Talking Logistics

JANUARY 29, 2016

Robinson Opens Second Air Freight Screening Facility. November 2015 North American Freight Numbers. rural vs. city environment, developed vs. emerging countries, inside the warehouse or yard vs. public airspace). And with that, it’s time to pick up my mom at the train station. Moving on to 3PL news, C.H.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Click the links below to compare this year's innovations to those from previous years: Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2017 : exoskeletons, autonomous forklifts, flying warehouses, last-mile delivery, and more. Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2016 : robot pickers, bridge-inspecting drones, autonomous freight shuttles, and more.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 10, 2022

For example, carriers plan to reduce the capacity for the Asia-to-North America West Coast trade lanes by as much as 29% in the weeks following China’s Golden week in early October. As freight rates continue to fall, shippers will likely continue to leverage blank sailings to balance operational costs against volatile fuel prices.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

warehouses. Driving training programs overwhelmed by interest. Amazon experienced “critical fire or arc flash events” at six sites in North America with solar installations, representing about 12.7 Many smaller carriers that do not have training programs still require at least a year of experience.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 3, 2016

Now, on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Wal-Mart says it is 6-9 months from using drones to check warehouse inventory (Reuters). DAT Launches Streamlined TMS for New Freight Brokers. Natarajan said drones can reduce the labor intensive process of checking stocks around the warehouse to one day.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

What is a warehouse? And what is a warehouse management system? The open question is whether retailers are also going to invest in people to make it work — i.e., hire and train enough store-level workers to execute these new tasks efficiently and effectively. NAFTA Trade in August 2013 than in August 2012.

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Tailwind

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

You travel the highways of North America to deliver it to some business or organization awaiting its arrival. The idea being that rather than having raw materials and good services being stored and warehoused in vast quantities, you should keep all the materials and goods in constant motion. Just in Time You pick up the load.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2023

Police in Hagerstown are deploying a surprisingly large fleet of low-cost drones and training more than 20 percent of the department’s officers on how to fly them. The Locus Origin AMRs will be fully deployed in multiple of DHL Supply Chain’s 1,500 warehouses and distribution centers by the end of the year, according to a press release.

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Supply Chain Network

APRIL 12, 2014

Over the last twenty plus years, logistics professionals in North America have been consolidating and centralizing their distribution and logistics networks. Over the last twenty plus years, logistics professionals in North America have been consolidating and centralizing their distribution and logistics networks.

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Supply Chain Network

JUNE 14, 2014

Over the last twenty plus years, logistics professionals in North America have been consolidating and centralizing their distribution and logistics networks. Over the last twenty plus years, logistics professionals in North America have been consolidating and centralizing their distribution and logistics networks.

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Locus

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The last mile delivery market size in North America is expected to grow by USD 59.81 Technavio, Last Mile Delivery Market in North America by Service and Geography – Forecast and Analysis 2021-2025, Jan 2021. .- World Economic Forum, The future of last-mile ecosystem, Jan 2020. But things have changed today.

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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. At the end of 2021, ocean freight rates were more than three times what they were throughout 2020. Air cargo carriers in North America posted an 11.4% Supply Chain Brain ). Bloomberg).

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The Lean Supply Chain

JULY 7, 2015

The other software companies that sell YMS below, sell it in conjunction with a Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Transportation Management System (TMS) so there is no way to gauge those YMS sales as they could be with, or without, the YMS system depending on the customer’s needs. YMS vendors : High Jump. They are tailor made for YMS.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The service most frequently outsourced to a 3PL is transportation management (24%), followed by warehouse management (19%). CEVA Logistics (The Americas). CEVA Logistics (The Americas). CEVA Logistics provides both freight management and contract logistics services for a range of customers across all sectors. Media Type.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation (TechCrunch). CX North America Adds Replay Technology to Its Freight Visibility Solutions. E-Commerce Mania Spreads To Warehouse Market (WSJ – sub. dispatch, logistics, driver training). The additional investment of RMB100 billion (US$15.2

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 5, 2015

When commoditized warehousing and transportation functions dictated contractual arrangements, the idea of partnership was buried in the fine print. The Specialized Logistics Services Providers are the new and improved way to insure optimum warehouse and logistics performance through job specialization. And the economy is a big factor.

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 12, 2020

From investing in smart automation solutions like collaborative mobile robots to improve warehouse productivity to route and supplier optimization and outsourcing logistics to a 3PL , there are several strategies that can help companies reduce logistics costs. Now, this does not just come down to the staff in the warehouse.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In North America, 4 million workers left their jobs in April. In North America, a record 632,000 frontline workers left their retail jobs having been exposed to increased levels of danger while facing low levels of pay, while white collar workers got a taste for remote work and found it made their lives easier to manage.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 30, 2022

The experience stems from the ground up as an operator, then assuming global roles spanning Asia, Europe, and North America and the journey has been incredibly exciting and fulfilling. This recognition was in part due to the setting up of the region’s first and only physical warehouse training facility.

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Tailwind

MARCH 3, 2017

Now – you really have to listen to a guy who trains Special Forces. He was telling me about a guy he met who invented and created a major liquor brand across North America. I mean who goes into a meeting and says… “Yep I am responsible for the failure of Duncan Hines Crispy Chewy cookies in North Alberta in the 1980s.”.

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Freightera

MAY 20, 2022

Follow These 7 (And a Half) Steps to Make Sure Your Less Than Truckload Freight Gets Delivered Smoothly. We apologize to any carriers out there reading this, but the fact is that not a single carrier can offer the best pricing for all of the lanes across North America. 4) Package your freight properly.

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 2, 2018

Thirty years ago, following the invention of double-stack container trains , ocean carriers launched their own branded intermodal services in collaboration with the railroads. This time around, Maersk is taking direct aim at UPS and FedEx , the two dominant package deliverers in North America and elsewhere.

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Freightera

APRIL 22, 2024

To understand why freight shipping is so expensive, we have to dive into the intricacies of freight pricing , as well as the operational costs faced by freight carriers. How Freight Pricing is Determined First, let’s look at freight pricing and how it’s determined. option will be rail shipping.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 9, 2016

The need to transport parts also drives inventory up, creates a need for space to store those parts, and uses energy for more forklift time and warehouse heating. So the message is clear for private fleet managers: Managing costs clearly requires investment in both equipment and worker training.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

For Amazon employees, it’s time to get back on the train. More companies are exploring ways to staff warehouses with robots but may have to wait a few years for the technology to catch up. At least at Amazon corporate, that is. But the times are changing. ” And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 18, 2019

In addition to UPS and FedEx, Amazon now has their own trucks on the road, often driven by individuals who may not have the rigorous training available to other drivers. On top of that, the increase of Uber Freight, food delivery services, and a plethora of other services is causing congestion to rise rapidly.

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