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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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Taking a Big Picture View of Supply Chain Networks

Logistics Viewpoints

Our strategy was to lead with shippers, then onboard their vast networks of carrier, broker and 3PL partners. In 2006, British mathematician Clive Humby coined the phrase “data is the new oil” to help make his point that corporate data has the potential to be an incredibly valuable resource. Data integrity.

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Is bigger always better – Economies of scale and gigantism in shipping

Shipping and Freight Resource

From 2006 to 2013 the prediction of larger vessels was subject to several constraining factors including: subdued trade tendencies, an increase in ship orders, implications at ports and transport infrastructure (i.e. The trend of Gigantism remains strongly in force and has demonstrated few signs in slowing down. the Panama Canal ).

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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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[INFOGRAPHIC] The Evolution and History of Supply Chain Management

GlobalTranz

Over the last 100 plus years of the history of supply chain management has evolved from an initial focus on improving relatively simple, but very labor-intensive processes to the present day engineering and managing of extraordinarily complex global networks. Infographic: The Evolution and History of Supply Chain Management.

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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

GlobalTranz

The executives surveyed identified these positions as those they believe currently most affected and that they expect will present even more severe staffing difficulties by 2020. Averting this outcome depends upon business leaders and government policymakers to actually implement measures to reverse the present trend. Skills Shortages.

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The State of Supply Chain Trends Part IV: Data Analysis, Wearables, and the Cloud

GlobalTranz

While this idea seemed ground-breaking in 2006, it has become a commonplace aspect of nearly all Walmart locations. This needed degree of visibility is also present in the supply chain. Think about the grocery stores that have implemented self-check-out registers.