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Do More Shipping with Less Work
Shipchain
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Shippers everywhere face an uncertain future. The constant threat of a trade war and increasing consumer demands have pushed existing operations to their breaking points.
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The Missing Bookmark: Customer Experience vs. Expectations
Talking Logistics
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Last week, at the Four Seasons resort in Orlando, I attended a meeting organized by a leading logistics service provider for its sales executives. I moderated several workshops and a fireside chat with the attendees. One of the topics that we discussed was customer experience.
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The Shift toward a Demand-Chain Model
Morai Logistics
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Experts say demand-chain models are an effective solution for supply chains to meet the increased need for immediacy and improve the customer experience. Today, consumers crave instant gratification when searching for products and services online. They want access to information and results in an immediate time frame, and this transcends throughout the buying funnel. It especially includes delivery.
Walmart puts its money where its drivers are
Logistics Management
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
The nation’s largest retailer is increasing pay for truck drivers with three years’ accident-free experience to around $87,500. That 89 cents per mile over-the-road rate would make a Walmart driver one of the richest in the industry. Walmart operates the third-largest private fleet in the country with about 6,400 power units, 63,700 trailers and around 200 straight trucks, according to a 2017 compilation of its fleet
Buyer's Guide for Supply Chain Network Design Software
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Network design as a discipline is complex and too many businesses are still relying on spreadsheets to design and optimize their supply chain. As a result, most organizations struggle to answer network design questions or test hypotheses in weeks, when results are demanded in hours. This Buyer’s Guide helps you find easy-to-use technology to become more proactive and less reactive when it comes to network design and optimization.
Automation in the Warehouse: It’s All About Capacity
Cerasis
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
Automation in the warehouse is essential to meeting the growing demand of e-commerce and the blending of traditional supply chain channels into the omnichannel supply chain.
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How to Unleash Blockchain into Your Supply Chain
Material Handling and Logistics
FEBRUARY 3, 2019
Blockchain-based applications provide transparency and visibility throughout the entire supply chain
When it comes to highway safety, everybody plays a role
Fleet Owner
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
States need to enact and then enforce regulations that make the roads safer. But vehicle manufacturers, safety suppliers, fleets, dispatchers and more all can help improve safety
Driving Risk Out of S&OP Forecasts
Supply Chain and Logistics
FEBRUARY 2, 2019
MIT’s Supply Chain blog presented a nice research study by Minhaaj Khan and Srideepti Kidambi and supervised by Dr. Tugba Efendigil. Their study is a good example of using less data rather than more to design a simple readily explainable approach … Continue reading → Logistics Quantitative Methods Service Management Supply Chains performance Software
Small Parcels Arriving Faster as UPS Gets Smarter
Logistics Trends and Insights
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
UPS seems to have broken their fourth quarter curse in which delays and slip ups seemed to be more the highlights versus any revenue achievements. Overall quarterly revenue was good, increasing just below 5% while adjusted net income increased almost 17%. Average revenue yield expanded 4.1% with gains in all products and record shipments were achieved.
Navigating the Road to Successful Automation - A Process Driven Approach
Speaker: Jon Leposky, Director of Operations and Logistics, Z Customization
Automation can be an incredibly powerful tool to lower costs, increase capabilities, and enable scaling. However the road to implementing automation can be long and challenging even when all the proper steps are taken. Being equipped with the proper tools and knowledge of common pitfalls when implementing automation can make the difference between a show stopping disaster and seamless success.
The Impact of AI and IoT on the Manufacturing Job Market
Material Handling and Logistics
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Organizations and employees must be willing to embrace AI and IoT to ensure progress into the future
Diesel gelling and how to stop it this winter
Fleet Owner
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Diesel engines can be temperamental in the winter. Fleet owners get an unwelcome reminder of this every year. But your operation doesn’t have to hinge on the mercy of weather. Here’s what you need to know to put cold weather diesel problems on ice
Truck Driver Pay: By the Mile or Hour?
Talking Logistics
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Back in October 2018, a US district judge in Arkansas ruled that PAM Transport, a trucking company based in the state, would have to pay its drivers at least minimum wage for the 16 hours each day that they work. A couple of weeks ago, the judge reaffirmed his ruling.
How often do supply chain leaders assess their network for improvements?
AIMMS
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Part II in our series on assessing your network design’s maturity . As we wrote in Part I of this series , we recently ran a quiz to help supply chain professionals benchmark their network design maturity.
Automated Order Processing and Proactive Inventory Management
Speaker: Irina Rosca, Director of Supply Chain Operations, Helix
Organizations need to focus on demand driven supply planning, utilizing real time information on customer orders from all marketplaces (e-commence, Amazon - or other online retailers, and point of sale data from brick and mortar). Focusing on this information once per month during the S&OP meeting is too late for all business units to align. Companies should have seamless integration between order entry, inventory management, forecasting and supply planning models and purchase order status to sense risk, pull levers to mitigate potential risk, and communicate within and outside the organization. This is especially important for new product releases, in store programs or promotions (sales, end caps, PDQ. etc) or online promotions (company run or 3rd party). Depending on total supply chain lead time, not having real time visibility and analysis of this information can significantly affect sales and the bottom line.
Retail-to-Warehouse Conversions Are Real
Material Handling and Logistics
FEBRUARY 3, 2019
Once thought implausible, e-commerce drives more projects from coast to coast
Meeting customers' delivery demands in an e-commerce world
Fleet Owner
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Customer expectations are increasing. They not only expect items to be damage-free but also that they have an excellent presentation
State of Logistics Industry: Recent Reports Indicate Logistics to Excel in 2019 in Key Ways
Cerasis
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Logistics is expanding, and at the end of 2018, unemployment rates decreased. At the same time, consumers were looking forward to the financial benefits of this year’s tax fillings following the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
How Technology Empowers Freight Brokers to Work Smarter, Not Harder, to Drive Profitability
Talking Logistics
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Working smarter, not harder, is critical for everybody in transportation today, but it’s especially important for freight brokers in light of the increased competition in the marketplace and the ever-more demanding expectations of shippers. What does “working smarter, not harder” mean for freight brokers? What are the biggest drivers of cost and inefficiency in the industry? How can technology help brokers work smarter and improve their profitability?
Parts Town: An O2C Journey from Manual Processing to Digital Transformation
Speaker: Sarah Gibson, Platinum Operations Manager
The order-to-cash (O2C) process is often considered the lifeblood of an organization. It’s why so many business leaders are looking to next generation of O2C solutions to unlock value across their enterprise — value that’s necessary to remain competitive. Join us for an educational webinar with guest speaker, Sarah Gibson of Parts Town, as she takes attendees through her company’s digital transformation journey.
E-Commerce Trends are Game Changing for Trucking Industry
Material Handling and Logistics
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
The number of intra-regional and last-mile truck trips has increased while the average length of haul has declined
Truck routing and the parking crunch
Fleet Owner
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
While there is no way to manufacture parking spaces overnight, there are some steps fleets can take to ease the parking problem
Trends Driving Growth of 3PL in 2019
Cerasis
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
The 3PL market is growing, and according to PRNewswire , the 3PL market will increase significantly throughout 2019, contributing to a total valuation of approximately $1.5 trillion by 2025.
This Week in Logistics News (February 4-8, 2019)
Talking Logistics
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
[This page is intentionally left blank.]. because my mind is blank this morning. Here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week.
How Automation in the Supply Chain Will Make Employees More Strategic & Improve the Overall Supply Chain
Speaker: Adam Robinson, Director of Marketing, Cerasis
In this educational webinar, Adam Robinson from Cerasis, a leading North American Transportation Management Solutions Company, will address how automation in the supply chain is allowing companies to empower their employees with a more strategic work flow aiding in overall collaboration with peers across departments, improved business operations, more efficient manufacturing, a healthier corporate culture, and more visibility to data and processes providing the ability to gain actionable insights that lead towards actions that impact the company’s bottom line.
Canada Moves Forward with Autonomous Truck Testing
Material Handling and Logistics
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
The trucks will be must be equipped with SAE level 1 or 2 technology
As e-commerce sales soar, trucking’s average length of haul drops
Fleet Owner
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
ATRI: Between 1999-2017, e-commerce sales increased 3,000%, and now total more than 9% of total U.S. retail sales
The (New) Future of Fulfillment: How Warehouses are Transforming Operations
Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
It was three years ago that Logistics Viewpoints and DC Velocity launched a survey of logistics practitioners to evaluate the future direction fulfillment facilities, technologies, and practices. The survey’s format evaluated past, present state, and expectations for three years into the future. The findings, published on Logistics Viewpoints and on DCVelocity.com, were well received.
Getting started with AI in Logistics
Logistics Trends and Insights
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
We are pleased to have Jonah McIntire, Managing Director of TNX, as our guest author again. TNX offers AI for the trucking industry and is known for software so simple that it looks like it was built by Fischer Price, with practical AI in the middle. For more information on AI, just contact Jonah.
Smarter Networks for Customer Fulfillment
Speaker: Hannah Testani, COO, Intelligent Audit
You've probably noticed that shipping costs are going up. Have you ever wondered if your transportation spend is as optimized as it could be? It's 2019, and consumers are expecting shipping to be cheap and quick, but that can turn into a real headache from the shipper's side of the equation if you don't make the appropriate changes. But what changes do you even need to make? Join Hannah Testani, COO of Intelligent Audit, as she takes us through the reasons why your shipping could cost so much, and how to use big data and digital transformation to move the needle on your transportation spend.
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