Talking Logistics

JULY 14, 2017

It’s a bike ride I’m participating in as part of my training for our Logistics Leaders for T1D Cure team ride this September in support of JDRF. Check them out: My other teammates, James Coon (BluJay Solutions) and Ken Wood (Descartes) have been training hard too; I’ll share their photos in a future post. Well, not literally.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Young professionals see working within the supply chain as an exciting career option and said there are good opportunities for advancement or promotions. As part of the survey, 75% of respondents strongly agree and 23% agree that the supply chain is a good career choice.

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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. A&A Rank. Ocean TEUs.

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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. Mexico made 3.8m Digital from the start.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The offering was unveiled this week at Amazon Accelerate, a conference that drew about 2,000 online merchants to Seattle. The latest capability for merchants shows that the e-commerce giant is trying to control more inventory deeper in the supply chain before it’s sold. In effect, the bill bans driverless AV trucks.

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247 Customs Broker

DECEMBER 3, 2018

For even more human-robot collaboration, Volkswagen is teaming up with Dresden, Germany-based startup Wandelbots to more efficiently train industrial robots using an innovative jacket fitted with sensors and actuators. Apparel: Sewbots are helping to decrease costs and promote worker safety in the clothing supply chain.

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247 Customs Broker

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

has announced a significant evolution in its vision to empower a real-time digital, collaborative, and growth-focused global supply chain ecosystem, with its expanded strategic focus, new name and new solution offerings. Rez-1, Inc.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Before diving into this week’s supply chain and logistics news, a quick recap of last Saturday’s JDRF Ride for the Cure in Saratoga Springs, NY. To my teammates James Coon , Andrew Clarke , Steve Wallace , and Ken Wood : Thank you for all of the time and energy you invested in training for this ride and helping to raise funds.

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Trinity Logistics

JUNE 3, 2021

Most cold chain food regulations come from the FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) of 2017. This regulation covers the cleanliness and function of equipment, protocols set in place for transportation, employee training on the proper handling of food in cold chains, and records of all FSMA compliance. In the U.S.,

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The Logistics Academy

JUNE 11, 2017

Increasingly, supply chains are all about the data. I recalled that scene walking to a morning session recently at ISM 2017 , the annual conference for procurement professionals sponsored by the Institute for Supply Management. Source: Supply Chain Management Review. Plastics.”.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 27, 2018

You can see him above proudly wearing the jersey while training indoors a couple of weeks ago. Okay, moving on, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week… Buckle Up, Prime Members: Amazon Launches In-Car Delivery. This is another use case of dynamic, real-time route optimization.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 23, 2019

Long distance rail connections are central to this trade and, at the Automotive Logistics Global Shanghai conference last week, speakers from China Railway International and Beijing Changjiu Logistics talked about the latest developments for vehicle and parts shipments on the China Railway Express (CR Express) between China and Europe.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

According to one survey , only 27% of leaders believe that they have the talent needed to meet current supply chain performance requirements. What should supply chain leaders be looking for to close the talent gap? AGCO Logistics Team Accepts Prestigious Supply Chain Award. We need people that are adaptable.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 9, 2015

Unfortunately, this amount of time equates to a higher cost of waiting for more drivers to finish their training, thus driving up trucking rates. told the conference. “Supply and demand are so closely matched right now, there’s no room in the industry for one glitch,” she said. billion manufacturer TriMas Corp.

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 19, 2018

NYK Auto Logistics India (NALI) has signed an agreement with transport and port operations provider, Adani Logistics, to provide finished vehicle services using freight trains. Based on market trends, the company aims to grow that to 25 in three years.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2017

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).

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Automotive Logistics

MARCH 25, 2019

Speaking at The Supply Chain Conference last week in Atlanta, George Grahovac (pictured), Honda of America’s new senior manager at its North America Operations Office, highlighted a spend of $1.2 Cost pressures are increasing in the supply chain for a number of reasons, he said, including the shift towards electrification.

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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. Additionally, each school received training materials to disseminate the knowledge.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JANUARY 25, 2019

World Food Programme (WFP) Director of Supply Chain Jakob Kern reflects on the challenges and triumphs of working in the world’s most heated crises A civil engineer, Jakob Kern has been on humanitarian assignments in Eritrea, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Italy and Syria. As the current Director of Supply Chain?—?a

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 3, 2019

While that still “seems” high, it is actually the lowest point going back to the first quarter of 2017, when it checked in at 74%. What’s more, it helps to counter the 4% increase in the second quarter, which brought the annualized rate to 98%, which was 10% above the large carrier turnover rate at the end of 2017. Contact Jeff Berman.

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Logistics Manager

MAY 1, 2018

However, with the abolishment of the conference system and as carriers began sharing space on vessels, carrier services and offerings became narrower in scope. As those who work in this logistics and supply chain industry may know, there are ample opportunities where things can go wrong. Training for Future Success.

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Women in Trucking

MARCH 9, 2020

Conference shared a variety of best practices. percent increase in female drivers from 2017 to 2018, Shaver says. That makes on-going training and support critical for success. Finding and keeping drivers has never been more critical. Presenters at the 2018 Accelerate! While they make up 47 percent of the workforce, just 7.9

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Supply chains are ‘strangling strategy’, with the movement of commodities so significant an issue that logistics is securitising. [1] ULAC are used by artillery soldiers in the field for the safe transport and storage of propellant and projectiles in training and operational environments. South Australian workshop. 3] Marles, R.,

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 6, 2017

I’ve never given a supply chain presentation in Spanish. I’ll be doing both for the first time in a couple of weeks at Seminarium’s Logistics & Operations Conference 2017 (October 18th in Santiago, Chile). Rio Tinto Steams Ahead With First Driverless Ore Train (WSJ – sub. I’ve never been to Chile.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Readers' choice!

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Talking Logistics

MAY 15, 2017

Comparing the headlines (September 7, 2016 and May 12, 2017). It echoes the title of my post from last September: “ The Day a Cyber Attack Brings the World’s Supply Chains to a Halt.”. (I The WannaCry cyber attack is another warning for supply chain executives to stop being complacent. What can you do?

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

15, 2017 Apparel Importers Trade and Transportation Conference in New York. “A We happened to find a spot right in the middle of the port (next to Yusen Terminals at the Port of Los Angeles) and it’s worked out very well for us.”. By the end of 2017, AIM had more than 4,000 chassis deployed in its fleet.

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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. Lagos-based Andela trains programmers and facilitates their placement with software companies around the world. So did Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichal in July 2017.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 24, 2018

of them driving around it, making it the second largest in China for vehicle numbers behind Beijing – and it was to Chengdu that delegates headed last week for this year’s Automotive Logistics China conference. CATRC’s director of policy research, Wu Songquan, said China had seen 14 consecutive months of growth since January 2017.

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Drivers do not have set schedules and set routes for the most part. It is a random network and you are relying on having that capacity in that market from a truck standpoint based on what gets shipped in there. Drivers do not have set schedules and set routes for the most part.

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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. “The

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2018

According to Amico, the app, which the company developed itself, also helped show that highly skilled and trained vehicle inspectors were not needed to take the photographs; instead, with minimal training, almost anyone could snap the photos working alongside the inspector, thus freeing up valuable inspection resources.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2019

However, these days the region has much more to attract such investment, including a well-trained workforce, a wide-ranging supplier base and improving logistics infrastructure, opening up substantial opportunities for companies in all parts of the supply chain. . passenger cars were produced in the Czech Republic in 2017.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 11, 2018

My wife often jokes that she is the VP of Supply Chain and Logistics in our family. Whether it’s preventing out-of-stocks of critical household items or making sure the kids are delivered on time in full to wherever they need to be, she keeps our supply chain running as efficiently as possible — while doing her day job too!

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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. says Amico. “We Democrats like to spend money.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 27, 2018

Competing on customer experience is the new battleground in business and supply chain management is a critical enabler. That was the key message Doug Braun, CEO of BluJay Solutions (a Talking Logistics sponsor), delivered in his keynote presentation at the SOAR 2018 Customer Conference last month.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

The purpose of a port is for the direct intermodal exchange of people or freight,” he said, adding that ports should have the infrastructure to allow vehicles and trains to come alongside ships. Other industries value the training that we provide for people to go to other places. For Kurt Nagle, that meant getting digital.

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