Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2013

Con-way Freight Raises the Bar on Mexico Service, Adds Door-to-Door Tracking, 24-Hour Customer Resource Center, Enhanced Web Tools. LLamasoft Launches Data Services to Provide Reference Data for the Supply Chain Design Community. XPO Logistics to Acquire 3PD, the Largest Provider of Heavy Goods, Last-Mile Logistics in North America.

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Freightera

MARCH 1, 2022

Freightera CEO wins award for elegant marketplace solution for businesses, reducing shipping cost and CO2 emissions from freight transportation. Starting in North America, Freightera is automating freight transportation, making shipping easy, accessible, and green. ” About The Globe and Mail . About Freightera.

Canada 43

Canada North America Supply Chain Software Material Savings 43

Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

Overhead refers to the ongoing business expenses not directly attributed to creating a product or service. The company has 11 production facilities across North America and China. Freight costs and capital intensity are 10 to 15% lower—and customer delivery penalties and missed sales are 40 to 50% lower.

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SupplyPike

JANUARY 21, 2019

Freight and parcel shipping. What is Freight? Freight is defined as commercial goods or cargo carried across land, sea, or air. There are several types of freight including truck, rail, air, ocean (vessel), and pipeline. Check out the graph below for the breakdown, in billions, by freight mode.) Image source.

Shipping 48

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Supply Chain Collaborator

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

“Spot Market Freight Indices Continue Surge to Three-Year Highs”. These three headlines from Transport Topics and Food Shippers of America magazine tell the story of one of the most important challenges facing shippers in North America leading into 2018. The Value in Orchestrating a Scheduled Transportation Plan”.

Just-in-Time 60

Just-in-Time Negotiating Skills Transportation Purchasing Skills 60

SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2024

Amazon’s Virtuous Circle One of the key elements of Amazon’s logistics strategy is what they refer to as the “virtuous circle.” billion (net profit) Profit by Region/Country: North America is a major market, followed by Europe and Asia. References [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

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Zipline Logistics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This notion rings especially true with CPG shippers since the freight requires higher service levels than other non-time-sensitive freight to arrive at its destination on time. Specialized logistics, in this instance, refers to a firm’s hyper-focus on a specific industry, niche, customer base, or organizational strategy.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 13, 2022

Fast moving forward into 2022 ongoing widespread congestions in ports, container shortages, and volatile shifts in demand for goods from Western economies causing freight rates to skyrocket ended up adding extreme pressure on the main cost drivers of the ocean side of the supply chains and beyond. Supply Chain KPI Dashboard.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

Let’s dream of a world where we don’t rely on email to tender 90 percent of TL freight! At first, everyone will struggle with communication protocols and data sets (reference numbers and fields being used differently by each carrier and such), but these issues can be overcome with the right technology.

Transportation 105

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Rickenbacker International Airport was a bustling hub for air freight well before the pandemic—a day’s truck drive to half of the U.S. International freight being unloaded at Rickenbacker airport. a digital freight forwarder. population, so the slogan goes. Photographer: Megan Jelinger/Getty Images. from 2020 and a 5.4%

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 29, 2016

Robinson Opens Second Air Freight Screening Facility. November 2015 North American Freight Numbers. The facility is tied directly to Navisphere®, the company’s global technology platform, allowing customers to track their freight before, during, and after the CCSF.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Con-way Truckload and Con-way Multimodal Join Forces to Launch New Intermodal Service for North America. CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. Robinson Introduces Navisphere App for Customers. Robinson load numbers.

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Freightera

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Deglobalization will accelerate, and reshoring and localization of manufacturing will continue 2023 has seen a severe freight recession, especially in North America, with significant overcapacity and declining rates for ocean shipping as well. He was a speaker at COP22, the UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakesh.

Sustainability 40

Sustainability Manufacturing Procurement Trends North America 40

DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In fact, there were more load posts on DAT Load Boards from January through September 2015 than in any other year except 2014 -- which was an exceptional year in freight transportation. Reference rates (above) include fuel surcharges but not accessorial or other fees. What's different this year? The Hot State Map for the week of Oct.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 28, 2020

Produce season transportation can have an impact on your freight, even if you do not ship grains, fruits, or vegetables. Peak produce shipping season refers to the time period when the largest volume of fruits and vegetables are harvested and subsequently shipped to markets across the US, impacting truck capacity. North Carolina.

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Supply Chain Network

OCTOBER 24, 2015

Furthermore, DSV will now be truly global within contract logistics and expand into road freight activities outside Europe. The combined companies will have a more balanced geographical footprint with approximately 61% of revenue in Europe, Middle East and North Africa, 17% in Americas, 16% in Asia (APAC) and 6% in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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DAT Solutions

AUGUST 11, 2015

Spot market freight volume is soft, and capacity is loose. There are more freight brokers entering the market than there were last year. Freight availability declined on the spot market in July. Services don't generate as much freight as manufacturing, but they contribute to employment, which seems to be recovering.

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Supply Chain Network

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The transaction will enhance XPO’s range of supply chain solutions by making XPO the second largest less-than-truckload (LTL) provider in North America, and will expand the company’s global contract logistics platform. XPO and Con-way both have e-fulfillment contract logistics platforms in North America and Europe.

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Logistics Network Optimization Software Material Savings North America Logistics 60

Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For reference, here are the top types of residential surcharges that may all be combined for any given shipment. To learn more about saving costs associated with surcharges, and the benefits of freight auditing, request a consultation with Intelligent Audit today. Yet, the costs keep rising and growing more complex.

Packaging 52

Packaging North America Shipping Supply Chain Network Software 52

6 River Systems

APRIL 4, 2019

“Tightening capacity requires a more ‘connected’ broker…” While freight growth is forecast to slow in 2019, truckload capacity will remain tight, largely driven by a tight labor market, new regulations and other factors. They have data all over; a lot of big logistic companies are referring data as new oil.

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Abivin

DECEMBER 5, 2022

These routes are typically found connecting important marketplaces with active commercial trade systems, such as Western Europe, North America, and East Asia. Services to the East Coast of North America from Asia and transit through the Suez Canal have grown in recent years and now make up more than 15% of the traffic it handles.

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Tailwind

JUNE 14, 2016

Driving to work this morning, in my alter ego role as the ‘grand fromage’ at a Software–as-a-Service’ (SaaS) company that provides trucking software and freight brokerage software to companies across North America, it struck me that we were very much using the same approach in our business, as I do at home with my boys.

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Tailwind

JUNE 14, 2016

Driving to work this morning, in my alter ego role as the ‘grand fromage’ at a Software–as-a-Service’ (SaaS) company that provides trucking software and freight brokerage software to companies across North America, it struck me that we were very much using the same approach in our business, as I do at home with my boys.

Modeling Software 28

Modeling Software Pricing Training Purchasing Training Procurement Solutions 28