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A New Era in Transport Logistics with Big Data and Self-Driving Trucks

Logistics Viewpoints

A recent survey conducted by the International Road Transport Union (IRU) industry association shows that this bottleneck has exacerbated worldwide over the past two years. The resulting insights enable optimal transport and route management: Which routes within the distribution network should be utilized?

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The Inventory Accuracy “Confidence Gap”

Talking Logistics

In fact, two-thirds of the companies we surveyed characterized their omni-channel fulfillment performance (relative to peers in their industry) as average or below, with 30 percent characterizing it as below average. That said, as we further evaluate the data we find even Above Average Performers have significant room for improvement.

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Potential solution for drone collision avoidance

Logistics Business Magazine

These include security surveillance tasks at ports, critical infrastructures, border control and oil and gas industry as well as (intra)logistics, surveying, and asset inspections. ship-to-shore delivery), environmental monitoring and surveying grounds and buildings. structured and repeatable data collection), to delivery (e.g.

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Better rail connections needed at ports: AAPA – Canadian Shipper

247 Customs Broker

These are the top-line results from an American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) survey announced today, titled The State of Freight III. Our nation’s ports have identified a vast array of projects which are ready for investment and could move forward if the issues in this report could be addressed,” said Mr.

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What Is Order Fulfillment and It’s Process and Strategies

Locus

In a recent global survey of 31,040 shoppers, 41% said they wanted to receive the product within 24 hours, and 24% wanted to receive their orders in less than two hours. Using stores as distribution nodes This is the latest advancement in order fulfillment.

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Omnichannel is Trending Toward Multi-Site Distribution

247 Customs Broker

We recently surveyed manufacturers, retailers, and ecommerce companies about order fulfillment and distribution. For a closer look at one interesting shift on the horizon, check out this excerpt from our new whitepaper, Ready or Not: Omnichannel Fulfillment & Distribution. Their responses revealed several emerging trends.

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What is the Hyperconnected Era & “The Internet Of Things” and What does it Have to Do with Manufacturing & Logistics?

GlobalTranz

In 1994 Reza Raji described the concept in IEEE Spectrum as “[moving] small packets of data to a large set of nodes, so as to integrate and automate everything from home appliances to entire factories” However, only in 1999 did the field start gathering momentum. According to Gartner, Inc.,