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Leveraging Logistics Trends to Make a Difference When it Matters Most

CH Robinson Transportfolio

And that’s why I’m incredibly proud of our team for helping the state of Minnesota save more than $1 million. That’s why we joined our business community on a task force to help our home state of Minnesota ensure they were prepared with necessary personal protective equipment (PPE). But we could not have done this alone.

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Research: What Leading Shippers Do to Obtain Better Truckload Rates and Performance

Talking Logistics

Using data from TMC, a division of C.H. The researchers used TMC data for 40 shippers and looked at over a million loads. Next, researchers looked at freight attributes of shippers. Laggards tend to use low-performing suppliers, and many of them use asset carriers across all freight attribute types. On time pickup (OTP).

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Understand the Pitfalls of IBP Before Embarking on a Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

A transformation that is based on the idea that by putting in new applications the company will automate a process, or processes, and provide more and better data to make decisions, is a poor foundation for a true transformation. The data for a SCP model to do cash flow projections exists. Service levels are 5 to 20% higher.

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Do People Skills Matter in the World of Logistics?

The Logistics of Logistics

Even as the industry is becoming more data driven than ever before and cutting-edge software is increasingly used to manage freight from start to finish, the development of your sales team is still important. Paul Minnesota. How you develop your sales team has a big impact on your logistics business. People skills do matter.

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The Truck Driver Shortage and the Rising Cost of Everything

Freight Plus

In 2018 shippers are paying more for freight that takes longer to move. Joyce Brenny, head of Brenny Transportation in Minnesota, tells. Drastic cost increases in the freight market can have a butterfly effect throughout the economy. "I So how can shippers save money on freight and mitigate some of these costs?

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Trucking Market Update and 2020 Q1 Freight Outlook

Zipline Logistics

It was a good year for shippers as freight rates plummeted for the majority of 2019, substantially backing off the historic highs the industry witnessed in 2018. An overall economic sluggishness hit freight particularly hard in 2019 leading to what many have labeled as a “ freight recession.”.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

According to new data, while UPS, FedEx, USPS, and other carriers handled a record crush of holiday packages, some 2 million packages arrived late. UK freight shipping costs quadruple after Brexit, COVID. Hy-Vee is also administering the Moderna vaccine to frontline health care workers in Iowa and Minnesota.