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Widespread, Yet Cautious Optimism for 2021: ARC’s Order Fulfillment Research Findings

Logistics Viewpoints

COVID-19 caused a global upheaval in order fulfillment processes throughout 2020. At the beginning of 2021, ARC Advisory Group, in partnership with DC Velocity magazine, anticipated factors such as a subsequent surge when we crafted our survey of warehouse practitioners. Of course, expectations are uncertain.

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Volvo Receives Order for 1,000 Electric Trucks

Logistics Business Magazine

The deal is the largest commercial order to date for Volvo electric trucks, and the first 130 trucks will be delivered in 2023 and 2024. Now the company and its contractors have, with Volvo Trucks, agreed to plan for the deployment of 1,000 electric trucks across Holcim’s operations in Europe over the course of the next seven years.

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WEMO founders cede management to HAHN Group

Logistics Business Magazine

As part of this, WEMO will move to the Robotics Division within the HAHN Group in order to offer its customers an even broader portfolio of solutions and products with mobile and collaborative robotics. Already in 2015, the HAHN Group took over the majority of the company’s shares, and finally all of them.

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The Free TMS with Tim Higham

The Logistics of Logistics

Tim Higham and Joe Lynch discuss the free TMS, which is of course AscendTMS. Prior to starting AscendTMS, Tim co-founded and ran a national 3PL, where he invited Palm Beach Capital LLC to become minority equity shareholder in July, 2009 in order to speed both internal growth and outside acquisitions. AscendTMS).

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Ecommerce Order Boom Boosts KION Despite Slashed Revenues

Logistics Business Magazine

KION Group says it has recorded strong order intake in the first half of 2020 thanks to the e-commerce boom, despite a 10% drop in revenue caused by the pandemic and a 50% year-on-year drop in earnings versus 2019 H1. Highlights of the statement are: – Total value of order intake goes up by 4.8 million (H1 2019: €407.6

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Customer Service Continues to be King at ShipMonk

Ship Monk

2024 is 4th Year in a Row 3PL is Recognized with BIG Customer Service Award April 10, 2024 — Customer service is a 365-day a year duty, but today the Business Intelligence Group is shining an extra light on this critical component to any company’s success by announcing the winners of the BIG Excellence in Customer Service Awards.

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The Red Pill: The (Slow Yet Steady) Revolution in Global Freight Digitization

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But, of course, when dealing with systems that operate at such scale, exceptions happen. Fifteen years ago, DSV’s homepage had this to say about tech: “DSV is committed to providing our customers with the best e-service tools available in order to create visible, transparent and high-quality services.” and bakes really good cookies.

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