The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

Supply chains typically have a greater impact on the environment than any other operation. While it’s undeniably important to source products responsibly and produce recyclable or reusable products, companies also need to focus on making the transportation and distribution of products more sustainable.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 16, 2025

Webinars Watch: An Alternative to Traditional Battery-Making Technology for EVs Sourcing/Procurement/SRM Watch: Getting Ahead of Customs Compliance Violations Regulation & Compliance Five Ways AI-Enabled Digital Twins Will Shape the Future of Supply Chains Technology Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant?

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 18, 2025

Featured Product Popular Stories Report From DPW: What’s Next for AI in Supply Chain? Technology Tariff Turmoil Threatens to Bring Summer of Discontent Global Trade & Economics Starmer, Carney Reboot U.K.-Canada China Tech Fight Widens After Taiwan Blacklists Huawei More from this author Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter!

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 15, 2025

Supply Chain Matters features its latest full edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a compilation of funding, partnership and other noteworthy announcements related to supply chain technology providers. This start-ups technology is based on the open-source database PostgreSQL.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 7, 2025

Real-Time Data and Analytics : IoT and cloud technology help companies track data in real-time to make better decisions. Maersk employs Internet of Things sensors to monitor cargo in transport, which provides better tracking and decreases transportation time. What’s Next?

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 19, 2025

Featured Product Popular Stories Starmer, Carney Reboot U.K.-Canada

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A connected supply chain breaks down data silos and consolidates data, plans and processes into one central platform. By enabling customer access to supplier information, including sourcing of materials, as well as environmental performance data, all parties in the supply chain, can be made more accountable.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 7, 2015

This was a relatively quiet week for supply chain and logistics news, which is typical for August, so let’s go straight to it: Macy’s expands same day delivery to 17 cities as it challenges Amazon ( Reuters ). Cargo Chief Cracks the Code on Transportation Capacity. XPO Logistics Announces Second Quarter 2015 Results.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 26, 2016

Air and sea cargo industries generate $62 Billion each. These are huge numbers that represent the movement of every good across the globe and the reason we are seeing the rise of Logistics Beacons as a way to increase logistics and supply chain visibility. . Tagging Moving Cargo with Logistics Beacons. Further, the U.S.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 30, 2022

The survey also confirms that customers exert the highest pressure on carriers to innovate as cargo owners and transport buyers are coming with an increasingly unified voice requesting to open the black box of transports in the interest of everyone. Low adoption of technological solutions. Financial considerations.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

Webinars Five Ways AI-Enabled Digital Twins Will Shape the Future of Supply Chains Technology Ships’ Electronics Increasingly Jammed Since Israel Struck Iran Global Gateways Watch: The Crisis in Access to Critical Raw Materials Supply Chain Visibility Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant?

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Now all major ports in the United States are currently experiencing unprecedented congestion and labor shortages, leading to product stockouts and inflation — as well as significant supply chain challenges for retailers, manufacturers and logistics providers. While some critical U.S.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Our salute to the best advancements in supply chain technology, processes and labor management from 2017. This is our annual salute to the best in people, processes and technology within the supply chain arena. Last-Mile Delivery. Media Type. Media Credit. Privacy Settings. anonymous user. Media Image.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 28, 2023

Just 14 years later, the first air cargo flight took place in 1910. “By leveraging supply chain technology and data analytics, businesses are able to identify areas of improvement and create added value — resulting in higher profits. By 1956, the first container ship sailed from the port of New Jersey to Texas.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

What do you get when you combine an electric van with a fully automated cargo space, drones, joystick control, and cloud-based algorithms to control order picking, the loading of packages, the automated cargo space, and route planning for the vehicle and delivery drones? DOT pushing slower truck speed limits (The Hill).

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

We salute the year’s top advancements in supply chain technology and processes. Supply Chain Innovators of 2013 : paperless food chain, VLMs, cold chain fleet management, and more. Warehouse Automation. Media Type. Privacy Settings. anonymous user. DataTable subpages. Media Image. transactionID.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 27, 2024

The Logistics Plus staff notes, “COVID-19 placed a spotlight on America’s logistical heroes — drivers, warehouse personnel, logistics specialists, and countless others — [who continued] to source, distribute, and deliver critical food, medical products, and personal protective equipment across [the] country [during] this time of need.”

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The specific observation made was the following: “ The ILA and its West Coast counterpart, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, are opposing, stalling and drawing out expensive concessions from employers in return for allowing the technology.” The key difference reportedly is the overall mix of jobs.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

How should shippers be prepared to secure their supply chain operations? History of Alliances in Container Shipping Source: Port Economics, Management and Policy What are Global Shipping Alliances (GSAs) in the shipping industry? How alliances in the shipping industry might impact shippers?

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 7, 2017

Cargo Owners Complain of ‘Total Mess’ Shipping Goods to Asia (WSJ – sub. In other transportation management news, MercuryGate announced the launch of MercuryMart, “a dynamic information exchange providing TMS users with access to a broad range of sources of available capacity.”

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 6, 2017

Subscribers use Datamyne’s web-based solutions and business intelligence tools to augment, speed up and simplify trade data research, and to shape global marketing, prospecting, and sourcing strategies. This news underscores another of my predictions for 2017 — that the convergence of commerce and logistics will continue.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 10, 2015

Flextronics Unveils Flex Pulse™ — A Software-Based, Real Time, Comprehensive Mobile View Into Supply Chain Events. UPS Tests Electric Cargo Bike in Basel. There were a couple of interesting technology announcements this week, both with “Flex” in their names. Wal-Mart taps manufacturer database to aid U.S.

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Gravity Supply Chain

JULY 9, 2020

However, many businesses still fall short of doing so, with many supply chain managers throughout the world still struggling to gain accurate visibility into the movement of goods throughout the end to end supply chain. While it’s widely known that IoT is an essential enabler for supply chain visibility.

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Stord

MAY 2, 2022

That resulted in bottlenecks, such as the record backlogs at the port of Los Angeles, where container ships waited for weeks to offload cargo. In short, they use and generate data from multiple sources. Most companies are behind in adopting tech for their supply chains. Louis and Chattanooga, and St.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 11, 2018

Whether it’s preventing out-of-stocks of critical household items or making sure the kids are delivered on time in full to wherever they need to be, she keeps our supply chain running as efficiently as possible — while doing her day job too! Source: [link]. Happy Mother’s Day to all moms, for everything you do.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 11, 2020

.” According to Fernando Moncayo Castillo, Co-founder and Managing Director at Inspectorio, keeping up with this fast-changing environment requires leveraging cognitive technologies. Cargo bikes, drones, last mile robots, and autonomous delivery vans are all being trialed.” ” Tymm agrees.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 27, 2020

Let’s look at some of its real-world uses in 2020 across the public and private sectors to see which prominent players have embraced blockchain, to what end, and what kind of inroads it’s making into the supply chain environment. Blockchain in the Jewellery Supply Chain. T is for Transparency, and Tea.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In this October 10, 2023 2023 edition of Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Technology we provide our capsule highlights of investments announced by supply chain management focused tech providers. will reportedly be one of the largest fully interoperable chassis pools in the U.S.,

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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. This concludes our latest edition of Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

One source of delays and expenses associated with supply chain final delivery is the paperwork involved. Cargo that must remain at a specific temperature requires proven last-mile delivery solutions that provide the specialized shipping and handling needed to ensure safe and on-time parcel delivery.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 12, 2023

In this edition, we include six added news capsule events that has occurred across the supply chain technology spectrum: Livent Corp. in Lithium Supply Tie-Up U.S. to Combine with Allkem Ltd. to Combine with Allkem Ltd. based Livent Corp. and Australia based Allkem Ltd. This event was led by I Squared Capital.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In this challenging environment, shippers who leverage the latest technologies, like Internet of Things (IoT), to drive supply chain visibility and connectivity will gain a distinct advantage. Supply chain disruptions are coming from new sources and at a more rapid pace. Moving beyond real-time visibility.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 7, 2020

I am judge of the IATA Air Cargo Innovation Awards and the Automotive Logistics Awards Europe. Flex Pulse aggregates and interprets live streaming data from multiple sources to spot and manage disruptions in the supply network of 14,000 suppliers. Supply chains are a significant source of environmental damage.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 11, 2020

Cargo volumes have dropped by between 5 and 25 percent in the same period at ports in Europe and the United States. The US and many Western producers source most of their APIs from China. Any stutter in the supply chain, therefore, has a potentially harmful effect on public health. Pharmaceuticals.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 17, 2023

In Part Two of this blog series , we provided highlights our third prediction, that supply chain management teams will continue to exercise more direct control of direct materials sourcing, and these efforts will be a prominent element of business strategy for CSCO ’s and CPO ’s this year. Prediction Implications.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 21, 2022

The latest report is refreshingly more candid in depicting the challenges and ills of the logistics and transportation services sector and the need for new thinking and added emphasis on shipper and cargo holder value and service’s needs. We applaud the report’s authors and reviewers for taking such a stance.

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Intelligent Audit

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Truck Order Not Used (TONU) – is a fee assessed when a truck gets canceled after all terms for the shipment are agreed upon but before the cargo gets loaded. Shippers looking to capitalize on carrier and supply chain distribution network optimization need to leverage consolidation.

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