The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 24, 2021

Brad is Vice-President of Sales at FreightWaves , a leading freight intelligence provider, offering current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform. FreightWaves provides the ability to benchmark, analyze, monitor & forecast the $9.6T About Brad Guinane. About FreightWaves.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Peak season for ocean freight shipping is underway. Red: Space is extremely tight and forecasting is imperative. This blog examines the “red” times, like the roughly three-month period we have just entered that is historically one of the regular disruptors in the ocean freight market. Look ahead at your 3-month forecasts.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Andrew Viteritti, Lead for the Commerce and Regulation division of the Economist Intelligence Unit Global Forecasting group began his presentation by reviewing the current and future state of the global economy. The forecast is that the EU GDP growth will be reduced by 1.3 percentage points, shrinking to 2.7% growth, and only 3.1%

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 10, 2021

The SVP of Supply Chain at Walmart speaking at Blue Yonder’s virtual user conference. On March 21st, David Guggina – the senior vice president supply chain, product, and engineering – filled in more detail on the specifics of their supply chain journey while speaking at Blue Yonder’s virtual Icon user conference.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 1, 2022

The planning typically begins at the start of the year as shippers work with carriers to share updated forecasts of capacity requirements throughout the year to ensure parcels are delivered on time during the season. However, if shippers under or overestimate their forecasted capacity requirements, they could incur a penalty from carriers.

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Cathy Roberson

OCTOBER 4, 2023

“Gathering data on the last mile is dark,” an Uber Direct executive told me at Oracle’s OracleWorld conference last month. It provides predictive insights on what packages or freight may be at risk for delays and where within the network they may be most at risk. HEAT was deployed to employees in 2018.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 11, 2013

What happens when you bring together a large group of shippers and carriers and put them in a conference room? At the Manhattan Associates Momentum 2013 conference last month, the answer was a great conversation about transportation trends, challenges, and opportunities. Not all freight or shippers are created equal.

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 14, 2022

It’s been a crazy month plus - new customers, three conferences, and a couple of podcasts and webinars. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) latest forecast (March 3), daily spot prices for Brent oil closed at almost $124/b in the first week of March. an article is well, well overdue…my apologies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Before the benchmarking work, I believed that companies that were better forecasters would be better at inventory management. Most companies are not measuring and adapting with volatility.Analyzing forecastability of the item portfolio is a good starting place. Forecast Consumption Logic is an Opportunity for All.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

The Freightos Baltic Index Global Container Freight Index shows the cost of shipping freight remains hugely elevated – more than double the price a year earlier. In fact, global freight rates have increased tenfold since the start of the pandemic. And this was before the Russian invasion of Ukraine began.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 4, 2016

DOT Releases 30-Year Freight Projections. Terra’s Demand Sensing capabilities allow companies to combine massive amounts of data from the supply chain to leverage demand signals which dramatically improve forecast accuracy. JDA Achieves Key Competitive Wins and Sees Strong Cloud Growth.

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DAT Solutions

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Want to know tomorrow’s freight rates today? Adamo was speaking to brokers at the DAT User Conference this past October. He showed the tight correlation between load-to-truck ratios and freight rates – when one goes up, so does the other one.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Are you attending the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Conference later this month (September 25-28 in Orlando, FL)? I hope to see you at the conference! New Transport Mode to Redefine Freight Movement. July 2016 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Room: Sun 3-4.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 11, 2017

Peak season for ocean freight shipping is underway. Space is extremely tight and forecasting is imperative. This blog examines the “red” times, like the roughly three-month period we have just entered that is historically one of the regular disruptors in the ocean freight market. Look ahead at your 3-month forecasts.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

Foxconn Forecasts Challenging Operating Environment This Year. After a three-day stoppage of rail operations impacting transcontinental shipments of key commodities and manufactured goods, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference have reached a settlement calling for final and binding arbitration of differences.

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Key factors influencing inventory levels, supplier quality, demand forecasting, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, production planning, transportation management and more are becoming known for the first time. The example below shows how a wide spectrum is being used to accomplish demand forecasting, and Lennox is using machine learning today.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

As the world for non-essential workers moved to on-line meetings, conference calls, and uncertainty, essential workers redefined the workplace to mitigate risk. Border crossings will be tough, and the infrastructure for the ocean and air freight tumultuous. As we moved into our new roles, for all supply chains, demand shifted.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 15, 2022

Despite the disruptive nature of supply chains over the past couple of years, inventory management systems have not seemed to help retailers as effectively in forecasting and managing inventories - particularly as retailers made significant investments in omnichannel strategies. I wear a number of hats these days.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 12, 2015

I was at the GT Nexus Bridges 2015 conference earlier this week. April 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). For example, we provide a solution to forecast sales for both manufacturers and retailers so they can purchase, produce and sell more products more efficiently. What would a poet say about this photo?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

They want to improve middle and back-office functions, including improved financial forecasting and supply chain management.”. This article resonated with me quite well, as it coincided with my recent panel at last week’s BGSA Supply chain conference. Don’t wait. Do something. Take a look around you. Crowdsource is expanding rapidly.

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Intelligent Audit

JULY 26, 2022

This news comes as the International Energy Agency lowered the forecasted oil demand for the next two years. CEO Carol Tomé and CFO Brian Newman will lead an investor conference call to discuss the results starting at 8:30 a.m. Inflated trucking costs have impacted the global supply chain on top of air and ocean cargo.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 6, 2016

JDA Introduces Stratus — New Nimble, Out-of-the-box Cloud Offerings to Solve Complex Workforce Management, Transportation and Forecasting Needs. Study: Biggest trucking firms outsource over 42% of their freight (FleetOwner). Truck Orders Fall in April (WSJ – sub. XPO Logistics Announces First Quarter 2016 Results.

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Cathy Roberson

JUNE 28, 2021

The National Retail Federation (NRF) recently revised its 2021 total retail sales forecast. The latest forecast projects that retail sales will grow between 10.5% The majority of the imports are by way of ocean freight. However, to get a true picture of the footwear supply chain, one must not discount air freight.

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DAT Solutions

AUGUST 17, 2017

Attendees at last year's DAT User Conference. A DAT customer called me recently on my cell phone, as he was trying to decide whether to attend the 2017 DAT User Conference (DUC) in Portland from October 23-25. He is taking over a freight brokerage from its previous owner who was retiring. Rate forecasting. Capacity 2.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Inventory is then put on pallets and shipped as freight. Distributors will inbound to a manufacturer the inventory needed and transportation management, especially inbound freight management, efficiency is paramount to an effective vendor managed inventory model. Manufacturer’s Benefit from Evolved VMI.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Higher parcel freight rates and selected customer and segment choices obviously helped in the profitability performance. Readers might recall that UPS increased its freight rates by 5.9 Revenues for the FedEx Ground unit, this carrier’s engine of E-Commerce last-mile fulfillment, came in at $300 million below forecast.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 10, 2020

FreightWaves is the leading freight intelligence provider, offering current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform. FreightWaves also hosts conferences under Transparency and MarketWaves branding and is a co-developer of the first futures contracts dedicated to trucking spot rates.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 19, 2018

Strong results for air freight, container shipping and export orders in particular suggest that, while the trade recovery may moderate in due course, it will likely continue in the coming months and remain above trend,” the report says. He presented his outlook for container shipping to the TPM Annual Conference in Long Beach, Calif.,

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 21, 2015

GEODIS acquires OHL (Ozburn-Hessey Logistics) and enhances its Freight Forwarding and Contract Logistics offering in the US. As Joe Dixon, SVP of Supply Chain at Brooks Brothers, commented at the GT Nexus Bridges 2015 conference a few weeks ago: “SAP is our internal ERP system, GT Nexus is our external [supply chain] ERP system.”.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Since we promised to update you regularly, we’ve collated some of the latest stories from the world of freight shipping, warehousing, logistics services, and supply chain technology, so that you can keep your finger on the pulse of the fast-changing logistics landscape. Ocean Freight Demand Falls Away, Rates Start to Slide.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 21, 2013

A very interesting presentation was made by the Jennifer Murray on freight planning in Wisconsin. The application of GPS data in modeling truck vehicle routing and forecasting was also demonstrated in a presentation by Arun Kuppam of Cambridge Systems.

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 8, 2013

We’ll be discussing the future of the cloud during our Crossroads conference on June 26 th. the public cloud services market is forecast to grow 18.5 A chemical manufacturer we interviewed is using a third-party cloud application to negotiate freight rates with some 28 ocean carriers, for instance. Register here.

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EC Sourcing Group

DECEMBER 1, 2021

They have different types of freight, service needs, lead times, dwell times, and handling criteria. Depending on your requirements you can design your sourcing strategy to commit a portion of your freight volume, and procure the rest on the spot market. Shippers and carriers have different demands, capabilities, and networks.

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Freight Plus

DECEMBER 19, 2018

With 11 out of 12 months of the year reported, the Cass report indicates that the realized contract pricing forecast for 2018 of 6 – 12% is “essentially in the books.”. Costello explained his outlook for 2019 in a recent conference call hosted by investment firm Stifel earlier this year. annually in November but was down 0.5%

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EC Sourcing Group

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

They have different types of freight, service needs, lead times, dwell times, and handling criteria. Depending on your requirements you can design your sourcing strategy to commit a portion of your freight volume, and procure the rest on the spot market. Shippers and carriers have different demands, capabilities, and networks.

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TMC

MAY 8, 2019

Leveraging TMC, our global logistics management provider, we brought in logistics experts to sit on-site with our team, evaluate the situation, and work with us to establish freight processes and controls to help drive down logistics costs, while also improving service to customers. Send rebooking advice to our Freight Forwarder.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 21, 2021

Protect freight, optimize fleet use, deliver services that scale, even improve driver safety—these are just a few things you can achieve using the right IoT Solutions. Add predictive analytics to forecast events so you can increase productivity, reduce cost and risk, and satisfy customers. Gain insights into unused capacity.

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