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Arriving Just in Time – Advanced Transportation Logistics Scheduling

Supply Chain Collaborator

“Spot Market Freight Indices Continue Surge to Three-Year Highs”. These three headlines from Transport Topics and Food Shippers of America magazine tell the story of one of the most important challenges facing shippers in North America leading into 2018. Here’s the story and the solution to the mounting challenge.

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Sam’s Club Updates Appointment Scheduler and OTIF Standards

Zipline Logistics

It currently just uses on-time metrics to grade suppliers and the store’s retail buyers can base purchasing decisions on a brand’s delivery performance. Sam’s Club launched its OTIF program in the spring of 2018, following the logistics compliance precedent set by Walmart. The software called Appointment Scheduler 2.0

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Launching the Freightos Baltic Index (FBX) for Daily Rates

Freightos

As a result, nearly every industry has created on-demand metrics to gauge market performance, hedge risks, and to power intelligent decisions. But despite its size, containerized freight’s poor visibility persisted. Prices for everything and anything are subject to change and freight rates for containers are no different.

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Capacity Imbalance Persists in April: DAT Freight Barometers

DAT Solutions

That's my main takeaway from the Dry Van Freight Barometer for April. Above is a summary of the DAT Freight Barometers for April. I've studied the transportation sector for decades, mostly as a financial analyst, and I regularly advise transportation company executives and investors on stock purchases.

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The Better Goal: More Fuel Efficient Trucks or Using Fewer Trucks?

Talking Logistics

According to the press release : The proposed standards are expected to lower CO2 emissions by approximately 1 billion metric tons, cut fuel costs by about $170 billion, and reduce oil consumption by up to 1.8 billion barrels over the lifetime of the vehicles sold under the program.

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Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2019

Talking Logistics

The company wasn’t a pure startup at the time (it was founded in 1981), but like all software companies during those years, it rode the dotcom tidal wave up — and then crashed down with everyone else (see period from 1999 through 2002 in the stock chart below). Descartes Systems Group Revenue 2006-2018 (Source: macrotrends).

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Q4 2020 Freight Market Update: Preparing for 2020 Peak Season

Zipline Logistics

The past three quarters have been anything but typical for the freight market and the domestic economy at-large. The arrival of COVID-19 sent freight volumes skyrocketing to keep up with panic buying at retailers nationwide. Following the short downturn , the freight market began a rapid recovery that has yet to cool off fully.

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