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Robots Take Center Stage at MODEX 2024

Logistics Viewpoints

MODEX 2024, held in Atlanta, Georgia, from March 11 to 14, attracted more than 35,000 attendees and featured over 150 educational sessions, keynote speakers, and networking events. The robots can perform various tasks, such as transporting goods, picking orders, sorting items, and replenishing inventory.

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2024 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Prediction One

Supply Chain Matters

However, the lessons garnered during the pandemic will likely drive inventory management toward less of a dependency on global-wide sourcing and more toward product postponement sourcing and customer fulfillment strategies. Truck and rail transportation movements across the Mexico and U.S.

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7 Incredible Benefits of Cloud-Based Logistics Management

GlobalTranz

More findings on the cloud cargo transportation and warehouse management systems you may discover on the web. The cloud-based supply chain software can be customized to suit your industry, your transportation , freight-forwarding and warehousing specialty, import-export regulations. Helen works and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve the Shipper / Carrier Experience with Erik Malin

The Logistics of Logistics

Previously, Erik was the Director of Strategy at AFN, a Chicago-based truckload brokerage. Prior to his time at AFN, Erik was the Executive Vice President of CarrierDirect, a boutique strategy consulting firm and advised companies such as Werner Enterprises, Worldwide Express, and BlueGrace Logistics. Where did you go to college?

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Mid-Year Assessment of 2022 Supply Chain Predictions- Part One

Supply Chain Matters

As the calendar now moves to the second half of 2022, it is important to focus on rapidly changing forces and developments including a marked escalation in geo-political tensions that impact global supply chain strategies. . Economic Outlook Significantly Changed. CFO Sentiment. Stay tuned. Bob Ferrari. All rights reserved. .

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The Data Needed to Transform Supply Chains

Talking Logistics

Last fall after attending the CSCMP conference in Atlanta, I shared my observation that digital transformation is now a central theme in the industry. Even headline speakers were professing “data got sexy” and data is now a core strategy for companies looking to succeed. Many of you have had the same observation.

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Go Horizontal!

Supply Chain Shaman

I did not understand warehousing and transportation until reassignment to a logistics role in 1985. In the traditional supply chain world, the processes of sell, deliver, make, source, and plan are separate and distinct. Closing these gaps is essential to driving a growth strategy. This is not an easy transition.