Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

In the United States alone, 3PL gross revenue increased 3.2% (a rate greater than our GDP) from 2012 to 2013 to $146.4 For example, a 3PL can combine the freight of 30, 40 or 50 clients to give shippers far more buying power than they would command “going it alone” in these trying times. Source: Armstrong & Associates.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Click the links below to compare this year's innovations to those from previous years: Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2016 : robot pickers, bridge-inspecting drones, autonomous freight shuttles, and more. Supply Chain Innovators of 2013 : paperless food chain, VLMs, cold chain fleet management, and more. Last-Mile Delivery.

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Freight Plus

AUGUST 7, 2020

And He is also one of the authors of the recently released book, Digital Supply Networks. Traditionally, supply chains have been conceived and managed as a discrete sequence of activities, from design, plan, and source to make, deliver, and return. In the book there is a whole chapter of dynamic fulfillment. online here.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JULY 29, 2018

And customers, many of whom are Millennials, want to know the sourcing of the products they buy and will make decisions based on a company’s sustainability record. All is not lost, according to Sheffi, author of the recent book, Balancing Green: When to Embrace Sustainability in a Business (and When Not To).

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MIT Supply Chain

OCTOBER 24, 2013

This post will be published in the fall 2013 issue of MIT CTL’s online newsletter Supply Chain Frontiers. Fast forward to 2013, and the strategy’s success is plainly visible. Subscribe to Frontiers here. The Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC), Zaragoza, Spain, is celebrating its 10 th anniversary this week.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Brent crude oil prices Dec 2009 – Dec 2014 (Source MoneyAM.com). But as I wrote back in April 2013 , “If you look closely, Amazon’s real advantage comes from its logistics assets — the 89 distribution centers it [had at the time], including 20 opened [in 2012], with more scheduled to open in the months ahead.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Source: Laurie Cus. October 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). The four main elements of the ELD Final Rule include: Requiring commercial truck and bus drivers who currently use paper log books to maintain hours-of-service records to adopt ELDs within two years. Paragon Software Systems Introduces Route Control.

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Freightos

JANUARY 8, 2017

Freight Booking Is (Slowly) Going Online. For years, online freight was limited to US domestic trucking. International freight quoting is moving online too, with major progress by enterprise providers, like Kuehne + Nagel , and startups (like the Freightos Marketplace ). For decades, freight was about bigger ships.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Working at a logistics startup means attending a lot of logistics and freight conferences, most with the same technology panels talking about the same technology again and again. Obviously, connecting data sources isn’t enough. SEE HOW THE FREIGHT INDUSTRY IS GOING ONLINE IN 2016. More on that later. Going Forward.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

With how quickly new technology, tips and warehouse management techniques are emerging, wouldn’t it be nice to take a page from someone else’s book? Strategies include sourcing more items directly from manufacturers to improve margins, SKU rationalization and space reduction, “show more carry less” and assisted-store ordering.

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Global Trade Management

JANUARY 26, 2014

By having many service providers involved, which among each other are often not connected, the friction in moving goods from source to destination are very high. March 21, 2013. The partners will jointly offer their customers a real-time monitoring solution for freight consignments, the two companies announced. Subscribe To.

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