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The Tech that Automated 60 Million Shipments with Chadd Olesen

The Logistics of Logistics

Chadd and Co-Founder Nikolai Pereira started AVRL in 2017 and the company has grown so quickly that it is recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America by Inc. Over the course of every year, we identify 18 companies to work with us to automate their processes.” and automate processes. Copied from AVRL’s website.

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The Free TMS with Tim Higham

The Logistics of Logistics

Tim Higham and Joe Lynch discuss the free TMS, which is of course AscendTMS. In August, 2017, a national, publicly traded bank holding company bought a minority stake in InMotion Global and AscendTMS. Tim is the CEO of AscendTMS, the world’s most popular TMS software, with over 56,197 customers in over 30 countries.

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Transportation Industry Braces for a Looming Transportation Capacity Crunch Crisis in 2017

GlobalTranz

Now of course, this continues to strengthen the need for a hard look at how we handle the Highway Trust Fund and how we deal with aging infrastructure. Well, basically, because getting freight in a smooth matter is clearly important to helping combat the capacity crunch as it is and of course, moving forward. Wide shoulders.

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6 Key Supply Chain and Logistics Trends to Watch in 2017

Logistics Bureau

At the same time, technological advances such as the Internet of Things, automated transportation and similar futuristic innovations , have been offering the promise of disruption for the last few years without really delivering, although there is little doubt that they will, maybe in 2017, or maybe later.

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Transparency and Overcapacity: Where Freight is Going in 2017

Freightos

Where Freight is Going in 2017. The 90% percentile prices, of course, stayed the same. For global forwarders and carriers, 2017 is kicking off with a hesitant excitement, accompanied by some very real worries. The post Transparency and Overcapacity: Where Freight is Going in 2017 appeared first on Freightos.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 11-15, 2017)

Talking Logistics

WiseTech Global buys Microlistics for $40m, its ninth acquisition in 2017 (Australian Financial Review). Of course, to have any significant impact in easing margin pressures, “The adoption by consumers is pretty important for those to be successful,” said Lee Klaskow, a Bloomberg Intelligence analyst.

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Convey survey takes long look at key holiday delivery challenges for retailers

Logistics Management

The wide-ranging survey is the fourth one Convey has released, going back to 2017, and its findings can be viewed, as it was conducted and released over the course of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which Convey said has created a whole new set of challenges for retailers to win customers and also meet seasonal demands amid a global pandemic.

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