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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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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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What Shippers and Retailers Need to Know for Peak Season Planning 2022

The Logistics of Logistics

The peak season definition is a continued evolution of the seasons in transportation. Even once a vaccine was available, additional breakouts of new variants in Shanghai put the brakes on transportation expectations for the Produce Shipping Season in 2022. When and What Is Peak Season ? Q2: The Produce Shipping Season.

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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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The Definitive Guide to Transportation and Logistics Terminology

GlobalTranz

Bill of Lading (BOL) : A document between a shipper and carrier acknowledging the receipt of goods for transport and now available in electronic format (eBOL). The post The Definitive Guide to Transportation and Logistics Terminology appeared first on GlobalTranz Enterprises, LLC.

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13 Warehouse Types: Definitions, Functions & Examples

Conger

Looking for a private warehousing definition? Now that we’ve covered private warehouses, let’s give a public warehouse definition. Contract warehouses are a type of public warehouse, with the difference in the fact that contract warehouses guarantee space availability when it’s needed. Department of Interior. Geological Survey.