BlueYonder

JULY 6, 2018

Welcome to Friday in 5: news from around the supply chain landscape, served up in one spot to keep you up to date and informed. This week: Amazon Prime Day gets longer and adds Whole Foods deals; U.S. tariffs start to impact manufacturing; year-over-year orders for big rigs doubled in June; new advances in consumer chatbots could save businesses billions; and two major European grocers will team up in a bid to keep supplier prices low.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 6, 2018

Jason Kerner, Vice President, Solutions Engineering at project44 , discusses the following questions and more in this timely and informative episode: What is blockchain? How do you explain blockchain to a logistics professional? What are some of the potential uses cases for blockchain in logistics? In what ways is it “a better mousetrap” than what exists today?

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BlueYonder

JULY 6, 2018

Welcome to Friday in 5: news from around the supply chain landscape, served up in one spot to keep you up to date and informed. This week: Amazon Prime Day gets longer and adds Whole Foods deals; U.S. tariffs start to impact manufacturing; year-over-year orders for big rigs doubled in June; new advances in consumer chatbots could save businesses billions; and two major European grocers will team up in a bid to keep supplier prices low.

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DAT Solutions

JULY 6, 2018

It's been an unprecedented year on the spot market so far. In 2018, we've seen record volumes and record prices, with the national average rates for each trailer type setting all-time highs in June. Red-hot demand and tight truck load capacity has led to a super-charged spot market. The DAT load board is the largest on-demand truck load freight exchange in North America , and load posts by freight brokers and shippers are on pace to shatter even more records this year.

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Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller

As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe

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APICS

JULY 6, 2018

As people in the United States wind down from celebrating Independence Day — often with beer and meat – people in the United Kingdom may soon face a beer and meat shortage, due to a scarcity of carbon dioxide across the U.K.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 6, 2018

The Information Age has turned the value of questions and answers topsy turvy. In the past, questions were cheap to ask and companies paid to get answers to their questions. Now, according to Kevin Kelly ( @ kevin2kelly ), founding Executive Editor of Wired magazine, the opposite is true. He explains, “Very soon we’ll live in a world where we will be able to ask the cloud, in conversational tones, for free, any question at all.

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DAT Solutions

JULY 6, 2018

As noted in our rundown of the top 10 markets for van load posts this year, 2018 has been a year of records on the spot market. This past June saw the highest national reefer rate ever recorded in DAT Trendlines , our weekly report on national spot market pricing and capacity trends. The high demand and tight truck load capacity has led to unprecedented numbers of reefer load posts on DAT load boards, North America's largest on-demand freight exchange.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 6, 2018

It’s been a long hot week here in Boston, and even though we had the 4th of July holiday tucked in the middle, I still feel like I need another break. The forecast calls for thunderstorms this morning and afternoon, which should bring down the temperatures a bit — and hopefully raise my energy level and brighten my mood too. In the meantime, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Trump launches opening salvo in US trade war as tariffs kick in.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JULY 6, 2018

Retailers have already made the buying decisions for what will be on the store shelves in the fall for Christmas holidays and if items aren’t imported before any possible tariffs go into effect, it will lead to “higher prices, a cut into consumer spending and a cut into consumer confidence," said the National Retail Federation. It may only be July, but Christmas is fast-approaching for U.S. retailers -- and the threat of an escalating trade war with China has industries that have so far been spa

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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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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 6, 2018

The past few weeks have seen a dizzying series of actions by President Trump against what he considers to be unfair treatment against the U.S. by China, Canada, Mexico and Europe. His statements have, of course, been met by threats of retaliation by those valued trading partners. With billions of dollars’ worth of international goods at stake, is the U.S. about to launch a full-scale trade war?

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