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How to Create a Truckload Strategy That Works in Any Market

Talking Logistics

Develop a comprehensive truckload strategy so you’re prepared to handle just about anything. Building the right truckload strategy for your business. The key to a great truckload strategy is aligning capacity communities with attribute segments of your freight portfolio. Select the perfect 3PL to augment your truckload strategy.

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RFID in the Supply Chain: Fizzling Technology or the Future of Effective SCM?

GlobalTranz

In 2003, Walmart announced that all of its suppliers would need to have Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on all pallets and cases by 2006. Two Specific Examples of RFID in the Supply Chain? This allows for continuous reshaping of research and development, marketing and re-selling strategies, and more.

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Perfect retrofit recipe for Almi

Logistics Business Magazine

It’s a blessing because the company, whose strategy is focused on diversification and internationalisation, has experienced constant growth since its founding in 1931. In 2006, Almi built a warehouse on a parcel of land of approx. Everyone’s got to eat! 28,000 sq m, with the contract going to TGW.

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Top 5 Free Online Resources for Freight Brokers

GlobalTranz

Getting your BMC-84 bond and developing a rock-solid marketing strategy are just some of the steps you'll learn about. For example, being able to access your loads from anywhere means you can take care of business outside of the office as long as you've got your smartphone.

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“Women, logistics, trucks, warehouses… very cool!”

World Food Programme Logistics

Then one fateful day in 2006, I saw an opening with WFP on Simeulue, an island in Banda Aceh. Most of my roles were in logistics and supply chain, but since WFP Indonesia’s strategy shifted in 2016, we’ve focused on technical assistance and capacity building. One example is the recent Central Sulawesi tsunami?—?it

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Planting the right trees – logistics and its role in the ‘Phase Zero’ campaign

Logistics in War

The use of Phase Zero as an element of military planning is credited to General Charles Wald, who in 2006, authored “New Thinking at EUCOM: The Phase Zero Campaign” while he was the Deputy Commander US European Command. The paper discussed the need to recognise the difference between theatre security cooperation and traditional war fighting.

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Where Do We Go From Here? Taking a Look at the 2016 State of Logistics Report

GlobalTranz

GDP has changed since 2006. For example, blockchain technology may significantly change the amount of revenue spent on IT needs in the next few years. Although the overall GDP percentage of the U.S. logistics industry is not as much as it once was, it has remained relatively stable within a 1-percent margin over the last 10 years.