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Cargo Jettison: How to Protect Yourself from a Growing, Throwing Problem

Magaya

In maritime shipping, extraordinary circumstances call for extraordinary measures. While sea travel has become significantly safer over the past few decades thanks to new propulsion and navigation technologies, every ocean voyage still comes with a measure of risk. And, while in most cases this risk amounts to minimal ship damage or cargo delivery delays, cases of extreme weather or equipment failure can necessitate more drastic action: cargo jettison.

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Warehouse Picking Carts: How to Pick the Right One for Your Warehouse

Cyzerg

The right kind of warehouse picking cart can help you expedite picking, stocking, and transporting various warehouse items. This is important since order picking can deplete excessive resources if not used with the most efficient picking cart for your operations. But, with the wealth of options available, finding the perfect warehouse picking cart can seem challenging and overwhelming.

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Why Did Your Last Product Fulfillment Services Provider Fail?

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

Not every provider of product fulfillment services offers the same capabilities or high levels of performance. Unfortunately, some eCommerce brands find this out only after entering into a relationship with an underachieving third-party logistics (3PL) provider. Once this happens, an eTailer can easily waste months or years trying to get its logistics partner to improve.

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Tata Steel Europe’s Connected Planning Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

Tata Steel Europe Plant in Wales. The steel industry is not easy. A ton of steel can cost as little as $700. A pound of apples costs about the same as a pound of steel, yet steel is a complex product produced using high-tech metallurgical and manufacturing processes. Even before the pandemic the global steel industry was navigating significant disruptions that included steep price competition (China has been investigated numerous times for dumping), soft demand, and tariff issues.

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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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DAT Truckload Volume Index jumped 11% in June

Food Logistics

Truckload freight volumes reached new heights last month as surging retail imports and peak produce shipments drove demand for transportation services.

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Are You Using the Right Packaging for DIM Weight Pricing?

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

Though dimensional weight, or DIM weight, is hardly a new pricing model, it remains a hidden profit killer for eCommerce fulfillment operations that don’t properly manage it. Misunderstanding how parcel carriers determine shipping rates can inflate your shipping costs 5–15%, so it’s imperative to choose your most cost-effective packaging option.

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Mobile Warehouse Robotics – Taking Stock of a Hot Technology Market

Logistics Viewpoints

The mobile warehouse robotics market – call them AMRs or AGVs. To me, the acronym isn’t as important as the capabilities and the value the systems deliver to warehouse operations. There is a vast amount of buzz surrounding this market. And for good reason. There is real value that can be delivered by these systems and great growth potential. However, much of the press is focused on the venture capital funding and acquisitions occurring in the market (by the way, these investments reflect extreme

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Supply Chain Blind Spots: Where They Occur, and How to Deal With Them

Supply Chain Brain

Global supply chains frequently encounter blind spots, such as failing to anticipate trade disruptions and supplier risk. The result is significant challenges for manufacturers and their customers, which neither can afford.

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Uber Freight goes big, in $2.25B acquisition of Transplace

Logistics Management

Earlier today, San Francisco-based Uber Freight, a subsidiary of the ubiquitous, ride-sharing service Uber, whose proprietary app matches trucking companies with loads to haul, announced it is acquiring Frisco, Texas-based Transplace, a non-asset-based third-party logistics services provider, for roughly $2.25 billion and consisting of up to $750 million in common stock of Uber.

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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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Technology to Have Greatest Impact on Building Design in Coming Years

Food Logistics

The survey reveals strong growth for warehouse facilities forecasted from express and parcel delivery, third-party logistics and more.

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5 Recommendations towards a Resilient S&OP

Logistics Viewpoints

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) as a process has been around since the 1980’s. While the terminology evolved, the underlying thesis of S&OP has stayed the same, i.e., bridge the divide between sales forecasts and operational plans while respecting the budget. In general, S&OP consists of a New product review, Demand Review, Supply Review, Management Review and some level of reconciliation between these steps.

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The finalists: Overdrive's 2021 Pride & Polish truck beauty championship

Overdrive Online

Custom truck owners submitted 64 entries, and these entries received hundreds of online votes. Here are the finalists. Winners in each category will be announced in a streaming event here Thursday, August 5, 2021.

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LM reader survey indicates 2021 Peak Season is expected to be more active than 2020

Logistics Management

A Logistics Management readership survey of more than 100 freight transportation, logistics, and supply chain stakeholders found that there is strong sentiment that the 2021 Peak Season will be more active than it was a year ago, with 78% of respondents indicating that will be the case, with 16% contending it will be similar to 2020, and 5% expecting it to be less active.

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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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U.S. Blames China for Microsoft Attack, Details Hacking Tactics

Supply Chain Brain

The U.S., U.K. and their allies say the Chinese government has been the mastermind behind a series of malicious ransomware, data theft and cyber-espionage attacks against public and private entities, including the sprawling Microsoft Exchange hack earlier this year.

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Connecticut Green-Lights Statewide EV Charging Initiative

NGT News

Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) recently issued a final decision, as part of its Equitable Modern Grid initiative, to establish a nine-year program to support the installation of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure across the state, focusing on equity and inclusion. The decision outlines a statewide EV charging program that provides a combination of […].

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Different Types of Supply Chains

Logistics Bureau

Yes. Supply Chains vary! In this episode, we’re going to talk about how the supply chains differ from each other and why you should be careful in comparing or copying your supply chain with others. Watch this: Best Regards, Rob O’Byrne. Email: robyrne@logisticsbureau.com. Phone: +61 417 417 307.

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Q2 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index highlights strong freight shipment and spend levels

Logistics Management

Myriad signs of economic improvement—driven by things like more people getting vaccinated, strong retail sales, high imports, construction and manufacturing output—helped propel second quarter freight shipments and spend levels to high levels, according to the most recent edition of the U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index, which was recently released by Minneapolis-based U.S.

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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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Here's When EU’s Carbon Rules Would Hit Oil Guzzling Industries, Like Shipping

Supply Chain Brain

The EU’s sweeping proposals to curb greenhouse emissions are likely to upend the continent’s oil demand over the years and decades to come. Here’s a run through the plans — and key timings — for aviation, shipping and makers of road-fuel.

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Ontario jeopardizes road safety by delaying A/Z licence restriction

Truck News

The province of Ontario is currently the only jurisdiction in all of Canada and the U.S. that allows someone to take their Class A road test in an automatic or automated manual transmission, and if passed, provide them with a fully unrestricted licence. This allows them to drive a standard truck, with possibly as many […].

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Is It Covid, The Variant or Just The Flu

LandLink

There are so many unanswered questions surrounding the effects of the Covid-19 Virus to date. Where did the standard flu go? Is the Covid-19 virus threat over? Will the Covid variant force us back to a global lockdown? The stock market seems to think perhaps.

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Carriers bracing for rebound from historically low inventory-to-sales ratios

Logistics Management

Usually inventory-to-sales ratios are one of myriad geeky numbers released monthly that only other statisticians—and historians—follow with any regularity. However, as anyone connected with the current whacky freight environment can attest, these are not normal times.

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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Watch: Why Slavery in Supply Chains Grew During the Pandemic

Supply Chain Brain

Ingrid Verschuren, head of data strategy with Dow Jones, reveals the findings of research showing a surge in modern slavery during the lockdown prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Staying Independent in the Age of Enterprise Partnership Culture

Logistics Bureau

A recent catch-up session with one of our software suppliers left me reflecting on how business relationships are changing , primarily in their focus and perceived value. Partly to process those reflections internally, and equally for you to consider before engaging a supply chain or business consulting firm, I thought I’d share my perception of an emerging development in partnership culture , seemingly fuelled by the popularity of cloud delivery for enterprise software.

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Find Ways Around Tight Capacity During Produce Season

Trinity Logistics

If you’ve been experiencing sticker shock freight rates lately, then you’re not alone. It’s not a secret that capacity remains tight and freight rates stay high. This is affecting all markets but produce and other temperature-controlled products are being hit the hardest. This impact is likely to continue throughout the rest of produce season and even onward through the rest of 2021.

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Ryder rolls out new hubs to expand last mile delivery network

Logistics Management

Taking steps to meet increasing customer demands for faster delivery times, Miami-based freight transportation and logistics services provider Ryder System Inc. announced today it has made some moves to Ryder Last Mile, its customizable, multi-tiered delivery service offering for big-and-bulky goods, in the form of new United States-based hubs in Milwaukee and Philadelphia.

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Mastering Order Management: Backorders & Out-of-Stock Inventory

The unfortunate truth is that you will always have low stock and backorder issues with your supply chain. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be prepared to handle them. This brief video explores some of the primary drivers of inventory issues – and how modern technology and best practices can mitigate these issues and ensure a superb customer experience.

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Watch: Why Production Won’t Be Coming Back to North America Anytime Soon

Supply Chain Brain

Andrew Viteritti, commerce and regulations lead with The Economist Intelligence Unit, shares the conclusions of a recent whitepaper that predicts no major shift of manufacturing from Asia to North America over the next four years.

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Canada’s trucking industry should be proud

Truck News

“The big American companies are going to eat us all up!” I heard this a lot in the mid-90s. Schneider was moving into Canada at the time. JB Hunt seemed poised to enter. Roadway bought up Reimer and Celadon bought out Yanke and Hyndman. There was a lot of doom and gloom among drivers. American […].

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Overdrive's 2021 Pride & Polish truck beauty championship

Overdrive Online

Custom truck owners submitted 64 entries, and these entries received hundreds of online votes. Winners in each category will be announced in a streaming event Thursday at this page.

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