GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2015

And, according to a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study, 54% of companies with above one billion in revenues are now considering reshoring. Transportation and freight costs are reduced. Obsolete and excess inventory carriage are more preventable. Premium freight capacity improves. a move known as reshoring.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This is leading to an inventory pile-up of processors and memory chips used in PCs. Some retailers are learning to love bulked-up inventories. Uber, Aurora to expand self-driving truck ops in Texas to meet holiday rush. The companies building their inventories are looking to ensure they have items on hand at the right moment.

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Freight Plus

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

If you had a shipment in Los Angeles that was going to Boston, the best way to do it was to have a local truck pick it up in, say Rancho Cucamonga, and take it to a car loader, which was a cross-dock operation with a rail siding. The car loader would pack, high and tight, your shipment in a rail car along with other shipments going to Boston.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

All of the above (and other down-stream KPIs and processes) are heavily influenced by the accuracy of a demand forecast: if the demand forecast is much more accurate, a company is more likely to have the right product, in the right quantities in inventory and will have less of the products in inventory that is not required. Louis, M.S.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 3, 2017

Boston startup raises $10M for retail software that predicts inventory needs (Boston Business Journal). Freightos unveils beta launch of international freight price index (American Shipper). 2016 North American Freight Numbers. Self-Driving-Truck Startups Race to Take On Uber (WSJ – sub.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 18, 2021

Starting this past Wednesday and rolling through Sunday, the Vax Express will visit Boston, Mattapan, Worcester, Lowell, Lawrence, and Fitchburg. Waymo and JB Hunt partner to bring autonomous trucks to Texas. In other autonomous vehicle news, Waymo is partnering with JB Hunt on a new pilot program in Texas.

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