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Top 5 Free Online Resources for Freight Brokers

GlobalTranz

So if you're making a career switch and need to learn the ins and outs of freight brokering quickly, definitely consider taking a course. These 10 top mobile apps are valuable tools to help you stay connected and on top of everything in a fast changing business environment. 10 Powerful Mobile Apps for Freight Brokers & Agents.

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Parcel Deliveries Clogging Up City Streets

LandLink

Cities don’t have reliable data on the number of delivery trucks coursing through their streets; let alone planning for them. million in parking fines in 2006. routes its new big-data tool, On-Road Integrated Optimization Navigation (ORION). The next generation is going to be a real-time tool taking traffic into account.

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Aptiv takes a global approach to mobility

Automotive Logistics

Underpinning this approach will be a global transport management system (TMS), which Richards is responsible for implementing, as well as developing an enterprise visibility tool with predictive analytics for freight movements around the world. “We There are similar worries in both the inbound and outbound sector in Europe.

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Using Big Data to Drive Manufacturing Sales: 3 Big Takeaways from the USMTO Reports

GlobalTranz

Obviously, a lot of manufacturing equipment buyers wait for the show before committing to purchase and of course a lot of orders are set up to be taken at the show as well! This obviously shows how deep and terrible the recessions were, not only for US manufacturers, but for the sellers of manufacturing equipment and machine tools as well.

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Vertical Integration in the Supply Chain: Is it on the Rise?

Logistics Bureau

In 2006, Armor purchased a company that produces super-strength fibres used in the manufacture of bullet-proof materials. Of course it can be if it’s done for the right reasons —and done right. Of course that’s not to say that vertical supply chain integration is always a bad idea. What Can Possibly Go Wrong?

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

247 Customs Broker

. Sheffi starts, for example, with the extreme pressures coming from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), notably Greenpeace, about which one environmentalist says “When Greenpeace reaches for its toolbox, it tends to find only one tool, and that’s a mallet.” And of course most can’t.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

247 Customs Broker

Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. Of course we all need to up our game. . Marketing Director, Inovity.