The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 10, 2024

Michael Caney and Joe Lynch discuss eliminating freight fraud. Michael is the Chief Commercial Officer of Highway , a freight-tech company that identifies who’s really hauling your freight to reduce fraud and supercharge your digital bookings.

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Freightos

AUGUST 31, 2016

Bringing Freight Online With WebCargoNet And Freightos. But this story is more about a vision for a better future of freight, than just another acquisition. There’s unprecedented volumes of global shipments , growing international trade, more flexible supply chains, and easier sourcing than ever before (Alibaba, anyone?).

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Freightos

MARCH 17, 2019

The annual fixed-price contract is the current go-to for ocean freight procurement. Fixing a price is almost futile in a volatile market, and ocean freight now has much more volatility (both frequency and magnitude) than most other commodities. Source: SGX, Freightos Baltic Index. Source: Freightos Index Linking Survey.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 5, 2018

For freight, managing black swan events, like risk mitigation , means finding problems that are on the verge of causing disruption and taking advantage of resources to minimize their impact. For shippers, this means finding a way to handle changes in inventory and replenishment, as well as managing outbound freight and reverse logistics.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 2, 2024

As an example, the Transportation Manager at Kimberly-Clark discussed the results their company has achieved with Blue Yonder: “Blue Yonder transportation management immediately began generating up to $14 million a year in freight cost reductions in North America compared to our previous manual methods.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 31, 2022

But then global freight kicked in. . It really got tricky when we hadover thousands of unitsin production and were starting to book freight and suddenly realized that the cost of freight was almost 4 or 5X what we had budgeted. Take Conner, the manufacturer of FORT, a magnetic pillow fort. It’s suddenly about the economy.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Late 2021 saw Maersk continue to shift towards vertical integrations, with acquisition of Senator, a German freight forwarder for $644 million dollars. While Facebook is looking at virtual reality, Alibaba and Amazon are looking more at freight. More on Maersk’s transition to an end-to-end provider can be found in this 2020 report.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

Many companies will reconfigure their supply chains to a much more regional approach, whereby production and sourcing are relocated closer to the final consumption markets, i.e. more local and less global. Digitalization Digital disruption is impacting most industries and people.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The broader climate issue.and freight’s role. The emissions from freighting Shawn’s TV is a miniscule percentage of this year’s 33 billion ton cube. Finding freight’s contribution to GHG took a lot of digging. . Click the button on the right to see our sources. kg of carbon emissions. This is a big deal.

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Zipline Logistics

JUNE 29, 2021

The freight market has been on the receiving end of several systemic shocks that continue to affect industry providers and shippers alike. And when you add in the current labor and commodity shortages along with an inflationary environment, it is apparent why freight rates have been steadily climbing.

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Since we live and breath freight, we constantly come across information that’s critical for our customers – logistic providers, shippers and carriers. And as freight innovators ourselves, we love seeing more innovation. Freight Rates News that rates for freight and logistics trends – October 2015.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Wouldn’t it be amazing if someone could cut through the hype and summarize the key freight and logistics trends every month? If you prefer to find the news yourself, head over to our free roundup of nearly 100 digital logistics and supply chain news sources. China’s slowing economy is generally bad news for the freight industry.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 25, 2023

About Tai Software Tai Software (TMS) has been actively helping freight brokers grow their business for over 15 years, with a core team of software developers and industry experts. Tai’s TMS provides freight brokers with an all-in-one platform for quoting, booking, and tracking shipments.

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Freightera

AUGUST 11, 2023

The third largest US trucking company Yellow (YRC Freight) and Surge Transportation freight brokerage are closing operations: Here’s what it means for shippers and transporters with the commentary from Freightera CEO, Eric Beckwitt Recent developments have sent ripples through the entire freight industry.

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Parade

JANUARY 27, 2022

San Francisco, CA — January 27, 2022 — Parade, the leader in carrier access and the truckload capacity management platform software for freight brokers, announces an alliance offering brokers more access to additional capacity via AI Fleet’s exceptional technology for over-the-road truckload. “AI Parade connects us with high-quality brokers.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The digitization of commerce created a path for giants like Amazon and Alibaba to dominate their respective storefront/fulfillment and sourcing roles in the market. million freight containers each year. But this spike put capacity on container ships at a premium, pushing freight rates way up as well.

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Zipline Logistics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

If you have an order that needs to get to its destination in a hurry, expedited freight options could be your best choice for delivery. Though often a result of an unexpected need, there is still a way to control costs and ensure quality performance when arranging expedited freight services. What Is Expedited Freight?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 14, 2023

Rates are now starting to stabilise and for ocean freight especially, we are seeing rates closer to pre-COVID levels. Freight procurement is the mainstay of any supply chain professional but price is not the be-all and end-all. What tools we can use to benchmark ocean freight and carriers’ service reliability?

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Lindsay is the VP of Product at Parade , a capacity management platform that helps freight brokerages win more business. About Lindsay Watt Lindsay Watt is the VP of Product at Parade, a capacity management platform that helps freight brokerages win more business. Automated Bookings: Ditch the manual paperwork.

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Intelligent Audit

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In freight auditing, freight audit advisors work with freight shippers to ensure that all charges are accurate and to prevent wasting money. Shippers can ensure they are getting the best possible rates from their carriers by working with a freight audit consultant. What Freight Auditing Is and Why It’s Important.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

in to transportation management to drive routing information and booking optimization). There is no solution to optimize source, make and deliver together or drive bidirectional orchestration to execute trade-offs between functions automatically. To create a standard electronic booking system for the ocean freight industry.

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Parade

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

San Francisco, CA —February 9, 2022— Parade, the leader in carrier access and truckload capacity management platform software for freight brokers, announces securing $12.7M The round includes investment from Greenhawk Capital, Jones Capital, and participation from leaders in supply chain & freight tech leaders.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 17, 2021

webinar, we provided an in-depth analysis of current supply and demand trends in the North American freight market. As such, vessels for ocean capacity between Asia and the United States are expected to remain fully booked for most/all of 2021. It is not clear yet what 2022 bookings look like. ports is getting worse, not better.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Hello and welcome back to another episode of “The Freight Project Podcast!” We hope you enjoy “The Freight Project Podcast.” We’ll publish every Tuesday right on the Cerasis blog and Freight Institute. We hope you enjoy this very first episode of The Freight project podcast! Download E-Book.

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Zipline Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Last year’s peak season was one for the books, and if the past three quarters since then serve as a sign of what is ahead, this year’s promises to be another unprecedentedly busy few months. According to a recent FreightWave s market recap, “National freight demand grew throughout August with outbound tender volumes increasing 4.5%

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Many-to-many can also refer to many participants in a network accessing many, many sources of event data critical to supply chain operations through a public cloud network. The network supports a wide array of messaging types including real-time GPS, EDI, and API-based capacity requests, bookings, statuses, and customs messages.

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Freightos

MARCH 19, 2020

While people find it easy to book things like accommodations online, container owners and freight forwarders or shippers looking for available Shipper Owned Containers (SOCs) often still struggle to connect with trusted partners. As freight forwarders, we’re not the only industry that has had to digitize.

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EMERGE App

JULY 11, 2018

Google a phrase like “sourcing products from China” and you’ll instantly be faced by almost 39 million results! You need to source for products to sell at wholesale prices to your retail customers. And the place to source for most, if not all, of your products is in China. Introduction. Watch Your Geography.

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Freightos

JULY 23, 2019

In their latest Global Freight Forwarding report , Ti assessed whether digital platforms, digital forwarders, and freight marketplaces were existential threats to traditional forwarders. Freight Marketplaces: Threat Or Opportunity? Freight Marketplaces: Threat Or Opportunity? SOURCE: FREIGHTOS MARKETPLACE.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 3, 2016

Access to Information : To plan and execute an international shipment, shippers need to access many different sources for information including trade compliance, sailing schedules, requesting bookings, import and export filing, and tracking. Visibility : A lot of shippers are in the dark when trying to track containers.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 16, 2020

Here are three reasons why logistics management software like TMS, YMS Freight Audit and others is essential to the survival of business during events like global pandemic. Freight charges to ship oil in Suezmax tankers… have in some cases increased ten-fold amid a shortage of very large crude carriers (VLCCs)…”.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Talent gaps in logistics and supply chain, continues to be a top challenge and a source of high risk for many companies. The source of such disconnects, is related to the information gap among the three parties. The pandemic only aggravated it significantly, which moved it to red zone as a High Risk source for many companies.

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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

So I went straight to the source and asked consultants, trade reporters, Wall Street Journal reporters and others, what their go-to logistics and supply chain sources were. is one of the industry’s most respected logistics sources. If you’re like me, staying up to date on supply chain news is critical. wsjlogistics.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 20, 2020

It took time but eventually, hitting the book button jumped over the pond as crossborder commerce grew (and not to jump forward…but it still is, with crossborder e-commerce growing 21% this year). Which brings us to freight. For international freight, though, it’s more complicated. Enter Freight-as-a-Service (FaaS).

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Freightos

MAY 25, 2021

In this article, we review how carrier and forwarder fragmentation remains one of the most significant hurdles for modern freight, how freight standardization and platformification are posed to change that, and why innovation we can’t even imagine might be around the corner. But as a freight technology junkie, it made sense.

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Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Expanding and shifting sourcing Earlier this year, a number of retailers told analysts that they had expanded their sourcing partners to diversify inventories and mitigate risks. Floor & Decor is one of the latest retailers to diversify its countries of origin by moving a large portion of sourcing out of China.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 20, 2020

Procurement can also have RPA do dynamic searches of websites to source or conduct market research for future buys and tenders. Freight Management. Freight management is driven by time-critical, manual tasks. Purchase Order Management. RPA brings efficiency to these tasks while saving time and reducing errors.

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