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Revolutionizing Freight Forwarding Using Tech with Lionel van der Walt

The Logistics of Logistics

Raft combines the power of unified data, communications, and workflows with the speed and scale of AI and third-party connectivity, freeing up teams to focus on higher value work while reducing costs and driving profitability. Lionel van der Walt and Joe Lynch discuss revolutionizing freight forwarding using tech, which is exactly what Raft.ai

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What Are the RPA Logistics Use Cases?

RPA Labs

billion in 2019. Automated processes such as data tracking, report generation, and real-time monitoring make it easier to ensure the best rates get used with every order or contract agreement. ?Improved RPA systems can improve communications, make digital documentation more manageable, and help streamline payment process automation. ?Inventory

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The Dispatch Report | March 2019, Issue No. 11

Shipchain

Dear Community, After over a year of round-the-clock development, we officially launched our state of the art platform in January 2019 , and now, we’re ready to take on the industry. We are so excited to announce that ShipChain was selected to participate in Plug and Play’s 2019 Food and Beverage Accelerator Program in Silicon Valley!

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March 2019 Automation Hero: Kevin Skau of Design Ready Controls

EazyStock

Currently, we have automated the return of dynamic lead times from EazyStock and the transfer of historical and daily data between EazyStock and our ERP system, ECi M1. It’s counterintuitive, because EazyStock works a lot with historical data and we are constantly working with new customers lacking historical data.

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Path for Tradelens Agreement seems clear

Shipping and Freight Resource

The FMC allowed interested parties 45 days from the 23rd of Dec 2019 to review the agreement and challenge if any potential competitive impacts would be created in the market due to this agreement. CMA CGM, Maersk, Hapag Lloyd, MSC and ONE were Parties to the Agreement and IBM and Maersk GTD Inc were Platform Providers.

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Pitfalls of digitalisation in shipping and freight

Shipping and Freight Resource

In 2019, the merchandise trade volume growth will fall to 2.6% The Global Trade Share in 2019 was as below. Whether digital or manual, the business of shipping involves a lot of documentation. Or forgetting the minus in -25° C when submitting the shipping documents to the shipping line or port. Image from : APL.

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Supply Chain IoT Needs Blockchain to Fully Mature

IoT World Today

Manufacturers may ship their products across the globe, but they lack key data about shipment location and status as packages move from sea port to port. Data on ships in dock, cranes in the yard and individual containers can now be analyzed to find out about ship and shipment arrivals and so on. trillion globally.