Sun.May 14, 2023

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Walmart 'betting big' on Cummins new X15N natural gas engine

Commercial Carrier Journal

Walmart is pleased with a pilot it entered with Cummins to test its new X15N natural gas engine and sees it as an ideal fit for long haul where all-electric and fuel cell fall far short on range.

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Smaller Truckers Are Struggling to Meet Mandates for Going Electric

Supply Chain Brain

Commercial trucking won’t be spared the transition to electric vehicles, but its progress toward adoption tough, especially when it comes to small and medium-sized truckers.

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Eurotunnel’s New Identity: LeShuttle Freight

Logistics Business Magazine

Eurotunnel Le Shuttle Freight has announced a major rebranding initiative. Effective immediately, the service will now be known as LeShuttle Freight. This forms part of a full brand evolution across both the freight and car passenger services, reflecting parent-company Getlink’s ambition to deliver, the safest, fastest and most reliable and carbon environmental-friendly service to cross the Channel.

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Watch: Trends in Deploying New Palletizing Equipment

Supply Chain Brain

Shawn Semer, director of sales and marketing with Signode, lays out the key deciding factors for companies looking to automate processes or integrate new equipment into the warehouse.

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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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FROM A FIREFIGHTER OPERATIONS MODE TO A PREVENTIVE WAY IN LOGISTICS

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

According to a study conducted by McKinsey in 2019, managers spend approximately 80% of their time on urgent problem-solving, many of which could be prevented through the implementation of preventive plans (McKinsey & Company, 2019). During my internship in the Supply Chain department of a company, I was involved in the development of a forecast methodology to anticipate vessel allocation needs.

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End-to-end Supply Chain Visibility is a Problem for Almost Half the APAC Region

Supply Chain Brain

Over half of APAC shipment tracking and logistics asset tracking solutions said that integration challenges are holding back the mass adoption of end-to-end supply chain visibility tools.

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G-7 Finance Chiefs to Add New Supply-Chain Proposal in Statement

Supply Chain Brain

Finance chiefs will propose new supply chain partnerships that’ll be open to other nations and require countries to have standards on human rights and environmental policies.

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The B2B Buyer Experience in an Omnichannel World

Supply Chain Brain

The world of B2B distribution is undergoing fundamental change, and distributors must rise to the occasion.