The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 6, 2023

Mary Keough and Joe Lynch discuss 5 sales and marketing myths. Mary Keough is a Senior Strategist at Gorilla 76 , a marketing company that works with midsized B2B American manufacturing companies selling complex products or services in long, consultative sales cycles. About Mary Keough Mary Keough is a Senior Strategist at Gorilla 76. After graduating from Northern Illinois University, Mary began her wild and crazy ride through technical writing to editing to marketing.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 6, 2023

Benjamin Franklin is often credited with the quote, “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” It wouldn’t surprise me if he was talking to a transportation professional at the time. A lot has changed over the years, but Franklin’s advice remains as relevant and important as ever for transportation professionals. As we. Read more The post How to Enhance Your Transportation Strategy in 2023 appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Food Logistics

MARCH 6, 2023

3PLs will need to continue to follow the ELD trends, support the changes and utilize emerging technology to leverage future users.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 7, 2023

It’s time to think beyond appointments. While improved appointment scheduling for the gate and warehouse is a worthy application of real-time transportation visibility data, estimated time of arrival (ETA) knowledge alone isn’t sufficient to meaningfully improve your operations and their efficiency or reduce operational costs at your facility. Visibility data for appointments and gate-in/gate-out events.

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Speaker: Eric Berdinis, Ran Sun, & Chris Chmielewski

Procuring freight can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone. If you’re frustrated with the complex and manual processes for obtaining bids for your contract and spot freight, you’re not alone. In today’s fast-moving supply chain environment, optimizing these processes is critical to staying competitive and cutting costs. Join this exclusive webinar with experts from Uber Freight to learn how the latest digital tools and automation can transform your freight procurement strategy by strea

Optimal Sourcing

The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 8, 2023

Sean Bardon and Joe Lynch discuss the empty container marketplace. Sean is the Co-founder and COO at Qualle , The world’s first empty container marketplace that connects exporters, importers, trucking companies, and steamship lines. Using Qualle’s technology, supply chains run more effectively, more efficiently, and less greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. When a company undergoes a digital transformation, the transformation should be based on an understanding of what they want to achieve. A transformation that is based on the idea that by putting in new applications the company will automate a process, or processes, and provide more and better data to make decisions, is a poor foundation for a true

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

MARCH 7, 2023

The Unboxing Fulfillment podcast recently hosted Jennifer Polce, the Director of Consulting at IZBA Consulting, for a discussion about the operations challenges related to rapid sales growth. Listen to the episode or read her key takeaways below. The IZBA client roster includes many B2C brands who have experienced tremendous growth streaks. Here are Jennifer’s top five tips for ecommerce companies who are managing sudden growth – or who just want to be ready to manage it when their time comes.

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Supply Chain and Logistics

MARCH 8, 2023

Supply chain risk is in the news every day now, and awareness has grown exponentially since COVID, though many risks supply chains face have been with us forever.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 8, 2023

Editor’s note: Taking a break from supply chain and logistics, Adrian shares a story on how the decisions made by others contribute to the paths we take in life. I went for a walk yesterday afternoon, and as it often does, my mind wandered off. How did I get here? Not here, on this sidewalk, Read more The post The Road Not Taken By Others appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro

Strategy

The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 10, 2023

Ben Gordon and Joe Lynch discuss highlights from the BGSA Conference , an annual event designed to bring together top industry leaders from all segments of the supply chain and provides an intimate and candid setting where CEOs and leaders can privately network and explore ideas with their peers. Ben Gordon, is the Founder of Cambridge Capital (private equity), BGSA (advice), and the Ukraine Logistics Coalition (humanitarian aid) About Ben Gordon Benjamin Gordon is the Founder and Man

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2023

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York , nearly three years after Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, supply chains are back to normal. Actually, when looking a bit closer at the numbers, supply pressures actually fell below normal. Zero marks the historical average, and changes in either direction mark standard deviations from that trend. The February reading in the New York Fed’s Global Supply Chain Pressure Index was -0.26, reaching negative territory for the first time since August

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Food Logistics

MARCH 8, 2023

Kevin Coleman, CEO of CJ Logistics America and one of the winners of Food Logistics’ 2023 Rock Stars of the Supply Chain award, explains why networking is key to success in the supply chain space.

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Supply Chain and Logistics

MARCH 9, 2023

Consolidated Chassis Management (CCM), a leading cooperative chassis pool manager, announced it has opened a new, expanded office in Savannah, GA, to accommodate the growing South Atlantic Chassis Pool (SACP) 3.0 team. Launching in October 2023, SACP 3.

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Heico Sandee, Founder & CEO of Smart Robotics, emphasizes the critical role of gripper technology in optimizing pick-and-place robotics. He discusses how tailored grippers enhance precision, speed, and reliability, driving efficiency in warehouses.

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Logistics Management

MARCH 8, 2023

DHL said it invested $9.6 million into this facility, which it said is comprised of almost 56,000 square-feet of combined warehouse and office space, coupled with 60 positions for vehicles to load and unload shipments around its conveyable sort system.

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Commercial Carrier Journal

MARCH 7, 2023

FMCSA's Hutcheson said the new reporting structure will notify employers when there has been a change from a previous employer to a driver's drug and alcohol violation history.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 7, 2023

Supplier Relationship Management is so important and yet many organisations are not good at it. What things do people get wrong with SRM? Let ‘s learn from Trent as he provides us with some helpful SR M tips.

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Supply Chain and Logistics

MARCH 8, 2023

Here’s an innovation that’s going to be popular at container terminals. It’s a fixed set of frames allowing containers to be stacked in individual pigeonholes. They’re placed and removed by stacker cranes running through the aisles.

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Advertiser: GEP

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Supply Chains

Logistics Management

MARCH 10, 2023

Shippers hoping to capitalize on excess capacity in the trucking industry are advised to act fast as top trucking executives say they expect boom times in the second half of this year. Meantime, those executives are bracing for a so-so first half followed by what they hope will be a solid second half of 2023.

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Commercial Carrier Journal

MARCH 8, 2023

The battery electric version of the MD is Mack's first on-highway electric model, and it sits alongside Mack's LR Electric refuse truck in the company's zero emissions line.

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Overdrive Online

MARCH 7, 2023

At once, many illustrate the proposed rules on brokers' financial requirements don't go far enough. Several brokers, however, think the proposal is outside FMCSA's purview. FMCSA will host a public listening session at MATS on the issue.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 5, 2023

We all know that there are a lot of dimensions and moving parts to supply chain management, and one area that I don’t think gets enough attention is channel management — that is, the way companies connect, communicate, and collaborate with their distributors, resellers, and other channel partners. Like in other areas of supply chain. Read more The post [Video] The Connected Channel appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Over the last three decades, emissions from new trucks have been reduced by more than 98 percent. In fact, it would take 60 of today’s trucks to generate the same level of emissions from a single truck in 1988. Despite these impressive improvements, many trucking businesses continue to seek methods to achieve sustainability goals in a viable, measurable way.

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Logistics Management

MARCH 6, 2023

RK Logistics Group, a Silicon Valley provider of warehousing, e-commerce fulfillment and supply chain management services, recently announced it has opened up a new Hayward, Calif.-based commercial logistics facility to support the local manufacturing of electric vehicles. The company said that this is its 12th Bay Area warehousing facility, covering a cumulative 1.3 million square-feet.

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NGT News

MARCH 10, 2023

Xos Inc. has debuted its 2023 battery-electric step van, built on the company’s medium- and heavy-duty X-Platform chassis. Xos says the step van operates with a centralized liquid thermal management system and includes several structural changes to the chassis system. Together, these optimize the performance of the battery systems and allow for more compact packaging […] The post Xos Brings Electric Step Van to the Fleet Market appeared first on NGT News.

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Overdrive Online

MARCH 7, 2023

At once, many illustrate the proposed rules on brokers' financial requirements don't go far enough. Several brokers, however, think the proposal is outside FMCSA's purview. FMCSA will host a public listening session at MATS on the issue.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 9, 2023

More carriers are flying with the latest-generation turbines that — while as much as 20% more fuel efficient — also have been prone to far more frequent maintenance cycles than their more robust predecessors.

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Speaker: Ketan Jahagirdar

Picture your projects as patients, each with its own unique rhythm and pulse, thriving under your care 🥼 🩺 Step into the role of an innovative project doctor in our upcoming webinar! This session is your guide to evaluating the health of your projects through Waterfall and Agile practices like Scrum and Kanban. We’ll explore the vital signs of project success through the lens of the “iron triangle” metrics, using deliverables as tracers.

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Logistics Management

MARCH 8, 2023

The United States Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) said this week that it has updated its Safety Measurement System (SMS) website, adding that complete SMS results are now available to enforcement users and motor carriers that are logged into the SMS website.

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NGT News

MARCH 9, 2023

Cummins Inc. has introduced its new “Accelera by Cummins” brand within its New Power business unit. The company says the launch of Accelera is a significant step forward in its efforts to achieve its Destination Zero strategy, focused on evolving Cummins technologies to reach zero emissions across its product portfolio. Over the past several years, […] The post Cummins Debuts Accelera: A Focus on Zero Emissions appeared first on NGT News.

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Overdrive Online

MARCH 10, 2023

The owner-operator dream team hauls leased to Southern Pride Trucking, the culmination of about a decade spent designing and executing their plan for a long-term home as business owners. Hear their story on Overdrive Radio here.

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