GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Although this sounds great for most industries, it represents a major problem for the freight trucking industry. Freight Forwarding Will Undergo Digital Transformation. Freight forwarders will have great opportunities in 2018 to take advantage of the increased demand on shippers. Freight and Trucking Rates Will Evolve.

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Resilinc

JUNE 7, 2021

In a recent webinar , Resilinc’s Chief Product Officer, Sumit Vakil, and Director of Product, Sandeep Ramachandran, discussed best practices for hurricane preparedness, including how new uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning are helping to offset disruption. Watch our webinar on Hurricane Preparedness.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 24, 2016

For manufacturers and shippers, freight spend represents one of the largest costs to the respective company. However, freight rates are continuing to increase , yet the end users continue to demand lower shipping rates. However, freight rates are continuing to increase , yet the end users continue to demand lower shipping rates.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 6, 2015

We first featured the most popular manufacturing blog posts followed by the top Supply Chain blog posts, then logistics, transportation, business, 3PL, and then finally we round out our series today featuring the most popular blog posts focused on freight and freight management. The 12 Most Popular Freight Blog Posts from 2014.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

When it comes to executing mode-specific freight moves from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively, transportation execution and visibility solutions play a critical role. Visibility solutions allow real-time asset tracking across the entire distribution network. The company is focused on ocean shipping.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Currently, it remains the case that as e-commerce continues to grow, most shippers, particularly multi-channel shippers, are still only just beginning to work out what this will entail for their distribution network infrastructures. Read the full Post. Read the full Post. If the product is defective, the customer would return the product.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

We will focus primarily on LTL shipping, but some of these areas can be applied to other modes of over the road shipping. As a 3PL focused on transportation management , and especially LTL freight management , Cerasis is well positioned to help you achieve the "Best in Class Shipper" status. . Freight Spend Management.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Today, Cerasis is a leader in Less Than Truckload (LTL) shipping and freight management and utilizes powerful technology and apps to help create a better way to manage E-Commerce shipping solutions. Choosing Your Freight Shipping Strategy with e-commerce. The Big Benefits of E-Commerce In Manufacturing.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 12, 2017

It manages inbound freight, not unlike the incoming blood supply from the lungs, and pumps it out to the remainder of your supply chain. For each weakness or issue, provide instructions on how to avoid delays and ensure adherence to appropriate carrier selection and freight classification. Distribute It. 151 to 5,000 pounds.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Today we will focus on more of the internal practice by focusing on what you can do in the distribution center. However, the diversity of the supply chain, and the importance of timely shipping and customer service, presents a unique challenge at best through several festive celebrations all year long.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 13, 2016

The shipping industry saw growth and expansion in 2014 when compared to the state of the industry since 2008. Shippers are focusing on using dimensional pricing to cut down on wasted space, and consolidation of freight has become the new buzzword. Expansion of the Panama Canal Will Increase Incoming Ocean Freight.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

To meet this increased demands, more manufacturing and logistics partners are looking for ways to shorten product lifecycles through improving inventory management systems, changing shipping strategies and altering the fundamental ways products move from point A to point B. Autonomous Trucks Will Drive Logistics Forward.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 28, 2015

The transportation mode LTL, or Less Than Truckload, has grown to become the predominant, preferred means of freight transportation across the US. Additionally, industry experts and third-party logistics shipping providers ( 3PLs ) find themselves in the difficult position of ensuring the flow of merchandise continues as LTL use grows.

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Resilinc

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

By compromising one software supplier—in that case SolarWinds, “Spies or saboteurs can hijack [the supplier’s] distribution systems to turn any application they sell, any software update they push out, even the physical equipment they ship to customers, into Trojan horses,” explains Wired in a recent post.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Supply chain professionals must also know how they will be shipping freight. As a result, suppliers can sell more product and materials, manufacturers can produce more finished products, and transportation staff can ship more freight. Brexit Will Continue to Cause Disruptions in Procurement.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Cobots are involved in packaging, picking, shipping, delivery and visibility throughout logistics, but they are rapidly becoming key players in the artificial intelligence and data analytics movement. As a result, stores as a distribution center will become more popular throughout 2018.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Third party logistics (3PL) is the function by where the owner of goods outsources numerous components of the supply chain to a 3PL company that can perform the management function of the clients’ customs, inbound freight, distribution, warehousing, order fulfilment and outbound freight to the client’s customers.

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Cathy Roberson

JANUARY 9, 2023

Sylvie Thompson is consulting vice president and partner of consumer brands, retail, and distribution for NTTData, an information technology service and consulting company. Catch my weekly column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets, and the occasional podcast on Air Cargo World. I wear a number of hats these days.

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ShipBob

MARCH 30, 2020

How do you put your brand in a spot to offer expedited shipping without putting in the time, resources, and investment of several warehouses? With so many millions of packages shipped across the country on any given day, it’s vital that systems are in place to keep them on track and make sure they’re delivered to the right place on time.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Today we will focus on more of the internal practice by focusing on what you can do in the distribution center. However, the diversity of the supply chain, and the importance of timely shipping and customer service, presents a unique challenge at best through several festive celebrations all year long.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2015

Efficient management of transportation plays a major role in determining the success rate of an organization’s distribution system. Well designed TMS systems contribute in all these stages and helps to take a business global through effective management of freight flows and increased efficiency throughout the distribution network.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 21, 2015

Freight transportation costs in the United States amount to about 6% of the GDP, which means that a large portion of a company’s supply chain costs come from transportation. When freight costs are high, even seemingly small oversights can result in unneeded expenses that could have been avoided and thus cut into overall profit margins.

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Proxima

AUGUST 3, 2020

Whether warehousing, automation, freight, retail or e-commerce, business leaders needed to evaluate and address many or all in order to maintain their supply chains and keep up with the demand, which in turn, was drastically altered by the pandemic. International and domestic challenges of freight amidst COVID-19.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 27, 2017

Meanwhile, are freight costs going to rise or decrease? Will Mother Nature throw a wrench into a shipment, causing extra delays or even freight damage? To help your organization thrive, you need to understand why proper packing and packaging keeps freight loss at bay, explains Lou Cortese of Inbound Logistics.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 23, 2015

In the mid 1950s, this concept was extended to transportation management with the development of intermodal containers together with ships, trains, and trucks to handle these containers. By the 1960s, a clear trend had developed in shifting more time-dependent freight transportation to truck rather than rail.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 18, 2015

However, forward logistics management skills (involving original production and distribution of new products) may scarcely apply to reverse processes of moving products from buyers’ locations in order to recover remaining value or appropriately dispose of items. Need For Reverse Logistics Breeds Opportunity.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 11, 2016

As explained by Steve Banker of Forbes magazine , Amazon has unleashed an army of robots in their distribution centers for the purposes of picking and packaging. Robotics engineer Aaron Blasdel fills a Freight bin at Fetch Robotics headquarters. Millennials are part of this trend. Photo by Signe Brewster.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 22, 2015

It is also defined as the procurement, maintenance, distribution, and replacement of personnel and material. A typical logistics framework consists of physcial supply, internal operations and physical distribution of goods and services. This infographic comes to us from freightXtension who are experts in cross-border shipping.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 20, 2019

I recently participated in a webinar to discuss the changes in retailer expectations and how companies can successfully navigate retail compliance programs. Look for ways to create shipping and transportation strategies that remove days, or even weeks, out of the supply chain. Here are a few of the key takeaways to consider: .

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Cathy Roberson

DECEMBER 17, 2022

I'm coming to your facility providing a service shipping your product. Catch my weekly column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets, and the occasional podcast on Air Cargo World. The problem for us is we’ve had staff quit who were required to clean them since they were trashed so bad routinely.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 15, 2015

The results have been tabulated for the 68th annual Survey of Distribution Operations. This report is crucial in determining the direction in which the distribution business is headed. Consistency has always been at a premium in the distribution industry. Demographics. Objections, Direction, and Economics. The Balance Sheet.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Abtin Hamidi , according to JOC Magazine , believes the driver crunch is simply a masquerade for hidden shipping spaces. Without thinking about shipping, how has technology changed the lives of every person on a communicative scale? For example, unloading freight at locations A and B may leave the truck with empty space.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

is one of a growing number of big-box retailers building out their supply chains with distribution centers designed to meet the demands of online shopping. The data is shared with suppliers who know when to ship more products. By 1989, Walmart saw the benefits of its supply chain management when its distribution costs were 1.7%

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

That changed when the DOT mandated a $75,000 freight broker surety bond for all non-asset-based providers in 2013, explains PLS Logistics. The definition of logistics services is all of the processes that go into manufacturing, distribution, sales and returns of products.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 10, 2015

A few months ago we wrote a tongue in cheek post about 5 Upfront Tips you can do to save on less than truckload shipping (a capitalization of Less than truckload). When it comes to less than truckload shipping, it’s no different. 5 More Common Sense, Yet Often Forgotten Basics for Less than Truckload Shipping to Save More. #1:

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GlobalTranz

JULY 29, 2015

And while the way you ship and the prices you pay will have a big influence on it, there are other elements involved as well that all need to be looked at. Let Cerasis guide you with a freight invoice analysis or a transportation management assessment and consultation.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 31, 2018

You know better than anybody that the layman would probably never believe how complicated distribution center management can be. Below are 12 distribution center best practices and other ideas to help you look for ways to make your operations and work environment sing like the well-oiled machines they are. . the better off you’ll be.

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