Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2021

I recently completed my latest study on the transportation execution and visibility solutions market. Transportation execution allow shippers to connect to multiple carriers and then tender, track, and pay in the system. Visibility solutions allow real-time asset tracking across the entire distribution network.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 10, 2024

Often times at Logistics Viewpoints, we like to look to the future and highlight the key trends that we see in a given market, or make predictions about what technologies will emerge as game changers in the new year. If you haven’t attended recently, it is an unmatched display of warehouse automation, robotics, and software systems.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

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. Uberization: Exploring On-Demand Transportation, Labor and Warehousing.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

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. Capacity constraints continue to come under microscope as shippers look for a better understanding to the state of the market. That’s an astonishing $933.30

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2021

I recently completed my latest study on the transportation execution and visibility solutions market. Transportation execution allow shippers to connect to multiple carriers and then tender, track, and pay in the system. Visibility solutions allow real-time asset tracking across the entire distribution network.

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Locus Robotics

JANUARY 29, 2024

By Mary Hart Warehouse managers face immense pressure every day to fulfill ever-growing order volumes with shrinking labor budgets and supply chain disruptions. What’s a warehouse to do? Simply put, manual or even conventional warehouse operations are no longer going to cut it.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 31, 2022

Warehouse management software article and permission to publish here provided by Claire Glassman. Logistics chain companies are often tied down by the schedules and requirements of their warehouse clients or partners. They go to the warehouse at the appointed time. Integrate Warehouse Operations With Logistics Chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2021

Pinnacle Propane implemented demand management, replenishment, and order promising solutions from John Galt Solutions with the goal of improving service – reducing what they call “out of gases” – while reducing transportation costs. For example, a warehouse might have a big propane tank they use with forklifts that run on propane.

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Locus Robotics

JANUARY 29, 2024

Home January 29, 2024 7 Top Reasons to Automate Your Warehouse in 2024 Mary Hart , Senior Content Marketing Manager Warehouse managers face immense pressure every day to fulfill ever-growing order volumes with shrinking labor budgets and supply chain disruptions. What’s a warehouse to do?

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Locus Robotics

JANUARY 29, 2024

Home January 29, 2024 7 Top Reasons to Automate Your Warehouse in 2024 Mary Hart , Senior Content Marketing Manager Warehouse managers face immense pressure every day to fulfill ever-growing order volumes with shrinking labor budgets and supply chain disruptions. What’s a warehouse to do?

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 12, 2022

contraction threshold which is noted as the first time this has occurred since the depths of the global pandemic in 2020. contraction threshold which is noted as the first time this has occurred since the depths of the global pandemic in 2020. Report authors indicated that the September decline was quite broad-based.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 12, 2022

As a result, warehouse space is scarce and rents are on the rise – a trend that could continue “for at least another two years,” according to a recent report from commercial real estate services firm JLL Inc. The yard is a black hole crying out for visibility. The yard is a black hole crying out for visibility.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

With more brick-and-mortar stores shutting their doors than ever before and demand for warehouse space on the rise, retail warehousing creates a profitable opportunity for many companies. In this post, we’ll discuss the trends contributing to the retail warehousing trend and three ways retail warehousing impacts profitability.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Transportation is the largest sector of the economy, making up 8.9 percent gross domestic product (GDP), reports the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. The simultaneous growth of the economy and trucking indicate actual GDP percentages would be higher if compared to the same time last year.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2018

More than a year into a freight capacity crisis that shows little sign of weakening, it’s time for all parties involved in logistics and freight transportation to meet this issue head on. Freight Capacity Crisis: How Did We Get Here So Quickly? That all changed with the summer of 2017. There are No Crystal Balls.

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Locus Robotics

MARCH 21, 2023

You move what matters every day in your warehouse. We have reimagined warehouse fulfillment and redefined warehouse automation to transform the industry through higher productivity and value for our customers while improving workplace quality and safety for your workers. And Locus is here to help. Any process. Any use case.

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Vinculum

MARCH 18, 2021

The Digi-Smart manufacturing process empowers enterprises to gain control of their warehouses and ensures that products can be delivered to customers as quickly as possible. This wave of change has made warehouses smarter and more agile. Some experts say that within five years high-performance warehouses will be fully autonomous.

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Kanban Logistics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The modern warehouse offers much more than basic storage. While you can build and staff your own warehouse and perform these services yourself, more and more companies see the value in handing warehousing operations off to a third-party logistics (3PL) provider. Types of 3PL Warehousing. The Warehouse Management System.

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Warehouse automation stats show that automation is making a big impact on warehouses and distribution centers. As technology awareness grows, more warehouses and DCs turn to automation to adapt to the changing landscape. The number of private warehouses is growing. Warehouses are increasing in size, as well.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

However, writing it is a great time to get into industry patterns and think. However, writing it is a great time to get into industry patterns and think. With surgery, I just never got to the report finished. We have successfully reduced warehouse labor, but planning is more labor intensive today, and less effective.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 19, 2024

During his time at CDS, Grafton had the opportunity to open and run several final mile warehousing + delivery operations, where he learned from a grassroots level how tough it is to run a big + bulky final mile operation. A massive underutilization of capacity that lead him to start Onward!

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2024

The Company was attempting to gain economies of scale by grouping manufacturing technologies within a common infrastructure to reap the benefits of a co-generation facility, a centralized warehouse, and a talented administrative team. At the time, many business leaders did not know how to type and had no idea how to use a computer.

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Stord

JANUARY 30, 2019

Now is a great time for shippers to take stock of what happened in 2018 so they can prepare for what’s coming in 2019. With that in mind, we summarized seven warehousing stories and trends from last year and indicated here what they mean for the year ahead 1. FedEx pursued both strategies in 2018. FedEx’s news release 2.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 10, 2021

Brett Biggs, an executive vice president at Walmart, summarized the investments by saying the retailer is spending on increased fulfillment capacity, supply chain, automation, and technology. This new infrastructure will allow the retailer to expand ecommerce assortment while reducing both shipping time and cost. billion, just 2.8%

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 9, 2024

With the advancement of transportation, like wheels and navigation techniques, transport to distant territories was completed over shorter periods. The Industrial Revolution gave rise to large-scale production and transportation efficiency, which led to the modern logistics landscape that we know today.

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Kanban Logistics

JULY 14, 2022

Though less tight than the major markets, capacity can still be hard to come by if you’re looking for a warehouse in North Carolina. In this article, we’ll tell you about your current NC warehousing options – including one you may not be aware of: a pad-in-place option in burgeoning Rocky Mount, NC.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 23, 2022

I am continuing to work on my latest Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems study, which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2026, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, customer size, and mode. These changes can add significant time to the ETA.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2021

In the article, he wrote about Amazon Relay, the acquisition of Whole Foods, Amazon the carrier, and the expansion of its warehousing capabilities. And the company’s operations and technology have evolved over the last three years, with a focus on its trucking, warehousing, and air capabilities. Amazon Trucking.

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ShipBob

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Good warehouse management relies heavily on visibility and coordination as well as strategic planning. To make this happen, businesses need to take advantage of technology solutions that allow them to seamlessly share data, communicate, and execute different warehousing tasks. What is warehouse technology? Let’s get started.

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MIT Supply Chain

AUGUST 17, 2021

Part 2: Lessons from Comparing Disruptions In the previous post in this two-part series, The 7 Core Capacities of Supply Chain Resilience , we identified the core capacities that are the building blocks of supply chain resilience. Note that the seven core capacities are assessed as to whether there is a loss of capacity or not.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2023

Traditionally, planning processes are designed to serve specific time horizons – sales & operations execution (S&OE) is used for short term horizon, sales & operations planning (S&OP) for the mid-term horizon, and integrated business planning (IBP) for long term strategic horizon. This is known as the “black box” problem.

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Ware2Go

JUNE 20, 2023

In this age of globalization, using ocean freight to transport goods is increasingly important to emerging brands. Due to sustained inflation and higher energy cost, global growth in sea freight shipments turned negative in the second half of 2022 for the first time since the onset of COVID-19.

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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

JULY 25, 2022

Brook does more than just deliver furniture and housewares; they bring the furniture inside, set it up, and make sure everything is comfortably in its place. Brook does more than just deliver furniture and housewares; they bring the furniture inside, set it up, and make sure everything is comfortably in its place.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 26, 2018

No one wants to think about lost warehouse inventory, and it can be organizationally frustrating to determine the best process to find, research, and rectify inventory discrepancies. Warehouse managers, on the other hand, have their own job to do: fulfill orders cost-effectively. But the reality is rarely that simple. Download ebook.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. These are just a recent indication of the disruption from weather events and natural disasters that your supply chain may encounter. Capacity constraints and transportation delays.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 27, 2024

Real-time visibility was lacking, be it in warehousing or transportation, due to which delivery delays were common. Besides, AI is helping retailers optimize inventory, warehouse and pricing. Every decision was based on data generated and analyzed by humans. This has made deliveries faster.

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