Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 8, 2017

freight trains in federal crosshairs after crashes: GAO (Reuters). As reported by the Wall Street Journal : United Parcel Service Inc. The company said on Wednesday “that soaring online purchases have caused delays in its distribution network,” according to Reuters. Growing length of U.S. Just ask UPS and Walmart.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2022

The Port of Oakland reported cargo in April dropped 7 percent compared to the same period a year ago due to factory and port shutdowns in China. The future robotics market looks strong worldwide as many sectors seek answers to labor shortages, the Interact Analysis report said. s CargoNet. s CargoNet.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 10, 2017

CX North America Integrates Its Freight Collaboration Platform With Active Aero Group’s Technology. Descartes Reports Fiscal 2017 Fourth Quarter and Annual Financial Results. January 2017 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). FMCSA confirms permanent ‘restart rollback’ based on study results (CCJ).

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2019

According to Steve Banker via Forbes , Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods positioned the company to corner the omnichannel area , and Amazon went a step further. This the result of more purchases completed online following an in-store promotion, but it proves the value of the brick-and-mortar location in pushing e-commerce sales higher.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

We normally do our Talking Logistics episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but we have one today at 12 ET with Alaster Love from Transplace, where we are going to discuss “ Big Data and Analytics in Oil and Gas Transportation.” Teamsters step up union drive at FedEx Freight, Con-way (Reuters). Mexico Customs Management.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2018

The real-time freight visibility space was particularly hot in 2017, with two major acquisitions announced last year, including Descartes’s acquisition of MacroPoint in August 2017. is what drove the first wave of demand for real-time freight visibility solutions.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 26, 2017

Cloud Logistics’ Second Zero Downtime Release of 2017 Marks Continued Rapid Pace of Innovation. Honeywell’s Connected Freight Technology Monitors High-Value And Perishable Goods In Transit, Helping Prevent Damage, Loss And Theft. Chinese Online Retailer JD.com Is Developing Heavy-Duty Delivery Drones (WSJ – sub.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

More on Maersk’s transition to an end-to-end provider can be found in this 2020 report. Late 2021 saw Maersk continue to shift towards vertical integrations, with acquisition of Senator, a German freight forwarder for $644 million dollars. While Facebook is looking at virtual reality, Alibaba and Amazon are looking more at freight.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 25, 2025

The topic/report will be on the logistics M&A so far this year. The report will be available free for paid Substack subscribers but I’ll provide a summary and a link to the report in case you’re interested in either purchasing it separately or paying for an anuual subscribtion to my Substack articles.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The potential supply chain impacts of this conflict dwarf any other supply chain news that might be reported. They apply their own human expertise plus machine learning to this Big Data to predict estimated times of arrivals and pricing. Because of this, they are predicting rates will skyrocket for Ocean and Air.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Check out Procurement: The Spend Aggregation Obstacle Course! Aggregating your procurement spend for the purpose of delivering greater value is a sound objective. Theoretically you should be able to generate better service, better terms and conditions, and better cost. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Executive Sponsorship.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Machine learning is providing the needed algorithms, applications, and frameworks to bring greater predictive accuracy and value to enterprises’ data sets and contributing to diverse strategies succeeding.”[1] Machine learning can prove useful all along the supply chain from procurement to production to marketing to after sales support.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 23, 2017

The Center for Retail Compliance reports more companies are turning to enhanced operations to reduce transport costs and inefficiencies wherever possible, which include following: Better management systems to reduce overhead, collecting data and identifying unsustainable operations. Load planning reduced redundancies.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2018

For over 150 years consumers have been able to purchase goods through catalogs and have them delivered to their homes. ” Because logistics can be a significant differentiator, Mary De Asis reports some retailers are establishing their own logistics fleets.[3] For most of those years, their delivery expectations were modest (i.e.,

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And the reality is that Supply Chain must be cost-effective. Whatever your Industry you should be able to make comparisons to competitors, do benchmarking, and even compare yourself on key metrics across industries. From the inbound perspective he Supply Chain team typically procures raw materials, expedites their delivery.

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Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 7, 2014

Dun & Bradstreet studies suggest that Turkish growth will slow down over the period of 2013-2017. The Purchase Managers’ Index in October 2013 was 53.3, The oil price fluctuations are heavily impacting logistics costs in Turkey. Market Monitor: Turkish domestic Freight and Distribution. The year 2013 shows a 2.7%

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Business reporter Jordyn Holman ( @JordynJournals ) explains, “In 2020, it was pandemic closures and social distancing. They conclude, “This means that, even as the internet and smartphones have revolutionized the way we shop, the seasonal timing of our purchases hasn’t changed much.” Now, the problem is demand.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

This was not a trivial transition because the software industry, until relatively recently, was long fixated on measuring its health and success by new license revenue (sales of products) instead of customer-centric metrics, such as realization of ROI and payback objectives. Where is Descartes today? Keegan McCready, Sr.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The exceptions were goods purchased from mail-order catalogs. Andrew Chung, CEO of Innovo Property Group, explains, “[The] explosive growth of online purchasing and competition among online retailers has resulted in a race to reach consumers. consumers when making online purchases. ”[2]. miles, respectively.

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Unleashed

JUNE 23, 2021

Inventory analytics goes mainstream. Accurately plotting costs based on live data. Improving efficiencies with data analytics. Connect IoT tech to your cloud software to input critical real-time data to analytics and other business systems. This means faster shipping times, and lower transport costs.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As I reviewed the list it struck me that it looked very close to the list I remember seeing from 2017. And Lenovo and Nokia were dropped from the 2017 list. But overall most of the list was the same as 2017. In fact if you go back 5 years to 2013 you will find that most of the names are the same as on the 2018 list.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 9, 2016

DAT’s Accelerated Freight Matching Launches with New Load Board App for Carriers and Paperless Onboarding Service for Brokers. R2 Freight & Logistics, Inc. October Air Freight Demand Up 8.2% – Fastest Growth in 18 Months (IATA). If successful, UPS envisions additional eBike deployment and testing in 2017.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

A new report from the industry association E-commerce Europe found that there was a 15% growth in 2016 and the industry is predicted to be worth €602 billion by the end of 2017. That would represent a further 14% year-over-year growth.” ( Whistl, 2017). Delivery Speed and Accuracy Falling Below Acceptable Levels.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

There are many other instances of the shared economy within the supply chain domain, including the following: 1) Uber Freight. Launched in 2017, Uber Freight pairs truck drivers with shippers in a similar way that the company’s ride-hailing app connects those looking for a ride with available drivers. million (AUD), up from $11.4

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Supply Chain Collaborator

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

“Spot Market Freight Indices Continue Surge to Three-Year Highs”. Freight transportation capacity, (particularly truckload capacity) is tight as it has ever been. The bellwether metric – spot rates – are pegging the meter. Truckload Carriers Pitch Rate Hikes Driven by ELDs, Driver Pay, Hot Market”. “The Dry van rates are 4.4%

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Argentus is a boutique recruitment firm focused on Supply Chain and Procurement. He cites data from the American Trucking Association that wages have risen between 15 and 18 percent from 2013-2017, and says this should mean that the shortage will be overblown. This one is a bit of a sacred cow in the world of Supply Chain analytics.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2015

October 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). According to a report in Re/code: The trailers won’t be used to deliver packages to customer doors. Establishing new hours-of-service supporting document (shipping documents, fuel purchase receipts, etc.) SMC³ Unveils New Version of BatchMark XL Analysis Tool.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 25, 2019

Tracking payment information, such as purchase orders. Managing freight transportation. 1] Hailey Lynne McKeefry, “ Blockchain & Supply Chain: Early But Promising ,” EBN , 29 May 2017. [2] Sharing information with suppliers. Sharing information with customers. Managing trade documentation. Managing inventory.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 2, 2019

3PL Fulfillment Prices & The Cost to do Business are Rising. Data from 2017 to 2019 polls conducted by FulfillmentCompanies.net shows that the main costs for an outsourced fulfillment company, warehouse leases and employee wages, have both risen from 2017 to 2019. Below are the survey results at a glance.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 3, 2018

The study also found that clearing security accounted for 12% of total delivery time, while riding the freight elevator and looking for tenants’ locations accounted for 61% of overall time.” 1] Edwin Jiang, “ In Global E-Commerce, the Race to Solve the ‘Last Mile’ ,” Business of Fashion , 14 August 2017. [2]

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 20, 2017

There are many new transportation modalities that have the potential to revolutionize the freight transportation business, especially parcel delivery. As Michael Sheetz reports for CNBC, Delivery by rocket could change the game for UPS, FedEx. SupplyChainDIVE’s Jennifer McKevitt reports that there may be up to 3.5

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 21, 2019

The largest category is Women’s wear with a 2017 market value of $643 Billion US dollars. Edgexpo.com reports apparel and textile industry waste as follows: Nearly 20% of global waste water is produced by the fashion industry. NPR reports , from the Environmental Protection Agency, that 15.1 The Global Clothing Market.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 14, 2020

As I reviewed the list it struck me that it looked very close to the list I remember seeing from 2017. And Lenovo and Nokia were dropped from the 2017 list. But overall most of the list was the same as 2017. Gartner Survey Metric Notes: 1. Inventory Turns: 2017 cost of goods sold/2017 quarterly average inventory.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

2017 was an important year for delivery logistics. On the other hand, customers are always aware of the status of their purchase and have the ability to interact with their driver directly if need be. Customers are increasingly demanding and worried about the supply chain behind their purchases. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Roberto Torres ( @TorresLuzardo ) reports, “In its 2019 Hype Cycle for Blockchain Technologies, Gartner found most blockchain technologies remain stuck in an ‘experimentation mode.’ ” The firm predicts, “By 2021 the technology will begin to evolve past this phase. Managing freight transportation.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

eMarketer reports that 61% of internet users in the U.S. would pay to receive their purchases on the day of order. Small Business Trends reports that 28% of online shoppers will abandon their purchases if shipping costs are perceived as being excessive. Yet we also know that Amazon’s shipping costs are 18.5%

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 12, 2020

According to the 30th Annual State of Logistics Report by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), companies spent $1.64 Rising costs mean that companies must continue to innovate and implement strategies that can help reduce logistics costs and boost the bottom line. billion. .

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