The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Erika Voss and Joe Lynch discuss taking the uncertainty and risk out of freight. Erika is Vice President of Information Security at DAT Freight & Analytics, the largest truckload freight marketplace in North America. Erika holds a Ph.D.

Optimal Sourcing

GlobalTranz

AUGUST 1, 2025

A reliable third-party logistics (3PL) provider can help you create a secure, resilient shipping strategy that safeguards your freight — and your peace of mind. In this blog, we analyze the causes of cargo theft, why it's on the rise and how your business can prevent it with the help of a proactive 3PL provider!

3PL

The Network Effect

JULY 11, 2025

Skip to content The Network Effect Beyond Supply Chains Menu Home Business Networks Supply Chain Management Logistics Resilience AI About Submit a Post Rethinking Defense Supply Chains with Network-Based Command Centers July 11, 2025 Michael Bruens Defense , Supply Chain Management This post has already been read 125 times!

Supply Chain Network Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

To thrive under these constraints, shippers need a playbook designed specifically for them — or they need to partner with a logistics provider that has thought them through. This control is particularly useful if you’re shipping specialized freight. It takes profound creativity to navigate this lane effectively.

Hawaii

Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 31, 2025

This type of solution is designed to handle the complexity of today’s logistics challenges, generating optimized pallet configurations in seconds while accounting for real-world constraints like product size, weight, stacking rules, and shipping regulations. Is It time to modernize your palletization process?

Warehousing

Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

How to Reduce Carbon Emissions in Your Supply Chain 1. For example, switching from air to ocean freight for non-time sensitive shipments can reduce carbon emissions by up to 95% per unit shipped. How can we help? The difficulty many businesses now face, is understanding where to start. Through network optimization.

Material Savings

Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 16, 2025

The realm of Supply Chain and Logistics myths is no different. Here are more details, along with a thorough debunking of each of the Supply Chain and Logistics Myths. The Supply Chain is 100% Automated While automation plays a substantial role in the production of millions of products, the logistics chain is far from automated.

Supply Chain Software

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Driven by omni-channel growth and multinational expansion, the global logistics industry is booming — and it’s expected to reach $18 trillion in value by 2030. Given today’s demand volatility and economic uncertainty, companies are wise to approach any internal logistics expansion plans with extreme caution.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

ThroughPut

JULY 9, 2025

Behind the scenes of every successful business lies a well-orchestrated machine made up of four critical functions: supply chain, logistics, transportation, and operations. In this in-depth guide, we break down what each function really means, how they interact, where they overlap, and what sets them apart. What Is Logistics?

Optimal Sourcing

Freight Plus

MARCH 11, 2025

The 2025 NMFC changes are set to impact freight classification and pricing structures for shippers across various industries. The National Motor Freight Classification (NMFC) system determines freight classes based on key factors such as density, handling, stowability, and liability. What’s Changing?

Freight

Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Knowing how to negotiate with Chinese suppliers is a critical skill for British businesses aiming to import goods. Navigating Logistics: The Role of Freight Forwarding in Importing from China Working with a freight forwarder is a smart move when importing from China to the UK. Importing From China! The Essential Guide!

Negotiate Pricing

Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2025

Logistics OpsAgent: The solution helps logistics teams monitor conditions and recommend route changes to prevent delivery disruptions, as well as automate appointment scheduling changes. The company provides supply chain teams and logistics service providers (LSPs) with accredited emissions measurement and reporting capabilities.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 29, 2025

A New Approach to Supply Chain Management Logistics and supply chain leaders know their supply chains need to be more agile, ready to withstand everything from a global pandemic to geopolitical conflict. Enhancing transparency and collaboration with suppliers, customers, and logistics partners. They need to design them.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Freight Plus

MAY 13, 2025

How to Improve Your Retailer Scorecard Improving your scorecard starts with identifying the root causes of missed metrics and taking clear action to correct them. Implement Real-Time Shipment Visibility Freight visibility tools help you monitor shipments and respond quickly to delays. Was it a packaging issue? A scheduling problem?

Optimal Sourcing

SCMDOJO

JULY 2, 2025

The global logistics industry undergoes transformative change because of technological developments which enhance delivery services from last-mile operations to worldwide freight management. The Need for Customization in Logistics The IMARC Group predicts the global logistics market will achieve $15.5

Supply Chain Design Software

Freight Waves

JULY 23, 2025

The event’s agenda was packed with sessions featuring major industry players: Freight and Economic Overview Thom Albrecht, Chief Revenue Officer at Reliance Partners, opened with a discussion on the state of the industry and economy at large. Here are a few testimonials from this year’s attendees: “ This year’s event was truly spectacular!

Nashville

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 25, 2025

As a logistics provider, your business is the backbone of global trade, ensuring goods move efficiently from suppliers to customers. In this guide, you’ll learn the key steps to securing your logistics business in an increasingly digital world. Subscribe Avoiding these 6 Cybersecurity Tips Might Harm Your Business!

Risk Management

Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 10, 2025

7 Things to Consider When Looking for a Business Warehouse Streamlining the warehouse build process is crucial for businesses aiming to enhance their logistics and storage capabilities efficiently. The post How to Streamline the Warehouse Build Process! Article and permission to publish here provided by Claire Glassman.

Warehousing

Freight Waves

JUNE 19, 2025

Freight fraud has emerged as one of the most rapidly growing and financially devastating risks in today’s global supply chain landscape. Enter Overhaul’s FraudWatch , a winner of the 2025 FreightWaves Fraud Fighter Awards, which has revolutionized the approach to freight security.

Freight

BlueYonder

JANUARY 23, 2025

Only advanced TMS solutions, enhanced by AI, can effectively model, anticipate and prevent disruptions, enabling seamless navigation of the complexities in modern logistics. Manufacturers and retailers can minimize their risk, however, by incorporating carriers vehicle maintenance and safety records into their freight procurement decisions.

Supply Chain Planning Software

LSCMS

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Charting the Course to Sustainable Transportation: Our Journey to a Greener Future Introduction At LogiSYM Platinum in October, 2023, t he LSCMS Shippers Council recently hosted a round table event, bringing together key players in the logistics and supply chain management sectors to discuss the pivotal theme of sustainable transportation.

Sustainability

Freight Plus

JANUARY 15, 2025

From cost fluctuations to sustainability requirements, understanding and addressing these hurdles is essential for smooth logistics. These price changes can ripple through supply chains, affecting freight budgets and delivery schedules. Heres a breakdown of the most common obstacles and practical ways to navigate them effectively.

Material Savings

Freight Waves

JUNE 16, 2025

The major challenge faced by customers of real-time visibility data had always been how to operationalize what could quickly become overwhelming quantities of fast-changing information. This includes resolving issues autonomously, calling carriers, rerouting freight, and executing bookings.

Supply Chain Design Software

SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

While CPI is normally used within project management and earned value analysis, it has significant application and importance within supply chain contexts, particularly in procurement, logistics and warehousing. What contexts can it be used in and how, as well as the benefits of using cost performance index in supply chain contexts.

Negotiating Skills

3PL Insights

MAY 16, 2025

But when these machines aren’t in use or are in transit between facilities, they require a highly specialized logistics partner to ensure their safety, storage, and longevity. Robots as High-Value Assets Large industrial robots from robotic arms used in automotive production to full-scale mobile automation units are not ordinary freight.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

BlueYonder

APRIL 8, 2025

Supply chain and logistics teams today face a pivotal moment in their evolution. Legacy systems typically created blind spots beyond a company’s immediate operations, but digital networks now provide real-time transparency into supplier capacity and inventory, logistics partner capacity, and even shelf-level demand patterns.

Supply Chain Network Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 13, 2025

For a retailer, that might take the form of guidance as to where and how much to produce items, how to transport them, and where to position them in a manner that best reflects actual consumer demand.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 16, 2025

An Ever-Evolving Market The freight market has never been static, but lately, the pace of change feels faster and more consequential than ever. Disruptions, whether from extreme weather, geopolitical tension, or economic uncertainty, aren’t isolated events anymore; they’re recurring features of the freight landscape.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 9, 2025

Subscribe What’s the Difference Between Logistics and Distribution? The post How to Find the Right Electronic Components Distributor! In the world of electronics, the importance of selecting the right electronic components distributor cannot be overstated. Cover image by nanoslavic from Pixabay.

Electronics

Freight Waves

JULY 7, 2025

SONAR is proud to announce significant upgrades to its integration with Oracle Transportation Management (OTM), bringing real-time freight market intelligence directly into OTM workflows through a partnership with Redwood Connect. Any protocol. Any format. Any system.

Benchmarking

Precoro

AUGUST 1, 2025

Read on for more insights about pricing, the benefits of the should-cost model, tips on how to build one, and what software can automate the process. The should-cost model analyzes all associated costs—such as raw materials, labor, overhead, logistics, and profit margins—and builds up the ideal cost from scratch.

Negotiating Skills

Freight Waves

JUNE 7, 2025

Still Foggy at the Top – What the New Logistics Report Means for the Rest of Us For all the hope around trucking bouncing back, the new CSCMP “State of Logistics Report” just affirmed what most small carriers already feel: Things are still off. trillion on logistics last year. That’s 8.7% Prices could move again.

Purchasing Skills

Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 10, 2025

Whether you’re an experienced vending machine operator or wondering how to start a vending machine business , one key aspect that cannot be overlooked is the efficient delivery of goods to your vending locations. The post How to Efficiently Delivery Goods to Your Vending Machine Locations!

Inventory Reduction

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 14, 2025

Our latest e-book, Unlocking Fulfillment Potential, will introduce you to the recently launched Zebra Symmetry™ Fulfillment ecosystem, which was engineered specifically to boost your profits. You’ll discover a unique threefold strategy that enables workers to pick more items in less time with up to 30% fewer robots compared to legacy systems.

Cost Reduction Strategies

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 10, 2025

The Journey to Logistics Automation THE SUPPLYCHAINBRAIN PODCAST Podcast | Have a Good Trip! The Journey to Logistics Automation Photo: iStock / imaginima July 11, 2025 Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain If picking the right systems for automating logistics is a journey, how do you even get out the door?

Supply Chain Software

Zipline Logistics

MAY 12, 2025

Yet ANOTHER capacity crunch in the freight industry as consumers purchase beverages at the highest rate of the year. Beverage season in freight terms typically arrives in mid-to-late May and runs through mid-July. This causes other freight sectors to see spot-market rate increases as capacity moves with the demand of seasonal sales.

Beverage

Freight Waves

JULY 10, 2025

They connect capacity to freight when a shipper doesn’t have time to build direct relationships. But if you’re a small fleet trying to grow your business and secure long-term, profitable freight, depending on brokers will keep you running in circles. You just have to know how to position your business to deliver what brokers never can.

Real-time Visibility