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Black Friday and Cyber Monday Logistics Refresher

Freight Center

In spite of the supply chain and economic impacts the pandemic has had on everyone this year, this holiday season is anticipated to be another busy one – but with a difference. If you’ve already begun making the necessary preparations for the shipping season ahead, well done. Keep it up. If you haven’t, the time to act is now. We’ve put together a Black Friday and Cyber Monday Logistics refresher to make sure you cover all your bases and get your shipping strategy ready for a successful holiday

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How Managed IT Support Services Improves Business Efficiency & Profits

Cyzerg

Managed IT support services can help you relieve various business challenges, such as increasing efficiency and profitability, while allowing you to scale and minimize human resource challenges. To help you understand how this can be achieved, we have written this article explaining how IT support services can help you achieve these business goals. Read through the article below to learn more.

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Test Your Atlanta Order Fulfillment Services Expertise

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

If you could only pick one East-region city for U.S. eCommerce order fulfillment, which one should it be – and why? We’ll give you a hint. It starts with A, rhymes with “Santa,” and is already home to a massive parcel delivery infrastructure. Welcome to Atlanta. You know it as the home of the Braves, CNN, Delta Airlines and a thriving movie industry.

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How to ship large format lithium batteries: 13 things every e-commerce shipper must know.

LabelMaster

The e-commerce industry has been one of the few beneficiaries of this year’s COVID-19 pandemic. In the second quarter of 2020, e-commerce sales were up 44.4% over the same quarter in 2019. All signs indicate that this year’s holiday season will see another giant surge in e-commerce deliveries. And some of the fastest-growing, most popular.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Yard Management: The Most Important Limiting Factor in Supply Chains

Talking Logistics

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of a research report published last week, “The Impact of Digital Yard Management on Enterprise Transportation Costs and Capacity.” The research, conducted by Adelante SCM and commissioned by PINC, was conducted to explore the broader value proposition and business benefits of digital yard management solutions.

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Costly mismatch between supply and demand? Take our quiz for chemical companies and find ways to improve

AIMMS

Most chemical companies think they have a high sales and operation planning (S&OP) maturity, but do they really? Join us in testing the market! We thank our partners at ORTEC and especially Chemometrics specialist Bas Groothuis for co-developing this content. Cross-functional alignment is a complex challenge for chemical companies. Does this sound familiar to you?

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Leaving China? It’s not as easy as you think

Logistics Management

If you are manufacturing in China, your supply base for raw materials and parts is most likely also in China. It is important to consider that when you are reshoring manufacturing, you will need to encourage your suppliers to reshore, too.

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Engineering Stability and Predictability into Your 2021 Routing Guide

Talking Logistics

Still dealing with uncertainty in 2020, supply chain and logistics professionals now face the tough challenge of planning for 2021. From COVID-19, wildfires and hurricanes to truck driver shortages and capacity concerns, many organizations are in constant disaster recovery mode. Despite market volatility, supply chain executives must develop their logistics plan and transportation budget for.

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Walmart Canada: Fixing a ‘Broken’ Freight Audit and Payment Process With Blockchain

Supply Chain Brain

The giant retailer undertakes an ambitious initiative to make sense of its painfully complex freight payment and reconciliation process, involving its own fleet as well as those of outside carriers, and moving more than half a million shipments a year.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Transportation Industry

Artificial intelligence has quickly become a feature of everyday life: Using face ID to unlock a phone, communicating with online chatbots, and letting “smart” appliances help manage our homes are just a few of the ways that we interact with AI regularly. Forward-looking businesses are also using AI to transform their operations and gain a competitive edge.

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Is Walmart’s On-time In Full Program Fair?

Logistics Viewpoints

Walmart's OTIF mandate is getting stricter. Off the record, many of their smaller suppliers are complaining. But not all of them. Some of their mid-sized suppliers are in retail consolidation programs and are not getting fined for being late. The post Is Walmart’s On-time In Full Program Fair? appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Coupa brings LLamasoft into the fold in $1.5 billion acquisition

Logistics Management

Coupa officials said that this deal will augment its supply chain capabilities and also enable its shipper customers to drive greater value through BPM processes. And they also noted that LLamasoft will help Coupa achieve that value, given the heightened need for supply chain volatility and changing market conditions, which it said necessitates the need for shippers to make smarter and faster supply chain decisions.

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The hazards of Ammonium Nitrate and 100 years of related disasters

Shipping and Freight Resource

Image : Bored Panda. On the 4th of August 2020, a devastating explosion ripped through the port of Beirut killing more than 135 people and injuring at least 4,000+. As per news reports , the explosion is said to have originated from a storage facility which was storing about 2,750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate (NH 4 NO 3 ). Ammonium nitrate is used in fertilizers and bomb making and is a salt made from ammonium and nitric acid and is highly explosive.

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Four Essentials for a Greener Fulfillment Strategy

Supply Chain Brain

From smart cartonization to last-mile delivery and beyond, supply chains offer fertile ground for new technologies to improve sustainability by trimming wasted fuel, materials and time.

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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller

As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe

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Editor’s Choice: What Early Holiday Shopping Means for Parcel Shipping

Logistics Viewpoints

Regardless of whether consumers and retailers are ready, holiday shopping – and shipping – season is here! With carriers announcing capacity shortages and major headlines advertising “Shipageddon,” consumers have been encouraged to start shopping for the holidays NOW. While this elongated holiday shopping season can certainly create new revenue opportunities for retailers, retailers can only capitalize on the opportunity if their parcel shipping operations are prepared to execute.

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Q3 intermodal volumes head up, snapping six quarters of declines

Logistics Management

Total third quarter volume—at 4,719,462 units—rose 1.2% annually. Domestic containers—at 2,103,361—increased 9.8%, with trailers—at 325,802—up 9.8%. All domestic equipment—at 2,429,163—was also up 9.8%. ISO, or international, containers, were down 6.5%, to 2,290,299.

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Passing the ‘trucking bug’ down with David Lewis’ 1997 International

Overdrive Online

Lewis, 30 is well on his way toward the lease-to-purchase he mentions in this video -- the International is powered by an N14 Cummins. He hopes it proves part of an infectious mix for those following behind him in life, as his grandfather's trucking did for him. The post Passing the 'trucking bug' down with David Lewis' 1997 International first appeared on Overdrive.

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Technology for Logistics: Why Implementations Fail

Supply Chain Brain

The adoption by logistics providers of modern-day technology is a case of applying digital solutions to an analog world.

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How to Create a Blueprint for Fleet Resilience

Speaker: Jeff Dickinson - President and CEO of Railgistixs Transport, Supply Chain and Logistics Thought Leader

Despite the ongoing transformation of the supply chain and logistics landscape, the steadfast importance of carrier safety remains a core principle. From prioritizing preventative maintenance to optimizing fleet utilization, the fundamentals persist. If you’re overlooking and neglecting essential safety precautions today, this could result in expensive repairs and potential safety hazards in the future. 🚧 Join Jeff Dickinson for a conversation on how to mitigate risk, enforce compliance,

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3 Emerging Trends as Manufacturers Shift in Response to the Pandemic

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Global manufacturing and distribution sectors are set to shift. Since the start of the pandemic, industries have had to face increasing pressures, from supply chain disruptions to a shortage of business system accessibility and a lack of worker availability. While the ongoing struggle for raw materials continued under national lockdowns, the pandemic also acted as […].

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October manufacturing out output hits highest level in more than a year, reports ISM

Logistics Management

In its monthly Manufacturing Report on Business, ISM said that the report’s key metrics, the PMI, hit 59.3 (a reading of 50 or higher indicates growth), which topped September’s 55.4 by 3.9%, while growing at a faster rate for the fifth consecutive month, while the overall economy grew for the sixth consecutive month.

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In praise of NACFE

Truck News

In a year like this, with a vile pandemic smashing our routines and dashing our plans, we still have a bright light or two. Among the brightest is the North American Council for Freight Efficiency, otherwise known as NACFE. In the midst of chaos and confusion, it’s lighting the road ahead. By studying our industry’s […].

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Watch: How COVID-19 Is Forcing New Supply Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

Ann Marie Uetz, head of the coronavirus task force with the law firm of Foley & Lardner LLP, discusses the results of a pair of surveys about how executives are responding to supply-chain disruptions caused by the pandemic and rising geopolitical tensions.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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Trucker Mike Sheffield channels coal country, CB riffing with ‘Hammer Down Again’ album

Overdrive Online

On Sheffield's new record, "you can almost smell the coal smoke coming from the chimney of his Coxton, Kentucky, homeplace," Long Haul Paul writes attendant to this "Faces of the Road" interview of the trucker-songwriter. The post Trucker Mike Sheffield channels coal country, CB riffing with 'Hammer Down Again' album first appeared on Overdrive.

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How to create a carrier scorecard that includes predictive modeling around freight market volatility

FreightWaves SONAR

Performance measurement and improvement, using transportation KPIs , are vital aspects of modern supply chain management. Successful performance measurement and management contribute to enhancements and help to optimize supply chain resources. That includes improvements within the carrier and LSP network. And despite freight market volatility, the freight market continues expanding.

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Supply Chain Election Issues (Insights from Indago Members)

Talking Logistics

The United States will hold elections tomorrow for President and members of Congress. Regardless of who wins, which issue/policy related to supply chain management should the government focus on improving first? We asked our Indago members that question last week, and by a wide margin, “Transportation Infrastructure” topped the list. “Although tariffs have impacted our.

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A Look at FSMA’s New Food-Traceability Rule

Supply Chain Brain

As part of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a new rule requiring stricter controls over the monitoring of food products throughout the supply chain.

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Mastering Order Management: Backorders & Out-of-Stock Inventory

The unfortunate truth is that you will always have low stock and backorder issues with your supply chain. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be prepared to handle them. This brief video explores some of the primary drivers of inventory issues – and how modern technology and best practices can mitigate these issues and ensure a superb customer experience.

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October Services PMI sees growth, reports ISM

Logistics Management

The report’s key indicator—the Services PMI (formerly the Non-Manufacturing PMI)—came in at 56.6 (a reading of 50 or higher indicates growth is occurring), in October, following a 0.9% increase in September, a 1.2% August decline, and a 1% gain in July.

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Volvo Trucks North America Soon Selling its VNR Electric Truck Model

NGT News

Volvo Trucks North America says it will begin selling the Volvo VNR Electric truck model on Dec. 3. Volvo Trucks will begin producing the Volvo VNR Electric model at its New River Valley manufacturing plant in Dublin, Va., in early 2021. “Volvo Trucks is committed to steering the commercial transport industry towards more sustainable solutions […].

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Manufacturing Challenges in Business and Shipping

GoShip Blog

Reportedly, more than 60% of manufacturers were affected by the coronavirus pandemic and its consequences. There is a lot of news on retail, but not much information about other key links in the supply chains, like manufacturers. While this is a very wide category to define, you typically see small businesses involved in manufacturing and distributing furniture , electronics, or construction equipment.