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This Week in Logistics News (December 5-9, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Delivery eBike Debuts In Portland, Ore. DAT’s Accelerated Freight Matching Launches with New Load Board App for Carriers and Paperless Onboarding Service for Brokers. R2 Freight & Logistics, Inc. October Air Freight Demand Up 8.2% – Fastest Growth in 18 Months (IATA). First UPS U.S. on November 21.

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Energy Efficiency Is Key to Better Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

In fact, the company helps its supply chain both measure its carbon impact but also provides solutions, such as right-sizing packages to maximize trailer capacity and thus reduce the number of deliveries. In Hamburg, Germany, for example UPS put a container in the city center and in the morning delivers packages to that location.

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Life before load boards

DAT Solutions

Keller is an asset-based brokerage with a 150-truck fleet, plus packaging and warehousing services. Dial-A-Truck monitors first appeared at Jubitz Truck Stop in Portland, Oregon in 1978. When his company had overflow freight, he would drive down to Exit 5 on the Ohio Turnpike where there was a concentration of truck stops.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2016 : robot pickers, bridge-inspecting drones, autonomous freight shuttles, and more. UPS’ eBike electric bike program, activated in Portland, Ore., Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2015 : solar-powered vessel, robot dispatcher, 3-D printed flight parts, and more.

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Regulatory changes brokers can't ignore

DAT Solutions

In a year where capacity has been historically tight, building out carrier networks has been particularly difficult for freight brokers. Burroughs said TIA will try to get the standard included in an future bill, such as an infrastructure funding package that may come up in the coming year. Tax Reform. URS to replace MC numbers.

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How To Start Your Brewery On The Path To Success

Unleashed

An ERP – or Enterprise Resource Planning system – is an all singing, all-dancing software package that allows you to run a closed loop operation across all your business processes. Easily create recipes and include multiple levels of packaging, making the admin side a breeze when you want to create finished goods. your brewing plant).

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This Week in Logistics News (November 3-7, 2014)

Talking Logistics

.” Here are some excerpts from the CNBC article: The delivery service will be available to Starbucks loyalty program members as part of its new mobile order and pay app that will launch in Portland next month and nationwide next year. . whose cab-hailing mobile app competes with Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. and Lyft Inc.