Mon.May 13, 2019

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Why you should read your owner's manual

Fleet Owner

From oil changes to grease programs, your owner’s manual holds the key to maximizing your equipment’s performance. Here are three reasons you should read your owner’s manual today.

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Ports, Shippers, Companies to Accelerate Blockchain Deployment Across Supply Chains

Material Handling and Logistics

Over 100 organizations and experts representing large shippers, supply chain providers and governments have joined the World Economic Forum project to speed up use of blockchain technology.

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Supply Chain Visibility: Beyond “Where’s My Truck?”

Talking Logistics

I’ve been an industry analyst for over 20 years and achieving timely and accurate supply chain visibility has always been — and continues to be — a top priority for companies across all industries. It’s an ongoing challenge because supply chains continue to get more fragmented, more global, and more dynamic. The good news is that advancements in technology are addressing some of the historical challenges companies have faced in gathering, sharing, and analyzing real-time data from ma

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Autocar debuts first new conventional truck in 31 years, the DC-64R

Fleet Owner

Autocar Trucks has launched the Autocar DC-64R, billed as a completely new conventional truck purpose-built from the ground-up for severe-duty refuse applications.

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Artificial Intelligence and the Transportation Industry

Artificial intelligence has quickly become a feature of everyday life: Using face ID to unlock a phone, communicating with online chatbots, and letting “smart” appliances help manage our homes are just a few of the ways that we interact with AI regularly. Forward-looking businesses are also using AI to transform their operations and gain a competitive edge.

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Walmart Is Tightening OTIF Requirements. Can Suppliers Step Up Their Game?

Supply Chain Brain

Suppliers are scrambling to meet Walmart’s tighter standards for delivery performance — and they can expect the giant retailer to keep raising the bar.

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Benefits of Supply Chain Automation

Carter Logistics

Blog Topics. The Shared Milkrun Mexico & Border Logistics. Benefits of Supply Chain Automation. When we speak of “automation” in a supply chain, people may think of drones carrying packages and self-driving trucks. Those indeed are ideal applications of the automation technology, but automating your supply chain means much more than that.

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Autonomy: Partnerships of sky and ground

Fleet Owner

What is likely to happen on the road to autonomous vehicles is partnerships between truck makers and tech companies.

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JDA Software Features Some Exciting New Products at their User Conference

Logistics Viewpoints

JDA Software introduced a robust new control tower solution at their user conference. This SaaS based solution provides real-time visibility to shipments, orders at risk of not being fulfilled, and several other supply chain issues. More importantly it is visibility and remediation. It is worth noting, that being able to tap into the supply chain plans provides a much richer predictive capability than control towers that only use execution data.

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Mack Trucks makes battery refresher standard across lineup for extended life

Fleet Owner

To maximize uptime and significantly extend the life of electrical charging system components, Mack Trucks is making a battery refresher standard on all Mack models.

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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller

As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe

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Effective Reverse Logistics: Protecting the Bottom Line and Gaining Competitive Advantage

Supply Chain Brain

In an increasingly competitive industry, retailers can no longer rely on providing the right product at the right price, with customer service taking center ground in the battle for consumers’ hard-earned cash.

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Are you developing your drivers careers and goals?

Fleet Owner

Fleets that offer drivers career development can get better commitment to fuel economy goals on the road.

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Bull hauler Mary Hooks was told ‘I couldn’t do it, and I was gonna prove ’em wrong’

Overdrive Online

The latest in the "Faces of the Road" series of profiles features Hooks and her 2014 389: "I learned a lot from a lot of people over the years. A lot. There's people out there in Texas., most of them gone today, [who] are credited for whom and what I've become today. Without them, I never would have made it.".

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To Ease the Squeeze of New Tariffs, Focus on Compliance

Supply Chain Brain

A year after tariffs on more than 1,300 Chinese goods first sent importers reeling, the news supply chain managers everywhere have been dreading is finally here.

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GEP Outlook Report 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders have faced their share of disruption and economic turmoil these past four years. Whether from geopolitical tensions or the havoc caused by the pandemic and its aftershocks, plenty of challenges remain. Despite this, leaders are seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel — inflation is decreasing, interest rates are leveling off and supply chain volatility is easing.

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Bendix to expand operations with new building acquisition

Fleet Owner

The 409,000 sq.-ft. facility to support expanding aftermarket business and bolster strategic alignment of manufacturing operations.

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Planning Accuracy…Can You Get Too Much of a Good Thing?

AIMMS

This post was chosen as a winner of Supply Chain Brief’s MVP Awards. F ulfilling the need for resi lience to change in long – term planning while providing accuracy in short – term planning can improve business performance and reduce stress levels. . Attempting to forecast the unforecastable is a tendency of many supply chain professionals.

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Forklift Batteries

Material Handling and Logistics

EnerSys has launched NexSys iON and NexSys PURE batteries, which are advanced Lithium-ion (Li-ion) and Thin Plate Pure Lead (TPPL) solutions for a range of material handling applications.

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CN announces deal to acquire the intermodal division of H&R Transport

Logistics Management

Montreal-based Class I railroad carrier CN announced late last week that it has reached an agreement to acquire the intermodal division of Calgary, Alberta-based H&R Transport Limited.

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How to Create a Blueprint for Fleet Resilience

Speaker: Jeff Dickinson - President and CEO of Railgistixs Transport, Supply Chain and Logistics Thought Leader

Despite the ongoing transformation of the supply chain and logistics landscape, the steadfast importance of carrier safety remains a core principle. From prioritizing preventative maintenance to optimizing fleet utilization, the fundamentals persist. If you’re overlooking and neglecting essential safety precautions today, this could result in expensive repairs and potential safety hazards in the future. 🚧 Join Jeff Dickinson for a conversation on how to mitigate risk, enforce compliance,

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How Logistics Is Proving that Amazon Needs to Be Regulated

Freightos

A version of this article originally appeared on JOC.com. . A few days ago, Amazon announced one day delivery plans. In itself, that’s a big deal, but its significance is compounded when you consider the trucking shipment volumes such a move will require; it’s essentially jet fuel for their new freight brokerage business. Take into account their FBA warehouse footprint, NVOCC license, and SEC reports flagging forwarders as competition, and you have a solid reminder that Amazon is coming for gl

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Agriculture Transportation Coalition share concerns over tariffs

Logistics Management

While most of the alarm over trade war escalation with China has been expressed by leading U.S. retailers and manufacturers dependent on imports, another prominent voice is being raised by the nation’s largest association representing agricultural exporters.

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Inbound Freight Reporting: 16 Ways to Use Freight Data to Evaluate Spend by Supplier

GlobalTranz

When shippers grow too comfortable with inbound freight management activities, mistakes occur, and failure to recognize the signs of poor visibility in inbound freight management will result in higher costs. Fortunately, inbound freight reporting leverages the capability of advanced systems and data-driven workflows to improve visibility and evaluate freight spend by the supplier.

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Cass and Broughton Capital report cites ongoing truckload and intermodal pricing strength

Logistics Management

Truckload rates, which measure linehaul rates, headed up 2.7% annually to 138.4 (January 2005=100), extending a stretch of gains going back to November 2017). This reading is in close range of the 144.2 set in December 2018. On the intermodal side, the report said that on the heels of hitting an all-time high of 151.9 in March, April’s reading dipped 1.4% to 149.8 while still growing 5.6% annually.

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Mastering Order Management: Backorders & Out-of-Stock Inventory

The unfortunate truth is that you will always have low stock and backorder issues with your supply chain. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be prepared to handle them. This brief video explores some of the primary drivers of inventory issues – and how modern technology and best practices can mitigate these issues and ensure a superb customer experience.

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AOBRD to ELD: Fast Track Guide to Fleets

Fleet Owner

Get ready for the December 2019 ELD full compliance deadline.

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Introducing ShipChain’s Backend Services

Shipchain

If you’ve been following our blog , trends in logistics, or just the news in general, by now you know that blockchain is a big deal. Imagine a world in which all of your data is virtually unhackable, secure, and unable to be tampered with. Now imagine removing third-parties and their added costs entirely. You’re looking at higher profits, increased productivity, and fewer instances of unethical business or fraud due to the added transparency.

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Runaway recounted down Sandstone Mountain, and: Revisiting a quite accurate spot rate prediction pre-ELDs

Overdrive Online

Podcast: Lee Epling urges caution pointing the finger at this or that cause, or piling on the driver, before all the facts are known in the Colo. crash case, sharing his own brake-failure story on Sandstone Mountain in W.Va./Va. on I-64; Also: Monte Wiederhold's quite accurate 2017 rates prediction relative to ELDs. Podcast: Lee Epling urges caution pointing the finger at this or that cause, or piling on the driver, before all the facts are known in the Colo. crash case, sharing his own brake-fa

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Aeris IoT + LTE-M: Low Cost, High Functionality

IoT World Today

LTE-M brings new standards for IoT networking by prioritizing low cost, low power, minimal infrastructure, robust reach over massive distances, and scalability advantages for large deployments. Additional benefits gained from LTE-M include: Low Cost Modules: Up to 50% reduction in module costs over comparable IoT devices. Existing Infrastructure: LTE-M can piggyback on existing LTE networks.

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Strategic Cost Management Approaches to Unlock Growth and Increase Profitability

How can businesses gain a competitive edge in an era marked by relentless competition and economic fluctuations? The secret is mastering strategic cost management strategies. This GEP bulletin, "Strategic Cost Management Approaches to Unlock Growth and Increase Profitability," breaks this down into clear, actionable steps. Discover how these strategies can boost your enterprise's financial health, helping not only to keep up but to excel in today's market.

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Planning accuracy…can you get too much of a good thing?

AIMMS

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Logistics and tourism

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

Hi all! As some of you know, I studied Tourism and thinking about what to write, it has occurred to me to analyze Logistics a bit applied to my field. This sector is intimately related to our subject: Logistics problems are those of transport, accommodation, the elaboration of a menu, the organization of a banquet or a congress, the location of a hotel, a travel agency, control the flow of arrival of people to a place (in order to not collapse the place), plan the arrival of a cruise and that ca

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LogiMAT Team Adds Thailand Show to China Event in Asia Expansion

Logistics Business Magazine

LogiMAT organizers EuroExpo have bought Thailand event, ‘Intelligent Warehouse’ The biennial event, ‘Intelligent Warehouse – Logistics Technology, Warehousing and Management Systems’, an exhibition of innovative warehouse systems and future warehouse management with modern technology, was first held in 2015 with a total of 50 local and international exhibitors.

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