Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

When unexpected disruptions occura factory shutdown, a shipping delay, or a supply shortagethese models provide little flexibility. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, while effective for tracking transactions and inventory levels, lack the predictive capabilities needed to anticipate and mitigate risks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2025

These tools do not aim to replace human decision-makers but instead enhance visibility, enable smarter planning, and improve overall resource utilization. One of the key challenges in green freight logistics is reducing emissions from fuel-intensive operationsparticularly in trucking and maritime shipping.

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Freightos

APRIL 2, 2024

More Resources Home Ahead of the Curve: How Digitalization Helped Air Cargo Amidst Red Sea Shipping Diversions Joyce Tai April 2, 2024 If there’s one lingering lesson from the supply chain crisis of COVID, it’s that digitization can help organizations navigate crises…but that digitization can’t be put in place DURING that same crisis.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The order, which takes effect immediately, also requires an additional review of end-usage for graphite items shipped to the U.S. Based in Aberdeen, the new entity aims to pool resources, reduce costs, and boost profitability while increasing production from 140,000 boed in 2025 to 200,000-220,000 boed within five years.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 14, 2025

System Integration and Data Visibility Orchestration requires connecting warehouse systems, transportation platforms, and ERP data so that status updates, inventory levels, and shipping exceptions are visible without needing to log in to separate systems. This doesnt eliminate those systems, it organizes the data they produce.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 15, 2025

Companies now must make strategic decisions regarding pricing, shipping, supply chains and overall logistics. Below, we provide nine tips to optimize your shipping and tell you how a third-party logistics (3PL) provider can help you during these difficult times.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2025

If your business depends on freight shipping, you've likely felt the effects of a world that seems to change overnight. From port congestion and fuel surcharges to weather events and labor shortages, the threats to your shipping network are real and growing. Even businesses that ship only within U.S. The good news?

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Ensuring a consistent, timely delivery experience becomes even more difficult during times of peak demand, but adding resources to manage the volume spikes is costly and can quickly erode margin during lower volume times. dates several weeks in advance) based on real-time insight into existing commitments and delivery resources.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 3, 2025

The formula was tried and tested: build strong brands, expand into growing markets, and manage costs carefully to generate more resources for brand-building. AI-powered tools improve demand sensing, optimize inventory, and manage exceptions—allowing organizations to do more with the same or fewer resources. Want to learn more?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 10, 2025

Commercial teams operate in a ship-to environment, but the supply chain teams operate in a transactional world based on a ship from model. Visibility of the translation layer of ship to converted to ship from is not existent. The signal is clear for commercial teams, but not for supply. The reason?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 12, 2025

Even digital advancements, like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, only partially solve these challenges because they still need centralized oversight and reconciliation. How Smart Contracts Improve Logistics IoT-Enabled Tracking: Sensors on shipping containers continuously log real-time data (e.g.,

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Stord

APRIL 24, 2025

Always review official government and trade resources for the most accurate and updated tariff information. This is HUGE for anyone drop-shipping directly to consumers. These aren't easy fixes, but they represent the initial steps brands are considering to steady their ships.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2025

However, large organizations are often equipped to handle fulfillment in-house, leveraging their extensive resources and capabilities. These steps include sourcing and receiving inventory, storing inventory, order processing, picking and packing an order, shipping the order, and returns management.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

In mathematical terms, optimization is a mixed-integer or linear programming approach to finding the best combination of warehouses, factories, transportation flows, and other supply chain resources under real-world constraints. The forecast can be compared to what actually shipped or sold.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The rise of e-commerce has led to higher volumes of smaller orders that need to be fulfilled and shipped individually. It matches labor, equipment, and other resources accurately with order volumes, in real time. It intelligently and profitably delivers the right task to the right resource at the right time. The result?

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of modern supply chains, one of the key challenges is the efficient management of resources to eliminate waste and enhance overall productivity. You may be giving up some carton space efficiency for the benefits of stacking, storing, and shipping efficiencies. With 90% of items shipped in the U.S.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The 2021 peak shipping season is on track to break records, and for months, industry experts, including Inbound Logistics, have discussed how the ongoing peak of e-commerce from 2020 will lead to added pressure for this holiday shopping season. Multimodal shipping solutions. . Solutions to help them reach sustainability goals. .

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Shapiro

MARCH 13, 2025

When it comes to ocean freight, it can be easy to observe the competitive nature of shipping rates, service loops and trade lanes and label it market share dog-eat-dog. Shipping alliances are an essential facet of international logistics, promoting efficiency in a complex global trade environment. Astro-logistics!

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2021

Incorporate changing business conditions: Machine learning can automatically account for changing business conditions, including new ship-to locations and changes in service provider’s performance level. It can minimize the number of actual delayed shipments by making better planning decisions upfront before the orders are shipped.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2021

Fewer labor resources are available to meet the rising demand in both the warehouse and in transit. Port backlogs, cargo limitations on container ships, and a lack of available equipment and port facility staffing. TMS technology.

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Freightos

JULY 24, 2024

More Resources Home Red Sea Crisis and Early Peak Season Surge Disrupt Global Supply Chains for some SMBs Judah Levine July 24, 2024 Since early May, supply chains have faced significant disruptions due to congestion caused by Red Sea diversions and an early start to ocean freight’s peak season.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Fuel surcharges simply reflect rising fuel costs, but accessorials can quickly raise LTL shipping costs as carriers levy fees for additional services like liftgate use and delivery/pickup appointments. Ensure freight is classified right the first time to avoid re-weigh or re-class fees and recover shipping costs in sales more accurately.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 5, 2025

The Container Payment Portal will serve as the primary interface for Hapag-Lloyd customers to manage compliance with the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA) and facilitate the payment of import line demurrage charges for U.S. million TEU, Hapag-Lloyd is one of the world’s leading liner shipping companies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Three months into 2025, we have seen a barrage of on-again, off-again tariffs that have supply chain and logistics teams reeling, as they must rethink everything from next weeks shipping route to their foundational network models. The Ukraine-Russia conflict is ongoing.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Poor rebalancing creates operational inefficiencies that drain your resources: Escalating Operational Costs: Are you ready to pay up to 50% more for expedited shipping because you weren’t prepared? Inefficient inventory management often leads to last-minute rush orders that inflate logistics costs.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Chad is the Co-founder and Chief Digital Officer of BoxC , a logistics startup out of 500 Startups Batch 6 that simplifies the complexity of international parcel shipping by bringing together logistics and compliance resources from around the world into a single platform. It’s frictionless. It’s flexible.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 1, 2021

Keeping those steps in mind, supply chain leaders could reallocate network resources to leverage empty miles to move returned items without incurring an added cost for drivers and additional runtime for the truck. Utilize your own rates or leverage GlobalTranz’s best-in-class shipping rates from national, regional, and local carriers.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Supply chain efficiency is the cornerstone of success and involves the effective management of processes, resources, and technologies from procurement to production, transportation to warehousing. Understanding Supply Chain Efficiency Supply chain efficiency refers to maximizing output while minimizing resource input.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

They have assembled a set of hardware and software solutions to enable huge surges in shipping. This is an interesting retail niche, but it comes with a supply chain that has huge surges in shipping. And the goods all ship within five to fifteen days depending on the sale event. “We Mr. Van Erlach explained.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Just in time for the holidays, the Ship It Zero campaign is bringing visibility to the impacts of dirty ocean shipping caused by mega retailers all year round but especially as they ship their goods during the holiday season.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Enhanced Financial Liquidity: Liberation of capital previously tied up in inventory, enabling more strategic allocation of financial resources. Accuracy in Demand Forecasting: Implementation of an optimized inventory management system facilitates more accurate demand forecasting, leading to improved planning and resource allocation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2021

KNAPP noted that one its retailer clients would ship e-commerce orders from the DC to the store locations for customer pick-up (click and collect process). The pandemic created, almost overnight, a market for direct-to-consumer shipping of some high-end, luxury goods. Rapid Order Increases. And this caused delays.

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

More Resources Home September 26, 2023 Update The Freightos Weekly Update helps you stay on top of the latest developments in international freight by giving you the rundown on the latest economic data, ocean and air demand trends, rate data – and anything else impacting the market. Europe prices (FBX11 Weekly) fell 34% to $996/FEU.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2025

The strategic value of AI lies in its ability to automate routine decisions, enhance visibility, and support better resource planning. Freight Cost Prediction: AI uses market history, fuel prices, and regional shipping patterns to forecast changes in freight rates and support contract negotiation strategies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

We invest a huge amount of time and resources into our people and making sure that we have the best digital talent in the industry and that we’re doing the most innovative things in the supply chain. The sales team can go have those conversations, with real-time lead times and even the factory the product will ship from, with customers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Easy Enhancements : The cloud multi-carrier parcel management software provider is responsible for solution upgrades and enhancements, including application maintenance, and most application upgrades can be deployed automatically, eliminating the need for internal IT resources.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 19, 2023

A supply chain digital twin is a complete model of your supply chain that allows you to run what-if scenarios and determine the most efficient use of resources for fulfilling demand. But here, we’ll be talking about supply chain digital twins. It brings data that is stored in different silos across an organization all into one model.

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