Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 2, 2021

From a historical perspective, transportation management systems are all about freight savings. Manhattan Associates unveiled its latest TMS, Manhattan Active Transportation Management, last week during the company’s virtual user conference. Unification. The solution has common components, architecture, and nomenclature.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 25, 2021

The global supply chain is routinely beset by challenges, both large and small, but the past couple of years have delivered a string of significant logistics disruptions that have threatened to upend the tightly choreographed dance of global freight transportation. That’s starting to change. More and more large U.S. In the U.S.,

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For those outside the supply chain world, logistics might seem as straightforward as transport and warehousing, a “commodity”. After all, we often see branded trucks on the Autobahn and massive warehouses near key traffic hubs. But beneath the surface lies a level of complexity few could imagine.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2023

Expertise in operations, LTL pricing and procurement, flatbed operations, dry van, tracking and tracing, reality tv shows and how to turn a stranger into your new best friend. FreightWaves is the leading freight intelligence provider, offering current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 26, 2024

billion ‘Green Gateway’ rail expansion The CrowdStrike software bug that crashed Microsoft operating systems and caused the largest IT outage in history caused disruptions at U.S. Planes sitting around too long may need software or other updates. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg broke ground on a $1.6

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TransAudit

MARCH 25, 2025

Industries such as semiconductors, electric vehicle (EV) batteries, and transportation equipment are at the forefront of reshoring efforts , leading to a fundamental shift in freight demand patterns. Aerospace and transportation equipment companies are investing in Arizona and New Mexico. Midwest U.S. Southwest U.S.

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PINC

AUGUST 25, 2020

The world’s number one enterprise yard management system and the leader in supply chain visibility combine forces to provide highly efficient automation and real-time visibility to manage in-transit and on-site shipments. UNION CITY, Calif. – Aug.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 28, 2013

HighJump Software Enhances HighJump Warehouse Advantage Express Offering to Meet Increased Demand in SMB Marketplace. Trucks Transported 60.6% Retailers and small and midsize businesses (SMBs) – the two market segments supply chain and logistics software vendors are hyper-focused on these days.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Its used to describe practically anything from basic visibility to network-wide fully autonomous solutions. The modern-day equivalent of a control tower is a fully integrated supply chain management system that provides end-to-end visibility, decision-making support, and fully autonomous execution capabilities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 2, 2021

From a historical perspective, transportation management systems are all about freight savings. Manhattan Associates unveiled its latest TMS, Manhattan Active Transportation Management, last week during the company’s virtual user conference. Unification. The solution has common components, architecture, and nomenclature.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 10, 2025

The platform had issued 400 billion yuan ($55.7 Truce Ocean Transportation Container Ship Explodes, Catches Fire Off Coast of India Global Gateways Digital Edition SupplyChainBrain 2025 ESG Guide: Is ESG Still Relevant? billion) worth of notes as of May 2023, the last time that BYD disclosed such information.

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20Cube Logistics

OCTOBER 19, 2020

TMS (Transport Management System) is one such automation that is helping manage and automate the operations by providing visibility into the transportation activities. TMS is a tech platform used in logistics, helping businesses to plan, implement and optimize the movement of consignment, whether it’s inbound or outbound.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 15, 2025

By integrating open data principles, the DPP will enhance both the visibility and integrity of product information, benefiting companies, consumers and the environment alike,” the EU’s message added. As the EU moves toward full adoption of this regulation, it will foster a more open and responsible marketplace. “By

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So three months after an executive meeting on June 23rd , an updated strategy was released, tracking a radical shift into a slimmer Maersk, focused on providing end-to-end logistics services. Maersk would split into two divisions – a Transport & Logistics division, and an energy division. The latter would be spun off or sold.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 11, 2025

Higher Costs and Lower Profits: While recession may incur low demand, operational costs such as energy and transportation can remain high or fluctuate unpredictably. Implementing tracking technologies such as barcodes, RFID, and blockchain provides granular data that enhances both forecasting capabilities and overall supply chain visibility.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 23, 2025

Getting shipments from the production facility or warehouse to the retail store or the consumers doorstep is a lot more complicated than it used to be. Todays supply chains span thousands of miles, cross continents and oceans, rely on multiple modes of transportation, and involve many supplier tiers. There is good news, though.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Such meetings are generally hyped as platforms that can bring sweeping global action which makes it very hard for the participants to live up to the expectations. In respect to logistics and transport something remarkable happened at COP26. The first Z – Zero emission road transport: Global MOU for ZE-MHDVs .

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Jaggaer

APRIL 9, 2025

Direct material management involves demand forecasting, inventory control, and warehouse operations. Tools used here include supplier scorecards, audits, and performance tracking. Supply chain logistics manages the inbound transportation of materials and outbound distribution of finished vehicles.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 11, 2018

De Beers tracks diamonds through supply chain using blockchain (Reuters). Robinson Launches Rail Service, Connecting China and Europe. Kuebix Surpasses 10,000 Companies Using Its Transportation Management System (TMS). Rail, One of the Transportation Granddaddies, Still Relevant. Uber Technologies Inc.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 1, 2022

By bringing shippers, carriers, and warehouses together on a connected platform, Loadsmart is helping to solve deep-rooted inefficiencies in transportation. Loadsmart also has the ability to quote multiple modes (LTL, Truckload, rail, etc.). Key Takeaways: Redefining Freight Brokerage.

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BlueYonder

MAY 23, 2024

Working together, the team has established a common platform, based on Transportation Management and Warehouse Management solutions from Blue Yonder, as well as standardized and automated processes across the company’s enormous logistics footprint. Chhaochharia, of EY US, agrees. That’s where automated execution comes in.”

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Transportation management system (TMS). A TMS is software that collects data and tracks the processes associated with moving goods, both inbound and outbound, and across all modes of transportation including rail, air, surface, and sea. Warehouse management system (WMS). Let’s start with the basics.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 8, 2019

Providers of real-time freight visibility solutions. Back in July 2017, I interviewed Bennett Adelson, the former CEO of MacroPoint (which was later acquired by Descartes Systems Group, a Talking Logistics sponsor) about OTIF and how it is driving demand for visibility solutions. project44 Adds Ocean Visibility to Platform.

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o9 Solutions

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

This article has also been published on Business Wire The partnership combines o9’s industry-leading integrated business planning platform with FourKites’ Visibility Cloud to provide end-to-end visibility to freight tracking.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Logistics has been focused for so long on operational tradeoffs and cost in transportation, and we’re suddenly throwing a new factor into the mix with sustainability,” he noted. “So How exactly do warehouse and transportation management solutions contribute to solving the complex problem of sustainability?

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BlueYonder

MAY 30, 2024

What we heard at the conference is that tougher environmental targets and longstanding issues such as driver and labor shortages, underinvestment, and lack of visibility, are driving up costs and inefficiencies. into a unified control tower view to enhance network visibility — something the carmaker has not previously done.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

By contrast, the third-party logistics model is where a manufacturer retains oversight of its supply chain but outsources such processes as warehousing, shipping, packing, and distribution to a 3PL provider. Transporting and storing perishable food requires advanced logistics that is beyond the reach of many companies.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 29, 2024

From sourcing raw materials, manufacturing, and storage, to transportation and distribution, SCM ensures efficiency and cost-effectiveness throughout the entire journey. Warehousing: Warehousing involves the storage and management of inventory. Transportation: Transportation plays a pivotal role in supply chain management.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Amazon Buys Thousands of Its Own Truck Trailers as Its Transportation Ambitions Grow (Re/code). SAP Launches Enhanced Supply Chain Execution Software for Faster Logistics Planning. HighJump Partners with Advantage2Retail to Bring Best-of-Breed Warehousing Software to Retailers. billion in cash (pending approval by U.S.,

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The Network Effect

JANUARY 8, 2015

With orchestration, an LSP is afforded the visibility, monitoring, and operational insights required to ensure client service levels are maintained no matter who is performing actual supply chain tasks. Now, there’s been a lot of talk in recent years about “orchestration” to the point that the concept has become over-hyped.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 24, 2023

It involves outsourcing logistics activities, such as warehousing, transportation, distribution, inventory management, and order fulfillment, to a dedicated logistics service provider. Carriers: Carriers are the transportation companies responsible for physically moving the goods from one location to another.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 15, 2016

SAP Is the First Enterprise Software Vendor to Receive U.S. Trucking, Rail Outlook Poor in 2016, Analysts Say (WSJ – sub. November 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). The solution also facilitates inbound shipping processes from vendors/manufacturers to retail stores and warehouses.

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QAD

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Cost savings in warehousing and floor space along with associated reduction in personnel required. Automotive manufacturers in Japan and Korea never had the surplus land to build huge warehouses, which may have been the original reason for the JITS philosophy. What does this mean for the scheduler at an OEM’s plant in Europe?

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 12, 2020

trillion on logistics and transportation services in the United States in 2018, an increase of 11.4% billion, while transportation costs increased by 10.4% billion, while transportation costs increased by 10.4% transportation network and other logistics challenges. trillion and motor carrier costs rose 10.1%

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ModusLink Corporation

APRIL 27, 2023

ESG supply chain management is critical to maximizing the benefits of omnichannel ecommerce and warehousing and distribution services. The Shipper’s Role in Global Fulfillment and Trade Shippers are responsible for transporting goods from the point of origin to the end of consumption. Consider the impact in the value chain.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 20, 2022

“Today’s fast-paced and uncertain environment means organizations need the ability to quickly align upstream and downstream activities from a single user interface or unified platform,” he says. What’s happening is that companies lack the visibility to predict some of these issues in advance. No one has time for that.

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Savi

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Today’s driver shortage is helping to drive transportation costs higher. On top of all these factors, the driver shortages, an almost 100% driver turnover rate, and increased demand further jam up the supply chain and limit transportation options. With the rising economy, setbacks in trucking have occurred.

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