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The Definition of Transparency

Blue Grace Logistics

As companies mature and the market changes, our understanding of crucial operating components of any industry has also grown. Transparency within the supply chain has gone from an unrecognized concept to a focus item for the C-Suite across a vast number of companies and industries. So Why Aren’t All Companies on Board?

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Industry integration – a new approach and attitude to Army logistics

Logistics in War

Logistics is the stored potential of a military force, and industry is the battery from which energy is drawn. For Army to be successful operationally, the integration of logistics and industry is vital. Industry is where logistics begins. ADBR can be found at www.adbr.com.au.

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Know the Kinds of Modes of Transportation

20Cube Logistics

You will definitely try to find out the available modes of transportation that can help move the consignment to your consignee seamlessly. Of course, the best mode to transportation is necessary, but the other factors that have to be taken into consideration are: The total cost. Less documentation. Air transport. Road transport.

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Difference between Maritime, Shipping, Freight, Logistics and Supply Chain

Shipping and Freight Resource

To the uninitiated (which included me at one stage), these industries are same or similar and it might come across that there is no difference between Maritime, Shipping, Freight, Logistics, Supply Chain and Trade. Shipping Business = the act of carriage of cargo from point A to point using the ships which falls under the Maritime industry.

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TWI: Is it Time to Rethink Job Relations?

The Lean Thinker

Background TWI stands for Training Within Industry, a program developed during WWII by the U.S. During the war there was huge growth and turnover within the industrial base as production shifted from civilian products (locomotives, for example) to wartime production (tanks). The challenge, of course, is that nobody owns this material.

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10 Challenges for Shippers in Negotiating Trucking Contracts

FreightWaves SONAR

As explained by Logistics Management , “ it has become an increasing challenge for the logistics industry to stay on top of new advances in business processes. Disruption is, by definition, unplanned. Of course, that depends on securing shipping data insights well in advance of disruptions’ arrival.

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CFO Beating You Up Over Rising Freight Costs? Hit Back with a TMS

Talking Logistics

Supply chain management leaders, especially in transportation, are under heavy fire from CFOs for the dramatic increases in freight spend that are eroding the profitability of shippers in every industry. We’re talking, of course, about Transportation Management System (TMS) solutions to digitize and automate transportation processes. .