GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Today we continue our long series and look at teaching shippers how to remain strategic when it comes to logistics and their transportation management program. 6 Benefits of Applying Useable Data in Logistics For Continuous Improvement. The Use of Data to Create a Successful Transportation Management Program.

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Blue Grace Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

How to Prepare an Efficient Transportation Budget Show Submenu Resources. Creating an efficient LTL transportation budget drives business success and customer satisfaction. How to define your transportation needs. Transportation budgeting can seem daunting at times. Define Your Transportation Needs . Whitepaper.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 6, 2024

It can be used as a standalone application, or integrated into proprietary, third-party rating engines and TMS (Transportation Management System) platforms for dynamic route planning, shipment consolidation and network optimization. With 9 offices strategically located in major transportation hubs across the U.S.

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AIMMS

JUNE 16, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many risks and uncertainties in supply chain networks. Evaluating different scenarios helps you gain much-needed network flexibility in these times of stress and can help you prepare for a resilient future. How are companies leveraging scenario modeling for network design and optimization ?

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 7, 2024

BlueGrace heralds acquisition of Evos Smart Tools Show Submenu Resources The Logistics Blog® Newsroom Whitepaper Case Study Webinars Indexes Search Search BlueGrace Logistics - March 7, 2024 Jeff Berman | Logistics Management March 7, 2024 Tampa, Fla.-based A purchase price for the transaction was not disclosed.

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Blue Grace Logistics

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Informed by shippers across various industries, BlueGrace’s LCI comprises data related to customers’ expectations and confidence in their organization’s financial growth or stagnation, level of inventory and warehouse capacity, as well as unique information on the expansion or contraction of orders for the upcoming quarter. Whitepaper.

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Blue Grace Logistics

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Enhancing Supply Chain Sustainability Show Submenu Resources The Logistics Blog® Newsroom Whitepaper Case Study Webinars Indexes Search Search BlueGrace Logistics - October 18, 2023 October is Sustainability Month, a time to reflect on our impact on the planet and seek ways to reduce our carbon footprint. Why is it crucial?

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PINC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Supply chain experts and software leaders converge to discuss the current transportation environment and provide valuable tips on what companies should be doing now to get ready for what’s coming next. . Increasing demand for transportation. Increased use of digitized freight networks. Increasing demand for last-mile.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2022

FourKites’ and NIC-place’s combined over-the-road, rail and ocean carrier networks creates the largest multimodal carrier network in Europe. Moreover, it shortens the time to value for shippers with complex, multimodal carrier networks. NIC-place’s advanced capabilities: Data privacy and security.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

When’s the last time you tested your network? Good penetration testing involves testing a company’s network to make sure that there are no threats that can break through the company or organization’s security. That’s what Steve Stasiukonis, founder of Secure Network Technologies, did. Following The Data.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MAY 18, 2021

These embargoes are also widely misunderstood since they effectively impact the middle mile of transportation, resulting in shippers failing to plan for them. These LTL embargoes are a short-term solution to allowing carriers to immediately reduce the stress on their networks. In the past year, LTL embargoes have become more common.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 9, 2017

There are additional advances in automation that push the supply chain toward greater use and deployment of technology and transportation planners are the key. Increased use of ELDs will require transportation planners and supply chain entities work together to ensure compliance and bring information gathered together into one system.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 25, 2015

In the complex world of modern transportation, companies lacking the experience to professionally handle the intricacies of transportation management are sure to find controlling shipping costs an extreme challenge. Freight costs are eminently controllable, however, efficiently managing this major budget item requires expertise.

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CLX Logistics

APRIL 26, 2019

Better ways to manage transport operations emerge, from how we plan and strategize, to how we ultimately execute and drive continuous improvement. For companies willing to embrace opportunities for improvement across the entire supply chain, here’s a look at the top transportation procurement and benchmarking trends.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 18, 2015

A growing network of channels for disposition of product returns, regardless of condition, has opened up major opportunities. In the interest of both, businesses are increasingly tying reverse logistical operations to transportation management as a natural fit. reverse logistic cycle time control. customer satisfaction. Return center.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

We continue our series on the “State of the Transportation Management Systems” today with our post on the 4 key processes enabled by the use by shippers of a transport management system or TMS. The popularity of the use of transport management system (TMS) has been growing steadily in the last few years.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 24, 2016

As a result, more supply chain entities are turning to transportation consolidation programs otherwise known as truckload consolidation, explains Joseph O’Reily of Inbound Logistics , to meet these demands. What Is a Transportation Consolidation Program? The infrastructure for the existing transportation providers is deteriorating.

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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Network Optimization. Poorly optimized networks can have many undesirable outcomes, including loss of customers, runaway freight and labor costs, and siloed — rather than integrated — supply chain management. Key stakeholders should be prepared to fully share relevant data and detailed customer-expectation information.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 27, 2023

Data for the BlueGrace Logistics Confidence Index is aggregated through a survey of shippers and reflects all freight transportation modes, while correlating growth or shrinkage to overall industry volume of shipments and price of products, according to BlueGrace. And it found that negative inventory sentiment was flat, at 13%.

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Blue Grace Logistics

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Technology Brings A New Dawn for Drayage Show Submenu Resources The Logistics Blog® Newsroom Whitepaper Case Study Webinars Indexes Search Search BlueGrace Logistics - February 29, 2024 Tom Gresham | Inbound Logistics February 2024 The drayage industry has begun to come out of the shadows.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 4, 2017

These questions reflect why technology and effective transportation management, including the use of a transportation management system (TMS) and the Internet of Things (IoT), is key to the efficient execution of last mile delivery and service. Last Mile Technology Includes Big Data and Data Analytics.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Ethereum shares some common features with Bitcoin, including how it’s mined by computers and codifies unique data that can be used to track everything from transactions to an exchange of goods (more on that below). Everything from dentistry to digital advertising is getting disrupted on the Ethereum blockchain.

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Conger

MARCH 28, 2024

Introduction to Fleet Management Fleet Management Definition Businesses across all sectors depend on commercial vehicles to transport people and products daily from cross-country delivery services to your neighborhood gas and oil provider. Fleet management is the process of organizing, coordinating, and overseeing company vehicles.

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Blue Grace Logistics

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

How Logistics Powers Super Bowl Food Favorites Show Submenu Resources The Logistics Blog® Newsroom Whitepaper Case Study Webinars Indexes Search Search BlueGrace Logistics - February 6, 2024 What’s a Super Bowl Sunday party without the quintessential foods that accompany it? Quality Control : Maintaining food quality is paramount.

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Blue Grace Logistics

AUGUST 24, 2022

We fully acknowledge that without our customers, diverse carrier network and dedicated team members at BlueGrace, we would not be in this valuable position. BlueGrace is based in Riverview, FL, where CEO Bobby Harris was named one of Florida’s most influential executives in transportation for 2020. The Logistics Blog®. Whitepaper.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 27, 2021

Improving predictability in outcomes is valuable, but ensuring your supply chain is nimble enough to act on the data is even more so. We explore how predictive analytics and big data with human sentiments can add value and amplify their supply chain strategies. The presence of data throughout the supply chain is vital to its evolution.

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CH Robinson Logistics

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In today’s market, LTL carriers continue to target the freight that delivers inefficiencies to their operations and networks, so it comes down to a pricing elasticity decision. Robinson working with its carrier network to get LTL freight picked up in a timely manner with the current labor shortages? How is C.H.

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Blue Grace Logistics

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Tech That Helps Small to Mid-Size Carriers Show Submenu Resources The Logistics Blog® Newsroom Whitepaper Case Study Webinars Indexes Search Search BlueGrace Logistics - October 23, 2023 With inflation continually driving costs up and demand for freight down, experts say growth in the freight market will be modest throughout 2024.

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Blue Grace Logistics

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Farm to Table: The Produce Supply Chain The produce supply chain is a multifaceted network that starts at the source – the farm. Packaging plays a significant role in preserving freshness and preventing damage during transportation. Transportation: Produce often travels long distances to reach consumers.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 8, 2015

New, innovative technology platforms have greatly sped the expansion and evolution of transportation as well as logistic solutions. Most notably are we seeing technology platforms that improve and simplify the users by means of integrating partners and using collected data. What is SaaS TMS & Introducing Hybrid SaaS TMS.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2021

The average cost of a data breach reached $3.86 Your transportation consultant can help develop response strategies to ensure your supply chain continues to operate while the problem is addressed. Capacity constraints and transportation delays. million in 2020 , with compromised employee accounts the most common cause.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 5, 2015

For supply chains, this advancing technology enables the building of a framework in which rapid responses and solutions in an increasingly intricate network can be designed and implemented quickly and easily. The decision-making capacity of smart devices within an IoT-enabled network also affects the overall supply chain structure.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Last mile delays and problems during delivery can eat away at fuel costs and seriously devalue a brand, but shippers Fan leverage technology, such as Big Data, to make small changes and improvements to last mile logistics processes. Be Consumer-Centric. An effective last mile logistics strategy must be focused on consumer needs.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Some logistics involves transportation or warehouses or both. Currently, it remains the case that as e-commerce continues to grow, most shippers, particularly multi-channel shippers, are still only just beginning to work out what this will entail for their distribution network infrastructures. Download the Webinar Replay.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Big Data and Analytics. context, the collection and comprehensive evaluation of data from many different sources—production equipment and systems as well as enterprise- and customer-management systems—will become standard to support real-time decision making. will require increased data sharing across sites and company boundaries.

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Blue Grace Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

In our recent webinar, Landed Cost & Vendor Compliance , we posed some prudent questions for companies to review with their operations teams, listed below. Most firms measure performance on a macro or aggregate level by taking the total cost of purchased goods and diving that by transportation spend.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 31, 2015

A fully fledged data storage network with management software, system administrators, and integration with your local systems could cost an unpleasantly large amount of the budget when you add up the costs of equipment, personnel, and time. The Cloud, like its metaphorical name, is an amorphous body of network connections and data.

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