Freightos

JULY 11, 2017

One of the first rules forwarders drill into their sales teams is that it’s all about key accounts. But as markets shift, technology shifts and, most importantly, margins shrink , forwarders are starting to revisit this core tenet of sales. For example, there are over 100,000 companies that sell over $100,000 worth of goods annually.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

“Not everything possible always makes sense,” states Frank Müller, Senior Vice President Brand Management, during this year’s STILL press conference, held this week at its manufacturing HQ in Hamburg. Key areas here are automation, alternative energies, circularity and service. Modern drive technologies in the portfolio.

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Forto

MARCH 17, 2020

In the world of logistics, small and medium-sized logistics companies in particular have already been feeling the effects of the crisis for several weeks: the high production and transport downtime and level of illness in China has led to delays in the worldwide supply chain. every morning, including for all our sites worldwide.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

However, this year, it will be tough to anticipate availability before, during, and after the holiday, because of the unforeseeable levels of COVID infection , especially given that port workers in China, too, would not be immune from any post-holiday spread of the virus. Hunt Transport Services Inc.’s and RDI Last Mile Co.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 14, 2018

Sales of finished vehicles in Russia rose 11.9% Russia’s long-awaited recovery began in March and gained momentum throughout the year, peaking in December with monthly sales of 166,000 finished vehicles – up 14% on the same month the previous year. . It suggests that growth in vehicle sales could fall to just 6.5%

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Freightos

OCTOBER 18, 2017

And, as if choreographed, speakers from startups, carriers, and forwarders brought up example after another of where the forces of change are finally breaking through. Full disclosure: This article contains many great quotes from the conference’s speakers. Delta Cargo and Panalpina who have introduced digital cargo sales.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In the fashion and fast-moving consumer goods sectors alone, these are more than 100 brands, including, for example, Marc O’Polo, Jack Wolfskin, KiK and Wenko. After years of continuous growth, briefly interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, experts are forecasting a recession. Demand fluctuations force action. foreign workers.

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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. This conference convened to discuss supply chain resilience at a time of strategic competition. By David Beaumont. Part one can be found here. Supply chains move and flex where demand exists.

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247 Customs Broker

AUGUST 19, 2018

It’s that time when transportation professionals begin preparing their freight budgets for the upcoming year. It’s a question that should concern every transportation and logistics professional living with a blown budget. Even the greatest and most committed transportation professionals need this support.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 8, 2016

An Example of Matching Systems with People for Sustained Manufacturing Operations Excellence. After the period is over, the Master Production Scheduler sees if the MPS was completed as planned. Part of the Business Plan was Sales and Operations Planning (S and OP) or SIOP adding Inventory Management. YMS=Yard Management System.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 27, 2015

Expanded use of dimensional weight pricing in ground package shipping will push more less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers to test or offer dimensional pricing as an option to shippers, according to speakers at the SMC3 Connections 2014 conference last June 23-25, 2014. After all, it will look like you are paying extra for non-existent weight.

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Automotive Logistics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

After much uncertainty around trade talks between Mexico and the US and the former’s presidential election, Mexico’s economic and political conditions now seem clearer, leaving OEMs and LSPs in the country more optimistic about the future. According to VW’s Minutti, for example, Volkswagen is strengthening its “model offensive” in the area.

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Automotive Logistics

JUNE 27, 2018

The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has joined major manufacturers in calling for the British government to end uncertainty over the UK’s trading relationship with the European Union after Brexit, and to ensure the frictionless flow of parts and vehicles. up to June 21 this year.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 30, 2018

This year’s Supply Chain Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, was held alongside the inaugural automotiveIT International conference last week in an effort to promote the kind of communication and cross-fertilisation of ideas that could help to solve these issues. “We Speeding up response times. Turning to academia.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

And we also communicate with our business partners or colleagues within the Clark organisation via video conference. The project work of our teams is done via digital whiteboards and we use virtual presentation platforms for training our sales partners. However, it does not completely replace face-to-face events in the long run.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

Sales of cars and light commercials fell 35% last year, from almost 1m units the year before, and the bad news has accelerated into 2019 with the market down a massive 59% in January, according to the Automotive Distributors’ Association (ODD). Another incentive with a broader scope might have better results,” Eker Guven says.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 18, 2022

It’s about what else can you do with it after the fact? After that, I decided that it was good to go after my MBA and I did that there. They opened a Philippines office and after a while, they started getting good at the technology that we are all using. It is about what else can you do with it after the fact?

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Automotive Logistics

MARCH 20, 2018

The finished vehicle logistics sector needs to find better ways to communicate and collaborate to meet the challenges of an uncertain future, delegates at this year’s Finished Vehicle Logistics North America conference in California were told in March. But throw any transport mode a huge spike and they will have trouble dealing with it.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I was wrong, for example, about obstructive sleep apnea becoming the new debate in trucking; the debate ended before it really started after the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and Federal Railroad Administration withdrew their proposed rule to have rail workers and commercial motor vehicle drivers tested for obstructive sleep apnea.

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Automotive Logistics

JUNE 19, 2018

That marriage of technology and talent was one of the central points of discussion at this year’s Automotive Logistics Europe conference, held in Bonn, Germany, last week. The Transport Control Centre has now eliminated supply chain fragmentation in the OEM’s network and provided high levels of visibility. “We

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Automotive Logistics

MARCH 20, 2018

The finished vehicle logistics sector needs to find better ways to communicate and collaborate to meet the challenges of an uncertain future, delegates at this year’s Finished Vehicle Logistics North America conference in California were told in March. But throw any transport mode a huge spike and they will have trouble dealing with it.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 3, 2019

In the nearer term, PwC estimates that more than 76,000 drones will to take to the skies in the UK over the next 12 years, with as many as 11,000 deployed in the transport and logistics sector. PwC suggests that the growing adoption of drone technology across the transport and logistics sector could drive a GDP boost of £1.2

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 2, 2019

Just over a year ago, Robert Farrell of the American Trucking Associations (ATA) was celebrating the inclusion of three key automotive transport initiatives in a US government spending bill signed into law in March 2018. Farrell and the ACC also lobbied successfully to allow adaptable trailers to operate in the US market.

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Tradewinds

AUGUST 24, 2019

His father, Larry, was the Vice President of Inbound Transportation at 3M. For example, we had a heavy haul organization that we had started, we were trying to branch out into different modes. In essence, he created a “TMS shopping marketplace for after-bid carriers to incorporate into their marketplace. “We

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Tradewinds

AUGUST 24, 2019

His father, Larry, was the Vice President of Inbound Transportation at 3M. For example, we had a heavy haul organization that we had started, we were trying to branch out into different modes. In essence, he created a “TMS shopping marketplace for after-bid carriers to incorporate into their marketplace. “We

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Shippers and third-party logistics providers are continuing to collaborate as they find solutions to meet their supply chain goals, improve efficiency, and manage their overall transportation spend. Joe Carlier, Penske senior vice president of global sales, was a panelist for both the State of Logistics Report panels and the 3PL Study.

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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

It has created a wireless product for tracking inventory on car dealers’ sites, but earlier this year spotted even bigger opportunities in finished vehicle logistics. “We were invited to a logistics conference,” recalls Mark Sargeant, vice-president of business development at AutoMap. We record whenever a car starts,” Sargeant notes. “So

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Automotive Logistics

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Europe’s finished vehicle sector faces several big challenges in coming months, as speakers at the recent ECG conference in Germany made clear. At last week’s annual conference of the Association of European Vehicle Logistics (ECG), held in Mainz, Germany, speakers discussed what they were doing to tackle these problems.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 10, 2018

Earlier this month, LM Group News Editor Jeff Berman caught up with Greg Gantt president and CEO of national less-than-truckload carrier Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL) at the National Shippers Strategic Transportation Council (NASSTRAC) conference in Orlando, Fla. A transcript of their conversation is below. . Contact Jeff Berman.

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Automotive Logistics

OCTOBER 4, 2018

It is expected that the new deal, lasting for 16 years at a time and to be reviewed after six years, will be signed by the three countries next month before being put forward to Congress for ratification. On top of that, Canada gets an exemption from tariffs on up to $32.4 ” – Bob Corker, US senator.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Shippers and third-party logistics providers are continuing to collaborate as they find solutions to meet their supply chain goals, improve efficiency, and manage their overall transportation spend. Joe Carlier, Penske senior vice president of global sales, was a panelist for both the State of Logistics Report panels and the 3PL Study.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

Despite the shortfall in federal funding that Nagle pointed to, Claussen listed a number of grants and credit programmes that are available to the ports, including the surface transportation funding programme that is part of the US Department of Transport’s INFRA grant programme and makes $4.5 Drivers go big.

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Blog on Log

AUGUST 5, 2006

During the conference, numerous times, the statement was made that retailers should not put all of their eggs in one basket when it comes to sourcing in China. Car sales, particularly luxury models, have collapsed. After World War II, "Japan Inc.," statement was about the great state of West "by God" Virginia.

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