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Digital Control Tower Manages Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

NOKERA, a German green-tech firm for serial production using timber, has placed an order with 4PL Central Station AG (4PLCS) to centrally manage its road transport logistics operations. These include, for example, tender procedures for transport services, checks on freight costs and damage management.

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What is a 3PL? How Third-Party Logistics Providers Benefit eCommerce Brands

Ship Monk

3PL vs. 1PL, 2PL, 4PL, and 5PL. In this case, you—the eCommerce brand owner—use your own employees and methods of transportation to pick, pack, and deliver your customers their orders. All your logistics and order fulfillment assets are in-house (warehouse space, transportation, order fillers, delivery drivers, etc.)

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Opel tasks Gefco with further cost reduction

Automotive Logistics

Opel/Vauxhall has renewed its fourth-party logistics (4PL) contract with Gefco for a further four years, starting in January, tasking it with finding further cost reduction measures and intensifying its optimisation and network engineering activities. Dynamic transport plan. The OEM is planning similar moves elsewhere.

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3PL vs. 4PL: What’s the Difference?

CLX Logistics

3PL vs. 4PL: What’s the Difference? One of the primary considerations in selecting the right provider will be whether they’re a third-party logistics (3PL) provider or a fourth-party (4PL) logistics provider. A 4PL has a much broader reach, overseeing these individual networks and managing the entire logistics operation.

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Stepping up the pace

Automotive Logistics

Then, when Opel/Vauxhall renewed its contract for fourth-party logistics (4PL) services with Gefco in October 2018 for a further four years, Gefco was tasked with finding further cost reductions and intensifying its optimisation and network engineering activities. When Groupe PSA bought Opel/Vauxhall from GM in 2017 for €2.2 billion ($2.33

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Cooperative Logistics Network Surpasses 300 Members

Logistics Business Magazine

FreightViewer – a member-exclusive transport management software – enables the members to instantly create professional and accurate door-to-door quotations by establishing an automated data transfer of carrier rates and tariffs.

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CEVA Logistics launches FORPATIENTS healthcare sub-brand

Logistics Business Magazine

Information will flow into the company’s award-winning Matrix supply chain management tool, as well as its global control tower technology for 24/7 shipment monitoring. The company also provides insight on the sustainability and carbon impact of various routing, packaging and mode of transport choices.