Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2025

The global freight sector faces growing pressure to balance cost-efficiency with environmental responsibility. With freight transport accounting for a significant share of global emissions, efforts to improve logistics now extend beyond operational metrics to include resilience, regulatory compliance, and climate performance.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

As businesses grow, so do the complexities of managing freight logistics. Whether you're a small startup or an established business, choosing the right freight shipping service provider can be a game changer. A freight broker serves as the intermediary between shippers and carriers. What is a freight forwarder?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The transportation, logistics, and energy storage sectors are undergoing profound transformation, driven by rapid technological advancements, evolving consumer expectations, and the global pursuit of sustainability. In transportation and logistics, this has manifested as a significant focus on electrification and renewable energy integration.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2025

In addition, other infrastructure repairs which impact freight transportation in and around Ashville, North Carolina are still not completed. These events impacted everything from facility operations and transportation routes to energy costs and inventory management. tallying a staggering $182 billion in damages.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2025

For years, supply chains were engineered to be lean. Recent years have brought a series of disruptions that exposed vulnerabilities in how supply chains are designed. Recent years have brought a series of disruptions that exposed vulnerabilities in how supply chains are designed. AI also helps with scenario modeling.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 5, 2025

Aurora plans to expand its driverless service to El Paso, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona by the end of 2025. Auroras launch customers are Uber Freight, a market-leading enterprise technology company powering intelligent logistics, and Hirschbach Motor Lines, a veteran-owned carrier that delivers time- and temperature-sensitive freight.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

They can deliver lightweight, time-sensitive packages, such as medical supplies and consumer items, with direct access to delivery locations. Autonomous Vehicles: Autonomous ground vehicles, such as self-driving trucks, address long-haul and heavy freight logistics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2025

The adoption of AI in supply chain automation is enabling companies to make more accurate decisions, reduce cycle times, and better manage complexity. AI in supply chain automation is gradually reshaping how core functions operate, particularly in procurement, warehousing, and logistics.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 7, 2025

It's a collaborative relationship that can streamline and elevate your freight shipping operations. With expertise, technology and carrier access, a skilled 3PL company can help you unlock greater efficiency, reduce shipping costs and build supply chain resilience. Are we using the optimal mix of freight shipping modes for our needs?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 2, 2025

Why can’t we put the same energy that we put into inventing new words, tossing around acronyms, and parading on a stage to advocate for maturity models to improve supply chains? Supply chain concepts follow hype cycles. In the supply chain, much of our forward path is fueled by the concepts of the wisdom of the crowd theory.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 12, 2025

Keeping shipping costs under control is no small task — and unpredictable freight fuel surcharges make it even tougher. In this blog, we'll walk you through how to calculate fuel surcharges on freight, track pricing trends, audit your shipping bills, and work with the right 3PL partner to keep your costs under control.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 6, 2022

Oracle Fursion Cloud Transportation Management offers a solution that allows transportation planners to see estimated emissions – carbon dioxide, nitrous oxides, and particulate matter – before a trip is executed. Transportation is, of course, a major source of green house emissions. That is more than any other sector.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2025

The 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports and 20% tariffs on Chinese goods are expected to increase production costs, disrupt logistics networks, and force companies to rethink supply chains. This includes: Increasing domestic supply chain investments, reducing dependence on cross-border components. More than 50% of U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Space freight is becoming more accessible, offering a new dimension for logistics operations. For logistics professionals, the cost and limitations of space freight require careful evaluation to determine practical applications. This fragmented regulatory landscape complicates planning and increases compliance costs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 17, 2025

Download Executive Summary Supply Chain Management Market Opportunity – Where’s the opportunity in global SCM? Download Executive Summary Supply Chain Planning – Smarter planning starts here. Explore trends in demand sensing, S&OP, and the evolving tech stack of supply chain planning.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 10, 2025

In “2025’s Top 100 3PLs: How Logistics Giants are Confronting Uncertainty”, Joe Lynch and Seth Clevenger , Managing Editor of Features and Multimedia at Transport Topics, discuss the Top 100 logistics companies, 2024 performance, changes to the list, and the trends impacting the industry. Clevenger, currently based in Alexandria, Va.,

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2021

No carrier or mode has been excluded from the increased demand of e-commerce and a customer base that’s anxious for a return to normalcy, including the LTL transportation sector. How Can a 3PL Help Shippers Manage LTL Transportation Proactively. Data-driven planning. freight and delivery needs. State of the LTL Market.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the ever-evolving supply chain industry, transportation spend optimization – or TSO – has assumed greater significance. The need to blend operational efficiency with sustainability and fiscal prudence has organizations exploring innovative ways to help ‘future-proof’ transportation spending challenges.

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The Network Effect

JULY 11, 2025

Skip to content The Network Effect Beyond Supply Chains Menu Home Business Networks Supply Chain Management Logistics Resilience AI About Submit a Post Rethinking Defense Supply Chains with Network-Based Command Centers July 11, 2025 Michael Bruens Defense , Supply Chain Management This post has already been read 125 times!

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 4, 2024

Note: Today’s post is part of our “Editor’s Pick” series where we highlight posts published by our sponsors that provide practical knowledge and advice on timely and important supply chain and logistics topics. After three.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2025

As you would expect, major emphasis was placed on the role of AI to deliver accurate, timely, and improved decisions at all points of supply chain processes using a combination of human-to-AI agent and agent-to agent collaboration. Supply chain modernization must occur in todays digital-centric world.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Supply chain disruptions have brought about an age of innovation. From a transportation standpoint, this has included major technological advancements. In my presentation, I highlighted five key transportation trends that are changing supply chains from a technology standpoint. The Network Effect. The Network Effect.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 8, 2024

Mike Hane, Director, Product Marketing, TMS at Descartes Does your company view transportation as a competitive weapon? The report categorized survey respondents in terms of how they see transportation: either as a “Competitive Weapon” or “Not Important.” For example, Competitive Weapon companies are 3.4

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 2, 2025

Asset visibility was reserved for high-value goods, while the rest of the supply chain operated on estimates, paper trails, and phone calls. On the Ground: Where These Technologies Are Already Working In Germany, Deutsche Telekom uses NB-IoT to track reusable transport packaginglow-value but often misplaced. This is changing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 8, 2022

Most supply chain suppliers have solutions that are very similar to each other. The vocabulary used in transportation can be confusing. Shippers” are companies that have goods that need to be transported. Carriers move shippers’ freight. The Emerge solution has attributes of different supply chain software solutions.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 27, 2025

Yet, researchers and industry experts argue the labor market functions well when freight demand is strong. A December 2024 study by Professors Jonathan Phares, Jason Miller, and Stephen Burks, published by the Association for Supply Chain Management, shows carriers hire drivers when freight demand rises and reduce staff when it falls.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2025

Supply chain networks depend on structured data, exchanged through APIs, middleware, and telemetry, to coordinate across facilities, regions, and partners. AI Deployment in Operational Context Artificial intelligence has become a common feature in supply chain systems, though the depth of adoption varies widely.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 1, 2025

Download Executive Summary Supply Chain Management Market Opportunity Wheres the opportunity in global SCM? Download Executive Summary Supply Chain Planning Smarter planning starts here. Explore trends in demand sensing, S&OP, and the evolving tech stack of supply chain planning. Start with a summary.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 1, 2021

As supply chains become more impacted by market disruptions and unpredictable events, they’re also becoming more critical to a company’s customer experience levels and bottom line. Creating a data-driven supply chain tracking important transportation metrics helps shippers respond and adapt as quickly as possible to known and unknown events.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 25, 2021

The global supply chain is routinely beset by challenges, both large and small, but the past couple of years have delivered a string of significant logistics disruptions that have threatened to upend the tightly choreographed dance of global freight transportation. More and more large U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 7, 2024

Mike Hane, Director, Product Marketing, TMS at Descartes Does your company view transportation as a competitive weapon? The report categorized survey respondents in terms of how they see transportation: either as a “Competitive Weapon” or “Not Important.” For example, Competitive Weapon companies are 3.4

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2025

If your business depends on freight shipping, you've likely felt the effects of a world that seems to change overnight. Building a resilient supply chain isn't just a best practice anymore — it's a business imperative. Understanding the Challenges: Why Shippers Are Vulnerable Uncertainty has become a constant in today's supply chains.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

I seethed as the news stations celebrated supply chain success for the December holidays. The health of the supply chain underpins our economy. When the supply chain is sick, all industries suffer. Background on Ocean Transport. The supply chain can handle cost increases more easily than variability. I am worried.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 13, 2025

What’s the Difference Between Freight Management and Logistics Management? In today’s world, where globalization and international trade play an increasingly important role, efficient freight management is becoming a key aspect of success for many companies.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 3, 2025

Transportation metrics saw little change in May as capacity, utilization and pricing remained in expansion territory, according to a monthly survey of supply chain professionals. reading for transportation capacity during May, which was roughly in line with April. SONAR: Logistics Managers’ Index (Transportation Prices).

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 19, 2024

If your business ships freight , you never want to hear the words "cargo" and "theft" in the same sentence. Let's take a look at the most common freight theft methods and go through the specific steps you should take if your shipments are stolen. Cargo thieves may even use force or deception to access and steal the freight.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 13, 2025

Bowman, SupplyChainBrain Supply chains consist of imperfect humans struggling to make perfect decisions. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain Supply chains consist of imperfect humans struggling to make perfect decisions. In the end, though, it all comes down to a game of numbers. By itself, the word “optimize” doesn’t mean anything specific. “A

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