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The Broker-Carrier Summit with Dan Lindsey

The Logistics of Logistics

Dan has been in the logistics industry since 2001 when he began working the preload shift for UPS. solution combines aggregated market data and customer data with advanced machine learning techniques to deliver short-term predictive freight market pricing specific to a company’s individual buy and sell behavior.

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Five Common Customs Pitfalls — and How to Avoid Them

Talking Logistics

TIP: Create a database within your customs software for all common items, with master data and the customs tariff numbers to be used respectively. TIP: Avoid subsequent payments and excessive duty payments by regularly updating your master data. This will save you time in the import and export process. Missing information.

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Setlog and Rhenus Join Forces

Logistics Business Magazine

Setlog was founded in 2001 by Guido Brackelsberg, Ralf Duester and Jakob Gielen and has since developed into one of the world’s leading software specialists for end-to-end supply chain management solutions. Integration via a central platform enables comprehensive communication and data exchange.

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The History of eCommerce: From the 1960s to the 2020s

Ship Monk

Back in the day, businesses relied on primitive computer networks to conduct electronic transactions through EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), enabling them to share invoices, order forms, and shipping confirmations. In 1994, Netscape developed SSL (Secure Socket Layers), a protocol that increased the safety of internet data transmissions.

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Executive guide to ERP Part 6: The operation stage

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

After a long project, your organization has finally gone live with an ERP system that allows the company to automate and integrate the majority of its business processes , share common data across all functions, and produce and access information in real-time. The truth is that going live is not the end. Application erosion.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 28 – November 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

Obviously, it is not a new collaboration between the foursome, what with John Lennon’s assassination in 1980, and George Harrison’s passing in 2001. It will use data gathered during continued testing at the Euclid, Ohio, facility to influence which fiber-centric systems get installed at other facilities.

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The Mind-Boggling Complexities of Food Distribution (Why Optimization is Critical)

Talking Logistics

For example, here’s a description from a 2001 profile of Kroger’s food supply chain published by Louisville Business First : The frozen food portion of the order is assembled at 6:30 a.m. You can read the thesis for all the details, but it’s sufficient to say that a lot of different data and factors were involved (e.g.,