Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This was certainly another strange year, but the in-person conferences I usually look forward to were a mixed bag this year. I attended my first in-person conferences and attended a number of virtual ones as well. If that trend continues as forecast, it would follow months of tight capacity and high rates in many transportation modes.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 30, 2015

After all, while the ruling is idealistic in protecting drivers and passersby, there lacks a structure for determining how these coercions are conducted, nor how they will be remedied. A Class C CDL is typically for a bus driver, such as a school bus or public transportation system.

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Material Handling and Logistics

APRIL 12, 2018

Just months after tightening them, Walmart Inc. grapple with a transportation shortage and new driving regulations that have sent shipping costs spiraling. This capacity crunch is real and it’s getting tighter,” said Colby Beland, vice president of sales and marketing at logistics provider CaseStack. and Hershey Co.

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10xLogistics

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Here are some things I have reflected on and believe for 2022: Disruption is not Going Away: Short of a major economic turndown, the container issues, ship issues, port issues, driver and transportation issues all will continue through 2022 and into 2023.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

David Priestman attended Dexory ’s Supply Chain Fast Track conference. We’re not back to just-in-time yet, after the pandemic. He also praised Athingz – an autonomous supply chain service utilising machine learning to aid sales inventory optimisation, planning and execution. We’re still at just-in-case for supply. Machine help?

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Talking Logistics

MAY 12, 2017

Oracle Optimizes Global Transportation and Trade Compliance Processes. Setback for Uber as European court advised to treat it as transport firm (Reuters). March 2017 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). That was my main question after our initial meeting. Manhattan Associates Debuts Manhattan Active™ Solutions.

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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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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Today, at its 2023 European Exchange customer conference, Manhattan Associates Inc. In terms of how consumers prefer to engage with retailers before and after buying a product, overall, email (47%) remains the preferred engagement channel, followed by direct in-person contact with the store team (43%).

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Michael Brandl, Executive VP EMEA for Koerber Supply Chain, told the conference that the company’s objective is to become the global supply chain management (SCM) leader. We are not a house of brands,” Anton Du Preez, EVP Sales EMEA stated. We help move boxes, so planning and transport are key areas of interest to us,” Du Preez said.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2023

He succeeds INFORM North America founder and Chairman, Adrian Weiler, who will continue in his role as ongoing advisor to the CEOs across all INFORM Group entities, as well as serving as a representative of the organization in leading industry associations and conferences. and Genuine Parts Company (NAPA).

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2023

Target Chief Operating Officer John Mulligan said on an earnings conference call Wednesday that the overstocking that weighed on the company last year was “in the rearview mirror” and that the retailer was turning toward getting fresh merchandise into stores for the fall. Inventories at U.S. general merchandise stores expanded 1.2

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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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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 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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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

There are some 3PLs who perform niche tasks, like Cerasis does with transportation management for over the road modes like LTL, Truckload, and small package. Then there are other types of 3PLs, like service supply chain solutions from our friends at Flash Global who serve the high technology sector for after sales service.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Sonthalia presented an update to the report during the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals' virtual conference this week. e-commerce sales increased by almost 15% to $600 billion. In 2019, transportation costs grew by 2.5 "It is going to be a hard road ahead and resilience will be tested over and over again.".

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 8, 2016

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. TMS= Transportation Management System. Transportation: GPS, driver management, hour/time management.

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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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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. OEMs look ahead.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

One of the things I learned from our research was that handling returns is still an after-thought at many organizations, but one that is quickly coming to the fore as companies expand their e-commerce operations and deal with more returns than ever. Dubbed the “Cornerstone of the Circular Economy, today was Day One.

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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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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 1, 2016

They want to know when a package is on its way, have the ability to track the movement of the driver on a real-time map through their mobile phones, as well as the capacity to rate their experience after. He was the Founder & CEO of MobileMax, leading the company from concept to multimillion-dollar international sales and IPO.

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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. New technology, new collaborations.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 29, 2019

Marcus Williams reports from the Automotive Logistics Global Shanghai conference. Sales, meanwhile, were at 28m units, reflecting a 2.8% China has maintained an annual rate of sales around 30m but the forecast is for lower annual sales in the coming years, a consequence of such a sustained period of high output.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 29, 2019

Marcus Williams reports from the Automotive Logistics Global Shanghai conference. Sales, meanwhile, were at 28m units, reflecting a 2.8% China has maintained an annual rate of sales around 30m but the forecast is for lower annual sales in the coming years, a consequence of such a sustained period of high output.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2018

With a relatively small number of specialist carriers providing ships, barges, trains and road transporters, and serving a relatively small number of vehicle manufacturers, this sector has proven infertile ground for the likes of 3PLs that offer bundled services across a mix of transport and storage assets that they often don’t own.

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Tradewinds

AUGUST 24, 2019

His father, Larry, was the Vice President of Inbound Transportation at 3M. In essence, he created a “TMS shopping marketplace for after-bid carriers to incorporate into their marketplace. “We In the post-sale period?—?after Grassroots Justin was, essentially, born into the supply chain industry. This is a people game.”

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Tradewinds

AUGUST 24, 2019

His father, Larry, was the Vice President of Inbound Transportation at 3M. In essence, he created a “TMS shopping marketplace for after-bid carriers to incorporate into their marketplace. “We In the post-sale period?—?after Grassroots Justin was, essentially, born into the supply chain industry. This is a people game.”

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 5, 2024

After a period of quiescence, Panasonic agreed to aggressively invest in the business. Work is ongoing to open a third channel that will allow larger vessels to pass through the bottleneck, officials announced at a news conference Tuesday afternoon. percent of total online sales. percent of total in-store sales.

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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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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 30, 2022

As a leading supply chain innovator and consultant with more than 20 years in the industry, Lisa is also a sought-after logistics conference speaker and a renowned author who has appeared in media outlets like the Wall Street Journal, ABC News, and CEO Magazine. . Brian Laung Aoaeh. Twitter: @brianlaungaoaeh. Alan Beattie.

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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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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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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2023

At the same time, the Celtics finished with the second-best record in the Eastern Conference. The collapse of a section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia will cause “major disruption” in the region just as the summer travel season begins, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said.

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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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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. Speaking in Detroit in June 2017, Jack Ma encouraged US sellers to increase their sales abroad.

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