Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

This ensures the secure, high-capacity, and bi-directional transfer of essential information such as master data on products, customers, production-distribution infrastructure, transactional data on sales, inventory status and position, transportation execution data, external data e.g. competitor pricing, weather, recommendations, action triggers.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

Weather is an unpredictable force that can wreak havoc on logistics in Europe, but there are strategies to mitigate its impact. Sweden’s investment in winter road maintenance, including regular snow plowing and de-icing, is a prime example of how to keep transport running smoothly during harsh winters.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

These come from using gasoline for driving a car or coal for heating a building, for example. Energy, industry, transport, buildings, agriculture and land use are among the main sectors causing greenhouse gases. Energy, industry, transport, buildings, agriculture and land use are among the main sectors causing greenhouse gases.

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FourKites

DECEMBER 11, 2020

For example, many of our customers use tools like FourKites Notification Rules, encrypted links and watcher settings to simultaneously alert key stakeholders both within their organization and their customer base when critical events occur in the lifetime of a load in transit. Examples of customer-driven supply chain strategy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

transportation, warehousing) or materials – direct, indirect, MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Operations), goods for resale. Let us take the example of direct materials, i.e., materials that are used as components in making a finished product, such as a hard drive or RAM in a personal computer. The key to this lies with sourcing.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2018

To look at what risks will affect the supply chain in 2018, Rob Savitsky of AIR Worldwide ( a member of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics Supply Chain Exchange program), wrote a blog for MIT discussing three broad categories of supply chain risk. Savitsky points to the example of a potential disruption that was averted.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In a report released earlier this year, ATRI (the American Transportation Research Institute) stated that premiums have rocketed up 47% per mile over the last decade. Unfortunately, also according to the ATRI report, one of the most common cost-cutting strategies that carriers used—as insurance costs escalated—was to cut wages and bonuses.

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Log-hub

MAY 22, 2024

In today’s complex and interconnected global economy, managing supply chains has evolved into a sophisticated discipline that requires advanced tools and strategies. TRANSPORTATION OPTIMIZATION : Efficiently managing transportation to reduce costs and improve delivery times.

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Log-hub

MAY 22, 2024

In today’s complex and interconnected global economy, managing supply chains has evolved into a sophisticated discipline that requires advanced tools and strategies. TRANSPORTATION OPTIMIZATION : Efficiently managing transportation to reduce costs and improve delivery times.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So, where can AI in logistics transportation have the most impact? Real-time ETA tools The disconnect between shippers and carriers has long been a challenge in the logistics transportation industry. For example, predicting arrival times for loads has traditionally been a pain point for both shippers and carriers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 15, 2024

At the 2023 Blue Yonder ICON event, Mr. Angove referred to the current situation as the beginning of an innovation shockwave. Cognitive execution uses AI to optimize cost to serve and improve on-time, in-full delivery across planning, warehouse, transport, and order management. Kicking off Blue Yonder ICON was CEO, Duncan Angove.

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Stord

MARCH 5, 2019

For example, speakers from Walmart and Best Buy shared how they they gained better freight visibility and created a shorter returns cycle. Trade chaos and economic trends are forcing retailers to adapt Recent events in global trade also headlined many of the sessions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 15, 2021

At our Blue Yonder ICON event later in April this year and 3PL Execution Forum in June, 3PL and 4PL companies will explain how they are leveraging innovations as an advantage. An example is carrier network services for executing a cohesive set of first-, middle- and last-mile operations and optimizing common carriers and fleets.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

For example, they might browse products online, but visit a brick-and-mortar store to finalize their selection. As just one example, Nike’s online sales grew by 75% in 2020 — but its profit margins fell from 45.5% Transportation: Moving to a Digital Environment. due to the higher costs associated with online selling.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JULY 24, 2023

Freight costs and budget adherence are among the most important and often overlooked aspects of transportation management. As the industry struggles to recover from the unprecedented global events of 2020, recognizing budget limitations is essential for industry growth and success. Think about this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The surging Delta virus, devastating floods in China and Germany and cyber attacks on South African ports are amongst the latest in a series of events that continue to send shock waves throughout the system. In light of all of this, I’d posit we can no longer look at the events of the last year as an aberration. The impact?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

Understanding and assessing the tradeoffs between the costs of labor, inventory, transportation, and carbon footprint while going through these pivots will be crucial. American Supply Chain Resilience Act and the German Supply Chain Act are just two examples of this. Supply Chain Design is essential in tackling these.

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CH Robinson Logistics

APRIL 2, 2021

This year’s produce season is felt after a series of events impacting transportation. The power outages in Texas, the inclement weather in the Midwest, and the Ever Given ship at the Suez Canal, all of these contribute to a tight transportation market. What 2021’s produce season means for transportation.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 20, 2021

Whether it’s a pandemic, severe weather events, trade disputes and tariffs, economic upheaval, or even unexpected surges in customer demands, you can’t prepare for every eventuality. Large companies with a supply chain risk strategy already in place couldn’t fully cope with the impact of the pandemic.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Transportation and the logistics industry serves as the lifeblood of today’s modern economy, binding together businesses, streamlining supply chains, and championing eco-friendly initiatives on the path to achieving net-zero emissions. However, transportation has seemingly lagged behind and it has been that way for some time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

For example, we can have “Texas Small Volume” customers and “Florida Peak Season” customers, or “East Coast High Margin” customers and “Carolinas High Priority” customers. For example, a model for a company with twenty distinct customers with unique buying patterns, who are located all around the world, might not require aggregation at all.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Today we continue our long series and look at teaching shippers how to remain strategic when it comes to logistics and their transportation management program. The Use of Data to Create a Successful Transportation Management Program. In today’s data-driven transportation systems, data entry should primarily be an automated process.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 9, 2016

For shippers, culture and behavior have to change to apply Lean Transportation thinking. The “Them (company leadership) versus Us (shop floor associates)” mentality also needs to change for Lean Transportation to " WE. The 8 Rights To Achieve Lean Transportation Practices. Transportation takes time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Those customers who were quick to recognize new conditions, and respond with innovative strategies, have fared far better in the face of continuing uncertainty than companies taking a more reactive stance. This broad view allows the logistics team to react in an orchestrated, synchronized way at the earliest sign of disruption.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The conference as a whole was fantastic, from the location and networking events to the conversations I had and sessions I attended. As part of its connected geo strategy, FourKites has expanded its operations to Japan, as it sees the country as an important link in the global supply chain. According to Ms.

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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Consumer buying behavior has tightened capacity in all modes of transportation. The opportunity cost of choosing the wrong mode of transportation. Businesses continue to deal with inventory logjams, overwhelmed transportation networks and soaring freight rates supported with mistrusted service expectations.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

To ensure that more truck drivers are back home in the evening, for example, the forwarding association Elvis wants to set up a meeting network for full truck loads. The best of the best also differentiate their recruitment strategy – for example, according to generations or potential groups such as newcomers or foreign workers.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

But for that special class of disruption, the low-probability, high-impact events like natural disasters, epidemics and other upheavals, organizations don’t know how to mitigate the risk and successfully manage their supply chains, and are now trying to find their way through the minefield of issues and challenges with no clear solution.

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FreightWaves SONAR

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

HOW MUCH DO PAPER AND PACKAGING COMPANIES SPEND ON TRANSPORTATION? As reported by McKinsey & Company : “The degree to which each mode of transport and trade lane is affected depends on their particular commodity mix. Unfortunately, that is not a reality for responding to a major disruptive event. So, what can companies do?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2022

As an example, a major retailer whose market presence is in the Americas realized that several of their shipments that originate in China pass through Russia to make their way to the west and are now subject to shipment backlogs. Some may have believed themselves to be immune at one point, but now their perspective is shifting.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Avenues of transport are declining as major cargo airlines, like Cathay Pacific , drastically reduce flights to mainland China and Hong Kong. A recent online survey conducted b y MIT’s Center for Transportation & Logistics aimed to understand how companies are reacting to the Coronavirus outbreak.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 22, 2021

Such an event has constrained the meat supply chain more than ever, sparking fears of massive food shortages, and it comes mere weeks after the other major cyberattack to strike the US—halting the operation of the Colonial Pipeline. Any one of these events can create a domino effect to capacity challenges and delays.

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Now, That's Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2021

During a year when e-commerce sales skyrocketed, the global pandemic impacted supply chains around the globe, and transportation capacity contracted across most modes, while companies worked to get their logistics strategies realigned with this “new normal” operating environment. Playing the Waiting Game.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Alex Pradhan, Product Strategy Leader John Galt Solutions, told me that “all planning vendors have bold marketing around AI.” Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes. The processing units in an oil refinery, for example, operate at high temperature and high pressure.

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Now, That's Logistics

JULY 13, 2021

“The successful companies today—and in the years ahead—will redesign their operations and their supply chains,” it notes, “to protect against a wider and more acute range of potential shocks and disruptive events.”. Don’t Go it Alone. Aligning with the Right Partner.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 21, 2015

One of the often missing links, however, in supply chain visibility, is transportation management. We call this the transportation supply chain. What is the Transportation Supply Chain? This requires a new broad look at the business of transportation supply chain, including supply chain management, logistics, & procurement.

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MTS Logistics

JULY 21, 2023

The global shipping industry heavily relies on accurate and timely documentation, such as the Bill of Lading (BOL), to transport an astounding 11 billion tons of cargo annually. million per event. Statistics and Examples 1. it can result in severe risks and costs, including: 1. million per incident.

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