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The Ultimate Guide to Contract Logistics: What You Need to Know

SCMDOJO

The Netherlands: The Logistics Hub of Northern Europe The Netherlands stands as a logistics hub for the whole of Europe due to several factors. The Netherlands offers a robust infrastructure, comprising not only road networks but also rail and water transportation, including short sea and deep sea routes.

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Doing Business in Belgium

QAD

The Kingdom of Belgium achieved its independence from the Netherlands in 1830, and has become an admired modern country, well-known as the home of international organizations such as NATO and the EU. The seven registered air freight carriers in Belgium carried 1.4 billion metric tons of goods in 2015. Manufacturing in Belgium.

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Technology Scores a Goal but Humans Still Control the Game

CH Robinson Transportfolio

How about soccer balls embedded with sensors to measure key metrics? Freight flows have become faster and the margin for error has shrunk dramatically, making real time or near real time tracking systems a competitive necessity. Tracking data is used in the measurement of key metrics and to analyze performance.

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YARD MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Questionnaire

The Lean Supply Chain

RTLS also enables management to monitor yard operations’ key performance indicators (KPIs) based on quantifiable productivity metrics measured by the actions of the yard trucks. It helps eliminate “Dead Heads” or trucks leaving or coming back without freight aboard the truck, which is very costly to a company. Red Prairie.

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The Top 10 Manufacturing Blog Posts from 2014

GlobalTranz

Today, we kick off our annual year end series highlighting the top blog posts in each of our 7 main categories: Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Logistics , 3PL , Business , Transportation , Freight. Finally, the top 10 list was rounded out safety and metrics. These will only contain posts written in 2014. Read Full Post. Read Full Post.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 13-17, 2018)

Talking Logistics

With parcel becoming a growing part of virtually every company’s transportation operations, gaining more real-time visibility to delivery status and other metrics is critically important. Any Parcel capacity providers not already on the network can be integrated in just two short weeks, free of charge.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Many metrics can be used to determine the top 3PL warehousing companies, such as company revenue, the number of warehouses, total warehouse square footage , etc. This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. Kuehne + Nagel Inc.