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Package Theft Season is Here

Logistics Viewpoints

Based on data from the FBI and Google Trends, package theft is big business. When someone rings the doorbell, you can see a live video feed and hear what your visitor is saying. Beyond the use of technology, consumers can reduce the threat of package theft by using tools at their disposal from shippers.

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The 3 top benefits of trucking fleets benchmarking financial and operational performance

FreightWaves SONAR

Instead of wasting resources to guess at which lanes and shippers meet minimum load requirements, capturing real-time freight data helps carriers identify their top performers, review eligibility for shipper-of-choice status and ensure everything runs more smoothly. Financial insight feeds into equipment purchasing decisions.

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Tai TMS Leverages Industry Expertise to Provide Brokerages with the Opportunity to Scale Growth

Parade

We love to shine a spotlight on transportation and logistics companies that are making waves with new technology, bringing the supply chain into the future, and helping companies meet their goals. Tools to Streamline both FTL and LTL Brokerages Tai has a lot to offer freight brokerages that handle both FTL and LTL business.

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Real-Time Location Systems: A Moving Target for IoT

IoT World Today

Internet of Things (IoT) technologies can meet the demand for location systems capable of real-time, complex event processing, but there are issues to overcome at each link of the chain. As GPS-based location system processing becomes more precise and immediate, there are a bewildering variety of new big data tools to process that data.

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AGV performance: a deep-dive into neural networks

Logistics Business Magazine

Paul Hamblin, editor of Logistics Business magazine, meets one. Highs and lows in productivity or daily utilisation trends might be measured, and the data used to optimise routes, increase throughput and calculate smarter resource utilisation. Can he offer examples of how insights can be generated from data in a logistics context?

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Understand the Pitfalls of IBP Before Embarking on a Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

A transformation that is based on the idea that by putting in new applications the company will automate a process, or processes, and provide more and better data to make decisions, is a poor foundation for a true transformation. To begin the journey, GEON needed a better supply chain planning tool.

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Going Beyond Just IoT GPS: A Cookbook for Mobile IoT Applications

IoT World Today

In other forms of IoT, it’s common for enterprises to acquire IoT as a packaged system that includes IoT devices, controllers, software, and even vertical-market-specific tools, instruments, and vehicles. Check to ensure that your selected wireless technology meets regulatory requirements for the type(s) of transportation you expect to use.