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Editor’s Choice: Creating Full Truckload Budgets in a Volatile Market

Logistics Viewpoints

One of the more difficult activities that logistics executives have to engage in is the creation of transportation budgets. Whether it’s for ocean freight, air, rail or truck, the fundamental issue with budgeting is that folks are called upon to assign accurate costs to transportation services that will be provided in the future.

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Transporting Perishable Goods? Some Important Factors to Consider.

Blue Grace Logistics

Transporting perishable goods and fresh produce is fraught with higher risks than regular dry cargo. Perishable goods need a specialized mode of transportation, refrigerated trailers, or reefers. What important factors should shippers keep in mind while transporting fresh produce? The best method and transport mode to ship it.

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The Biggest Shipping Challenge in 2022: Securing Market Capacity & Pricing

MTS Logistics

A 14% increase is an impressive number but given the average delays in transport cycle (containers took an average of 30% longer to complete their transport cycles last year due to port and haulage delays) it does not help to remedy the equipment problem. million TEUs. Other challenges also remain for market capacity and pricing.

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5 Reasons How RFPs Help in Selecting the Right Logistics Technology Platform For Your Enterprise-Level Business

Locus

However, with a wide variety of dispatch management, transportation management (TMS), or logistics software providers, this makes the selection process quite challenging. This exercise not only helps internal stakeholders align on project goals and business outcomes but also signals to solution providers exactly what is expected of them.

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A Guide to Optimizing Your Inbound Freight Management 

GoShip Blog

Manufacturers often rely on inbound freight to transport all the materials and machinery they need to produce their products. Using TMS allows you to streamline your transportation operations. Work With Reliable Carriers The FTL and LTL carriers you choose to work with should be reliable and consistent.

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Reimagining Logistics: Focusing on What’s Ahead, Not What Happened

Logistics Viewpoints

The pursuit of ever higher efficiency and speed have dominated transformation initiatives for more than forty years, driven in large part by the assumption that raw materials, commodities, warehouse space, transportation capacity and labor will be plentiful and immediately available at stable and often declining cost.

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5 Paths to Better Supply Chain Visibility

Now, That's Logistics

Add a transportation visibility platform to your tech stack. By 2023, Gartner says 50% of all product-centric enterprises will have invested in real-time transportation visibility platforms. Real-time transportation visibility platforms address that problem, and the market is projected to grow rapidly in the next couple of years.”.