Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2025

Understanding AI Agents At its core, an AI Agent is a reasoning engine capable of understanding context, planning workflows, connecting to external tools and data, and executing actions to achieve a defined goal. user interface and data management agents) collaborating with specialized-skill and tool agents (e.g.,

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 28, 2025

But scaling your operations can be challenging, especially if you’re not equipped with the right strategies and tools. In this blog post, we’ll explore some key strategies for scaling your ecommerce business in 2025. As we embark on a new year, many ecommerce businesses are setting ambitious goals for growth.

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Locus

JANUARY 22, 2025

As we look ahead to 2025, businesses are increasingly turning to AI-driven technologies to streamline last-mile delivery, cut rising costs, and keep customers satisfied. Similarly, Bettermiles coordination tools streamline driver-recipient communication, saving both time and money.

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Dedola Global Logistics

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

We’re excited to share how the innovations and investments made this year lay a strong foundation for 2025 and beyond—where precision, technology, and our talented team come together to better serve you. A Journey of Transformation This year has been a journey, integrating technology and data into every layer of our operations.

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Blue Grace Logistics

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The Role of Technology : How data, AI, and visibility tools are helping companies stay agile in an ever-evolving environment. Capacity & Supply Chain Hurdles : How ongoing challenges in the market are affecting transportation availability and what it means for shippers.

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Log-hub

JANUARY 8, 2025

Supply chains are changing fast, and 2025 is set to bring even more challenges and opportunities. Lets explore the key strategies that can keep your business ahead of the competition in 2025. These tools can transform your supply chain, helping you predict inventory needs, automate repetitive tasks, and optimize delivery routes.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 9, 2023

Manufacturers increasingly turning to data and analytics, from an ERP system, to support business initiatives. Data is after all the fuel that runs the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In most cases, there has been a succession of tools that worked in some cases but were not broadly successful. Challenges to using data.

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3PL Links

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Image source: Pexels | How Real-Time Inventory Tracking Can Boost Your Profit in 2025 In today’s fast-moving business environment, real-time inventory tracking has become a critical tool for optimizing operations, cutting costs, and driving profitability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

It is a brilliant tool.” SCCN solutions allow trading partners to collaborate across defined trading partner processes based on a common data model. The solution breaks down spending by categories and derives “new subcategories that we didn’t know even existed. My advice,” he concluded, “is just jump in.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 5, 2025

ports throughout 2025, including:Houston,Virginia,Charleston,Savannah,Wilmington, New York/New Jersey,Baltimore,Philadelphia,Miami, Mobile,New Orleans,Tampa,Jacksonville, Port Everglades,Seattle,Tacoma,Oakland,Long BeachandLos Angeles. The CPP will be phased in across all major U.S. With this portal, Hapag-Lloyd customers in the U.S.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JULY 17, 2023

In the last few months, however, there has been an avalanche of stories and articles about amazingly powerful AI tools that use everyday language. To combat this, the WEF reports that by 2025 companies will on average provide access to reskilling and upskilling to 73% of their workforce.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 20, 2015

Industry data for 2004 - 2013 shows an annual loss of at least $17 billion due to vacant positions, with shocking losses of around $45 billion in both 2012 and 2013. Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn The post Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Relationships are critical to the overall success of end-to-end supply chains, and the 2025 Annual Third-Party Logistics Study found that 89% of shipper respondents said their relationships are successful, a decrease from 95% in the previous study. Respondents also view AI as a tool to automate repetitive mundane tasks to free up work.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

I attended multiple events focused on the built environment, embodied carbon, digital decarbonization tools, and storytelling. Within the last agreement, Microsoft will purchase energy from Three Mile Island to power its data centers that are located within the state.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 28, 2021

I am working on my latest Transportation Execution and Visibility Systems study, which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2025, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, customer size, and mode. Transportation visibility is clearly not only for trucks.

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Parade

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In fact, Frost & Sullivan predicts that the digital freight brokerage segment will have grown to more than , $54 billion by 2025. It’s tough to set new goals without good data that shows you where you’re at and where you’ve been, and technology can provide that. It all comes down to data.

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Parade

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In fact, Frost & Sullivan predicts that the digital freight brokerage segment will have grown to more than , $54 billion by 2025. It’s tough to set new goals without good data that shows you where you’re at and where you’ve been, and technology can provide that. It all comes down to data.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 12, 2015

Manufacturers need to focus on their core in order to stay competitive, and technological tools, such as our Cerasis Rater, a transportation management system , allow for streamlined process in managing transportation, giving back precious time, money, and focus to our manufacturing customers. The Customer Owns the Empire.

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AIMMS

JULY 9, 2015

On the other hand, there is a rising need for smarter and more flexible tools as well as more staff with analytical capabilities. ERP systems have reached their limits and there is a pressing need for more flexible and smarter tools. You trade data visibility for responsiveness. The challenges: demand, staffing and technology.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Suppliers are facing increasing pressure from the buyers of their goods and services to report their environmental, social, and governance data. Increasingly, EcoVadis is becoming known as the go to organization to help corporations accelerate this journey to collect upstream supplier environmental, social, and governance data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 1, 2021

The prevalence of smoking is going down, but the world’s population is increasing; the net result is that the forecast for the number of smokers is essentially flat in 2025 as compared to 2010. What PMI needed, considering the long planning horizons, was a digital and analytics network design and supply optimization tool.

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Log-hub

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

AI tools are expected to boost warehouse automation by 30% in 2024, reducing errors and speeding up fulfillment. Technology and Automation As businesses adopt automation and robotics to streamline their operations, warehouses increasingly rely on AI-driven tools to predict demand, optimize inventory, and improve fulfillment speed.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Fleet operators who want to switch to electric vehicles can use a new web-based automated AI tool- the Teletrac EV Readiness tool. Teletrac’s EV Readiness Tool integrates with their fleet management and tracking platforms. The tool can analyse the feasibility of switching.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JANUARY 22, 2019

The data these investors and purchasers gather from CDP is crucial to inform their decision making, help them engage with companies, reduce risks and identify opportunities. “ Australian IT company Telstra has created a Cloud Calculator Tool which helps businesses to transition to cloud technology through quantifying GHG emissions.

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Morai Logistics

MARCH 6, 2019

According to Statista, in 2025 the global AI market is expected to generate approximately 89, 847.26 Big Data is also an incredible tool that helps technologies such as AI advance. Research indicates that 81% if shippers and 86% of third-party logistics (3PLs) providers believe in using Big Data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2021

A data capture facility scores the vessel on a variety of different measures, including environmental factors. Marine optimization process technology provides end-to-end visibility and data capture. The system’s detailed task list is complemented by the vessel Gantt chart. Looking Forward. 1] [link]. [2] 2] [link]. [3] 3] [link]. [4]

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IoT World Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Nestlé is also striving to expand the flow, accessibility and utility of real-time data as it is collected from operational technology networks, both in supply chain management and procurement operations. By 2025, Nestlé aims to be fully data-driven and cognitive in its approach.

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Logistics Manager

JULY 7, 2020

Completely transparent management of freight rates, offers, transport modes, carbon emissions, and all other relevant shipment data is readily available with just a few clicks and can be displayed in detailed analyses and reports. And that is exactly what our tool does,” says Tim Scharwath, CEO DHL Global Forwarding, Freight.

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20Cube Logistics

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

It is estimated that the Chatbot market is expected to reach around 1.25billion US dollars in 2025 from 190.8 As the chatbots can extract the real-time data and information of the concerned shipments from the entity system, the end-customer can request for delivery status of the product which has been booked. million US dollar in 2016.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In fact, over 4 million robots will be installed in US warehouses by 2025. A WES autonomously gathers real-time signals from across the warehouse, then applies artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and data science to create plans and solve problems. Streamlined automation onboarding and daily management.

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Morai Logistics

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The latest forecast on Artificial Intelligence in supply chain indicates that by 2025 this figure is ‘expected to reach ‘ USD 10,110.2 The connection between AI and efficiency is also shown through the use of data automation. In the fall of 2018, Forbes spoke to the integration of ORION, an ‘AI-powered GPS tool’ that UPS had adopted.

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Stord

MARCH 31, 2019

Nike improved its supply chain efficiency by adopting digital tools to increase visibility and reduce production lead times. This Express Lane initiative – the company’s name for new tools and solutions – has placed materials closer to factories, reduced manufacturing delays, and predicted customer demand more accurately.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 17, 2019

billion by the end of 2025, according to a study reported by DC Velocity. 3) Local Data Integration Transportation execution requires connectivity and real-time access to order data to reduce and eliminate manual data entry and the errors that that can bring at the point of shipping. billion in 2016 to an expected $30.04

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 14, 2021

I am wrapping up my Transportation Management Systems market study which looks at the total size of the market, the forecasted growth through 2025, and the leading suppliers across a number of categories including industry, region, and customer size. These technologies include: Visibility Tools.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 17, 2016

percent net increase in revenue for 2016 , and as we’ve briefly mentioned past blogs , technologies such as predictive data analytics, virtual reality, smart connectivity and 3-D printing will drive this growth and reshape the global economic competition between U.S. Predictive Data Analytics. The ISM projects a 4.1 Virtual Reality.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Chips attached to individual items will transmit data such as identification, location, temperature, pressure, and humidity. Not only that, they will also be able to transmit traffic conditions and drive-specific data, such as average speed and driving patterns back to the central office.

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Airfreight Logistics

JULY 7, 2020

Completely transparent management of freight rates, offers, transport modes, carbon emissions, and all other relevant shipment data is readily available with just a few clicks and can be displayed in detailed analyses and reports. And that is exactly what our tool does,” says Tim Scharwath, CEO DHL Global Forwarding, Freight.

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