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The Connected Ecosystem with Bill Vitti

The Logistics of Logistics

Transflo’s customer-focused mobile and cloud-based technologies deliver real-time communications to fleets, brokers, factors, shippers, and commercial vehicle drivers, and digitize 800 million shipping documents a year, representing approximately $115 billion in freight bills and 3.2 million downloads of the Mobile+ app.

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With LTL Fuel Surcharges on the Rise, What Are the Expectations and Projections of Higher Fuel Costs on LTL Shipping?

GlobalTranz

DOWNLOAD THE FREE RESOURCE HERE. DOWNLOAD CALCULATOR. Cities along the Gulf are still recovering from Hurricane Harvey and Irma from last year, and Michael’s recent swells and reign of terror brought the Florida panhandle to its knees. How To Determine Freight Class: Density Calculator & Printable Resource.

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Walmart Making Significant Bet on Warehouse Robotics

Supply Chain Matters

This has had special significance as overall online shopping volumes decline from prior pandemic driven volumes, and where the thresholds for the ability to sustain “ Free Shipping ” offerings are growing larger because of rising and unsustainable costs. The report indicates that the retailer’s 1.4

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Holiday Supply Chains: Are you prepared?

Logistics Viewpoints

At the beginning of June 2022, a 40-foot ocean container cost about $10,000 to ship from southeast Asia to Northern Europe This is compared to about $1,500 for the same route about 2 years ago. I still see retailers asking their shoppers to download two separate apps, one for online shopping and one for brick and mortar.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- March 5 2022 Edition

Supply Chain Matters

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group’s 2022 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains Research Advisory ( Available for complimentary downloading in our Research Center ) includes a prediction that the supply chain technology segment will feature an investment boom in market consumption, added equity investment and M&A activity.

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Ecommerce Logistics: From Your Site to Their Doorstep

ShipBob

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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This Week in Logistics News (November 27 – December 1, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Shipping Networks (WSJ – sub. UPS To Launch eBike In Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Shipping firm Clarksons braces for data leak after refusing to pay hacker (The Guardian). Mercedes Plans More Drone Deliveries After 100 Perfect Flights (Bloomberg Technology). Tesla Truck gets DHL order as shippers test Semi (Reuters).