Tue.Feb 15, 2022

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Building a Strategy for National Fulfillment Services

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

If your company ships products nationally, you know the fulfillment environment has never been more demanding. Customers’ expectations for rapid delivery have risen to never-before-seen levels, and their impatience and frustration when you fall short of those expectations can send them looking at your competitors with fresh eyes. Those expectations apply heightened pressure on the need to have national fulfillment services that are efficient and fast – without coming attached with higher costs.

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Key Supply Chain Trends for 2022 and Beyond | PLS Logistics Services

PLS Logistics

As the supply chain industry is constantly evolving, it can be challenging for business leaders and supply chain managers to stay on top. So, this year, instead of reacting, companies will be proactive and stay in front of the global supply chain disruption with these top supply chain trends to look for in 2022.

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Sellers' market: Owner-operators adapt to skyrocketing used-truck prices with tight volume

Overdrive Online

Despite used trucks being the preferred route for many owner-operators, finding a used truck today at a comfortable price is more challenging than ever due to the COVID-19 pandemic and delays in new truck production caused by component shortages.

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How Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) can drive business performance

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Manufacturing companies already know that digital technologies, such as the Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 , are transforming the way the industry operates. For many, however, figuring out where to begin the digital journey remains a challenge. These disruptive technologies are often viewed as aspirational and talked about on a macro scale, so it’s reasonable to ask how you can start applying them in a way that immediately streamlines production processes on the shop floor.

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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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Emissions systems, while improved, still causing issues for some owners

Overdrive Online

A combined 46% of used-truck buyers reported having to rebuild or conduct other engine work or having issues with emissions system components. By model year, owner-ops report 2016 and newer engines fare better on emissions issues.

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BorgWarner Integrates AKASOL AG Following Acquisition

NGT News

BorgWarner Inc. has completed its acquisition of AKASOL AG. The business combination is expected to significantly strengthen the company’s commercial vehicle and industrial electrification capabilities. “We are pleased to complete our acquisition of AKASOL and welcome AKASOL’s talented employees in Germany and the United States to BorgWarner,” states Frédéric Lissalde, president and CEO of BorgWarner. […].

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Flexible Automation and the Future of the Human Workforce

Supply Chain Brain

Discover how to build an automation strategy that leverages humans and machines, reduces operating costs, creates rewarding job opportunities, and delivers impactful results to boost your bottom line.

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California DMS Awards Regulatory Certification for FLO’s Metered Energy Billing

NGT News

FLO has officially obtained certification from California’s Division of Measurement Standards (DMS) for its compliance under the California Type Evaluation Program (CTEP) for its CoRe+ and SmartTwo Level 2 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. This milestone allows FLO’s clients in California to benefit from a certified energy billing process based on actual measurement in kWh […].

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Entering Post-Covid Supply Chain Planning

LandLink

The end of Covid may be in sight. With that in mind we must prepare for supply chain fluctuations as we emerge from this pandemic. Rarely have supply-chain leaders faced more complex, changing conditions than they have during the COVID-19 pandemic. We’re in uncharted territory. Not only should our planning be focused upon post-Covid planning but to also must include future pandemic readiness planning.

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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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U.S. DOE Selects 68 R&D Advanced Energy Technologies in 22 States

NGT News

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $175 million for 68 research and development projects aimed at developing disruptive technologies to strengthen the nation’s advanced energy enterprise. Led by DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), the OPEN 2021 program prioritizes funding high-impact, high-risk technologies that support novel approaches to clean energy challenges.

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project44 Allows Public to Follow Supply Chain Crisis Data

Food Logistics

Inspired by the latest supply chain disrupter, the Freedom Convoy in Canada, project44 releases an online portal designed to let the public see real-time insight and data on the global movement of goods.

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Wise EV Utilizes Tritium’s DC Fast Chargers for New National EV Charging Network

NGT News

Tritium DCFC Ltd., a developer and manufacturer of direct current (DC) fast chargers for electric vehicles (EV), has partnered with Wise EV, a Wise Power subsidiary, to provide fast chargers for a new national EV charging network. The charging network is expected to start with 25 locations throughout Florida, with DC fast chargers at major […].

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Transportation Cost and Capacity Trends

Now, That's Logistics

As shippers either figuratively or literally flipped the calendar page over to 2022, the hope was that at least some of the capacity crunches, driver shortages, labor issues and freight rate increases that took hold in 2021 would begin to heal themselves and create a more balanced transportation marketplace. Unfortunately, this didn’t happen. In fact, many shippers are facing the same challenges that they were grappling with in 2021—now compounded by issues like the Omicron variant, persistent s

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

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.

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SunCommon Installs Fast DC EV Chargers in Vermont

NGT News

Vermonters and visitors to the state alike have a new way to charge up when they drive their electric vehicles. SunCommon, an iSun company, is installing fast solar-powered, EV chargers at a new charging station located in South Burlington. The new charging station includes two direct current (DC) fast chargers provided by ChargePoint. In fact, […].

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10 Commercial Fleet Management Trends to Watch in 2022

RasTrac

Another year has come and gone. While the COVID-19 outbreak did a lot to shake up the commercial fleet management market, there are still numerous trends from earlier years that are continuing despite the disruption.

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Bergey's Truck Centers acquires Cumberland Truck

Fleet Owner

The acquisition brings 24 locations to Bergey's network, including 15 truck centers, eight truck parts locations, and a heavy-duty parts warehouse, providing truck sales, leasing, rental, parts, industrial supplies, and commercial tires services.

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8 Best Customer Service Tips For Your Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

Many organizations still struggle with developing and managing their supply chains’ customer service. As a consequence, some customers are over serviced, and additional cost is incurred. And on the other side of the coin, some customers are under-serviced and may not be happy. Here are 8 simple steps to ensuring your customer service is appropriate and well managed.

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What Your Order Management System Should Be Doing

To continue scaling your omnichannel business, you need to manage a lot of orders across a lot of different channels and marketplaces. Some brands do this by hand. Some try to force their ERP to manage it. Others rely on a complex system of cross-referencing the dashboards of their various channels. None of these is an effective or sustainable solution.

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February Freight Market Update

Trinity Logistics

Stay up to date on the latest information on condition’s impacting the freight market, curated by Trinity Logistics with special thanks to our friends from Broughton Capital LLC. Not interested in reading? Watch the video instead and hear more from our team about the current reefer transportation market. This month, with the assistance of our partners at Broughton Capital LLC, we want to take a deep dive into the refrigerated transportation market.

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Dematic hosts live customer service broadcast

Logistics Business Magazine

Intelligent automation specialist Dematic is inviting customers and journalists to a live broadcast on 10th March featuring Dematic Customer Service and the benefits of analytic solutions. Dematic Customer Service offers a wide variety of innovative service solutions such as advanced predictive maintenance capabilities for keeping your equipment, software, and systems operating at peak performance.

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What Is CO2 Removal? How to Avoid Buying Dodgy Carbon Offsets

Supply Chain Brain

The challenge of carbon removal is overwhelming.

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How is ETA for food delivery calculated?

Loginext

How is ETA for food delivery calculated? Many times, while ordering food, one parameter a customer takes into account is the estimated time of delivery (ETA in food delivery jargon). At a rudimentary level, restaurants used to estimate this depending on the type of food and where it has to be delivered. But these […].

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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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Shipping Hazmat Cargo in Ocean Containers

I.C.E. Transport

Hazmat cargo. The phrase can conjure images of skull & crossbones stickers on steel drums with contents that can melt through just about anything. But when it comes to shipping, even some common items in your house are considered hazmat – like paint, perfume, deodorant, glue, and glass cleaners.

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How to Leverage a Rate Repository to Control Logistics Freight Costs

MercuryGate

Transportation carbon emissions are a major threat to the planet, and left unchecked, they have the potential to cause vast devastation and limit the abilities of humanity to thrive. Carbon emissions have risen in recent years, but as social media has grown and politics have evolved, ESG initiatives have become more commonplace. The post How to Leverage a Rate Repository to Control Logistics Freight Costs appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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Prologis helps trainees find logistics jobs

Logistics Business Magazine

A Northamptonshire-based training facility is helping to upskill the next generation of logistics workers. The Hub, based at Prologis RFI DIRFT in Daventry, is a purpose-built facility, which is home to Prologis UK ’s Warehousing and Logistics Training Programme (PWLTP). After launching in 2021, the PWLTP is helping young and unemployed people in the Northamptonshire and wider SEMLEP area gain the skills, knowledge and competencies to find a job and build a career in logistics.

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What's the Best Logistics Software For My Fleet?

Trux

If you’re like many fleet owners/managers today, you’ve been giving serious consideration to adopting digital technology to improve your operations.

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How to Conduct Workplace Incident Investigations to Create Safer Workplaces

This white paper provides a comprehensive overview of global workplace incident trends, focusing on the top three biases leading to such incidents. It also highlights the significance of CSA Z1005 as a risk management standard and outlines the ROI of thorough incident investigations, covering emergency response to post-incident interviews. Additionally, it introduces an Investigation Evidence Gathering Matrix.

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Quicker, slicker multi-site implementation

Logistics Business Magazine

A leading online farmer-to-farmer and ag tech company has been able to fast-track its expansion plans thanks to a tailored ‘Self Implementation’ programme from WMS provider, SnapFulfil , that enables customers to onboard the solution themselves. With demand for their products and services soaring, Farmers Business Network (FBN) needed to quickly increase its warehouse capacity with the opening of 14 new DCs across the American Midwest in 2021, whilst retaining greater cost, labour and inventory

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Freightera Employee Spotlight: Yelena Davidovic

Freightera

A Client Care Manager For the Ages, a Problem Solver Extraordinaire and a Pet Owner . Today we take a short break and a step back from freight shipping to celebrate one of the industry’s finest: Yelena Davidovic, the Client Care Manager at Freightera. We did a short interview with Yelena, where we talked about her and her experience at Freightera. .

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GEODIS to open Dresden logistics centre

Logistics Business Magazine

GEODIS plans to open a new multi-user logistics facility in Coswig. The new facility meets the latest environmental and safety standards and is scheduled to be ready for occupancy in October of this year. The new logistics centre in the Dresden area is an example of the global transport and logistics service provider’s continued expansion in Germany.