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The three biggest risks in logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

A survey series by the Logistics Hall of Fame in cooperation with the logistics insurance broker Schunk Group looks at the current risks facing the logistics industry and how companies are preparing against them. The survey shows the current mood in the logistics industry and is not representative of the industry as a whole.

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Amid companies' renewed energy focus, warehouse efficiencies unchanged

247 Customs Broker

Dive Brief: Energy use in the nation’s storage and warehousing sector has gone relatively unchanged in recent years, according to the most recent data available from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). This shrank to […].

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With soft ELD enforcement period over, shippers and carriers brace for whatever comes next

247 Customs Broker

Since the ELD mandate went into effect near the end of 2017, the subsequent impact on the truckload shippers and carriers, as was expected, has been fairly bumpy on various fronts, according to a recent Logistics Management reader survey. I expect produce season to make this situation far worse than we have seen.

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Analytics in Supply Chain Management Becomes Central As Coronavirus Escalates

IoT World Today

Bouncing back more quickly, said experts, will require supply chain managers to turn to new ways of managing the supply chain, including using Internet of Things (IoT) data, analytics and machine learning (ML). And while during the SARS epidemic of 2002 and 2003, China represented 4.3% Indeed, by 2010, China surpassed the U.S.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling and Logistics

Every year, in our annual MH&L Salary Survey , we ask readers to identify the biggest challenge they face in their jobs, and every year they tell us the same thing: finding, developing and retaining talent. In recent years, firms both large and small have launched new “Data Science” or similarly named groups.