CLX Logistics

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

It’s pretty simple – intermodal transportation uses two or more modes or carriers to transport freight from shipper to consignee. This shipping strategy began in 18 th century England, and in the 1950s, the steel intermodal transportation container was standardized based on design specifications from the US DoD.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

ZTO’s network partners are responsible for first-mile pick-up and last-mile delivery services, while the mission-critical transportation and sorting processes that take place in between pick-up and parcel delivery are undertaken by ZTO. Both types have CE certification.

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Now, That's Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2021

When sales forecasts are accurate, companies know they’ll have enough product supply to meet customer demand for those goods. And even if there’s an imbalance, good forecasts allow organizations to course-correct before a real problem emerges. Planning is obviously key,” says Chrapko. Identify and Focus on Priority Shipments.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 30, 2022

For example: Alignment of strategy and cost leads to happy shareholders. From an inventory perspective then, service means maintaining an appropriate level of stock to meet your promises to your customers. Hence it’s critical to balance inventory levels and deployment strategy to meet availability and cost requirements.

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3PL Links

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Let’s examine how the market ended the year, the anticipated course for 2024, and the ever-more-important role that technology plays in this dynamic environment. Businesses that adopt these trends will be well-positioned to meet upcoming difficulties and provide dependable and effective logistics solutions.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 19, 2024

Once you’ve reduced as much as you can, your priorities should shift to using the least harmful types of packaging that meet your needs. Source: ecoenclose.com Less is More Of course, your first priority is to protect your products against damage during shipping and handling. Recyclable plastics include PET, HDPE, PVC, LDPE and PP.

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Trinity Logistics

JULY 8, 2022

If you follow any of the transportation or trucking-related publications or are situated on the West Coast, you probably have seen or heard the term “AB5”. At its core, the bill was passed to decide if a worker meets the classification of an employee or maintains independent contractor status. WHAT IS THE AB5 LAW TIMELINE?

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

But with supply chains’ sole purpose being to meet demand, it becomes challenging to make assumptions and then learn anything back about those assumptions. Transportation outside of a capital city is typically informal—think, a family with a truck. So that’s one big tough one. Challenge #2: Underdeveloped Networks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The company works hard to meet the demanding requirements for quality, innovation, and cost from their OEM customers. This includes plant operations, inbound and outbound transportation, warehousing, demand planning and our comprehensive and running supply chain risk management ecosystem.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 21, 2015

One of the often missing links, however, in supply chain visibility, is transportation management. We call this the transportation supply chain. What is the Transportation Supply Chain? This requires a new broad look at the business of transportation supply chain, including supply chain management, logistics, & procurement.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Road transport is a heavily regulated industry so there are naturally several mandatory training requirements, depending on the work being carried out. There’s a substantial amount that managers can do to upskill drivers, in driving and lots of other related things too, for example encouraging healthy lifestyles to training in first aid.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

in 2020 and will hit EUR557 billion by 2025, Simon Wong, CEO of the U-Freight Group , says his company is ready to meet the ever-increasing challenges of providing logistics services to this rapidly expanding sector of global trade. Commenting on a recent report that suggests the global e-commerce logistics market grew by 27.3%

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Weigh up the cost of transport. Only if a number of locations all meet the needs of proximity to customers will the comparative cost of land and buildings become important. So I will use Sydney as an example. Tip #3—Weigh up Transport Costs. Don’t ignore the ecommerce factor. But you have to weigh it all up.

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Kanban Logistics

MAY 26, 2023

For example, 8 items – milk, peanuts, eggs, soy, tree nuts, wheat, fish, and shellfish – account for 90% of allergic reactions in the U.S. For example, at Kanban’s warehouses, certain products can only be unloaded, stored, or transported within a designated section of the warehouse by authorized personnel.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 28, 2023

At LogiMAT in Stuttgart, Germany, KNAPP presented technologies that help companies meet these goals. Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) handle in-house transport jobs and offer many benefits that conventional conveyors simply cannot provide. There is no zero-touch fulfilment without robotic picking.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

For example, a member of the sales team could apply to become a purchasing agent, based on her experience of negotiating sales deals. For example, you can be doing finance in supply chain, or you can be doing operations. If university study is a little beyond you right now, one of the certification courses might work better for you.

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Trinity Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We have learned that anything can happen in the last three-plus years when it comes to transportation. Ideally, your third-party logistics provider (3PL) should be providing this for you, but if not, some good resources to check out are FreightWaves , Transport Topics , or Supply Chain Dive. Plan in time to do this.

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Forto

MARCH 17, 2020

In the world of logistics, small and medium-sized logistics companies in particular have already been feeling the effects of the crisis for several weeks: the high production and transport downtime and level of illness in China has led to delays in the worldwide supply chain. Activating flexible working models.

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Ship Monk

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Of course it would, and that’s why ShipMonk exists. ShipMonk’s Virtual Carrier Network (VCN) is an advanced transportation management strategy that guarantees orders are delivered on-time at the best possible rate. Take COVID for example. Running an eCommerce brand can be all kinds of stressful. Performance Report.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2022

As an example, a major retailer whose market presence is in the Americas realized that several of their shipments that originate in China pass through Russia to make their way to the west and are now subject to shipment backlogs. Some may have believed themselves to be immune at one point, but now their perspective is shifting.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

However, there is of course a cost to processing a return and this is leading some retailers to question the economics of free returns and to consider invoking a charge for customers. For example, pallet racking can be configured with a single pallet bay level and shelving above to provide locations for unpalletised ‘returned to stock’ items.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As an example of how illuminating the perfect order KPI can be, let’s look briefly at damage-free delivery as an example. For example, if the on-time percentage is 98%, the in full is 93%, the damage-free is 99%, and the orders with correct documentation is 96%, the calculation will look like this…. x 0.96 = 0.8661.

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FreightWaves SONAR

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Of course, there’s another advantage. As reported by Forbes , “Many companies, for example, have moved to e-commerce[…]This means shipping via B2C channels versus B2B channels. Aside from labor costs and energy use, transportation costs comprise a shipper’s most significant expenses. Email and fax don’t cut it.

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Women in Trucking

MAY 4, 2020

Transportation is a family affair for Joyce Brenny, pictured here (right) with son-in-law Scott Simon, daughter Holly Simon, grandson Sutton and husband Todd. Joyce Brenny and her husband Todd founded Brenny Transportation in 1996 with three employees. It’s no surprise that Brenny Transportation boasts a retention rate of 89 percent.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

All the disruptions caused by the pandemic, of course, has contributed to this. Lean speaks of the seven wastes: overproduction, unnecessary transportation, inventory, motion, defects, over processing, and waiting. This practice, known as vendor managed inventory , is an excellent example of lean. April 12, 2021.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Those brands include Pepsi, of course, but also Lay’s, Quaker, Doritos, Cheetos, and Gatorade. The company is using Blue Yonder for transportation management, Coupa’s Supply Chain Guru for network design, and FourKites ( see the webinar ) for transportation visibility in certain regions or departments to help with this.

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Bringg

MARCH 24, 2021

To meet the new demand, companies will have to adjust their operations for greater efficiency, flexibility, and cost reduction. A good example of such a strategic decision could be choosing a warehouse’s location. For example, delayed shipping times or customer unavailability during delivery can disrupt the supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The American and Canadian militaries believe that the balloon was for surveillance, while the Chinese government said it was a civilian meteorological research airship that had blown off course. However, the flight path and structural characteristics made it dissimilar from those which have typically been used for meteorological research.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 28, 2022

However, many of us experienced the impact of disruptions to transportation and logistics (T&L) at one point or another during the pandemic. The pandemic led to mass unemployment, resulting in key transportation and delivery links lacking staff. For example, the U.S. As the U.S. As the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 24, 2021

Across their inbound and outbound supply chains the goods are transported by air, ocean, rail, truckload, less-than-truckload, parcel, and even couriers. The visibility the FourKites solution can provide is dependent on the signals it gets from transportation assets. Cardinal Health Operates a Fleet of Trucks.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 27, 2021

Of course, these sophisticated automated models will not give the full picture either, especially in a market run by the pandemic. Simple Examples of Predictive Analytics. Amazon shopping is a clear example of how your historical shopping trends are churned to predict what you would require in the future.

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Conger

MAY 28, 2021

How to load, transport, and unload materials safely. An example of a forklift certification card. Evaluation typically consists of obstacle courses, picking up sample loads, and in general, seeing how the operator trainee handles driving, turning, and reversing. Online courses. In-person courses. Online Courses.

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Shipchain

MARCH 10, 2020

Below is an overview of the benefits of data as well as examples of how it has helped companies with their final-mile distribution. But when managers can make adjustments, such as finding ways to alter delivery routes, they can meet rising costs. Examples of Data Improving Last-Mile Delivery.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 22, 2022

CG: At WOF SUMMIT, networking is not just having a coffee with another interesting participant but is powered by the innovative 1to1 Meeting Scheduler. So, all our visitors can pre-arrange their most valuable networking meetings already online two weeks before the event. An evening from which you will emerge inspired and energised.

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ShipLilly

DECEMBER 7, 2022

After all, they would be one of the key modalities for quickly transporting goods from different parts of the globe. Of course, that expectation could only hold if the upward trend in e-Commerce continued. For example, the online penetration of online footwear and apparel is expected to be 22%.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

Logistics Business magazine’s editor Paul Hamblin meets Rishi Lodhia, MD EMEA for Eagle Eye Networks. It sounds good – but can he give an example of how it might work? Here’s a great example. And of course, if the cameras are switched off, nothing gets recorded anyway. Regulatory compliance matters, too.

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Ship Monk

JULY 17, 2023

ShipMonk, for example, has relationships with all major shipping carriers. Add to that, when you pool all those shipping carriers together, you have access to a range of shipping services too, for example economy, 2-day , and overnight. ShipMonk, for example, has the Virtual Carrier Network (VCN). 3PLs handle all that for you.

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