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Breakbulk Americas with Jeff Tucker

The Logistics of Logistics

Jeff is the CEO of Tucker Company Worldwide , the oldest privately-held freight brokerage in North America, specializing in notoriously complicated freight, like temperature-controlled, oversized, and high-value, high-security shipments. Breakbulk Americas , is the region’s largest trade event for the project cargo and breakbulk industry.

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Four Essential Supply Chain Management Tools

CLX Logistics

To meet these demands, shippers need the right supply chain management tools with the flexibility to grow and scale as needed. The right supply chain management tools help not only to enable shippers to provide better customer service and on-time deliveries but also to remain competitive with everyone else in the market.

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Simmons Foods’ Approach to Transportation Spend

Logistics Viewpoints

The company moves 46,000 shipments per year using dry van, temperature controlled, hoppers, live haul, and other trucks as well. Mr. Masters quickly determined that a procurement event was necessary just to set a baseline. He ran a network RFP (request for proposal) event. We did not have a great spot tool.”

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Fresh Demand Planning: How AI Empowers Retailers

Logistics Viewpoints

Next week, temperatures go back to seasonal norms; what does that mean about my expected demand? Understanding that when the weather is 5 degrees warmer than the average temperature, ice cream sales increase by 50% allows for more accurate and real-time forecasts in your demand planning process.

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REPOST: The Tive Story with Krenar Komoni

The Logistics of Logistics

Krenar Komoni is the Founder and CEO of Tive , a company that is re-imagining supply chain visibility with sensor-driven awareness and analysis tools of in-transit goods, from start to finish. Managers can configure customizable alerts to trigger notifications based on geofences or other significant events. Port Delays.

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Freight Procurement is a Different Game

Logistics Viewpoints

There are different tools, goals, and market dynamics. That processing event determines when the goods need to be delivered to the next stop. The company moves 46,000 shipments per year using dry van, temperature-controlled trucks, hoppers, live haul, and other trucks as well. Procurement ran a request for proposal event.

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Going Beyond Just IoT GPS: A Cookbook for Mobile IoT Applications

IoT World Today

In other forms of IoT, it’s common for enterprises to acquire IoT as a packaged system that includes IoT devices, controllers, software, and even vertical-market-specific tools, instruments, and vehicles. Step six is to select an event-handling strategy. There’s power in doing that right, and major headaches if you get it wrong.