Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Its Active WMS Solution is marketed as “the last WMS you’ll ever buy” ( see interview in Logistics Business, September 2020) and with nearly $600M in R&D spend over the past decade, it has the heft to back up the claims. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take measures to reduce our dependency on, say, one country, for example.

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LandLink

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Most in the logistics industry consider trucking deregulated. For example, a truck driver has 660 minutes (11 hours) of legal driving time during his or her 14-hour “on duty” time. Dry van, refrigerated, bulk carriers and other specialty carriers have present different safety concerns.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Commenting on a recent report that suggests the global e-commerce logistics market grew by 27.3% in 2020 and will hit EUR557 billion by 2025, Simon Wong, CEO of the U-Freight Group , says his company is ready to meet the ever-increasing challenges of providing logistics services to this rapidly expanding sector of global trade.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Advances in gripping technology and arm speed are making it easier to handle a broader array of items, for example, allowing companies to maximize their investment and reduce their reliance on human labor for mundane picking tasks. The Czinger 21C costs $1.7 million, not including any add-ons.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 27, 2021

Book-It-Now® is part of the popular Trucker Tools Mobile Driver App , connecting truckers with Third-Party Logistics (3PL) providers on a digital platform that simplifies the process of finding and securing truckload shipments. About BlueGrace Logistics.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 27, 2020

Let’s look at some of its real-world uses in 2020 across the public and private sectors to see which prominent players have embraced blockchain, to what end, and what kind of inroads it’s making into the supply chain environment. Examples of Blockchain in Food Supply Chains. Big Names are Backing Blockchain.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JULY 29, 2018

Logistics providers have discovered that sustainability in the supply chain delivers a good ROI. This is where it gets tricky, according to Yossi Sheffi, director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. This solution has not been overlooked by logistics companies. FedEx also has ambitious goals. Last-Mile Delivery.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2020

AutoGuide Mobile Robots Europe Presents Mobile Robot Safety: Risks, Responsibilities and ROI. Safe implementation of AMRs presents opportunities for increased productivity, improved worker conditions, and (surprise) faster ROI. . • An example of a Tier 1 auto manufacturer’s “fork free” initiative.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 26, 2021

Many people associate reverse logistics to simply cover returns, but it is much more broad than that. Beyond answering “what is reverse logistics,” it is important to understand the history of reverse logistics, the benefits of reverse logistics and why it’s a rising practice, especially in aftermarket industries.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

A new year is underway, and what better way to begin our 2023 blog activity than with a summary of the freshest news from the supply chain and logistics theatre? For companies wishing to decouple their supply chains from China but struggling to do so, the current situation presents an unsettling start to 2023.

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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Top female leaders recognized on annual list of logistics industry’s most influential. The opportunities BlueGrace have presented and their confidence to allow me to lead in our organization have been invaluable to my professional and personal growth,” said Beckmann. Because women in the supply chain matter.

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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] 2] The integration between military and civilian sources of logistics and support are now extolled as underpinning the ADF’s ability to respond to crises in the future. [3].

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2019

IntraLog Poland (3-5 March 2020) is a new business show dedicated to internal logistics, new technologies in supply chain management and warehouse security. AGV robots have become very popular recently as an intralogistics solutions in warehouses or logistics centres. AMR – Autonomous Mobile Robots.

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MTS Logistics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

For example: The global GDP growth rate for 2021 was 6.02%, a 9.1% increase from 2020. While the industry faces immediate challenges, it also presents an opportunity for innovation and adaptation to ensure a more resilient and sustainable future for container shipping in a post-pandemic world.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 29, 2020

As you all probably know the 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been postponed. It’s interesting how the IOC fought against the people that wanted them to postpone the Games with logistics. After reading about this I became interested in the logistics of such a global event as the Olympic Games. We can read more about this here.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2021

However, freight shipping is the one activity that presents significant barriers to overseas-market entry, as you may have discovered if your business is starting to look across international borders for its next step in expansion. Challenge #2: Finding a Suitable Logistics Partner. Container Shipping Can be Tough for SMEs.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2021

On behalf of the VerkehrsRundschau magazine, an independent market research institute surveyed a representative number of purchasing decision-makers from the transport and logistics sectors about the best-known brands. The competition, which was launched in 2020, is decided via online voting.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 14, 2021

All around, 2020 lessons learned are fueling improvements in this new year. Fulfillment professionals also made great strides in 2020, driven by necessity, and many lessons can be applied in the year ahead to keep customers happy and operations on track. Others adjusted throughout the year to improve or struggled mightily to the end.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JANUARY 22, 2018

He says, “I believe that collaborative logistics platforms demonstrate and validate the need for the physical Internet. It is quite a nebulous and fluid area of research at present,” he says. “It Key infrastructure such as “fully operating open logistics networks,” however, won’t be fully functional until at least the 2040s.

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Morai Logistics

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

After a year dominated by a pandemic, many of the anticipated trends heading into 2020 have been reconsidered—here are 6 to be mindful of going forward. This article by Morai Logistics presents 6 of the most prominent trends in supply chain today. Agility is More Important Than Ever. times faster than brands that don’t.

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Sabinext

MARCH 8, 2020

International Women’s Day 2020 calls upon all of us to push for gender equality. As a logistics leader, I believe that correcting gender disparities in ‘profit and loss’ (P&L) and operational roles is a key strategy to fill the executive pipeline with more female talent. This is no different in the logistics industry.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Editor’s Note: This is one of the most popular posts we publish every year: our list of supply chain and logistics events to attend in the coming year. Conferences are a great example of peer-to-peer learning in action, but with so many supply chain and logistics conferences available, how do you decide which ones to attend?

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 27, 2021

Book-It-Now® is part of the popular Trucker Tools Mobile Driver App , connecting truckers with Third-Party Logistics (3PL) providers on a digital platform that simplifies the process of finding and securing truckload shipments. About BlueGrace Logistics.

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Logistics in War

JULY 3, 2023

This is the second part of a presentation given at the Australian – New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference during June 2023. Reports after the war sought a rethinking of assumptions about lean logistics and its relevance in contemporary, large scale, conflict. By David Beaumont. Part one can be found here.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The Cooperative Logistics Network , the first international freight forwarding network with global coverage to launch instant quoting ability for its members, has set a new coverage record by adding its 300th agent. This year, for example, we have created a new personalized online brochure for members and we have launched our blog.”

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Ship Monk

JUNE 5, 2023

Anyone who owns an ecommerce brand has unwittingly been through a crash course in ecommerce logistics. Forward logistics, or the process of moving a product through the supply chain from the manufacturer to the end customer, is a process most startups don’t worry about until it becomes a problem. But what about reverse logistics?

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Locus

MAY 3, 2023

C above 1850–1900 in 2011–2020. Championing sustainable last-mile logistics Interestingly, customers are increasingly favoring companies with sustainable practices. This presents a strong incentive for business and supply chain executives to promote sustainable strategies and raise awareness about their benefits.

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Parade

MARCH 3, 2021

For freight brokers and third-party logistics providers, efficiency is king. And in the example of invoices, the unwieldy process of cross-referencing and auditing means that fraud in the logistics business is all too common. For logistics companies, ease of use matters.

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Now, That's Logistics

MARCH 16, 2021

Coming off a challenging year in 2020, shippers around the world found themselves dealing with many of the same obstacles they faced during the prior year along with some international trade issues that could present more hurdles in 2021. Work with a reliable logistics provider.

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MTS Logistics

APRIL 15, 2022

Despite all these issues, cargo handled has rose a whopping 22% in the period of December 2021/January 2022/February 2022 compared to the December 2020/January 2021/February 2021 period according to data from the Port of Houston. So no matter how farfetched it may seem, the solution might be that farfetched option that you are presented with.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2024

For example, Google Maps app is a public cloud application. So, for example, in the purchase-to-pay process, this tool may show that 76% of the time, the process proceeds from beginning to end as it was designed to do. In 2020, Infor SaaS customers had an attrition rate of 8.4%. We just want them solved.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2021

During the Winter of 2020, I attended the Logistics and Warehousing Executive Briefing organized by MassRobotics. This configuration was followed by a video of bots in a facility with a human working through an example of a robot mounted pick-to-light device communicating to the robots through the SOFTBOT Platform. Final Word.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Logistics software specialist inconso will present solutions that can increase the efficiency of logistics along the entire value chain from March 10-12, 2020, at LogiMAT in hall 8 (stand A50). inconso will present these optimization scenarios for advanced robotics based on the inconso Logistics Suite.

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Now, That's Logistics

JUNE 29, 2022

On June 16, 2022 it was signed into law by President Biden, following conferencing between the House and Senate on differences that need to be decided between the chambers, according to Logistics Management. Like all times when the logistics landscape is moving due to rules and regulations, it’s important to have a trusted advisor.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Supply Chain and Logistics Knowledge. However, in the wake of the pandemic, with ecommerce demand ballooning as it is, an injection of supply chain and logistics knowledge can generate a much-needed marketplace advantage. There are, of course, several ways to achieve a logistics knowledge infusion. Product Availability.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Supply & Demand Chain Executive has launched a new award designed specifically for women leaders in the supply chain industry and Penske Logistics' own Stacy Schlachter, vice president of sales and enterprise accounts, is included on the inaugural list. The 2020 Women in Supply Chain award appears in SDCE's September issue.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

His definition is closely linked to the concept of sustainable development, which the 1987 Brundtland Report describes as ‘‘development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs’’. Examples of CSR Programmes. Example #1: Lego. Example #2: Salesforce.

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