Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

ARC recently attended the August 2021 New England Public Power Association (NEPPA) conference, where Gordon Van Welie, President & CEO of grid operator ISO New England (ISO-NE) described the challenges to maintain reliable, low-cost power, while meeting the urgent goals to decarbonize electric power.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2018

The real-time freight visibility space was particularly hot in 2017, with two major acquisitions announced last year, including Descartes’s acquisition of MacroPoint in August 2017. In case you missed it, check out my short video interview with William and David and our write-up of the case study.

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The Lean Thinker

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Background: I wrote an article appearing in the current (October 2017) issue of AME Target Magazine (page 20) that profiles two very different organizations that have both seen really positive shifts in their culture. Sara Abshari and Eileen Jaskuta are presenting the Meritus story at the AME conference next week (October 9, 2017).

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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. A 2014 study by The Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte projected that employment in manufacturing and warehousing would fall a 2 to 3.5

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2018

While a degree of uncertainty over the future of free trade between Mexico and its Nafta neighbours to the north once again hung over discussions at this year’s Automotive Logistics Mexico conference, it was more than matched by confidence in the future of the automotive sector.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Increased availability of data and the utilization of technology are driving improvement across the supply chain, particularly as shippers navigate growing consumer and customer demands, complex shipping operations. Penske Logistics sponsors both studies. Presenters included Balika Sonthalia, a vice president at A.T.

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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! Like this kind of content?

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Here’s a Varsity Math question for you: The ATA projected a 50,000 driver shortage by the end of 2017 , but that’s off their estimate that there are 3.5 Bonus Question: What is the driver shortage when you factor in the number of trucks operating in the country, which is X — that is, an unknown quantity?

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Logistics experts shared their research findings during the Council for Supply Chain Management’s (CSCMP) annual EDGE Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Penske is once again a major conference sponsor. The 3PL Study is produced by Dr. Langley and Infosys. In 2017, revenues reached $175 billion, and the U.S.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Increased availability of data and the utilization of technology are driving improvement across the supply chain, particularly as shippers navigate growing consumer and customer demands, complex shipping operations. Penske Logistics sponsors both studies. Presenters included Balika Sonthalia, a vice president at A.T.

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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. Trucking costs to halve by 2030, study predicts (LLoyd’s Loading List). Deliverr raises $7M to help e-commerce businesses compete with Amazon Prime (TechCrunch).

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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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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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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 5, 2019

Data from Dynamar, a Dutch maritime intelligence and consulting firm, shows that container traffic through Lomé grew threefold over the five years from 2013 to 2017. Lomé processed 311,500 20-foot equivalent units (TEU) in 2013, but more than 1,193,800 TEU in 2017. Lomé looks to the future. Another 20,770 sq.m

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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. A Deloitte study in 2017 found 49% of procurement officers believe the quality of data is a major barrier, and the lack of data integration was the number two barrier (42%).

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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

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

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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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Descartes Evolution Global User & Partner Conference 2019. How can I summarize the many sessions and customer case studies I attended in a short blog post? One of Descartes’ most high-profile acquisitions was its purchase of MacroPoint for $107 million in August 2017.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a bonus, at the Imagine 2014 Magento e-commerce Conference, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Malcolm McLean (just as he did in this Inc. By 1973, US, European and Asian container ship operators are carrying 4 million TEUs. Over 100 double stack container trains, each a mile long, are now operating across U.S. Readers' choice!

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 3, 2019

Current studies forecast a huge growth in industry drone application,” says Philipp Wrycza, research fellow at Fraunhofer IML, who explains that there are three main uses for drones in the automotive industry: transportation, stocktaking and inspection. “We billion ($1.6 billion over the same period. miles) to 5km.

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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Subsequent to the successful implementation of the Protocol on Foreign Office Consultations for the period 2017-18, the Sides agreed to extend the period of Consultations for five more years (2019-2023) and signed a Protocol to this effect. India complimented Russia for successful organization of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

For example, the NIST demonstration shows an assembly operation. Once the assembly operation is completed, the cart computer calls the mobile base to move the cart to a new location. . The answer is to replace human operators with machines. This method is also a part of the IRB study to test it on 30 people. .

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Logistics in War

JUNE 15, 2018

In 2017, Logistics In War was privileged to have been given permission by the author to publish this essay. It is especially relevant to participants of the Australian and New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference and others elsewhere. By Hayden Marshall. Digital Disruption . Valuing professional discourse.

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247 Customs Broker

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. A Deloitte study in 2017 found 49% of procurement officers believe the quality of data is a major barrier, and the lack of data integration was the number two barrier (42%).

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 2, 2019

As executive director of the ATA’s Automobile Carriers Conference (ACC), Farrell regularly coordinates lobbying efforts between the US House of Representatives and Senate, as well as related government oversight agencies, on issues pertaining to the transport of finished vehicles by truck.

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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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