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[e-Book] The Ultimate Guide to Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation, & Freight Metrics & KPIs

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To survive in an increasingly complex, data-driven world, businesses must be ready to implement new “Big Data” solutions to ensure all data is aggregated, analyzed, and stored appropriately. Businesses are often left with questions about the origination of such data.

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Understanding How Parcel Cost Control Reduces Total Transportation Costs

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As a result, average shipment size has dwindled, driving increases in parcel freight spend. While freight consolidation is commonly applied to the process of combining LTL shipments to create full truckload shipments, parcel hundredweight programs use the same tactic, applied to multiple parcels.

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Top 15 Logistics Blog Posts of 2014

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To that end, every warehouse manager’s role is to manage the physical environment, loadshifting equipment and people, to decrease the chances of collision and accidents, and often, to help the flow of freight via outbound and inbound freight management; an entire process known as warehouse traffic management. Read the full Post.

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How Advancing Technology in Transportation Management Highlight the Growing Trucking Driver Shortage

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Big Data Became Essential to Transportation Management. Big data analysis and the transportation management system (TMS) were set to be paragons of improvement and perfection in 2016. According to Margaret Tedlie , big data is transforming how carriers and shippers operate on a fundamental level.

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The Top 6 Trends in Logistics Impacting Shippers in 2017

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To meet this increased demands, more manufacturing and logistics partners are looking for ways to shorten product lifecycles through improving inventory management systems, changing shipping strategies and altering the fundamental ways products move from point A to point B. Autonomous Trucks Will Drive Logistics Forward.

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The Top Logistics Blogs of 2016 …So Far

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We continue our series on the top 5 blogs in our 4 main categories ( Freight , Manufacturing , Logistics , and Supply Chain ). Our first post covered the Top 5 Freight Management blogs of 2016. e-Book] The Ultimate Guide to Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation, & Freight Metrics & KPIs.

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How IoT and Augmented Reality in Logistics are Moving The Industry Forward

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From ditching age-old tactics of shipping products now, to advancing the capabilities of augmented reality in logistics, our logistics trends highlighted expected improvements in the supply chain, many of which came true. Load utilization eliminated wasted, “empty” space in freight. Load planning reduced redundancies.