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Big, Bulky & Rural with Grafton Elliot

The Logistics of Logistics

About Grafton Elliott Grafton Elliott is the Founder and CEO of Onward, a big and bulky shipping network that helps retailers offer local like delivery service, to their customers located in suburban and rural zip codes.Prior to starting Onward, Grafton ran the asset light network for CDS Logistics.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 30 – August 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news: Amazon launches same-day delivery from brick-and-mortar retail brands. As same-day delivery becomes more important to consumers, retailers are looking at innovative ways to deliver on this expectation. The company is relying on price increases to boost growth. That’s all for this week.

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Rwanda Heads Technology Revolution in Africa

The Network Effect

It’s small (about the size of Maryland), landlocked, and mountainous. The system is known as “electronic Logistics Management Information System,” or “eLMIS.” In fact, in some cases it is leapfrogging many first world countries in the race to do business, smarter, cheaper, better.

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Why Your Truck Needs Wings with Dan Burrows

The Logistics of Logistics

Daniel was born in Baltimore, Maryland and received a Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Science degree in Physics from Imperial College in London. After driving millions of miles, it was apparent that the truck and the driver should be at the heart of how to approach innovation and build products. About Dan Burrows.

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How to Design the Right Solution in a Dynamic Transportation Environment

Talking Logistics

Shippers and Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) are constantly evolving – more rapidly than ever due to increasing activity in mergers and acquisitions, carve-outs, changing client and consumer demands, converging business models, and decreasing IT costs. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 29 – May 3, 2019)

Talking Logistics

Moving on, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Amazon’s Freight Push Rattles Logistics Sector (WSJ – sub. Moving on, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Amazon’s Freight Push Rattles Logistics Sector (WSJ – sub.

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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 2.25-3.1

Freight Plus

“With Platinum’s support, we will continue to execute on our customer-centric growth strategy, which focuses on offering best-in-class customs brokerage, trade compliance and logistics services to more than 30,000 businesses in the U.S., An additional 40% claim that cost has been their greatest barrier to innovation. Morgan analysts.