MTS Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Nick Koutroulis was awarded for the best article of the year on our blog. Serkan Kavas honored for his top article of the year. To view more photos from the event, please visit the MTS Logistics Facebook page. This year, MTS Logistics celebrated a few important milestones. Marc Holder recognized for 5 years of service to MTS.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

Pam Simon is a successful entrepreneur and business connector with more than 15 years of experience in event production, content creation, experiential marketing and angel investing. In 2019 Connectiv acquired her Future of Event series from Lab Ventures. Forbes article. About Pam Simon. About Connectiv.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 17, 2022

Courney is a Strategic Event Executive and the Chief Corporate Development Officer and President of Manifest at Connectiv, a live event studio based in NYC. Connectiv produces world-class industry leading events that focus on disruptive technology. We are a private live event studio. Anyway, it was a great event.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Next year’s event will bring together over 3,000 executives on January 31st – February 2nd, 2023 at Caesars Forum, Las Vegas. Original article: The List of Sponsors and the Size of Expo Continue To Expand at Manifest Vegas 2023. Follow us on LinkedIn & Twitter.

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RasTrac

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In this article: Disasters disrupt plans: Effective response is critical, but unexpected events create chaos. Rastrac empowers disaster response: GPS tracking and fleet management tools enhance situational awareness, optimize resources, and streamline communication.

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West Coast and California Logistics

JULY 15, 2021

If you’re looking to catch up on all things container shipping in 2021, a recent article in Freight Waves has got you covered. The article looks, month-by-month, at all of the “stranger than fiction” events in the shipping world in the first six months of this year.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Original article: How to Improve Exception Management with End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility. Original article: How to Improve Exception Management with End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility. How to Improve Exception Management with End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility. Ready to learn more about the power of end-to-end visibility?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2025

This article outlines key factors driving supply chain change, the limitations of outdated strategies, and how Walmart is restructuring its supply chain using AI and automation. AI-driven forecasting tools analyze historical data, market trends, and real-time variables such as weather events, geopolitical risks, and transportation delays.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

Original Article: FOSC: Collaboration drives last-mile success. OneRail showcased its final-mile solution during a Monday demo session at FreightWaves’ Future of Supply Chain event. Click for more articles by Brian Straight. Original Article: FOSC: Collaboration drives last-mile success. Can they be stopped?

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Step 3 – Create an RFP event. The streamlined process makes it so easy to conduct RFP events that most shippers who use the Emerge platform do quarterly bids, which means carriers can be more confident when quoting lanes. The platform prompts the shipper to add the information pertinent to carriers. No more mass emails!

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Blue Grace Logistics

OCTOBER 11, 2024

But you start stacking these events on each other—you add in another hurricane and there’s a few other things from seasonality going on—those issues compound themselves, and it creates additional disruption within the supply chain space,” Williford said. READ THE FULL ARTICLE “We didn’t see a ton of disruption from the port strike.

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WorkWave

JANUARY 21, 2025

This is particularly important during periods of heightened security needs, such as holidays, major events or during peak business seasons. This article is for informational purposes only and presents a high-level overview. Legislation is constantly changing, so no action should be taken based on this article without legal counsel.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 16, 2025

The resilience of your supply chain is determined by its structure and operations, whether we’re dealing with major immediate events like a pandemic or gradual systemic changes to your business environment over time. Typically it involves carrying extra inventory and hiring more workers than absolutely necessary.

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West Coast and California Logistics

DECEMBER 28, 2023

As we bid farewell to another eventful year in the logistics industry, we take a moment to reflect on the content that resonated most with our readers. In 2023, our blog covered a wide range of supply chain topics, but these three articles garnered the most attention.

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The Lean Thinker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The fundamentals are based on the “Rules-in-Use” from Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System , a landmark HBR article by Steve Spear and H. The article, in turn, summarizes (and slightly updates) Spear’s findings from his PhD work studying Toyota. It is the direction that matters, not the reminders.

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Morai Logistics

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

This article by Morai Logistics runs down 4 of the most noteworthy supply chain technology trends to watch out for in 2020. Another Logistics View Point article explains, Machine learning’s ability to adapt to changing conditions makes it especially well-aligned with the dynamic nature of today’s e-commerce warehouses.

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Trinity Logistics

JULY 19, 2024

since the end of March when the event occurred, after a slight dip when freight had to be re-routed, volumes as measured by the OTVI have increased just over 10 percent. Certainly, there is still work to be done, short- and long-term, but the Baltimore area appears to have powered through an unfortunate event.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

He also spoke at the ARC forum in 2023, and this article is based on that presentation as well. The occurrence of any of these events disrupts the global supply chain and can deeply impact profitability. One event could create so much churn, Mr. Al Syed explained. JO.AI, a Co-pilot for the Plant JO.AI is the user interface.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This article is from Patrick Byers, DevOps Engineer at Lucas Systems, and looks at cybersecurity planning frameworks. It is important to have a robust incident response plan in place for your distribution operation in the event of a cybersecurity breach. To read the full article, click HERE.

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Trinity Logistics

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

However, an impact could be felt from recent events with regards to container shipping that would make it feel like less trucks are available. With recent geo-political events, and events at home, shipping to the West Coast has become more feasible than it was a year, certainly two years, ago.

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MTS Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2022

While last year, for our 20th anniversary, our holiday event felt like the beginning of life after Covid, this year, everything felt back to normal just like before Covid. With 160 articles published this year on our blog, More Than Shipping, we honored our top blog authors who wrote the top two performing articles for the year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2024

These solutions use natural language processing, for example, to read online publications and other data sources, make sense of what they read, contextualize the data into information, and report supply chain disruptions caused by weather, geopolitical events and other hazards in near real-time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 8, 2022

At that time, I wrote about the COVID pandemic, and how similar events occur that elevate the uncertainty of the market. These events make accurate forecasting very difficult. Review of Prior Impactful Events. Well, here we are just two years later in another highly unusual market context. somewhat close.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 8, 2021

She is a sought after author and speaker having been published in various books, articles, and white papers and spoken at dozens of industry events.

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IoT World Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

IoT World is North America’s largest IoT event where strategists, technologists and implementers connect, putting IoT, AI, 5G and edge into action across industry verticals. With ridership forecast to grow by a further 40% over the next decade, that puts a strain on ProRail to keep up without retooling infrastructure. Book your ticket now. ].

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MTS Logistics

MAY 6, 2024

For the differences between freight forwarders and NVOCCs, please read this article. There are multiple reasons for this, and to learn more read this great article by MTS Logistics Executive Vice President M. Things change easily and the logistics supply chain is still fragile and affected by unexpected events worldwide.

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 4, 2023

For example, the New York Times is out with a new article on wind energy and how it can help shipping in the near future as climate change becomes a major focus. Additionally, wind turbines and related equipment can easily be damaged in tropical weather systems or certain weather events.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 15, 2021

In my Logistics Viewpoints article in January 2021, “ The New Definition of Supply Chain Agility and Resilience in an Unpredictable World ”, I highlighted that modern supply chains must be built on a foundation of extreme agility and responsiveness. The Key to Long-Term Success: Build Agility, Resilience and Profitability Together.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This article is from Logistyx Technologies and looks at cloud multi-carrier parcel management systems. To read the full article, click HERE. Note: Today’s post is part of our “ Editor’s Choice ” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide supply chain insights and advice.

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WorkWave

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In this article, we will explore these last-mile delivery optimization strategies and the role of route optimization software as we look ahead to industry trends shaping the future of delivery in 2025. 2 ) Real-Time Data Integration Incorporating real-time data into delivery routes can revolutionize the last-mile delivery process.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It is the world’s biggest sporting event that highlights the globe’s most popular sport. First, let me begin by crediting Dan Falkenheim and Alex Prewitt for their most interesting article on the greenwashing in sports. Read the article to get the detail of that decisions as well as the broader sports examples highlighted.

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Morai Logistics

APRIL 15, 2020

An article by the World Economic Forum highlights the unforeseeable nature of supply chain disruption and the numerous harms it can have, …the triggers of supply chain disruption are hard to predict, and sometimes neither controllable nor influenceable. Your suppliers are typically hit the hardest with a disruption event.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2025

Thats what well explore in the article, both as a general indication of the supply chains impact on future business performance, and a guide for potential investors. Perhaps typical is the wrong expression, since, as the first couple of decades of this century have shown us, our world is subject to events and conditions that defy typicality.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 23, 2024

This article comes from Greg Quirk, Product Marketing Manager at Kinaxis and looks at AI in supply chains. market data, weather forecasts, geopolitical factors, events), and IoT devices (e.g., To read the full article, click HERE. Data is the lifeblood of AI in the supply chain. ERP, CRM, SCM), external sources (e.g.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Discover capability gaps and create sourcing events Seek and discover what capabilities the organization may be lacking, such as vulnerabilities or inefficiencies in transportation or supplier capacity. By identifying these gaps, you can create sourcing events to close them. <br>- Organize sourcing events to address gaps.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This article is from Emerge and offers tips for trucking companies to decrease their insurance premiums. Just don’t be too quick to make changes, leaving yourself open to some unexpected future event that could end up costing you more. To read the full article, click HERE.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Geopolitical events. Despite the inherent challenges, a 2018 McKinsey article estimated that the payoff of agility enabled by digitalization can be staggering: “For companies that aim well and execute effectively, the resulting cost reductions could be transformational. Natural disasters. Tariffs and trade regulations.

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