Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The value of peer-to-peer learning and networking was evident at last month’s Ryder Innovate conference — “an exclusive gathering of senior leaders in transportation, logistics, and supply chain seeking strategic insight, new ideas, and thought leadership to improve their supply chain and fleet operations.”

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I have a date with my first grader to play math games in her class this morning, so I’m short on time. Transplace Releases New Transportation Optimization Technology. Manhattan Associates Reports Record Third Quarter 2014 Revenue and Earnings. SAP Announces Third Quarter and Nine Months 2014 Results. Wal-Mart Stores Inc.,

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Talking Logistics

JULY 25, 2014

I hurried downstairs to the kitchen, and after a mild panic attack witnessed only by our guinea pig, I called the airline and was able to get booked on a different flight, and I made it to my client’s meeting on time. Manhattan Associates Reports Record Second Quarter 2014 Results. Ryder Reports Record Second Quarter 2014 Results.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why I value the time I get with CIOs every bit as much as I value time with CFOs, CSCOs and supply chain professionals of every stripe. We’re just not meeting customer expectations. What’s needed is a modern platform approach to supply chain tech — with the specific objective of enabling effective real-time execution.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 2, 2014

I’ve been using the word convergence to describe many of the trends occurring in the supply chain and logistics field today, and convergence was certainly evident at Roadnet’s perform 2014 User Conference a few weeks ago. First, there’s the convergence of companies.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 5, 2015

We continue our series on the most popular blog posts of 2014 in each of our main categories with our very first post of 2014 by featuring another area important to Cerasis and the industry: third party logistics. That sentiment is changing, big time. The Most Popular Blog Posts in the 3PL Category By Pageviews for 2014.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 11, 2014

May 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Cass Freight Index June 2014. Cass Freight Index June 2014. Lots of news to get to this week, so let’s dive right in. Accellos and HighJump Software Merge. Legislators Move to Replenish Highway Trust Fund (WSJ – sub.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

I have no idea what he’s talking about, but I just look at him as he rambles on, and he looks a bit thinner to me, but stronger and more muscular, and maybe even younger, and his voice, his voice, oh his voice. Menlo Logistics Keen to Build on 2014 Growth in South Asia. I’m guessing it’s summer. It’s Thursday, 5:31 a.m. in October.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 2, 2014

She yelled, and stomped, and cried in the bathroom for twenty minutes or so, and we just let her get all the fury out as we cleaned up after dinner. Reports 2014 First-Quarter Results. XPO Logistics Announces First Quarter 2014 Results. DOT Secretary Foxx sends transportation bill to Congress (Logistics Management).

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

Top Five Transportation Trends ; Chris Cunnane. From a transportation standpoint, this has included major technological advancements. In my presentation, I highlighted five key transportation trends that are changing supply chains from a technology standpoint. In my own defense, things kind of took off after 2014.

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MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The inaugural post appeared on March 4, 2014, and was about the rising status of the supply chain profession. Some events and trends driving the supply chain’s standing back in 2014 remain just as influential in 2023. Decisive phase But some of the 2014 challenges we still witness today have become more urgent.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 27, 2014

So it gives me great pleasure to say, that with the next pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, the NBA selects Isaiah Austin from Baylor University.”. I’m just hoping to touch people’s lives and let them know that any obstacle that they’re facing, they can get through it. April 2014 North American Freight Numbers.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2014

SAP Readies a Big Business Marketplace ( New York Times ). October 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Department of Transportation Eliminates $1.7 Department of Transportation Eliminates $1.7 Parcels surge hits Christmas deliveries in UK ( Financial Times – sub. Trucking Industry.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Apparently, he had been hiding in the closet the entire time while the other kids had moved on to other games upstairs. There’s a business lesson here somewhere, I just can’t put my finger on it. North American Freight Numbers July 2014. UPS, FedEx Want Retailers to Get Real on Holiday Shipping (WSJ – sub.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 6, 2015

We conclude our “Most Popular” Blog posts series, where we have been giving you the most viewed blog posts in 2014 from our main content categories. 2014 was surely a fun year of content on the Cerasis blog. The 12 Most Popular Freight Blog Posts from 2014. Now, why do we blog? Look out for great stuff in 2015!

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 22, 2022

What does the transportation industry have to do with a global pandemic? Instead, I am referring to the often overlooked — yet very important — role transportation companies can play in preventing global pandemics. With the help of an efficient transportation network that reaches every corner of the world!

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 19, 2014

My cousin O, in his late twenties at the time, suffered from kidney failure, and he and R would get up at dawn multiple times a week and hitchhike to the dialysis clinic several towns away (despite what you might read elsewhere, the healthcare system in Cuba is miserable). Roadnet® Transportation Suite 3.6.8 Cuba relations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 9, 2022

Just last year many were chartering their own cargo ships to get all these goods to their destinations.) Inventory management is challenging enough in normal times. But given more than two years of incessant and unprecedented supply chain disruptions, we may never see “normal times” again. And it requires visibility everywhere.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Infor Aligns With MercuryGate To Strengthen Transportation Management. Oracle Introduces New Cloud Solutions for Transportation and Global Trade Management. It’s clear from this week’s long list of news that the pace of change and innovation in supply chain management continues to accelerate. Macy’s, Inc. Macy’s, Inc.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2014

UltraShipTMS: New Features for Cloud Based TMS and Transportation Optimizer. First, as in previous years, he called for increased investment in transportation infrastructure. We’ll need Congress to protect more than 3 million jobs by finishing transportation and waterways bills this summer. Now it’s 2014.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Transportation 2.) Robert Cadena is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lean Staffing Solutions, which provides operational, marketing, sales, and technology services to the logistics and transportation industry. Since 2014, Lean has worked with over 100 satisfied U.S. based transportation and logistics providers. Transportation 2.)

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Editor’s Note: This is our second post in a two part series about how to get your logistics and transportation practices in order in time for holiday shipping or peak season crunches. So there are multiple obstacles to overcome this time of year. Holidays are always difficult to work around in our industry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2023

And just what are consumers spending their money on? helps it facilitate the rapid transport of packages. Patrick’s Day, up from 54 percent in 2022 and the highest in the history of the survey. With more celebration comes more spending, and consumers are sparing no expense to go all out for the holiday this year. per person.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2023

I propose it’s high time we acknowledge the futility of the “new normal” conversation and put it to rest, once and for all. Normalcy is no more. Things have changed, for good, and the environment we now work in is one of constant volatility. The big-picture macroeconomic signals we’re getting of late seem to bear this out.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 12, 2014

And where does transportation fit? How do you combine the desire to create economic density for effective transportation optimization with the need to be able to react to new orders and rapid changes to existing orders? 2014 will become the year of integrated planning and execution. Leverage the network.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Jim Hackett, the CEO of Ford at the time, was quoted as saying: “We didn’t realize there was an off switch. Oil prices jumped, with Brent rising above $105 a barrel for the first time since 2014, after Russia’s attack on Ukraine exacerbated concerns about disruptions to global energy supply. The Nord Stream Pipeline.

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MIT Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Shah will explain the implications at the forthcoming MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics’ Crossroads 2014 conference, March 25, 2014, on the MIT campus, Cambridge, MA. It is also easier to eliminate potential production delays when work schedules can be reconfigured in near real time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 12, 2022

As I’ve touched on before in my columns here, the supply chain industry is increasingly turning to real-time transportation visibility platforms to pinpoint where freight is at any point on its journey. These powerful new systems can track each inbound order not by just the trailer and PO number, but by each individual SKU.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Transportation 2.) Robert Cadena is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lean Solutions Group , which provides operational, marketing, sales, and technology services to the logistics and transportation industry. Since 2014, Lean has worked with over 290 satisfied U.S. based transportation and logistics providers. Transportation 2.)

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 16, 2013

We just finished hosting over 150 executives at our Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, with a theme on Supply Chain Analytics. As 2013 comes to a close, here are some of my thoughts regarding the supply chain trends we are likely to see emerge in 2014. Not surprisingly, analytics is at the top of the list.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 29, 2021

Just as any chef will tell you that anything less than the best quality ingredients can render a dish inedible, so too, bad data can turn any data-driven IT effort sour. In a prior post , I wrote about the various ways data is transforming global supply chains. Today, I’m going to add a qualifier — it has to be quality data. The list goes on.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 25, 2022

Brook does more than just deliver furniture and housewares; they bring the furniture inside, set it up, and make sure everything is comfortably in its place. Brook does more than just deliver furniture and housewares; they bring the furniture inside, set it up, and make sure everything is comfortably in its place.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 5, 2021

Mike started his career with Worldwide Express back in 2014 where from the beginning he realized providing solutions to increase an organization’s profitability and enhance efficiencies was more impactful than trying to win a few loads or be added to a rate list. Engage as a consultant, not someone who just sells logistics services.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Editor's Note: This is our second post in a two part series about how to get your logistics and transportation practices in order in time for holiday shipping or peak season crunches. So there are multiple obstacles to overcome this time of year. Holiday shipping time also bring customers that ship primarily for this season.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 13, 2021

At that time, the challenge seemed daunting. Today, hype centers on transport telematics and artificial intelligence. The focus is on the last mile, but what about the first mile where Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) and Transportation Planning (TMS) operate on different data models with fixed, often outdated, parameters?

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Supply Chain Opz

MARCH 21, 2014

As a result, issues in global supply chain management such as international trade, international transportation, global sourcing, regulatory compliance, risk management, humanitarian and sustainability won''t go away any time soon. To drive cost of generic products down, using overseas suppliers is a very good option.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Now more so than ever, corporations understand the tremendous impact logistics and transportation can have on their overall business performance and are taking meaningful strides to optimize their supply chain operations. But it’s not just limited to large corporations. Global 3PL revenues grew to $676.9 billion (U.S.

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