The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 24, 2021

Brad is Vice-President of Sales at FreightWaves , a leading freight intelligence provider, offering current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform. Brad is an experienced enterprise SaaS sales leader working in the logistics and supply chain industry. About Brad Guinane.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 30, 2021

According to a release from Panasonic, the acquisition brings together Blue Yonder’s end-to-end supply chain software, which uses artificial intelligence, with Panasonic’s autonomous solutions, to form “autonomous enhancement of the whole supply chain.”

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 1, 2023

End to end supply chain visibility and execution process support technology provider project44 acknowledged a workforce reduction last week. According to published reports from Freightways and Crains Chicago Business , the headcount reduction amounts to upwards of 10 percent of this tech provider’s global workforce.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 29, 2022

In this regular edition of our featured column, Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , we provide a capsule synopsis of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based multi-industry supply chain readership.

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ShipBob

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The logistics industry is made up of a highly interconnected supply chain network that manufactures raw materials into finished products and connects producers and consumers through various channels. Many functions are required to complete this, including: Maritime, road freight, digital freight, truck, and/or air delivery services.

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Supply Chain Network

JULY 27, 2011

Purolator, Canada’s leading integrated freight and parcel solutions provider, is pleased to announce that it was recently awarded Logistics Quarterly’s 2011 Third-Party Logistics (3PL) Sustainability Award for demonstrating leadership in sustainable supply chain practices. About Purolator Inc.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The value of peer-to-peer learning and networking was evident at last month’s Ryder Innovate conference — “an exclusive gathering of senior leaders in transportation, logistics, and supply chain seeking strategic insight, new ideas, and thought leadership to improve their supply chain and fleet operations.”

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 4, 2022

We’ve gathered the twelve supply chain headlines you need to know in an industry that’s always moving. As the latest step in Postmaster General Louis Dejoy’s 10-year plan to reach financial sustainability, the U.S. Intelligent Audit CEO Attributes Supply Chain Success to Tech-Forward Thinking.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

DECEMBER 4, 2015

What’s trending in the supply chain industry? At the Supply Chain Outlook Summit in Chicago, three issues dominated the conversation: The growing talent gap, advancements in technology, and the changing nature of risk. No other topic raised as much discussion as the shortage of supply chain talent.

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Intelligent Audit

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This service offering will include improved delivery density, end-to-end visibility, financial solutions, advanced capabilities, and reverse logistics, Supply Chain Dive reports. Despite a slew of supply chain challenges, 2022 had some relief in store for shippers worried about the ongoing truck driver shortage.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 5, 2018

After launching in 2014 and raising a total of $63 million, this “Uber for Shipping” venture (as investors and the press liked to call Shyp) never found a sustainable business model. Shyp and Uber: Pulling the Plug on Disruption. It’s pretty silly,” he told me in early 2016. and Amazon.com Inc.”. Defining Success in Logistics.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 22, 2017

But intermodal service can add efficiency, flexibility, and cost savings to a supply chain in many different market conditions. Infrastructure and technology. Infrastructure and technology | Transportfolio. The two main technologies used—mobile apps and container trackers—each comes with barriers. The shipper.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2022

That’s the question that continues to bedevil the global supply chain industry. As I detailed in a recent column , the answer to constant supply chain volatility is pervasive real-time visibility into the precise location, temperature or status of a shipment — at any point along the journey. Where’s my shipment? .

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ShipBob

MARCH 30, 2020

As the ecommerce industry grows, the logistics of getting orders to customers has become more complicated — especially with the novel coronavirus impacting entire supply chains. Any lapse in communication or execution within your supply chain can ultimately have a negative impact on the customer experience.

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Supply Chain Network

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

NYSE: R), a leader in commercial fleet management , dedicated transportation , and supply chain solutions , announced today it has started to take delivery of 125 medium-duty electric panel vans, the first of their kind in North America, now available for lease or rent. Miami, November 2, 2017 —Ryder System, Inc. About Ryder.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Not the Chicago Cubs, of course, but the Little League Cubs of our city. Now, on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Exclusive: Wal-Mart seeks to test drones for home delivery, pickup ( Reuters ). New Oracle Supply Chain Management Cloud Offerings Address Needs of Modern Value Chain.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

APRIL 8, 2021

Robinson’s mission to improve the world’s supply chains. But in a world ever more conscious of the imperative to reduce carbon emissions, helping customers move their freight more efficiently has taken on new urgency. New technology and data we’ve launched are proving to be an accelerator of change. More sustainable.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

I learned that to manage logistics you have to manage relationships with people in the supply chain, and I also learned that there is an informal network of relationships that had to be managed in the supply chain… this was in 2002. Underlying the tool, it is sophisticated in terms of the algorithms we built.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2022

Cardinal Health starts Zipline drone deliveries of drugs and medical supplies. US port backups are extending into freight rail supply chains. The trucks will operate autonomously but will be supervised by two Waymo employees, a commercially licensed driver and a software engineer, from the cab of the vehicle.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 24, 2022

FedEx in the news: FedEx invests in FourKites to build intelligent supply chain platform. EV Has a Problem: 90% of the Battery Supply Chain ‘Does Not Exist’. I asked my colleague Steve Banker for his take on the investment: “When it comes to supply chain data, more is always better.

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