Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Sustainable Shared Transport Inc. 1) and Fujitsu Limited, today announced the launch of a joint transportation and delivery system for shippers and logistics providers in Japan. Fujitsu will utilize SSTs joint transportation and delivery service as a shipper and has jointly built a data integration platform with the company.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The transportation, logistics, and energy storage sectors are undergoing profound transformation, driven by rapid technological advancements, evolving consumer expectations, and the global pursuit of sustainability. In transportation and logistics, this has manifested as a significant focus on electrification and renewable energy integration.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 18, 2024

This recent post by Mike Mulqueen from JBF Consulting’s blog highlights how to maximize your investment in a transportation management system (TMS). Read more The post Editor’s Pick: Is Your Transportation Management System Adequate or Extraordinary? appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 30, 2024

The second-best thing they can do is to equip those experts with a best-in-class Transportation Management System (TMS). The modern transportation management system (TMS) is the cornerstone.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This week, EXOTEC launched the next generation of its Skypod System, designed to address supply chain challenges with robotic automation. These requirements necessitate solutions that can address the need for high throughput, warehouse storage density, and a goods-to-person system capable of handling both case and each picking.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Companies including Amazon and Wing are developing drone delivery systems to optimize logistical processes within restricted urban spaces. With the ability to carry larger payloads over extended distances, autonomous vehicles are better suited for transporting bulk goods between distribution centers and other logistics hubs.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Kendra is the VP of Global Transportation Management leading the managed transportation and brokerage divisions of Ryder System, Inc , a fortune 500 transportation and logistics company. Prior to CTO, she was Group Director of Southeast Operations for Dedicated Transportation Solutions for Ryder System, Inc.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 16, 2024

For professionals in logistics and supply chain management, understanding the implications of this technology is crucial, as it has the potential to fundamentally change the way goods are transported and delivered. Nuro has developed an autonomous vehicle designed for transporting groceries and small packages.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2025

A data gateway is essentially a connective tissue across your supply chain, providing unified access to supply chain data from various sources, including enterprise systems, data feeds, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, and business entities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 29, 2024

A Tier 1 WMS Should be Capable of Complex Optimization ARC Advisory Group does global market research on the warehouse management system market. Warehouse execution systems emerged to optimize work across both the manual and more automated parts of the warehouse. We write about trends in this study.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Today’s article comes from Greca Manuzzi, Senior Expert Product Marketing at Kinaxis, and explores breaking down silos in material and transportation planning. The products and material deliveries are planned without taking real-world transportation constraints into account, such as truck capacities, schedules or incompatibilities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the ever-evolving supply chain industry, transportation spend optimization – or TSO – has assumed greater significance. The need to blend operational efficiency with sustainability and fiscal prudence has organizations exploring innovative ways to help ‘future-proof’ transportation spending challenges.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Road freight alone accounts for approximately 7% of global CO2 emissions, with maritime and air transport further amplifying the environmental burden. Key strategies include: Electrification of Transport: The use of electric vehicles (EVs) for freight and last-mile delivery reduces emissions and operational costs.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 3, 2024

With extensive experience in transportation, logistics and supply chain, leadership and institutional expertise solidify SwanLeap’s position as the leading provider of end-to-end transportation technology. A life-long entrepreneur passionate about improving the world, Brad is the visionary behind SwanLeap’s next generation technology.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Insights into the North American supply chain from Descartes’ 2024 Global Transportation Management Benchmark Survey The role of transportation management has become more critical than ever as companies strive to balance efficiency, cost, and customer satisfaction.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2025

Volatile markets, global disruptions, and the need for real-time insights are pushing traditional systems to their limits. Validate and Improve Outputs: They can leverage task-specific capabilities, knowledge, and memory to validate and improve their outputs and those of other agents in a system, increasing accuracy and reliability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

Excess inventory, stockouts, and increased transportation expenses are common consequences of outdated planning methods. 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 1, 2025

A data gateway is essentially a connective tissue across your supply chain, providing unified access to supply chain data from various sources, including enterprise systems, data feeds, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, and business entities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 8, 2024

Mike Hane, Director, Product Marketing, TMS at Descartes Does your company view transportation as a competitive weapon? The report categorized survey respondents in terms of how they see transportation: either as a “Competitive Weapon” or “Not Important.” For example, Competitive Weapon companies are 3.4

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Transportation, warehousing, and manufacturing collectively contribute significantly to carbon emissions, making these areas critical for meaningful change. Senior leaders must think beyond incremental improvements, embracing systemic innovation to achieve significant environmental impact.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Now let’s get to the Supply Chain News: Descartes Acquires Sellercloud Descartes Systems Group, a standout provider in logistics solutions, announced its acquisition of Sellercloud, a US-based provider of omnichannel e-commerce solutions. This move continues the tradition of U.S.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Alex is also the President of Reefer Van Network , a prominent player in the refrigerated transportation industry, specializing in the safe and efficient delivery of temperature-sensitive goods across North America. Reefer Van Network (RVN): A specialized division within Expedite All focused on refrigerated freight transportation.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Implementing a Transportation Management System (TMS) marks a significant milestone for companies aiming to enhance their supply chain operations. However, the journey doesn’t end at implementation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 15, 2024

But 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 post Don’t Propagate Chaos with Your Supply Chain Planning System!

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 14, 2025

This complexity has introduced gaps in visibility and responsiveness that traditional systems werent designed to handle. This doesnt eliminate those systems, it organizes the data they produce. The system also contributes to better forecasting accuracy. Dell reports reduced cycle times and improved productivity as a result.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2024

Locus Robotics Has Introduced a new Robot with a Heavier Payload Historically, a warehouse management system used slotting and waving functionality to optimize the work in a distribution center. A WMS needs a warehouse control system to control the material handling equipment. If everything works smoothly, this is great.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

One such advancement is the integration of warehouse robotics, which has revolutionized the way tasks such as sorting, picking, transporting, and packaging goods are performed. These automated systems, powered by sophisticated technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, offer unparalleled efficiency and precision.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 7, 2024

Mike Hane, Director, Product Marketing, TMS at Descartes Does your company view transportation as a competitive weapon? The report categorized survey respondents in terms of how they see transportation: either as a “Competitive Weapon” or “Not Important.” For example, Competitive Weapon companies are 3.4

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2025

With freight transport accounting for a significant share of global emissions, efforts to improve logistics now extend beyond operational metrics to include resilience, regulatory compliance, and climate performance. The global freight sector faces growing pressure to balance cost-efficiency with environmental responsibility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The collaboration combines Shipium’s end-to-end logistics platform with ClearJet’s sortation systems and predictive logistics, offering real-time transit visibility, scalability, and cost-effective delivery solutions. announced the launch of a comprehensive public map showcasing all interstate highways in the continental U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Warehouse management systems rely on RF scans of locations and products. Mr. Masson says the analytics lifecycle includes: Managing Data : Creating a business-ready analytics foundation by integrating and standardizing data across systems. We built a technology that allows us to crawl the transactional systems.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 10, 2025

They dont want Blue Yonder to design and test the software, then hand the implementation off to a system integrator, and then hand responsibilities back to Blue Yonder to maintain and upgrade the software. Blue Yonders warehouse management system solution is their top-selling application. Blue Yonder is adding services personnel.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Building automation is similar to industrial automation, except that instead of controlling a factory, the systems control a building’s entry, power consumption, and lighting. Carbon reduction and transportation savings tend to go “hand in hand” unless we are shipping by air. The company has a complex global supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Kudos to the supply chain and logistics teams that have already adopted transportation management systems (TMS), warehouse management systems (WMS), and other digital solutions. With its ability to monitor conditions across the supply chain at every node and touch point digitalization provides the only practical solution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

Manhattan Associates is a leader in two markets, warehouse management systems and omnichannel systems. The company also sells supply chain planning and transportation management solutions. This allows for enables bi-directional collaboration between supply chain planning and execution systems.

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