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The Importance of Transportation Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

I am working on my latest Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems study, which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2025, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, customer size, and mode.

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How to Use Software to Reach Peak Warehouse Efficiency

C3 Solutions

As the DC becomes more complex and moves more quickly that's where yard and dock automation plays a key role in ensuring that your DC operations can keep with the increased speed of automation. Are you filling orders from the DC, from the store, from the DC for in-store pick-up? Speed is of the Essence. The WMS Gap.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 9 – 15)

Logistics Viewpoints

Instead of shipping a new smartphone to someone’s house and having it left on the front steps, one of Enjoy’s delivery workers will personally deliver and set up the phone, and then sell additional services. The company says it will be profitable in 2023 and is telling investors it plans to reach $1 billion in sales in 2025.

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Beyond Multi-Carrier Shipping Software, a Move to the Cloud

GlobalTranz

Shipping is all about movement. The crux of the situation is that the need to move items faster, more efficiently, and cheaper to keep up with the quickening pace of parcel and consumers’demands for fast and free shipping. Well, this is where more movement, to multi-carrier shipping software, makes sense to shippers’ bottom lines.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 29 – August 4)

Logistics Viewpoints

Of the 176 local unions with UPS members, 14 affiliates did not show up to a meeting in Washington DC to review the agreement. The center, known as YXU1, will see employees work alongside robotics technology to pick, pack and ship up to 750,000 items a day. O’Brien. The company strives to replace 15 percent of its U.S.

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The Changing Landscape of Real Estate in the Logistics Industry

Logistics Bureau

The Changing Face of the DC. Instead of shipping orders consolidated onto pallets bound for retail outlets, the warehouse is the point of origin for small orders dispatched directly to customers’ homes. Changing DC Designs and Layouts. The retail store is no longer the only primary touchpoint between a brand and its consumers.

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WMS Lite: Gain Essential Best-of-Breed WMS Functionality at a Fraction of the Cost

RFgen

With the global WMS market positioned to reach $5 billion by 2025 , according to DC Velocity, it’s clear that WMS is only going to become more prevalent as time goes on. WMS vs Advanced WMS. Warehouse automation software is a necessity in the modern warehouse. Directed Replenishment.