Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This will be the team’s first World Cup game since 2014, as it failed to qualify in 2018. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic followed by supply chain disruptions around the world has sparked a resurgence of companies bringing sourcing and manufacturing back to the United States or closer to U.S. trade with Asia.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2023

Freight rates have plummeted, brokerages are struggling, and the industry is still bloated with excess inventory. With the right data you can reduce your overall transportation costs, both accessorial costs and overall freight spend. Closer to home for supply chain professionals, driver shortages continue to plague the industry.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 7, 2013

We’re quickly approaching the midpoint of the year, which means it’s time to start planning for 2014 — at least that’s what I heard at my sister’s surprise birthday party last weekend, where some of her co-workers in finance were talking about getting started with 2014 budgets. Cass Freight Index Report for May 2013.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 7, 2016

Freight tons moving on the nation’s transportation network will grow 40 percent in the next three decades while the value of the freight will almost double, increasing by 92 percent, according to the latest projections by the U.S. trillion in 2015). That is the “hundreds of billions of dollars” question.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2024

Case-in-point: my company FourKites will collaborate with 16 other supply chain industry leaders — including BlueYonder, e2open, Oracle, Uber Freight, and JB Hunt, to name a few — as part of the Scheduling Standards Consortium (SSC). The returns on these kinds of efforts will be swift and tangible.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Likewise, labor can’t do its thing when there are severe equipment shortages, and rectifying those shortages requires difficult-to-source raw materials. It was recently reported that one of the world’s biggest container logistics companies, Maersk, will only handle cargo from direct shippers, cutting out freight forwarders.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Brent crude oil prices Dec 2009 – Dec 2014 (Source MoneyAM.com). For related commentary, see Insights from Ryder Innovate 2014. — Adrian’s Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2014. Shippers and carriers continue to shift away from long-haul trucking and one-way freight.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Real-time transportation visibility platforms tell shippers and their broker/carrier partners where their freight is at any point on its journey. He founded FourKites in 2014 after recognizing pain points in the logistics industry and designing elegant and effective systems to address them.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Oil prices jumped, with Brent rising above $105 a barrel for the first time since 2014, after Russia’s attack on Ukraine exacerbated concerns about disruptions to global energy supply. Carriers, freight forwarders, and shippers that were dealing with the China to North America trade lanes were already operating in crisis mode.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 22, 2022

While the duty to capture and prosecute these criminals rests with law enforcement authorities, transportation companies and their staff are invaluable sources of intelligence and should step up as partners in combating IWT. When I was Head of Go Green at DHL eCommerce a few moons ago, I spearheaded a program to do just that.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 3, 2018

Instead of having to deal with an ineffective point-to-point communication system like EDI and the complexity of reconciling multiple data sources with multiple permission models, Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) provides a singular mechanism to securely integrate, harmonize, and synchronize data for all participants.

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2016

By 2014, it reached $77 trillion dollars. This tremendous growth was driven by freight shipping, which scaled in size but didn’t significantly improve underlying technology, getting bigger, not getting smarter. Sources: A , B. Four years ago… …we set out to change this by bringing freight shipping online.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Whether it’s agile sourcing of hoverboards or finding the perfect gift for the person who has everything, technology is fixing the problem for good. Production Freight Receiving Purchasing Retail Logistics Production: Santa’s little helpers. Source: Soar Boards, via Flickr. But it comes at a price.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

Riding a rising five-year trend, retail juggernaut Walmart® grossed $476 billion in the fiscal year that ended in January 2014, up from $408 billion in fiscal 2010, according to The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch. Sources: “Annual Financials for Wal-Mart Stores Inc.” The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2014.” marketwatch.com.

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Supply Chain Movement

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Date: 28 – 30 April 2014. Entering its eighth year, Multimodal has grown to become the UK and Ireland’s premier freight transport and logistics event. In 2014, more than 7,000 high-calibre visitors attended. To see the list of companies that visited in 2014, please click here. Multimodal 2015. Venue: NEC Birmingham.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 7, 2015

Yesterday we had said we concluded our most popular blog posts by category for the blog posts written from our major categories for 2014. Well, manufacturing companies who ship freight in North America. Top 11 thru 20 Most Popular Manufacturing Blog Posts of 2014. Who do we serve, you might ask?

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

There was a deceleration in freight volumes during the second half of 2015 which continued into the first month of 2016. So, that tells me that the inventory situation continues to weigh on truck freight volumes. percent in December from November , with December 2015 freight shipments down 2.0 percent from December 2014.

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Freightos

MARCH 3, 2015

In fact, according to eMarketer, there were estimated 1.75bn smartphone users worldwide in 2014. During the 2014 holiday season in the US, IBM Digital Analytics estimated that 25% of US online sales were via mobile. yellowbox]Check out where the future of online sales for the freight industry is heading with this free white paper.[/yellowbox].

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 10, 2015

Supply Chain is just one of our five main categories we are covering all this week, which consist of: Logistics, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Freight, and Transportation. INFOGRAPHIC] Top 10 Logistics and Supply Chain Facts of 2014. Top Supply Chain Blog Posts from 2014. Top Supply Chain Blog Posts from the First Half of 2014.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 10, 2021

Global Supply Chain & Sourcing Director for ECCO Global Shoe Production & Sourcing. Integration of system, digitisation of the S&OP process and broader sourcing strategies were paramount to success of this role. In 2014, I was appointed Global Supply Chain role with ECCO Shoes and relocated back to Singapore.

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Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 22, 2015

However, the main growth in freight flows lies on the periphery of Europe and the Middle East is also continuing to develop, both for domestic supply and for distribution to Africa. Companies are now having to source more locally in order to ensure that they can continue to produce for the local market.”. >>Please

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

Source: Google. Descartes Systems Group Revenue 2006-2018 (Source: macrotrends). Real-time freight visibility is quickly becoming a “must have” capability for transportation managers. Simply put, real-time freight visibility is hot right now, with both customers and investors. Where is Descartes today?

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Techgistics

MARCH 12, 2018

Source: The Daily Dot. OriginTrail OriginTrail founded in 2014 and based in Slovenia provides enhanced traceability of food supply chains from seed to stomach. Paper bills of lading are still the norm for sea-freight shipments and create a whole host of process inefficiencies and additional costs. trillion in 2023.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 1, 2016

DB Schenker Signs on With uShip Online Freight Platform (WSJ – sub. project44 Achieves Groundbreaking Level of Connectivity with 1000+ Freight APIs. Trucker Path Joins AscendTMS™ to Offer Free Transportation Management Software (TMS) to Carriers and Freight Brokers. Companies like XPO Logistics Inc.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

On the supply side, in 2014, I remember that DHL was talking about resilience where everyone was wondering what that really meant and how to set up the risk management globally. I think it’s more that the idea of sourcing and how to buffer certain inventory will be definitely more localized.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

I was attending the Zycus Horizons 2014 conference at Amelia Island today, listening to speakers. And we follow a pattern: you do an assessment, a sourcing wave, build a process, and do it over and over. I can see the light that will maybe be a freight train someday. Over time, you get decent at this cycle.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 5, 2015

Launched – 2/25/2014. Launched – 1/24/2014. Sources: Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office (AMNPO); LIFT, Detroit, MI; DMDII, Chicago, IL; PowerAmerica, Raleigh, NC; Department of Energy; America Makes, Youngstown, OH. Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII). Website: [link].

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2016

Transervice Announces Launch of Tech-Based Freight Management Company. The company’s overall share of container volume has grown from 22% in 2014 to 24% in recent months. This live and predictive analytics platform filters through news sources (including Lloyd’s Maritime, CNN, and more), blogs, social media (ex.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 1, 2015

UPS Freight Adds LNG Tractors. billion USD) in pro-forma trailing 12-month revenue for the year-ended December 31, 2014. Norbert Dentressangle’s Red Online service leads the €5 billion outsourced e-fulfillment market in Europe, with €242 million revenue in 2014 and 31% organic growth. Con-way Inc. Talks on EU-U.S.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As we head into 2016, we are featuring our most read articles of 2015 in our five main categories: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Management, and Freight. INFOGRAPHIC] Top 10 Logistics and Supply Chain Facts of 2014. Yesterday we published the top 10 most read manufacturing articles of 2015. .

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 12, 2015

Unless the source of natural gas dries up, which is not likely for many years to come, the price of gas is likely to remain low for the foreseeable future. The data published by MAPI in December 2014 shows that industrial production increased at an annual rate of 3.9% in the third quarter of 2014 and is expected to grow by 3.5%

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Editor's Note: This is a guest blog from our friends at Bryant Surety Bonds where they discuss the current, potentially fragile state of the freight broker industry. Is the Freight Broker Industry in Decline? Does the fact that more freight brokers leave during these three months signal that the freight broker industry is declining?

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 6, 2015

However, complex supplier relationships, unreliable sources of material supply, and ever-increasing customer expectations greatly add to the expectations to select the best suppliers and conduct their operations more efficiently. One of these trends, in addition to inventory keeping, is dual/multi-sourcing. 4) Management of Complexity.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

increase over 2011, according to Capgemini’s 2014 18th Annual Third Party Logistics Study. 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. Global 3PL revenues grew to $676.9

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

XPO Logistics Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2014 Results. million companies, including two thirds of those on the 2014 Forbes Global 2000 list, are connected to Ariba® Network. In 2014 alone, 200,000 selling organizations joined the network where more than $700 billion in commerce is transacted on an annual basis.

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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. Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2014 : hybrid DCs, 3-D prototypes, location-based inventory system, and more. Media Type.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Second Phase: 2006-2014. What suppliers need help with cost (LEAN, labor, freight,…)? Our factors spans all those prior priorities, but expands into a much higher level of analytics on design cost (simplicity, leverage, supplier input), manufacturing cost (sites, labor, automation,… ) ,service costs (freight,…).

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