Tue.Nov 14, 2017

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5 Ways to Ensure Your Supply Chain Stability

3PL Insights

A stable supply chain should help manage risk and enhance productivity by protecting your brand reputation and increasing revenue. Employ these 5 tips to ensure supply chain stability: 1. Monitor sources. Ensure that your suppliers are stable and able to provide for your needs by understanding all tiers of the supply chain and the nature and importance of each tier.

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Urban Density, Changes in Technology and Last Mile Delivery: What Can Cities Do?

Blue Grace Logistics

. With the rise of e-commerce and technological improvements in transportation, like autonomous vehicles and increasing urban density, we are witnessing a historic transformation in our cities. Future trends in freight movement is a “hot topic” in policy and supply chain circles. With so many changes ahead, a key question emerges: Can cities cope?

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The Current State of the Shipping Capacity Crunch

GlobalTranz

The shipping capacity crunch is not a new topic, but the end of 2017 is shaping up to reveal an unprecedented crunch, reports Chris Brady of Logistics Viewpoints. An active hurricane season, the forthcoming implementation deadline for electronic logging devices (ELD) and record-shattering projections for the upcoming holiday shipping season reflect some of the top factors affecting the current state shipping capacity crunch.

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Is Ocean Freight Procurement keeping you up at night

Logistics Portal

Ocean Freight Procurement Is Ocean Freight Procurement keeping you up at night? Improve your ocean freight negotiations!

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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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Moving Forward with Blockchain in the Supply Chain

Talking Logistics

The digital currency called Bitcoin has been in the news recently as its value has skyrocketed to over $6,500 per coin, with speculators pouring money into exchanges hoping to make an easy profit. As Bitcoin becomes more popular (and controversial!), the technology behind Bitcoin, called blockchain, has gained interest as well. However, Bitcoin is not blockchain, and the blockchain is not Bitcoin; let’s delve a bit deeper into the subject.