Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

At Retail Industry Leaders Association’s (RILA) conference in 2020, a Walmart executive talked about how they were now standardizing on a TMS solution from Blue Yonder. At this conference, the executive also spoke about ongoing efforts to improve their transportation capabilities.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2018

The real-time freight visibility space was particularly hot in 2017, with two major acquisitions announced last year, including Descartes’s acquisition of MacroPoint in August 2017. In case you missed it, check out my short video interview with William and David and our write-up of the case study.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

ARC recently attended the August 2021 New England Public Power Association (NEPPA) conference, where Gordon Van Welie, President & CEO of grid operator ISO New England (ISO-NE) described the challenges to maintain reliable, low-cost power, while meeting the urgent goals to decarbonize electric power.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

Here is what Mr. Toornman said at the conference. “We The premise of the study was interesting. Bob Herzog, the global planning digitization leader for supply chain, and Pedro Noriega, planning director, North American product supply, both of Procter & Gamble (P&G), spoke on this at Kinaxis’ Kinexions 2019 user conference.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 28, 2018

Submissions consist of case studies describing your company's supply chain innovation that emphasize innovative and measurable results. Finalists are asked to present their case studies at CSCMP's 2018 EDGE Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. You must be a CSCMP member to submit a case study. 2017 Winners and Finalists.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Descartes Evolution Global User & Partner Conference 2019. How can I summarize the many sessions and customer case studies I attended in a short blog post? One of Descartes’ most high-profile acquisitions was its purchase of MacroPoint for $107 million in August 2017.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Here’s a Varsity Math question for you: The ATA projected a 50,000 driver shortage by the end of 2017 , but that’s off their estimate that there are 3.5 The report, “Truck Driving Jobs: Are They Headed for Rapid Elimination?” of America [that] said higher shipping costs cut into its adjusted profit by 4 cents a share in the fourth quarter.”.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Here are several videos in support of the 2018 Third-Party Logistics Study, that were filmed at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta during the 2017 Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) EDGE yearly conference. You can download this study at no charge by visiting [link].

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2018

While a degree of uncertainty over the future of free trade between Mexico and its Nafta neighbours to the north once again hung over discussions at this year’s Automotive Logistics Mexico conference, it was more than matched by confidence in the future of the automotive sector.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This is not only fulfilled by an analysis by ‘force exploration’ undertaken within the Integrated Investment Plan, but a detailed study of strategic concepts for operations and the logistics requirements necessary for them to occur. Logistics and the strangling of strategy, 2017, Logistics and the strangling of strategy – Logistics In War. [2]

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Trucking costs to halve by 2030, study predicts (LLoyd’s Loading List). Then in December 2016, one of the my predictions for 2017 was that “The Migration from Traditional User Interfaces to Chatbots and Virtual Assistants Begins.”. Deliverr raises $7M to help e-commerce businesses compete with Amazon Prime (TechCrunch).

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Women in Trucking

MARCH 9, 2020

Conference shared a variety of best practices. And more promising news: 76 percent of female 18- to 26-year-olds have a favorable impression of professional driving, according to a recent nationwide study by the Adcom Group, a marketing and communications firm. percent increase in female drivers from 2017 to 2018, Shaver says.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Logistics experts shared their research findings during the Council for Supply Chain Management Professional’s (CSCMP) EDGE Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. Penske Logistics sponsors both studies. Presenters included Balika Sonthalia, a vice president at A.T. State of the Supply Chain. Transportation costs saw a 10.4%

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2018

Last fall after attending the CSCMP conference in Atlanta, I shared my observation that digital transformation is now a central theme in the industry. A Deloitte study in 2017 found 49% of procurement officers believe the quality of data is a major barrier, and the lack of data integration was the number two barrier (42%).

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Logistics experts shared their research findings during the Council for Supply Chain Management’s (CSCMP) annual EDGE Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Penske is once again a major conference sponsor. The 3PL Study is produced by Dr. Langley and Infosys. In 2017, revenues reached $175 billion, and the U.S.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2017

Customers, conferences, and colleagues past and present are all possibilities for sharing insights and information. A recent study from the Canadian Supply Chain Sector Council forecast that by 2017, supply chain employment in Canada would increase at an annual rate of over 8 percent for tactical roles and almost 15% for managerial roles.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MARCH 1, 2019

Spurring innovation, food safety and quality capacity strengthening and economic resilience This year’s Africa Day of School Feeding comes at the heels of the first ever Future of Food Safety Conference held at the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Logistics experts shared their research findings during the Council for Supply Chain Management Professional's (CSCMP) EDGE Annual Conference in Anaheim, California. Penske Logistics sponsors both studies. Presenters included Balika Sonthalia, a vice president at A.T. So far in 2019, economic indicators are giving mixed signs.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 18, 2018

With a gross domestic product (GDP) of about US$136bn in 2017, the city is already acclaimed to have the seventh-largest GDP in Africa. So did Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichal in July 2017. In May 2017, they started the installation of free wifi infrastructure across the city. Lagos Innovates’.

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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Subsequent to the successful implementation of the Protocol on Foreign Office Consultations for the period 2017-18, the Sides agreed to extend the period of Consultations for five more years (2019-2023) and signed a Protocol to this effect. India complimented Russia for successful organization of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

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Automotive Logistics

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Europe’s finished vehicle sector faces several big challenges in coming months, as speakers at the recent ECG conference in Germany made clear. At last week’s annual conference of the Association of European Vehicle Logistics (ECG), held in Mainz, Germany, speakers discussed what they were doing to tackle these problems.

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Logistics in War

JUNE 15, 2018

In 2017, Logistics In War was privileged to have been given permission by the author to publish this essay. It is especially relevant to participants of the Australian and New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference and others elsewhere. By Hayden Marshall.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 3, 2019

Current studies forecast a huge growth in industry drone application,” says Philipp Wrycza, research fellow at Fraunhofer IML, who explains that there are three main uses for drones in the automotive industry: transportation, stocktaking and inspection. “We billion ($1.6 billion over the same period.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 17, 2018

Last fall after attending the CSCMP conference in Atlanta, I shared my observation that digital transformation is now a central theme in the industry. A Deloitte study in 2017 found 49% of procurement officers believe the quality of data is a major barrier, and the lack of data integration was the number two barrier (42%).

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 2, 2019

As executive director of the ATA’s Automobile Carriers Conference (ACC), Farrell regularly coordinates lobbying efforts between the US House of Representatives and Senate, as well as related government oversight agencies, on issues pertaining to the transport of finished vehicles by truck. Democrats like to spend money.

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The Lean Thinker

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Background: I wrote an article appearing in the current (October 2017) issue of AME Target Magazine (page 20) that profiles two very different organizations that have both seen really positive shifts in their culture. Sara Abshari and Eileen Jaskuta are presenting the Meritus story at the AME conference next week (October 9, 2017).

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

LMC warns that OEMs facing the biggest challenges are those most exposed to the local market, such as Fiat Tofas, which saw production drop from 384,174 in 2017 to just over 300,000 last year. That was almost twice the amount exported to the EU by Japan, the second-largest supplier of vehicles to the EU based on 2017 figures.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a bonus, at the Imagine 2014 Magento e-commerce Conference, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Malcolm McLean (just as he did in this Inc. Ceiling year of a study of 22 industrialised countries (Uni. The study also isolates the impact of bilateral free-trade agreements and GATT membership. Readers' choice! Significance.

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

We saw that starting to turn around in 2016 and continued to accelerate into 2017," he notes. trillion in 2017, up 6.2% Parcel delivery volumes jumped 7% to $99 billion in 2017. A 2014 study by The Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte projected that employment in manufacturing and warehousing would fall a 2 to 3.5

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 5, 2019

Data from Dynamar, a Dutch maritime intelligence and consulting firm, shows that container traffic through Lomé grew threefold over the five years from 2013 to 2017. Lomé processed 311,500 20-foot equivalent units (TEU) in 2013, but more than 1,193,800 TEU in 2017. Lomé looks to the future. Another 20,770 sq.m

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 24, 2018

Calls to proceed with less bluster and avoid a withdrawal from Nafta seem warranted: PwC estimates that approximately 65% of Mexican light vehicle assembly was exported to the US in 2017. The study also suggested withdrawing from Nafta altogether could more than double the number of jobs at risk.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I will be wrong again,” I stated last year before making my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2017 , and I was right. But I was right with some of my other predictions, especially my prediction that we would see a rise in cyber attacks in 2017, with supply chain and logistics operations becoming new targets. per barrel.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 28, 2018

LETS TALK: US Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim looks inside a Cessna-208B Grand Caravan Intelligence, Surveillance and Recoinnaissance (ISR) aircraft acquired through grant programmes by the the US government to the Philippine Air Force (PAF) during a formal turn-over ceremony at the PAF headquarters in Manila on July 27, 2017.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 16, 2018

Apparently in response to this cyber attack, Maersk announced a new partnership with IBM in December 2017 that would use blockchain technology to digitise the logistics company’s operational platform, enhance cargo visibility and mitigate future data breaches across its end-to-end supply chain. Make no mistake,” Mike White commented.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

At NIST, we began an Internal Review Board Study to test the PoLoTAE on 180 subjects (30 subjects performing tests on six different PoLotAE tasks). This method is also a part of the IRB study to test it on 30 people. . Already, the PoLoTAE has been requested to be replicated by several exoskeleton users and a manufacturer. Blockchain.

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