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Overcoming Automotive Logistics Challenges – Part II

BlueYonder

The biggest savings won’t be from trying to make transportation cheaper at a plant, but looking at why logistics cost are so high for that plant. By looking more broadly than just how can we reduce the transportation or warehousing costs, they will find the big savings, the billion dollar savings. No, we’re not.

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New Panama Canal Options: Running the Numbers with a TMS

TMC

When the expanded Panama Canal opened this June, a new set of routes became available for shippers and beneficial cargo owners (BCOs). A transportation management system (TMS) can help shippers weigh the pros and cons of each option. For two product types, pumps and t-shirts, transportation constitutes just 3% of revenues at most.

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This Week n Logistics News (February 24 – March 1)

Logistics Viewpoints

Another option is the consignee, meaning “the ultimate recipient of cargo; the person to whom final delivery of the cargo is to be made.” employing about 150,000 hourly workers after winning record new contracts with the Detroit Three automakers. Everything changed when Amazon.com opened its first warehouse in 2013.

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