The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Have been working with Joe Lynch helping transportation and logistics companies grow their sales. [02:56] It’s the idea that you have strategies that have been with you since you were very young, that you use to navigate your life. * There are exercises you can do to work on them. [29:12]

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 5, 2023

The order follows a tender exercise and a thorough testing and evaluation process. The contract also marks a very important development of Westwell’s Ainergy Strategy to utilise AI applications to reduce energy consumption and facilitate decarbonisation.

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Now, That's Logistics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

5 Good Supply Chain Visibility Strategies. 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. Leverage the power of a logistics provider.

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Dedola Global Logistics

JULY 28, 2023

The industry has observed lower volumes as importers exercise caution, contrary to expectations. Strategies for Peak Season Preparation During a typical peak season, the demand for freight capacity surpasses supply. We will share how we’ve tackled similar challenges and how to apply the same strategies to your supply chain.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Lengthy lead times and high transportation costs can increase the cost to serve for some customers and products while staying hidden amid the bigger picture. We’ll begin with a look at pricing strategy. Do You Lack Confidence in Your Pricing Strategies? Are You Missing Opportunities in Pricing Strategy?

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2016

Here are five strategies to promote a positive mindset in your workplace so that your employees function at optimal worker productivity levels. Workplace stress is partly physical, and exercise is one of the best antidotes for the physical component of stress. Promote Employee Wellness To Improve Worker Productivity.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 1, 2022

This level of volatility can potentially leave shippers in a difficult position if they haven’t built a strategy that encompasses both spot and contract truckload rates. When contracts are well-executed, they can help shippers keep their transportation budget in check. Some market shifts are more extreme than others.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 20, 2023

The hidden costs “Whether determining channels to market, or setting up or revising fulfilment and distribution strategies, the retailer needs a deep understanding of where the Costs-To-Serve are generated, how these vary across orders, and what actions can be taken to improve profitability on every order,” Adcock says.

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GoShip Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

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. Exercise patience when asking freight providers to take on new lanes. Not to worry, we will help you get started.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

1] Logistics might not be a competitor to strategy or tactics, but it most certainly helps determine ‘which side will have the most options available’; to seize advantage, if not define the way in which wars might be waged. [2] More than 2,500 soldiers were involved in the exercise conducted over three weeks. 1] Kane, T., 3] Kane, T.,

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

In more than 25 years of private practice and consulting with businesses of all sizes, I’ve learned that one of the most beneficial exercises is asking the right questions. 3 Tax Issues (of 6) often Overlooked by Transportation Companies and Most Businesses. #1: Uncategorized transportation tax questions'

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

Moreover, this exercise might need to be repeated several times depending on how the war proceeds. At the same time, another company might have twenty suppliers with similar pricing strategies, who supply the same raw material. Their time frame was short and resources limited.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 6, 2017

While these approaches can certainly deliver a significant return on investment (ROI), other strategies that can positively impact their transportation network are often overlooked – for example, thinking more strategically about capacity. Do you have a resilient and “stress-able” routing guide?

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 26, 2019

Better planning: Intelligent automation can integrate and streamline transportation planning, route planning, warehouse network, and inventory planning. This can improve multimodal transportation planning and also keep the customers updated with a more accurate expected time of delivery.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 18, 2022

As you’ll know, if you follow our blog regularly, Logistics Bureau does a great deal of work related to supply chain strategy development and alignment. As a result, and as we’ve mentioned in several previously published articles, we’ve discovered that many companies lack a defined and documented supply chain strategy.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 19, 2018

These rates will have natural implications for smaller shippers seeking to lower overall transportation and freight spend, and paired with a “blurred lines between peak shipping and shopping seasons,” shippers will experience increasing trouble when trying to procure full truckload capacity. Conducting annual procurement exercises.

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Dedola Global Logistics

JULY 28, 2023

The industry has observed lower volumes as importers exercise caution, contrary to expectations. Strategies for Peak Season Preparation During a typical peak season, the demand for freight capacity surpasses supply. We will share how we’ve tackled similar challenges and how to apply the same strategies to your supply chain.

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Logistics Manager

AUGUST 13, 2019

Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation ( Yang Ming ) recently held their 338th Board Meeting to approve their half year financial report for 2019. Furthermore, the exercise of the new IFRS 16 accounting standard had a negatively impact on Yang Ming’s half-year profitability by around NTD 0.6 billion (USD 1.3 million TEUs.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 26, 2018

I was having lunch with a friend of mine who had recently conducted a transportation sourcing event. There are plenty of companies using a flawed process in conducting their transportation sourcing events. As the VP of Sales for a large national truckload carrier recently told me, “Today, our negotiation strategy is indifference.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

APRIL 25, 2020

Below is the gist of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s address to the nation on the 23 rd of April 2020 and details relevant to the risk-adjusted strategy for the resumption of economic activity in the country. Chemicals, packaging and ancillary products used in the production of any of the above.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

From a supply perspective with the severely constrained transportation networks, port congestions, and stretched lead times, one needs to factor these into dynamically adjusting the supply assumptions. One off recommendations are made about facility locations (i.e.,

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 30, 2020

Once this exercise is completed, your company can then assess the risk from tier-two suppliers onwards. The companies most likely to emerge strongly from the Coronavirus crisis are those that had diversified their operations and implemented multi-sourcing strategies. 2) Diversify Your Operations. 4) Create Redundancy.

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Logistics in War

AUGUST 22, 2018

The Royal Australian Air Force, now armed with the fifth-generation fighter and other impressive air capabilities guided by a wholesale transformation strategy – Plan Jericho, has recently debated the need for a joint strike capability. Logistics and strategy are inseparable, each meaningless without the other. By David Beaumont.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Supply chain strategy is critical to business success, but companies often underestimate its importance and hence pay it less leadership attention than other areas of operation. Supply Chain Strategy. In other words, the majority did not recognise the need for close alignment between supply chain and general business strategies.

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Logistics in War

OCTOBER 13, 2018

1] Logistics might not be a competitor to strategy or tactics, but it most certainly helps determine ‘which side will have the most options available’; to seize advantage, if not define the way in which wars might be waged. [2] More than 2,500 soldiers were involved in the exercise conducted over three weeks. 1] Kane, T., 3] Kane, T.,

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

Many logistics service providers, for example, have invested in advanced technologies such as process automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, which they use, on behalf of their clients, to streamline warehouse and transportation operations and reduce errors.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2022

It is no longer enough to ‘greenwash’ your company’s environmental performance or treat issues such as diversity and inclusion in the workplace as another ‘box-ticking exercise’. IMHX 2022 Group Director, Rob Fisher, comments: “In business,?sustainability?refers sustainability?refers

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 9, 2019

Supply chain strategy is critical to business success, but companies often underestimate its importance and hence pay it less leadership attention than other areas of operation. Supply Chain Strategy. In other words, the majority did not recognise the need for close alignment between supply chain and general business strategies.

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Logistics in War

APRIL 20, 2018

Such public discussion tends to focus the military mind on modern tactics and technology, and gives cause to exercise new operational concepts. The impact of logistics on strategic decision making is much less discussed, as is the way logistics factors ultimately shape the choice of forces and strategy for a possible conflict.

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ShipLilly

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Others are of the view that this is nothing more than a public relations exercise without really dealing with spot capacity and price issues. There has been a significant imbalance between supply and demand for maritime container transport. CMA CGM noted this fact when making the announcement.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MAY 20, 2020

Kamal’s two rooftop activities: reading and exercise. I’m doing some light exercise every morning and trying to get the family to join me. Opportunities because I get to focus and work with myself when I am writing a strategy or documents. WhatsApp and Messenger are the most efficient ways to reach my team in Pugnido now.

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Logistics in War

APRIL 4, 2018

Above all else is logistics, which begins where military activity meets the national economy, and fundamentally leads strategy and any intent to use force. Strategic competition has always been defined by logistics, and the credibility of a nation to deploy and sustain force is important not just for strategy, but for deterrence.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Anyone who works in the transportation industry knows that supply chains have never exactly been ‘normal’, writes Stephan Sieber (pictured), CEO of Transporeon. From the war in Ukraine to petrol and driver shortages and rising inflation, transportation networks have remained under pressure. However, this will go a step further in 2023.

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Trinity Logistics

OCTOBER 20, 2021

With logistics experts estimating that high freight rates will rema­­in through 2022, maybe even 2023, now is not the time to stress over transportation costs. The ability to exercise flexibility could be the difference among your competitors, making your shipment easier to cover. FREIGHT MARKET OUTLOOK. Freight rates have jumped 26.6

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Logistics in War

AUGUST 28, 2018

Kenneth Boulding, in Conflict and defense, saw power ultimately defined by how it can be practically used; military power (or strength in Boulding’s own terms), in this case, is a function of the cost of transporting it to and from the conflict space or operational area. [3] Distance, once again, became important to the military mind.

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Logistics in War

JUNE 13, 2018

This article was originally prepared in collaboration with ‘ Over The Horizon: Multi-domain operations and strategies’ , a blog which asks the question , ‘what comes after the Joint and inter-agency constructs?’ Transportation. Unfortunately, these challenges are precisely the point of exercise training. Base camp operations.

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FourKites

JANUARY 7, 2021

Learn more about building agility with real-time transportation visibility. They invest in new technologies and data-driven processes that allow them to exercise precise control over the business. Empower employees to make decisions and drive your strategy forward at all levels of the organization.

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