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This Week in Logistics News (May 8-12, 2017)

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I remember meeting Karl Siebrecht, co-founder and CEO of FLEXE , a few years ago at the CSCMP Annual Conference not long after the company had launched. A TMS user, for example, can say to the system, “Show me all uncovered loads,” or an inventory manager can ask, “Which stores have less than three days inventory of product X?”

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This Week in Logistics News (April 16-19, 2018)

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Back in 2013, I wrote the following under the banner of “Siri Comes to Enterprise Apps”: Instead of manually executing tasks with a mouse or touch screen, why not speak them? Sticker Snafu Has Millions in Imports Stuck in Argentina’s Warehouses (Bloomberg). OOIDA Leading Fight Against House Bills to Allow Younger Truck Drivers (HDT).

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This Week in Logistics News (October 8-12, 2018)

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Back in 2013, in a post titled “Siri Comes to Enterprise Apps,” I wrote the following: Instead of manually executing tasks with a mouse or touch screen, why not speak them? Earlier this year, for example, XPO Logistics unveiled voice-enabled delivery tracking through Amazon.com Inc’s Echo or Alphabet Inc’s Google Home speakers.

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Trucking Rates Looking to Increase: The Driving Factors & What You Can Do About It

GlobalTranz

Further, as JOC.com wrote in a recent article about the Wall Street Journal an alysis: At the moment, shippers at the NASSTRAC conference said capacity is more balanced than a year ago, in the aftermath of the disruptive polar vortex cycle of winter storms. told the conference. billion manufacturer TriMas Corp.

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Express rail deliveries increase along the Silk Road Economic Belt

Automotive Logistics

Since it was first announced by China’s president Xi Jinping in 2013, the comprehensive international trade plan, known now as the Belt and Road Initiative, has quickly crossed a number of milestones in its development of services by land and sea. trillion of trade was conducted with countries via the initiative last year.

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Reshoring in America: The Future Outlook, Current Hindrances & Issues, and Ways to Stimulate Reshoring

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Yesterday we spoke about the top motivations and reasons why reshoring in America from offshored facilities has several benefits and what are the statistics of reshoring since 2013. For example, Apple cannot launch iPhone production in the U.S. And, after building the new U.S. manufacturing.

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More on The Future of Delivery (Takeaways from MercuryGate Velocity 2017 User Conference)

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A notable exception is MercuryGate (a Talking Logistics sponsor), which was founded 17 years ago and recently held its annual user conference in Las Vegas. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘The Future of Delivery,” which I love because it raises a lot of questions and possibilities (see my recent post on the topic).