3PL Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Amazon is on the forefront of automation in the warehouse , currently using 45,000 Kiva Robots, after purchasing the company Kiva Systems in 2012 (they’re now renamed “Amazon robots”). For every crate, the journey from shelf to shipping is adjusted and configured through an algorithm.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 22, 2015

Regardless of your point of view on truck fuel efficiency standards, the reality is that it only addresses part of the opportunity available to shippers, carriers, and third-party logistics providers (3PLs) to reduce transportation costs and carbon emissions. The redesign has saved the company €1.2 million a year.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Not surprising, with the exception of Amazon, eBay, and a few other e-commerce giants, most online retailers have stayed away from selling to consumers in other countries, or they have limited their sales to a very finite number of countries (cross-border e-commerce reached $300 billion in 2012 , while global online trade will top $1.4

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

This “invisible” part of Walmart’s business is a logistical and supply chain management and the practices they employ should give supply chain managers pause to take a bit out of their day and inspect what Walmart is doing in order to mimic into the supply chain manager’s own practice. ” Walmart states early on.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

These teams then can identify the root causes that created shortfalls in reaching goals and ensures that the solution is documented. He also served as Director of the Ryder Logistics Network and Vice President of the Gulf Region for Intermodal Trucking Company. This experience included leading a $1.5B

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 12, 2014

The fraud often includes paperwork such as insurance policies, fake driver’s licenses and other documents. . Then the con artists offer low bids to freight brokers who handle shipping for numerous companies. Tweet The post Identity Theft, Trucking Style appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Freight Plus

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Without a functioning integrated TMS your logistics team is forced to quote shipments across multiple carriers/brokers, measure quote results, manually create shipping documents, call terminals for track/trace updates, and make business decisions based on “directional data.”

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 11, 2014

We started in 2012 and we are currently in the roll-out phase across the regions in terms of processes, organisational structures, measures, developing the roles and responsibilities of the players, educating and training and implementing technology. GMS is a team of nine people based in Rotterdam, Shanghai and Minneapolis.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

During the period of 2006-2012, Campbell Soup Company outperformed its peer group on the Supply Chain Index. Food and Beverage Company Performance on the Supply Chain Index for the Period of 2006-2012. We simplified our SC strategy and communicated in a straightforward, one-page document that laid out primary goal areas. Our

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 8, 2013

percent in 2013 to total $131 billion worldwide, up from $111 billion in 2012. Let’s bring it down to earth with a specific example – ocean shipping. As suggested in my recent post What Price Ocean Shipping? By Ken Cottrill, Global Communications Consultant, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, kencott@mit.edu.

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Global Trade Management

AUGUST 4, 2008

And in more general terms, common industry practices that impede smooth trade fulfillment transactions include: · Documentation Challenges: The reliance on proprietary EDI systems and the excessive number of documents, with continuously changing requirements creates a ‘perfect storm’ of paper that impedes effective trades.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 2, 2018

To determine average load price and margin, I adjusted this 2012 research from DAT. Shippers want great service, easy access to shipping documents, tracking, tracing and a fair price. appeared first on The Logistics of Logistics. Average Load Price and Freight Brokerage Margin.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 29, 2020

The ships now have to reduce their Sulphur emission by over 80% – 85% by switching to Lower Sulphur Fuel. Due to the high level of pollutants in the exhaust of the bunker currently used to power some 60,000+ ships globally, the IMO is going to implement a new regulation regarding these fuels on January 1, 2020.

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RFgen

AUGUST 7, 2022

In 2012, the U.S. For example, when Sunland-produced peanut butter was recalled in 2012, demand for peanut butter temporarily decreased. 2012 Nearly $1 Billion Peanut Butter/ Salmonella. Food Logistics —information for executives involved in various aspects of the global food, beverage, and consumer packaged goods supply chain.

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Freightos

MAY 31, 2022

I started Freightos a decade ago, in 2012. World trade is built on a foundation of global shipping. In the two years prior to starting Freightos, I witnessed, as CEO of a company called Lightech, how international shipping is offline, opaque and inefficient, adding cost and uncertainty to cross-border trade. Really important.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 11, 2013

percent from August 2012. percent since October 2012. Even invoices and Advance Ship Notices (ASNs) can be exported from AdvancePro and sent to trading partners using TrueCommerce EDI.”. Tweet The post This Week in Logistics News (October 7-11, 2013) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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