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Is It Possible to Achieve Perfect Order Fulfillment? (In a Word, Yes)

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

If you could use only one KPI to guide your fulfillment operations, what would you choose – and why? Here at Amware, we don’t even have to think twice, because we’ve recently begun using and sharing a metric that’s about as close to perfect as you can get.

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Building the Business Case for TMS Integration Amid Uncertainty

GlobalTranz

Building a winning business case for an advanced transportation management system (TMS) is not a small task. A successful business case allows companies to market themselves to various carriers, improve customer service, and lower freight spend. The great functionalities of a TMS, including “planning (i.e. rating, optimization, etc.), execution (i.e. tendering), in-transit management, and post-delivery.read More.

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Technologies for Improving Logistics Productivity

SIPMM Professional Publications

Technologies innovations are making diverse across logistics industry might be one of the most affected segments.Substantial utilization of manual procedures and a lot of information put away in various manners and in better places, the logistics business has maybe the most to pick up from executing new advances and following the most inventive technologies innovation […].

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Why Food Manufacturers Need to Choose A 3PL Provider Who Adapts to Change

Trinity Logistics

Food manufacturers have to stay on top of changes, so they don’t fall behind or lose loyal customers. Consumer trends and interests often change, or other market disruptions come out of nowhere. Consumers today care more about health, fast shipping, and the environment. Food safety regulations and unexpected disruptions like the coronavirus have changed the market.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Post Covid-19 Fulfillment Channels – Predicting Tomorrow’s New Normal

Logistics Viewpoints

The Covid-19 pandemic s causing a massive increase in e-grocery and consumer good demand, paired with home delivery or pick-up at store. This rapid increase is overwhelming the direct-to-consumer channel capacities of many retailers including Amazon. But how much of this increase will remain, and how much will revert to the prior state once the pandemic recedes?

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Warehouse Technology: 7 Important Technologies in 2020

Cyzerg

Warehouse technology is an effective, sustainable, and cost-efficient solution to addressing the challenges of the warehouse. Especially now, when the market is transitioning to e-commerce platforms that are accessible and open 24/7/365, it is becoming increasingly crucial to move warehouses from relying too heavily on costly human labor and into a more automated and technology-focused operation – a transition called “Warehouse Digitalization.”.

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How to Properly Manage Your Warehouse Overflow

ShipLilly

If your company has reached full storage capacity in its warehouses, it likely translates to a hit in terms of productivity. Unorganized or otherwise crowded Isles can impact the efficiency of your Warehouse which then causes your operations to get backed up and can negatively impact your bottom line. Properly managing the inventory in your warehouse becomes a challenge for any business in this scenario but dealing with it doesn’t have to be.

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The Right Talent – Recruiting, Training, and Retaining with Ryan Schreiber

The Logistics of Logistics

The post The Right Talent – Recruiting, Training, and Retaining with Ryan Schreiber appeared first on The Logistics of Logistics.

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Essential Logistical Process for Cold Chain Operations

SIPMM Professional Publications

Although globalisation significantly reduces the vastness between various regions worldwide, the physical division of these same regions is still a prominent reality. As the distances between regions widen, the higher the possibility that shipments are susceptible to damages in any complex transport operations. Damages to goods can range from impacts to undesired temperature fluctuations inclusively, […].

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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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The Foodservice Distributors Need Help Too

Food Logistics

The foodservice industry's inclusion in one of Congress’ relief packages will allow us to stand ready, when this current crisis passes, to refill the pantries, freezers and refrigerators of America’s favorite restaurants.

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Editor’s Choice: Digital Transformation Takes More than the Wave of a Wand

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. Today’s article is from Kinaxis. Digital transformation. It sounds oh-so-glamorous at first. But digitization is not a panacea for the world’s (or even just one company’s) supply chain problems.

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The New Reality of Logistics Sales and Marketing with Brian Everett

The Logistics of Logistics

The post The New Reality of Logistics Sales and Marketing with Brian Everett appeared first on The Logistics of Logistics.

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Now, a Different Kind of Epidemic: Force Majeure Claims

Supply Chain Brain

The coronavirus pandemic has brought chaos to supplier-buyer relations the world round, resulting in widescale invoking of the contract-breaking clause known as force majeure.

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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

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

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Technologies for Global Logistics Services

SIPMM Professional Publications

Logistics assume a gigantic job in the smooth activities of a business. In any case, at scale, it is amazingly hard to run an immaculate Logistics division because of the sheer number of factors and requests that such a logistics would be dependent upon. Logistics can be thought of as the business work liable for […]. The post Technologies for Global Logistics Services appeared first on SIPMM | Singapore Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management.

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‘People are desperate’: Fraudsters target vulnerable truckers with COVID scams

Overdrive Online

Fraudsters and hackers are using the fear, uncertainty and confusion surrounding COVID-19 — and the corresponding aid programs from Washington — to try to exploit owner-operators and small fleets.

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Will COVID-19 Lead to More U.S. Manufacturing?

Talking Logistics

Will the COVID-19 crisis lead more companies to manufacture and source their products and materials from the United States instead of China and other countries? I’ve been getting asked that question a lot these days. Overall, I believe this pandemic will cause companies to reevaluate their supply chains in light of whatever reality we find. Read more Will COVID-19 Lead to More U.S.

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Supply Chain Disruption: 5 Steps to Overcome it

Morai Logistics

With COVID-19 causing havoc on supply chains the world over, being able to handle disruption has become more important than ever. . Companies are currently facing unprecedented obstacles with the advent of COVID-19. Not only is it presenting significant issues for warehouses and those working in them but also the ability for companies to utilize their supplies.

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How to Create a Blueprint for Fleet Resilience

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,

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Canada Implements Tax Write-Offs, Incentives for EV Purchases

NGT News

To encourage more sales, the Canadian government has implemented tax write-offs and purchase incentives to prospective buyers of electric vehicles (EVs) and EV chargers. The Canadian government remains firm in its goal of decarbonizing the transportation sector by encouraging sales of EVs. They hope that by 2030, 30% of vehicle sales will be electric, and […].

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NAVIS expands its global seaport and rail network

Logistics Management

The acquisition of Biarri Rail, combined with Navis’ N4 Terminal Operating System (TOS) for intermodal operations, will support the company’s expansion into inland solutions,

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Former owner-operator Ed Miller’s ‘A Trucker’s Tale’ memoir of his hauling days, out now

Overdrive Online

Subtitled "Wit, Wisdom, and True Stories From 60 Years on the Road" former trucker Ed Miller's memoir is newly available in hardcover and ebook. Here re-visit part of the story-in-progress from 2015, when Miller was still working on the book and sat in on Channel 19 for three days that July.

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Technologies for Warehouse Automation

SIPMM Professional Publications

Warehouses are playing an important role in the flow and delivery of the products from the manufacturers to the end-users. Operating a warehouse at the maximum efficiency is a challenge for a warehouse owner as the activities of the warehouse are complicated processes. Consequently, a human being is limited to overcome all the challenges and […].

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GEP Outlook Report 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders have faced their share of disruption and economic turmoil these past four years. Whether from geopolitical tensions or the havoc caused by the pandemic and its aftershocks, plenty of challenges remain. Despite this, leaders are seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel — inflation is decreasing, interest rates are leveling off and supply chain volatility is easing.

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Lasting benefits will emerge in the Covid-19 fight

Truck News

March felt like it had 120 days. Most Canadians passed the time social distancing while stressing about health, family and finances. Truckers, meanwhile, have been out there on the front lines. Fleets are in high gear finding ways to protect drivers and move freight. Truck drivers have gone from nobodies to reluctant heroes. Though many […].

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ISM survey takes an updated look at the impact of COVID-19 on supply chains

Logistics Management

A little more than one month after the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) conducted a member survey focused on how their businesses and supply chains are dealing with coronavirus, or COVID-19, as it continues to wreak havoc on their supply chain operations, the organization a new survey this week.

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‘The more essential I’m gettin’, the stinkier I get’ — another week gone by …

Overdrive Online

Long Haul Paul Marhoefer hums bathroom-stall limericks in response to encountering closed-off showers at a truck stop in Kentucky. Not far up the road in Ohio, though, showers clean and open, "I place an unprecendented denomination on the sink of the shower room".

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Essential Considerations for an Integrated Transportation Solution

SIPMM Professional Publications

An integrated transportation solution, a coordinated transportation arrangement powers associations to look at framework organizations in an undeniably widely inclusive and inventive way. The dedicated plan gives increasingly important incorporation and versatility to scale their focal points as fundamental. Makes a model for reliable improvement by giving all the mentioned data, which can be changed […].

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How to Conduct Workplace Incident Investigations to Create Safer Workplaces

This white paper provides a comprehensive overview of global workplace incident trends, focusing on the top three biases leading to such incidents. It also highlights the significance of CSA Z1005 as a risk management standard and outlines the ROI of thorough incident investigations, covering emergency response to post-incident interviews. Additionally, it introduces an Investigation Evidence Gathering Matrix.

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EPA: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Sink Over the Last Decade

NGT News

Since 2005, national greenhouse gas (GHS) emissions have fallen by 10%, and power sector emissions have fallen by 27% – even as our economy grew by 25%, according to the 2020 edition of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) annual report on nationwide GHG emissions. “This report highlights declining emissions trends since 2005, showing that the […].

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Bringg takes in $30 million in Series D funding, brings total to more than $80 million

Logistics Management

Company officials said that the focus of this round is geared towards businesses across different verticals keep pace with what they called rapidly expanding delivery momentum. And they added that Bringg’s total funding, to date, is now at $83.3 million, which Bringg said is enabling global market expansion for large enterprises and SMBs.

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What’s changed at the docks? Virtually ‘everything’

Overdrive Online

Perhaps reader Russell Zinck said it best, commenting under a Facebook share of our recent poll about shipper/receiver practice changes during the pandemic. What's changed? Zinck simply said, well, "Everything.".

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