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Q3 2021 Trucking Trends and Freight Market Update

Zipline Logistics

The freight market has been on the receiving end of several systemic shocks that continue to affect industry providers and shippers alike. And when you add in the current labor and commodity shortages along with an inflationary environment, it is apparent why freight rates have been steadily climbing.

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Skillfully Managing Manufacturing Reshoring Projects

GlobalTranz

There’s more involved in successfully reshoring a foreign manufacturing operation back to the U.S. than simple cost comparisons. Reshoring is a hot topic in manufacturing. These “Bring Manufacturing Back” initiatives have many moving parts and require careful planning and execution and very skillful project management.

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GlobalTranz And Echo Global Logistics Both Report 40% Fourth Quarter Revenue Growth

Logistics Viewpoints

GlobalTranz’s main service lines are freight brokerage – less-than-truckload and truckload – and managed transportation services. Robinson’s last quarter earnings in North American Surface Transportation, up 10.8% – which many companies would be delighted with – seem paltry in comparison. Robinson and Echo Global Logistics.

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7 Ways to Strategically Elevate Freight Procurement

Talking Logistics

In the last decade, many companies, especially those with manufacturing operations, have evolved direct materials sourcing from an administrative function to a strategic procurement process. Going forward, it is vital that shippers analyze their freight spend and if required renegotiate their rates regularly to remain competitive.

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Capitalising on Supply Chain Digitisation with Robotic Process Automation – 10 Areas of Opportunities – LogiSYM August 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Procurement can also have RPA do dynamic searches of websites to source or conduct market research for future buys and tenders. Freight Management. Freight management is driven by time-critical, manual tasks. Price Lookup and Comparison. Purchase Order Management. Returns and Refunds Processing.

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What’s Next for a Bubbling Freight Market?

Zipline Logistics

Despite a pandemic that has disrupted many parts of the global supply chain, the freight market has been on a recent tear. Current outbound tender volume is up 34 percent over 2019 and 38 percent over 2018 in year-over-year comparisons. What’s Causing Upward Freight Market Trends? What Is Next for the Freight Market? .

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The Green Corridor – Optimal Tech for Green Logistics – Making Emissions Visible

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Raw materials, parts and services are currently all running through supply chains and manufacturing processes and emitting GHGs. Arcstone sells digital systems to optimize manufacturing. The different stages of manufacturing are broken down into the steps taken in the factory in what they call their “workflow builder” module.