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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Last night, I took my 13-year-old son to see the movie Air, which tells the story of how Nike pursued basketball rookie Michael Jordan in 1984 to sign with the company. That move, and Michael Jordan’s incredible talent and business acumen, has turned the Jordan brand into a multi-billion-dollar business. Inventories at U.S.

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Smart Mobility Projects: Shaping the Future of Logistics

TMC

Groundbreaking approaches to logistics management are being developed in urban centers around the world. Department of Transportation (DOT) projects that freight volumes in the United States will increase by more than 40% over the next 30 years. The state will test a new communications system in the busy I-80 freight corridor.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 4-8, 2013)

Talking Logistics

As was confirmed for me yet again this week at a conference, the most utilized supply chain and logistics application, the reigning champ of them all, is the Excel spreadsheet. XPO Logistics Announces Third Quarter Earnings 2013. XPO Logistics Announces Third Quarter Earnings 2013. As the saying goes, old habits die hard.

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Smart Mobility Projects: Shaping the Future of Logistics

TMC

Groundbreaking approaches to logistics management are being developed in urban centers around the world. Department of Transportation (DOT) projects that freight volumes in the United States will increase by more than 40% over the next 30 years. The state will test a new communications system in the busy I-80 freight corridor.

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COVID-19 accelerates four trends and changes within global supply chains

Proxima

As the pandemic began, companies and suppliers were forced to change their playbooks and rely on new methods of innovation, high road networking and asset stabilization to keep their logistics moving forward. According to MarketWatch , the logistics automation market totaled $49.2 Growth of automation. billion by 2024.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

Just-in-time (JIT) inventory management became crucial to the nation’s meteoritic industrial growth, including Toyota’s eclipsing North American and European automakers as the world’s largest automakers for their time. Gravity regularly uses the data of third-party logistics (3PLs) providers. A world transformed.

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Three Mega Trends Driving Supply Chain Transformations

TMC

We recently participated in two conferences that both focused on this topic: Transparency 18 , a freight visibility summit hosted by FreightWaves, and the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference —Move to Mastery: Innovate, Disrupt, and Scale the Digital Supply Chain. This post is credited to Jordan Kass. So why does this matter?