CH Robinson Logistics

JUNE 10, 2021

In today’s market, knowing where to evaluate and adjust your LTL capacity strategies can feel overwhelming. But making faster, meaningful improvements to your LTL supply chain strategies and operations can be a seamless process that makes a positive impact on your business. Diversify your capacity network.

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CH Robinson Logistics

APRIL 21, 2021

Air freight has been in nonstop peak-season mode despite pandemic-induced capacity decline, while other disruptions, such as the Suez Canal blockage, drove even more demand to air. Though vaccine distribution is increasing, and we are seeing a spike in passenger travel, capacity relief is not on the horizon. Flex your creative muscles.

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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Consumer buying behavior has tightened capacity in all modes of transportation. In a 2021 study by Inbound Logistics, logistics technology providers said that 58% of their shippers were concerned with capacity constraints, triggering 68% of shippers worried about how they were currently optimizing their transportation resources.

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3PL Links

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Unlocking Customer Satisfaction: Is Your Fulfilment Strategy Aligned with Expectations? Labor, inventory accuracy, and split shipping are a few examples. Unlocking Customer Satisfaction: Is Your Fulfilment Strategy Aligned with Expectations? Let’s start with inventory deployment and demand forecasts.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 22, 2021

In this edition of “SONAR Indices & Insights,” readers will learn about FreightWaves SONAR’s Weighted Rejection Index (WRI) to monitor trucking capacity in the freight market and the impact rejections have on shipping rates. For example Atlanta’s OTMS value is 4% and outbound rejections increased from 3% to 5% over the past seven days.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 29, 2021

With the current warehousing capacity crunch, technology-driven strategies along with flexibility and end-to-end visibility are the preferred solutions for transporters and warehouse operators. What’s covered in this article: Capacity and labor shortages. Tips to overcome warehousing capacity shortages.

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Transporeon

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Shippers are feeling the effects of scarce carrier capacity. The driver shortage is affecting available trucking capacity. With luck, the shipper may find and contract with another carrier that has available space despite the driver shortage and scarce capacity. Scarce available trucking capacity leads to higher shipping costs.

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CLX Logistics

JANUARY 12, 2021

With extensive international transportation management and logistics experience and state-of-the-art strategies and equipment, we simplify processes, enhance supply chain efficiency, and reduce costs for our partners. To help our customers, we have created an ISO Tank Capacity Guide to help with your Intermodal needs. SG x 8.34 = lbs.

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Locus

JUNE 23, 2023

So, knowing more about order fulfillment, its importance, process, and strategies is critical. Read Also: 5 Ways to Ace Last-mile Reverse Logistics What are the Order fulfillment strategies, and which is right for your business? So there is no fixed rule for selecting the order fulfillment strategy. Let’s fill in!

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Unbelievably, the capacity crunch is back the shipping headlines. Cassidy of the Journal of commerce (JOC) noted shippers were expecting a forthcoming slight capacity pinch, but that was before hurricane season arrived. Capacity Crunch Factors Include Increased Deadhead. Fewer Drivers Reduce Available Capacity.

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CH Robinson Logistics

JUNE 29, 2021

But how does this translate to an optimal FTL cross-border strategy? I’m outlining below 3 success factors shippers should consider incorporating in their FTL cross-border shipping strategy for an effortless shipping experience. Access to reliable and consistent truckload capacity every day.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 5, 2018

Develop a comprehensive truckload strategy so you’re prepared to handle just about anything. Building the right truckload strategy for your business. The key to a great truckload strategy is aligning capacity communities with attribute segments of your freight portfolio. Your best bet to avoid unexpected trouble?

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Many major challenges of 2021—capacity constraints, ecommerce growth and driver shortage—are rolling over into 2022 and, in addition, the environment and machine learning are becoming more important for logistics and supply chain professionals. Online buying will fuel home delivery growth, challenges and new 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. Next-generation supply chain management tools like CLX LaneLogix are a perfect example of the type of system. Service Level Benchmarking.

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ShipLilly

MARCH 5, 2020

Perhaps many of the carriers will opt to repeat the tight capacity management approaches that were used in 2019 for purposes of maintaining a specified floor on rates. 2020 carrier strategy. Early indicators are that many of the ocean carriers will seek to maintain rates by managing their capacity effectively.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 22, 2017

The electronic logging device (ELD) mandate compliance date is around the corner, and shipping capacity is tightening at a phenomenal rate. As the shipping industry prepares to face these challenges, figuring out how to take advantage of available shipping capacity can be challenging. Click Here.

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Freightos

JANUARY 15, 2024

Despite these efforts, to date the attacks continue, pushing most major carriers representing over 60% of global container capacity, to alter their routes. For example, the Freightos Baltic Index indicates a 69% increase to North America’s East Coast and a staggering 226% to Northern Europe since the crisis began.

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Airfreight Logistics

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

DHL Express has presented its new Strategy 2025 on the occasion of the opening of its € 123 million state-of-the-art hub at Cologne-Bonn Airport. million liters holding capacity and 18 kilometers of piping ensures the hub stays cool in the summer and warm in the winter. An ice energy storage system with over 1.3

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 22, 2018

Capacity is a very real problem impacting companies in all verticals, especially those who ship density-based freight that present further challenges. It’s no secret that the growth in the economy coupled with shortage of drivers and the ELD mandate has led to a serious capacity crisis in Less than Truckload and Full Truckload freight.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2018

If you’ve ever paid $10 for an Uber ride to the cocktail lounge in the evening and then a “surge priced” $50 for the same distance Uber ride back to your home only a few hours later around closing time, you understand the dynamics troubling shippers in today’s capacity constrained transportation market.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

This ensures the secure, high-capacity, and bi-directional transfer of essential information such as master data on products, customers, production-distribution infrastructure, transactional data on sales, inventory status and position, transportation execution data, external data e.g. competitor pricing, weather, recommendations, action triggers.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 6, 2017

While these approaches can certainly deliver a significant return on investment (ROI), other strategies that can positively impact their transportation network are often overlooked – for example, thinking more strategically about capacity. Big or small, capacity solutions are not one-size-fits-all.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Current and future capacity crunches are often analyzed for impact in the U.S., All modes of transit feel the effects of capacity crunches, but those that suffer the biggest effects tend to involve ground-transit, including less-than-truckload (LTL), full truckload (FT) and parcel shipping. but they exist around the globe.

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Locus

MAY 25, 2022

Take last-mile deliveries for example. Here are seven key strategies that they have used to make it happen. Some of these include: Prediction of traffic restrictions Vehicle capacity limitations Driver skill sets Distance to be covered Maximum speed Time windows Service hours Breaks Vicinity and so on. – Statista, U.S.

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 4, 2024

Recognizing the collective significance of market conditions across KMAs at any given time, logistics professionals can devise strategies that accommodate the diverse nature of these areas, ensuring efficient and effective freight procurement and management. Curious about how KMA trends can inform an effective supply chain strategy?

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Triskele Logistics

MAY 27, 2018

So what is a Shared Distribution Strategy, and how can it help my organization to overcome Supply Chain Challenges? “A A Shared Distribution Strategy, and taking a collaborative approach to your Supply Chain, is an effective way to meet Supply Chain challenges head on.” You can fit ~22,000 kg onto a 53’ foot trailer.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 17, 2015

A vigorous supplier relationship management (SRM) strategy can assist organizations in maximizing partnership value, minimize risk, and manage costs through the entire supplier relationship lifecycle. A comprehensive supplier management strategy helps organizations arrange suppliers based on different tiers of importance and reliability. .

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 26, 2024

This pulls the capacity from not only those direct markets, but surrounding areas as well. Take, for example, the market of Twin Falls, Idaho in comparison to Lakeland, Florida. Take, for example, the market of Twin Falls, Idaho in comparison to Lakeland, Florida.

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Parade

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here’s why technology should be part of your overall strategy. Tech and the Data Garnered from It Can Drive Smarter Strategy The , tools that tech provides are one thing; the data it collects and synthesizes so that companies can learn something from are infinitely valuable to gaining end-to-end visibility. It all comes down to data.

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Parade

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here’s why technology should be part of your overall strategy. Tech and the Data Garnered from It Can Drive Smarter Strategy The , tools that tech provides are one thing; the data it collects and synthesizes so that companies can learn something from are infinitely valuable to gaining end-to-end visibility. It all comes down to data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2024

In smart manufacturing, for example, the deployment of a multitude of sensors and devices for real-time monitoring of machinery, predictive maintenance, and quality control are primary use cases. These concerns mean that industrial companies need to carefully consider how to integrate this new technology into their long-term strategies.

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Transporeon

APRIL 9, 2019

The driver shortage is affecting available trucking capacity. With luck, the shipper may find and contract with another carrier that has available space despite the driver shortage and scarce capacity. What can be done to deliver on time to customers despite the driver shortage and bottlenecks in trucking capacity?

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 24, 2019

The government has launched a new maritime strategy which outlines short, medium and long-term proposals to better position the UK as g global centre of emerging technology and world leader in the maritime industry for the next 30 years. For example, the UK will also aim to use virtual and augmented reality in seafarer training.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Traditional manufacturing favored long production runs of the same product because retooling machines to produce different products could cost time and resources, and waste capacity. Capacity takes a back seat to production flexibility as the key performance indicator for factory managers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 2, 2022

I have seen a lot of scary examples where a company wants to stay in the old box and connect new technologies and innovation…….and To improve your supply chain capacities, you must embrace emerging and disruptive digitalization technologies in a structured and intelligent way; one way is to change how you operate.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Capacity Will Grow Tighter. Capacity was stretched beyond limitations in 2014, and fleets around the country tried to optimize operations through freight reclassification, dimensional pricing models and freight consolidation, explains Jeff Berman of Logistics Management. The ELD mandate will further worsen the coming capacity crunch.

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MTS Logistics

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It’s well-known that the growth and development strategies of countries either develop or complicate the commercial activities of the companies operating in that region. One of the examples of this that positively affects world trade is the National Transport and Logistics Strategy announced by Saudi Arabia about two years ago.

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