FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 7, 2023

Of course, truckload rates aren’t priced according to national averages — details like the origin and destination, time of year, time of week, weight, and unloading procedures all factor in how freight gets priced.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

The answer is to benchmark your freight, of course. However, while it sounds simple in theory, it’s not so straightforward in practice, primarily because it can be challenging to access reliable freight rate information. So how can you be sure you’re getting the best freight rates possible?

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 7, 2023

Standardise and Digitise The key to managing complexity, of course, is to be organised. You can then use that calculation as the basis of a handling charge for customers to be deducted from their return credit or factored into any cost-to-serve analysis you might perform to determine customer profitability.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 15, 2019

Unexpected events may occur, such as a breakdown in the fleet, a sudden peak in demand, or a change in product profile. Of course, you may just need an extra truck or two to boost supply chain performance for a short period, just to clear a backlog or to respond to a specific customer order. Safety, reliability and performance.

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WorkWave

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The WorkWave team is growing, so it’s only appropriate that the 2022 Beyond Service User Conference be our biggest and best event ever! Of course, we wouldn’t be able to make this next-level event a reality without the help of our incredible sponsors, who include some of the leading names across field service. Green Group.

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Logistics in War

JULY 8, 2023

Supply chain resilience is, of course, a part of this narrative – as we are reminder every time we hear about guided-weapons or military fuels. A military with reliable access to what it needs can respond quicker to a broader range of events and sustain its operations for much longer.

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Logistics in War

AUGUST 18, 2019

Of course additional funding and attention can improve the capability and capacity of any military force to sustain itself in peace and on operations. Part Two offered examples where militaries get it right, and a number of examples where events did not transpire as well as they might.

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FLS Transport

AUGUST 20, 2020

No one in their right mind could have accurately predicted that a global pandemic would be the black swan event to disrupt the freight market in 2020. Of course, the boost in consumer spending hasn’t been distributed evenly across industries… but it has been in favor of the industries that require freight.

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Logistics in War

MARCH 6, 2020

Of course additional funding and attention can improve the capability and capacity of any military force to sustain itself in peace and on operations. Part Two offered examples where militaries get it right, and a number of examples where events did not transpire as well as they might.

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Freightos

APRIL 17, 2016

Increased customer expectations, with reliability and cost topping the list of demands. See Freightos’ CEO Zvi Schreiber TechCrunch analysis here. ACSL, a Japanese-based industrial drone and robotic company, in which Rakuten has a 20% stake, is now commencing drone testing on a golf course, testing drink and snack delivery to golfers.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Predictive Analytics in the area of Equipment Reliability has been a subject of key focus within Enterprise Asset Management(EAM) practice at Infosys. At some moment in time an important event occurs due to an unknown reason - the system noticeably changes its behavior in some way (e.g., breaks or stops functioning).

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 27, 2015

Predictive Analytics in the area of Equipment Reliability has been a key focus area within Enterprise Asset Management(EAM) practice in Infosys. At some moment in time an important event occurs due to an unknown reason - the system noticeably changes its behavior in some way (e.g., One of the students is doing a course in statistics.

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3PL Links

JULY 7, 2023

The Role of Data Analytics in Supply Chain Management | Image source: Pixabay This article describes the transformation that data analysis and the supply chain are fostering and how it will impact business intelligence. Intelligence-driven businesses are interested in supply chain management and data analysis.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Maintaining all past and future promotional events in a database. Maintaining outlier events that have influenced demand patterns or supply availability . Once you have the core data and assess the quality and reliability, you can start adding the intelligence layer. Modeling the impact of weather events.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Predictive Analytics in the area of Equipment Reliability has been a subject of key focus within Enterprise Asset Management(EAM) practice at Infosys. At some moment in time an important event occurs due to an unknown reason - the system noticeably changes its behavior in some way (e.g., breaks or stops functioning).

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Accurate data forecasting requires accurate data, robust data analysis tools, and people who understand how to use them. If you’re collecting qualitative data, make sure you’re using proper research methodology to ensure the reliability of the data you’re collecting. Well, you can do as much or as little as you like!

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Shipping industry stakeholders have faced many of these events, and they have changed the shipping industry irrevocably, for good. One event after another pushed the overall supply chain to its limits. Reliability was extraordinarily dependable, but it has decreased to 9.9% after dropping for four consecutive months.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 3, 2016

Turning on your business know-how is important too, because you need careful analysis and critical thinking to make the best of existing opportunities. We asked David from LoadTraning how much time one would have to set aside to pass a freight broker course as well as some hands-on training. This makes the task hard but not impossible!

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 8, 2023

By neglecting or underestimating the need for meaningful analysis, they typically fail to attain anything like the value they might receive with effective carrier management. You must evaluate the option in detail to know if it presents more pros than cons or vice versa.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Accident causation analysis, or what’s also called root cause analysis, takes complex human psychological factors into account. Human-caused events like fire, gas explosions and even terrorist events are examples of emergencies. Natural events like earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and tornadoes might also be threats.

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Dedola Global Logistics

JULY 26, 2019

It was a great event. So from your website, and I went into your about, because of course that’s where the keeper of all information about all companies nowadays is, but I’ll give you what I pulled it as being kind of like, let’s say the core idea of what FreightWaves is. Stephen Dedola: .

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