Blue Grace Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Actionable advice from 2021 Top Companies for Women to Work For in Transportation. Oct 29, 2021. In 2021, we’ve been focusing on strengthening this culture of inclusion, mitigating bias and fostering a diverse employee community through several initiatives,” said Sunita Solao, vice president of people at Convoy. FreightWaves.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In answering that question, we’re not going to provide you with a list of possible supply chain KPIs to use in your business—at least, not in this article. Because you can find plenty of other articles on this blog and the Logistics Bureau blog if you’d like to peruse such lists.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 8, 2022

SMC3, for example, provided pricing for trucking, which almost seamlessly moved into the digital space. PortXchange in Rotterdam and Innovez-One out of Singapore are examples. Uber Freight, a sibling of Uber rider fame, started modestly but in 2021 acquired 3PL Transplace and now is among the platforms to be reckoned with.

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Blue Grace Logistics

APRIL 28, 2023

billion in 2021, but more than double the $1.3 companies opening factories in Mexico, for example, nor investment in private real estate. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, for example, initially threw into question Tesla Inc.’s READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE That was down from a record $5.6 billion volume of 2019.

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Trinity Logistics

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In this blog, we’re going to dive into some of the latest trends in the food and beverage industry. billion in 2021. percent from 2021 to 2026. In July 2021, the Zero Food Waste Act was introduced to provide grants to businesses that significantly reduce their food waste. What will we see going into 2022 and beyond?

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3PL Insights

AUGUST 16, 2021

Services like Doordash, Instacart, and Uber Eats are examples of drivers using their own vehicles and setting their own schedules to deliver products to customers and provide more visibility. Implementing the strategies mentioned in this article can help e-commerce businesses stay competitive.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2023

So, rather than get overly prescriptive, I’ll use this blog post to highlight some companies that have achieved success through excellence in inventory management , and outline some of the most effective elements of their strategies. As you can deduce from Amazon’s example, there is no standard for an optimal warehouse layout.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 13, 2022

The largest year-over-year increase in pressure in 2021 came from investors, governments, and international governing bodies, according to The State of Supply Chain Sustainability 2021 study from The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics. ” READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE. DROP AND HOOK. .

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Morai Logistics

JANUARY 4, 2018

billion by 2021. A NBC News article quoting a insuranceQuotes.com report puts the number of Americans impacted at 23 million. For example, in Rancho Cordova, California, local police have set up a special sting operation. If you liked this blog post, why not subscribe to our blog ? Combating Porch Piracy.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As an example of how illuminating the perfect order KPI can be, let’s look briefly at damage-free delivery as an example. For example, if the on-time percentage is 98%, the in full is 93%, the damage-free is 99%, and the orders with correct documentation is 96%, the calculation will look like this…. x 0.96 = 0.8661.

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Trinity Logistics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In this blog, we’re going to dive into some of the latest trends in the food and beverage industry. In July 2021, the Zero Food Waste Act was introduced to provide grants to businesses that significantly reduce their food waste. One example is UPS Healthcare developing a system and opening facilities to move medicines safely.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

For example, the reverse logistics process includes the management and the sale of surplus as well as returned equipment and machines from the hardware leasing business. A recent article in Logistics Viewpoints noted that UPS estimated that post-holiday returns were up 23% in 2020.

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GoShip Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This article discusses how small businesses can protect themselves against fraudulent returns without pushing away honest customers. of retail sales in the US were returned in 2021, and up to 10% of these returns were fraudulent. Examples include Shopify POS, SEON, Accertify, and Fraud Filter. The Rising Risks of Return Fraud.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Perhaps you’ve read a little about the digital twin concept in one of our past articles on supply chain technology, but we would have touched on it only briefly. For example, home improvement retail giant Lowe’s has begun testing Nvidia’s digital twin solution, Omniverse, in two US stores belonging to the chain.

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Ship Monk

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In this article, aptly prepare for the most important time of year in the direct-to-consumer (DTC) market by learning about the problems at your door, and more importantly their solutions. For example, the AMRs (Automated Mobile Robots) ShipMonk utilizes reduce the need for some of the work common to manual warehouse labor.

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FreightWaves SONAR

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

For example, ULSDR.CHI shows the average wholesale price of diesel in the Chicago market while ULSDR.USA shows the average wholesale price of diesel nationally. For example, the Atlanta market is supplied with diesel by Colonial Pipeline, which runs from the Houston area to the New York region. SONAR Tickers : ULSDR.USA , ULSDR.CHI.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 25, 2022

As part of our ongoing commitment to keep our blog readers updated on what’s happening in the supply chain and logistics world, we’re launching a regular industry news roundup, which we’ll release periodically. From Fuel to Fertiliser, Supply Shortages Start to Bite. In 2015, it stood at around $5.40.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A year before, in 2014, a Harvard Business Review article pointed out that supply chains were becoming increasingly global and complex and consequently more at risk than before. In 2021 we find governments and organizations now grappling with these predictions and how best to deal with the outcomes of these predictions.

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Ship Monk

MAY 12, 2023

That’s the topic of today’s blog post. For example, UPS assesses “Extended Area” and “Remote Area” surcharges “to more accurately reflect the cost of providing service to these areas.” As another example, FedEx assesses an $89 surcharge for delivering to a business on Chicago’s Navy Pier. in Q2 2021 to 17.3%

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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Booking a freight shipment in 2021 is perhaps tougher than it’s ever been, thanks to disruptions like pandemic closures, port congestion, trucking capacity shortages, and fallout from the Suez Canal blockage. Data sharing among carriers and shippers has been going on a long time—for example, when you tender freight or provide shipment status.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 14, 2021

For example, Kickstarter kicks butt with tabletop games — click around their website and you’ll likely run into an abundance of creative and innovative projects. As of March 2021, Kickstarter brought in 26.91M visitors, while Indiegogo got less than half as many hits with 10.17M visitors. . #7. Why not sign up for our blog newsletter

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Freightera

MAY 9, 2022

In this article, we’ll take a deeper dive into the main differences and what trains, in the day when electric cars are all the buzz (pardon the pun), have to offer. If you need an example, just think of trying to stop an NFL quarterback compared to stopping a toddler on a bike, or even one without a bike. . So let’s dive right in.

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247 Customs Broker

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Sheffi describes in his blog post, How to Prepare for a Brexit-Style Disruption , there are a number of risk mitigation measures companies can put in place to prepare for this type of crisis. A recent article in The Economist provides a no-nonsense account of this pitfall. This would be chiefly due to the predicted 3.9

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Trans Global Auto Logistics

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Today in the Trans Global Auto Logistics Blog, we are looking at Brexit, shipping to Europe and the UK, impacts on the shipping industry, and how all of this affects you. And we have seen the UK largely choose to continue to abide by, for example, existing EU environmental and safety regulations pertaining to international shipments.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 11, 2023

For example, if your ecommerce business processed 5,000 orders last month for a total of $300,000, the average order value for the month was $60. Sometimes the vendor can give projections of when the item will be back in stock and shipped, for example: “Won’t Ship Until July,” “Won’t Ship for 10 Business Days,” etc.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 18, 2022

I started The Logistics of Logistics as a blog. I moved to the US in December 2021 right in Chicago. The next thing we know, there was an article we read in the newspaper which says, “Three guys trying to solve the problems of common men and women.” China is the other example. I will give you an example.

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