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Cracking the Code for AI in the DC

Logistics Viewpoints

There’s a new reason to optimize DC operations, and it’s bigger than the old reasons of productivity and efficiency gains. On top of the insatiable desire for everyone to buy online fueling ecommerce growth in DCs, the high cost and scarcity of warehouse labor is crushing to many DC operators. AI holds the promise for big gains.

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Real-Time Visibility: The Customer Has Spoken

Logistics Viewpoints

I am continuing to work on my latest Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems study, which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2026, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, customer size, and mode.

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Navigating the Persistent Truck Driver Shortage

Now, That's Logistics

by the year 2026 in a development that subsequently will influence rates,” Bulk Transporter reports. One recent study revealed that nearly 25% of the current commercial driving workforce will become eligible for retirement in the next 10 years, and that 57% of the current drivers are over 45 years of age, according to Transport Dive.

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Collaborative Logistics’ Role in the Emergence of the Physical Internet

Material Handling and Logistics

Key infrastructure such as “fully operating open logistics networks,” however, won’t be fully functional until at least the 2040s. Take Malcom McLean and Keith Tantlinger, the American inventors of the intermodal container, for example. Take the path of a file being sent over the Internet, for example.

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The Future Is Now for Logistics

Material Handling and Logistics

Management of the other railroads are looking over their shoulders at CSX, which has delighted Wall Street by lowering its operating ratio at the expense of service cutbacks, closed rail yards and the shedding of thousands of employees. If things don't change, and we continue up this progression, by 2026, we will be at 170,000 drivers short.