The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

With over 25 equipment types, not just Dry Van, Reefer and Flatbed, Farelanes provides truckload freight data analytics services for North America. Data Sources and Accuracy: Farelanes sources its data from trusted nationwide and custom geographic segments, ensuring accurate and transparent real-time pricing information.

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Descartes

JUNE 4, 2025

We’re excited for Bill to extend his leadership of our growth successes in North America to our global commercial operations,” said Mr. Ryan. Designated numbers are +1 289 514 5100 for North America and +1 800 717 1738 for international, using conference ID 26605. ET on Wednesday, June 4.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 30, 2021

CVSA-certified inspectors will commit a blitz of inspections across North America, creating a sudden strain on resources for both domestic and cross-border freight. The best way to avoid disruption is to source and have readily available resources to expand capacity at a moment’s notice.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 1, 2024

Samuel is Director of Product Marketing at DAT Freight & Analytics ‘ Shipper segment. DAT operates the largest truckload freight marketplace in North America. About Samuel Parker Samuel is the Associate Director for DAT Freight & Analytics’ Shipper segment.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Mark’s 35 years in transportation and logistics includes 17 years of experience with Transplace (now Uber Freight), where he held the position of Sr. An experience that was built by freight practitioners for freight practitioners. Freight Settlement Automation: Simplify and streamline freight payment process.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 14, 2023

Faced with the challenge of limited data availability, he co-founded Vizion, an API-first solution empowering cargo owners, freight forwarders, and software providers to achieve true supply chain visibility by tracking ocean freight in near real-time. Vizon provides multiple data sources for tracking containers across ocean and rail.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 28, 2024

The company said that it has already replaced 95 percent of the plastic air pillows with paper filler in North America and is working toward complete removal by year’s end. It is the company’s largest plastic packaging reduction effort in North America to date and will remove almost 15 billion plastic air pillows from use annually.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 29, 2021

For my company FourKites , quality data is core to everything we offer customers, from providing real-time transportation visibility to a host of more advanced data science-based capabilities, such as our patented methods for predicting ETAs for that freight with incredible accuracy. But data can and does go bad in many different ways.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 26, 2024

and global ports, with highly complex air freight systems suffering the heaviest hit, as global airlines grounded flights. and global ports, with highly complex air freight systems suffering the heaviest hit, as global airlines grounded flights. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2024

Case-in-point: my company FourKites will collaborate with 16 other supply chain industry leaders — including BlueYonder, e2open, Oracle, Uber Freight, and JB Hunt, to name a few — as part of the Scheduling Standards Consortium (SSC). The returns on these kinds of efforts will be swift and tangible.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

According to Mike O’Connell, Vice President of Supply Chain for Pepsi, the company owns one of the largest private fleets in North America, and that’s one of the reasons it has partnered with Tesla. As part of this collaboration, WattEV will provide electric trucking capacity to Uber Freight shippers, starting with CHEP.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2023

Freight rates have plummeted, brokerages are struggling, and the industry is still bloated with excess inventory. With the right data you can reduce your overall transportation costs, both accessorial costs and overall freight spend. Closer to home for supply chain professionals, driver shortages continue to plague the industry.

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Freightera

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

While passenger electric cars have seen widespread adoption, transitioning the freight industry to electric trucks has proven to be very challenging, for multiple reasons. EVs Face Serious Production Challenges Electric freight truck production is very different from traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic followed by supply chain disruptions around the world has sparked a resurgence of companies bringing sourcing and manufacturing back to the United States or closer to U.S. Companies are coping with rising costs to source and produce goods in China and other Asian locales. trade with Asia.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

In North America, 81% of consumers said they would stop buying products from brands they learned were harming the environment. The Demand for Carbon Accounting The push for sustainability isn’t new, but it has reached a tipping point. Retailers are following suit. Yee Chow is global head of strategy and implementation at Zevero.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Real-time transportation visibility platforms tell shippers and their broker/carrier partners where their freight is at any point on its journey. And for our global supply chains, that transformation cannot happen fast enough. The ROI will only multiply with visibility into supplies and goods from end to end.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Demand sensing involves the use of the external data sources – particularly the latest sales and market data – to improve short-term forecasting and then be able to use that improved understanding of consumer behavior to improve their supply planning. Mars Wrigley is achieving success in North America with this solution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Likewise, labor can’t do its thing when there are severe equipment shortages, and rectifying those shortages requires difficult-to-source raw materials. It was recently reported that one of the world’s biggest container logistics companies, Maersk, will only handle cargo from direct shippers, cutting out freight forwarders.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 11, 2025

Brian Grass - Chief Financial Officer We also began dual sourcing more of our production and are now intensifying those efforts even further. We began to build out our internal Southeast Asia sourcing capabilities to accelerate supplier transitions out of China and in many cases dual source our production. billion to $1.6

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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. XPO Logistics to Acquire 3PD, the Largest Provider of Heavy Goods, Last-Mile Logistics in North America. In this week’s news, new products and services and a couple of acquisitions top the list.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

For instance, Maersk and CMA CGM are building end-to-end logistics capability chains, while over USD 6bn was invested by VC investors in freight marketplaces alone through 2019. Source: US Census Bureau. Conversely, new players like Amazon and Alibaba have revolutionized not only the retail but also the logistics industry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2022

Chipotle Mexican Grill says its goal to source and sell chicken that’s certified as humanely raised has been delayed because its suppliers weren’t able to make the necessary changes without disrupting supply. Israel Aircraft Industries is remodeling older Air Canada passenger jets to carry heavy freight.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

JUNE 25, 2020

Will the trend toward a return to “regional manufacturing” boost volumes in over the road transportation in North America as manufacturers move away from Asian overseas operations? Instead, these organizations would be able to move freight over the road, via rail and multimodal carriers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Carriers, freight forwarders, and shippers that were dealing with the China to North America trade lanes were already operating in crisis mode. In terms of trade, these are not critical, single-sourced Tier 1 inputs needed in manufacturing. Because of this, they are predicting rates will skyrocket for Ocean and Air.

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Freightera

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Freightera CEO Eric Beckwitt Shares His Insights on the Current Green Energy Trends in North America. Here are 9 green trends apparent in the North American industries: 1) Rapid advancement in automation will increase manufacturing within North America. 2) Nearshoring and sourcing locally is becoming more popular.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 22, 2021

Adam Compain is the Founder & CEO of ClearMetal, a software company that specializes in international freight visibility, dynamic planning, and customer experience. And for 21 years, Adam has been the Executive Director of the nonprofit he founded to export charitable goods from North America. About Adam Compain.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Thanks to container prices rising as much as 600%, money that could be used for advertising went to freight companies instead. 28% of global retailers have tried to find alternative sourcing options due to supply chain issues (RetailNext, 2020). Source: Consultancy.UK. Image source: Fortune. Image source: Financial Times.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2021

In total, the company will source enough renewable energy in Europe to power the equivalent of more than two million homes a year. As of June 2020, Amazon sourced about 42 percent of its global energy needs from renewables. It will be on highway and surface streets, hauling actual freight.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Kimberly-Clark leveraged Blue Yonder Transportation Management to achieve significant freight cost reductions and operational efficiencies. Blue Yonder transportation management immediately began generating up to $14 million a year in freight cost reductions in North America compared to our previous manual methods.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 10, 2025

For smaller fashion brands, as highlighted by Glossy , the financial burden of tariffs can be especially acute, often forcing them to absorb higher costs or shift their sourcing strategies entirely. Steve Carpenter is chief operating officer of Creditsafe North America.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2025

Flock Freight Secures $60 Million in Series E Funding Flock Freight , described as the largest Shared Truckload (STL) freight brokerage in the United States, has raised $60 million in its Series E funding round. This Series A round brings total funding to $43 million to-date.

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Parade

JANUARY 27, 2022

San Francisco, CA — January 27, 2022 — Parade, the leader in carrier access and the truckload capacity management platform software for freight brokers, announces an alliance offering brokers more access to additional capacity via AI Fleet’s exceptional technology for over-the-road truckload. “AI Parade connects us with high-quality brokers.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 25, 2025

Reported May 20 Let me take a moment to comment on our global sourcing strategy. Today, more than 50% of our purchases are sourced in the United States. During that period, the vast majority of our supplier partners developed diversified sourcing strategies across several countries, including the United States.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The first response, from Anders Lillevik, Global Head of Procurement Support Services, QBE North America, provided a very interesting perspective: “I’ve been doing procurement for a long time, in many different companies. And we follow a pattern: you do an assessment, a sourcing wave, build a process, and do it over and over.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

History of Alliances in Container Shipping Source: Port Economics, Management and Policy What are Global Shipping Alliances (GSAs) in the shipping industry? The alliance was formed in 2014 and covers major shipping routes between Asia, Europe, and North America. How alliances in the shipping industry might impact shippers?

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Kevin Hill and Joe Lynch discuss the freight brokerage market. Kevin is the owner of Brush Pass Research , a sales and marketing research firm that helps companies sell to freight brokerages across North America. He is also the host of Put That Coffee Down, a popular freight sales show on FreightWavesTV.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

In going door to door trying to sell a Freight Management service, as well as in my experience working in companies, I have had the opportunity to see a variety of ways in which companies, large and small, were managing their Freight and Logistics spend. Freight and Logistics. You must manage Freight and Logistics.

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