Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

To actually realize the promise of end-to-end visibility and control over our incredibly complex supply chain networks, we need really big picture thinking — particularly when it comes to the supply chain data networks that serve as the foundation for true digital transformation. Supply chain networks: A big-picture view.

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MTS Logistics

APRIL 26, 2023

importers who need to navigate a vast network of suppliers and transportation providers. However, importers can significantly enhance their supply chain’s efficiency and reduce costs, while also improving customer satisfaction and increasing profitability by implementing several essential strategies.

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Log-hub

MARCH 1, 2023

The mistakes that can pull your supply chain far away from the progress are bad cost management strategy, lack of optimized business processes, neglecting data and KPI’s, poor customer service and no future planning. One of them is a bad cost management strategy. But how to get rid of them? Keep your long-term growth plan ready.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2023

Mosca is making its corporate commitment transparent and offering an overview of future goals with its first in-depth sustainability strategy report. It also includes a comprehensive materiality analysis and a detailed description of resource consumption along with numerous starting points/targets for new and ongoing sustainability projects.

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Blue Grace Logistics

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Although supply chains are starting to normalize and rebound, COVID-19 exposed a lot of weaknesses and led shippers to gain a better understanding of the importance of data portfolios, which is the primary purpose of outsourced logistics solutions. Visibility and data remain top-value propositions that outsourced logistics entities solve for.

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Penske Move Ahead

JANUARY 28, 2021

Putting the right distribution network in place is critical for performance, especially as complexity and uncertainty increase. Supply chain network design — the process of determining a supply chain's physical configuration and infrastructure — is a powerful, strategic tool that executives can use to optimize a supply chain's functionality.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 29, 2020

She has led programs ranging from acquisitions to technology deployment with a strong focus on lean manufacturing and data management. CarrierDirect builds organizations and relationships, providing strategy and technology designed to maximize efficiency, reduce cost, and make your business stand out. About CarrierDirect.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MAY 30, 2023

A predictive analysis of shippers confidence for the upcoming quarter correlating growth or shrinkage to overall volume of shipments and price of products. The LCI supports improved performance through logistics and transportation operations, strategy, and execution.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Lauren is a seasoned maritime attorney and the founder of Squall Strategies , a boutique maritime consulting and legal solutions company and offers a wide range of consulting services to serve a variety of businesses and clients. Beagen is a seasoned maritime attorney and the founder of Squall Strategies, LLC. About Squall Strategies.

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Blue Grace Logistics

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

A predictive analysis of shippers confidence for the upcoming quarter correlating growth or shrinkage to overall volume of shipments and price of products. The LCI supports improved performance through logistics and transportation operations, strategy, and execution.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is a challenge for many shippers and carriers to know where they should put their focus and where the data directs them to go. According to FleetOwner , “ trucking companies must go where the data leads them, not where they think it is going to lead them. Why outdated data hurts carriers in the short- and long-term.

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Blue Grace Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A predictive analysis of shippers confidence for the upcoming quarter correlating growth or shrinkage to overall volume of shipments and price of products. The LCI supports improved performance through logistics and transportation operations, strategy, and execution. Predictive Analytics & Prescriptive Strategies.

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CLX Logistics

JULY 26, 2021

Let’s look at the facts – the percentage of supply chain managers using new analytics tools and services to develop better bidding strategies has increased from 17% in 2017 to more than 30% in 2020. Soon, it’ll almost be a guarantee that if you’re not leveraging modern data analytics properly, you’re losing money or leaving it on the table.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Suppliers are facing increasing pressure from the buyers of their goods and services to report their environmental, social, and governance data. Increasingly, EcoVadis is becoming known as the go to organization to help corporations accelerate this journey to collect upstream supplier environmental, social, and governance data.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MAY 2, 2023

However, these smaller enterprises can leverage their agility and flexibility to adapt to new trends and technologies in supply chain management, such as adopting cloud-based solutions and implementing real-time data analytics (Prajogo & Olhager, 2022). Conversely, startups can benefit from the expertise and stability that SMEs provide.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 5, 2021

and Asia and Europe and Asia, and carriers have had to plan for, allocate and optimize their networks to support the growth of global shipping along these trade lanes.” And that’s why it’s important for carriers to apply data and enable predictive freight rating through these five requirements. Download the White Paper.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

Topic: Prepping for Peak: How to Level-up your CX Strategy this holiday season. Retailers and shippers must adapt their strategy to ensure they get the right product, to the right place at the right time to meet the high expectations of consumers/customers. Description: .

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3PL Links

APRIL 5, 2024

Image source: Shipbob | Top 10 Practical Supply Chain Management Tips for Businesses Effective supply chain management becomes an increasingly important sector full of strategic opportunities and difficulties in an increasingly dynamic and complicated network. It goes beyond simply being an operational strategy.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2018

Again and again, digitization and data were at the heart of panel and networking conversations. Even headline speakers were professing “data got sexy” and data is now a core strategy for companies looking to succeed. Supply chain leaders are wanting their organizations to be data-driven.

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Parade

MARCH 18, 2019

Starting with Location Data Creating a carrier system of records and intelligence system will be the first step towards freight brokerage digitization. Brokerages must think of an alternative data source outside of tribal knowledge to procure high quality and profitable carrier capacity.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 31, 2019

How to achieve a competitive advantage through Distribution Networks. After the lesson on distribution networks, I researched to complete the training a bit more and I found how to obtain efficiency on the distribution. Previous steps in the design of distribution networks.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JULY 24, 2023

Measuring performance with transportation KPIs and freight data is getting easier. Where freight managers go wrong with planning the transportation budget The biggest problem when planning a transportation budget is an inability to see actual versus projected costs across the network. Think about this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 8, 2023

Previously, only large companies such as Amazon and FedEx possessed the network and scale required for cost-effective same-day and next-day shipping. Access to carrier networks is another advantage of buying an existing solution. It is beneficial for cost and bill of material analysis but can be challenging to budget for.

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Transporeon

JUNE 7, 2017

This post regarding your carrier network is part of a series on best practices for freight RFQs from Ticontract Managing Director Thomas Einsiedler. Sometimes it’s useful to check to see whether your network of transportation providers and logistics practices still fit your current situation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

The average cost of a data breach reached $3.86 Your transportation consultant can help develop response strategies to ensure your supply chain continues to operate while the problem is addressed. Carriers pushed larger items out of the parcel networks and restricted volumes from parcel shippers.

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MTS Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Logistics companies are leading a shift towards elastic logistics in a world where supply networks are becoming more intricate and uncertain. Let’s dissect the essential elements that make up this dynamic strategy: 1. There are obstacles in the way of attaining genuine elastic logistics on a global scale, though.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 20, 2021

Large companies with a supply chain risk strategy already in place couldn’t fully cope with the impact of the pandemic. It’s the result of a deliberate strategy that may require tradeoffs compared to other approaches. This strategy requires greater investment and inventory carrying costs but enables continued production.

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3PL Links

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The three trends we shall discuss below show that one of the main goals of businesses going forward will be to enhance the level of technological maturity by achieving more integration and intelligence in the use of data. Big data and analytics Big Data and analytics are taking center stage in a vast ecosystem of logistical data.

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Turvo

JULY 30, 2021

Transportation management systems (TMS) have transformed from a desirable perk to a critical necessity for continued growth and success within the supply chain management networks. It Analyzes Data Across the Full Network to Enable Financial Planning and Strategy. It Tracks Shipments From Cradle to Grave.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

6 Benefits of Applying Useable Data in Logistics For Continuous Improvement. In this post we will talk about how you can improve your transportation management program by focusing on using data, extracted from the use of technology, such as a transportation management system, that then people can use to continuously improve.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

What will the total costs be associated with different green strategies? This digital twin contains network costs – the inventory carrying cost is X for this product, by Y for this one. On top of this cost network model, the solution allows for various scenarios to be kept and compared. This maturity model is quite detailed.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Even the most robust in-house strategies can turn to the value of logistics automation within analytics, such as the insights found in Lane Signal, to further refine their operations. Enterprise shippers need a proactive strategy to secure capacity One of the biggest challenges that shippers face remains to secure capacity.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

By using strong management and analysis processes, supply chains can maximize value and stay competitive. Streamline data capture and analysis. Failure to use data and apply it accordingly within the fleet will lead to problems securing loads, offering competitive freight rates , and keeping drivers in trucks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting. The cloud also allows access to Big Data, which greatly improves the platform’s ability to do machine learning. That has recently changed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Fifty-two percent of respondents are working on individual digital projects but lack an overarching strategy that links all these efforts. While creating a demand-driven supply chain means ingesting and interpreting large volumes of data, advances in cloud computing and edge computing make data-based decision making easy and cost-effective.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2024

Baltimore is one of the busiest ports on the east coast, and the bridge collapse was not only a tragedy, but a reminder that supply networks remain fragile and disruptions are not always anticipated. The port handles about 11 million tons of cargo per year, including automobiles, containers, coal, and farm products.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 6, 2021

M odern transportation networks and supply chains continuously adapt to market volatility and transitions. Proper vetting of carriers helps ensure risk management, and creates a re liable network for future growth, scalability and flexibility. . Enabling Data-Driven Decision-Making . Remote Tendering and Shipment Execution .

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