The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 2, 2022

freight rail industry. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. In this role, Jefferies provided policy guidance on a host of transportation issues, including railroad economic regulation, rail safety and passenger rail. Department of Transportation, Office of the Inspector General and the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2023

homes in 2022 than UPS, after eclipsing FedEx in 2020, and it is on track to widen the gap this year, according to internal Amazon data and people familiar with the matter. Jennifer McKeehan, SVP, transportation and delivery for Walmart U.S., Jennifer McKeehan, SVP, transportation and delivery for Walmart U.S.,

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Intelligent Audit

MAY 12, 2022

Often, the general public’s view of freight transportation is similar. With a sudden large intake of truck or rail transportation, society moves on with their lives, understanding only a fraction of the supply chain in its entirety. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics reported that, “Freight shipped across the U.S.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The broader climate issue.and freight’s role. The emissions from freighting Shawn’s TV is a miniscule percentage of this year’s 33 billion ton cube. The emissions from freighting Shawn’s TV is a miniscule percentage of this year’s 33 billion ton cube. Transportation ’s share of global emissions: 14%.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

Jerry Peck, the vice president of product strategy for global trade and transportation execution at QAD, made the point that better systems at customs agencies are leading to increases in cycle times for companies that are not on top of the complex documentation requirements associated with trade. This adversely affects a company’s cash flow.

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MIT Supply Chain

MARCH 2, 2021

Latin American countries have particular challenges related to truck transport. Truck transportation comprises 75% of all freight in Latin America. So for a company to be competitive in the region, it’s imperative that they know how to effectively navigate countries’ transportation markets.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2013

Con-way Freight Raises the Bar on Mexico Service, Adds Door-to-Door Tracking, 24-Hour Customer Resource Center, Enhanced Web Tools. LLamasoft Launches Data Services to Provide Reference Data for the Supply Chain Design Community. In this week’s news, new products and services and a couple of acquisitions top the list.

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 24, 2023

Faced with economic uncertainties, transportation industry leaders are focused on building supply chain resiliency. For some, like parcel giants FedEx and UPS, this means deviating from standard practices; for others, resiliency means an increased reliance on innovative financing and data collection strategies. decrease from 2022.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 29, 2015

This is especially true when outsourcing transportation management, as transportation can include a large part of your overall supply chain and business costs. Consider the many shippers who have outsourced transportation management and other logistics functions to third-party logistics (3PL) providers the past few years.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 5, 2019

Mexico line as border agents moved (Reuters) Global trade growth loses momentum as trade tensions persist (WTO) Shipping Comes to Terms With $50 Billion Clean-Fuel Bill (WSJ – sub. Mexico Border Crossing Delays. We see this all the time with weather storms and the havoc they create on transportation and distribution operations.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 28, 2020

Produce season transportation can have an impact on your freight, even if you do not ship grains, fruits, or vegetables. Even if you don’t grow or ship produce, your transportation performance and spend can still be directly impacted. How Produce Season Transportation Affects Rates and Capacity – State by State.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 22, 2014

5 Principles for Greener Freight (2,220 views). Keep Your Truckload Freight Moving (1,982 views). The Latest on Transportation Funding and Regulations (1,771 views). Making Transportation Collaboration Work (1,569 views). The Growing Demand for Flexible Transportation Solutions (1,441 views). 1,422 views).

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 30, 2023

The data is quite extensive in terms of scope and activity levels. Locations that have benefitted from this sourcing shift are noted in the report as Vietnam and Mexico , the latter being a preferred nearshoring or friendshoring alternative. The abstract notes that the research paper “ documents that shifts in the pattern of U.S.

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Logility

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Production halts, container and transport shortages, and port logjams are just a few of the factors eating away at both efficiency and profits. Sanctions, blocked Ukrainian ports, and stalled transportation routes have also disrupted the China-to-Europe supply chain. What’s a supply chain manager to do?

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 13, 2015

Here’s the news that caught my attention this week: January 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Truckload Freight and Rates Dip Seasonally in February: DAT Freight Index. Cass Freight Index – February 2015. Freight stats dominated the news this week. percent from January 2014.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 24, 2019

Global supply chains boomed thanks to bountiful cheap labor, dramatically less expensive communications, and lower-cost transportation. The Economist says that more companies are sourcing with proximity to their major markets – for instance servicing the EU from Eastern Europe and Northern Africa or the US from Mexico.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In modern freight transportation services, GRI stands for General Rate Increase. As a shipper, it’s impossible to avoid rate increases at times, and while freight invoice audits help to catch errors, not knowing the facts behind GRIs will only open the doors to risk. and Mexico.”. and Mexico.”. and Canada.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 25, 2016

Omnitracs’ Roadnet® Transportation Suite 3.7.4 January 2016 North American Freight Numbers. Speaking of cross-border trade, “all five major transportation modes – truck, rail, pipeline, vessel and air – carried less U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics. in February.

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SupplyOn

JULY 10, 2018

By combining real-time asset tracking and condition monitoring of production material during transport, you can initiate appropriate countermeasures to keep your production running long before goods receipt. Seamless tracking on land and sea The data required for this is generally available but saved separately in dedicated systems.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 23, 2019

We’re based in Chicago, and our primary focus is on building technology to automate cross-border transportation. If they’re grabbing the freight in Laredo after a pickup in Mexico, then sure, that was really easy for them. There’s seven times more freight going from south to north than north to south.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 9, 2019

While freight volumes and the supply of trucks and drivers constantly strive for equal balance, they often fall short. Here are the five key freight trends worth watching in late 2019. Freight volumes gain strength. In short, it is a good freight year paired with an exceptional capacity year.

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Freight Plus

OCTOBER 25, 2019

It’s indicative of a soft freight market, a drop in industrial production, and lower world oil prices. This, along with many other leading indicators (transportation data, inverted yield curves, lower GDP) still make the possibility of a recession in 2020 a real possibility. Chris: I agree that they are staying very disciplined.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2018

The comment caught my attention because later that morning I was going to moderate a discussion with Dan Dershem , General Partner at Supply Chain Ventures, about emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence and machine learning, autonomous trucks, and digital freight. Digital Freight. Blockchain.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. 20 Years of Highway Data Shows Roads and Bridges Aren’t Crumbling ( Reason.org ). Mexico trade. The company has a fleet of 2,700 tractors and 8,800 trailers, with more than 2,300 trailers operating in Mexico.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2018

This year’s ride will be in Santa Fe, New Mexico. E2open Acquires Transportation Management Systems Provider Cloud Logistics. Like I wrote earlier this week, there is always something new to talk about in the transportation management systems (TMS) market. Thank you for your time and consideration.

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ShipBob

MARCH 28, 2024

Compliance with bonded facilities: Goods must be stored or transported only through facilities authorized by customs. In-bond shipments offer relief by allowing goods to be transported to their destination or exported without undergoing the full customs clearance process immediately upon entry. port destination.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2023

Business and supply chain focused media reports already point to increased supplier and manufacturing investment in regions such as Mexico, Eastern Europe, India, Vietnam and other regions as responses to added supply network resiliency or agility. A published Future of Freight study sponsored by Deloitte in September 2022 indicated that U.S.

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Intelligent Audit

MARCH 23, 2022

After a strong start to the quarter in inventory receipts and product sell-through, we experienced unexpected inventory receipt slides in key categories due to extended port and transportation delays. Outlook: More Agility, Data Analytics Will Help Speed Improvements. Diversification Across the Board Can Help in Many Ways.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Data Science In Walmart Supply Chain Technology (Medium). project44 Announces Multimodal Integration with Oracle Transportation Management. enVista Joins Blockchain in Transport Alliance. enVista Joins Blockchain in Transport Alliance. Hunt Locked in Freight Revenue Dispute (WSJ – sub.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 19, 2015

As you read this, I’ll be flying back home from Mexico City where I presented at the Logistic Summit & Expo 2015 , arguably the largest supply chain and logistics event in Mexico. Roadnet® Transportation Suite 3.6.9 2014 North American Freight Numbers. Since it’s late and I have a 3 a.m. pre-clearance agreement.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

When you want to drive down your logistics and transportation spend, the very first thing that you need is freight and transportation data. Without hard data, you can’t take action. When enterprises try to act in the absence of data, they are usually guessing and won’t get the results they need.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2023

One of the large automotive Tier 1 customers that makes wiring harnesses, connectors and electrical distribution systems partnered with Blue Yonder to gain end-to-end visibility during the COVID-19 pandemic because their factories in Latin America and Mexico were starting and stopping. The last success factor is data.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 2, 2020

The huge build-up of containers at China’s docks has created a major ocean freight imbalance, with a shortage of cargo in US and European ports and a shortfall in boxes needed by Western exporters to ship products to other parts of the world. Ocean Freight. Air Freight. Ocean Freight. Measuring the Imbalances*.

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TMC

JUNE 1, 2016

In Mexico City, for example, some 60% of the city’s nanostores maintain only one to two days of inventory. Companies can address some of these challenges by using data they already collect, coupled with distribution network modeling techniques to improve the planning and execution of urban delivery services. Solutions at hand.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In general the customer – or the importer – is liable to pay certain costs including any taxes or duties payable in their jurisdiction, along with freight, insurance and other handling costs. New Zealand’s Customs team will then invoice based on the value of the items, the cost of the Customs Value, and the cost of transportation.

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MIT Supply Chain

DECEMBER 7, 2020

We studied some 3,000 home deliveries carried out by 159 vehicles across 10 regions of Mexico. The MIT Sustainable Logistics Initiative team built a model to support such a system using data on Coppel’s last-mile deliveries in the Monterrey, Culiacan, and Azcapotzalco regions of Mexico from August 2018 to September 2019.

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Locus

APRIL 27, 2023

It’s crucial for retailers, e-commerce platforms, 3PLs, FMCGs, and other logistics players in Mexico to embrace state-of-the-art logistics software to overcome the challenges of this rapidly growing sector. Now, let’s explore the top logistics software companies in Mexico that are leading the way: 1. from 2017-2029.

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