The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 19, 2023

– How Logistics is Harnessing the Power of the Sun by Timothy Foote , Founder of Susymbio We all know that our sun’s power is the main energy source for life on Earth. It is not going to be a major source of reduction, but it pays for itself operationally over time regardless.

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2016

Sources: A , B. Hong Kong, July 26th 2016) – Freightos , a pioneer of the LogTech (logistics technology) sector, today announced the launch of the world’s first online marketplace for international freight, providing instant comparison, booking, and management of freight services from multiple logistics providers.

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2018

By comparison, that’s almost as large as the15th largest US passenger fleet. Source: Amazon.com. Amazon Air (once called Prime Air) boasts a fleet of 32 Boeing 767-300s, on track to grow to a sizeable 40 aircraft fleet. Five years of supply chain product experience and a MBA or Supply Chain Masters, is required.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

LevaData to Transform Strategic Sourcing for Global Procurement and Supply Chain Leaders. TSA reviewing cargo screening, concerned about terror vulnerabilities (CNN). In comparison, North American Surface Transportation (NAST) truckload net revenues decreased 14.1 Transplace Selects New Equity Partner TPG Capital.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 28, 2023

Just 14 years later, the first air cargo flight took place in 1910. But if you are a part of a small company, by comparison, then you know that most people are doing many different tasks and doing whatever is required to get the job done. ”[7] Even back then, food, spices, salt, and other goods had to be sourced and moved.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

Aeronautics engineering innovation is sadly only paddling forward in comparison to the ship building industry. That said many countries are struggling to accommodate the new sources of power into grids designed for fossil fuel power generation. Green Power Moving away from a power grid fueled by fossil fuel is happening.

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Cathy Roberson

JUNE 6, 2022

“We work with TMS providers as well as with shippers by providing such solutions as parcel rate comparison to optimize the last mile” Catania said in a recent interview. Catch my weekly column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets, as well as a monthly podcast on Air Cargo World.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 14, 2022

San Francisco -based Onera provides retail technology that connects inventory across siloed systems and transforms them into a single, real-time source of inventory status. Real-time inventory availability is reportedly provided by tracking inventory across the supply chain and intelligently exposing inventory to any fulfillment channel.

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Intelligent Audit

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Rather than being at the mercy of carriers, shippers can aggregate and analyze data to make informed business decisions, such as knowing which ocean carriers have higher on-time delivery rates, are more likely to roll cargo, and are more likely to have errors in invoices. However, past industry experts have found error rates of up to 80%.

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Intelligent Audit

MAY 19, 2022

The cost to move freight can vary depending on some factors such as weight and cargo size. Managing freight bill financing involves attention to detail, such as reducing unnecessary packaging and cargo packaging protocols. Cut Costs Across Freight Bill Financing With a Single Source of Truth for Logistics Audit Data.

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Locus

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Presently, their major focus lies on local production, warehousing and strategic sourcing. Supply chain risk management maturity levels define how well a company has developed the risk management processes in comparison to industry benchmarks. Optimize sourcing decisions. How do businesses enable strategic sourcing?

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Joseph Giranda @cfrrinkens Joseph Giranda is the Director of Commercial Relations at CFR Rinkens , a global leader in the shipping of commercial cargo, specializing in the containerized shipping of motor vehicles. Review your supply base for: Location — The further materials travel, the more costly, so ask whether they can be sourced locally.

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Locus

JUNE 3, 2022

parts per million, in comparison to the 1960 levels of 316.91 Source: Statista.com. The latter was so severe that cargo ships had to run at half their usual capacity. Planning : Processes are designed to reduce emissions and meet demand with ethical sourcing. Ethical sourcing of goods. parts per million.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Of course, COVID-19 has accelerated this trend, with more consumers working from home and ordering online, while it’s also become easier for sellers to source on Alibaba, import, and then sell on Shopify or Amazon.com. In other words, while demand and sourcing was able to keep up, last-mile distribution became a key bottleneck for SMBs.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 4, 2021

We likely will see current conditions as a baseline comparison for the freight market as business and consumption adapt to the “new normal.” Additionally, we could see another substantial source of added freight volume to the market in the industrial sector. Those who heavily rely on air-cargo transport can expect the same.

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Techgistics

MAY 7, 2017

Consumers - Consumers have been the biggest winners from online shopping - more choices, easy price comparison, convenience, and lower costs. Couriers make deliveries via low or no emission vehicles (bicycles, electric cargo bikes) that are more suitable for navigating busy urban streets and neighborhoods. In the U.S.,

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Fortunately, that’s possible by taking a few simple steps: Diversify the carrier network to enable continued operations despite the risk of some carrier closings, much like CFL has suddenly left customers without an additional source for capacity. Normalize the data to make sense of it and enable apples-to-apples comparisons.

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ShipBob

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

After realizing this cost model didn’t make sense for lightweight packages that took up cargo space and reduced each shipment’s capacity, they transitioned to billable weight for shipments 16oz or greater. We’ll use the DIM divisor of 139 in this example to offer a side-by-side comparison to our teddy bear example. .

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Talking Logistics

JULY 29, 2016

In other technology news, Freightos announced “the launch of the world’s first online marketplace for international freight, providing instant comparison, booking, and management of freight services from multiple logistics providers.” Initially the Freightos Marketplace is focused on US imports from China, by air and ocean.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

That figure pales in comparison to the $345.4 The ILA has indicated that during a work stoppage, dock workers will handle cargo related to U.S. Indications are that rather than attempting to offload cargo at alternative ports, container lines will instead, in the short-term, keep ships at anchor surrounding various ports.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The goal is to create redundant sources based on supplier-specific and country-of-origin, to ensure that each product category has redundancy as a form of insurance on the supply chain. Since startup, more than 850 cumulative cargoes of LNG originating from Cheniere have been delivered to 32 countries and regions worldwide.

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Zipline Logistics

JUNE 23, 2020

Over the first five days in June, outbound tender volume was up over 7 percent in a year-over-year comparison. Those two sources of spending will continue through July. percent in a year-over-year comparison to 2019. Whether spending will stay at those levels without that additional liquidity remains to be seen.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 27, 2017

The answers to those questions and more could significantly impact supply chain strategies, everything from sourcing decisions to network design, which is why my prediction from two years ago — that more companies will start treating Supply Chain Design as a continuous business process — is now a critical necessity.

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