Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2017

GM plans large-scale launch of self-driving cars in U.S. If transportation and logistics are an indicator of economic health, things are looking very good at the moment. If transportation and logistics are an indicator of economic health, things are looking very good at the moment. jump from the same month last year.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

It’s still important, but Lauren Thomas ( @laurenthomas ) reports, “Coresight Research … says the holiday season is becoming ‘less important’ for retailers, with more shopping taking place online throughout the year. This would weigh on profit margins at the start of the new year.”

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Experts and pundits are forecasting wholesale changes to every industry and every part of life, but only a minority of these forecasts of massive, permanent change will bear out. What are areas that are relevant to supply chains where new paradigms are possible? “Nothing will be the same” headlines are mushrooming. Digitization.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 12, 2016

What do you do when the heat index is 103F outside, the National Weather Service issues a heat advisory , and your central air conditioner is still broken? June 2016 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). You have the app, you have the community, but how do you get carriers/drivers to actually download the app and use it?

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Freightos

APRIL 16, 2015

Feel like you keep on reading headlines about “ the Uber-ificiation of 3D printed big-data drones “? We know how you feel. We’ve rounded up the top 20 logistics technology innovations changing the way over $18 trillion dollars of goods are shipped annually. Logistics startups are popping up everywhere.

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ThroughPut

JULY 28, 2020

When was the last time you went to your neighborhood Home Depot? This success is attributed to the significant investment by Home Depot in telematics and routing solutions to drive increased revenues. The Home Depot story above highlights an aspect of supply chain inventory optimization to drive business growth. Sounds simple?

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Back in the dotcom days, more than 15 years ago, numerous startups launched transportation marketplaces in a bid to revolutionize the way shippers and carriers worked together. These marketplaces (aka “exchanges”) didn’t work for many reasons, but the prime one was that these startups didn’t really understand the transportation market.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 13, 2021

At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. Our prior experience has taught us to answer to opportunities when industry-wide change is at the forefront. What are some of your greatest achievements in Business?

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Actually, he didn’t say any of that, but can you imagine the headlines today if he had? What do you get when you mix two of the hottest IT trends together, namely social collaboration and wearable devices? year-to-date through August, compared with the same period last year.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 15, 2016

And if you’re reading this, neither did you. Obama Administration Wants to Spend $4B on Self-Driving Cars (ABC News). Google Exec Says Delivery by Drone Possible Within a Few Years (BloombergBusiness). November 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). November 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI).

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The reason is simple: companies want their 3PL partners to provide them with insights about leading industry practices and trends, as well as to facilitate networking and knowledge-exchange opportunities with other shippers in the 3PL’s community. Greg Forbis, Senior Director, General Merchandise, Inbound Transportation, Walmart Stores.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

On the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, where the remains of a 200-year-old canal built to connect Cleveland with Cincinnati snake around new warehouse parks, a modern tributary of the global economy widens a little more with each planeload of goods that roars down its runways. population, so the slogan goes. population, so the slogan goes.

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many driving forces behind the automation trend, from rising labor costs to rapid growth in ecommerce sales and a growing demand for rapid order fulfillment , such as two-day and even same-day delivery. Ecommerce demand drives up U.S. Labor availability is also a concern, as well as workplace safety. feet in 2016.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

My father stands barechested in front of me, but he’s still wearing his work pants, and he looks a bit sweaty, his hair (what’s left of it) is slicked back, and he’s all animated about something. “I I told your cousin to gather that wood piled out back and bring it to the scrap yard so he could get some money for it, but he didn’t do it.”

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Driverless vehicles and package delivery dominated the supply chain and logistics news this week, so let’s go straight to it: Google wants to deliver packages from self-driving trucks ( Quartz ). Self-Driving Cars Clear a Hurdle, With Computer Called Driver ( WSJ – sub. December 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI).

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

And business relationships did not become more Vested this year — if anything, they reverted back to being “win-lose” arrangements (see Walmart’s Message to Suppliers: Talk to the Hand and The High Cost of Poor Supplier Relationships ). What will happen in 2016? Of course, what happens in the U.S.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 19, 2015

It’s the last Friday of school and my kids are showing off their work this morning, so as I fill my coffee mug and get ready for the walk to school, let’s go straight to the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Amazon’s Next Delivery Drone: You (WSJ – sub. commercial drones within a year (Reuters).

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ThroughPut

JULY 28, 2020

When was the last time you went to your neighborhood Home Depot? This success is attributed to the significant investment by Home Depot in telematics and routing solutions to drive increased revenues. The Home Depot story above highlights an aspect of supply chain inventory optimization to drive business growth. Sounds simple?

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ThroughPut

JULY 28, 2020

When was the last time you went to your neighborhood Home Depot? This success is attributed to the significant investment by Home Depot in telematics and routing solutions to drive increased revenues. The Home Depot story above highlights an aspect of supply chain optimization to drive business growth. Sounds simple?

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 3, 2016

What was your first concert? Mine was UB40 my freshman year at Cornell, followed by Tracy Chapman a few months later. One of my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2016 was that drones would have a breakout year — not in delivering packages to consumers, but in yard and warehouse management. Uber raises $3.5

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Requis

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Scott Donachie is the president and founder of Companies for Zero Waste , an organization that helps businesses transition to low-carbon and zero waste operations while driving profitability. You can listen to the podcast below, or watch the video version on YouTube. ?. Scott Donachie: I launched Companies for Zero Waste two years ago.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 26, 2013

New Vehicle Routing Activity Tool and Enhanced iPhone Functionality, Highlight Latest Version of Roadnet Transportation Suite. Daddy, What Was a Truck Driver? ( Wall Street Journal ). And we’re pleased with the successes we have achieved over the past year or so, thus validating our product strategy. million, up 9.5

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6 River Systems

APRIL 23, 2019

Not only do you need to select the right equipment , such as collaborative mobile robots , but you also need to evaluate factors like costs, transitioning employees through a period of change, the time it takes to implement and train workers on new warehouse systems and other considerations. Robert DeStefano. Rupy Sawhney.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

There is no question that the automotive industry has seen rapid change and improvement over the past three years. To learn more about what is impacting the industry today, Supply Chain Nation spoke with Louis Yiakoumi, Group Publisher for Automotive Logistics magazine to get his insights for our Expert Insights series.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 1, 2016

In this sleek, modern building, we also spent some time in breakout sessions reflecting on what this means for companies who are seeking to start to create their own real-time, globally transparent supply ecosystem. The book is slated to come out next year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

At the beginning of the year, the global chip shortage had become so dire that large industrial companies were taking scarce chips out of washing machines to plug them into industrial modules. And now on to this week’s logistics news: McDonald’s is testing a new drive-thru concept.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2022

The company had sales of more than 38 billion Euros in the last financial year ($43 billion. Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures, and distributes materials and solutions for the construction, mobility, healthcare and other industrial application markets. The phrase being used for this is “greenwashing.”

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6 River Systems

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

To learn more about what strategies today’s warehouse leaders implement to foster more efficient order fulfillment while keeping costs under control, we reached out to a panel of business leaders and warehouse pros and asked them to answer this question: “What’s the #1 way warehouses control and reduce fulfillment costs? .

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

I’ve been an industry analyst for over 20 years, which is hard to believe sometimes. I remember speaking a few years ago with Art Mesher, Descartes’ CEO from November 2004 through November 2013, and he attributed the turnaround to Descartes’ shift from a “culture of selling” to a “culture of serving.” Source: Google.

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6 River Systems

APRIL 4, 2019

To learn more about the biggest trends shaping the logistics industry today, we reached out to a panel of logistics professionals and asked them to answer this question: “What are the biggest trends in logistics technology?” In the digital transformation age, logistics is once again undergoing a major shift. Marc Tuinier.

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Parade

AUGUST 30, 2016

Customers are hounding you. So you call your carriers. They tell you their driver is 20 minutes away from their destination. They tell you their driver is 20 minutes away from their destination. You want to believe them.but that was 20 minutes ago. What do you do? What can you do?

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Requis

JULY 24, 2020

Investors, like the public, have woken up to the fact that supply chains are the engine driving economic prosperity. They may not know much about what they are, but they’ve understood that we’re about seven days away from starvation without them,” he says. Supply chain, it seems, is ripe for disruption.

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C3 Solutions

JUNE 19, 2020

20 Min Read. Are you looking for ways to use automation technology to stay at the top of the game? We’re breaking down 6 automation technologies to drive up your distribution center efficiency. Option 2: Autonomous Mobile Robotics. It's a high-speed, high-stakes game and you need to be thinking many moves ahead.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 27, 2017

I conducted my first research study on transportation management systems (TMS) back in March of 1999. Fast forward to today, almost 20 years later, and we find ourselves again in a new and exciting chapter in the TMS market. What new capabilities are vendors introducing and how are companies using and deriving value from a TMS?

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 12, 2020

trillion on logistics and transportation services in the United States in 2018, an increase of 11.4% billion, while transportation costs increased by 10.4% billion, while transportation costs increased by 10.4% billion, while transportation costs increased by 10.4% transportation network and other logistics challenges.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

During a recent Blue Yonder Live session , a panel of workforce experts discussed today’s workforce challenges and how Blue Yonder’s Workforce Management solution offers optimized scheduling, real-time visibility, and mobile self-service options, creating happier employees and smoother operations. But why is that?

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Techgistics

DECEMBER 22, 2016

2016 was an incredible year for tech in logistics as companies both large and small are working on some transformative technologies not just for logistics, but for society as a whole. Here’s a few interesting tech advancements in 2016 that were important for the year, but could also point to what’s to come in the near and long-term future.

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