TransAudit

JUNE 27, 2023

Machine learning presents a solution by optimizing the flow of products from one location to another. The scope of quality control extends beyond materials and products to other areas such as shipping, supplier, and third-party quality, making machine learning an all-encompassing tool for maintaining quality standards.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 25, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights a significant joint announcement from global shipping lines Maersk and MSC that should garner the interest to supply chain management transportation and logistics management teams. In our recently published 2023 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains.

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TransAudit

AUGUST 29, 2023

LTL, or Less-Than-Truckload shipping, represents the transport of freight that doesn’t require an entire truck’s space. formerly known as YRC Freight, sent shockwaves throughout the transportation industry due to its dominant position. The repercussions are profound, with the LTL shipping sector being notably impacted.

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TransAudit

JULY 6, 2023

Machine learning presents a solution by optimizing the flow of products from one location to another. The scope of quality control extends beyond materials and products to other areas such as shipping, supplier, and third-party quality, making machine learning an all-encompassing tool for maintaining quality standards.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 20, 2021

To this extent, logistics and shipping represent the final and essential factor in the equation for e-commerce success.” “Shipping and logistics companies must allocate money for complex routes, failed deliveries, extra stops along the delivery route, drivers’ salaries, and fleet operation. They are: High delivery costs.

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Intelligent Audit

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

This is why transportation network optimization is important. What Is Transportation Network Optimization? Transportation network optimization is simply streamlining your network of logistics carriers, the methods for shipping, and the processes for managing the network. Ready Your Data.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 13, 2015

When asked whether companies are apt to treat their inbound and outbound logistics as separate entities – versus taking a holistic approach – Doug says more organizations are looking to increase their global footprints. As part of this mission, many of these firms are viewing transportation management from a more integrated standpoint.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 15, 2016

First, Descartes is starting to focus on helping companies, especially small and mid-sized businesses, better integrate and automate their e-commerce, warehouse management and shipping processes. TM+ should enable both planning, execution, & performance management.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights February global manufacturing and supply chain indices and challenges relative to product demand and supply network imbalance levels in the first quarter of 2022. Global and Domestic Transportation and Logistics Indices. The value of that index as of this posting was $9,279.46

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 19, 2015

One area in particular, which both Sean Feeney and Kurt Cavano (Vice Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer at GT Nexus) highlighted in their keynote presentations, is Transportation Management Systems (TMS). Moving forward, GT Nexus plans to extend and enhance its TMS footprint across the full TMS lifecycle: Transportation Sourcing.

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TMC

MARCH 9, 2017

This shows that shippers are capitalizing on new mode/route combinations that will help them save cost, reduce lead time, and mitigate supply chain disruptions and risks (such as labor disputes in the ocean shipping industry). Identify global trade opportunities. Identify global trade opportunities.

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TMC

MARCH 9, 2017

This shows that shippers are capitalizing on new mode/route combinations that will help them save cost, reduce lead time, and mitigate supply chain disruptions and risks (such as labor disputes in the ocean shipping industry). Identify global trade opportunities. Identify global trade opportunities.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 25, 2022

Previous global materials sourcing and just-in-time driven inventory management policies were laid bear with the realization that supply risk was a more problematic and business critical dimension. In early July, Bloomberg reported that U.S. executives have been rapidly accelerating efforts to shorten supply networks.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 28, 2018

Transpacific Air and Ocean Shipping Space Is Already Tight | Transportfolio. If you’ve heard the term “perfect storm” applied more to transportation lately than you have since the book by Sebastian Junger came out in 1997, you’re not alone. Peak shipping season has heated up early. Shoulder season; shipping ramps up.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Equipment and technology intensive: The fresh supply chain operator must utilise specialised—and expensive— equipment and technology to prolong the freshness of produce and present it to consumers in the best possible condition. There’s simply no room for penny-pinching in this supply chain sector. Waste Not, Want Not.

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Unleashed

JULY 25, 2022

A digital strategy will target specific customer types, and surface advertising and content in the online space where they are present. More innovative visual displays Digital sales enable products to be considered ‘in situ’ – for example presented so a customer can consider what it might look or be like for them.

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Intelligent Audit

APRIL 15, 2021

Having intimate knowledge of available supply chain capacity in every shipping mode continues to be paramount for companies to meet consumer demand as economies recover after recessions felt during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Increased surcharges will increase overall shipping costs.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2018

However, the biggest pain point for these global supply chains is the one that seems inescapable – transportation costs. Pain Points Increasing Transportation Costs. No matter how much can be saved from sourcing globally, transportation costs continue to creep in to seriously affect a product’s profit margin.

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3rdwave

AUGUST 8, 2019

Major Benefits of a Global TMS. Execution control provides the infrastructure that enables the transportation operator to manage, influence, and control all aspects of the global transportation activity from Purchase-to-Receipt or Sale-to-Delivery. Warehouse Receiving/Shipping POD. Execution Control.

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TMC

DECEMBER 8, 2016

These enterprises are no longer reliant on the Suez Canal route for shipping freight on Post-Panamax container vessels to the United States. As described in my previous blog post , the enlarged Panama Canal can handle container ships up to 13,000 TEUs in size. These products are likely to continue to move through U.S. West Coast ports.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 8, 2022

The years of 2020 and 2021 presented unprecedented pandemic and other related challenges to industry and global supply chains. Global Shipping Disasters And Incidents Abound. as well as select opportunities. billion. . Number Seventeen. March 26, 2021. This concludes Part One of this series.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 18, 2021

Broker (freight): Individual or company that serves as a liaison between another individual/company that needs shipping services and an authorized motor carrier. Determines the needs of a shipper and connects that shipper with a carrier capable of transporting the items at an acceptable price. companies in order to cross the border.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Global transportation—like many industries—has faced unparalleled disruptions over the past year. Many of our global shipping customers are up against the clock with Chinese New Year (CNY) approaching, while also navigating potential changes from a new U.S. Demand and disruption in ocean shipping. administration.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 3, 2016

But I found myself asking, “How long until Amazon Prime or a similar service offers free 3-day shipping to a U.S. Those present mostly said the U.S. consumer who purchases a product from China?”. The trade as a whole seems very much in favor of seeing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) approved.

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Shipchain

DECEMBER 17, 2019

His works include podcasts, e-books, whitepapers, case studies, infographics and personalized presentations for major supply chain conferences. Recent articles by Emily surround the topics of drayage, new and upcoming companies, such as CarrierDirect, the impact of ocean weather on shipping, and much more. . and abroad.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

With peak volumes of goods moving through the supply chain and the ever-present possibility of unforeseen events popping up—like a factory delay or changing customer demand—any number of challenges can arise and quickly alter the status or urgency of a shipment. Expect the unexpected during this busy season.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 26, 2022

The company recently warned that upwards of $8 billion in lost sales may be at stake in the current quarter given the ongoing production, logistics and global transportation disruptions occurring across China right now. component suppliers shipping to China for product assembly. The rest, as they often say, is history.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 11, 2018

How is Global Shipping Growing in India? The answer lies not in a herculean dream of global domination, but simply in mathematics. And, because the United States presents the world’s largest, most sophisticated base of consumption, India and the United States are natural trading partners. The question still remains: How?

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 5, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides readers with a further update on the ongoing Red Sea shipping disruption including added context and implications. Background Just before the Christmas holiday, Supply Chain Matters alerted our readers to rather troubling signs for another global-wide shipping disruption.

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