Freightos

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Most recently, the recent disruptions in the Red Sea that saw ocean freight rates from China to Europe by over 190% and saw transit times lengthen, sea-air services offered a strategic advantage for logistics professionals able to remain agile, by watching trends and jumping at opportunities to ensure a resilient supply chain.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Matt shifted to logistics sales and became a very successful agent for BlueGrace. Matt and his partner, Derek Loftus started popcapacity in 2021 with the goal of delivering frictionless 3PL warehousing and fulfillment capacity by leveraging marketplace style technology and AI. Just-in-time vs just-in-case.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Maggie is the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Emerge , a company that is Reinventing Freight Procurement. Maggie Petrovic joined Emerge just over a year ago following 8 years with Coyote Logistics as Director of Enterprise Sales. About Maggie Petrovic. She has a B.A About Emerge. Shipper motivations are unclear.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Lindsay Watt and Joe Lynch discuss winning capacity management. 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.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. When a package gets mis-sorted and it goes into the wrong package car, that’s not a very good experience for our customer, and it’s actually just a drag on productivity.” At some point, it seems we all have the need for speed. That being said, would you go over 280 MPH in a car?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2022

Retailers also took steps to contain costs and preserve margins as they reoriented toward e-commerce like never before, including putting solutions in place to more effectively navigate carrier capacity caps and improve the visibility, accessibility, and mobility of inventory. According to Digital Commerce 360 , U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Without this safety stock, planners need to scramble to try and figure out if there are alternative suppliers that might be able to provide the components they need in a timely well. That variability might be in the areas of manufacturing, distribution, or transportation capacity. Resilience is About Planning for Agility.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 16, 2023

Risk Management in Global Ocean Context Feature Article by LSCMS Shippers Council Rates have gone down massively in most trade lanes; congestion has eased, and capacity seems sufficient in most sectors. It appears that operational and procurement risks for beneficial cargo owners or shippers, in the short term, are minimal.

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Freightos

MARCH 17, 2019

The annual fixed-price contract is the current go-to for ocean freight procurement. Just like streaming replaced that iPod as a better way of listening to music, ocean freight procurement now has a better way. Time to go with the stream. Time to go with the stream. Six years later, that number had dropped to zero.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The output was just not helpful. We have too hard-wired solutions bolted into IT architectures to enable the flexibility needed by business leaders during times of high variability. The Emergence of Logistics as Constraint. Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The state of the trucking market in 2021 is uncertain, filled with risk, and continues to evolve, making logistics management challenging.? Capacity Constraints Continue to Arise. Capacity constraints continue to come under microscope as shippers look for a better understanding to the state of the market.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Supply chain planning is not just for the big boys. In September of 2020, the company hired Jeff Baker to be their Vice President of Procurement and Integrated Supply Chain. Mr. Baker spent over 34 years leading procurement teams at The Dow Chemical Company. Myers Industries Implements John Galt Solutions.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Featuring Our Top 16 Articles on Freight and Logistics! Logistics has been in the news a lot lately, and it will continue to be for some time to come. In March of 2021 we heard about Logistics when a ship blocked passage through the Suez Canal. What is Logistics exactly? Definition of Logistics.

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Turvo

AUGUST 31, 2021

With all the volatility that still lingers in the modern supply chain, the need for high-quality data analysis, solid procurement planning, good profit margins , and streamlined scheduling systems all remain crucial for shipping and transportation providers. Why Poor Visibility in Grocery Procurement Plans Lead to Big Issues.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Cooper University Health Care Relies Upon Real-time Alerts to Improve Operations Cooper University Health Care, like most companies, struggled with their supply chain during COVID. The company bought a risk solution that provides real-time alerts to potential supply disruptions. But there was a cost to this.

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ThroughPut

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The use of AI not only allows businesses to sense demand variations in real time – and proactively respond to them by adjusting inventory levels to match anticipated sales – but also affords them the freedom to analyze several campaign scenarios at scale to identify the most profitable strategy, all in light of existing supply constraints.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

Five Forces Reshaping Logistics as We Know it. Because warehousing and transportation represent significant cost centers, intelligent logistics decisions are critical. And, more than ever, these decisions have to be made on the fly, in real-time. Forget what you knew about logistics. How great can the impact be?

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Proxima

JUNE 5, 2023

As the supply chain crisis ends, it’s time to pivot to cost. It is now relatively safe to say this period has passed – for months now we have been seeing an increase in manufacturing and logistics capacities, as the strategies firms have deployed to counteract supply chain disruption begin to bear fruit.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 7, 2018

Whatever the cause, the end result is the same: trucking capacity is tight, really tight. Shippers are paying higher rates, and even with offering higher rates many shippers are seeing rejected loads from the same carriers they relied on for capacity in the past. Clearly detention time is more than an inconvenience.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

EcoVadis’ focus is helping suppliers accelerate their journey by measuring and improving their sustainability management system, collecting and reporting their data, building capacity to ultimately drive reductions in impact. Increasingly, companies will take sustainability criteria into account in their purchasing decisions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 9, 2023

There are just a few suppliers that offer both solutions – E2open, Infor, Kinaxis, One Network, and SAP. It is just visualized differently. The plans are made at a daily level, and then rolled up into the time horizon a planner wants to see. There is a vintage television commercial for Reese’s Peanut Butter cups.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 6, 2021

As the state of the trucking market evolves and innovations improve , OTR freight management technologies and logistics service providers offer transportation management optimization to help businesses avoid significant supply chain disruption. Just a few years ago, many faced repeated price increases of more than 10-15 percent over .

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2022

The global supply chain that we know today is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, low variability, and availability of logistics. We can no longer assume that government policy is rational, variability is low or logistics are available. Asset relocation takes time. These core assumptions are no longer true.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button by Lora Cecere , Founder, Supply Chain Insights Supply Chain Leaders Can’t Afford to Guess About the Future The global supply chain that we know today is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, low variability, and availability of logistics. Asset relocation takes time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting. This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 16, 2022

It is not just continually changing demand and material and equipment constraints across a company’s value chain that matters. It is these changing constraints, transportation capacity, and bottlenecks across an entire ecosystem that matters. That is how enterprise and supply chain software solutions work.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The deepening power crisis has already taken 900,000 tons of smelting capacity offline in North America and Europe. With more than a third of global smelters losing money, there is a risk of 1 million tons of capacity being curtailed in the near future. Continued scarcity and overbuying have led to a perennial shortage.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

It’s Not the Market, It’s Your Procurement with Andrew Haverkampf. Andrew Haverkampf and Joe Lynch discuss it’s not the market, it’s your procurement. and is transforming the $800 billion transportation and logistics industry with its digital freight marketplace platform. Robinson, Coyote, AFN, and Uber Freight.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Mr. Eberle is the vice president of logistics and distribution operations at Molex. Mr. van den Eijnden is the director of global logistics operations planning and systems at Molex. Mr. van den Eijnden is the director of global logistics operations planning and systems at Molex. It is part of Koch Industries.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Background Ocean container shipping and logistics are the lifeblood of global supply chain movements. We highlighted a Boston Consulting Group Advisory Boston Consulting Group (BCG) at the time that was titled: Battling Overcapacity in Container Shipping. Since that time, quite a lot has occurred.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2023

Jennings is an American professional beach volleyball player and three-time Olympic gold medalist. The timing was not great. In addition to working to improve the Franklin Sports supply chain, she needed to cope with the lengthening lead times created by COVID. Pickelball is the fastest growing sport in the US. Jennings’ name.

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Locus

MAY 2, 2023

But how do they ensure effective third-party deliveries and excellence in their e-commerce logistics operations, given that they outsource last-mile logistics to third-party providers? As time passed, retailers like Walmart came into the picture, selling all products of all brands under one roof. of total e-commerce sales.

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Locus

JUNE 2, 2023

In the vast, interconnected world of supply chain management, two terms often come into focus—inbound and outbound logistics. Inbound and outbound logistics are two fundamental components of the overall supply chain management process. Here’s an explanation of both: What is inbound logistics? What is outbound logistics?

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The automotive industry has shown itself to be brave in recent times, in all areas but one: the supply chain. In order for logistics, procurement and distribution to align with the general advancements of the industry itself, these critical areas must give in to a more comprehensive transformation.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 30, 2019

Current Capacity Outlook. Despite a difficult first three quarters of 2018, the market began to show signs of softening and improved capacity in Q4. This softening and improved truckload and intermodal capacity has continued into 2019, and the outlook for a steadier market has remained. Carriers added drivers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 28, 2022

Shortages of drivers is just one of the contributors to the difficulties shippers are having in securing the truck capacity they need. It is one reason experts on logistics are following the autonomous freight truck market and new approaches to freight procurement closely. This is just a different type of equipment,” Ms.

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Locus

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In the pulsating heart of rapidly developing economies like India, the manufacturing sector isn’t just growing—it’s exploding. On-time delivery in manufacturing isn’t just a logistical necessity—it’s the gold standard for customer satisfaction.

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