Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

JULY 12, 2019

This is the second in a series of blogs based on Amware’s new eBook titled “Your Marketing Fulfillment Program Sucks: 7 Ways Poor Literature Management and Distribution Practices Undermine Your Marketing Results.”. A sales rep walks into a client’s office to introduce a new product. When the pitch concludes, the client asks for more information. No problem, says the sales rep; I’ll send you our brochure and a spec sheet right away.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JULY 12, 2019

The company will retrain 100,000 warehouse workers by 2025 to allow employees to move into more highly skilled jobs within the company or find new careers outside of Amazon.

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SIPMM Professional Publications

JULY 12, 2019

Today’s highly increasing competitiveness over the process industry demands high quality and most consistent products with a competitive price. To address this challenge, many industries considered creating various new product designs and integrated manufacturing techniques in conjuncture with the use of automated machines and devices. One remarkable and influential move to tackle the challenge is […].

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NGT News

JULY 12, 2019

The Fort Worth Transportation Authority (Trinity Metro) has awarded New Flyer of America Inc. a contract for four heavy-duty, 35-foot Xcelsior CHARGE battery-electric buses. Trinity Metro provides public transportation in Fort Worth, Texas, and other cities in Tarrant County, which is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. The New Flyer buses support a new […].

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SIPMM Professional Publications

JULY 12, 2019

Data Centre industry is very competitive nowadays with a growing number of data centre operators in the region that are able to provide a more comprehensive suite of services to support enterprise requirement. In order to compete and stand out from other data centres, besides focusing on its product and services offerings, the data centre […].

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SIPMM Professional Publications

JULY 12, 2019

Sourcing for mining and natural resources, where regulatory compliance and product quality are top priorities, increasing value without compromising service levels is crucial. The lowest cost option is not always the best choice. The strategic sourcing initiatives help organizations to analyze current spend against the marketplace, spend analysis, or benchmarking to identify practical and beneficial […].

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Fleet Owner

JULY 12, 2019

Barry has already curbed about half the production of energy resources in the Gulf of Mexico, helping lift oil prices to a seven-week high.

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SIPMM Professional Publications

JULY 12, 2019

An effective procurement strategy is not only a financial plan to manage the budget but also the workflow, and production timelines while keeping everything aligned with the company objectives. With the volatile market of the oil and gas industry, procurement plays an important role in ensuring supply of items and services are within budget allocation, […].

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Overdrive Online

JULY 12, 2019

Clifford Petersen on detention-issue engagement as comment period continues through September: Without considerable driver engagement, detentions issues "will not change in favor of the driver but rather sway with whichever the way the winds of voters and lobbyists blow.".

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2019

They’ve done it again! The US Women’s National Soccer Team has won a fourth World Cup championship in Lyon, France last Sunday. This victory also marked back-to-back World Cup championships, which is the first time a women’s team has accomplished the feat, joining only men’s winners Italy (1934, 1938) and Brazil (1958, 1962). To say this team faced a lot of adversity is an understatement.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 12, 2019

For those running an e-commerce business, summertime means preparing for the next peak seasons: Back-to-School, Halloween and the holiday shopping season.

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Fleet Owner

JULY 12, 2019

Supreme, a Wabash National company, recently added Gruau refrigerated inserts to its upfit solutions for cargo vans.

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Logistics Management

JULY 12, 2019

While trade tensions with China have already disrupted many U.S. supply chains, analysts suggest that a recalibration of shipping and sourcing destinations is long overdue. Emerging markets might finally live up to their potential and keep globalization on track.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 12, 2019

The used car salesman lives on. I’ve been searching online for a used car to buy for my daughter before she heads back to college. Nothing fancy, nothing too expensive. I found a car at a Honda dealership about an hour away. I called them and spoke to Philip there about the car: How did. The post Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (July 12, 2019) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Logistics Management

JULY 12, 2019

Roseville, Minnesota-based LME Inc., a Midwestern regional less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier, has shuttered its operations. A notice on LME’s website that was posted yesterday, July 11, stated that: “Effective immediately LME will no longer be accepting any pickups,” and the link to its social media channels was no longer operable.

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Fleet Owner

JULY 12, 2019

More warehouses and retailers are looking to robotics as labor market tightens.

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Logistics Management

JULY 12, 2019

Chicago-based transportation management services provider Coyote Logistics, a subsidiary of freight transportation and logistics services bellwether UPS, this week introduced a new program and digital freight platform upgrades to better meet the needs and challenges shippers and carriers are facing.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JULY 12, 2019

"China will see more factory shutdowns as the trade war that’s roiled the global supply chain exacerbates an exodus.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 12, 2019

The growth of omnichannel is subject to hype and fact. Some supply chain leaders and experts argue omnichannel is the improper term to describe the state of warehouse transformation today. Others voice concern over how warehouse transformation could increase costs when not adequately managed. Supply chain leaders need to understand why an omnichannel warehouse requires.read More.

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Logistics Management

JULY 12, 2019

The American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN), a philanthropic, industry-wide organization that provides free logistics assistance to disaster relief organizations before, during and after catastrophic events, this week issued a statement, calling on United States Gulf Coast residents to follow local advisories and warnings­­––and asking logistics professionals to be at the ready––with Tropical Storm Barry continuing to intensify.

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NGT News

JULY 12, 2019

Thomas Built Buses Inc. has introduced the Saf-T-Liner C2 propane autogas school bus equipped with the new Driveforce 8.8L LPG engine, produced by Powertrain Solutions Integration. According to Thomas Built Buses, the new engine offers increased torque for hill-climbing power while maintaining lower engine speeds, resulting in improved fuel economy.

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Logistics Management

JULY 12, 2019

Rail carloads, at 220,759, were off 8.2% annually, and intermodal units, at 227,700, saw a 6.9% annual decline.

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NGT News

JULY 12, 2019

Stealth Power, a provider of idle-reduction technology, is working with the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) to reduce fuel consumption in their ambulances, cut operational costs and lower carbon emissions. According to Stealth Power, FDNY responds to almost 2 million emergencies every year, serving more than 8.5 million people within a 302-square-mile area.

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Logistics Management

JULY 12, 2019

The official release of the report—which took place on June 18th at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.—sets our editorial staff on a quest to put context around the report and what it’s findings mean to freight transportation management in terms of service, capacity and rates.

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World Food Programme Logistics

JULY 12, 2019

How the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is connecting the dots between emergency response and sustainable livelihoods Continue reading on World Food Programme Insight ».

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Logistics Management

JULY 12, 2019

State of 3PL: More mergers and aquisitions on the horizon

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Penske Move Ahead

JULY 12, 2019

Due to Tropical Storm/Hurricane Barry, the following Penske Truck Leasing facilities in southern Louisiana will close Friday, July 12, 2019 at 6 p.m. local time and will remain closed all day Saturday, July 13: 7189-10. 7191-10. 7192-10. 0511-10. Please call our 24/7 Roadside Assistance team at 1-800-526-0798 to confirm the open or closed status of a Penske facility.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 12, 2019

On its stand at IMHX 2019 JCB will showcase models from the multi-award winning Teletruk range of telescopic lift trucks, including the newly launched JCB 30-19E – the first electric-powered machine in the Teletruk range. The JCB Teletruk has revolutionised materials handling operations in builders merchants, ports, recycling centres and industrial facilities around the world since it was first unveiled in 1997.

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