GlobalTranz

JULY 21, 2025

Whether you're shipping less-than-truckload (LTL) or truckload (TL) freight , one document keeps your shipment moving smoothly: the bill of lading (BOL). More than just paperwork, it serves as a contract, a receipt and a key legal reference throughout your freight's journey. Getting it right ensures your freight moves smoothly.

Freight

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 21, 2025

In April, freight company HLS Group reported 80 canceled sailings from China as trade tensions with the U.S. To keep operations and supply chains stable amid the volatility of today’s global trade dynamics, companies need a freight strategy that can flex under pressure. intensified. That means going multimodal.

Freight

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2025

tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China is impacting global trade networks, affecting industries ranging from automotive and electronics to agriculture and energy. Cold storage warehouses are experiencing congestion, as food producers attempt to delay shipments until trade tensions ease. Today’s escalation of U.S.

Mexico

GlobalTranz

JULY 7, 2025

It's a collaborative relationship that can streamline and elevate your freight shipping operations. This blog provides tips and resources on how to lay the foundation for a long-term, productive and cost-effective 3PL freight services partnership! Are we using the optimal mix of freight shipping modes for our needs?

3PL

Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 2, 2025

In the past, tracking a shipping container across continents or monitoring the temperature of a pharmaceutical package in a rural warehouse came with trade-offs: cost, power drain, or unreliable coverage. And that practicality is unlocking a new standard of visibility across logistics networks. This is changing.

Supply Chain Design Software

TransAudit

MARCH 25, 2025

This trend, known as reshoring , is driving the emergence of regionalized freight networks , optimizing supply chains for efficiency, cost savings, and resilience. For logistics professionals, understanding how these changes impact freight networks is critical to staying ahead.

Supply Chain Network Software

BlueYonder

APRIL 8, 2025

The convergence of artificial intelligence and digital networking technologies is fundamentally reshaping our operating models. The complexity of modern supply networks has surpassed what humans can effectively manage alone. First, we’re moving from sequential to concurrent planning and execution.

Supply Chain Network Software

GlobalTranz

MARCH 26, 2025

It's rapidly gaining popularity in the freight shipping world as businesses look to cut costs and streamline their logistics operations. Whether you're fulfilling large freight shipments or smaller orders, blind shipping offers several key advantages that can enhance your logistics strategy and drive your business forward.

Waste Reduction

Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2025

In addition, other infrastructure repairs which impact freight transportation in and around Ashville, North Carolina are still not completed. The logistics, supply chain, freight transportation, warehousing, and inventory management sectors often operate on razor-thin margins. This is true for regulated electric utilities too.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 2, 2025

Labor shortages in warehousing persist as a significant issue, with a vacancy rate of 7.4%. The report mentions the freight recession, but is largely silent on the impact on business resiliency. Value Networks. Why are we not pushing for interoperability between networks? What is the fog? Trading Partner Improvement.

Optimal Sourcing

Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 5, 2025

V2X allows vehicles to exchange data with their environment: other vehicles, traffic signals, the cloud, 5G networks, and pedestrians. Whether refining freight logistics efficiency at port terminals or enhancing last-mile delivery in urban neighborhoods, V2X adds intelligence to every vehicle interaction.

Supply Chain Network Software

Freight Waves

JUNE 27, 2025

Warehouse automation appears to be gaining traction despite prior forecasts of a dip in market growth for autonomous mobile robots. Inventory and network optimization technologies are also predicted to see an increase in adoption from 58% to 92% over the next five years. Over the past three years, DHL Group has invested over $1.17

Supply Chain Software

Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2025

If youve followed our blog over the years, youll know that weve shared lots of information about distribution network design, why its vital to get it right, how long it should take, the importance of reviewing the network every so often, and various elements of design such as determining the number of warehouses and where to locate them.

Network Design Software

GlobalTranz

MARCH 18, 2025

If so, optimizing your inventory management strategy can be a game-changer. Below, we outline three ways blind shipping can help optimize your logistics, keep inventories healthy and save you money! Grow Without the Need for More Warehousing As your business expands, the need for more warehouse space often follows.

Inventory Reduction

GlobalTranz

APRIL 15, 2025

Below, we provide nine tips to optimize your shipping and tell you how a third-party logistics (3PL) provider can help you during these difficult times. This may include efforts such as sourcing new vendors and route optimization, while long-term strategies should focus on building supply chain resilience against future tariff fluctuations.

Material Savings

Freight Waves

JUNE 16, 2025

Los Angeles-based tech logistics company Warp announced Friday it has secured a $10 million Series A round to scale its AI-powered freight network via robotics and automation. The company currently has a national network of 50 cross-docks and over 10,000 carrier vehicles ranging from cargo vans to 53-footers. It redefines it.

Supply Chain Software

Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2025

As logistics networks become increasingly complex, the volume of real-time data generated by devices, equipment, vehicles, and facilities is growing rapidly. Even with local processing, network variability, particularly in remote warehouses, ports, and along mobile routes, can still cause small but impactful delays.

Real-time Visibility

Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 19, 2025

The warehouse, meanwhile, has been elevated from afterthought to a central player, as new demands and responsibilities are placed on supply chains — from small-batch wave picking and reverse logistics to deeper supplier collaboration, and tariff and sustainability compliance. Just be prepared for anything and keep going.

Warehousing

Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In response, major freight operators have recently acquired advanced battery technology firms to accelerate fleet electrification. Digital Transformation Digitalization is fundamentally reshaping logistics operations, from warehouse management to last-mile delivery.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

But what exactly is a supply chain network? Just as social networks have existed for centuries (long before social media platforms!), so too have supply chain networks. Digital social media platforms when first introduced made it much easier for us to communicate and collaborate with our social networks.

Supply Chain Network Software

Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2025

Multi-enterprise: The One Network acquisition, announced in 2024, extends capabilities across multiple companies and tiers in the supply chain. It also identifies ways to optimize transport costs, on-time deliveries, and emissions. Network Ops Agent: This enables supply chain monitoring across a multi-enterprise network.

Supply Chain Design Software

ThroughPut

JULY 9, 2025

Pro Tip: Think of the supply chain as a value network — it’s about collaboration, data sharing, and synchronization across partners. It includes everything from managing transportation providers to optimizing warehouse layouts, picking and packing, and even handling customs paperwork. What Is Transportation?

Optimal Sourcing

Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2025

An efficient supply chain strategy is one that takes every aspect of your supply chain into account, from inventory management and warehouse design to freight tendering and transport optimisation. Transport Fleet Optimization Fleet optimisation is one of those areas where companies leave money on the table.

Supply Chain Design Software

BlueYonder

OCTOBER 31, 2024

They need new trucks, new warehousing space, new micro-fulfillment facilities — but high interest rates and rising real estate prices make them reluctant to invest. As freight carrier rates and fuel prices rise, and competition for customers heats up, their margins are shrinking. Both carriers and LSPs are exiting the U.S.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

As supply chains become more complex and globalized, many companies find it beneficial to rely on third-party logistics (3PL) providers to handle some or all of their transportation, warehousing, distribution, and fulfillment needs. This can help streamline supply chain processes, improve visibility, and assist in planning and optimization.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 21, 2025

Optimizing costs – Efficient sourcing, logistics, and inventory management improve profit margins – crucial as startups seek profitability. Supply chain optimization enhances the bottom line. Predictive analytics – AI and machine learning improve demand forecasting for optimal inventory and production levels.

Optimal Sourcing

ModusLink Corporation

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Capacity Constraints in Warehousing and Transportation Warehousing capacities are often pushed to their limits. Similarly, transportation networks face increased strain due to higher shipping volumes, which can result in delays and rising freight costs. Regular staff often work overtime, impacting both costs and morale.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 17, 2025

In one case, a leading Japanese consumer goods company with over 40 brands and 600 products struggled to maintain a vast network of vending machines accounting for over half of its sales. Teams are more transparent and closely connected, further improving efficiency when responding to an event.

Sourcing Strategies

Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Transportation Networks and Modal Shifts A good transportation strategy is one of the best ways to reduce emissions. Through network optimization. This means consolidating shipments to max out load factors, using route optimization algorithms to minimize distance travelled, and shifting to lower emission transport modes.

Material Savings

Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 4, 2025

Third-party logistics (3PL) providers can handle everything from warehousing and returns to international order fulfillment — and the UK is home to some of the most renowned 3PL companies in the world. Customers say: “Moving warehouses is always quite stressful and when we decided to finally make the jump, J&J made it so smooth for us.

Third Party Logistics

RFgen

MARCH 10, 2025

While some warehouses overflow, others sit nearly empty, creating a frustrating paradox of excess and scarcity. This critical aspect of optimization is often overshadowed by flashier supply chain trends. Challenges in Stock Balancing Maintaining the optimal balance of inventory across a distributed network is a complex undertaking.

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 16, 2025

At Optimal Dynamics’ recent Transportation Leadership Strategy Session, 25 industry peers gathered to exchange perspectives on how we’re all adapting to these pressures. An Ever-Evolving Market The freight market has never been static, but lately, the pace of change feels faster and more consequential than ever.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 22, 2025

The recent wave of tariffs introduced by the U.S. and other global players goes beyond policy change to the point where it is structurally transforming international trade as we know it.

Price Reduction

Freight Waves

JUNE 22, 2025

The Laredo location functions as a hub for cross-border operations, enabling Evans Transportation to provide logistics solutions such as dry van, flatbed, oversize freight, intermodal, transloading, warehousing and supply chain management. Dubai-based DP World recently opened a freight forwarding office in Mexico City.

Mexico

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 14, 2025

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Cost Reduction Strategies

RFgen

JULY 8, 2025

Mobile tools, integrated sensors, and predictive systems enhance both day-to-day performance and long-term risk management by providing data that supports faster, more accurate decisions across warehouse and production environments. Warehouse and factory floor actions are scanned once and pushed instantly to a cloud-based dashboard.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Brain

JULY 24, 2025

AI-driven decision intelligence will be critical for faster optimization of business processes, coupled with better and more precise decision-making at all operational and tactical levels, but how does it work? Industry experts see increasing use of generative, agentic and predictive AI.

Supply Chain Planning Software