Survey of Doctorate Recipients reveals an unemployment rate for science, engineering and health (SEH) Doctorates is 1.78%, compared to the national average of around 4% at the time. However, that same report indicated that about 12.9%

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3PL Links

JULY 7, 2023

The Role of Data Analytics in Supply Chain Management | Image source: Pixabay This article describes the transformation that data analysis and the supply chain are fostering and how it will impact business intelligence. Intelligence-driven businesses are interested in supply chain management and data analysis.

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Freightos

JANUARY 4, 2018

However, despite formidable challenges, the logistics industry has been anything but stagnant. Dr. Schreiber concludes by covering the players (from startups to billion-dollar companies) and the trends changing the industry. Customer management can be expensive and hands-on, especially in an error-prone industry like freight.

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