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7 Ways to Strategically Elevate Freight Procurement

Talking Logistics

Transportation has followed the same evolutionary pattern, moving upstream from day-to-day freight transactions to an integral component of top-level corporate planning and procurement strategy. Going forward, it is vital that shippers analyze their freight spend and if required renegotiate their rates regularly to remain competitive.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

Amazon announces new changes to inventory limits. Earth Day roundup: companies announce sustainability goals. BrightDrop And FedEx set new Guinness World Record. Bank of America sounding the alarm on collapsing freight demand. California readies regulations for zero-emission truck fleets.

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Logistics in the City

Enterra Insights

Studies have shown that ridesharing services add to traffic congestion in cities and, increasingly, thanks to consumers using the digital path to purchase, delivery vehicles are creating all sorts of problems. Calvert reports some cities, like New York, are trying to encourage the use of cargo bikes. ”[2]. .”[3]

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The Beginning of the Beginning: A Progress Report on the Digitisation of Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

An indication for this belief is the level of fundraising reached by digital players like Flock Freight, a trucking platform and project44, a supply chain visibility platform, which reached US$113.5 After seven years of intense research, a new discipline was launched: Maritime Informatics. million and US$100 million respectively.

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Why investors are looking at supply chain technologies in 2020

Requis

You’re going to need to buy more machinery, etc., But if the pitch is around, ‘we have to deploy this because it’s accurately going to predict what’s going to happen for our customers, because if we don’t they’re going to buy from another company’—that will work.”. Excellent potential. and so you have costs going up.”.

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How to be Productive during the Global Lockdown: The ThroughPut Playbook to Maintain your Output Levels

ThroughPut

California has over 40 million people on lockdown with New York following suit today. As of right now, top lines have been essentially wiped out for industries like air transportation, freight, gastronomy, tourism, travel, and many more. The deaths in Italy have surpassed those in China. Expected output gains: Intangible.