The Logistics Academy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

According to the new “Global Freight Forwarding 2017 Report” compiled by the London-based think tank Transport Intelligence (Ti) , a continuation of excess capacity issues and lower average oil prices in 2016 led rates to fall in both air and sea freight, meaning most forwarders reported lower year-on-year revenues. Toll Group.

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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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Bringg

MAY 1, 2018

billion people worldwide purchased goods online in 2017. In 2017, retail e-commerce sales worldwide climbed to 2.3 The global parcels market was almost US$350bn in 2017, up from just over US$310bn in 2016. billion) in sales during Singles’ Day 2017. Source: Salmon Survey). Source: CoStar Group).

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AIMMS

JANUARY 25, 2018

This tech-savvy group can be a great source of new ideas and innovative solutions for managing the supply chain of the future. Make sure you consider this to make your recruitment and retention efforts effective among this target group. . Millennials are important, put a strategy in place to attract and retain . Source: SCM World.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 3, 2022

The results, based on a representative survey among more than 200 companies, shed unparalleled insight into key challenges in the industry, as well as best practices to improve supply chain performance and operation. In response to these rising complexities, late last year, Körber commissioned its first ever Supply Chain Benchmarking report.

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Mazars Ledger

JULY 2, 2019

Water… The post 2017 U.S. Mazars USA LLP and the National Association of Water Companies (NAWC) are pleased to announce the release of the U.S. Water & Wastewater Contract Operations Market Report appeared first on Insights Center - Mazars - United States.

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Freightos

MARCH 4, 2020

For previous years’ reports: 2015 , 2017 , 2018. We also surveyed eight digital freight forwarders and the five largest ocean carriers for FCL quotes to get a sense of the growing competition that forwarders are facing and how these compare in their digitization efforts. . Keep reading for the highlights OR. About the Research.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 30, 2019

Only about 22% use network design software and 18% use network design software with embedded analytics among this group. . These quiz responses are fairly consistent with a 2017 survey by Lora Cecere’s Supply Chain Insights, which revealed that 65% of companies use spreadsheets for network design.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The report, titled “In the Driver’s Seat: 2018 North American over-the-road transportation survey,” will be distributed in Transporeon’s booth #636 at CSCMP Edge, or via download from the link below. “Our The Transporeon 2018 North American Road Transportation Survey can be downloaded here.

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Material Handling and Logistics

MAY 28, 2018

The risk of cyberattack, once overhyped, now threatens businesses’ very existence, according to a recent survey, 2018 FM Global Resilience Index. Despite a fraught political climate, the group says, the U.S. Although the internet transcends national boundaries, users, businesses and defenses do not.”. Natural Hazards a Wild Card.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Palletways, an Imperial Group company and one of Europe’s largest and fastest-growing express palletised freight networks, has partnered with Mates in Mind, a UK charity that helps organisations improve their workforces’ mental health.

Training 69

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The survey, which was released during CSCMP EDGE in Atlanta on September 21, collected responses from hundreds of supply chain professionals 30 and under. This is a significant increase from the 13% who cited this reason in 2019 and the 10% who noted it in 2017. We are proud to support the next generation of logistics leaders.".

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 24, 2018

A new survey analyses the maturity levels of large UK and German companies in their efforts to digitise their supply chain ecosystems – with a focus on sustainability and transparency drivers. The survey among 150 supply chain decision makers* reveals a major difference between Germany and the UK.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 25, 2018

This tech-savvy group can be a great source of new ideas and innovative solutions for managing the supply chain of the future. Make sure you consider this to make your recruitment and retention efforts effective among this target group. Millennials are important, put a strategy in place to attract and retain. Source: SCM World.

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Bringg

MAY 1, 2018

billion people worldwide purchased goods online in 2017. In 2017, retail e-commerce sales worldwide climbed to 2.3 The global parcels market was almost US$350bn in 2017, up from just over US$310bn in 2016. billion) in sales during Singles’ Day 2017. Source: Salmon Survey). Source: CoStar Group).

eCommerce 48

eCommerce Purchasing Skills Sourcing Express delivery 48

Logistics Bureau

APRIL 18, 2019

Source: Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals 2017 Survey. “60% of young supply chain professionals surveyed described their work as exciting, and 56% said their work is fascinating. Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals 2017 Survey. Other Supply Chain Careers.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 24, 2018

According to a new survey sponsored by supply chain optimiser Infor, status updates and ETA information top the list of customer must-haves. Seventy-eight percent of consumers surveyed expect to receive updates on the status of their orders. Infor sponsored a similar YouGov survey in 2016. “In

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2022

The words “avian flu” often trigger alarm bells for the majority of the population, as was evident with the avian flu outbreaks in the US that led to the culling of hundreds of thousands of chickens and turkeys in 2015 and 2017. The global chip shortage is not the only aspect currently affecting supply chains around the world.

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Material Handling and Logistics

APRIL 7, 2018

Although the latest 2018 Salary Survey results found only 2% of the total population of supply chain professionals are in their 20s (the same percentage as in 2017), the gender breakdown of the Millennials recognized in this year's 30 Under 30 program was 18 males / 12 females, for a much more reasonable 3:2 ratio. Media Type.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 27, 2017

by December 18, 2017. Lowering fuel costs: In a recent survey¹ of more than 1,000 fleet managers, decreased fuel consumption was cited as one of the leading benefits of telematics. Best Practices for Fleet Operations , Descartes Systems Group, June 2017.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 8, 2018

Since the federally mandated electronic logging device (ELD) mandate took effect near the end of 2017, the subsequent impact on the truckload shippers and carriers, as was expected, has been fairly bumpy on various fronts. That was a key theme in a Logistics Management reader survey of 349 freight transportation and logistics stakeholders.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 6, 2018

More than 500 qualified respondents to our “34th Annual Salary Survey” report that their salaries moved up only incrementally last year. This year’s survey again draws the most feedback from successful logistics managers who have been climbing the executive ladder for some time. Respondents reflect.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 9, 2019

According to a survey by Deloitte from 2014, 79 % of companies with high-performing supply chains achieve revenue growth superior to the average within their industries. In 2014, a survey by Tompkins Consortium delivered a shocking revelation. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers. Now for those statistics I mentioned.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

According to a survey by Deloitte from 2014, 79 % of companies with high-performing supply chains achieve revenue growth superior to the average within their industries. In 2014, a survey by Tompkins Consortium delivered a shocking revelation. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers. Now for those statistics I mentioned.

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Women in Trucking

MARCH 9, 2020

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. Companies are recognizing the value of women drivers.

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Freightos

MARCH 5, 2017

A version of this article appeared in the Journal of Commerce on March 4th, 2017. It’s the freshly appointed CEO of CMA CGM, Rodolphe Saadé, speaking about the new opportunities that lie online during a session at Journal of Commerce’s TPM 2017 in Long Beach. Two years ago you didn’t hear talk of digitization from ocean liners.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 31, 2018

Global sales for such products, which are used in factories, warehouses and logistics applications, reached $6.131 billion in sales in 2016 and are on track to hit the $6.358 billion mark in 2017, according to VDC Research Group. For the handheld scanner sector, Gupta says early-2017 results indicated that overall revenues are 9.6%

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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. Besides, these risks are much more serious (for example, there were about 134,000 reported cyber-attacks on businesses in 2017 , or almost 50 percent increase from 2016).

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Transporeon

APRIL 2, 2019

It looks like they are marching upwards through 2017, which means shippers need to take early action now. Through 2017, most shippers anticipate rising freight rates (56%). Many shippers expect prices to remain stable (44%) but no-one thinks that rates will decline (Transporeon/Xeneta survey, 2016).

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

According to a Deloitte survey of large companies with $500 million or more in revenue, 25% of respondents expected to invest more that $5 million in blockchain technology in 2017. Trever founded the GigCity Virtual Reality (VR/AR) users group and is an active member of the Atomic Windbags Toastmasters group in Chattanooga.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 30, 2019

Only about 22% use network design software and 18% use network design software with embedded analytics among this group. . These quiz responses are fairly consistent with a 2017 survey by Lora Cecere’s Supply Chain Insights, which revealed that 65% of companies use spreadsheets for supply chain network design.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 3, 2017

The Content Marketing Institute (CMI) has released the results of its annual manufacturing content marketing survey, and there have been some big changes since last year. In fact, CMI has been conducting the survey among manufacturing operations for the last four years, and never before have the results indicated such progress.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

APRIL 27, 2019

Correos is the main nucleus of the group’s activities through the provision of universal postal service to all citizens and is at the same time the reference company in the Spanish market, one of the most liberalized in the European Union. Correos is a company with 100% public capital, whose owner is the Spanish State. million of euros.

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Transporeon

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Regularly since Q3 2017, many shipping companies have been confronted by transport scarcity – a problem they’ve never known before. Transport prices are also going up because of carrier rate increases since Q3 2017. This has continued into mid-2018, as evidenced by recent surveys conducted on the Transporeon platform.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JANUARY 10, 2019

In 2017 the transportation sector alone contributed 8.9 Customer demand: According to a research conducted by Retail-Week, in response to a question on what they expect in terms of delivery, 70 percent of the customers surveyed said they would like to have more flexible delivery options. percent of the country’s GDP.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 15, 2015

In this bylined article , Ralf Russ, Accenture Managing Director, writes that by 2020, connected and intelligent products are predicted to be the biggest “user group” of the internet, estimated at 24 billion devices. Connectivity has Brought us the Digital Industry 4.0 Revolution. But this is not just a revolution in consumer technology.

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Logistics Manager

JANUARY 13, 2019

France-based subsidiary of the Bolloré Group , Bolloré Logistics Japan recently carried out the transportation of materials and equipment from Mitsubishi Corporation for a large-scale fertilizer plant being built in Navoiy, Uzbekistan.

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