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Improved Supply Chain Visibility Requires an End-to-End Solutions

Logistics Viewpoints

Last October, over 100 ships, including 70 container ships, were waiting at anchor or in drift zones to unload at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. China accounts for about 12% of global trade. China’s stringent COVID lockdown in critical port cities has impacted global supply chains. million TEUs.

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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

The Covid-19 pandemic tested the global supply chain. The Emergence of Logistics as Constraint. Advanced planning tools(APS) never considered the issues of logistics. Availability of logistics was always assumed. Air expediting took on a new meaning in January, with air capacity down 18% and escalating prices.

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Why Logistics Management is the Need of the Hour in the Middle East?

Shipsy

Why Logistics Management is the Need of the Hour in the Middle East? The global pandemic has caused a ruckus in the economy but logistics has risen as an efficient place of access for consumers with doorstep deliveries and minimum human interaction. Here is when Shipsy’s logistics management software comes to the rescue.

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Transportation Management System: What is a TMS in Logistics? [+ Top Companies Compared]

ShipBob

It is typically a part of a larger supply chain management system and allows them to organize and centralize all their logistics and transportation functions. Most transportation management software solutions offer a comprehensive set of features that allow you to manage all your logistics and transportation functions in one place.

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Freight Innovation and the Lesson from a Dead Remote Control Tech Play

Freightos

In this article, we review how carrier and forwarder fragmentation remains one of the most significant hurdles for modern freight, how freight standardization and platformification are posed to change that, and why innovation we can’t even imagine might be around the corner. But as a freight technology junkie, it made sense.

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Steering the Path to Ports & Container Optimization with AI

ThroughPut

The pandemic has further weighed down the performance of ports worldwide, with minimal workforce available at terminal hubs and fewer shipping containers on the move, thus bringing global port operations to an abrupt halt. . Efficient capacity management using traffic optimization at ports and eliminating redundant routes.

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Why Logistics Management is the Need of the Hour in the Middle East?

Shipsy

Why Logistics Management is the Need of the Hour in the Middle East? The global pandemic has caused a ruckus in the economy but logistics has risen as an efficient place of access for consumers with doorstep deliveries and minimum human interaction. Here is when Shipsy’s logistics management software comes to the rescue.