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Energy Transition in Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

A few ways companies can begin to offset their carbon footprint is to take a deeper look at product packaging, energy efficiency, alternative fuels, route optimization, and returns and recycling programs. This survey included over 400 respondents across a number of industries.

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Energy Efficiency Is Key to Better Logistics

Material Handling and Logistics

Most every company issues a corporate social responsibility (CSR) report detailing what they have done over the year to comply with the expectations of all of their stakeholders. In many cases, devising ways to become energy-efficient involves activities that benefit the environment and simultaneously cut costs. The ROI of Natural Gas.

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Transforming Transport Operations with Mapping Intelligence

Logistics Business Magazine

Layering these demands over the traditional goals of controlling costs and meeting tight deadlines has highlighted the limitations of generic mapping and routing solutions. Route optimisation has become ever more important in recent years. As Kate Legnola, Sr.

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Freight Truck Shortages Are Changing The Face Of Logistics

The Logistics of Logistics

TuSimple Holdings (NASDAQ: TSP) – in its most recent call with financial analysts – reaffirmed that they expect to have fully autonomous trucks on the road in 2024. Not all experts on freight logistics are quite so optimistic that we will have fully autonomous trucks on the road by 2024 like TuSimple is claiming.

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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

When it comes to executing mode-specific freight moves from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively, transportation execution and visibility solutions play a critical role. Transportation execution solutions allow shippers to connect to multiple carriers and then tender, track, and pay in the system.

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Detention and Dwell Times: The Menaces of Supply Chain Efficiency

Blue Grace Logistics

While the world adapts to the new normal in supply chains, it is of utmost importance that more sustainable solutions are innovated and implemented. Prolonged dwell times have been an age-old inefficiency that the trucking industry has been trying to curb. Longer dwell times affect the drivers, carriers and shippers alike.

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A Radical New Way to Think About Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

SCCN is a collaborative solution for supply chain processes built on a public cloud – many-to-many architecture – which supports a community of trading partners and third-party data feeds. SCCN solutions provide supply chain visibility and analytics across an extended supply chain. And this has clearly gotten worse in recent years.