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Amazon and Anticipatory Shipping: Revisiting This Highly Publicized 2013 Patent Ten Years Later

Logistics Viewpoints

Fast forward to last week when I came across another reference to this patent in the book Prediction Machines – The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence. Amazon has built up its own distribution and transportation network substantially over the last decade. My second impression was “how can this be patentable?”

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Report Points to Increase of Shippers Outsourcing Transportation Management Due to These 4 Core Benefits

GlobalTranz

This is especially true when outsourcing transportation management, as transportation can include a large part of your overall supply chain and business costs. Consider the many shippers who have outsourced transportation management and other logistics functions to third-party logistics (3PL) providers the past few years.

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Experts Reveal Top Transportation Trends to Watch

Supply Chain Opz

In this article, leading experts from various sectors in transportation industry will discuss transportation trends you should take a closer look. Online freight marketplaces allow shippers to instantly compare the cost of traditional truck vs rail freight, and book with a button click. Holcomb, Dept.

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Want a Better Supply Chain? Here Are 4 Reasons to Outsource Your Transportation Management

Talking Logistics

Now more so than ever, corporations understand the tremendous impact logistics and transportation can have on their overall business performance and are taking meaningful strides to optimize their supply chain operations. In the United States alone, 3PL gross revenue increased 3.2% (a rate greater than our GDP) from 2012 to 2013 to $146.4

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Insights from Elemica reveal 2014 Frankfurt

Talking Logistics

Meanwhile, the Red Sox won the World Series in 2013, going from worst to first in one year — and then back to worst in 2014. Moving forward, BASF is working on different projects to improve end-to-end supply chain visibility, like track and trace for products from BASF to end users and transport visibility.

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Why?

Supply Chain Shaman

Early 2012 marked the end of the third decade and 2013 finds us into the fourth. Today, I spoke at the Chief Supply Chain Officer conference in Chicago at the Eye for Transport event on the results of the research. It will be nice to be home and to have time to write on this second book, Metrics that Matter.

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LTL DIM Pricing: Why LTL Is Moving to Dimensional Based Pricing

GlobalTranz

FedEx, UPS, and DHL all claim to have been the first to switch to DIM pricing in 2013, but all packages were swapped over into the DIM pricing model in 2015. e-Book] 8 Big Factors to Consider for Efficient LTL Shipping. The use of dimensional (DIM) pricing has an extensive history by the Big Three carriers. Get Your Free Copy Here.