Food Logistics

JUNE 7, 2021

Right-sizing fleets and ensuring peak efficiency will go a long way in helping cold food and beverage companies reach their sustainability goals.

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Efficiency Trucking Transportation 114

The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 7, 2021

The True Cost of OTIF Failure with Andrew Lynch. Andrew Lynch and Joe Lynch discuss the true cost of OTIF failure. OTIF means on time and in full , where the customer receives the completed order when they wanted it and, in the quantity, ordered. OTIF is a key supply chain metric. It is generally calculated as a percentage of total deliveries that were complete and on time.

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Logistics Management

JUNE 7, 2021

A perfect storm of factors is making employee recruitment and retention particularly difficult in 2021. Here’s how warehouse and distribution centers can position themselves as “employers of choice” in this challenging environment.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2021

Pinnacle Propane Delivery to a Farm. When companies implement a demand management or replenishment system, the goal is usually to improve customer satisfaction while holding less inventory. Pinnacle Propane implemented demand management, replenishment, and order promising solutions from John Galt Solutions with the goal of improving service – reducing what they call “out of gases” – while reducing transportation costs.

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Logistics Management

JUNE 7, 2021

North American shippers are producing considerable volume of cross-border freight. How shippers navigate the complexities revolving around border delays, near-shoring demands and Customs documentation will determine their transport efficiency.

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Logistics Management

JUNE 7, 2021

The days of LMS being used as a narrow measuring stick are over. Today’s warehouse labor management software is highly mobile and provides metrics to change performance as work unfolds. The integration of LMS and WES is nascent and may vary by solution specifics, but it is a frontier to watch.

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Tools 122

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 7, 2021

Brandon Fried, Executive Director of the Airforwarders Association, tells how his industry has weathered the COVID-19 pandemic so far, and what changes might be in the offing when it’s over.

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Industry 105

Logistics Management

JUNE 7, 2021

For April, the most recent month for which data is available, import volume came in at 2.15 million TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units), marking a 33.4% annual gain, for its best April reading ever, compared to April 2020, when the majority of stores were closed, due to the pandemic. This came on the heels of March’s 2.27 million TEU, the record-high for any month, going back to when NRF first started tracking imports.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 7, 2021

If we want a world without waste, we might need something other than the human brain to achieve it.

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Logistics Management

JUNE 7, 2021

Atlanta-based supply chain software provider Manhattan Associates said late last month that it has released a new transportation management (TMS) offering, entitled Manhattan Active Transportation Management. The company said that this cloud-native offering reduces the time and effort required to optimize very complex transportation networks and added that this is an industry-first self-configuring and self-tuning system with optimization speed with up to 80% faster solve times.

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NGT News

JUNE 7, 2021

HAM Group, a company that specializes in the design, construction and operation of compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) mobile stations, has opened a CNG service station in Terrassa, Spain, next to the N-150 and close to the C-16 and C-58, an important access to Barcelona from the northwest. HAM Terrassa offers […]. The post HAM Group Opens New Terrassa CNG Service Station appeared first on NGT News.

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Logistics Management

JUNE 7, 2021

While not cheap, top-flight customer service is driving more companies toward private fleets in a tight trucking capacity market, while shrewd operators learn to adapt and improvise on the fly to create value for their organizations.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 7, 2021

The details are different every time shippers face capacity constraints in trucking, but the headlines are always the same: We have a truck driver shortage problem. Here is the most recent headline I came across from CNN: “Truckers are getting big pay hikes, but there’s still a shortage of drivers.” According to the article by. Read more Truck Driver Shortage: Different Year, Same Headlines.

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Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

Sourcing Strategies

Logistics Management

JUNE 7, 2021

“Today we’re seeing LMS being integrated with enterprise systems through mobile user interfaces that create more advanced analytics"

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MTS Logistics

JUNE 7, 2021

ISO (International Organization for Standardization) develops standards for organizations/industries to ensure quality, safety and efficiency of products, services and systems. In 2018, there were over 20,000 companies that were ISO Certified in the U.S. There are very few in freight forwarding. I have been through ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 9001:2015 audits over 13 years as I helped MTS Logistics develop our own Quality Management System.

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Overdrive Online

JUNE 7, 2021

The keys for maximum safety and efficiency when driving with collision mitigation, these operators note, is to know exactly what the systems are looking for and don't push your limits.

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Logistics Management

JUNE 7, 2021

Irvine, Calif.-based ZUUM Transportation Inc. recently announced it has rolled out a new platform for freight brokers, entitled ZUUM Automated Broker, which it said is the most powerful software available focusing on digitizing freight brokerages.

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Overdrive Online

JUNE 7, 2021

The legacy of history behind the unlikely 1970s hit "Convoy," by C.W. McCall, aka ad executive Bill Fries. The song, heavily laden with CB slang and conversation, tells the story of a spontaneous truck convoy that clashes with authorities.

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Trucking 83

Logistics Management

JUNE 7, 2021

Avery Vise, Vice President of Trucking, for Bloomington, Ind.-based freight transportation consultancy FTR Transportation Intelligence, provided LM's Jeff Berman with updates on the he current state of the truckload and LTL markets; the current state of trucking rates/pricing; the 2020 Peak Season outlook, and the state of transportation infrastructure, among others.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 7, 2021

By Fadia Patterson | Spectrum News. Published June 7, 2021. TAMPA – As a first time offender, Andre Jones says he was facing up to 35 years in jail and probation. Then he was accepted into the R.E.D. Program, also known as Rehabilitation Enables Dreams. “It pretty much made my life take a whole 360,” said Jones. Now the father of three young boys is living his dreams because he is gainfully employed as a result of the life skills, job training and mentorship offered to R.E.D. g

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Logistics Management

JUNE 7, 2021

Rail carloads—at 964,356—headed up 30.4%, or 224,623 carloads, annually, and May intermodal containers and trailers—at 1,151,824—saw a 26.2%, or 238,927 units, decrease.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 7, 2021

By Fadia Patterson | Spectrum News. Published June 7, 2021. TAMPA – As a first time offender, Andre Jones says he was facing up to 35 years in jail and probation. Then he was accepted into the R.E.D. Program, also known as Rehabilitation Enables Dreams. “It pretty much made my life take a whole 360,” said Jones. Now the father of three young boys is living his dreams because he is gainfully employed as a result of the life skills, job training and mentorship offered to R.E.D. g

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Buyer Training Logistics Network Optimization Software Training Tools 62

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 7, 2021

A cluster of COVID-19 infections at a factory in central Taiwan temporarily stopped operations at one of the world’s largest chip-testing companies.

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Factories Operations 79

Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 7, 2021

The British International Freight Association ( BIFA ) is advising its members to be very careful with any business that they are offered from traders that have taken advantage of HMRC’s Delayed Declaration Scheme, but which have not taken out a CFSP authorisation in their own right and are now trying to find a Customs Agent to undertake the work required to complete the process.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 7, 2021

Automotive shippers are facing numerous challenges stemming from a global semiconductor shortage, inflationary pressure on numerous inputs, as well as rising freight costs that seem to be affecting every shipper across all modes. Coupled with the just-in-time nature of the industry, automotive manufacturers are heavily reliant on an efficient global supply chain.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 7, 2021

ICTSI Rio Brasil is expanding its logistics support services in Brazil, adding rail logistics to its operations with the long-term lease of Floriano Intermodal Terminal in Barra Mansa, Rio de Janeiro. To run this operation, ICTSI Rio formed a new company – IRB Logística – to take over the operations of the terminal from Multitex Logistica starting on 1 July 2021.

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ShipLilly

JUNE 7, 2021

Second crane and several containers damaged in Port of Kaohsiung accident. Kim Link-Wills, Senior Editor From: Freightwaves.com Friday, June 4, 2021 2 minutes read. One gantry crane collapsed and a second was damaged after being hit by a vessel at the Port of Kaohsiung in Taiwan. (Photo: Port of Kaohsiung Authority). An empty vessel struck a laden cargo ship and caused the collapse of a gantry crane, damage of another as well as more than two dozen containers and the injury of a worker at the Po

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Forto

JUNE 7, 2021

Das Yantian International Container Terminal (YICT) in Shenzhen, einer der verkehrsreichsten Containerhäfen Chinas, hat strenge Desinfektions- und Quarantänemaßnahmen wegen COVID-19 verhängt. Der Hafenbetrieb ist daher eingeschränkt. Staus im Hafen und Verzögerungen bei der Abfertigung von Schiffen und der Verladung von Containern sowie Schiffsverspätungen und damit Verzögerungen bei der Seefracht sind die Folge.

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