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Two Important Questions About the Future of Freight Moves

Talking Logistics

Freight tons moving on the nation’s transportation network will grow 40 percent in the next three decades while the value of the freight will almost double, increasing by 92 percent, according to the latest projections by the U.S. trillion in 2015). That is the “hundreds of billions of dollars” question.

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The Global Trade Compliance Market is Crazy!

Logistics Viewpoints

Thomson Reuters purchased the global trade compliance vendor Integration Point in 2018. But even here, Mr. Barraco explains, there is a difference between accidentally shipping goods to bad actors and “intentional violators.” This results in detention costs and delays in producing goods and delivering them to customers.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech December 13 2022 Edition

Supply Chain Matters

This action represents a reported 77 percent premium to the company’s closing stock price on November 22, 2022, the last full trading day prior to media reports involving a potential transaction. The announcement further coincides with Coupa Software’s report of fiscal third quarter financial performance.

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Labor Tensions Running High on Many Fronts as Peak Season Approaches

Intelligent Audit

As fall quickly approaches, shippers are busy preparing for the stressors of the peak shipping season. According to reporting from Supply Chain Dive , “ Routes covered by Patton make up less than 0.5% The strike, ” FreightWaves reports, “ would have affected company facilities across eight Canadian provinces.”

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COVID-19: Bullwhip in Cheese Demand

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Revenues and profit at the delivery giant rose by double digits in the third quarter amid the pandemic-driven rush of online orders, the WSJ’s Paul Ziobro reports, but UPS’s main domestic business posted a sharp decline in profit on the higher costs of delivering all those boxes to homes. – Bob.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 28 – August 1, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Reports 2014 Second-quarter Results. New Breed specializes in services for omni-channel distribution, reverse logistics, transportation management, freight bill audit and payment, lean manufacturing support, aftermarket support and supply chain optimization. . Dun & Bradstreet Launches Supplier Risk Manager™ 2.0. Con-way Inc.

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Examples of How Supplier Quality Management System Implementations Pay Off

GlobalTranz

The first post in this series broke down what is supplier quality management and the steps to evaluate suppliers and the second post gave you insight into the metrics to look out for by 6 major industries. Always work toward quality perfection (even though perfection does not exist) with all of your suppliers.