Talking Logistics

JULY 5, 2018

Develop a comprehensive truckload strategy so you’re prepared to handle just about anything. Building the right truckload strategy for your business. The key to a great truckload strategy is aligning capacity communities with attribute segments of your freight portfolio. Select the perfect 3PL to augment your truckload strategy.

Price Reduction 101

Price Reduction Expense Reduction Waste Reduction Cost Reduction Strategies 101

GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

Break-bulk loaded cargo was poorly secured required a Tetris-like approach to handle diverse sizes of packages. Small trucker, Malcom McLean, fumes at slow loading of cargo aboard ship – “There has to be a better way.”. First intermodal cargo transportation (containers are stacked on deck). Significance. Loading costs plummet.

Shipping 120

Shipping Logistics Network Optimization Software Supply Chain Design Software Modeling Software 120

Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Speakers are the SCRC meeting yesterday and today continued to speak more on the topic of transportation strategy given increasing challenges in the transportation sector, and the need for an effective transportation management strategy. He notes that this is similar to the 2006-2007 market where capacity was becoming constrained.

Supply Chain Network Software 68

Supply Chain Network Software Meeting Transportation North Carolina 68

Cathy Roberson

JANUARY 3, 2022

In comparison, transportation and warehousing PPI increased 17.844 points for the same period, index based on 2006=100 and not seasonally adjusted. Note in the first chart, Standard Courier Services PPI Index, the sharp jump from December 2020, 373, to January 2021, 394. I wear a number of hats these days.

Cost Reduction Strategies 98

Cost Reduction Strategies Purchasing Skills Price Reduction Logistics Network Optimization Software 98

Freightos

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Overcapacity Could Be Maersk’s Salvation … and Strategy. And it seems pretty clear that this strategy will continue to be their path forward. The first Maersk E Class ship was delivered in 2006 and was able to carry 14,700 TEU, a world record at the time. This isn’t a new strategy. Driven by Technology.

Cost Reduction Strategies 120

Cost Reduction Strategies Price Reduction Shipping Purchasing Skills 120

Techgistics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Adjacent innovation is a strategy where a business leverages something they do well to develop a new product or service in a related market. In 2006, Amazon leveraged their expertise in eCommerce fulfillment to create another adjacent business, Fulfillment by Amazon, which provides fulfillment services to small and mid-size merchants.

Innovation 100

Innovation Logistics Network Optimization Software Supply Chain Network Software Cost Reduction Strategies 100

Abivin

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It is standard procedure to unload some Mediterranean-bound ships and use the Sumed pipeline to move the excess cargo. billion tons of cargo (as of 2020). The majority of the transported cargo is made up of containers, grains, and petroleum. The Panamanian government decided to enlarge the Panama Canal in 2006.

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Panama Egypt Asia 52