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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain resilience is crucial for ensuring the continuity of business operations, the delivery of essential goods and services, and the protection of public safety and national security. The most obvious impact was the disruption of traffic and transportation.

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Key Tools and Technologies to Build the Warehouse of the Future

DELMIA Quintiq

IoT will bring in real-time visibility and seamless collaboration among processes and chain partners, resulting in highly evolved, efficient and effective operating models. According to Mordor Intelligence, the global automated guided vehicle market was worth USD $2.41 billion in 2020 and is projected to reach USD $14.18 billion by 2026.

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A Moment of Change – Making the Case for Visibility in Trucking

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

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. Source: Transporeon road transportation 2021 shipper and carrier survey).

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This Week in Logistics News (August 29 -September 2, 2016)

Talking Logistics

market, and as reported by the Wall Street Journal yesterday: Since the shipping company filed for bankruptcy protection in a Seoul court Wednesday, terminal operators, ports, cargo handlers, truckers and others have refused to handle its cargo, for fear they won’t get paid. Hanjin handles about 7.8 That is causing turmoil at U.S.

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5 Things to Know About U.S.-Mexico Logistics

Talking Logistics

Completed by the exporter, the bill of lading provides a list of the contents of the shipment, establishes the value of the cargo, and acts as a legally binding document through the shipping process. Maintain Visibility with a Transportation Management System. Bills of lading for U.S.-Mexico It can be completed in Spanish or English.

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The Top Finance Supply Chain KPIs to Measure for Shippers

Intelligent Audit

Companies are often overwhelmed with too many supply chain metrics, and struggle to focus on the metrics that matter. Often, targets are set and metrics are viewed in functional silos, leading to sub-optimized supply chain performance.” Damage Rates or Cargo Loss. Things go wrong in the supply chain.

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Freight Consolidation: How it Works & When to Use It

Ware2Go

Learn how freight consolidation can help boost profitability and maximize supply chain performance to help SMB’s navigate 2021’s supply chain challenges. Maximize Supply Chain Performance – Complexity and unpredictable variables at each stage of a delivery’s journey increases the likelihood of delays.