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U.S. Freight Logistics Industry Recession Continues with Some Hopeful Signs

Supply Chain Matters

freight and logistics industry continues to mitigate recessionary conditions including the April 2023 Logistics Manager Index reaching its lowest level lowest level in six years and one-half years. freight, logistics and parcel movement industry. Freight rate reportedly fell 37 percent. The LMI has now declined 6.7

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Less than Truckload Freight Rates: Phoenix, Arizona

Freightera

LTL Freight Rates: from Major Cities in the USA & Canada to Phoenix, Arizona. Get freight quotes in seconds, and book & track your shipments online: no back and forth with brokers and carriers, and no hassle. Get free freight quotes on Freightera.com. Looking to ship pallets within the USA and Canada?

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The Value of Logistics and Supply Chain Education!

Supply Chain Game Changer

A professor at Arizona State University’s Carey School of Business tells us that businesses don’t compete; supply chains do. For example, Gebrüder Weiss’s (GW) scholarship programme is to form a diversified workforce in logistics. For example, making an Excel spreadsheet with a demand forecast, are very popular.

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Driverless Trucks: Heading Somewhere or Nowhere Quickly?

Talking Logistics

Today, there are 8 states in the country, including Nevada, California, Michigan, Florida, North Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and Arizona that are allowing the testing of self-driving vehicles on certain roadways.”. In late August, for example, Uber bought Otto , and earlier this month, it tested self-driving cars in Pittsburgh.

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The Benefits of Evolved Vendor Managed Inventory Model Led by Web-Based VMI

GlobalTranz

Inventory is then put on pallets and shipped as freight. Distributors will inbound to a manufacturer the inventory needed and transportation management, especially inbound freight management, efficiency is paramount to an effective vendor managed inventory model. Example: A once/twice Weekly purchase order cycle.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 27-31, 2014)

Talking Logistics

It was a great costume, and we looked great — except we were living in Arizona at the time and nobody outside of New York City (the only place the Blue Man Group was performing at the time) had heard of them, so every time we showed up at a party that night, people would yell out, “Hey, look, Smurfs !” Con-way Inc.

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Amazon Leasing Air Cargo Space, Delivering by Drone

Multichannel Merchant

In unrelated aerial news from Amazon, the company has begun making drone deliveries in Texas and Washington state, as has (no coincidence) Walmart, in Texas, Florida and Arizona , according to various media. billion, which is $48.6 billion more than in 2019.

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