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7 Ways to Strategically Elevate Freight Procurement

Talking Logistics

In the last decade, many companies, especially those with manufacturing operations, have evolved direct materials sourcing from an administrative function to a strategic procurement process. As a strategic process, transportation procurement may still seem very tedious and challenging. Be demand driven.

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The Data Behind Amazon’s Logistics and Fulfillment Play

Freightos

Not even B2B is spared from these changing expectations (which is why we at Freightos launched an online freight marketplace ). While freight industry executives likely sighed with relief when an update of Amazon’s logistics.amazon.com page on June 28th turned out to be nothing more than a franchise model for courier delivery services.

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Have Spot Market Rates Bottomed Out?

DAT Solutions

Yet the freight surges that many of us have been accustomed to seeing at this time have been noticeably absent. For multiple reasons, spot market freight volumes and rates have been trending down for most of 2015 -- van rates since March, and flatbed and reefer rates since June. and Canada, for vans, reefers and flatbeds.

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The Upswing of Chinese Logistics Companies

Elementum

Logistics, the complex operation involving the movements of people, facilities, and supplies, is applied in every industry from manufacturing to retail to trade. in 2015 to US $15.5T In 2015, the Asian-Pacific region dominated the industry with significant impact from China, India, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, and Malaysia.

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23 logistics professionals share the #1 way to reduce logistics costs

6 River Systems

A shift to manufacturing critical goods like pharmaceuticals in the United States would lead to higher production costs, for instance. Beachgoer is an AI-assisted eCommerce startup that leverages big data to make profitable purchase decisions. The ideal sourcing location will be a balance in terms of cost, quality and logistics cost.

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How Building Materials Manufacturers Can Address Rising Material Costs

USC Consulting Group

Firms in the building materials manufacturing space are, of course, among the numerous industrial businesses dealing with the repercussions of these duties. For comparison, the average price per thousand feet of Canadian fir, pine or spruce wood hovered near the $500 mark for most of 2017. Operational optimization.

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Why Tesla’s Gigafactory Is (Still) the Assembly Line of This Century

Elementum

But a bottleneck in the Model 3's assembly line now has skeptics wondering if the comparison is still apt. 1913 marks the birth of the inventor’s famous assembly line, which changed the way we think about manufacturing. It’s the manufacturing behind the Model T that fundamentally links it to the Model 3. The result for Tesla?