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The Importance of Transportation Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

I am working on my latest Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems study, which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2025, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, customer size, and mode. Transportation visibility is clearly not only for trucks.

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Peak Shipping Season Update: What’s Driving Change in the Industry?

GlobalTranz

Port backlogs and cargo limitations are undermining efficiency while warehouse and storage space remain challenging. Plan ahead with transportation providers to account for longer tender lead times, changing conditions, and limited capacity. Leverage technology and data to optimize transportation across all activities.

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Logistics Report: Forecasting More Shipping Delays; Cargo Swamps Airports; Alibaba’s Shifting Compet ition

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Forecasting Shipping Delays; Cargo Swamps Airports; Alibaba’s Challenge. The supply-chain problems are helping drive stronger inflation, the WSJ’s Gwynn Guilford and Anthony DeBarros report , as rising transport and other logistics costs flow through to the cost of consumer goods. Transportation. Cargo Facts).

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Molex Prizes Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

This involves a lot of long-haul transportation.” The planners could choose to switch cargo from a slow-moving ship to air, for example. The data from Infor Nexus also helps the transportation teams do better carrier sourcing. Mr. Eberle is the vice president of logistics and distribution operations at Molex.

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Is Inventory Optimization a Key to Omnichannel Survival?

ToolsGroup

That’s never going to compete with Amazon—not only its existing footprint, but in light of its new investments in logistics that include localized fulfillment sites, global trade services, and even sea and air cargo transport—like its May 5 announcement of plans to double its fleet of leased Boeing 767 freight jets for package deliveries.

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Logistics Websites 2013

The Logistics of Logistics

Air Cargo World - aircargoworld.com. Air Cargo – How it Works - air-cargo-how-it-works.blogspot.com/. DC Velocity – dcvelocity.com. Modern Bulk Transporter – bulktransporter.com. Transport Topics – trucking.org. Refrigerated Transporter – refrigeratedtrans.com.

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The Great Store Redo

Cathy Roberson

However, in a multichannel strategy, it may also mean even more frequent inventory replenishment to stores from warehouses or perhaps utilizing a DC-bypass strategy that retailer Big Lots, for example, is doing the last half of this year to expedite shipments to its stores. The key here is fast. The key here is fast.