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. IBM Watson Supply Chain Summit. Take EDI, for example.

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FourKites

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Our initial CAB, held in conjunction with our first-ever user conference in 2017, included 15 customers gathered around a conference table to exchange best practices and suggestions for the direction of FourKites’ continued product roadmap.

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Logistics Manager

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The auspicious occasion was attended by senior executives and employees representing all the divisions within the Evergreen Group. Also in attendance were by public officials, customers and business agents from both the shipping and airline industries as well as representatives of supply chain partners from more than fifty countries.

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Talking Logistics

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. The Hackett Group provides a useful visual for describing the maturity stages that supply chain is moving through as the industry strives to leverage data and advanced analytics.

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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. pic.twitter.com/rDXqt2Q7rV.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 30, 2018

Better communication is needed in the automotive supply chain, including between OEMs, suppliers, logistics providers and IT experts providing digital supply chain services. The automotive industry also needs to be able to respond faster to disruption in the supply chain when the inevitable unforeseen crisis hits.

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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. The industry has adapted exceptionally well to the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.

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The Logistics Academy

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

At Georgia Southern, we dispel this by illustrating the dynamic nature and variety of daily activities a supply chain manager encounters. Other ways we support experiential learning include hosting external student case competitions, touring logistics facilities, and attending industry conferences.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Many large enterprises use one form or another of a supply chain application to help manage their supply chains. Supply chain vendors have been touting their investments in artificial intelligence (AI) for the last several years. AI can refer to several different types of math.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Descartes Systems Group , a global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that it has acquired GroundCloud, the creator of a cloud-hosted final-mile automation platform, for $138 million. And now on to this week’s logistics news. network this year after its initial success at select facilities in 2022.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Industry leaders discussed several topics at this year's CSCMP EDGE conference in Atlanta, and no subject was more important than how companies managed supply chain disruptions over the past year and the top priorities for the future. Sharing is on the rise across the supply chain spectrum.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 18, 2019

We just finished our conference, Descartes Evolution 2019, where the theme was Transforming the Customer Experience. Visibility, however, has a much broader meaning, and this is a great example of other ways to apply the visibility concept.

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10xLogistics

JUNE 2, 2017

Supply chain design is all about two things: Provide extraordinary customer service through fast and full fulfillment AND do this profitably. Sure, but then why do so many supply chain professionals only do the back half? Constantly Reevaluate: The industry is moving too fast to design a supply chain every 10 years.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 24, 2019

For example, if you’ve just implemented a domestic transportation management system (TMS), how are they managing their international shipping? Often that’s done by a different group. For example, BREXIT, what can you do to ensure your customer is going to succeed in those areas? Cooperating to address change.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 7, 2022

For example, with a substantial decline in the availability of forklift drivers recognised as a major problem, a growing number of warehouse and distribution centre operators see driverless forklift truck technology as the solution to the recruitment and employment cost challenges they face.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The VP of Supply Chain and Logistics at our house (aka my wife) has been out of the country this week. So, while I count the days and hours and minutes until she gets back, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) Activates For Latest Major Hurricane Of 2018.

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IoT World Today

MARCH 18, 2019

The Internet of Things World conference brings together stakeholders in the IoT space to help advance project implementation and reach ROI. And also this year we’re building out a developers conference at the show for the audience that is designing and delivering the future products in IoT. Welcome, Zach. Zach Butler: Hi Sue.

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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. The Hackett Group provides a useful visual for describing the maturity stages that supply chain is moving through as the industry strives to leverage data and advanced analytics.

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Trinity Logistics

MARCH 22, 2023

A few weeks ago, we held our first educational and virtual Agent Conference of 2023. This conference focused on winning sales and growing strong customer relationships as a Freight Broker Agent. For example, “I recently spoke with Holly Cooper from your sales team and came up with some great ideas to help with your freight”.

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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). . Source: Nulogy.

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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 Bureau

APRIL 21, 2020

Surging use of cloud-based video services such as Zoom and Cisco WebEx for business conference calls. However, with great disparities in the ability of various socio-economic groups to access high-speed broadband, governments and service providers are trying to ensure a reasonable level of connectivity for all.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2019

IntraLog Poland (3-5 March 2020) is a new business show dedicated to internal logistics, new technologies in supply chain management and warehouse security. Cobots or co-operating robots are a large group of AGV products, which are distinguished by their compactness, lightness and size. Cobots – Cooperating robots.

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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. Mr. Higo said in response to the VMI for Supply Chain Cost Reductions post was: “Very informative article, thank you.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2015

As a supply chain director, manager, or boss of a multinational corporation, where the supply chain is an integral part of your business, supply chain cost reductions are always at the forefront of your team’s mind. Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 27, 2018

One common theme in more than a few e-mails that has come in over the last several months, and even longer, centers around blockchain technology and its impact, or rather potential impact, on myriad aspects of freight transportation, supply chain, and logistics operations. We are seeing some of that happening in pilot programs.

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The Logistics Academy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

For example, airfreight forwarding growth in China is thought to have been robust this past year, while sea freight growth was much weaker. DHL Supply Chain & Global Forwarding. UPS Supply Chain Solutions. Toll Group. Top 25 Global Freight Forwarders. A&A Rank. Gross Revenue (US$ M). Ocean TEUs.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 7, 2017

In this week’s supply chain and logistics news… BluJay Solutions Acquires Leading Mobility Solutions Provider Blackbay. 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.”.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

A new year is underway, and what better way to begin our 2023 blog activity than with a summary of the freshest news from the supply chain and logistics theatre? But is that a real possibility, or are the predictions of supply chain mayhem just so much panic and hot air?

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Material Handling and Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In supply chain management, it was all anyone could talk about. Every article discussed the importance of digitally transforming the supply chain. And every conference showcased the latest technologies available to help you do so. Using First Principles to Understand Digital Supply Chain Transformation.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 11, 2018

Global shipping giant Maersk Group has begun piloting an industry-wide paperless platform in a joint venture project with IBM aimed at speeding up trade transactions. That, in turn, demands a greater willingness among all those involved in the supply chain to work for the benefit of more balanced trade. Gulf coast opportunities.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MARCH 1, 2019

Spurring innovation, food safety and quality capacity strengthening and economic resilience This year’s Africa Day of School Feeding comes at the heels of the first ever Future of Food Safety Conference held at the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. million schoolchildren across the nation every week.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2019

We also had a proof of technology for high-voltage batteries, where we had to give an example of how to move them around corners,” added Maidl. “We Glove scanners, for example, can read the electronic label and indicate the exact contents of the small load carrier on a miniature display that can be worn on the arm.

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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. A good example of that was apparent in an October 2017 survey of 1,500 motor carriers conducted by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI).

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Supply chains are ‘strangling strategy’, with the movement of commodities so significant an issue that logistics is securitising. [1] For example, the US national security community uses the term ‘defense technology and industrial base’. [6] 1] Beaumont, D., 2] Beaumont, D., 3] Marles, R., 6] Beaumont, D.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 15, 2017

It echoes the title of my post from last September: “ The Day a Cyber Attack Brings the World’s Supply Chains to a Halt.”. (I The French automaker Renault, for example, was forced to shut down factories across Europe. The WannaCry cyber attack is another warning for supply chain executives to stop being complacent.

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Automotive Logistics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Its facility is surrounded by its main tier one suppliers from Hyundai Motor Group, such as Hyundai Mobis, WIA and Powertech. According to VW’s Minutti, for example, Volkswagen is strengthening its “model offensive” in the area. According to Fondevilla, that’s because less than 0.5%

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