Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

When it comes to executing mode-specific freight moves from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively, transportation execution and visibility solutions play a critical role. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, E2open is the largest provider of transportation execution solutions. FedEx Corp. million daily shipments.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 16, 2018

It has been further spurred by the trend of nearshoring over the last decade, as American companies have relocated their manufacturing facilities to Mexico to take advantage of a skilled workforce, improving infrastructure, and proximity to the United States. Understand the 3-Legged Freight Movements at the Border.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Black Friday Logistics: Brought To You By Ocean Freight. What’s working for ocean freight (and what isn’t). Ocean freight has had a complicated year so far. Beyond speed, one of air freight’s primary advantages over ocean has always been reliability. Ocean freight is cheap. zschreiber.

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QAD

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The entire country is slightly larger than the US state of Texas. Manufacturing in Turkey. Primary manufacturing industries include textiles, food, automobiles, electronics, mining, steel, petroleum, construction, lumber and paper. Supply Chain Infrastructure for Manufacturing. of its GDP. Agriculture makes up 6.8%

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Turvo

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The volatility the market witnesses today has led supply chain stakeholders like shippers, carriers, and manufacturers to obsessively look at driving efficiencies into their workflow, while cutting costs. Banyan Technology’s transportation management API facilitates automated tracking, automated freight bill management and more.

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E2open

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Expanded technology partnership enables shippers to optimize logistics and transportation spend in e2open’s Carrier Marketplace AUSTIN, Texas – Nov. 15, 2022 – E2open Parent Holdings, Inc. Our SaaS platform anticipates disruptions and opportunities to help companies improve efficiency, reduce waste, and operate sustainably.

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QAD

JUNE 11, 2020

That makes it slightly less than twice the size of the US state of Texas. Manufacturing in South Africa. In addition, automobile assembly, metalworking, machinery, textiles, iron and steel mills, chemicals, fertilizer and food are important manufacturing sectors for the country. Commercial ship repair is also significant.

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QAD

JUNE 11, 2020

That makes it slightly less than twice the size of the US state of Texas. Manufacturing in South Africa. In addition, automobile assembly, metalworking, machinery, textiles, iron and steel mills, chemicals, fertilizer and food are important manufacturing sectors for the country. Commercial ship repair is also significant.

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 12, 2020

Currently, this has not made a substantial impact on the freight market, but we are seeing signs that the industry is beginning to recover. Produce shipping is showing signs of strengthening and should begin building activity for the remainder of the month before leveling off in June. Midwest Logistics. Southeast Logistics.

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Intelligent Audit

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Despite carrier hopes of volume normalization as the market contracts in 2023, FreightWaves warns, “ 2023 is likely to be another year of sub-replacement level builds due to parts and components shortages as well as Europe’s struggles with sourcing energy to power vendor manufacturing site. ”. YoY Volume Lapses Worry Air Cargo Companies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This new behavior means that manufacturers and retailers need to anticipate consumer needs across channels with more accuracy than ever. To compete with Amazon, most retailers and manufacturers have had to dramatically shorten their own delivery windows. Navigating an Increasingly Challenging Logistics Landscape.

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Turvo

MARCH 1, 2022

Because of widespread global supply chains and e-commerce’s need of moving goods across continents, there is constant pressure on merchants and manufacturers to compress planning cycles, reduce production lead times, and speed up deliveries. But global logistics is still a reactive industry.

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ShipBob

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Cutoff analysis Cutoff analysis is when you pause operations such as receiving and shipping at the time of the physical count to ensure nothing is being handled and goes unaccounted for. Verify that invoices match the amount of items and cost of inventory shipped from your ecommerce warehouse.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The enormous disruption to all manner of commodities production and deliveries has wide ranging ramifications for high volume-shipping industries across many verticals. All shippers are affected by this – fuel being integral to everything from agricultural production to actual freight movement.

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Freight Plus

JANUARY 15, 2019

parcel shipping. Costs in 6 major Texas urban areas skyrocket from $1 billion in 2013 to $6.3 We’re seeing a lot of smaller vehicles,” said Diniece Peters Mendes, director of the New York City Department of Transportation’s Office of Freight Mobility to. Between 2016-2019, Texas plans to spend $6.6 billion by 2016.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Add a resurgence of Covid-19 in China near major ports for a further strain on shipping , and supply chains as we once knew them are a thing of the past. Based on West Texas Intermediate crude oil, oil prices fell 3.2% There is a hard new normal facing business, which is still evolving. Copper prices have risen 8.97% from one year ago.

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Convey

AUGUST 29, 2017

AUSTIN, Texas– Convey , the customer-centric delivery platform, today announced $8.25 This latest funding will allow us to pursue new opportunities that help the world’s largest retailers, manufacturers and 3PLs reinvent and grow their businesses.”. Convey enables businesses worldwide to take control of shipping and delivery.

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ShipBob

MARCH 30, 2020

How do you put your brand in a spot to offer expedited shipping without putting in the time, resources, and investment of several warehouses? With so many millions of packages shipped across the country on any given day, it’s vital that systems are in place to keep them on track and make sure they’re delivered to the right place on time.

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

One paper from the University of Texas at Arlington suggests that lenience may yield better results than strictness. This may involve freight partners. Depending on the policy and reason for returning, some customers may expect you to pay the shipping costs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Global trade has eased as warehouse inventories of retailers and manufacturers remain elevated,” Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka said. Wing’s service from the two Texas locations will enable Walmart to reach 60,000 additional homes that are within a 6-mile range of the select stores.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 24, 2015

Lots of supply chain and logistics news this week, so let’s go straight to the items that caught my attention: Amazon now ships to your Audi’s trunk ( USA Today ). February 2015 North American Freight Numbers. Amazon Reveals Just How Huge the Cloud Is for Its Business ( Wired ). Ryder Reports Record First Quarter 2015 Results.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 6, 2020

It was a good year for shippers as freight rates plummeted for the majority of 2019, substantially backing off the historic highs the industry witnessed in 2018. An overall economic sluggishness hit freight particularly hard in 2019 leading to what many have labeled as a “ freight recession.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2023

On December 22, the first deliveries from new sites in Texas and California were made, according to David Carbon, Vice President of Prime Air at Amazon. This creates a higher shipping cost and is not as environmentally friendly as shipping the one item back in a smaller package or as part of a consolidated return.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 27, 2023

The retailer has partnered with the Bengaluru-based cargo airline Quikjet to launch its maiden air freight service in the country, which it said will enable the firm to speed up its delivery. India is the third market where Amazon has launched its freight service. Regional shipping companies across the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2022

The Danish manufacturer saw sales begin to surge as consumers gravitated towards their building sets, which come in a variety of shapes, sizes, difficulties, and characters. XPO Logistics to spin off freight brokerage. CEVA Logistics using self-driving trucks to move freight. Kroger plans another three Ocado e-commerce ‘spokes’.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

Deaths in Hong Kong are at a record level as COVID outbreaks slow freight at Shenzhen and Qingdao ports in China. The Port of Shenzhen –a central manufacturing and export hub including the Yantian terminal that handles 25% of all U.S.-bound Still, the manufacturing plants and distribution centers are closed.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 8, 2021

UK freight shipping costs quadruple after Brexit, COVID. The issue here is that the new vaccines need an absurd amount of labor and materials to be manufactured, especially considering that a vaccine has never been made at this speed or scale before. A Canadian “buy-local” effort fights Amazon on its own turf.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 14, 2018

The 2018 Manufacturing and Logistics Report Card , conducted by Conexus Indiana for the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research, rates U.S. The 2018 Manufacturing and Logistics Report Card , conducted by Conexus Indiana for the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research, rates U.S.

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Freight Plus

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The new highways enabled manufacturers and distributors to ship between states far quicker if not more economically. In the mid-80s, Yellow Freight wanted to operate within the state of Texas. In any case, Yellow bought the Texas motor carrier rights from Jones for $6 million. As the U.S.

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Turvo

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Companies were forced to seek other suppliers when India’s key manufacturing center closed plants in response to an increase in COVID-19 cases. Hurricane Ida and a February severe frost in Texas wreaked havoc on the petrochemical supply chain, causing delays in manufacturing resins, plastics, and other components needed in everyday items.

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Zipline Logistics

JUNE 9, 2020

The freight market is making a rapid recovery as outbound volumes have increased and stayed at several-year-highs over the past several weeks. And Midwestern manufacturing hubs are potent sources of outbound volume as parts of the industrial economy have restarted following their March downturn. Freight Rates Rise from Historic Lows.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 14, 2022

And their operating conditions are extremely challenging and unpredictable, from skyrocketing fuel costs and tariffs to blocked shipping lanes and ongoing geo-political conflict. Manufacturers, retailers, and third-party logistics providers can all benefit from digitized logistics. Do I have the resources to meet their needs?

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E2open

OCTOBER 22, 2018

E2open to Acquire INTTRA, Adding the World’s Leading Ocean Shipping Network and Software Provider, Creating an Integrated Global Supply Chain and Logistics Operating Network. Today, one out of every four ocean containers shipped globally is booked through the INTTRA platform.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 17, 2024

According to S&P Global, seaborne containerized freight imports into the U.S. S&P Global also points to a “mixture of physical, political and labor reasons,” with the looming threat of an East Coast port strike paired with ongoing disruptions in Red Sea shipping lanes. supply chain activity slowed in April.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 2, 2018

2017 was a wild year, as freight transportation faced one disruption after another. Those four factors added up to extraordinary pressure on spot market truck capacity, driving rates up as high as we’ve seen them since at least 2010, when we established the freight rates database that forms the foundation of DAT RateView.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 31, 2022

The energy crisis in China and the European conflict are bringing additional chaos in the form of production shutdowns, raw material shortages and blocked shipping lanes. Digital Freight Bidding. In today’s fast-moving logistics landscape, freight bidding is a powerful tool for balancing service with cost control.

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Freightera

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Goal : Freightera was tasked to move 8 heavy, oversize refinery units from Houston, Texas to Toledo, Ohio, USA (over 1250 miles) and 10 flat-bed loads. Customer : Leading US manufacturer of soft drinks. Goal : Freightera was tasked to move heavy oversize manufacturing equipment from Montreal QC to Richmond BC Canada, September 2016.

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