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The Definitive Guide to Warehouse Management

Supply Chain Brain

Distributors and third-party logistics providers are faced with competitive pressures due to higher customer expectations, higher costs and lack of available people, transportation and space resources. But how do supply chain leaders eliminate these challenges?

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Project Management is Daily Management at Menlo Innovations

The Lean Thinker

Getting Stuff Done In spite of the wishes of some business leaders, there are only so many hours in a week, and there are only so many people available to get things done. THEY must choose the cards (with help from the Menlo, obviously) and fit them into the planning sheets which represent the resource capacity available to them.

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Industrie 4.0 Breakthrough: Networks of Flexible Plants

Logistics Viewpoints

The three steps in realizing the vision are 1) flexible, reconfigurable plant; 2) global manufacturing networks of flexible, configurable plants; 3) the integration of the previous step with digital, certified, encrypted product definitions. The report is available on demand. Although Industrie 4.0

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ArcBest is keen on expanding TL brokerage presence with acquisition of MoLo

Logistics Management

Fort Smith, Arkansas-based ArcBest, a full-service supply chain logistics provider, said late yesterday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Chicago-based truckload freight brokerage MoLo Solutions LLC.

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New Study Shows Global Trade Compliance Is Not Slowing Down Any Time Soon

Logistics Viewpoints

I have recently completed the latest ARC Advisory Market Analysis on Global Trade Compliance, available here. It adopts the International Labor Organizations definition of forced labor and mandates the European Commission to release compliance guidelines by June 2026.

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DCSA releases just-in-time port call interface standards

Shipping and Freight Resource

AMSTERDAM – July 21, 2021 – To facilitate implementation of its just-in-time (JIT) port call standards, DCSA has released interface standards and messaging API (application programming interface) specifications for the first 18 event timestamps defined in its JIT port call data definitions. Pilot boarding place (PBP) arrival planning.

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Delivery Management System: A Definitive Guide

Locus

Its control tower feature gives you active control to manage the fleet, check driver availability, and understand delivery requests. The post Delivery Management System: A Definitive Guide appeared first on Locus Blog. A fleet tracking system ensures that you get a comprehensive view of the vehicles and their routes. Schedule Demo.