Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Last month, I attended and spoke at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference , where I learned many things about the Heavy Building Materials (HBM) industry. The elevation journey actually began the day before the conference officially started. So, what are some of the data challenges the industry faces?

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Blue Grace Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2017

This year, BlueGrace Logistics held their National Conference at the beautiful SandPearl resort in Clearwater Beach, FL. To no surprise, the conference was jam packed with fantastic speakers including Don Hutson, Alex Sheen and Brian Holloway. Don spent 2 sessions, one for our general group and one specifically for the sales team.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Which is why a drone took flight from the stage during Ryan’s keynote address at the Descartes Evolution 2017 Conference a couple of weeks ago and broadcast real-time video of the audience as it flew across the front of the hall. The limiting factor is still getting timely and accurate data. Will this include drone deliveries?

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 19, 2017

The Big Data Revolution: Redefining Digitisation in Maritime. This session will focus on the top Big Data trends shaping the maritime industry. It will assess the supply chain as a whole and assess where the adoption of Big Data will have the greatest impact. Roundtable Discussion Groups.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 4, 2021

Here are a few more data points supporting the ongoing labor needs of warehousing and transportation operations. JLL also stated that e-commerce was the overall standout performer in the logistics sector, marking the highest year-on-year growth take-up by any occupier group globally.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 2, 2023

2 at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals ( CSCMP ) EDGE conference, provides industry insights into the current state of the 3PL market, shipper-3PL relationships and the services that 3PLs provide. Both parties said they take several steps to protect data quality. The study, which was released Oct.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Intermodal’s group director, Rob Fisher, commented: “Nothing compares with the power of face-to-face meetings and the opportunity to engage with product demonstrations and industry experts that a ‘live’, in-person event provides. But it doesn’t compare to live, real-time asset and cargo data.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 3, 2019

While driver turnover and the ongoing driver shortage tend to go hand in hand and, more often than not, with a typically negative connotation, data issued today by the American Trucking Associations (ATA) is on the positive side. Again, one quarter does not mark a trend, nor a sudden shift. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Today, at its 2023 European Exchange customer conference, Manhattan Associates Inc. With access to accurate data, retailers can deliver actionable insight into the hands of their associates, enabling them to add value to every customer’s unique path to purchase,” Seroux continued.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

First, the supply chain group truly needs to understand buying behaviors and key attributes of their customers. Machine learning is also being used to update other forms of master data that are key inputs into the plan. Most companies use shipment history as the key data for forecasts. But autonomous planning goes beyond that.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

If you’ve attended any logistics conferences lately, or just tried covering a load in recent weeks, you know that the tide is turning in the transportation market. Will these trends continue in 2018? Capacity is tightening and rates are going up. What impact will the Electronic Logging Devices (ELD) mandate have on the market?

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 17, 2018

Last fall after attending the CSCMP conference in Atlanta, I shared my observation that digital transformation is now a central theme in the industry. Again and again, digitization and data were at the heart of panel and networking conversations. Supply Chain Analytics Maturity Model (Source: Hackett Group). Transform Into What?

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Talking Logistics

JULY 25, 2018

I haven’t attended an industry conference over the past year, or participated in a client meeting, where blockchain — along with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning — hasn’t been part of the conversation. Connect structured and unstructured data to analyze and get deep insights. Take EDI, for example.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The majority of both groups report that their relationships are successful. NTT Data and Penske Logistics are the major sponsors of the 2022 edition. Machines are uncovering large volumes of data that are very difficult for the human eye to catch, capture and distill.

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Penske Move Ahead

MAY 9, 2022

In the third annual State of Sustainable Fleets Market Brief , released today and available at no cost, transportation fleets continued to report a resounding trend — their use of clean fuels and advanced vehicle technologies is rapidly progressing. The annual analysis gathers real-world data directly from early-adopter fleets across the U.S.

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Women in Trucking

MARCH 9, 2020

Conference shared a variety of best practices. And more promising news: 76 percent of female 18- to 26-year-olds have a favorable impression of professional driving, according to a recent nationwide study by the Adcom Group, a marketing and communications firm. Data shows that wages do indeed impact driver retention.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, ‘big data’ and the Internet of Things are beginning to be adopted in a significant way right across the logistics field to allow warehouses or distribution centres to become self-learning, self-correcting, self-optimising operations capable of adapting to change in real time.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 3, 2018

A few weeks ago at the Descartes Evolution 2018 User Conference , I had the opportunity to interview William Wehrle, Director of Supply Chain at BASF, and David Bazzetta, Business Advisor – Process Optimization at BASF, about the importance and value of having real-time freight visibility.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Ralf Duester, member of the board of the SCM software specialist Setlog, shows which trends will shape the year 2023. His statements are based not only on numerous conversations with economic experts and scientists, but also on data from Setlog customers who use the SCM tool OSCA. Data silos hinder successful business.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 27, 2018

This unprecedented change, and the challenges and opportunities it creates for CPG companies and suppliers, was a hot topic of conversation at the Nulogy xChange 2018 conference a few weeks ago where I delivered a keynote presentation and moderated a panel discussion with industry executives (more on that later). . Tim Koers (Visual Pak).

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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. Digging into the data mountain. Speeding up response times.

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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

UK-based logistics website with exceptional content and unique opinion pieces, often centered around shifting technology trends. So much so that it is split into seven topics – aircrafts, airports, capacity and demand, carriers, freight trends, traffic and viewpoints. Air Cargo World. ACWmagazine. SupplyChainBrain. Paid Premium.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 20, 2018

It is a topic of daily discussion at every industry trade show and conference, while also getting a ton of attention in the form of commentary or data being issued fairly frequently. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. there is a better than good chance that the truck driver shortage would be at the top of the list.

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Conger

MARCH 28, 2024

Here are the new trends in technologies that continue to impact fleet management practices: Autonomous vehicles : I am sure you have already seen autonomous vehicles used in military applications or niche logistics. Telematics collect and transmit vehicle speed, mileage, and fuel consumption data, while GPS allows precise location tracking.

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The Logistics Academy

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Q: What are the latest trends in logistics education, and how does your program address them? Gerard Burke, Georgia Southern University: A continuing trend is the challenge to attract students to pursue a career often perceived as humdrum. Experiential learning is another trend seen as valuable to both hiring companies and students.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 27, 2018

At this year’s SMC3 JumpStart conference, which was held in Atlanta in January, keynote speaker Adrian Gonzalez, head of Adelante SCM, explained to attendees that despite the early traction blockchain has received, it is still too early to gauge its impact. There is the challenge of aggregating and cleansing data. About the Author.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 2, 2021

However, with the ongoing pandemic, and the resulting capacity crunch, TMS is trending more towards cost mitigation rather than savings. Manhattan Associates unveiled its latest TMS, Manhattan Active Transportation Management, last week during the company’s virtual user conference. Unification.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Shipping firm Clarksons braces for data leak after refusing to pay hacker (The Guardian). If you attended this year’s CSCMP EDGE 2017 conference and listened to Professor Mary “Missy” Cummings ’ keynote speech on “The Future of Artificial Intelligence and Logistics,” you probably walked away, like I did, with some serious doubts.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 24, 2015

To reiterate that reshoring is more than just hype and a very important topic for us to consider the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study found that 54% of companies with above one billion in revenues are now considering reshoring. In fact, since the recession, more manufacturing companies have been lost than gained in the U.S.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Each blog post written is distributed into groups that reach the supply chain community as well as professionals in manufacturing, transportation, distribution, and more. Further, Fleet Equipment magazine identifies six emerging trends in the dynamic commercial vehicle aftermarket. The speed of the processing is also improved.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 7, 2017

The integration between MercuryGate’s TMS platform and Banyan’s live carrier connectivity leverages Banyan’s existing connections to a large and diverse group of carriers and 3PLs.”. And when it comes to last-mile and home delivery operations, mobile technology has become indispensable. See also news from Onfleet linked above.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 24, 2018

s annual Supply Chain Executive Conference held last week in Phoenix, AZ provided the platform for the release of its Supply Chain Top 25, which identifies industry “best practices.”. 2017 data used where available. Where unavailable, latest available full-year data used. By Patrick Burnson, Executive Editor ·. May 24, 2018.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2020

As always, it was a busy year covering the latest supply chain and logistics trends, emerging technologies, mergers and acquisitions, major news announcements, and more. 2020 Supply Chain Technology Trends ; Steve Banker, Chris Cunnane, and Clint Reiser. By 2025, the amount of data will double every 12 hours.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

One of my first clients back in 1999 was Descartes Systems Group. Descartes Systems Group Revenue 2006-2018 (Source: macrotrends). A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Descartes Evolution Global User & Partner Conference 2019. Where is Descartes today? Descartes, in short, is alive and well. Takeaways from Evolution 2019.

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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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GlobalTranz

JUNE 4, 2015

Trend Metrics Collected per Product: Confirmed Product Quality Complaint Rate by Product. Trend Metrics Collected per Site. Rate: (CpK and PpK are ‘Short Term’ capability indicies using ‘Pooled’or ‘Within group’ Standard Deviation.). Self-assessment processes including risk assessments, trending and audits.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 30, 2022

Keeping up with a complex, multi-layered, global industry is harder than most people think, so we decided to share a list of industry experts who share perspectives, news, trends and timely data on a regular basis on Twitter and Linkedin. Lisa Anderson. Twitter: @LisaAndersonLMA. Brian Laung Aoaeh. Twitter: @brianlaungaoaeh.

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