GlobalTranz

JANUARY 6, 2015

Look out for great stuff in 2015! It’s a lot of work to effectively manage freight and that is evident as readers gobbled up posts around freight claims, freight shipment processing by understanding the documentation and how to class your freight so you can get a freight rate. Happy New Year and we hope you enjoy!

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

As we close the year of 2015, we want to take a look at some manufacturing trends for 2016. Over the past decade, the application of e-commerce in manufacturing and industrial distribution, has evolved from basic communication and transaction channel between buyer and seller, to an end-to-end collaboration medium between all stakeholders.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

It helps to coordinate all of the available data points in a transport network, including rates, route options, warehouse supply, and distribution. In 2015, the state of transportation management systems is good, with the industry slated to see tremendous growth in the coming few years.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 9, 2016

While the parodies are quite “terrifying,” the problem remains, but one piece of legislation, passed in December 2015, the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act ), offers a solution, and actionable steps are being laid out to define a way to dramatically reshape the infrastructure-landscape in several key ways.

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Ottawa Logistics

MARCH 24, 2022

As a matter of fact, Microsoft has one of the best logistics structures in the world, with much of its fulfillment and distribution actually piggybacking on the resources of hardware developers. Here are five ways that your fulfillment and distribution is likely draining your wallet today.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 14, 2015

The Internet of Things (IoT) seems to be popping up in more conversations throughout the entire supply chain , and more businesses have turned towards IoT experts for guidance on how to take advantage of its benefits. The Internet radically changed how the world communicates. Let us know in the comments section below.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 13, 2016

Unfortunately, the capacity crunch is real, and shippers need to know how to face the prospects of a slower 2016 to stay competitive and meet the demands of their customers and partner businesses. Yet, contractual parties, such as third party logistics providers ( 3PLs ) are expecting increases in freight of between 2 and 3 percent from 2015.

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Bringg

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In the US alone, the B2C parcel delivery market is expected to be worth nearly $50 billion by 2019, up from $35 billion in 2015! From the millions of data points and variables in any supply chain should come the knowledge required to determine business strategies and to support decision-making processes. Openness to the Unknown.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Editor’s Note: This is our second post in a two part series about how to get your logistics and transportation practices in order in time for holiday shipping or peak season crunches. The first post covered how you can get the DC or warehouse ready for the holidays or peak seasons. . Truckload Holiday Shipping.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Editor's Note: This is our second post in a two part series about how to get your logistics and transportation practices in order in time for holiday shipping or peak season crunches. The first post covered how you can get the DC or warehouse ready for the holidays or peak seasons. . Truckload Holiday Shipping.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

But, many warehouses and distribution centers remain challenged with moving pallets quickly, efficiently and accurately. In 2015, Trinchero began building a one-of-a-kind winery and temperature-controlled warehouse on a 500-acre plot of land in Lodi, Calif., Trinchero also produces a portfolio of spirits and distributes imported wines.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 12, 2018

If Modex 2018 , the biannual materials handling trade event in Atlanta, is anything like years past, some of the best-attended booths will be from companies exhibiting technologies that will power distribution centers in the next generation supply chain. DHL is using several strategies at various facilities. It’s very ergonomic.”.

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World Food Programme Logistics

APRIL 17, 2019

How to tackle climate change? The German Federal Foreign Office is supporting WFP’s forecast-based financing with EUR 7 million between 2015 and 2020 in Nepal, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The innovative feature is that these insurance policies are automatically distributed if?—?similar

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In a 2015 TED talk, Bill Gates warned about the spread of a potential virus and that organizations and governments were not prepared for it. According to McKinsey , the value of goods traded globally has tripled to more than US$10 trillion since 2000, and because of recent events, they are having to re-evaluate supply chain strategies.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 6, 2018

Sure, every facility has plans, like min/max levels for SKUs, replenishment schedules and maybe even some local labor planning to assess if a distribution center can meet a peak season rush. The trick, of course, is how to make S&OP more effective, and thus more beneficial to managers in the trenches.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 14, 2022

But we believed, because we had studied TV script writing, that we knew how to pitch. You can write Breaking Bad, but if you don’t know how to pitch it, it doesn’t get made. We also had no idea how to raise capital. Are there possible issues with that strategy? How do you manage college students?

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 1, 2016

As of January 2015, 48 percent of manufacturers said they were ready for these revolutionary changes, according to McKinsey & Company. Mobile CRM apps support distributed order management, pricing and fulfillment by providing real-time data to manufacturing sales representatives. Let us know in the comments below!

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Knowing your CTS per product and per customer also lets you better control different commercial strategies. If profits start to decline afterwards, your CTS data can offer valuable information about what changed and how to get back on track. A product can be analysed in terms of overall costs to stock and distribute it.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 5, 2018

However, the yard also serves as a distribution centre for the Swedish market and holds models imported from Volvo’s plant at Ghent, Belgium, such as the XC40 and the new V60; and S90s sedans imported from China, which arrive at the port of Zeebrugge in Belgium by rail and move to Sweden by ship. .

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Freightera

MAY 26, 2017

You will see those are – I don’t know how to describe these. This is based on work from the European parliament in 2015. Notice what’s happening here – around 2015 where the emissions begin to take off. Notice the distribution of the SmartWay carriers in terms of the pricing mix.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 28, 2016

Google’s 2014 purchase of the British firm Deep Mind for something more than $ 400 million produced a bonanza of publicity earlier this year, when its game playing program whipped a human master of the ancient strategy game Go. It could be the last event unless we learn how to avoid the risks. The biggest event in human history.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 11, 2018

You can then see for yourself how your own organisation with its strengths and weaknesses might fare in the light of these six trends and their accompanying ‘what if’ scenarios. This article was first published in June of 2015. One candidate is omni-channel distribution. What Happened to These Trends? A 2018 Update.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 7, 2015

However, with most of our customer base in the manufacturing field, with the remaining in distribution and other industries, we thought it was vital that we featured some of the other manufacturing blog posts that were also popular in 2014. What manufacturing content would you like to see in 2015? Read the Full Blog Post.

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