Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I’m a supply chain industry analyst, so naturally my takeaways are influenced by my coverage area. This year, Mr. Ellison spun a vision of how the global agricultural industry’s value chain could be reconstructed to improve the quality of food while making the industry much more sustainable. Oracle CloudWorld happened last week.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

More Resources Home November 7, 2023 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. America weekly prices increased 21% to $5.72/kg

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Freightos

DECEMBER 6, 2023

More Resources Home December 6, 2023 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Freightos Air Index data show that China – N.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JULY 24, 2023

As the industry struggles to recover from the unprecedented global events of 2020, recognizing budget limitations is essential for industry growth and success. For example, according to Global Trade Magazine , “One critical factor that executives should monitor closely is logistics management. Think about this.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 7, 2021

Through data-driven transportation management , carriers can finally become more strategic and tactical, thriving through the good and bad times. Achieving that goal hangs on a carrier’s ability to capture meaningful data. Autonomous processes are only as valuable as the data that powers algorithms and decision-making.

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AIMMS

APRIL 11, 2018

AIMMS formed a partnership with CAT Squared and UniSoma to help companies in the food industry tackle these challenges. Besides planning challenges inherent in complex supply chains like those in the food industry, a lot of companies have problems with lack of centralized planning. You also see a lot of internal competition.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The process usually includes analyzing historical data for seasonal trends and product performance, as well as gathering current data on competitors, marketplace trends, future marketing plans and promotions. All of them rely on data, whether you’re using historical data or new findings gathered from consumer research.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 21, 2024

Customer relationship management systems collect and centralize all the important data about a business’ customers (and potential customers). This data usually includes the customer’s contact information, address, purchase history, social media engagement, email click-throughs, and dozens of other data points as they become available.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That is a huge success story for the air cargo industry and as promised it has brought significant efficiencies. For example, some carriers shared with us their APIs for contract rates, others for spot rates, some for rates but not ebooking, others share APIs via third parties who charge an exorbitant price for accessing the API.

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Shipchain

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Industry players have already begun experimenting with technologies like robotics and artificial intelligence. While automation in the supply chain is still in an early-adoption phase, the impact that it could have on the industry is significant. Don’t worry– in this case, it will be highly beneficial for the industry.

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 1, 2021

Less-than-truckload shipping, also known as LTL shipping, is nothing new within the transportation and shipping industry, but it has become more of a game-changer in recent years with freight rate prediction. In this example, the shipping rate would be based on the DIM pricing weight of eight pounds. Request a SONAR Demo.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

As early as 2018, a Neilsen study found that fresh foods were “the primary driver of growth in retail stores, accounting for 49% of all dollar sales growth in the fast-moving consumer goods industry. As one industry insider put it, “The supply chain absolutely stretched to the limits — broken, in many cases.”

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2024

Exhibitors from nearly every sector of the industry are coming to LogiMAT 2024 to present their latest products and solutions for ergonomically optimized intralogistics processes, healthy workplaces, and injury prevention. The intralogistics industry has not been spared the ravaging effects of demographic change and labor shortages.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JULY 14, 2023

The industry has been propelled forward at lightning speed in recent years, thanks in large part to an intensifying focus on technology. Fortunately, hopeful changemakers can look to several resources to broaden their understanding of both the freight market and the industry as a whole. port activity.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 2, 2022

the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, is doubling down on its commitment to the warehouse and fulfilment industry by exhibiting for the first time at MODEX 2022, in Atlanta, on March 28th-31st. Includes an AR workforce demo. Rockwell Automation, Inc. ,

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Shipchain

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Some companies are even hopping on the “blockchain bandwagon” without considering whether it’s actually useful in their industry. In the shipping and logistics industry, enterprises are already beginning to realize that private blockchains are simply not the solution they’ve been sold. EDI is prevalent in the industry today. .

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

A clear vision for how the market and the fleet can work in unison is at the heart of fleet management within the trucking industry. Streamline data capture and analysis. Data for the sake of data is meaningless without proper, automated analysis and data capture. Supply chains exist as data-driven entities.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Unfortunately, disruption and market volatility – sudden changes within the industry – will often have a dramatic effect on the spot market. Freight management remains an industry in which balance reigns supreme. The data analyzed within today’s freight market goes back to the beginning of digital transformation.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 26, 2021

As an example, World Finance reported that Bryan Trucker, Vice President of Corporate Communications at CSX, stated , “CSX became the first U.S. A tactical supply chain relies on data and facts to guide all activities. Request a SONAR Demo. Request a SONAR SCI Demo. Apply FreightWaves SONAR IMCSI1.USA

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FreightWaves SONAR

DECEMBER 3, 2020

For example, just-in-time fulfillment models, drop-shipping, and cross-docking avoid wasted space. Collaboration means parties must share data in real-time. For example, market conditions show shippers’ rate trajectories. Transportation only provides a partial picture of an industry. Request a SONAR Demo.

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RPA Labs

JANUARY 27, 2022

Today, companies can use all sorts of technological tools to create more data-driven processing that puts time back in the pockets of freight moving America. . For example, it’s possible to pull dates, prices and other data from scanned invoices to be easily copied and pasted into a system with an OCR.

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 29, 2021

The pandemic has sent the retail industry on a K-shaped trajectory — the final straw that has sent many retail chains into bankruptcy while also contributing to a surge in sales for many of the leading chains. Using SONAR data in contract negotiations with carriers and 3PLs. . Evaluating freight flows for private fleet conversion. .

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 22, 2021

For example Atlanta’s OTMS value is 4% and outbound rejections increased from 3% to 5% over the past seven days. For example, if there is a darker red shading, you can expect that the shipping rates for space in a truck will also elevate on a cost per mile basis. Sign up for a demo here or by clicking the button below. .

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Freightos

JANUARY 25, 2024

Aimee Loshinsky January 25, 2024 Optimize your logistics tendering, vendor selection, negotiations, and procurement with Freightos Data Book a Demo In Freightos Q4 2023 KPI press release , we announced that the company surpassed one million bookings across the platform in 2023. Q: What does it mean for the freight industry as a whole?

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FreightWaves SONAR

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

This week, learn how freight market participants, especially trucking carriers , rely on both the Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel Rack (ULSDR) data index and the FUELS index to measure diesel fuel price volatility and to understand its impact on their operations and the freight market at large. What are the ULSDR data and FUELS indices?

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AIMMS

APRIL 11, 2018

AIMMS formed a partnership with CAT Squared and UniSoma to help companies in the food industry tackle these challenges. Besides planning challenges inherent in complex supply chains like those in the food industry, a lot of companies have problems with lack of centralized planning. You also see a lot of internal competition.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

It always goes back to using data as a best practice for all aspects of freight management. Logistics automation continues to benefit from the increased viability of advanced analytics Data analytics provide a wide range of benefits for shippers that can properly harness logistics automation. Download the White Paper.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 5, 2021

The freight brokerage industry has traditionally focused its attention on the training and development of its customer sales staff. Should] you just figure out if it should be 5% or 6% [without data]?” As an example for these negotiating capabilities, let’s take a look at the following lane, Los Angeles, CA to Dallas, TX.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 4, 2021

The best examples of shippers of choice provide services along several trucking routes. Since automation reduces the risk of error, carriers can rest assured that preferred shippers follow industry-leading best practices, including freight management analytics , to hasten management decisions. Request a SONAR Demo.

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FreightWaves SONAR

DECEMBER 10, 2020

According to Supply Chain Dive , “The number of supply chain professionals who say they’re currently using predictive analytics at their company has grown 76% from 2017 to 2019, according to a Supply Chain Dive analysis of the annual MHI Industry Report.” Leverage IoT-enabled sensors to collect more data. Request a SONAR Demo.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

When you want to drive down your logistics and transportation spend, the very first thing that you need is freight and transportation data. Without hard data, you can’t take action. When enterprises try to act in the absence of data, they are usually guessing and won’t get the results they need.

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Shipchain

MAY 29, 2019

Blockchain’s tamper-proof nature eliminates any concerns over data validation, costs of managing data, time delays, and human errors. Decentralized data in blockchain also enables real-time visibility into the supply, applicable to optimized supply chain management. Instead of isolating data, shared data empowers all parties.

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Parade

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Parade is considered the top capacity management solution by most of the supply chain industry. The following unique features are just some of the reasons that Parade is at the top of the class in cap management solutions for the freight industry. Parade’s approach to capacity management is different from the rest in several ways.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 15, 2021

Advancements in tender data science and paid market data now power SONAR SCI (Supply Chain Intelligence) Lane Acuity Plus. Lane Acuity also provides a measure of lane coverage favorability via the Lane Score, which evaluates multiple data points within the app. WHAT IS LANE ACUITY PLUS?

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RPA Labs

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The rise of technology has also rapidly increased the amount of company data, where it’s stored, and its uses. Forbes reported, “somewhere between 60-73% of enterprise data sits idle on servers somewhere in the cloud, a squandered resource never tapped for the benefit of the business.” Integrate Your Supply Chain Tech Stack.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 5, 2021

That’s the crux of predictive analytics in any industry. But that concept often falls by the wayside in supply chain analytics, especially when assessing the accuracy of predictions using freight data or a forecasting engine. It’s comparable to projected costs versus observed costs.

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EazyStock

DECEMBER 13, 2020

The pandemic has impacted industries differently across the board. While some businesses and entire industries like hospitality and travel have been shutting down, others like consumer staples, technology and safety products/PPE are thriving like never before. However, uncertainty and disruption are all but guaranteed for 2021.

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