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Autonomous Vehicles Will Be Piloting Your Supply Chain Sooner Than You Think

AFFLINK

Whether you’re shipping goods across the sea or across the highways, your products will eventually move along inside of a vehicle without a driver. Lastly, Tesla has begun testing its autonomous Semi trucks by using them to deliver batteries from its battery plant in Nevada to its vehicle assembly plant in California.

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Relatively Cautious Global Production and Supply Chain Indices for February 2022

Supply Chain Matters

The World Container Index , assessed by Drewy Consultants, is a compilation of eight major shipping routes to and from the United States , Europe and Asia. The Flexport Ocean Timeliness Indicator tracks average ocean container shipping transit times. Global and Domestic Transportation and Logistics Indices.

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Experts Unfold Top Supply Chain Technology to Watch

Supply Chain Opz

Customs filing is already integrated with 90% of the countries you are shipping to. All of your denied party lists are already loaded for screening. This is true plug-and-play global TMS plus global trade and customs. Bryan Jensen, Vice President, St. Connected devices can also support the warehouse worker (i.e.

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Freightera CEO Eric Beckwitt Receives Sustainability Award at Clean50 Summit in Toronto

Freightera

The award was presented at the Clean50 Summit in Toronto on Sept. This means a lot to everyone at Freightera, an online marketplace that brings together businesses that need to ship freight and transport companies that move it. Global freight shipping, at just under $10 trillion a year, is among the largest markets on earth.

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The Future of Freight and How Brokers Fit In

GlobalTranz

As a freight broker or if you manage freight for a business and are in charge of shipping, you’ve got a lot to juggle. The first licenses for autonomous vehicles have been issued in Nevada , but the first round of vehicles requires a human driver to be present. The future of freight and how brokers fit in looks quite bright. .

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So You Want to Make the Perfect Logistics Model

Logility

You can see three warehouses and almost every warehouse shipped to each destination city. Find the case where a customer node is right near the Alabama warehouse but is shipped from the Nevada warehouse. Figure 1 below visually displays what historic data looks like in an actual model. Great, see how I saved $948K?

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Which Supply Chain Strategy Will Prevail in 2022?

Stord

Brands are expanding their warehouse footprint farther away from the coastal ports, like in Reno, Nevada; converting vacant storefronts into fulfillment centers; and planning multistory distribution centers to maximize the space available. The Stord team has you covered no matter what you sell, where you ship, or how fast you grow.]