Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Which is why a drone took flight from the stage during Ryan’s keynote address at the Descartes Evolution 2017 Conference a couple of weeks ago and broadcast real-time video of the audience as it flew across the front of the hall. Descartes (@DescartesSG) March 28, 2017. million in FY 2017 (net income has grown from $12.0

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As 2017 comes to an end I took some time to pull together the top 6 most popular blog posts this year, as indicated by our readers. So take a few minutes and enjoy the best of 2017! #1. 2017 Digital Transformation Trend: Integration is King. 2017 Digital Transformation Trend: Smart Anything. Video: Caterpillar, Inc.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Last month, I attended and spoke at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference , where I learned many things about the Heavy Building Materials (HBM) industry. For example, I learned that there’s a difference between cement and concrete, even though many people use the terms interchangeably.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

I learned that fact (and many more important things) at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference in New Orleans this week. As the compliance date for the Electronic Logging Devices (ELD) mandate approaches (December 18, 2017), there are two important questions to be answered: How will it impact capacity?

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2018

Again and again, digitization and data were at the heart of panel and networking conversations. Even headline speakers were professing “data got sexy” and data is now a core strategy for companies looking to succeed. Supply chain leaders are wanting their organizations to be data-driven.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 23, 2017

Cass Truckload Linehaul Index – May 2017. Wal-Mart, loath to give any business to Amazon, said it keeps most of its data on its own servers and uses services from emerging AWS competitors, such as Microsoft Corp.’s Joking aside, when it comes to sensitive data and where it’s stored, I can understand Walmart’s concern.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 9, 2015

An example would be hearing out reasons behind the needs each side wants to address. 4 Drivers of the Looming Transportation Capacity Crisis of 2017. What do you think will happen by 2017 in this transportation capacity issue? crisis may be an understatement rather than an over statement. Let us know in the comments below.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2024

From inventory management to real-time data analysis, a robust IT infrastructure is essential for maintaining efficient and scalable operations. The WannaCry ransomware attack in 2017 , which targeted the NHS’s outdated systems, disrupted services across the UK and highlighted the critical need for IT upgrades.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2018

In 2017 losses incurred from catastrophes such as hurricanes, wildfires, and earthquakes could make it one of the costliest years in history for the property insurance industry, Savitsky noted. Hurricane Maria, which slammed into Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, is a prime example of a catastrophe that reverberates through supply chains.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 14, 2017

One of my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2017 was that traditional software user interfaces would start migrating toward chatbots and virtual assistants. Some examples of what a user could ask Coleman: – “Coleman, what is the accounts receivable balance for ACME Corp?

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 7, 2017

Mobile technologies in transportation and logistics have come a long way over the past decade — that is, since the iPhone was first introduced, followed by Android devices. And when it comes to last-mile and home delivery operations, mobile technology has become indispensable. See also news from Onfleet linked above.

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2018

In his 2017 annual shareholder letter , Bezos lauded “divinely discontent” customers as innovation drivers. These examples are from retail, but I sense that the same customer empowerment phenomenon is happening broadly across everything we do at Amazon and most other industries as well. billion between 2015 and 2017.

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IoT World Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Internet of Things (IoT) sensor-generated data is another key piece of improving railway efficiency and operations. Accordingly, the number of IoT transport units is expected to increase , according to Statista data, from 2.6 million in 2017 to 3.7 Optimizing Railway Operations with Data. Making Data One’s Own.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Those industries include data communications, medical, industrial, automotive and consumer electronics. The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruptions in Iceland, for example, caused enormous disruption to air shipments across Western Europe. The planners could choose to switch cargo from a slow-moving ship to air, for example.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Many-to-many can also refer to many participants in a network accessing many, many sources of event data critical to supply chain operations through a public cloud network. Real-time location and IoT data such as condition statuses (e.g., In February 2017, Koch Equity Development LLC invested $2.68 billion in Infor.

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The Logistics Academy

OCTOBER 18, 2017

As global supply chains become more complex and customers more demanding, the race is on to develop software applications that can effectively manage and make sense of the zettabytes of data being generated by our digital world. Of course, capturing the data and then using it to make good decisions are two entirely different things.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The new platform also makes it easy to identify data relationships, trends, and search out exceptions allowing the ability to easily perform functions that previously required extensive data extractions and time-consuming spreadsheets.”. There were several well-attended sessions at the conference focused on fleet management.

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The Logistics Academy

JUNE 11, 2017

Increasingly, supply chains are all about the data. In the most memorable scene in The Graduate not featuring Mrs. Robinson, Dustin Hoffman is offered a one-word piece of advice about how to succeed in business: “Plastics.” If I were writing that scene today, I’d substitute the word: Data. Plastics.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 19, 2021

Svend Lassen, head of reporting & data analytics for commercial and supply chain at Tata Steel Europe, explained that there needs to be a clear understanding of how any digital project will improve margins before the project is approved. “We Planners come up with data-proven forecasts on what the market may buy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 8, 2021

Target acquired Shipt in 2017 to provide the foundation of its same-day delivery. Whether considering where to start or what they have to gain, most merchants find the necessary insights to move forward with business intelligence tools that mine their own fulfillment data and customer interactions. Critical data to track.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 16, 2017

Modern supply chains are evolving beyond anyone’s expectations due to increased use of cloud-computing technologies, wearables and advanced data analysis. A common theme of the 2016 predictions was growth and scalability, so let’s look at how companies are using these technologies as we prepare for the innovations of 2017.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

The answers were revealed at the SummerCon 2017 conference a couple of weeks ago where LLamasoft introduced “Planning by Design” and SupplyChainPlanning.com, which the company describes as “building blocks to improve your current planning capabilities through design technology.”. What would this “next generation solution” be?

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FreightWaves SONAR

MAY 14, 2024

Starting in roughly 2017, the US freight market has had two periods of extended capacity tightness and two extended periods of looseness. Looking at SONAR’s rate benchmark rates and proprietary capacity data can help you understand where to be focused on controlling costs and where to build resilience.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2021

The implementation also involves leveraging weather data to improve forecasting. In 2017, Pinnacle Propane was acquired by a Dutch company, SHV Energy. For example, a warehouse might have a big propane tank they use with forklifts that run on propane. This data leads to a better baseline forecast. This is also rare.

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Shipchain

MARCH 13, 2019

Logistics Applications of Blockchain Maintain Data for All Parties. Logistics applications of blockchain all derive from maintaining an incorruptible data resource. For example, initiating a recall is streamlined through blockchain by showing all movements of affected shipments. It also affects reverse logistics.

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Trinity Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2024

For example, coffee, cocoa beans, and olives have all recently faced drought conditions, resulting in a lower output of their respective products. Another Category 4, Hurricane Harvey , struck Texas in 2017. These are just a few examples of the impact severe weather has had on supply chains in recent years. and parts of Canada.

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IoT World Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Gatik was founded in 2017 and has since raised $115 million in funding. However there’s no single path for fully autonomous vehicles and makers deploy various tools for testing, including Lidar sensor technologies, connected cameras and visual data analytics functionality. Money on the Middle Mile.

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Forto

JULY 25, 2018

Few topics hold the prestige of logisticians like Big Data. The applications of Big Data in business are numerous. In freight management, Big Data yields opportunities for improvement. The reason behind the application of data is immense. The ways we collect data has evolved too. Why Is Big Data Important?

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 7, 2018

million twenty-foot equivalent units [TEU], making 2017 our busiest year ever,” says Mario Cordero, executive director of Port of Long Beach. Thanks to recent advances made in intermodal and rail switching, for example, The Georgia Ports Authority achieved 14% growth in March container volumes, says GPA chairman Jimmy Allgood.

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United World Transporation

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Implementation of the Rule has followed three phases: December 16, 2015 – December 17, 2018 – Awareness and Transition Phase December 18, 2017 – December 15, 2019 – Phase in Compliance December 16, 2019 onward – Full Compliance. An ELD is technology that automatically records a driver’s driving time and other hours-of-service (HOS) data.

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Now, That's Logistics

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Last year the National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones (NAFTZ) asked CBP to delay the planned September 16, 2017 transition of the Application for Foreign-Trade Zone Admission and/or Status Designation from the agency’s legacy computer system to the new Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) platform, American Shipper reports.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

To know the most difficult challenges as perceived by supply chain professionals, we turn to the SCM World’s 2017 Future of Supply Chain survey. Here are the complete data representing how many supply chain management professionals perceived these threats as significant. The same could be said about natural disasters.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You see, the set of primary data needed to keep an airliner aloft is (apparently) relatively simple—and the same is true of running a supply chain organisation. These key metrics become your organisation’s “multi-function display” and give you the primary data needed to monitor and manage “normal flight conditions.”

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Material Handling and Logistics

MAY 28, 2018

Cyber risk is just one of the indicators of the index which reflects data related to economics, natural hazards and supply chains, and addresses concerns about business risks including political upheaval, fire and hurricanes. As these examples show, different nations exhibit different cyber risks, according to Lawson.

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Transporeon

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Since the third quarter of 2017, many manufacturers have been regularly confronted by scarcity in the transportation market – a problem they haven’t encountered in years. Freight prices are also going up because of carrier rate increases since the last half of 2017. Shippers are feeling the effects of scarce carrier capacity.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

2017 was the year that blockchain technology finally made world headlines, but it was mostly for the wrong reason. Ethereum shares some common features with Bitcoin, including how it’s mined by computers and codifies unique data that can be used to track everything from transactions to an exchange of goods (more on that below).

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Morai Logistics

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

For example, organisations no longer need to think of warehousing in terms of massive regional hubs that require long-distance road haulage (with the expense and environmental impact that entails). The variety of technology means data is coming in from a multitude of sources, raising the risk of data silos. Connectivity.

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