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The Impending Ocean Carrier War on Last Mile Fulfillment

Freightos

Late 2021 saw Maersk continue to shift towards vertical integrations, with acquisition of Senator, a German freight forwarder for $644 million dollars. While Facebook is looking at virtual reality, Alibaba and Amazon are looking more at freight. More on Maerskā€™s transition to an end-to-end provider can be found in this 2020 report.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

As a disclaimer, WebCargo , a Freightos Group company, does offers digital services to global forwarders and carriers, including online sales portals, digital eBooking, multimodal rate management and the Freightos.com freight marketplace. . The Freight Game of Thrones. The Maersk Shift: Where it started.

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FedEx Partners for Visibility, New CEO Focuses on Quality

Intelligent Audit

ā€œLarge shippers and logistics providers can use the tool to track orders, manage delivery providers and find alternate routes in the case of weather delays or other disruptions,ā€ FourKites CEO Matt Elenjickal wrote in an email to Supply Chain Dive. German-Based Transportation Company DB Schenker Announces the Acquisition of USA Truck.

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What Are the 5 Biggest Supply Chain Issues Today?

Stord

While the rest of the world adopts cloud technologies to help them break down silos and integrate communication, companies continue to use disparate applications and tools for managing orders, evaluating inventory, and shipping goods. In fact, Brazil, Spain, and Japan saw the largest increases in online sales during the COVID pandemic.

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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Optimising the Manufacturing Supply Chain

Unleashed

Being able to get traceability on the material, understand when the available dates are and whether it’s in the warehouse, whether it’s due or not ā€¦ these are all the big things for us that create bottlenecks.ā€ We assemble bespoke solutions on site. Itā€™s a constant headache for our purchasing manager.

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YARD MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Questionnaire

The Lean Supply Chain

The standalone Yard Management Systems (YMS) market is approximately $ 35.000,000 US which includes C3, Pinc, Navis and Yardview software solutions. The Pinnacle software applications are used by sophisticated parts recycling yard operators to manage their daily operations and seamlessly trade recycled parts. C3 Solutions.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 3 ā€“ 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

warehouses. The company has delayed opening an additional 21 locations, totaling nearly 28 million square feet, and canceled a handful of European projects, mostly in Spain. Instacart says the new technology will give more retailers access to tools and technologies that can lead to business growth. Instacart acquires Rosie.