247 Customs Broker

MAY 24, 2018

Through my interactions with college students majoring in supply chain, I do see them taking a wide variety of courses that cross over into newer tools and technologies. He gave examples of how large companies are acquiring digital startups. This should partly address the need for such skill scarcity. Kinaxis (@Kinaxis) May 15, 2018.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 6, 2018

This is just one example of how the convergence of humans and robots could play out in the warehouse and distribution center (DC) of the future. Companies like Fetch Robotics, for example, make autonomous mobile robots that can handle “pretty good-sized payloads,” according to Santagate, and that help shippers move pallets (i.e.,

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247 Customs Broker

JUNE 12, 2018

The latter data point is pretty telling, especially when factoring in that unemployment is below 4% and many potential truck drive candidates prefer other options like construction, for example, which tends to pay better than driver jobs and comes with the benefit of being home every day after work, something which is not a given behind the wheel.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 4, 2019

And, of course, they lack drivers who need to be paid. “Autonomous ground delivery can fundamentally move the needle forward by shedding the cost of human delivery drivers,” Reddy says. However, using stores this way presents its own challenges. Grocers also need to determine where best to fill online orders.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

I think political uncertainty, and where this will take the economy, is the biggest risk, but it looks at the moment as if OEMs that are already present are going to stick with Turkey,” says LMC’s Thomas. Of course, such plans could always be disrupted by forces outside the industry’s control. Luc Nadal, CEO, Gefco.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 23, 2018

Walmart, for example, has been testing bots that roam the sales floor scanning shelves in 50 of its stores. A company can use it for tasks that were previously impossible to automate—for example, to move product from bins on a conveyor system into cartons, or onto a sorting system, or to assemble separate products into kits.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 12, 2018

For example, an operation might want to turn conveyor from a transportation function to accumulation or vice versa. A simple example is an embedded inline scale, or automated document insertion, or label print and apply. Whereas conventional line shaft conveyors run all the time, MDR will only move when a load is present.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

It all started with Alexander’s scrambled eggs, which he, of course, preferred warm versus cold. “I Recently, for example, Ember needed to get a shipment from Hong Kong to the United States by 8 a.m. Importing and managing the logistics of your precious freight is no easy task. If the idea sounds far-fetched, think again. “And

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 6, 2018

At the same time, we are increasingly leveraging the digitalization opportunities that present themselves in all four divisions and expanding our foundation for a successful future,” said Frank Appel , CEO of Deutsche Post DHL Group. For example, the company expanded its parcel infrastructure both in Germany and internationally.

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Freightos

JANUARY 25, 2024

Crucially, the platform concept means that airlines don’t need to build one-off connections with each freight forwarder and that forwarders don’t need to update dozens of APIs a year. When we took our first booking on freightos.com, for example, we didn’t even have payment worked out.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

Gilmore Says… In a great example of the balance in this book, Sheffi notes the actual evidence of consumer preference for Green products is tenuous at best. Most sustainability books in my view do not present the full 360 view. And of course most can’t. What do you say?

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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. This is an exaggeration, of course. Other programmes to be offered in due course, include “co-investments”, “program vouchers”, and “accelerator”. That is the ideal case, of course. An example is Lara.ng

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

For example, you can look at: 1) Your products and the way you package them for shipping. For example, many companies don’t pay enough attention to appropriate container sizing when booking their international ocean freight shipments, preferring to leave those decisions entirely in the hands of their freight forwarders.

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Freightos

MARCH 5, 2017

The Maersk group recently and rather surreptitiously launched a website and Facebook page for a digital freight forwarder called Twill Logistics and associated with their DAMCO brand. Other companies, like Uber, Amazon and, of course, Alibaba, are increasing their B2B foothold. It’s not only Freightos technology, of course.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

meat exports have adapted over the lifespan of the 24-year-old trade agreement to respond to unique needs related to product chilling and shipping velocity, among other things. For example, Mexico-bound supply chains of U.S. Importing and managing the logistics of your precious freight is no easy task. Value chains for U.S.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 8, 2023

You must evaluate the option in detail to know if it presents more pros than cons or vice versa. 4: The Mistake of Modal Fixation While companies often use too many carriers, they sometimes go to the other extreme in choosing freight transportation modes.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In this essay, we’ll explore Maersk’s shift, the unique asset-heavy carrier advantages that encouraged this decision, and individual products developed over the past four years to realize the vision, across their core ocean services, freight forwarding, and value added services. The Post-2016 Strategy: End-to-end Shipping.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 19, 2018

An off-cited analysis from McKinsey in late 2017, for example, found automation could destroy as many as 73 million US jobs by 2030, about one third of all jobs in the country. For example, in a story I remembered that we ran in 2014, a company called Parkdale Mills had recently re-opened a factory near Gaffney, SC that now produces 2.5

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Freightos

MARCH 27, 2024

I was fortunate to be able to attend again this year, and, though I couldn’t sit in on all the sessions or meetings I would’ve liked, here are my key takeaways: Geopolitical challenges, Red Sea especially Geopolitics were, of course, on people’s minds. Nearly 25 years later, he is surprised at how slow that progress has been.

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