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The Definitive Guide on Produce Season Transportation Impacts

Zipline Logistics

Produce season transportation can have an impact on your freight, even if you do not ship grains, fruits, or vegetables. Even if you don’t grow or ship produce, your transportation performance and spend can still be directly impacted. How Produce Season Transportation Affects Rates and Capacity – State by State.

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Driverless Trucks: Heading Somewhere or Nowhere Quickly?

Talking Logistics

Will there be a future for driverless trucks in logistics? Those are two of the most common questions I hear about driverless trucks, or to use the term preferred by the Department of Transportation, autonomous vehicles, which includes both cars and trucks. What impact will driverless trucks have on transportation management systems?

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What is Supply Chain Compliance and Why is it Important?

AB&R

Check out the graphic to the right to see an example of a barcode grading report. A non-compliant barcode means your vendors or partners may refuse items that don’t meet their standards, resulting in chargebacks and hefty fines. If you’re interested in having your barcode graded , fill out the form below to receive an email with instructions.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 7 – 13)

Logistics Viewpoints

My kids, for example, are always interested in getting their hands on the newest Guinness Book of World Records, and seeing what kind of crazy things are in there. And now on to this week’s logistics news. The post This Week in Logistics News (January 7 – 13) appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Competing in a diverse parcel market

Cathy Roberson

” UPS is also evaluating the possible sale of its truck brokerage service, Coyote Logistics, which it acquired in 2015. During UPS’ Q4 earnings call, Tome described Coyote Logistics’ business model as “highly cyclical” with considerable earnings volatility. Air Force according to an Amazon blog post.

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Supply Chain Design: Growing Scope, Community, and Collaboration

Talking Logistics

I moderated a panel discussion titled “Supply Chain Design Perspectives on Today’s Transportation Logistics Challenges” with representatives from Ryder, Wayfair, and LLamasoft (a Talking Logistics sponsor). In short, supply chain designers absolutely need a community to support their continued growth and development.”.

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How Robot Implementation Impacts Manufacturing Plant Productivity

Locus Robotics

Factories in manufacturing sectors around the world are already implementing robots in production, inspection, picking, warehousing, and logistics processes. For example, the historic automotive company General Motors (GM) was one of the first manufacturing plants to benefit from robots. Robots maximize production throughput.