Operations and Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

By its nature, the road freight industry is complex: manufacturers or retailers that need to transport goods are in myriad locations, shipping varying amounts of cargo to many destinations, sometimes relying on multiple carriers to do so. Wiggins, co-founder of transportation management software firm 3GTMS, told CNBC via email. “Is

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2023

“Customers will buy five items and return one, but when they package the one item, they use the same box the five items were originally shipped in,” explains Ryan Kelly, vice president of e-commerce and alliance marketing at FedEx. Then, you need to get your packages ready and attach a prepaid shipping label to them.

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 13, 2020

For over a century, we have seen increasing automation in supply chain, especially in manufacturing and the pace has quickened in the past decade with robotization in production, warehousing, and transport. A system can automatically ship stock across the supply chain to optimize customer service and minimize obsolescence. Sanders, N.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 31, 2015

Freight Transportation Forecast to 2026. This report, available for purchase here , poised some significant implications for the shipping, and by direct correlation, the logistics industry. percent by 2026. However, US trucking freight will continue to reign as the predominant mode of transport into the future.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JANUARY 22, 2018

Data-centric freight exchanges and intelligent multimodal cross-docking hubs will allow haulers to move cargo effortlessly by road, rail, sea and air and seamlessly change carrier, or even transport mode, in real time. Before they made the breakthrough in 1955, shippers had no choice but to pay about $16,000 to transport a single consignment.

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