The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 2, 2022

Ian is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Association of American Railroads (AAR) which is the world’s leading railroad policy, research, standard setting, and technology organization that focuses on the safety and productivity of the U.S. freight rail industry. freight rail industry. About Ian Jefferies.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 29, 2018

The 2018 supply chain conference season kicked off for me last week. I gave a keynote presentation on emerging technologies (drones, driverless trucks, 3D printing, blockchain, etc.) at the SMC3 Jump Start 2018 conference in Atlanta, GA. This aligns with what the conference attendees are feeling and expecting.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 24, 2019

Industry analyst Gartner has named its top 8 supply chain technology trends in 2019. These technologies are those that supply chain leaders simply cannot ignore,” said Christian Titze, research vice president at Gartner. Advanced Analytics. Autonomous Things.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A widely recognized leader in the global logistics industry, Neel was formerly SVP and Chief Cargo Officer at Delta Airlines and VP Sales and Marketing at United Airlines. Flexport’s upcoming customer conference, FORWARD21. Neel is the EVP and Global Head of Airfreight at Flexport , the platform for global logistics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 10, 2024

Often times at Logistics Viewpoints, we like to look to the future and highlight the key trends that we see in a given market, or make predictions about what technologies will emerge as game changers in the new year. As we turn the page on 2022 , I’d like to make five supply chain predictions about what to expect for 2023.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 18, 2017

As I prepared my keynote presentation for the BluJay Solutions’ SOAR 2017 conference , I recalled this experience and saw it as a good metaphor for the difficulties many companies are having today responding effectively to the blizzard of supply chain management.

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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Here are a few notable findings from the report, released at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) EDGE conference: What are the top concerns and challenges in regards to supply chain decisions? Data sharing between shippers and 3PLs become increasingly important.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

When it comes to supply chain design, we’re at another inflection point in the industry. The first one arrived a few years ago when a growing number of companies started treating supply chain design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise.

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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. Barlow concluded, echoing a similar point I made last year in Unlearning Supply Chain Management.

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Stord

MAY 14, 2019

Atlanta is fast becoming the technology center of the South, and we’re grateful to be a part of the thriving supply chain technology community here.” The Biltmore was acquired by the Georgia Tech Foundation on Oct. STORD was founded in 2015 and is based in Atlanta, Ga.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2018

At the Descartes Evolution User Conference this past March, I attended several sessions about the MacroPoint solution and they were all standing room only , including the one where William Wehrle and David Bazzetta from BASF shared their case study. “The Know which carrier is the right carrier to call first.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 20, 2018

The focus of our session is “Today’s New Normal” — a discussion about emerging trends and technologies in the industry, everything from e-commerce to blockchain, and what it means for supply chain and logistics professionals. project44 Raises $35 Million to Turn Data into True Supply Chain Visibility.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Drones and its future in supply chain and logistics processes. 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. Will this include drone deliveries?

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 27, 2018

There’s never been a time that’s more challenging for a CEO in the industry,” explains David Garfield of consultancy AlixPartners in the article. The theme of the conference was “Go Boldly Together.” They’re facing unprecedented change.” Nulogy xChange 2018: Why Courage is So Important Today. How to Build Trust with CPGs and Suppliers.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 27, 2018

Robinson, MercuryGate, and friends from the industry). Okay, moving on, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week… Buckle Up, Prime Members: Amazon Launches In-Car Delivery. Command Alkon Introduces BuildIt to Digitally Revolutionize Construction Industry. Robinson ).

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Secondly, what machine learning does, is that every new piece of information or data it receives, it actually learns over time. There’s enough data in the industry that you can leverage, as long as you can make sense of it using machine learning, to do things like predictions and obtain intelligent insights using the data you already have.

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Freightos

MARCH 10, 2016

For shippers, carriers and logistics providers, the JOC ’s TPM (Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference) is one of the must-attends on the annual events calendar. I caught up with one of Freightos’ delegates after the conference and scoured through the presentation material for insights. Five Key Takeaways From TPM 2016. No surprise.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

John Langley, clinical professor, supply chain information systems and director of development, Center for Supply Chain Research at Smeal College of Business at The Pennsylvania State University , founded the study in 1996. NTT Data and Penske Logistics are the major sponsors of the 2022 edition.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Since we promised to update you regularly, we’ve collated some of the latest stories from the world of freight shipping, warehousing, logistics services, and supply chain technology, so that you can keep your finger on the pulse of the fast-changing logistics landscape. A Tense Future for Renault’s Supply Chain.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

I learned that fact (and many more important things) at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference in New Orleans this week. Elemica Delivers Predictive Visibility to Global Industrial Supply Chains. Data and predictions have been all over the map. Data from transportation procurement events mirror these results.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The use of Vendor Managed Inventory model has gained acceptance in many industries. Cutting the Right Costs with Technology by Sourcing Innovation. Oil companies often use technology to manage the gasoline inventories at the service stations that they supply (Petrolsoft). The speed of the processing is also improved.

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Freightos

MARCH 31, 2016

These particular conclusions (slightly paraphrased here) should sound familiar to business leaders in the logistics industry: Few industries will remain untouched by disruption. Firms will find it increasingly hard to mask poor service, high pricing or unpopular practices, as technology increases customer visibility.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

One of the trends I’ve been writing and talking about is how the clockspeeds of every industry are accelerating and how companies are having a hard time realigning their processes, organizational structures, and technology platforms to keep up with this rapid pace of change.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Last November, executives from all segments of the Heavy Building Materials (HBM) ecosystem got together at the inaugural Leadership Roundtable meeting organized by Command Alkon (a Talking Logistics sponsor) to discuss a couple of simple questions: Are there opportunities to elevate the performance of the HBM industry?

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Ryder Forms Strategic Partnership with Plug and Play to Support Development of Innovative Supply Chain and Logistics Startups. Shipping firm Clarksons braces for data leak after refusing to pay hacker (The Guardian). Is this another case of technology far outpacing what society and the law are ready for?

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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The intersection of supply chain technology, changing online consumer spending habits, data management, delivery preferences, and other factors are all serving as game changers in how 3PLs are continually striving to better serve shippers.

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247 Customs Broker

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Third-Party Providers Navigate Supply Chain Technology Trends. Technology partners with a long-game approach to development and implementation understand that trends come and go, and it can make little sense to heavily invest in trumpeted technological advancements just because they’re “the new thing.”.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2018

It’s the reason why more than 300 people attended this year’s Shipper Symposium: to learn about the trends shaping the industry and to discuss how to rewrite the rules for success moving forward. There were a lot of great sessions and speakers during the conference, but I don’t have the time or space to summarize them all today.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 7, 2017

These Giant Drones Could Seriously Disrupt the Shipping Industry (NBC News). It didn’t take long for the recently rebranded BluJay Solutions to make its first acquisition: Blackbay , “a leading provider of mobility-enabled solutions for the transport and logistics industry.” See also news from Onfleet linked above.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

I’ve been an industry analyst for over 20 years, which is hard to believe sometimes. A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Descartes Evolution Global User & Partner Conference 2019. Over the past two years, there have been other similar acquisitions in the industry, along with multiple rounds of VC investments.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2020

2020 Supply Chain Technology Trends ; Steve Banker, Chris Cunnane, and Clint Reiser. There are some young supply chain technologies that are getting a lot of buzz. But how mature are these technologies? The rise of cloud computing, smart devices and IoT have all resulted in a massive data explosion.

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MTS Logistics

JULY 7, 2023

The fragmented nature of the shipping industry with many intermediaries in between from shipping lines to freight forwarders and truckers always created the need for visibility. As was the case in many industries, venture capitalists saw the need and invested billions to be part of the solution. It is estimated that more than $1.4

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 6, 2017

I’ll be doing both for the first time in a couple of weeks at Seminarium’s Logistics & Operations Conference 2017 (October 18th in Santiago, Chile). Here’s a short video I recorded in Spanish highlighting the topic of my presentation: If you plan to be at the conference, I look forward to learning and networking with you.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 30, 2018

Jason added, “At its core, blockchain is just a way to record transactions of value or a transfer of assets in a way that you have consensus across multiple parties and they trust that the data hasn’t been altered and only permissioned individuals can see it. That may be changing with all of the blockchain sessions at conferences today.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 17, 2018

In an announcement this week, the two companies said that “based on feedback from various members of the global supply chain ecosystem who would like to adopt the technology, [we] have modified the go to market model and will now deliver [our] solution through an extension of [our] pre-existing collaboration agreement instead of a joint venture.”.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 11, 2018

At its research facility at the Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport, NASA will use the data supplied by Uber to simulate a small passenger-carrying aircraft as it flies through DFW airspace during peak scheduled air traffic. For related commentary, see Here Comes the Chief Network Effects Officer.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 14, 2015

In today's highly competitive marketplace, it’s imperative for businesses to innovate new ways to streamline their supply chain and optimize productivity. Additionally, through a more stable and efficient supply chain, you can greatly enhance customer satisfaction and retention. Computerized Shipping and Tracking.

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