Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 25, 2021

The three traditional methods are the use of a transportation management system (TMS), transportation execution system (TES), and managed transportation services (MTS). A TES is generally mode specific and lack optimization capabilities, but for shippers with simpler transportation requirements, that is often all they need.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 6, 2022

Oracle Fursion Cloud Transportation Management offers a solution that allows transportation planners to see estimated emissions – carbon dioxide, nitrous oxides, and particulate matter – before a trip is executed. Transportation is, of course, a major source of green house emissions. That is more than any other sector.

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Conger

JANUARY 24, 2023

for the largest forklift trucks. How to Tell How Much Your Forklift Weighs There are 2 ways to tell how much your forklift weighs: Check the manufacturer’s data tag (also known as the data plate or nameplate) Calculate/estimate the forklift weight Let’s talk a bit more about each method. Forklift weights range from 3,000 lbs.

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CH Robinson Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Robinson Director of Research and Market Intelligence: The truck driver shortage is top of mind for many as supply chain disruptions continue, port backlogs persist, and the gap between inventory supply and sales demand widens. How many more truck drivers are needed to balance demand for truck transportation with the supply of capacity?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Uber Freight is a major provider of managed transportation services. If a company short ships TVs, they are fined more than if they short ship soup, for example. Proving OTIF Remains Difficult Many consumer goods suppliers have implemented real-time transportation visibility solutions. Proving that it arrived in-full is.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 5, 2023

Lack of data, lack of conviction and lack of organizational agility all conspire to keep companies from recognizing medium-term opportunities and challenges and responding decisively. It’s hard to find good data that provides a view into the next few months of consumer behavior and economic activity.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 7, 2021

Through data-driven transportation management , carriers can finally become more strategic and tactical, thriving through the good and bad times. And autonomous trucking logistics offers more value via management by exception and making profit-driving decisions for all incoming tenders. Consider the following example.

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FreightWaves SONAR

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Transportation brokers continue to search for new applications and uses of technology to empower more informed decision-making. However, the application of such data does not necessarily translate into meaningful improvements within day-to-day operations. Remember, transportation brokers ’ whole business is freight management.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Truck fleet management has always been intensely focused on knowledge of the freight market. A clear vision for how the market and the fleet can work in unison is at the heart of fleet management within the trucking industry. Streamline data capture and analysis. Supply chains exist as data-driven entities.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 15, 2024

As global discussions intensify around decarbonizing transport and optimizing supply chains, adopting battery electric heavy goods vehicles (HDVs) emerges as a practical and effective solution. At the core of this project is a simple yet effective strategy: combining BEVs with intermodal rail transportation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This article is from Emerge and offers tips for trucking companies to decrease their insurance premiums. The number of accidents in the trucking industry is up, and so are insurance premiums. As an industry, trucking associations are advocating tort reform. Agencies Advocate Tort Reform. By 2018, the average grew to $22.3

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2021

Pinnacle Propane implemented demand management, replenishment, and order promising solutions from John Galt Solutions with the goal of improving service – reducing what they call “out of gases” – while reducing transportation costs. The implementation also involves leveraging weather data to improve forecasting.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 16, 2021

During times of disruption and recovery, as seen now in the transportation industry, keeping up with the changing pace is essential. Data analytics for logistics can make all the difference in the world when it comes to reefer truckload service delivery efficiency. last year and $2.19 the year prior. last year and $2.19 the year prior.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MAY 25, 2023

In recent years, the logistics industry has seen a remarkable technological advancement that has the potential to revolutionize the transportation of goods: autonomous vehicles. With the rapid development of self-driving technology, autonomous vehicles are becoming a reality, and their impact on freight transportation is immense.

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MTS Logistics

MAY 10, 2024

As the volume of goods transported by sea continues to grow, finding effective solutions becomes crucial. AI-Powered Optimization for Port Operations Data-Driven Decision-Making: AI algorithms analyze historical data, real-time information, and external factors to optimize port operations.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JULY 17, 2023

Third-party supply chain and freight market data has become an important tool for retailers, manufacturers and suppliers who want to redesign their networks, improve strategic planning, benchmark their transportation spend and the service they’re getting in return, and measure the efficiency of their facilities.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 31, 2023

Efficient internal benchmark processes are essential for every transport service provider. Without any hardware updates or retrofits, trucks and trailers as well as vans can be united online on the RIO platform via so-called telematics connectors and thus be made visible.

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Now, That's Logistics

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

As shippers either figuratively or literally flipped the calendar page over to 2022, the hope was that at least some of the capacity crunches, driver shortages, labor issues and freight rate increases that took hold in 2021 would begin to heal themselves and create a more balanced transportation marketplace. Unfortunately, this didn’t happen.

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Trinity Logistics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

If not managed properly, your transportation can cost you substantial money. With costs rising recently, it’s easy to see why the challenge for many companies has been to reduce their transportation costs. Before we jump into how to reduce your transportation costs, it’s essential to understand what factors are causing them to rise.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 22, 2021

Big data and predictive freight rates in the digital supply chain are nothing new. Nearly all shippers, brokers and carriers collect and use data to derive insights, including predictive rates. Unfortunately, the most robust applications of that data will quickly diminish in value as data ages. Download the White Paper.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 25, 2022

Fuel costs account for between 10%-20% of the total cost of operating a truck. Once users upload their lane-level data for analysis, they can quickly click over to the SONAR “Network View” to see the average benchmark rate and fuel for each origin market. The post FreightWaves adds fuel data to SONAR SCI appeared first on SONAR.

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Shipchain

MARCH 10, 2020

But dedicated managers have found a solution to help improve this part of delivery: data. Data is generated in all parts of last-mile delivery, and analysis of this information can help companies become proactive rather than reactive with their delivery methods. Benefits of Data for Last-Mile Delivery.

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IoT World Today

AUGUST 20, 2019

Let’s assume IoT platforms are only as valuable as the data they generate. If that’s the case, blockchain technology might help enterprises exploit that data further. . The digital ledgering technology provides a clear way of logging and exchanging data securely among various members of an ecosystem. Reichenbach said.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 13, 2019

The good news is that advancements in technology are addressing some of the historical challenges companies have faced in gathering, sharing, and analyzing real-time data from many different systems and trading partners. Where’s my truck? So now you’re exetending [the value of visibility] beyond transportation into warehousing.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2022

Shippers – the companies paying Ocean, Rail, and Truck carriers to transport their goods – can do little to speed shipments snarled by port congestion. They have a fleet of over 250 container ships and a transport capacity of 1.8 The devices will improve visibility by transmitting data on a real-time basis from each container.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 8, 2022

Emerge has an interesting new platform to deal with the problems shippers are having procuring truck capacity. The vocabulary used in transportation can be confusing. Shippers” are companies that have goods that need to be transported. But shippers lack trucks. But shippers lack trucks. The Emerge Solution.

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Trinity Logistics

APRIL 24, 2023

Refrigerated trucking can be a complex, but rewarding job. You might be transporting anything from fresh produce, frozen food, or important medicines like biologics. But, no matter what it is, the items you’re hauling are vital to many and there’s great pride that comes with that. Cleaning Your Refrigerated Trailer 1.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

APRIL 26, 2022

The exponential impact of e-commerce on traditional, brick-and-mortar retailers, is one good example of how the data-driven revolution is sweeping many sectors of the economy and business operations nowadays. Two major challenges might be limiting big data to fully impacting the supply chain. UPS success case.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MAY 14, 2024

Aggressive pricing/cost savings strategies have contributed significantly to creating a sustained volatility in the domestic transportation market. While the current market may not seem to be terribly chaotic from a shipping perspective, it is an extremely challenging situation from a transportation provider’s standpoint.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 1, 2022

With its new T14 – T20 series, Linde Material Handling (MH) is launching compact pedestrian trucks for pallet transport with load capacities ranging from 1.4 Equipped with sensor-based foot protection, the trucks make work even safer. The demand for electric pallet trucks is increasing worldwide.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

Nine years ago, my company FourKites pioneered the market for real-time transportation visibility. And in the intervening years — as we’ve leveraged real-time data, ML and AI to help countless companies answer the “where’s my truck” question — I’ve continued to underscore that visibility is a foundational technology.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2019

Over the past few years there have been many advancements in freight visibility technology, particularly in trucking. Those advancements are now making their way into other modes of transportation, including ocean transport. How are these advancements improving the way data is shared in ocean transportation?

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IoT World Today

JUNE 25, 2019

As use cases for IoT technology continue to emerge in the transportation and logistics sector, from predictive fleet and freight management to autonomous cars, another potential use case could be evolving under the wheels of the industry’s vehicles. Some of the data will come through existing reports, inspections and blueprints.

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Turvo

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

There are many trends and analytics within the shipping and transportation industry that maximize success for the supply chain. Many shipping lines rely on refrigerated trucks and other advanced shipping services. Avoiding serious setbacks or temperature anomalies appears as the primary goal of cold-transport fleets.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 5, 2022

The key building blocks for the modern supply chain control tower includes data from key supply chain partners, robust supply and demand planning, and a master data management/data harmonization layer that helps to normalize the data and can then feed accurate data to the planning engine or team members.

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GoShip Blog

APRIL 14, 2022

The future of transportation holds many exciting promises. Transportation has transformed our society and opened the doors to many possibilities. Moving products across the globe in a matter of days once seemed unfathomable but has become possible through innovation and transportation. Autonomous Trucks and Cars.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

FourKites CEO, Matt Elenjickal One of the two leaders in the real-time transportation visibility market is FourKites. FourKites believes they have the largest repository of supply chain data in the world. To get visibility to whether a load will be on time and in full, a lot more data is required. That is fast growth.

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