November, 2022

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Perspective of A Warehouse Robotics Insider

Logistics Viewpoints

An Interview with Warehouse Robotics Veteran, Jon Schechter. Jon Schechter. I live in the Greater Boston area. This provides me with the valuable convenience of visiting with the innovative warehouse robotics companies in this metropolitan area – a large number of companies I called the Greater Boston Robotics Cluster. A few years ago, I met Jon Schechter at a RightHand Robotics (RHR) event.

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4 Keys for Unlocking a Successful Logistics Partnership

Talking Logistics

Logistics remains fragmented and broken, and nearly every participant in the ecosystem is struggling. Cross-border freight with Mexico is a $70.3 billion market, but ongoing strains from shipping delays, looming driver shortages, and fluctuating consumer prices have exposed the fragility of our global supply chains – making the need for industry-wide transformation more urgent than.

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Top Solutions for Supply Chain Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

Digital Twin from Infor Nexus Drives Supply Chain Agility. When it comes to driving supply chain agility there are several solutions that are important, but the key solution is a Multi-enterprise Supply Chain Network (MSCN). A multi-enterprise supply chain network platform provides network-based order fulfillment applications and/or advanced network-based supply chain risk analytics.

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The Cold Chain Logistics Journey of Avocado Toast

Food Logistics

From cross-border logistics to cold chain shipping, logistics companies work around the clock so that consumers can have the foods they want, when they want them, no questions asked.

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Rethinking Supply Chains for Greater Efficiency, Resiliency, and Sustainability

Supply Chains have 3 key priorities: building resiliency, reducing costs and driving ESG performance. Read the new GEP-sponsored report by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services for strategies and digital solutions to achieve these goals.

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3 Smart Ways to Gain Competitive Advantage This Tender Season

Shipsta

With spot rates below the long-term prices, declining port congestion and surplus cargo capacity, shippers are sitting in the driver’s seat position this tender season. Some companies have decided to postpone their tenders to keep playing with spot rates. But going to market without locked capacity for the sake of getting lower prices is a risk not all shippers are willing to take.

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For Veterans Day, DB Schenker Salutes Team Members Who Served in the Military

Now, That's Logistics

DB Schenker honors all of its team members who served in the military, including nine that shared their career, service and life stories with us this Veterans Day. Originally called “Armistice Day,” Veterans Day takes place every November 11 th and is a time for everyone to pay their respects to all those who have served their country. DB Schenker salutes all of the team members who served in the military.

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Port of Long Beach opens first-in-nation EV charging station for heavy trucks

Logistics Management

The Port of Long Beach, the nation’s second-busiest seaport, is first in the nation to open a publicly accessible charging station for heavy-duty electric trucks. The service is provided by the port in partnership with EV Connect, a provider of charge-management solutions for electric vehicles. The station, located in the Port’s Harbor District, has two charging units.

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Editor’s Choice: Aluminum Can Shortage Defines a New Normal for Food Packaging

Logistics Viewpoints

Note: Today’s post is part of our “ Editor’s Choice ” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide supply chain insights and advice. This article is from Chetan Chaudhari at GEP and examines the ongoing aluminum can shortage. This shortage is the culmination of various ongoing issues – geopolitical tensions related to the Russia-Ukraine war, the rapid shift in consumer buying behavior and container freight availability.

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Echo Global Logistics Acquires Fastmore Logistics

Food Logistics

The acquisition provides Echo with a unique point of entry into an expansive network of expedited brokerage for the international freight forwarding market.

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2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Real-time Transportation Visibility Platforms

The 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Real-Time Transportation Visibility Platforms (RTTVP) is here. Are you evaluating supply chain visibility for your business but not sure where to start? Get the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant to learn: How the 9 real-time transportation visibility platform vendors are positioned The features every supply chain leader should care about Why FourKites was recognized as a Leader for Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision Get the report now!

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What Happens When a Self-Driving Truck Suffers a Blowout?

IoT World Today

A powerful new video dramatically illustrates the potential safety benefits of autonomous driving technology. The video, released by California-based self-driving trucking company Kodiak Robotics , demonstrates what happens when a self-driving Class 8 truck – a vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 33,000 pounds – suffers a potentially damaging tire blowout.

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Husband-wife team hauls U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree to Washington, D.C.

Overdrive Online

Husband-and-wife team Ed and Deb Kingdon, who haul for Hardy Brothers Trucking, moved the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree from the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina to Washington, D.C.

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What E-Commerce Is Teaching Us About Returns

Supply Chain Brain

Itamar Zur, co-founder and CEO of next-generation shipping platform Veho, wants e-tailers to fundamentally reframe how they think about the returns side of the business.

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Pilot Freight Services opens up new locations in Austin and Omaha

Logistics Management

Pilot said these new locations will provide shippers with various services, including first, middle, and last mile via air, ground and ocean integrated with Maersk’s logistics and services.

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Geopolitical & Regulatory Issues: The Path Forward in Supply Chain & Logistics

Speaker: Lisa Anderson, MBA, CSCP, CLTD - President of LMA Consulting Group, S&OP Expert, and Speaker

The world of supply chain and logistics has been plagued with volatility, disruptions, and increased regulations. Several issues are converging simultaneously, creating a precarious path forward. In this webinar, we will talk about the current status of the supply chain and what the successful and unsuccessful paths forward will look like. Join demand planning and SIOP expert Lisa Anderson for a riveting discussion evaluating the geopolitical landscape and looking at the bigger picture to create

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No national shortage of diesel fuel

Commercial Carrier Journal

The Energy Information Administration announced last week that distillate levels are at their lowest point since 2008, but that was coming out of peak demand, and we're currently headed into increased demand.

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Trinity Logistics Makes WIT’s Top Companies For Women List For Fourth Year

Trinity Logistics

Trinity Logistics, a leading third-party logistics (3PL) company, is proud to announce its earned recognition as a Top Company for Women in Transportation by the Women In Trucking Association for a fourth year. . The Women In Trucking Association (WIT) is a non-profit organization with the mission to encourage the employment of women in the trucking industry, promote their accomplishments, and minimize obstacles faced by women working in the industry.

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Partnership Brings Asset Tracking to Pathology Samples

IoT World Today

Binary Tech has announced a new collaboration with Roche Diagnostics, deploying Binary’s mobile asset tracking devices to monitor pathology samples and identify issues that occur during transportation. The partnership is intended to enable greater supply chain sustainability and transparency, and catch contaminated or damaged samples before they enter the lab.

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FMCSA's female trucking board aims at biggest issues

Overdrive Online

Though it's a panel of 16 accomplished women in trucking, two members' accounts of the meeting illustrate how issues discussed -- from training practices and crime prevention to parking and more -- could have a big impact on all of trucking.

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Future Focus: Constructing Unshakeable Stability in Your Manufacturing Supply Chain

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

We’ve all heard the buzzwords to describe new supply chain trends: resiliency, sustainability, AI, machine learning. But what do these really mean today? Over the past few years, manufacturing has had to adapt to and overcome a wide variety of supply chain trends and disruptions to stay as stable as possible. Stability has become key in this post-COVID world, and will remain key moving forward.

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The Battery Supply Chain Is Finally Coming to America

Supply Chain Brain

Redwood Materials Inc., the battery recycling company, has reached a deal to supply Panasonic with billions of dollars in critical battery components that will be produced in the U.S. for the first time. .

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Transportation Best Practices and Trends: Hand of regulation weighs heavy

Logistics Management

We take our annual dive into the world of trucking regulations and explore what’s happening and what could lie ahead for both carriers and shippers as they attempt to stay afloat in the jetsam of acronyms and agencies.

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Torc Robotics autonomous truck delivers a safe, impressive and mostly boring ride

Commercial Carrier Journal

Daimler subsidiary Torc Robotics gave CCJ a memorable ride inside one of their autonomous Freightliners this week in Albuquerque, New Mexico where the truck proved impressive when reacting to a risky driver.

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Fusion Fuel, Electus Development Supports Hydrogen Fuel for Class 8 Trucks

NGT News

Fusion Fuel and Electus Energy have entered into an exclusive joint venture agreement to develop a large-scale green hydrogen project in Bakersfield, Calif. The proposed project is a roughly 75 MW solar-to-hydrogen facility using Fusion Fuel´s HEVO technology, capable of producing up to 9,300 tons of green hydrogen per annum including nighttime operation.

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ESG Reporting: It Is Inevitable, But It Doesn’t Mean That It Must Be Complicated

In these challenging times, climate change must inevitably be a top-of-mind priority. We need to act now by making the right decisions. 2022 was the year of corporate commitments to sustainability, and 2023 is the year where promises become proposals, mission statements become metrics, and aims become actions. New regulations have been set regarding the corporates, and they must comply.

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Plug-and-Play Self-Driving Truck Technology Revealed

IoT World Today

Self-driving tech startup Waabi has unveiled a new turnkey solution to deliver autonomous trucks. The Toronto-based company has revealed the Waabi Driver, a full-stack autonomy solution that comprises a sensor suite, software and computing power, and can be integrated by OEMs into semi trucks as part of the manufacturing process, allowing for large-scale commercialization.

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Only 25 days of diesel left?

Overdrive Online

Critically low diesel inventories after President Joe Biden's move to drain the Strategic Petroleum Reserves in hopes of pushing fuel prices lower are setting off alarm bells across the oil industry.

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The New Supply Chain Mindset: From Just-in-Time to Just-In Case

Supply Chain Brain

The new generation of consumers is changing demand patterns, making them more unpredictable than ever before.Succeeding under these conditions begins with three simple changes.

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House approves bill focused on reaching a deal between railroad carriers and labor unions

Logistics Management

The uncertainty regarding the impasse between freight rail carriers and rail labor unions received some potential clarity earlier today, when the United States House of Representatives signed off on H.J. Res. 100, whose objective is to “provide for a resolution with respect to the unresolved differences between certain railroads represented by the National Carriers’ Conference Committee of the National Railway Labor Conference and certain of their employees,” according to the bill’s text.

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Return to Success: Streamlining Returns in the Supply Chain for Enhanced Efficiency

Speaker: Cathy Morrow Roberson, Research Manager for the Reverse Logistics Association

In today's competitive business landscape, providing a seamless return experience and maintaining an efficient supply chain are critical to customer satisfaction and loyalty. Businesses need to leverage advanced tracking systems and data analytics to identify bottlenecks and improve supply chain visibility. Efficient return management stands as a crucial strategy for optimizing the supply chain.