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What Are the Trends in LTL for 2019?

GlobalTranz

The year ahead will shake up the long-held standards for controlling freight spend and meeting customer expectations. For 2019, the trends in LTL will focus primarily on demand, rates, carrier and trucker expectations, the needs of shippers and more. Let’s get started. 1. E-Commerce Demand Will Drive Trends in LTL for 2019 E-commerce growth is a double-edged sword in modern freight transportation.

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The State of Digital Freight: The 4×4 Blueprint for Freight 2020

Freightos

As we enter a new year, it’s a great time to look back at how far we’ve come as an industry, set our next goalposts, and map out where we should be as an industry by 2020. The journey to digitize freight, while initially off to a slow start, has gained momentum in the last two or three years. But the road to true digitization is long and winding. We have a ways to go and the world won’t necessarily wait for us to catch up, especially with external entrants to the industry that will certainly try

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CPG Brands: The Growing Importance of Agile Customization

Talking Logistics

There is a lot of discussion in the marketplace about disruption, transformation and the rapid pace of change in supply chain management, but if you’re in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) or contract packaging and manufacturing industries, you know this all too well. Simply put, yesterday’s rules for success are no longer valid in today’s market. So, what are the new rules for success?

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Trends 2019: Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

We live in hectic times. The U.S. is in a trade war with the world. Britain is trying to disconnect from Europe. Cyber attacks are increasing. Climate change is creating violent weather events. The list of crazy things happening goes on and on. Nowhere is change more evident than in the supply chain arena. The staff at Supply Chain Network (SCN) writes, “With rising customer expectations, changing business models, cut-throat competition and the influx of technologies, it’s critical that yo

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2024 Annual T&L M&A Report

Tenney Group, an industry specialized M&A Advisory firm in the T&L space, produced the 2024 Annual M&A Report. The report contains an in depth overview of 2023 notable deals and the market, while also providing the outlook for 2024 M&A.

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Top 10 Predictions for Worldwide Supply Chains in 2019

Material Handling & Logistics

If companies are going to embrace new business models, or digitally enable older ones, they are going to need a modern, capable supply chain to do it.

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Intermodal Industry Outlook: 2019

NFI

Guest Post: Mark McKendry, Vice President of Intermodal at NFI When compared to 2017 volumes, North American intermodal volumes grew by over five percent in 2018 – despite extreme congestion in Chicago, a chronic chassis shortage on the U.S. East Coast, and atypical demand trends driven by e-commerce growth and tariff threats. Although the railways.

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Differences between Omnichannel & Omnichannel 2.0

Supply Chain 24/7

Unlike the original definition of Omnichannel, Omnichannel 2.0 is about bringing the entire enterprise together, not just enabling support within legacy systems for an omnichannel approach, retailers and supply chain leaders must increase proficiency across all channels, engaging with consumers and personalizing the shopping experience.

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The Supply Chain Detective™: The Mystery of the Prima Donna Boss!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. The Supply Chain Detective : The Case of the Unpaid Invoices! My plane had just landed. I turned on my cell phone. And almost immediately my CEO called. “Have you heard from Rick? Nobody’s heard from him in several days.” Rick was my new boss, the CPO, a guy that the CEO hired a couple of months before. “No I haven’t heard from him either.

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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 1.8 - 1.11

Freight Plus

Trucking market downtrend, 2018 sets record for semi orders, China building 150 high tech logistics hubs, Ocean rates up 92.5%, where's my freight? and more in this week's ATSCNYNTK!

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Strategic Supply Chain Considerations in the Quest to Go Omnichannel

Supply Chain 24/7

This white paper describes how, from retailers to manufacturers, as well as every business involved in sales in between, the omnichannel supply chain is a goal to achieve.

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4 Reasons Why Supply Chain Executives Should Be Thinking Like Finance Executives

Freight Plus

Your supply chain represents your capital, inventory, and outlays. It's time to start thinking about it as an investment.

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Welcome to 2019: 5 Retail Trends You Need to Know Now

BlueYonder

It’s a new year and retail is moving faster—finally we’re seeing retailers looking in the right direction—up. A unified commerce environment, an on-demand marketplace, social media, growing competition and new technologies mean an evolution in the way we shop. Everything is changing – from pricing and planning the just right product assortments to forecasting demand and creating an unforgettable in-store experience.

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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 1.8 - 1.11

Freight Plus

Normal. 0. false. false. false. EN-US. X-NONE. X-NONE. Trucking market could downtrend in 2019 according to some analysts. Slower manufacturing growth as well as elevated tariffs and interest rates could all cut into demand, Supply Chain Dive reports. Adding to the uncertainty is last year’s market, which rose to historic levels. "The economic forecasts are mixed overall, which adds to uncertainty in other freight-producing sectors," wrote DAT analyst Mark Montague in a research note. 2018 sets

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Rethinking Direct Materials Sourcing: The Tools You Need To Manage Costs, Risks and Sustainability

Direct materials sourcing is evolving, with procurement now tasked not only with cost efficiency but managing sustainability and risk management. The environment is marked by heightened demand and expectations, compounded by challenges such as rising input prices, supply chain disruptions and geopolitical tensions. While some embrace cutting-edge tools like AI and blockchain for global trade functions, others lag in technology adoption.

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Supply Chains Quake as Stock Market Jitters Continue

Valogix

2018 ended on a lot of stock market jitters over the trade war with China. The markets lost most, if not all, their gains and then some. The outlook for global economies and growth opportunities have also cooled. Brexit, the UK exit from the EU, is disrupting supply chains. Inventories are building and planning for them has become more erratic.

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4 Reasons Why Supply Chain Executives Should Be Thinking Like Finance Executives

Freight Plus

In the corporate world we often hear the term "silos" and how they negatively impact the overall performance of a company. Silos create blind spots where departments that do not often directly work together have issues communicating and sharing information in an impactful manner. Unfortunately, this happens all too often when it comes to the relationship between the supply chain and the CFO.

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Beyond Planning, the Next-Gen Supply Chain – A Focal Story

DynaSys

Focal was founded in France in 1979, and specializes in designing and manufacturing proven acoustic solutions. Their products are divided into four categories: domestic HiFi speakers, car speakers, monitoring speakers, and audio headsets. The sound quality of their products makes them unique in the market as they try to be as neutral and accurate as possible.

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Logistics Impacts from 2019 Food and Beverage Trends

Zipline Logistics

The food and beverage industry moves fast with the regular introduction of new flavors, ingredients, consumption patterns, and consumer preferences. Staying on top of what’s next and remaining relevant can be a challenge. How does adoption of these trends impact the larger supply chain? They often come with new laws, a surge of new demand […].

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Air Freight Trends to Watch in 2019

CH Robinson Transportfolio

What is your air freight strategy for the year ahead? Demand growth, the type of capacity airlines are adding to the market, and tariffs are big trends to watch this year. Get ready for whatever comes next. Here’s what you need to know. . Demand is likely to grow, but at a slower rate than 2018. The surge in demand for air freight that took off in mid-2016 normalized in early 2018.

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[PODCAST] What are the Freight & Transportation Trends in 2019 for Shippers to Know?

GlobalTranz

Hello and welcome back to another episode of “The Freight Project Podcast!” On today’s episode we welcome back Cerasis National Sales Manager, Roger Jones to give his take on what he sees in the marketplace for freight and transportation trends for this new year, 2019. Looking for more trends? Be on the lookout for all of our trends post by visiting here.

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Air Freight Trends to Watch in 2019

CH Robinson Transportfolio

What is your air freight strategy for the year ahead? Demand growth, the type of capacity airlines are adding to the market, and tariffs are big trends to watch this year. Get ready for whatever comes next. Here’s what you need to know. . Demand is likely to grow, but at a slower rate than 2018. The surge in demand for air freight that took off in mid-2016 normalized in early 2018.

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Grocery Giant ICA Sweden is Making its Replenishment More Efficient with RELEX

RELEX Solutions

Read PDF. ICA Sweden, Sweden’s leading grocery retailer, is optimizing its supply chain processes with the help of retail planning expert RELEX Solutions by making its forecasting and replenishment more proactive. ICA Sweden , one of the biggest retailers in the Nordic region, wanted better support and decided to update its largely manual replenishment process because of the size and complexity of its operations.

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GEP Outlook Report 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders have faced their share of disruption and economic turmoil these past four years. Whether from geopolitical tensions or the havoc caused by the pandemic and its aftershocks, plenty of challenges remain. Despite this, leaders are seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel — inflation is decreasing, interest rates are leveling off and supply chain volatility is easing.

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Supply Chain News on Thoughts on the Age Old Question of Measuring Procurement Savings

Supply Chain Digest

Finance and Procurement Do Not See Things Eye to Eye, CIPS CEO Says

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2018: Year of the ELD

DAT Solutions

ELDs ruled everything around us in 2018. The topic dominated our list of most-read stories , and the mandate was central to most of the trends that played out in the freight industry last year. But before 2018…there was 2017. And in 2017, there was plenty of speculation of what would happen in mandate’s aftermath. Here’s a look at what came true, and what didn’t.

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Global Supply Chain News on Container Carriers Starting to Take Different Strategic Paths

Supply Chain Digest

Some Look to Complete Global Logistics Solutions, while Others Focus on Core Shipping

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Feature Engineering for Machine Learning: An Introduction for Manufacturers

Seebo

Why feature engineering is recognized by data scientists as key to designing machine learning algorithms that work. The post Feature Engineering for Machine Learning:</br> An Introduction for Manufacturers appeared first on Seebo Blog.

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Make Optimising Inventory Control Your New Year’s Resolution

Unleashed

Now, this is one resolution you should not only make but also keep. You’ve survived Black Friday; the Christmas rush and Boxing Day sales and you just have the January sales to contend with. Many things can go wrong for retailers during this busy peak period and the majority of issues stem from inventory control , or specifically the lack thereof. Effective inventory control provides numerous benefits.

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Solar Panel: Quality Issues and Key Control Points

Insights Solutions Global

A good product needs to be of good quality. How can you make sure that the solar panel in your product is of high quality? What are the precautions you can take to ensure a high quality product? This post will give you some ideas.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Professional Certification, but Didn’t Know to Ask

APICS

A degree, as important as it is, does not guarantee a future employer that you know how to apply this knowledge on the job. One way to keep learning is by earning and maintaining a professional certification.

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