Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2024

It showcases the latest products, technologies, and services from over 900 exhibitors across various sectors and industries. MODEX 2024, held in Atlanta, Georgia, from March 11 to 14, attracted more than 35,000 attendees and featured over 150 educational sessions, keynote speakers, and networking events.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

When it comes to executing mode-specific freight moves from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively, transportation execution and visibility solutions play a critical role. Transportation execution solutions allow shippers to connect to multiple carriers and then tender, track, and pay in the system.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The surging Delta virus, devastating floods in China and Germany and cyber attacks on South African ports are amongst the latest in a series of events that continue to send shock waves throughout the system. In light of all of this, I’d posit we can no longer look at the events of the last year as an aberration. The impact?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The toilet paper shortage was one of the COVID era events that taught people what the term “supply chain management” meant. It is common for pundits to look ahead and predict how an industry or profession will change. In warehouses, for example, one solution is labor management. Risk management had been a hard sale.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The end of project report released today by the Decarbonising UK Freight Transport (DUKFT) Network, suggest several ways to overcome the chicken-and-egg problems associated with decarbonising road, rail and maritime freight transport.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 20, 2022

At the same time, a retailer whose product demand drops sharply has less need for transportation capacity and therefore tenders lower volumes to contracted carriers. The frequency of RFP events is only one area that can be improved as shippers look for a better way to manage freight procurement processes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

These come from using gasoline for driving a car or coal for heating a building, for example. Energy, industry, transport, buildings, agriculture and land use are among the main sectors causing greenhouse gases. Energy, industry, transport, buildings, agriculture and land use are among the main sectors causing greenhouse gases.

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WorkWave

JANUARY 29, 2024

In this post, we’ll delve into the differences between these approaches and explore their unique benefits for businesses in delivery and transportation industries. While this approach offers stability, it may not adapt well to dynamic changes in the transportation environment. What Is Static Routing?

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Trinity Logistics

AUGUST 13, 2021

Specifically, raw material and product shortages are affecting the chemical industry. With many other industries relying on the chemical industry, this is becoming a significant challenge to overcome. Shortages in the chemical industry have worsened over the last quarter. MATERIAL AND PRODUCT SHORTAGES.

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MTS Logistics

AUGUST 19, 2020

Most Thoroughbreds are accustomed to this type of transport. In some sense, horse transport hasn’t changed much since its glory days in the Jazz Age and Depression. The celebrated Seabiscuit, for example, rode the rails from his California home to the East Coast, frequently stopping to meet well-wishers along the way.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Buying organizations use this technology to monitor and analyze supplier risk events in real-time. These are big data platforms that monitor news sources and assorted databases from governments, financial institutions, ESG NGOs, and other sources to detect when a negative event has occurred or may be about to occur.

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CLX Logistics

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Today, countless US shippers face supply chain issues like driver shortages, capacity inefficiencies, government regulations, shrinking delivery windows, and rising transportation costs. In this blog, we’re looking at what managed transportation is, how it works, and its key benefits. What Is Managed Transportation?

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2024

Exhibitors from nearly every sector of the industry are coming to LogiMAT 2024 to present their latest products and solutions for ergonomically optimized intralogistics processes, healthy workplaces, and injury prevention. The intralogistics industry has not been spared the ravaging effects of demographic change and labor shortages.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

This ensures the secure, high-capacity, and bi-directional transfer of essential information such as master data on products, customers, production-distribution infrastructure, transactional data on sales, inventory status and position, transportation execution data, external data e.g. competitor pricing, weather, recommendations, action triggers.

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ShipLilly

JUNE 27, 2020

In any event, the Vaderland never carried any oil cargo; contrary to the original purpose for which it was designed and constructed. This left little transportation options for agricultural products. World War II heralded a significant increase in demand for transportation on the seas. In 1886, the Gluckauf was constructed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The number of accidents in the trucking industry is up, and so are insurance premiums. In a report released earlier this year, ATRI (the American Transportation Research Institute) stated that premiums have rocketed up 47% per mile over the last decade. As an industry, trucking associations are advocating tort reform.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2018

To look at what risks will affect the supply chain in 2018, Rob Savitsky of AIR Worldwide ( a member of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics Supply Chain Exchange program), wrote a blog for MIT discussing three broad categories of supply chain risk. Savitsky points to the example of a potential disruption that was averted.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JULY 24, 2023

Freight costs and budget adherence are among the most important and often overlooked aspects of transportation management. As the industry struggles to recover from the unprecedented global events of 2020, recognizing budget limitations is essential for industry growth and success. Think about this.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Visitor registration is open for Intermodal Europe 2022 , the leading container shipping and intermodal transport event which returns 8 – 10 November to the RAI, Amsterdam. The industry has adapted exceptionally well to the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

The transportation industry has long discussed blockchain with a healthy dose of skepticism or has taken a wait-and-see approach to its adoption. The industry has traditionally struggled with visibility, but there have been some significant advances of late. Small but mighty. There are more than 500,000 TL carriers in the U.S.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MAY 8, 2023

As a result, logistics have become increasingly important in the esports industry, ensuring that events are delivered to fans in the best possible way. To illustrate, let us take the example of Dota 2 and the recent event held in Mumbai. Several logistics aspects need to be considered when setting up an esports event.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 13, 2024

And as climate change triggers an increased number of extreme weather events, organisations today rely on weather condition data to ensure their supply chains continue to run smoothly. Without the capacity to then quickly reroute vessels to reduce delays in trade routes, these events become increasingly difficult to overcome.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 18, 2023

Data analytics innovator Entopy has won a share of the UK government’s new £7 million fund to boost innovation in the freight industry. The funding will enable the company to extend the use of its unique software to help address the issues caused by a lack of large-scale cross-industry data collection and sharing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2022

What follows are my top take aways from the event. I am a supply chain management industry analyst, so that will be a primary focus of this article. 1-800-Flowers gave a presentation in which they talked about implementing Oracle warehouse management and transportation management systems in the Cloud. That is fast!

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 21, 2020

Since the beginning of the year, German-based transport cooperative LogCoop GmbH says it has noticed a stronger solidarity among its active members. ” LogCoop has taken this dynamic effect into account by increasing the frequency of events. . Recently, many of the events have been held digitally.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That is a huge success story for the air cargo industry and as promised it has brought significant efficiencies. For example, some carriers shared with us their APIs for contract rates, others for spot rates, some for rates but not ebooking, others share APIs via third parties who charge an exorbitant price for accessing the API.

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Transporeon

JANUARY 25, 2018

In the case of an Amway multivitamin, for example, the company controls the process “from seed to supplement,” transporting raw materials to manufacturing sites in the U.S., We did about 99% of the work ourselves to launch the bid event, and it enabled us to be strategic instead of transactional throughout.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2021

Third-party data – One example of the advantage of this category concerns third-party forecast data. Industry and government data can be used to increase forecast accuracy. Network analytics – A good example of this occurs with public cloud transportation management systems (TMS).

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GoShip Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But it’s not merely about transporting items. It’s about understanding the intricate web of factors determining such transportation’s cost. Macro Factors and Their Impact on Freight Shipping Rates Navigating the world of freight shipping requires a keen understanding of the larger forces that shape the industry.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 24, 2022

On June 20, Linde Material Handling literally laid out the red carpet for its customers and other interested parties for nine event days. The WoMH is an event that is second to none in the material handling industry. The international event created by Linde MH for this purpose sets an example in this regard.

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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Consumer buying behavior has tightened capacity in all modes of transportation. The opportunity cost of choosing the wrong mode of transportation. Businesses continue to deal with inventory logjams, overwhelmed transportation networks and soaring freight rates supported with mistrusted service expectations.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So, where can AI in logistics transportation have the most impact? Ideally, players would use models trained not just with their own data, but with data gathered from across the industry. Real-time ETA tools The disconnect between shippers and carriers has long been a challenge in the logistics transportation industry.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2023

What hub ports and airports mean to physical transportation, digital logistics platforms mean for all the information related to that transportation. Audits: a complete document storage accessible anytime and anywhere, improved by blockchain advantages; thus becoming a key point at the moment of, for example, Customs audits.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. Autoliv is the world’s largest safety system supplier in automotive industry. Autoliv is the largest supplier of safety systems to the automotive industry.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

His statements are based not only on discussions with experts from the industry and research, but also on data from Setlog customers who use the SCM tool OSCA. The shortage of skilled labour is putting companies in industrialized nations in increasingly difficult situations. Automation projects are progressing 10.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 8, 2022

The vocabulary used in transportation can be confusing. Shippers” are companies that have goods that need to be transported. It has spot procurement functionality that you would see in a transportation management system (TMS), and the request for proposal (RFP) functionality you would see in contract planning or procurement solutions.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

Transport and logistics is a highly regulated industry when it comes to health and safety, writes Wouter Satijn (pictured), Sales Director of Joloda Hydraroll. This means transport and logistics companies must constantly be on the lookout for new risks, and proactive ways to improve and implement better working practices.

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