Shipchain

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Our business development & leadership teams have been all over the world, attending major blockchain conferences and hosting a suite of events specific to shipping and logistics. In Dusseldorf, Germany, we attended ETF 3PL, one of the largest conferences dedicated to freight and logistics. Tech Updates. Conclusion.

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Shipchain

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Our business development & leadership teams have been all over the world, attending major blockchain conferences and hosting a suite of events specific to shipping and logistics. In Dusseldorf, Germany, we attended ETF 3PL, one of the largest conferences dedicated to freight and logistics. Tech Updates. Conclusion.

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WorkWave

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

While the theme of the convention this year was focused on the future of franchising, and this was definitely intertwined throughout the conference sessions, the takeaway for me was different. In the exhibit hall, the presence of customer engagement products seemed to be at an all-time high.

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Women in Trucking

DECEMBER 2, 2019

This is a question I often hear when people learn that I’ve written a book that empowers women and that I speak at many women’s conferences. Conference last fall. The unfortunate assumption is that because I’m asked to speak on #empoweringwomen, I am a man-basher. But I believe women’s empowerment goes beyond education and advocacy.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

4] The ongoing conflict in Ukraine, too, has brought national industrial mobilisation to the fore in terms of Ukraine responses to Russian aggression, but also in the context of European, US and other logistics support to Ukraine. When Defence made mobilisation an agenda.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

When you choose a company to transport your freight or to supply you with the materials you need to manufacture a product, you are putting your hard work and reputation in their hands. The next posts in the series will break down metrics and issues to consider in SQM by industry and conclude with a case study on the application of SQM.

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Conger

JULY 28, 2022

This accounts for 15% of the total warehousing industry in the US. Looking for a private warehousing definition? Companies often choose private warehouses because of the high degree of control that they confer over the handling and storage of goods. Government Warehouses. Cons of Private Warehouses. Public Warehouses.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 1, 2017

Automation has sped up production but for the most part, manufacturing techniques and advances have left the automotive industry in the metaphorical dust. New technologies, like 3D printing, CNC machining, and injection molding can help to move the automotive industry into the 21 st century. Changing Specializations.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Cement is one of the raw materials that goes into making concrete, which is the finished product. 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. How will it impact productivity?

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 7, 2016

Editor's Note: This is a two part series featuring Chuck Intrieri, who along with providing excellent insights over at his industry leading The Lean Supply Chain blog, is also a consultant who works with companies for Cost Reduction, Supply Chain Optimization, Logistics, Manufacturing, and 3PL Selection. What is Manufacturing?

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Freightos

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Other industries have reinvented themselves, or, like e-commerce, grown from nothing by doing just that. Not just as an industry worth emulating, e-commerce came up time and again in other contexts. Matt Castle, VP Global Forwarding Products and Services, C.H. New Entrant To The Industry. Changing Customer Expectations.

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247 Customs Broker

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The Tight Trucking Capacity and the Intermodal Industry. Jeff Heller , vice president of intermodal and automotive at Norfolk Southern (pictured above), recently spoke with SMC³ about the impact the tight trucking capacity market is having on the intermodal industry. Compliance to U.S.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 30, 2018

Digital technology has a lot of answers for an industry that is making strides in addressing the needs of modern manufacturing and the changing face of mobility, but there are still gaps to fill in terms of supply chain visibility, faster asset deployment and empty backhauls. Dana McBrien, associate chief advisor at Honda North America. “It

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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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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Russia’s Industry and Trade Ministry wants OEMs to make huge investments in new production capacity in Russia over the coming decade, in order to continue qualifying for state aid. Having said that, the current government policy is focused on making localised production more attractive than imports, she stresses. .

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Logistics Manager

MAY 1, 2018

The container shipping industry in the past was comprised of a wide mix of carriers. However, with the abolishment of the conference system and as carriers began sharing space on vessels, carrier services and offerings became narrower in scope. How then are ocean carriers going to be able to differentiate themselves?

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Freightos

JANUARY 8, 2019

As we enter a new year, it’s a great time to look back at how far we’ve come as an industry, set our next goalposts, and map out where we should be as an industry by 2020. It should come as no surprise that we are running out the clock until Amazon competes with more aspects of the logistics industry. Amazon is coming.

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Logistics in War

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

The transformation in the way that war was being fuelled and fought was definitive in logistics moving from the margins to one of the most significant influences upon success. Industry had always been inseparable from warfare, but now the importance of it being ready prior to the first shots of war was blatant.

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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.”. Guy Courtin, vice president of industry & solution strategy for Infor Retail, was among those executives attending the Gartner event.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 31, 2015

I talked about the 3 ways to grow your business and how it’s possible to double your gross simply by adding a complementary product or service. The thing that’s fun about meeting folks in a bar is, they will normally be a lot more open and frank than in a conference room with 500 other people. My favorite topics.

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247 Customs Broker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week’s negotiations in Newark, New Jersey, were the first for the ILA and USMX since early December, when negotiations broke off after a disagreement over the contract’s definition of automated terminals, which ILA President Harold Daggett opposes. Adam said in a joint statement. “We They would not comment further.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In the course of updating our annual research on the supply chain planning market , I talked to executives across the industry. Alex Pradhan, Product Strategy Leader John Galt Solutions, told me that “all planning vendors have bold marketing around AI.” So, models for heavy process industries often include first principle parameters.

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Logistics in War

JULY 23, 2019

The transformation in the way that war was being fuelled and fought was definitive in logistics moving from the margins to one of the most significant influences upon success. Industry had always been inseparable from warfare, but now the importance of it being ready prior to the first shots of war was blatant.

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Bilateral forums, conferences, meetings and seminars happen more often than one can count, and usually result in numerous announcements – ranging from memoranda of understanding (MoU) to billions of financial commitments. Singapore agribusiness giant Wilmar recently upped its stakes in Côte d’Ivoire’s palm oil production.

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247 Customs Broker

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Globalization and the Domestic Logistics Industry. During the Jump Start 2019 supply chain conference , he is slated to talk with the audience about the evolution of NAFTA and the overall state of the international economy. November 30, 2018 ·. The public sector has also lagged in terms of infrastructure investment.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 10, 2018

Earlier this month, LM Group News Editor Jeff Berman caught up with Greg Gantt president and CEO of national less-than-truckload carrier Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL) at the National Shippers Strategic Transportation Council (NASSTRAC) conference in Orlando, Fla. Gantt provided Berman with insight into various industry-related topics.

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Conger

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction to Fleet Management Fleet Management Definition Businesses across all sectors depend on commercial vehicles to transport people and products daily from cross-country delivery services to your neighborhood gas and oil provider. This data identifies inefficiencies, optimizes maintenance schedules, and improves productivity.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Industries. Industries. Industrial Manufacturing. Publishing Resources Industries. Product Categories. Are poor results only attributable to the usual suspects such as weak change control board, less than ideal program management, schedule/cost overruns, poor definition of requirements etc? Contact Us.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 8, 2018

Industry experts surmise that with Amazon storming the gates, and Alibaba not far behind, today’s logistics managers will expect their traditional forwarding partners to adapt quickly—or at the very least—at a steady and measured pace. At the same time, however, forwarders must not forget the shipper as they invest in digitization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2023

The Home Depot is undergoing a $500 million cost savings push that will see the company reduce its supply chain holding capacity, EVP and CFO Richard McPhail said during a June 13 investor and analyst conference. Broken out by industry, retail trade had the highest count of positive tests for all drugs—not just marijuana—in 2022 with 7.7

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Dedola Global Logistics

JULY 26, 2019

Great, so one of the first things I wanted to start with is to congratulate you and thank you for the FreightWaves Transparency Conference last month. It was probably one of the best conferences that I’ve attended in my, I don’t know, decades in this business. That is definitely the feeling I got from it.

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MercuryGate

AUGUST 25, 2020

Company Discover the company who is revolutionizing the transportation management industry. Moreover, the system disallows scheduling if the pickup or delivery requested can’t possibly be achieved given the parameters in the TMS for appointment time/day, product availability transit times and other critical considerations.”

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Dedola Global Logistics

AUGUST 22, 2019

And I think you don’t have to go buy our product, which is fine and great if you don’t. And I think that that’s definitely a valuable service. The challenge is that those same disruptors oftentimes don’t have the experience in the industry, and don’t have the sort of base of business to draw.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 3, 2019

billion) and, with an uplift in productivity, cost savings in the region of £2.8 Current studies forecast a huge growth in industry drone application,” says Philipp Wrycza, research fellow at Fraunhofer IML, who explains that there are three main uses for drones in the automotive industry: transportation, stocktaking and inspection.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2018

At the recent Automotive Logistics Global conference in Detroit , an executive from Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which only began production in 2011, noted that the plant’s manufacturing and logistics operations were characterised by over 300 separate systems and interfaces, which had begun to be seen as a barrier to rapid change.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 18, 2018

With a gross domestic product (GDP) of about US$136bn in 2017, the city is already acclaimed to have the seventh-largest GDP in Africa. The smart city vision of the state government was discussed extensively at a conference it sponsored during its “Lagos at 50” celebrations in May 2017. Smart does not mean elite.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

New technology was certainly seen as the answer with around half of delegates at the summit this year voting it the best opportunity for North American vehicle imports and exports above capital investment and US vehicle production. We saw longer lead times that definitely impacted our customers.”. Rail headaches.

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