Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The conference as a whole was fantastic, from the location and networking events to the conversations I had and sessions I attended. As a result, supply chains continue to be wasteful when looking at time, inefficiencies, and emissions. Last week I attended FourKites Visibility 2023 in Chicago, IL. According to Ms.

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Freightos

JANUARY 8, 2019

It is still common practice to negotiate tenders privately at industry events. APL, which is part of CMA CGM, experimented with offering a definite arrival time, or your money back. There’s a country’s worth of electricity being wasted on artificial computations with no meaningful value. Sustainability.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 31, 2015

When last we met, I had given a brief account of a speech that I was invited to give at a National Logistics event recently. We grab a seat at a secluded table in the huge lobby area, and he wastes no time: “Dennis, I’ve got some serious issues I need to discuss, but I’ve got to know that this goes nowhere. What do I need to do?

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 18, 2024

Higher throughputs, managed, picked and delivered more accurately, improving service levels with less inventory (and waste), better transport utilisation, all with lower levels of labour and a more flexible and agile response to changing market conditions, whether there be one-off events or longer-term trends.

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Turvo

JANUARY 12, 2021

This is a primary focus of an upcoming FreightWaves webinar this week on Thursday, January 14th, 2020, at 2 PM EST. Panelists for the event are Sudarsan Thattai, Chief Information Office for Lineage Logistics, and Ketan Karkhanis, Turvo’s Chief Product Officer, moderated by FreightWaves’ VP of Sponsored Content, Mary Anne Hensley.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 9, 2016

“ The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize ”: Shigeo Shingo. Lean thinking focuses on the elimination of all waste (where waste is defined as any non-value added process) and bringing value to the customer , beyond the customer’s expectations. Try to recognize all of your wastes.

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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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Logistics Bureau

JUNE 5, 2023

In all likelihood, they will cost you even more money in the event of workplace-related accidents or health problems. Every minute that a truck or driver sits idle is time wasted. You must pay their salaries when they are working for you and pay for their replacements when they are not.

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FueLoyal

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

If you still haven’t gotten the whole idea of it, there is a simple definition to it, as follows. Connected vehicles are able to access, send, and receive data, communicating real-time locations and events to every device around them, and upcoming. You don’t want your money to go to waste just like that, do you?

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Ship Monk

JUNE 30, 2023

Let’s start with some definitions. First Time Yield (FTY): The number of correctly manufactured units divided by the number of units attempted gives you the percentage of correctly manufactured units and, inversely, the amount wasted. Metric: A metric is a measurable indicator that changes over time.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 2, 2019

Legacy onboard communications systems, many with the latest advancements, made the ELD switch a non-event for carriers of significant size. Large fleets report that the transition from paper logs to ELDs has been essentially painless and quite smooth. Political machinations.

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