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

Freightos

The journey to digitize freight, while initially off to a slow start, has gained momentum in the last two or three years. They’re licensed to be an ocean freight forwarder, and they’ve bought some aircraft and an airport; and of course they are a huge warehousing player. Online freight booking. They’re coming.

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8 Things to Know in Shipping, Freight, Logistics & Supply Chain this Week

Intelligent Audit

This is excellent news for everyone in freight accounting as companies struggle to increase profit margins that have narrowed amidst increasing fuel surcharges. . FreightWaves reported that trucking companies are mainly concerned with finding and retaining quality employees as the baby boomer generation continues to retire out of the field.

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CSR Initiatives in the Global Supply Chain

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Early in the pandemic, the company organized an airlift of two flights per week to deliver several hundred million masks from China to France. Being in the logistics and transportation industry, we recognize our responsibility in preserving air quality, fighting climate change and accelerating energy transition. pandemic response.

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Doing Business in Italy

QAD

Border countries include Austria, France, Vatican City, San Marino, Slovenia and Switzerland. Much of Italy’s industry focuses on high-quality consumer goods and luxury brands, many produced by small, family-owned and mid-sized companies. . Transportation options are abundant and of good quality in Italy. Manufacturing in Italy.

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InSight, InControl: Real-time position and quality monitoring for production material transports

SupplyOn

Sea freight is one big black hole: while a container is at sea, the materials planner generally has to spend weeks trusting blindly that it will arrive at the port on schedule. This is even more true if the transport is intermodal, i.e. where land, air and sea freight are combined. This significantly optimizes the procurement process.

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Eco-Responsible Rail-Freight

Global Trade Management

On this subject, only rail freight can claim to have a low environmental footprint. However, slightly resting on its “CO2” laurels, rail freight has never really brought forward all of its other societal and environmental assets. Rail freight is, in this sense, one of the biggest winners of eco-responsible transport.

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4 Ways to Lift Manufacturing Productivity: The MFP Approach

Unleashed

To put that another way: by the time a business in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan or the United States gets to Thursday they have produced, on average, what the UK needs a full Monday-Friday to do. Quality-adjusted labour input. Because they demand higher wages — and quality-adjusted labour input takes staff costs into account.