FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 30, 2023

Tender acceptance can range from 98% to just 75% over the course of a freight cycle, causing disruptions to supply chains that result in charge-backs, stockouts and lost sales. How bad is the problem for shippers? Index-Linked Contracts allow shippers and transportation providers to peg their contracted rates to a market benchmark.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Because it’s so immediate, SMS should be used sparingly, for time-sensitive information, such as prompts to revisit an abandoned cart, or notifications of a sale starting or ending. Of course, what you say is just as important as how you say it. Like email, if abused, customers quickly learn to say STOP. How Often This is tricky.

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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. Normally, logistics deal with events that bring the product towards the customer. Of course, customers may opt to complete a return in-person.

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Forto

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Major calendar events are – quite literally – casting their shadows ahead for the supply chain: Golden Week in China, Black Friday and Cyber Monday on November 26 and 29, and of course Christmas holidays and also Chinese New Year are already just a few logistics steps away. But what exactly do these seasonal events entail?

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Koerber Supply Chain’s ‘Elevate’ event in Prague was an opportunity to discover how software and technology address the unprecedented complexity in logistics. We are not a house of brands,” Anton Du Preez, EVP Sales EMEA stated. This provides visibility, for example if there’s a blockage we stop the next process.”

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The answer depends, of course, on your company’s objectives and, particularly, on your customer service promises. Instead, after deliveries arrive at the receiving dock, staff break the contents down for put-away. As you can deduce from Amazon’s example, there is no standard for an optimal warehouse layout.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Edward Napier-Fenning, Sales & Marketing Director of leading supply chain software company Balloon , explores five key areas that can boost performance – including route planning, picking, labour management reporting and data entry. A minor example is some work we recently did for Birlea.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As the supply chain continues to grow in complexity and regulation, the opportunities for problems and other events to impact operations negatively will consequently grow. For example, one risk could be a sudden increase in demand for a product. However, this does not necessarily imply that something bad happened. Focus on Resilience.

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Stord

JANUARY 11, 2022

For example, the price of 42# linerboard has gone up 35% in the last 12 months, over the course of 4-5 price increases. And one particular issue has been the inability to effectively use and compare against FY20 data (with COVID considered a “ black swan ” event). This is a huge headwind hindering margin improvements for brands.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

The answer is to benchmark your freight, of course. Improved ability to predict and manage trends: After you’ve spent a while working with freight benchmarks, you’ll get a feel for the directions of seasonal rate fluctuations and other pricing trends. So how can you be sure you’re getting the best freight rates possible?

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 9, 2017

Surcharges have become commonplace in shipping after rising costs, notably the sudden spike in gas prices over recent years. For example, a carrier’s fuel surcharge may vary from week to the next. For example, if a package exceeds a given volume, assuming it is a low-weight package, it may be subject to additional surcharges to ship.

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Forto

MARCH 17, 2020

After all, it is also about the customer’s business, which comes under pressure if its partners don’t present options for action. . In this way, we ensure that our contact persons are available for our customers and partners at the usual times, and especially in the event of a quarantine. .

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 10, 2018

This means for example, that marketing-campaign planning involves manufacturing and procurement functions, to ensure preparedness for an uptick in product demand. The desire to avoid data falling into the wrong hands is, of course, understandable, but digital security measures are improving all the time.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 13, 2015

There are, of course, tactical metrics for accounting functions like viewing open and paid invoices or the ability to identify when shipments are due, but also must include strategic metrics and reports for more in-depth analysis. Identify factors that impact your freight shipping costs.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 27, 2015

Since third-party logistics providers (3PLs), especially those involved in order fulfillment and shipping processes, have a duty to ensure accuracy and delivery of merchandise, the NMTA®’s decision to reduce the reporting time frame will greatly impact the course of business. Full Concealed Freight Damage Legalese Below. (b)

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

It includes all of its elements: customers, sales channels, products, warehouses, logistics network, and the interactions between them. Maintaining all past and future promotional events in a database. Maintaining outlier events that have influenced demand patterns or supply availability . Modeling the impact of weather events.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 11, 2021

While the pandemic has helped ecommerce companies increase sales immeasurably, it has, at the same time, disrupted the global supply chains that so many retailers rely on and, by accelerating ecommerce sales growth so quickly, placed immense pressure on distribution networks. Where to Access the Knowledge You Need.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Because of service disruptions – not being able to buy toilet paper, for example – the supply chain has been more discussed than ever before. These extreme error events “are the supply chain equivalent of the highway washout or bridge closure.” During the pandemic, extreme error events rose to 38%.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In the course of updating our annual research on the supply chain planning market , I talked to executives across the industry. Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes. The processing units in an oil refinery, for example, operate at high temperature and high pressure.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 8, 2018

If you’re making a change, there are a few important points you’ll need to consider first, so you don’t end up in the same situation again soon after. No company should ever plan for these to happen, of course, but it’s better to be prepared than try to navigate it all mid-crisis should a problem occur.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Slotting a warehouse product is the same, for example, as placing your umbrella close to your front door at home, so it’s easy to pick it up and run when it’s raining, and you’re late for work. Those calculations, of course, will necessitate using some digital software. Or a similarly sized reduction in warehouse labour costs ?

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2019

After all, the last few years have been full of talk about integrating supply chains from end-to-end. However, I think we may soon stop talking about supply chains as end-to-end sequences of events, because, in many cases, the two ends appear to be joining up. Happily, though, that’s not something you can expect to change in 2020.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 8, 2015

It’s a story we have all heard: nature is a repetitive circle of events. Throughout the course of business, there will be a series of recurring updates for equipment, software, and materials. For example, a returned product may only require rewrapping of exterior for sale to a secondary consumer. Cost Management.

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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. For example, there are over 100,000 companies that sell over $100,000 worth of goods annually.

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WorkWave

JULY 31, 2019

For example, if you post an ad for lead generation without investing any time into guiding your target audience through a social sales funnel, you will fail to reach your goals. Put this code on every single page of your website and add a lead event tracking code to all of your thank you pages, as well as any other relevant events.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the first big mistake I want to address in this article, after which I’ll share information about ten other freight management mistakes we commonly see at Logistics Bureau while working with clients on supply chain improvement. 1: The Mistake of Minimalist Freight Management So, what about this minimalist management issue?

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As a disclaimer, WebCargo , a Freightos Group company, does offers digital services to global forwarders and carriers, including online sales portals, digital eBooking, multimodal rate management and the Freightos.com freight marketplace. . After a rough 2015, the first half of 2016 was no different. Driving the Maersk Shift.

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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Jung continues: “Some destinations, for example Koper in Slovenia, are only accessible via one rail track, which makes the route highly dependent on the condition and utilisation of this track.”. Of course, Jung is not the only one battling such difficulties. He adds that delays and disruptions to services are another problem.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

Gilmore Says… In a great example of the balance in this book, Sheffi notes the actual evidence of consumer preference for Green products is tenuous at best. In fact, after reading Sheffi’s examples, I’m surprised more companies haven’t been forced to be zealous advocates.

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10xLogistics

AUGUST 17, 2013

The graph to the right outlines the anemic changes in retail sales and it shows a very variable and anemic growth for retail sales. The other big event was the move in the 10 year note. The 10 yr T-Note of course is what a lot of mortgages are tied to which drives the housing market.

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Automotive Logistics

JUNE 19, 2018

He pointed to the Gateway Project in London, which deployed driverless pod shuttles for moving people around Greenwich, and the first deployment of self-driving vehicles in Singapore as examples where innovation had flourished. That included repercussions for parts engineers and the service sector, as well as sales.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 19, 2018

Hot “gobs” of molten glass every couple of seconds come down chutes attached to giant ovens and settle into molds, after which a plunger type device pushes into the mold to form the shape of the finished glass piece. Of course we all need to up our game. What do you say?

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 13, 2018

In June, the OEM outlined a new strategy that includes ambitious targets for electric cars and autonomous vehicles, as well as a rapid rise in the volumes delivered through subscription contracts rather than sales. Of course, Volvo is not alone in these kinds of ambitions. Volvo aims to have 5m direct subscribers by the mid-2020s. .

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 8, 2019

Bitcoin as an Example of Blockchain. The brief description of blockchain above may seem a bit abstract, so let’s look closer at the real-life example of Bitcoin. However, it also happens to be the most well-known example. It is also just one particular example. Bitcoin is just one way of using blockchain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Sales departments frequently fight these reductions, but the inflation environment gives supply chain executives extra ammunition to power forward with these initiatives. China, of course, is likely to react to these measures in ways that may be hard to predict. Honda’s actions provide one example of this.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

One example is the port of Los Angeles, which has worked with GE Transportation and last year introduced a cloud-based port optimiser that provides real-time information on cargo through a single portal that is made available to all the partners involved in the processing of it. Drivers go big. Trade wars.

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