Material Handling and Logistics

MAY 28, 2018

The risk of cyberattack, once overhyped, now threatens businesses’ very existence, according to a recent survey, 2018 FM Global Resilience Index. Despite a fraught political climate, the group says, the U.S. As these examples show, different nations exhibit different cyber risks, according to Lawson.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 3, 2018

In fact, this current cycle might as well be called the roaring freight market of 2017-2018. Top 25 Less-Than-Truckload Carriers: 2017 Revenues. 2017 Revenue ($ million). Pitt Ohio Transportation Group. Source: Company reports and SJ Consulting Group estimates. Prepared by SJ Consulting Group, Inc. . .

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

To know the most difficult challenges as perceived by supply chain professionals, we turn to the SCM World’s 2017 Future of Supply Chain survey. Besides, these risks are much more serious (for example, there were about 134,000 reported cyber-attacks on businesses in 2017 , or almost 50 percent increase from 2016).

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Freightos

MARCH 4, 2020

For example: CH Robinson launched Freightquote – This platform takes aim at SMBs enabling simple online search and e-booking across multiple US trucking carriers. For previous years’ reports: 2015 , 2017 , 2018. The digitization of the freight industry is about improving speed and efficiency. . Keep reading for the highlights OR.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 12, 2018

According to the APICS’s premier annual survey, there is a very bright future for people working in the supply chain industry with both increases in pay as well as high levels of job satisfaction across the profession. The survey revealed that in 2017, the average salary for supply chain professionals was $85,210.

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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. Shippers said freight damages were a major challenge in 2016 but in 2017 damages declined by 10%, according to a survey conducted by Averitt Express.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

For example, consider the multitude of companies involved in the process of manufacturing, warehousing and distributing a single pair of shoes. According to a Deloitte survey of large companies with $500 million or more in revenue, 25% of respondents expected to invest more that $5 million in blockchain technology in 2017.

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Transporeon

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Regularly since Q3 2017, many shipping companies have been confronted by transport scarcity – a problem they’ve never known before. Transport prices are also going up because of carrier rate increases since Q3 2017. This has continued into mid-2018, as evidenced by recent surveys conducted on the Transporeon platform.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 18, 2019

Source: Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals 2017 Survey. Chief Supply Chain Officers , for example, have often spent time managing warehouses or transport operations in their early careers. Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals 2017 Survey.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 20, 2018

According to the ATA, the driver turnover rate for the fourth quarter of 2017 for large truckload fleets (those with more than $30 million in revenue) dropped seven points to 88%, signaling its first sub-90% reading going back to the first quarter of 2017. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. of freight tonnage moves on U.S.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

According to a survey by Deloitte from 2014, 79 % of companies with high-performing supply chains achieve revenue growth superior to the average within their industries. In 2014, a survey by Tompkins Consortium delivered a shocking revelation. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers. Now for those statistics I mentioned.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 9, 2019

According to a survey by Deloitte from 2014, 79 % of companies with high-performing supply chains achieve revenue growth superior to the average within their industries. In 2014, a survey by Tompkins Consortium delivered a shocking revelation. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers. Now for those statistics I mentioned.

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World Food Programme Logistics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Addressing climate change, taking meals to 300 schools In the dry and chronically impoverished Karamoja region, WFP targets the most vulnerable groups and households, preventing hunger and malnutrition especially in lean seasons, while building livelihoods, resilience and human capital. One million people are registered so far.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 16, 2018

According to a recent survey on challenges in the maritime shipping industry which was jointly conducted by technology firm Navis LLC and Business Performance Innovation Network, 82% of the 200 shippers, intermediaries, carriers, operators, and handlers which were surveyed agreed that supply chain visibility needs to improve.

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Freightos

MARCH 5, 2017

A version of this article appeared in the Journal of Commerce on March 4th, 2017. It’s the freshly appointed CEO of CMA CGM, Rodolphe Saadé, speaking about the new opportunities that lie online during a session at Journal of Commerce’s TPM 2017 in Long Beach. Two years ago you didn’t hear talk of digitization from ocean liners.

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Airfreight Logistics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

According to a 2016 survey by comScore and UPS , consumers purchase half of their goods online. The survey shows a growing number of online shoppers of 3% and 4%, comparing to 2015 and 2014 respectively. Robotics Is the Answer. Which represents a +20.7% increase compared to the same period in the prior year.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Working Group presented their paper at the Hannover Messe, where more than 220,000 representatives of the world’s engineering and manufacturing industry gather every year to see the latest innovations in production and automation technologies. Real-world examples that show the potential of Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 technologies.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 15, 2018

Last November, PierPass hired two consulting companies – the Tioga Group and World Class Logistics (WCL) Consulting – to evaluate two possible reforms to the program. and on Saturday (8:00 a.m.-5:00 per TEU, have called to reform the program. Two different paths. Under review. to 6:00 p.m.

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247 Customs Broker

DECEMBER 5, 2018

billion net loss, which was steeper than the FY 2017 $2.7 And between fiscal years 2017 and 2019, total USPS net losses came in at $69 billion and is expected to lose tens of billions over the next decade. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. billion net loss, while not as severe as the $5.5 billion net loss in FY 2016.

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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 3, 2018

This particular kind of discipline was not enforced in 2017, however. But given ongoing overcapacity, we may see peak season prices reach their apex by this fall, much like 2017.”. COSCO Group. CMA CGM Group. IRISL Group. X-Press Feeders Group. Alphaliner Top 35 Ocean Carriers. APM-Maersk. Hapag-Lloyd.

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247 Customs Broker

JUNE 7, 2018

As one example, he points out that Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) announced that it will order 20 “eco-. Dan Smith , principal with ocean industry consultancy The Tioga Group, finds far too many impediments to recovery absent a radical change in its business culture. “A However, fleet capacity is once again on the rise.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

Gilmore Says… In a great example of the balance in this book, Sheffi notes the actual evidence of consumer preference for Green products is tenuous at best. In fact, after reading Sheffi’s examples, I’m surprised more companies haven’t been forced to be zealous advocates.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 26, 2018

Some of the main concerns expressed by ports surveyed by Automotive Logistics include finding more storage and handling capacity, especially given the growth that some of the bigger car handling ports are seeing, and at times when there are sudden spikes in volumes. . in 2017 to a total of 14.9m Where to put it all .

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Automotive Logistics

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The association also has a Digitalisation Working Group that is developing an app drivers can use to access information relevant to their journey, including guidance on secure places to stop. “We He outlined a number of measures the group was implementing to improve safety in what was a skilled yet demanding and sometimes dangerous job.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 19, 2018

An off-cited analysis from McKinsey in late 2017, for example, found automation could destroy as many as 73 million US jobs by 2030, about one third of all jobs in the country. For example, in a story I remembered that we ran in 2014, a company called Parkdale Mills had recently re-opened a factory near Gaffney, SC that now produces 2.5

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Every year, in our annual MH&L Salary Survey , we ask readers to identify the biggest challenge they face in their jobs, and every year they tell us the same thing: finding, developing and retaining talent. In recent years, firms both large and small have launched new “Data Science” or similarly named groups.

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 17, 2018

Mexican production and exports continued to grow through 2017, both to the US and globally. According to analyst PwC Autofacts, US vehicle imports increased again in 2017, reaching nearly 8.3m In 2017, $284 billion worth of goods passed through the port of LA. In the US, vehicle sales hit 17.2m units, up 1.4% Mexico sent 2.4m

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The Logistics Academy

JUNE 29, 2017

billion in 2016, according to a BI Global Intelligence survey. For example, if a truck hits an object with substantial force, it might send a text or e-mail to a supervisor. “When the material handling truck picks up a group of appliances, a reader mounted on the truck reads the tag on each unit,” Montgomery says.

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Automotive Logistics

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The supply chain, their customers, and the jobs they support are highly interdependent,” said Michael Haughey, of the North American Stamping Group (NASG), who was speaking at the hearing on September 26. For example, more than 90% of the steel used to produce our vehicles here is sourced in America.

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