Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

When companies want to digitally transform their supply chain capabilities, moving to an integrated business planning process (IBP) is often at the heart of the transformation. GEON Embarks on a Digital Transformation GEON Performance Solutions is embarking on a supply chain transformation. GEON is owned by SK Capital.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 10, 2024

Backed by Ajlan & Bros and SF Express, they offer a comprehensive suite of solutions including express delivery, e-commerce fulfillment, warehousing, and freight forwarding across air, ocean, and road. Their goal is to simplify logistics for clients and partners, ensuring efficient package delivery and seamless supply chains.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2023

Rik Schrader and Joe Lynch discuss logistics and distribution transportation, which is one of the specialties of Rik’s company, Körber Business Area Supply Chain. About the Körber Business Area Supply Chain Supply chains are growing more complex by the day. Conquer supply chain complexity – with Körber.

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Intelligent Audit

JUNE 29, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically changed both the world and how companies conduct business, especially regarding how pharmacies are shipping pharmaceuticals. Patients want convenience at the mouse click of a button or screen, and the pharmaceutical sector realizes this.

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Intelligent Audit

JUNE 29, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically changed both the world and how companies conduct business, especially regarding how pharmacies are shipping pharmaceuticals. Patients want convenience at the mouse click of a button or screen, and the pharmaceutical sector realizes this.

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20Cube Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Examples of common perishable goods include fresh meat, frozen food, pharmaceutical drugs, and flowers. Different perishable goods have different requirements for storage and handling, which makes things complicated for air freight transporters. For instance, fresh meat must be stored at a different temperature to pharmaceutical drugs.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Food Waste and World Hunger – The Food Supply Chain is Broken! The cold chain is a temperature-controlled supply chain that includes continuous refrigeration of the product from production to transportation, handling, storage, and delivery. Subscribe Here!

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GlobalTranz

MAY 10, 2018

Transporting pharmaceuticals is arguably more important than manufacturing them, because it enables these lifesaving medications to make it to where they are needed most. Shipping these products requires an extra level of care to ensure the products make it to their destination. These cargos are also at risk. Download White Paper.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In the United States, there are a lot of billion dollar industries , led by hospitals, pharmaceuticals, commercial banking, life insurance, and petroleum wholesaling to name a few. However, there is probably one industry that most of us would not think of in this list: the cargo theft industry.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 1, 2018

Intermediaries may include financial experts, data analysts, freight auditors, and more. Although it may seem counterintuitive for a third-party logistics provider (3PL), like Cerasis, to trumpet such prospects, the resounding impact will drive greater efficiencies in supply chains. GET YOUR FREE WHITE PAPER.

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Aera Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The pharma supply chain can be incredibly complex with new molecular entities taking as long as a decade to get to market. While the number of pharma companies currently involved in the space is modest, the long-term opportunities and health benefits are tremendous.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to optimize their supply chains, and deliver for customers anywhere in the world. Flexport provides customers a strategic operating model that powers more transparent, more agile, more efficient, and more profitable global supply chains.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. How Cold Chain Differs Between the Food and Pharmaceutical Industries! Refrigerated transport is a vital component of global supply chains. To further support how refrigerated transport is so valuable in a global supply chain, below are several more reasons: 1.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Planes, Cranes, and Barges: How America Is Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos. 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. Businessweek.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Our salute to the best advancements in supply chain technology, processes and labor management from 2017. This is our annual salute to the best in people, processes and technology within the supply chain arena. This is our annual salute to the best in people, processes and technology within the supply chain arena.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In the race to fill distribution centers and store shelves with inventory for the holidays, some of the world’s largest retailers and ecommerce sellers are jumping ahead of smaller competitors by chartering ships, shifting freight to air, re-rerouting inland shipments, and hiring more staff for distribution centers and other supply chain nodes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 28, 2021

As I mentioned in an earlier post on the growth drivers for the Transportation Management Systems market , transportation visibility tools are one of a number of technologies that are improving performance and helping to reduce freight spend. This technology is all about a digital ledger(s) as it applies to a chain of custody.

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Freightos

JANUARY 8, 2019

The journey to digitize freight, while initially off to a slow start, has gained momentum in the last two or three years. They’re licensed to be an ocean freight forwarder, and they’ve bought some aircraft and an airport; and of course they are a huge warehousing player. Online freight booking. They’re coming.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

As fall quickly approaches, shippers are busy preparing for the stressors of the peak shipping season. According to reporting from Supply Chain Dive , “ Routes covered by Patton make up less than 0.5% Freight Rail Strike Looms as Labor Talks Stall. UPS plans to keep this fee structure in place until January 14, 2023. .

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

We salute the year’s top advancements in supply chain technology and processes. Thanks to omni-channel distribution, 3-D printing, self-service logistics and other avenues of disintermediation, traditional supply chain roles are rapidly being transformed into all-new opportunities. Warehouse Automation. Media Type.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 19, 2020

Almost 75 percent of US companies are experiencing capacity shortfalls in their supply chains, due to Coronavirus-linked transport disruptions , a new study has shown. With some 5 million companies impacted by China’s supply chain woes, the picture is similar in other parts of the world. China’s Pharma Delivery Industry.

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Freightos

JANUARY 12, 2017

International Air Freight Shipping: Definition. While 90% of everything is shipped by ocean, air connects the world faster, cutting China-US freight shipping time from 20-30 days by ocean to only 3 days by air cargo. International air freight and express freight shipments are not the same thing.

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Elementum

MAY 10, 2019

However, the worst strategy for your business is to get comfortable with the supply chain status quo. Despite record growth and paying effectively zero percent on their 2018 taxes - Amazon continues to transform their supply chain. With the unemployment rate sitting at 3.6

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Intelligent Audit

AUGUST 30, 2022

From Amazon’s implementation of a never-before-seen fee structure on peak season shipments to the pharmaceutical industry’s forced adaptation to new legislation, this was a week of significant shifts within the logistics industry and beyond. . Pharmaceutical Industry Reacts to Congress’ Party-Line Drug Pricing Vote.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 3, 2021

Supply chains are continually disrupted by container shortages, a lack of air freight capacity, and movement restrictions implemented by governments to combat the pandemic. Customers can shop online and have their orders shipped from a local Target store to their homes in as little as one hour.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2020

Analysts have now been forced to acknowledge that COVID-19, which has whipped through 170 countries and has been declared a pandemic, threatens supply chain disruptions far beyond sourcing and production in China. But the virus quickly jumped borders, spanned continents, and brought much of the world to an economic standstill.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

Every industry has dealt with the fallout or repercussions caused by COVID-19 -related disruptions to the supply chain. The need for practical and applicable last-mile delivery in retail involves saving money and reducing the expenses associated with this vital yet often overlooked leg of the shipping journey.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2021

This technology is all about a digital ledger(s) as it applies to a chain of custody. For pharmaceuticals, this is a critical component of transporting goods throughout the supply chain. Most pharmaceutical companies have a small window to get products from point A to B, without any changes in temperature.

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ShipBob

JULY 28, 2023

But, the fact of the matter is, if you’re transporting products overseas then you need to know how to properly fill out a shipping manifest. Understanding the ins and outs of shipping manifests, and getting them right the first time, can save you a lot of time and stress down the line. What is a shipping manifest? The result?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 18, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The trucking industry provides shipping services for goods and products from the manufacturing/production point to the consumers, mainly using trucks. There are many carriers and shipping companies specializing in the transportation of different types of cargo in different vehicle types.

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 30, 2017

Attacks on global supply chains by terrorist groups have hit the highest rate ever as have associated costs, according to a report recently released by BSI. In particular, terrorists increasingly targeted industries generally associated with private or corporate supply chains rather than state-owned supply chain infrastructure.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

With peak shipping season just around the corner, the logistics industry is looking forward to a smoother supply chain than previous years have provided. Looks for Savings in Freight Broker Contracts. After Eighty Years of Business, Family-Owned Colonial Freight Systems Announces Shut Down. As the U.P.S.

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QAD

JANUARY 4, 2022

Supply chains are more fragile than ever, shipping and trucking backlogs have hit multiple industries endangering holiday celebrations and causing general shortages, and the lack of certain products (read: semiconductor chips ) are crippling industries. Medical and Pharmaceutical Technology. Rise in ocean freight rates.

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Turvo

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Every quick response, every on-time in-full shipment, every fast onboarding of a new carrier (less than 20 minutes), and every quick payment increased their reputation and built trust across the supply chain. So began the nationwide race to manufacture and successfully ship hundreds of millions of doses. Lives were saved.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2021

This technology is all about a digital ledger(s) as it applies to a chain of custody. For pharmaceuticals, this is a critical component of transporting goods throughout the supply chain. Most pharmaceutical companies have a small window to get products from point A to B, without any changes in temperature.

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Global Trade Management

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Jim Yarbrough, Global Intelligence Program Manager at the supply chain specialist BSI commented: "Companies have always faced a wide range of challenges to their supply chain, but [the] latest figures indicate how severe the impact of violent theft can be.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Transportation is one of the world's largest industries and deeply influences how efficiently global supply chains are able to run. But issues surrounding labor and rising fuel prices pose real threats to the freight industry. Technology Comes to the Aid of Freight Companies. Globally, they stood at $4.8 per gallon.

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