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Global Trade Compliance is a Massive Undertaking for Big Shippers

Logistics Viewpoints

I recently completed a study of the Global Trade Compliance software market. In the US, for example, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) publishes lists of individuals and companies, and the addresses of those entities, owned or controlled by targeted countries.

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Should My Warehouse Be Automated?

Logistics Business Magazine

However, there are asset control tools as software platforms that make these tasks easier, if not automated themselves, such as Visualization Module, a product from viastore for visualising warehouse equipment status. Once automation is underway, there is maintenance of equipment that includes adjustments and repairs.

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How sanctions affect shipping companies and trade

Shipping and Freight Resource

Shipping companies are a particular subject of such sanctions, as they may not be direct entities of US or EU sanctions, although the aforesaid restrictions will anyway affect their interests, as shown in several case studies.

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Fleet Route Optimisation in the Past, Present, and Future

Logistics Bureau

Whether that is the case or not, a brief study of the origins and progression of fleet route optimisation, covering the last three decades or so and looking forward to the near future, highlights in a spectacular way how technology, in particular, has revolutionised the business of logistics.