GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Readers' choice! Significance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2023

We have certainly seen more focus on women in supply chain over the last few years, and nearly every conference that I attend has tracks dedicated to women in supply chain. In contrast, the larger Amazon warehouses typically rely on delivery stations closer to customers for the final stage of shipping.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

As of January 1, 2022, it was taking a company an average of 73 days to deliver goods to truck or rail carriers after booking with an ocean carrier and completing the cross-ocean journey, according to E2open’s Ocean Shipping Index. Greener Shopping and Shipping: The Rise of Carbon Neutral e-Commerce Delivery. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Each year I go to the Consumer Goods and Technology (CGT) conference where speaker-after-speaker talks about retail/supplier collaboration. It is for this reason that I sit on the back row at most conferences watching, listening, and smiling. The ecommerce customer wants convenient delivery to the home. I am a disbeliever.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

After a three-day stoppage of rail operations impacting transcontinental shipments of key commodities and manufactured goods, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference have reached a settlement calling for final and binding arbitration of differences. Canadian and U.S. East Coast Ports the Likely Next Test.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

P&G has consolidated hundreds of offices and warehouses across North America and set up six so-called mixing centers, where computer algorithms work with robots and humans to load trucks with the optimal mix of products to ship to retailers. Once complete, P&G said its new supply chain will enable 80% of U.S.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 9, 2018

Last week, I attended Innovate 2018 , the company’s first user conference, and as I stood on stage to deliver my keynote presentation in front of 140+ attendees, the answer was clear: Yes. One of the new capabilities highlighted at the conference was Continuous Pool Optimization. New TMS Capabilities.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2015

Yes, there was lots of the usual hype coming from NRF, and CES conferences filling the airways. Today, on average, there are 10-25 ships sitting on the water waiting to unload. Three weeks is substantial and may tip the hand to reshore more manufacturing into North America.

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Freightera

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Eric Beckwitt, Freightera founder and CEO is presenting at the BC Cleantech Virtual Conference on Sept 23, 2021. Eric Beckwitt will talk about Freightera at the first BC Cleantech virtual conference. His presentation will cover how Freightera helps businesses to ship freight and reduce the carbon footprint from shipping.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Last year, I attended a three-day conference in Las Vegas conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal with product returns, unsold inventories and other capitalist jetsam. RETAILERS TRY TO KEEP UP Returns are expensive for sellers, since shipping alone often costs more than the items can be resold for.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 14, 2017

CX North America Releases Freight Vision Mobile App. Two judges smack down notorious patent holder “Shipping and Transit” in one week (Ars Technica). LLamasoft and LynnCo Supply Chain Solutions Announce Partnership. Paragon enhances routing and scheduling software with advanced fuel usage visibility.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 24, 2015

Lots of supply chain and logistics news this week, so let’s go straight to the items that caught my attention: Amazon now ships to your Audi’s trunk ( USA Today ). AWS revenues grew 49 percent in Q1 2015 compared to Q1 2014, while the rest of its North America business grew 22 percent. billion by the end of this year.

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Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Meanwhile, 75% of furniture retailer, Ethan Allen’s products are made in North America. ports we use to take advantage of the shipping availability, Dollar General’s CEO Mike Witynski told analysts. Much of the shift is to the US, which, according to the CEO lowers its merchandising lead times.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 15, 2015

As I mentioned in last week’s Friday News Roundup, I spent some time in Atlanta attending the Home Delivery World, Click & Collect Show USA, and ETail Show USA joint conference. I had the pleasure of catching Tom Barone, VP of North America Operations at eBay Enterprise present on the changing nature of commerce.

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Freightera

JUNE 29, 2017

Transport News INTL has just selected Freightera as “Best Online Freight Marketplace – North America” in their Logistics, Warehouse & Supply Chain Awards 2017! Looking ahead, Freightera is rapidly expanding in North America in 2017. We caught up with Eric Beckwitt to find out more.

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Kinaxis

JANUARY 4, 2016

by Alexa Cheater On the heels of the United Nations Paris Climate Change Conference , now seemed like an appropriate time to revisit an often talked about supply chain topic. The impact of climate change on your supply chain operations. Natural Disasters.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2023

I attend this conference every year, but this time, strolling the exhibition floor and surveying the 110+ technology providers’ latest wares, I was struck by a dichotomy. Breaking down those silos was the focus of a panel discussion Rob Haddock and I led at the conference.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Is it because some of the biggest parts are being shipped from another manufacturing location? SCN: What were the biggest themes, trends or surprises to come out of your recent Automotive Logistics conference? Around the time of the conference the potential government shutdown was looming.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A businessman, who caught the virus at a conference in Singapore, was linked to several other cases. Technology companies in North America and Europe are especially dependent on contract manufacturing in China and just-in-time shipments. The most heavily impacted industries. Pharmaceuticals. Automobiles.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 17, 2014

This month’s Market Update highlights key factors that impact the transportation industry in North America and will keep you up to speed on the latest news and topics that matter to your supply chain and business. The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) 2014 Annual Global Conference took place September 21–24.

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Freightera

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Deglobalization will accelerate, and reshoring and localization of manufacturing will continue 2023 has seen a severe freight recession, especially in North America, with significant overcapacity and declining rates for ocean shipping as well. He was a speaker at COP22, the UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakesh.

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Zipline Logistics

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Some the country’s biggest CPG brands are leaving the old strategy of transactional shipping behind in favor of strategic logistics partnerships. At the 2019 JOC Inland Distribution Conference we saw the theme emerge firsthand. How do we know this? That means making your goals our goals and working in tangent to meet them.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2023

At the same time, the Celtics finished with the second-best record in the Eastern Conference. The failure will affect the movement of people and goods, he said Monday at an annual conference of the American Council of Engineering Companies in Washington. It seemed like a run to the Stanley Cup was inevitable.

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Freightera

OCTOBER 1, 2018

This means a lot to everyone at Freightera, an online marketplace that brings together businesses that need to ship freight and transport companies that move it. Global freight shipping, at just under $10 trillion a year, is among the largest markets on earth. Freightera’s mission is to make freight easy, accessible and green.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 17, 2021

International shipping industry article and permission to publish here provided by Daniel Choi. Even during the epidemic, the shipping industry’s significance in the value chain and the transportation of resources and goods worldwide was emphasized, probably most prominently. The Shipping Industry During Pandemic.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

The Normalcy Index calculated weekly by the Economist projects that North America is 67% of the way back to normalcy from COVID, but globally, it is lower at 50% with many flare-ups. A journey from China to Europe that takes 40 days by ship takes 15 days by rail. However, with the war, this is no longer an option.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 11, 2014

Cargill Animal Nutrition (CAN) is clustered around five major regions: North America; Latin America; EMEAR, including Russia; South Asia and East Asia. I also attend and/or present at conferences such as Logicon, IFB, regional Supply Chain and Logistics summits to share knowledge and network with professionals in the field.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 15, 2023

I have learned so much from our sponsors and readers, both through their commentaries and user conferences, and look forward to more of the same in 2024. Americold employs 17,000 people worldwide and operates more than 24 temperature-controlled warehouses across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America.

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Freightera

MAY 1, 2018

May 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Freightera, North America’s rapidly growing online freight marketplace, celebrated its 4th birthday today as it booked over 10,000 shipments. When complete, Freightera will allow business shippers get instant quotes and ship freight between any two locations on earth. VANCOUVER, B.C.,

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Of course, chances are that this spring, while I’m away at a conference, my wife will get her payback and turn the A/C on without any debate either. Passport, a customer service company focused on shipping, has raised $3 million in seed funding (TechCrunch). I made an executive decision and turned on the heat.

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Global Trade Management

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

That was the message of a panel of experts on perishables shipping Wednesday at the AirCargo Americas Conference in Miami. • Disagreements over shipping practices within the industry itself. Helms said the industry needs to take it upon itself to reduce the incredible waste in perishables shipping.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

companies told investors that rising shipping costs in recent months have cut into earnings,” reports Austen Hufford from the WSJ. of America said Wednesday higher shipping costs cut into its adjusted profit by 4 cents a share in the fourth quarter. A number of U.S. Candy seller Hershey Co. Cardboard maker Packaging Corp.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2022

After more than two years, I finally traveled for a conference again. I was in San Diego for Kinaxis Kinexions , and it was a great trip (I will have a full recap of the conference next week). The company is leaning on expedited shipping lanes to pull ahead supply and mitigate COVID-19 disruptions in China.

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Freightera

MAY 4, 2017

Freightera’s Go Green option now allows shippers to choose freight quotes by lower emission, in addition to price and shipping time. Freightera Logistics’ award-winning online freight marketplace has partnered with Natural Resources Canada’s SmartWay program, to help create the North American Low Emission Freight Marketplace.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 8, 2022

At our recent customer conference Blue Yonder ICON , we heard first-hand the chronic and new challenges supply chain, logistics, and commerce executives are facing and their strategies and implementations to realize the next visions. A North America?n Digitalization Through the Eyes of Our Customers.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 2, 2015

There was plenty of learning and networking at the CSCMP Annual Conference this week, which I’ll write about in a future post. Meanwhile, Cloud Logistics introduced its Same Day TMS program “designed to allow shippers to start shipping – and saving – the day they start the project.” Check out this video for a demo.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 8, 2015

Growing Shipping Alliances Are Straining Major U.S. Simply put, cross-border e-commerce is arguably one of the weakest links in omni-channel fulfillment, and Pitney Bowes, which already has years of experience in this area with its Global Shipping Program for eBay sellers, is positioning itself as a leader in this emerging market space.

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