Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2020

Omni-channel business models often lead to more complicated global supply chains. With the main focus on maximizing time and cost efficiencies, cargo risk management is often skipped over despite being a critical step in protecting your company. Due to the global outbreak of the coronavirus, many global shippers are recognizing the value in a risk management plan to best prepare themselves for the current situation and others like it in the future.

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WorkWave

APRIL 2, 2020

Time To Read: 4 minutes. With businesses in every industry working to adapt to a changing climate amid the COVID-19 outbreak, now is a crucial time for your last-mile delivery business. While other businesses struggle with decreased demand and hesitant customers, those tasked with delivering goods—from restaurant takeout and groceries to home goods and entertainment items—are working hard to meet demands while their customers are self-quarantining and stuck at home.

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Stord

APRIL 2, 2020

April 3, 2020 Supply chains are scrambling to adapt to COVID-19, an unprecedented event that couldn’t be forecasted in demand planning. Some companies are pivoting to the production of a completely different product , and others are struggling to keep up with the surge in customer demand. Supply chain professionals are starting to make their supply chains more resilient to sudden changes like these, but how can they manage rising transportation costs right now?

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WorkWave

APRIL 2, 2020

Time To Read: 5 minutes. The ongoing outbreak of COVID-19 is an unprecedented event for most businesses, shaping everything from the services that are permitted to operate to the way in which customers expect their services to be carried out. It is certainly a challenge for field service businesses, with nearly everyone seeking out new ways to carry on with their work while simultaneously protecting their staff and customers.

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Logistics Management

APRIL 2, 2020

With the 5th annual “Ports Day to held April 5th, those of us in the logistics community recognize the vital role ocean cargo gateways play in maintaining our nation’s health.

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Freightos

APRIL 2, 2020

As COVID-19 spreads and nations across the globe take measures to contain it, the impacts to the supply chain have been dramatic, fast-changing, and many. While we stay on top of all the rapid changes, we’ve also come across a lot of great online resources covering the coronavirus’ impact across the world from many different perspectives particularly COVID-19’s supply chain impact.

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Logistics Management

APRIL 2, 2020

Following its February announcement that it inked it inked an agreement to acquire El Segundo, Calif.-based Performance Team, a provider of warehousing and distribution service, in a move geared towards augmenting its end-to-end supply chain service offerings, Copenhagen, Denmark-based A.P. Moeller Maersk, an integrated container logistics services provider, announced yesterday that the deal has been made official.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 2, 2020

China says almost all of its major industrial companies have resumed production and that its ports are again running at near-full capacity after a two-month Coronavirus-linked shutdown. The revival comes, however, as Western countries lock down their societies and economies in a bid to contain the pandemic, sparking disruption at key international seaports and airports and a fall-off in demand in China’s traditional markets.

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Kane is Able

APRIL 2, 2020

During a recent meeting with KANE associates, our long-time business partner, Sam’s Club, reminded the team that they were “the backbone of this economy right now.”. It was a heartfelt comment that cut right to the heart of the matter – without logistics workers, the supply lines for essential goods like food and household staples stop flowing and commerce grinds to a halt.

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NGT News

APRIL 2, 2020

HAM Group has acquired 11 new Scania R 410 tractors that will join their fleet at Transportes HAM, a company in the road transport sector that specializes in cryogenic and flammable products. The company’s fleet of vehicles is exclusively powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG), which allows them to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. LNG […].

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Kane is Able

APRIL 2, 2020

During a recent meeting with KANE associates, our long-time business partner, Sam’s Club, reminded the team that they were “the backbone of this economy right now.”. It was a heartfelt comment that cut right to the heart of the matter – without logistics workers, the supply lines for essential goods like food and household staples stop flowing and commerce grinds to a halt.

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Logistics Management

APRIL 2, 2020

Download the guide and learn best practices for utilizing the next generation of performance-improvement technology in your supply chain.

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Freight Center

APRIL 2, 2020

In light of COVID-19, businesses around the world are implementing plans to safeguard their customers and employees to keep them safe which is a must. But with each passing day, we are realizing the scope of the economic ripple effect also. Industries in the United States and around the world have been impacted, including freight shipping. Small businesses who heavily rely on freight shipping to move their products are facing struggles to keep their products moving.

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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

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Logistics Manager

APRIL 2, 2020

DNV GL has announced that Anglo-Eastern has completed the successful roll-out of Navigator Port to its fleet of more than 600 vessels. DNV GL’s Navigator Port software is used daily onboard several thousand ships worldwide for management of port documentation, assisting seafarers in navigating the administrative and regulatory complexity of port clearance and passage through controlled waters.

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Logistics Management

APRIL 2, 2020

The current state of trucking utilization and its subsequent impact on the broader carrier and transportation community can be viewed as something that is hard to forecast and is more assumption-based. That is the word from Avery Vise, Vice President of Trucking for freight transportation consultancy FTR during a recent Webcast the firm hosted, which focused on the impact of coronavirus, of COVID-19, on freight transportation operations.

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United World Transporation

APRIL 2, 2020

There have been several news reports in the last week on the topic of driver amenities, more specifically, the lack of driver amenities available during the COVID-19 pandemic. Small amenities that made driving for hours at a time bearable, such as hot food, coffee, and showers are now harder to find. According to USA Today , these restrictions have made truck drivers jobs much more difficult, and forcing some to cook for themselves in their trucks as restaurants across the nation shut down.

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Logistics Manager

APRIL 2, 2020

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. ( MOL ) have announced that the company will launch a trial of a new monitoring service for auxiliary marine machinery, jointly developed with Asahi Kasei Engineering Corporation. MOL says that the service is based on the Vessel Vibration Visualization Monitor (V-MO), which measures vibrations in auxiliary machinery onboard a vessel.

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NGT News

APRIL 2, 2020

Envision Solar International Inc., a producer of sustainable infrastructure products for electric vehicle (EV) charging, has launched the upgraded generation of EV ARC solar-powered EV charging infrastructure products. The upgraded EV ARC series, already used in more than 100 U.S. municipalities, has a reengineered S-curved column with electronic components and energy storage elevated to the […].

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Logistics Manager

APRIL 2, 2020

The port of Rotterdam is and remains open for business, despite the far-reaching impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on society and the economy. That is Allard Castelein’s message for the Netherlands, which owes more than 6% of its earning power and 385,000 jobs to the existence of the port of Rotterdam. Mr. Castelein said: “In view of the economic significance of the port, it makes complete sense that shipping handling has been designated by the Dutch government as a vitally important pr

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Chronicled

APRIL 2, 2020

In our first blogpost we provided an overview of the Contracts & Chargebacks solution. Here we walk through how the Contracts & Chargebacks solution compliments the current industry process with data, updates and chargeback claims flowing through the MediLedger Network. Step 1: GPO Roster Updates Roster updates are received real time by manufacturers and distributors, with agreed upon rules to ensure that the data is accurate and complete.

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Logistics Marketing Advisors

APRIL 2, 2020

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was coordinating a marketing planning session at a Chicago hotel with most of the management team for the 3PL that I then ran marketing for. When the news about the World Trade Center attack hit, the rest of that morning was spent absorbing the devastating news and communicating with loved ones. But it was clear no one was traveling home, even if they wanted to, since all flights were cancelled.

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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,

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Chronicled

APRIL 2, 2020

In 2019, the Product Verification System on MediLedger was launched to enable the verification of saleable returned medicine in the US. This decentralized solution, powered by blockchain, has started the transformation of how companies in the Life Science industry will do business together. More than 95% of medication resold in the US will be verified on the MediLedger Network.

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UL EHS- Sustainability

APRIL 2, 2020

Have you ever received workplace training that was irrelevant to your role? Each employee needs a different set of learning materials and requirements. As a learning administrator, you should have control over the types of learning your employees see. But manual assignments and tracking can be a waste of time. You need to create personalized learning paths and automatically push training out based on a variety of employee data points – time employed, job role, department, or anything you can pul

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

APRIL 2, 2020

Like the yesterday’s class showed that the warehouse has five basic operations: receiving, put away to storage, order picking, order grouping/unitizing, shipping. We can see many changes in current warehouse system. Now I want to share you with the unmanned sorting warehouse. Jingdong was the first company that has built a system about totally unmanned warehouse.

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Globalior

APRIL 2, 2020

FCA Incoterms 2020 : A Few Quick Points Free Carrier (FCA) Incoterms can be used for all modes of transport. Risk transfers from seller to buyer when the carrier collects the cargo either after the goods are loaded on the arriving transport at the seller’s warehouse or when the goods are ready for unloading from the seller’s transport at an agreed place The buyer must arrange for carriage to the agreed destination ( named place ) The buyer must pay for transport costs to the agreed d

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World Food Programme Logistics

APRIL 2, 2020

Cash assistance based on forecasts is helping communities in the Philippines to prepare for shocks and recover more quickly Participants in WFP’s forecast-based financing programme whose families were among the 430 most vulnerable households from Irosin municipality, Sorsogon province, selected to receive cash assistance as the region entered into peak flooding season.

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MercuryGate

APRIL 2, 2020

In early February, Steve Banker of Forbes described the issue of the novel coronavirus, now officially known as COVID-19, as a major supply chain disruptor. His words indicated companies could hope to contain and avoid such disruption. China had already implemented lockdowns in Wuhan and enacted travel restrictions. As we now know, the virus has […].

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World Food Programme Logistics

APRIL 2, 2020

Budding chefs in Turkey turn the tables on COVID-19 Kitchen of Hope project goes online so hundreds of young trainees stay on track Students view MUV tutor Yaren Carpar, right, filming herself cooking. Photos: WFP/Supplied As measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 come into force, making face-to-face training in a classroom impossible, the World Food Programme is continuing its flagship culinary training programme in Turkey online.

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