Talking Logistics

APRIL 7, 2017

Going International, Onfleet Platform Manages Last Mile Logistics Delivery Operations for Companies in 50 Countries. UPS Boosts Saturday Operations To Increase E-Commerce Delivery Speed. And when it comes to last-mile and home delivery operations, mobile technology has become indispensable.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The ability to operate in emerging domains such as ‘space’ and ‘cyber’, act in the ‘grey zone’, or investments in new technologies from hypersonic weaponry to automation and AI are seen as offsets to potential adversaries. The unit load ammunition containers (ULAC) are an essential support component of the Australian Army?

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Radius Logistics

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Last month, several members of our team attended the in.sight conference in Nashville, Tennessee. This is a conference put on by TMW, the manufacturers of our ERP system, and is attended by over 2000 people from across North America. The cost to attend these conferences may not be small, but the payback is well worth the investment.

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The Logistics Academy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

According to the new “Global Freight Forwarding 2017 Report” compiled by the London-based think tank Transport Intelligence (Ti) , a continuation of excess capacity issues and lower average oil prices in 2016 led rates to fall in both air and sea freight, meaning most forwarders reported lower year-on-year revenues. Toll Group.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 19, 2017

End to end connectivity is a requirement from an operational, regulatory and crew perspective to ensure continued efficiency and performance consistency. Although Big Data applications have distinct operational advantages, some fundamental data issues need to be overcome if a Big Data revolution is to be achieved. Website: [link].

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 14, 2021

They audit your call if you comply with the standard operating procedures including the efficiency of managing the time such as Average Handle Time. AWT can be measured globally across the contact center, by ring group, agent or phone number. Quality Department to monitor the Average Handle Time and Average Wait Time. References: S.

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

We saw that starting to turn around in 2016 and continued to accelerate into 2017," he notes. trillion in 2017, up 6.2% Parcel delivery volumes jumped 7% to $99 billion in 2017. Many shippers had been lulled into a very soft market, costs were coming down and it was a beneficial fuel market. Postal Service, UPS and FedEx.

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Logistics in War

JUNE 17, 2018

This is the final post from the LIW archives on strategic logistics and logistics challenges prior to the Australia & New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference. What the Statement didn’t do, however, was to detail a new path for industry in the context of supporting actual ADF operations. By David Beaumont.

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Automotive Logistics

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Volkswagen Group Logistics said this week that Matthias Braun (pictured, left) was now heading the Digitalization and Concept Development department, associated with the Material Logistics business unit headed by Astrid Lühring. Braun has worked with Volkswagen Group since 1997.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2018

Pall-Ex has celebrated a successful 2017 at its own prestigious awards event, as it makes plans to accelerate its achievements for the year ahead. ADD Express Ltd, of Yorkshire, also picked up a coveted award, after being selected for the Outstanding Contribution to the Network, chosen by Group managing director, Kevin Buchanan.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 27, 2018

From May 2016 through the end of August 2017, “17 CEOs of public Big Food manufacturers and retailers had departed, or announced their intention to,” according to an article published last September in Fortune. The theme of the conference was “Go Boldly Together.” Carl Melville (The Melville Group). Source: Nulogy.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

I also learned that my wife is truly an amazing woman and I have a deeper appreciation for everything she does to make our work and home operations run so smoothly. Transplace Acquires Yusen Logistics’ Intermodal & Freight Brokerage Group. Transplace Acquires Yusen Logistics’ Intermodal & Freight Brokerage Group.

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

By Jeff Berman, Group News Editor ·. Compared to August 2017, the SA was up 4.5%, which was down from an 8.6% However, the year-over-year increase was the smallest since July 2017. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. Get timely insider information that you can use to better manage your entire logistics operation.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 20, 2018

It is a topic of daily discussion at every industry trade show and conference, while also getting a ton of attention in the form of commentary or data being issued fairly frequently. A good example of that was apparent in an October 2017 survey of 1,500 motor carriers conducted by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI).

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Women in Trucking

MARCH 9, 2020

Conference shared a variety of best practices. Women tend to be safer drivers than men, points out Leah Shaver, NTI’s Chief Operating Officer. percent increase in female drivers from 2017 to 2018, Shaver says. Finding and keeping drivers has never been more critical. Presenters at the 2018 Accelerate! Drivers love Facebook!”

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 15, 2018

The brand is therefore an integral component of this highly emotional sporting and entertainment experience with global reach,” says Arjan Sissing, head of Corporate Brand Marketing at Deutsche Post DHL Group. In 2017, the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport team took home the award. Last year, the award went to Lewis Hamilton.

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In a letter written this week to Lance Fritz, chairman, president, and CEO of Class I railroad Union Pacific (UP) , top leadership from the Surface Transportation Board (STB) asked UP to provide the STB with updates regarding planned operating changes recently rolled out by UP. wrote Begeman and Miller. “In wrote Begeman and Miller. “In

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 16, 2018

Indeed, digitalisation is now a buzzword in supply chain circles, as logistics innovators look for ways to improve operating platforms. Last year, the malicious NotPetya virus infiltrated the operating systems of shipping icons Fed-Ex and Maersk after an accounting software upgrade, costing AP Moller-Maersk an estimated $300m.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I will be wrong again,” I stated last year before making my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2017 , and I was right. But I was right with some of my other predictions, especially my prediction that we would see a rise in cyber attacks in 2017, with supply chain and logistics operations becoming new targets.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2018

Last fall after attending the CSCMP conference in Atlanta, I shared my observation that digital transformation is now a central theme in the industry. The Hackett Group provides a useful visual for describing the maturity stages that supply chain is moving through as the industry strives to leverage data and advanced analytics.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 24, 2018

s annual Supply Chain Executive Conference held last week in Phoenix, AZ provided the platform for the release of its Supply Chain Top 25, which identifies industry “best practices.”. ” ROA: (2017 net income/2017 total assets)*50% + (2016 net income/2016 total assets)*30% + (2015 net income/2015 total assets)*20%.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

LMC warns that OEMs facing the biggest challenges are those most exposed to the local market, such as Fiat Tofas, which saw production drop from 384,174 in 2017 to just over 300,000 last year. That was almost twice the amount exported to the EU by Japan, the second-largest supplier of vehicles to the EU based on 2017 figures.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 15, 2017

Comparing the headlines (September 7, 2016 and May 12, 2017). FedEx, which was the hypothetical example I used in my post (based on an excerpt from the novel CyberStorm ), was also affected by the cyberattack, although it didn’t affect operations. One of the most popular posts I wrote last September became a reality over the weekend.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 16, 2019

When the Tax and Jobs Act legislation was signed into law in late 2017, expectations for the benefits it could bring for corporations were fairly high. At the NASSTRAC conference in May 2018, the nation’s top trucking lobbyist said that, at that time, the tax reform bill had already seen $3.8 Jeff Berman, Group News Editor.

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Automotive Logistics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

cars between January and August this year, virtually unchanged from the same period in 2017. Despite plans being in the implementation phase for expanded airport operations, Mexico sorely lacks maritime, intermodal and ground infrastructure, he says. Mexico produced 2.6m units last year.

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Logistics in War

MAY 31, 2018

During a logistics course in late 2017, I was asked to consider what the traits and behaviours of the strategic ‘future logistician’ might be. [1] This is a process that incorporates everything from acquisition to operational sustainment, and involves uniformed personnel, public servants and industry partners. By David Beaumont.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 15, 2018

In 2017, it saw a recovery in the automotive sector in Europe and a shortage of transport capacity in the market. At the press conference in Paris in January, Nadal said the company was opening up to new industrial sectors including aviation, manufacturing, energy, life sciences and healthcare, among others.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MARCH 1, 2019

Spurring innovation, food safety and quality capacity strengthening and economic resilience This year’s Africa Day of School Feeding comes at the heels of the first ever Future of Food Safety Conference held at the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Bilateral forums, conferences, meetings and seminars happen more often than one can count, and usually result in numerous announcements – ranging from memoranda of understanding (MoU) to billions of financial commitments. This makes Australia the largest international miner in Africa. Finally, Beijing. of China’s overall FDI.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2019

passenger cars were produced in the Czech Republic in 2017. As of 2017, the UK ranked second in terms of exported cars with a share of 10.5% In 2017, assembly plants in Slovakia manufactured 1.03m finished vehicles, estimates Alexander Matusek, president of the Slovak Automotive Industry Association.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 25, 2018

Only last week, a number of OEMs and advocacy groups with links to the automotive industry urged politicians to proceed with caution. While recognising that a lot of carmakers now operating in Mexico were US subsidiaries, he pointed out that over past six years, the country had welcomed businesses and people from around the globe. “We

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247 Customs Broker

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Building on the process and operational insights, the data, and the network built during its nearly 25-year history, Blume Global is now taking this to the global supply chain ecosystem. The platform processes $1 billion in annual revenue for customers with 99.99 percent billing accuracy.

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Automotive Logistics

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Europe’s finished vehicle sector faces several big challenges in coming months, as speakers at the recent ECG conference in Germany made clear. At last week’s annual conference of the Association of European Vehicle Logistics (ECG), held in Mainz, Germany, speakers discussed what they were doing to tackle these problems.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 18, 2018

With a gross domestic product (GDP) of about US$136bn in 2017, the city is already acclaimed to have the seventh-largest GDP in Africa. So did Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichal in July 2017. But it was Microsoft that blazed the trail, with its chief operating officer Kevin Turner visiting Lagos in November 2010.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The company was founded by a small group of former APL executives and staff who spent their time at the ocean carrier devising the most efficient means to move containers from the ships, on and off the piers, and into the nation’s commerce. 15, 2017 Apparel Importers Trade and Transportation Conference in New York. “A

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MARCH 27, 2018

One common theme in more than a few e-mails that has come in over the last several months, and even longer, centers around blockchain technology and its impact, or rather potential impact, on myriad aspects of freight transportation, supply chain, and logistics operations. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. About the Author.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 28, 2018

LETS TALK: US Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim looks inside a Cessna-208B Grand Caravan Intelligence, Surveillance and Recoinnaissance (ISR) aircraft acquired through grant programmes by the the US government to the Philippine Air Force (PAF) during a formal turn-over ceremony at the PAF headquarters in Manila on July 27, 2017.

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