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Optimizing Rail Freight with Rail Management Services

CLX Logistics

In the realm of rail freight transportation, businesses often encounter a myriad of challenges when dealing with railroads. By highlighting viable alternatives to subpar rail service, we’ll empower shippers with the knowledge and assurance that superior options are available to meet your rail transportation needs.

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Savvy Supply Chain Leaders Aren’t Letting a Good Downturn Go to Waste

Logistics Viewpoints

A famous 2010 HBR article, “Roaring Out of Recession,” studied how 4,700 public companies fared during the recessions of 1980, 1990, and 2000. With the right data you can reduce your overall transportation costs, both accessorial costs and overall freight spend. 17% went bankrupt, went private, or were acquired.

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Supply Chain Trend Predictions

Logistics Business Magazine

In fact, that journey started in the 1960s as large companies around the world started to embrace EDI communication and document standards. Companies will become responsible for monitoring the carbon emissions produced at every tier of their supply chain and transporting goods across each tier.

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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

GlobalTranz

Those changes, along with high costs of transporting materials and finished goods to and from overseas locations, make the value of reshoring likely to become a compelling financial reality for many manufacturers. for example, compared to shipping state-to-state. Transportation and freight costs are reduced. Since 2005, U.S.

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Walmart: 3 Keys to Successful Supply Chain Management any Business Can Follow

GlobalTranz

And on the subject of sustainability, SCDigest.com covered Walmart’s 2015 Sustainability report : Walmart, the world’s largest corporation, is fresh out with its 2015 sustainability report, the eighth such document it has produced. Walmart has held a place among Gartner’s top 20 supply chains since 2010.

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The beginning of the end for the Paper Bill of Lading

Shipping and Freight Resource

BOLERO ( B ill O f L ading E lectronic R egistry O rganization) was launched in September 1999 as an electronic trade community to provide a common and open system for businesses to exchange trade data and documentation electronically without the involvement of paper. So why the renewed buzz and hype around the electronic bill of lading.??

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Still Think Dangerous Goods is Just Paperwork and Labels?

Talking Logistics

It outlines how dangerous goods must be handled when transported by air. This includes how they must be classified, packed, marked, labelled and documented – as well as the dangerous goods training which must be completed by the people packing and sending them. For example, CEOs and CFOs are very focused on growth these days.