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Sears – Achieving Home Delivery Excellence

Talking Logistics

Home delivery is a hot segment of omni-channel retailing and one of the best customer presentations at last year’s Descartes Evolution 2015 conference was from Sears. It was a one-time shot of getting the routes right.” Batch and static planning systems fall short of meeting customer expectations.

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Freight Brokerage 'Booking Structures': Opportunities to Streamline Your Operations

Parade

In California, for example, they are focused on three main subregions; San Francisco/Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Sacramento. Whereas backhauls cost truck drivers just as much regardless of whether they are empty or fully loaded. Create unnecessary friction and inefficiencies in your processes.

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Freight Brokerage 'Booking Structures': Opportunities to Streamline Your Operations

Parade

In California, for example, they are focused on three main subregions; San Francisco/Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Sacramento. Whereas backhauls cost truck drivers just as much regardless of whether they are empty or fully loaded. In this model, a single carrier sales rep is usually responsible for all the inbound to just one region.

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5G and the Future of Smart Cities

Enterra Insights

The hype about fifth generation (aka 5G) wireless technology is just beginning. Kalyan Parbat explains, “5G or ‘fifth-generation’ is a fast, wireless broadband technology that will transcend smartphones and connect anything from cars, machines and home appliances at speeds 50-to-100 times faster than present 4G networks.