The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Of course, but when the wind doesn’t blow, you don’t want to be stalled in the middle of the ocean. You can find out on the ship, which are outfitted with three types of solar panels at present. That said, there have been and continue to be improvements due to innovations. This is the mission of the Energy Observer.

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Intelligent Audit

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Much of that growth, of course, will come from new-age solutions to age-old problems. Yet the inability to pivot quickly from fossil fuels has the Biden administration considering innovative ways to build more batteries. PepsiCo, the nation’s largest food processor, monitors trends by reaching out to innovation-hungry consumers.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

But more blatantly than ever, container liners – and especially Maersk – are on a collision course with the tech companies that provide digital infrastructure for selling goods. For a forwarder, refraining from working with Maersk today is expensive because it removes 17% of global shipping capacity. Image via StarAir.dk).

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Kinaxis

APRIL 26, 2017

Amazon supply chain management is driving innovation and change at a pace that’s putting the pressure on other businesses to find a way to keep up, or fold. It has leased 20 Boeing 767 aircraft to shuttle goods around the US, and helped ship at least 150 cargo containers from China since October 2016.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 20, 2022

Autonomous cargo ship completes 500-mile voyage. In our last piece of autonomous vehicle news, the “world’s first” autonomous commercial cargo ship has successfully completed a near-500-mile voyage in the congested waters of Tokyo Bay, traveling without human intervention for 99 percent of the trip.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 2, 2021

You might not think about shipping containers and ocean freight when you click “buy” on your Amazon order, but there’s a direct connection between the two. Understandably, this hasn’t been easy on importers, especially when they’re trying to plan ahead and calculate margins and shipping times. “We’re What’s changed in a year?

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 5, 2022

By learning about ways to minimize spending on pharmaceutical shipping, companies can better compete in the evolving market. . The State of Shipping Pharmaceuticals in the U.S. The demand for pharmaceuticals in tandem with all e-commerce demand means little available capacity and higher costs for pharmaceutical shipping.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2022

He had a load full of cotton bales, and while idling away hours at a shipyard watching stevedores load other cargo onto ships he dreamed up containers that transformed global supply chains. Containerization eventually reduced shipping and loading costs by at least 75%. The problem space has gotten harder, not easier.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Many shippers and merchants alike have a basic understanding of shipping surcharges but they might not realize how many different types of surcharges there are and the purpose of each. Why Shipping Surcharges Exist in the First Place. Typically, carriers adjust the base shipping rates on a monthly, bimonthly, or annual basis.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The American and Canadian militaries believe that the balloon was for surveillance, while the Chinese government said it was a civilian meteorological research airship that had blown off course. The average contract cost of shipping a container from China to the U.S. Retailers in the U.S. West Coast was $2,618 as of Feb.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Short Term Medium Term Special Feature Carriers & Cargo Innovation Freightos focus November 2015 freight and logistics trends that rate. The ramifications of the restructuring of China’s economy, freight innovation, re-shoring, widening the Panama Canal, and the new super-size ships are all covered. Keep reading.

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Intelligent Audit

MAY 26, 2022

In an industry that has become so essential and dominant, it would make sense to assume all carriers and truckers follow a shipping freight costs standard for bill payment. This, of course, makes getting an accurate freight shipping estimate extremely complicated. . What Affects Shipping Freight Costs ? Distance Shipped.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 9, 2021

During a normal Olympics, millions of spectators flock to venues to watch over 300 events unfold over the course of two-plus weeks. Container shipping prices skyrocket. The kick-off to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan is just two weeks away, after being postponed last summer due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2024

The inner workings of logistics at Amazon are a marvel of efficiency, precision, and constant innovation. Prime Membership: Amazon Prime – Subscription service offering benefits such as free two-day shipping, access to Prime Video, Prime Music, and exclusive deals. Ever wonder how Amazon gets your package to your door so quickly?

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BlueYonder

APRIL 19, 2017

FOCUS brings retail, warehouse and manufacturing professionals together to share best practices and hear how industry leaders are delivering real results with the help of JDA’s innovations. The Kenco drone will be enclosed by cargo netting and the use case will provide requests for various activities that a drone can accomplish.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 19, 2017

FOCUS brings retail, warehouse and manufacturing professionals together to share best practices and hear how industry leaders are delivering real results with the help of JDA’s innovations. The Kenco drone will be enclosed by cargo netting and the use case will provide requests for various activities that a drone can accomplish.

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MIT Supply Chain

OCTOBER 27, 2022

However, in some ways, it also offers a case study of how new, innovative approaches to professional education are emerging, especially models that leverage the advantages of online learning. For example, educators need to harness the huge amounts of data generated by online courses on how individuals learn to improve programs.

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American Global Logistics

MARCH 29, 2023

This highly-touted ocean shipping IT project promised to make international trade more secure and efficient. TradeLens was expected to be a game-changing innovation. It was walking away from one of the industry’s most innovative IT undertakings. The logistics industry needs more bold innovation. Harsh Reality.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 10, 2016

But there’s also something exhilarating about watching a group of kids, over the course of a few short weeks, come together as friends and as a team, overcoming adversity together, celebrating achievements together, and just having plain old fun together regardless of the score. “The The robots are coming, the robots are coming!”

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Freightos

AUGUST 6, 2016

Plummeting freight rates mean that under 50% of logistics providers turn a profit on ocean shipping, while threatening competition from industry newcomers like Amazon and Alibaba spell out unprecedented challenges for the logistics industry. DHL seeded its empire by moving ocean documentation faster than cargo ships.

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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. Of course, we’re not the only solution.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

APRIL 24, 2015

The Top Dozen Supply Chain Innovations of All-Time I am very keen on the subject of supply chain innovation right now, for a variety of reasons. First, CEOs across the globe are putting innovation as the top or near top priority for the companies they run. But I would argue that supply chain innovation is not well understood.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 4, 2021

” Of course, commuter traffic isn’t the only source of urban traffic congestion. ”[5] UPS, of course, is a major stakeholder in the urban logistics arena and the company is well aware its vehicles contribute to emission and congestion problems. ” Big packages, however, are a problem for cargo bikes.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 1, 2022

international ocean supply chain, negating possible collusion among ocean container shipping lines. Over the course of two years, this fact-finding effort produced three phases of investigation and interim reporting: Phase One : Supply chain innovation called for teams to identify the most pressing supply chain challenges the U.S.

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Freight Center

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The freight shipping industry is constantly changing. With the fluctuations in this complex business, shippers everywhere find it harder to meet their shipping goals and get the right solutions for their supply chains. The primary goal of most shippers is to find affordable solutions for their freight shipping needs.

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Freightos

MARCH 17, 2019

Tenders can take BCOs (Beneficial Cargo Owners) three to five months of preparation, but despite this, the fixed price often breaks down during peak season. This strategy is already used by US companies on $100 billion worth of product s such as oil, corn, gold – even dry bulk shipping.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Blockchain Makes Inroads in Shipping (WSJ – sub. ” Uber is not the first company trying to disrupt the trucking and freight brokerage business (see Transfix , Convoy and Cargo Chief ), but it certainly has the most funding and brand recognition, and with Bill Driegert on board, a proven executive who understands the industry.

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2018

In his 2017 annual shareholder letter , Bezos lauded “divinely discontent” customers as innovation drivers. In other words, if your shipping your own goods, you’re competition. Let’s Talk About Boats, Ships, and Trucks. That’s not surprising, given that Amazon’s shipping costs grew from $11.5 Amazon Fulfillment.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JANUARY 14, 2016

Besides those cases, there were of course the ubiquitous examples of autonomous transport vehicles. On top of that hardware-driven thinking, we still need to think of innovation in the process. Their chartered resupply vessels (booked 4 – 6 weeks in advance) are scheduled based on port availability to unload their cargo.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 19, 2015

Cloud Logistics Offers New Innovations in Second Upgrade of 2015. And of course, Uber’s $40 billion valuation is based partly (perhaps largely) on the bet that the company will “upend the delivery business much as it has for taxis,” as the Wall Street Journal put it. The $50 Billion Question: Can Uber Deliver? WSJ – sub.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Beattie writes, “Despite the popular image of cargo ships being huge carbon emitters, transport is generally a pretty small share of the carbon footprint for traded goods.” Of course, the political divisions between the big trading powers, particularly the US and China, are a constant worry.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Planning for industry changes and shipping costs in 2022 remains critical as companies look ahead to the new year. Current disruptions and upheavals have shown clearly that older models and methods no longer work in the modern digital age of shipping and transportation. Shippers Will Look to Increase Carrier and Driver Retention.

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Technology is such a constant force for change that we tend to look at new technological innovations as almost normal — or at least par for the course. If your business is going to keep pace with its competitors in such a rapidly changing world, it’s going to need to embrace and integrate as much technological innovation as it can.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Unless you’re talking about ice dams, of course, and how water is dripping into your house, which is what I’m dealing with at the moment. Bigger Container Ships Pose Bigger Risks (WSJ – sub. The larger ships will further test the capacity of ports and canals and the skill of their captains and crews.

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FLEXE

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Basically, responsible for ocean freight carriers, ocean ships that rely on truck companies. So today and yesterday, there was not enough capacity, cargo was rolled, prices spiked. Shipping a 40-ton container back in July or June used to cost about $700 — a 40-ton container. MSC is interested to charter those ships.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 26, 2020

For example, this is especially true in food products where product innovation can be difficult because you’re ‘blocked’ from accessing the restaurants and kitchens using your products at the end of the supply chain. This both reduces the risk of error and improves speed to create a smoother shipping process.

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6 River Systems

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Of course, warehouse optimization isn’t something you do just once; it’s an ongoing process, and a complex one at that. Where is your picking operation located with respect to shipping and product storage? That’s not just in the storage area; it holds true for receiving, shipping and all other process areas.

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