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5 Paths to Better Supply Chain Visibility

Now, That's Logistics

Add a transportation visibility platform to your tech stack. By 2023, Gartner says 50% of all product-centric enterprises will have invested in real-time transportation visibility platforms. Real-time transportation visibility platforms address that problem, and the market is projected to grow rapidly in the next couple of years.”.

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Why Benchmarking In Its Current State for Transportation is Dangerous

10xLogistics

What I find about benchmarking is it is often an internal exercise to justify what someone is doing to higher management. It is also incredibly inaccurate because there are so many external factors that effect the price of transportation beside just the zip to zip and the rate.

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Stuck on the wrong side of the world but still needing to deliver food to people in Ethiopia 5,000…

World Food Programme Logistics

Kamal’s two rooftop activities: reading and exercise. It’s definitely a relief that we’re all together in one place right now. I’m doing some light exercise every morning and trying to get the family to join me. Definitely my team, my small apartment, my friends and the coffee. What’s good about being back in Nepal?

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A Port in a Storm

World Food Programme Logistics

It definitely added a real-life dimension to the training, as we were explaining the importance of preparedness and what happens when we have to deploy to an emergency?—?while in what can be a gruelling exercise. Caroline (far right) was an observer in gear.UP, an intense disaster simulation exercise in Germany.

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Intelligent Automation, the Future of Supply Chain. Is the Logistics Industry Ready?

Blue Grace Logistics

Definitely not. Better planning: Intelligent automation can integrate and streamline transportation planning, route planning, warehouse network, and inventory planning. This can improve multimodal transportation planning and also keep the customers updated with a more accurate expected time of delivery.

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When Does a Comment to Investors Become an Illegal "Signal" to Competitors?

10xLogistics

As part of the post, I posited this exact question could be applied to the trucking and freight transportation industry. Every conference I have been to and every investor deck I have seen usually has the freight transportation executive using these exact words. The example used in the lawsuit is, according to the article: ".airline

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Freeports and Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

For instance, rather than paying tariffs on separate components required to be imported from elsewhere, all parts could be transported tariff-free to a free port zone and then assembled within it. But as a small operator not used to these things, there’s a definite benefit.”. According to the model, manufacturers can also benefit.