Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Networked production processes and digital factories provide an important key to securing Germany’s competitiveness and innovative strength as a business centre. The Hamburg-based intralogistics provider also hosted the final event, at which the results achieved with the project partners were presented on October 22nd.

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MTS Logistics

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Drone delivery, once looked at as the pinnacle of logistics innovation, has not yet achieved the widespread adoption anticipated by early advocates. Offering the allure of expedited, streamlined, and environmentally conscious delivery options, drone delivery stands as an area of logistics full of potential.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Organisations have been redesigned, inter-Departmental capabilities restructured, and capability investments made to enable national responses to potentially existential security challenges. Supply chains are ‘strangling strategy’, with the movement of commodities so significant an issue that logistics is securitising. [1]

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Parade

APRIL 22, 2019

Freight brokerages and logistics companies with capital are aggressively purchasing other companies with technology assets— this behavior has been accelerating, with a different acquisition or merger taking place every two weeks. The question is— how can technology help you capture and capitalize on this data?

Security 68

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Year round farming also means better job security for workers because farming is no longer seasonal. Nevertheless, Mr. Ellison presented a fascinating vision centered on how technology can be used to digitally disrupt a 10,000-year-old industry. Oracle’s client Making this transition, I believe, would face significant political issues.

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Logistics in War

APRIL 16, 2021

This article is adapted from a presentation given at the Williams Foundation seminar on ‘Next Generation Autonomous Systems’ delivered in Canberra in April 2021. It becoming easier to find such opportunities given the vibrancy of the industry sector, and the enthusiasm robotics presently generates in defence circles.

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Logistics Manager

MARCH 10, 2020

Gartner has released a report detailing how to secure supply chains amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Travel restrictions, shortages in labor and materials, as well as logistical challenges through tightened controls, and hub and border closures will cascade and augment the impact much further today than it did 17 years ago.

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3PL Links

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Beyond Efficiency: The Human Element’s Impact on Logistics | Image source: Pexels Modern technology, smart equipment, task automation, and management systems. These are only a handful of the amazing technology advancements that the logistics industry has experienced lately. What is the role of the human factor in logistics?

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

From 22 to 25 March 2022, the global air cargo and logistics industry will meet at the 2+2 event in San Francisco. The air cargo sector proved to be a safeguard for global supply chains during the pandemic and secured the supply of important medical and industrial goods.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 21, 2024

SICK has unveiled a pioneering compressed air monitoring system that accurately predicts where significant energy cost-savings can be made by fixing air leaks and removing wastage across entire logistics facilities. They can make their production processes more sustainable, for example by reducing their CO2 consumption.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 27, 2021

Book-It-Now® is part of the popular Trucker Tools Mobile Driver App , connecting truckers with Third-Party Logistics (3PL) providers on a digital platform that simplifies the process of finding and securing truckload shipments. About BlueGrace Logistics.

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Radius Logistics

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The recent COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing trade disputes and geopolitical tensions have all exposed the vulnerabilities of supply chains, making it imperative for companies to rely on our team of logistics and supply chain management experts at Radius Logistics to navigate these uncertainties effectively.

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Forto

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Major calendar events are – quite literally – casting their shadows ahead for the supply chain: Golden Week in China, Black Friday and Cyber Monday on November 26 and 29, and of course Christmas holidays and also Chinese New Year are already just a few logistics steps away. Holidays That Influence Your Logistics.

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Airfreight Logistics

MARCH 12, 2020

U-Freight Group CEO Simon Wong recently commented on a report that suggests the global e-commerce logistics market is likely to exceed EUR500 billion by 2024. He says his company is ready to meet the ever-increasing challenges of providing logistics services to this rapidly expanding sector of global trade.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Dachser, DB Schenker, duisport and Rhenus have established the Open Logistics Foundation. The purpose of the non-profit foundation is to build a European open-source community aiming to promote digitalisation in logistics and supply chain management based on open source and standardise logistics processes through de facto standards.

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Morai Logistics

JUNE 12, 2019

This week’s article by Morai Logistics explores the most prominent hurdles blockchains have yet to overcome in the world of supply chains. Despite being known for the transparency they provide, blockchains aren’t foolproof when it comes down to data security. This is particularly true when a blockchain isn’t large.

Supply Chain Software 68

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Bringg

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

These tactics help businesses craft a branded experience for their customers, but more importantly, they present consumer brands with new business models that can create customers for life. Here are a couple of examples on how this works in the real world: On-demand deliveries. Building new business models from branded deliveries.

Security 54

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The main take aways from the presentation earlier this year were the following: The auto industry has made supply chain risk management a priority since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. Mr. Niebur’s and Thiessen’s presentation was taped in November of 2021 and then played online in February. Soon we will do more training.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Drones and its future in supply chain and logistics processes. Logistics Excellence: Now & in the eFuture. Before diving into some takeaways from the sessions I attended and participated in, here are some high-level stats about Descartes (a Talking Logistics sponsor): Descartes is now a $200M+ company and continues to grow.

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Logistics in War

MAY 1, 2020

Logistics can be filled with a myriad of routine tasks, but the last twenty years of war in the Middle-east have proven that the life of a logistician can be as perilous as any other. It’s a fallacy to think military logistics is only now advancing on an automation. To a logistician, this is not a particularly new problem.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 16, 2021

The managing director of MiX Telematics Africa, Gert Pretorius, stated: “Our expertise in fleet telematics and security services adds value to Imperial’s business and is testament to how successful our solutions are at meeting the specific requirements of a leading logistics provider.

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Logistics in War

JULY 3, 2023

This is the second part of a presentation given at the Australian – New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference during June 2023. Reports after the war sought a rethinking of assumptions about lean logistics and its relevance in contemporary, large scale, conflict. By David Beaumont. Part one can be found here.

Military 60

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 27, 2021

Book-It-Now® is part of the popular Trucker Tools Mobile Driver App , connecting truckers with Third-Party Logistics (3PL) providers on a digital platform that simplifies the process of finding and securing truckload shipments. About BlueGrace Logistics.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 68

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Bringg

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

These tactics help businesses craft a branded experience for their customers, but more importantly, they present consumer brands with new business models that can create customers for life. Here are a couple of examples on how this works in the real world: On-demand deliveries. Building new business models from branded deliveries.

Security 48

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Parade

MARCH 3, 2021

For freight brokers and third-party logistics providers, efficiency is king. And in the example of invoices, the unwieldy process of cross-referencing and auditing means that fraud in the logistics business is all too common. For logistics companies, ease of use matters.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 16, 2018

Assuming current trends hold, and NAFTA remains largely intact, here are five things to consider when managing cross-border logistics between the United States and Mexico: 1. For example, a U.S. The Free and Secure Trade (FAST) program, as part of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program of U.S.

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 1, 2021

Generally, it follows the same basic process: Take the dimensional weight, for example, with a package that’s estimated to be eight pounds after calculating its dimensional volume and dividing that value by the DIM factor. In this example, the shipping rate would be based on the DIM pricing weight of eight pounds.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

More than 1,500 exhibitors from Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Africa will present their current portfolios of products, systems, and solutions for efficient intralogistics processes to an international industry audience across 125,000 square meters of the fully booked exhibition centre—7% more exhibit space than last year.

Production 55

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Manufacturing companies place many different demands on end-of-the-line machinery: from securing fragile goods for transport with a minimal amount of packaging, to solutions that firmly hold together loads weighing several hundred kilos. Competition mentor Ranga Yogeshwar will present the seal at an official ceremony on 24 June in Frankfurt.

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Morai Logistics

MARCH 12, 2020

This article by Morai Logistics presents 4 questions that are integral to optimally integrating blockchain into your supply chain operations. In fact, ironically, some of its key features that see it touted as transparent and secure, are features that can run afoul of the regulatory hoops companies have to jump through.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 1, 2019

As industry becomes ever more connected, the risk of cyber-attacks is getting greater all the time, delegates at this year’s Automotive Logistics Supply Chain Conference in Atlanta were warned. The security for your organisation is only as good as the security of every other person you do business with,” he stated.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Logistics software specialist inconso will present solutions that can increase the efficiency of logistics along the entire value chain from March 10-12, 2020, at LogiMAT in hall 8 (stand A50). inconso will present these optimization scenarios for advanced robotics based on the inconso Logistics Suite.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Denso Wave Europe , a member of the Toyota Group, offers effective security solutions based on state-of-the-art technologies from the auto-ID and automotive industries. For example, the Zone-D laser sensor from DENSO ensures more security. For example, a green zone can be marked so that no special alarm is activated.

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PINC

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Here are five ways going “digital” on the payment side helps make logistics processes more time- and cost-efficient for shippers. In a global marketplace that’s in constant flux, shippers are always looking for new ways to streamline their supply chains, improve logistics efficiency, and save money. Doing Away with Paper.

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Turvo

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Even if shippers are ready to pay the price, securing container spots is difficult. Port congestions further mean that when space is secured, it is often on a vessel planned to sail several weeks or months later. The Meishan terminal at the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port shutdown is the perfect example of this.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

More Companies Will Invest in Cybersecurity in Procurement Logistics. Cybersecurity is an ever-present envelope around any of the industrial procurement trends. Executives Seek to Lead by Example. Supply chain executives will also face greater pressure to lead by example this year.

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Now, That's Logistics

MARCH 16, 2021

Coming off a challenging year in 2020, shippers around the world found themselves dealing with many of the same obstacles they faced during the prior year along with some international trade issues that could present more hurdles in 2021. Work with a reliable logistics provider. Then, share those numbers with your logistics providers.

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