WorkWave

MARCH 4, 2020

Employees are typically the first in line to help generate a positive and memorable experience for customers, so properly educating them is paramount to creating a positive business image from a consumer perspective. It is unlikely that a business will be able to get a five-star review from every customer.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

MARCH 18, 2020

Transnet National Port Authority is one of five operating divisions of Transnet SOC Ltd??? Using this infrastructure, South Africa exports and imports of goods equivalent to the value of about 60% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In December 2019, South Africa had a very good month in terms of trade balance because it had a ZAR14.8

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Penske Move Ahead

JUNE 17, 2021

"You can get yourself organized so more of your freight can move in a routine market and not on the spot market, which is turning out to be very costly, as well as unreliable and unpredictable, from a service perspective." There are a myriad of things the depth of relationship brings to the shipper-3PL/4PL relationship," Moses said.

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Fleet Owner

OCTOBER 29, 2022

As the weather continues to cool, stay warm with cheer for the upcoming holidays and charity and by celebrating the women who keep trucking rolling in this week's blog.

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Fleet Owner

OCTOBER 23, 2022

There’s freight to haul as temps fall, meaning the holidays are almost here. Hard work on the highways and at fleet facilities continues. This week, we take time out to highlight a dietary program for drivers, one who plays a mean fiddle, and much more.

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WorkWave

AUGUST 19, 2022

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Fleet Owner

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Turkey Day is this month—and it’s also a time that two truck-stop chains and an industry trade group do extra to honor veterans inside the cab, in the line of fire, and those who are back home. Plus: a top company for women in trucking.

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Now, That's Logistics

MARCH 12, 2018

As the demand for goods has increased, the capacity to transport them has expanded: ever-larger ships, more containers/TEUs, etc. At the same time, there is an acquisitions trend among competitors, with only four or five major companies expected to still be in the market by 2020. The current logistics model is more than 100 years old.

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3PL Links

APRIL 13, 2023

The following section presents five effective ways to adopt lean logistics. It can be summed up as the things that the customer values because they get something out of them. The pull strategy, which focuses mainly on customers who intend to purchase the product, is effective for both online and offline retail sales of goods.

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Fleet Owner

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A truck driver shields others from a drugged motorist; a cab makeover changes a driver's life; race-karting for a cause in Cape Cod; Bendix's solar push honored for excellence.

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Fleet Owner

MARCH 4, 2022

Sneak peek into the last edition of Five Good Things: Cargo Transporters reveals largest driver pay increase in company history, last day for Private Fleet of the Year award nominations, Shaquille O'Neal donates a Mercedes van to family in need, and more.

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Locus

DECEMBER 3, 2021

So I tried my hand at a lot of things; took up different kinds of accounts and other initiatives,” he shares. These were early days and a lot of time would be spent meeting any and every type of customer to understand what made for a good product market fit. . Eventually, he grew more confident about doing tech sales. Life at Locus.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Here are nine things your CPO wants you to know about how supplier collaboration is changing – and why it matters to your company’s future and your own future. And buyers aren’t collaborating with suppliers merely as providers of materials and goods, but as strategic partners that can help create products that are competitive differentiators.

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Trinity Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2020

To put this even more into perspective, suicide is a major concern in trucking because it is known as a male-dominated industry and nearly 70 percent of suicides that occur in our country are carried out by men. If your brain is deprived of good-quality nutrition, consequences are to be expected. Recognizing That You Need Help.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

My team and I work on developing and furthering our supply chain and operations by providing a centralized analytical perspective – we work on improving fulfillment models, applying analytics, improving productivity and output at our warehouses, and optimizing our operations. I’ve been with Peapod for about five years.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

My team and I work on developing and furthering our supply chain and operations by providing a centralized analytical perspective – we work on improving fulfillment models, applying analytics, improving productivity and output at our warehouses, and optimizing our operations. I’ve been with Peapod for about five years.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 27, 2018

What’s more, Armstrong found that over the last five years, e-commerce logistics costs have a compound annual growth rate of around 15%, with the expectation that it will remain at the level or head further up. Before things would go from a port to a distribution center to a store, and customers would make purchases at the store.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

My team and I work on developing and furthering our supply chain and operations by providing a centralized analytical perspective – we work on improving fulfillment models, applying analytics, improving productivity and output at our warehouses, and optimizing our operations. I’ve been with Peapod for about five years.

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WorkWave

JUNE 1, 2021

If you ask five different pest control operators (PCOs) what motivated them to start their own business, there’s a high probability that you’ll get five different responses. Think of where you want your business to be in the next three, five, or seven years, as well as where you want to be yourself on that same timeframe.

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Freightos

JANUARY 8, 2019

It won’t be good for many industry players if we don’t work together to build a modern shipping experience with the end user at heart first on our own. There’s a lot of talk about AI, blockchain, and the internet of things; those are very important, but the thing missing most in this industry, is open data standards.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 3, 2018

While the report did not feature any comments confirming any type of imminent partnership between UPS and Werner, it cited UPS COO Jim Barber saying that UPS cannot ignore the rising demand for in-home deliveries of furniture, mattresses, and tread mills, while also evaluating ways to handle larger goods, too.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 23, 2018

As you probably know, one of the things we are thinking of doing is listing the business,” he tells TW+. “I He planned the break — his first summer off since leaving university — fully aware of the work and travel demands of a position that will see the company reshaped over a four- to five-year period. I kind of hate head offices. “So

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247 Customs Broker

AUGUST 20, 2018

Issues are typically analyzed from multiple perspectives. The thing I like best about their model is that it ties more advanced design behaviors and processes explicitly to the ROI these solutions provide on an annual basis as well as speed to value surrounding new design projects.

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Airfreight Logistics

MARCH 19, 2020

Therefore, once you hear ‘Swiss WorldCargo,’ high-quality logistics services would be the first thing that comes to your mind. Five staff members of Mr. Manosaksaree’s team are bringing out each other’s talents under Swiss WorldCargo’s one of a kind strategy. Whether it be high-value accessories, watches, or pharmaceutical products.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 3, 2018

.’ More specifically, people who believe in the importance of environmental stewardship vs. people who are looking for jobs and affordable goods.”. SCMR: From your perspective, what is the state of sustainability? Sheffi: This book was five years in the making, and I had a chance to talk to a lot of executives.

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 16, 2018

The group collaboration has been fantastic and humbling because you go into meetings with five big egos – five large groups that have their own agendas – but they cooperate for the good of the industry,” comments Dana McBrien, associate chief advisor at Honda North America. A tier supplier’s perspective.

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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 23, 2018

If you take the rough midpoint of that — $15 billion a year in additional costs — that’s in the ballpark that we’ve seen people use. Now, if you took that $15 billion number and put it in perspective, in 2017 the liner shipping industry had $6 billion or $7 billion in combined profit, and that was the best year in a long time.

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Freightos

APRIL 16, 2017

New technology platforms that enable a clearer perspective on carrier rates and carrier schedules supports better load planning, as well as carrier and mode selection. The good news is data interoperability has improved and is making it easier for companies to connect disparate shipping systems and access data more easily.

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Logistics in War

DECEMBER 2, 2017

The engagement achieved across a wide variety of logistics issues, told from the perspective of a range of military experiences in different militaries and contexts, has been an incredibly positive sign. This ensures combat forces are not just available; it will determine that they are employable.

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Dedola Global Logistics

AUGUST 22, 2019

What I’d like to kind of get from you maybe is, you know, and it may be in a sound bite or if you want to go a little further, what do you think is the most crucial thing that people who are in the freight business or in the international shipping business, whether they be importers or exporters, or freight forwarders 3PLs.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 17, 2022

So supply chains are becoming more strategic and customer-centric, where things like digitising your planning execution orchestration are no longer “nice to haves.” ” The one thing that I want to highlight here is that global supply chains power the world. They’re very interconnected and complex.

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Automotive Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

I think the good news here is, the automotive industry – be it OEMs, tier suppliers or 3PLs – understands the need to get to this point. The fact that they’re understanding is good – it’s a starting point. So, with all these in play, the maturity would be in the next three to five years. You have self-driving cars today.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 13, 2018

The report touched upon various factors at play that help to put the market outlook into perspective, including: slow and steady growth in demand after a brief lull, with fleet capacity on the rise again; 2018 fleet capacity growth estimates are between 4%-5%, up from 2017’s 3.3%; total new container-ship capacity at around 1.3-million

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Automotive Logistics

MARCH 26, 2019

One of the major focuses from a logistics perspective will be the management of the battery supply chain and the movement of batteries to assembly plants, according to Bailey. They don’t need to be sitting in there and working every day on the basic things. We are rolling out bots that are able to do that work for them.”.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 21, 2018

We could go beyond that to advanced manufacturing, technology and things like that. Jason Hoff, who oversees the Tuscaloosa operation as president and CEO of MBUSI, has a special perspective on the growth and evolution of the Alabama automotive industry. It’s a good place to do business down here. And we’ll see.”.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Lieutenant General William Tuttle, a former US Army G4 during the ‘revolution of military logistics’, describes five principles for the professional development of logisticians in his book Defense logistics for the 21st century: Accountability. What really matters is how we make the most of these differences from a professional perspective.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

We need problem solvers, people that can work with data from a data analytics perspective. People that understand things happen, and that if things don’t happen exactly the way the process is laid out, they don’t just stop. Toornman said at the conference. “We We need people that are adaptable. They figure it out!

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