3PL Insights

JANUARY 17, 2022

Transportation Capabilities. The transportation capabilities for the city of Detroit are quite impressive. Having the capability to ship freight via truck, rail, and even ship makes Detroit an adaptable location for any of your transportation needs. Seaway: The St. Growth Potential. Detroit is a hub for new businesses.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Outside of the Paris Agreement, the European Union (EU) has a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from transport by around 60 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. It currently has no limits on truck emissions, unlike other countries such as the United States, China, Japan and Canada, which already have truck fuel efficiency standards.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 14, 2015

The relationship between a shipper and a logistics provider often starts as a transactional process. The shipper has an immediate need, which leads to a Request for Proposal (RFP) or Request for Quote (RFQ) process then ultimately selects a third-party logistics (3PL) supplier to execute on that need. What are their pain points?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The United States is late in investing in port infrastructure. Change internal metrics to a balanced scorecard and force the functions to work better together. Labor turnover, supply reliability, and transportation variation are here to stay. For example, “Why is it so difficult to get a container unloaded?”

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TMC

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Managing adverse weather conditions is part and parcel of transportation planning. Walgreens uses in-store sensors to monitor each of its 8,300 locations in the United States. In 2009, the United States boosted import duties on Chinese tires from 4% to 35%, and did so with only 15 days’ notice.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Decision support includes all forms of planning: demand, supply, revenue, manufacturing and transportation planning. The Autonomous Supply Chain for Physical Logistics. Drones in warehouses using machine learning for real-time inventory and self-driving vehicles are transforming logistics. There is a lot of noise in this market.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Many companies operating in the United States have achieved an inclusive look into their transportation spend, but unfortunately many companies that do business on a global level have struggled to achieve full freight process management. Live Episode: Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 12:00 pm ET. Why is that?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The United States is late in investing in port infrastructure. Change internal metrics to a balanced scorecard and force the functions to work better together. Labor turnover, supply reliability, and transportation variation are here to stay. For example, “Why is it so difficult to get a container unloaded?”

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 18, 2016

As a result, many organizations are turning to third-party logistics providers (3PLs) and enhanced transportation management systems (TMS) to deliver the velocity, visibility, predictability and control they need. Today’s Next-Gen TMS Meets Today’s Supply Chain Needs. Today’s supply chain requirements demand more advanced tools.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The online retail platform and last-mile fulfillment services provider specifically made mention of the benefits that were provided by an ongoing relook and restructuring of the provider’s customer fulfillment operations and transportation network. after an order was placed. Watch this industry space.

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Locus

JUNE 3, 2022

billion metric tons—the emissions have rebounded in 2021 and 2022. It forced three semiconductor plants to shut, causing a microchip shortage for the auto industry and severing the state’s vital supply chain links for three days. Fighting climate change with green logistics. Download Now!

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OptiProERP

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Manufacturers can showcase their commitment to manufacturing sustainability by tracking and reporting environmental metrics, such as reduced carbon emissions, efficient resource utilization, and eco-friendly materials usage. Streamlined logistics and supply chain management can minimize transportation-related emissions.

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American Global Logistics

JULY 19, 2023

Economics and Logistics Quarterly Update—June 2023 Uncertainty in economics is a given. Uncertainty in logistics is also a given. The pandemic increased the inherent uncertainty in the economy and the logistics industry. In times of uncertainty, it pays to track key economic and logistics indicators.

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 17, 2023

With 2022 now in the past, key players in the transportation industry are reflecting on the wins, losses, and toss-ups of 2022. LMI Reveals Bleak Outlook for Transportation Industry. As rates continue to fall, industry metrics are beginning to reflect a new reality for the transportation market.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2023

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Shoppers started seeing shortages of tomatoes on about February 20, with retailers saying a combination of bad weather and related transport issues in north Africa and Europe were causing significant supply problems. Generating the full 185.6 That’s all for this week.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2018

It’s the reason why On Time In Full (OTIF) is a critical supply chain metric today. It’s the reason why a growing number of companies are starting to view logistics as a competitive weapon instead of just a cost center. As I wrote about recently, disrupting logistics ain’t easy. Digital Freight. Transplace TMS Control Tower.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

Team re-building, split of responsibilities/tasks, border closure challenges, quick navigation of stock management, prioritisation of logistics to consumer needs and coordination with partners upstream and downstream. Eisenhower who was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. Olhager, J., Persson, F.,

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 12, 2022

When they track carbon emissions for each shipment, they can make better decisions on carriers and the best ways to optimize the logistics network to reduce emissions. Annually, container ships contribute approximately one billion metric tons of carbon dioxide. Broken down, most of the 2020 transportation sector emissions in the U.S.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Material Handling & Logistics ). Material Handling & Logistics ). The United States’ and Europe’s production of global semiconductors decreased from approximately 80% in 1990 to 20% in 2020. Dealing with the Shipping Container Crisis. Intel ).

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ShipBob

JANUARY 23, 2023

Learn More About Last-Mile View Final Mile Carriers How 3PLs Help With Ecommerce Logistics Get a Fulfillment Quote from ShipBob Last-mile logistics has always been a hot topic in the world of fulfillment. Same-day delivery and last-mile logistics in North America is estimated to grow by $62.71 What do you want to learn?

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Deloitte Consulting and the Metro Atlanta Chamber have teamed up to analyze how seven large metropolitan areas of the United States are transforming their traditional supply chain base into digital supply chains. number of flights, road congestion, distance to ocean ports); and in the presence of top 100 logistics IT providers.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

A new Gartner 2014 Top US Supply Chain MBA Program Rankings report of top supply chain MBA programs within the United States came out yesterday – with the NC State Jenkins MBA and the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative making the list for the first time ever!

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BlueYonder

MARCH 6, 2018

What are the cost and logistics challenges around same-day fulfillment? – Conversion is no longer the key metric to measure; in the future, success will rely on how well stores drive customer experience as measured by new, customer-centric metrics like dwell time, product interaction and favorites scoring. and a lot more.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

And now let us examine the reasons why a career in logistics offers so much diversity to so many workers. One study shows that one in three companies in the United States has jobs that are taking nine to 12 months to fill. If engineering is your thing, you could join a third-party logistics company and focus on solutions design.

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Gravity Supply Chain

MAY 20, 2022

Spire’s granular AIS data about transport vessels is now seamlessly incorporated into the cloud-based software system used by Gravity’s clients. The quantity of goods carried by containers soared from 102 million metric tons in 1980 to about 1.83 billion metric tons as of 2017.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 6, 2018

What are the cost and logistics challenges around same-day fulfillment? – Conversion is no longer the key metric to measure; in the future, success will rely on how well stores drive customer experience as measured by new, customer-centric metrics like dwell time, product interaction and favorites scoring. and a lot more.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

The reason why they can do this is that customized products are sold directly to customers so they have the higher profit margin to compensate the higher transportation cost. Coca-Cola doesn''t really have many stock keeping units when compared with other companies in the same industry. However, products go to over 2.4

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NC State SCRC

JULY 11, 2017

The American Transportation Research Institute estimates that of the total cost per mile of driving a rig that drives between 80,000 and 125,000 miles per year, the average cost (including drivers wages and benefits) is $1.593 per mile, or which tire cost are $ 0.043 a mile, and fuel costs are $.403 403 per mile. 403 per mile. cents per mile.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 26, 2020

Recent studies have shown that transportation is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Department of Energy calculated that CO2 emissions from transportation surpassed two billion metric tons ; it’s hard to imagine what that number looks like today. In 2007, the U.S.

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Much of the southern United States faces months—if not years—of cleanup and reconstruction following Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. As transportation providers begin to recover from the immediate disruption and delays caused by the hurricanes, the greater domino effect of the hurricanes on supply chains will begin to appear.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 11, 2015

The first post in this series broke down what is supplier quality management and the steps to evaluate suppliers and the second post gave you insight into the metrics to look out for by 6 major industries. We deal with our suppliers of transportation on a daily basis: our select carrier partners. Today, 97.5%

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

The pending effect of fuel on logistics costs is an overlay for all companies struggling to manage the bottom line. Transportation constraints are increasing with the risk of many drivers moving from logistics jobs delivering products to construction as the impact of the Infrastructure Deal becomes a reality.

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MIT Supply Chain

JANUARY 15, 2015

The delivery was organized by the Academic Consortium to Combat Ebola in Liberia (ACCEL), a network of academic centers with technical expertise in emergency medicine and logistics systems. The Lab is part of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics. million grant from Paul G.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 10, 2017

Last mile might be the latest buzzword (or buzzwords) in logistics, but not without good reason. It’s not just about the logistics providers you work with or whether you insource or outsource your distribution. These decisions all require steps to be taken throughout the supply chain to support them. With them, you incur costs.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 17, 2018

Back at work, getting caught up on all of the supply chain and logistics news from the past two weeks. One example demonstrated how TradeLens can reduce the transit time of a shipment of packaging materials to a production line in the United States by 40 percent, avoiding thousands of dollars in cost. The fun never ends.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

In the annual report where they report on their key performance indicators (KPIs), they don’t just report on core financial metrics and the NPS, they also have people metrics. The company has shown sustained improvement on this metric. The company recorded 1.9 This was a 10% improvement over the prior year.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Shippers were forced to use imperfect methodologies to estimate the impact, using average package densities, carton utilization, or unreliable transportation management system (TMS) data to try to estimate the coming increase. Joe Wilkinson is Director of Transportation Solutions Consulting at enVista.

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