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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

When it comes to executing mode-specific freight moves from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively, transportation execution and visibility solutions play a critical role. Transportation execution solutions allow shippers to connect to multiple carriers and then tender, track, and pay in the system.

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Peet’s Coffee and the Roasted Bean Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

In DSD, instead of shipping truckload quantities of goods directly to a retailer’s regional distribution center every few weeks, a manufacturer has their own account representatives that sell to and service individual stores. Microsoft purchased Blue Horseshoe’s warehousing and transportation products in 2012.

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Warehousing News Roundup: March 4, 2019

Stord

Boeing does not expect Brexit to affect its manufacturing activity, since most materials it transports out of Britain go to the United States (rather than somewhere else in Europe). Ships are increasingly using electrical power at the Port of Oakland and reducing diesel emissions.

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America Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Although air cargo is usually the priciest mode of transport, it became the only way to ensure timely delivery given the dismal state of ocean reliability during the pandemic. The shipping industry, which accounts for 80% of world merchandise trade, had a record year in 2021 , with volume totaling 179.1 from 2020 and a 5.4% in the U.K.

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The Parable of Walmart, Target Stores and Vertical Farming

Supply Chain Collaborator

Case in point, the Wall Street Journal reports that these three giants (among others) have reshaped their logistics plans to avoid US West Coast-bound ocean routes (and the subsequent OTR and rail routes) due to recent labor-dispute-driven disruptions at ports in Long Beach and Oakland.

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Gridlock at US Ports is Reshaping the Supply Chain

RFgen

ports to make up the current backlog of ships and container inventory, the standoff’s impact is expected to be more far-reaching than initially thought. The re-routing trend has accelerated in recent months as many ships have lined up along the West Coast waiting for ports to resume operations. East Coast Ports Growing.

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Gridlock at US Ports is Reshaping the Supply Chain

RFgen

ports to make up the current backlog of ships and container inventory, the standoff’s impact is expected to be more far-reaching than initially thought. The re-routing trend has accelerated in recent months as many ships have lined up along the West Coast waiting for ports to resume operations. East Coast Ports Growing.