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About Corey Abbott Corey Abbott , Chief Growth Officer and his team lead enterprise initiatives at PortPro, focusing on developing comprehensive products designed to enhance the customer experience, guided by their needs and feedback. He held roles of CIO, Intermodal, and Drayage, and most recently, Chief Product Officer.
April 23, 2025 Blog Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of Freightos Enterprise our comprehensive solution designed specifically for large enterprises that import and export, who need to bring control, visibility, and efficiency to their global logistics operations.
No-code and low-code tools, also known as application designers, empower non developer end users to build applications and rapidly solve for immediate needs. Application designers thrive in complex, shifting environments because the platform reflects the needs of the frontline at any given movement. This is changing and changing fast.
Part I in our series on assessing your network design’s maturity . How does you r network design compare to others ? Our findings show that most respondents rely on a combination of spreadsheets (nearly 60%), gut feel (15%) and previous experience (46%) to make supplychain network decisions.
That’s why we developed TrakItPRO, a state-of-the-art cargo visibility tracking system designed to streamline freight forwarding for companies like yours. Problem: Outdated Information: Stale spreadsheets and scattered documents can lead to errors and misinformation. You can watch a video on TrakItPRO here and download our guide.
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We continue our series on the most popular blog posts of 2014 in each of our main categories with our very first post of 2014 by featuring another area important to Cerasis and the industry: third party logistics. The Most Popular Blog Posts in the 3PL Category By Pageviews for 2014. Read the Full Blog Post.
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The SupplyChain Manager’s Multi-function Display. By now, you are probably wondering what airliners have to do with supplychain KPIs. You see, the set of primary data needed to keep an airliner aloft is (apparently) relatively simple—and the same is true of running a supplychain organisation.
Editor's Note: Todays blog is from Kristen Palmisano from The Center for Global Enterprise. In this blog, Kristen discusses how revenue growth is tied to digital supplychains. The Center for Global Enterprise releases new research suggesting revenue growth at the hand of improved digital supplychains.
To stay ahead, tech-smart operations, savvy professionals are using logistics and supplychain mobile applications as must-have tools for operational excellence. Using every tool available to you will allow for improvement in supplychain functionality, productivity, and profitability.
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As part of our ongoing commitment to keep our blog readers updated on what’s happening in the supplychain and logistics world, we’re launching a regular industry news roundup, which we’ll release periodically. Increased near-shoring in Mexico and elsewhere as companies seek shorter supplychains.
White Paper: Hidden Risks and Costs in an Offshore SupplyChain. In fact, our friends over at the Rodon Group, with whom we’ve started an ongoing blog collaboration, starting with this post and more to come, have written a White Paper entitled, “ Hidden Risks and Costs in an Offshore SupplyChain.”
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Blog Topics. SupplyChain Mistakes & Best Practices Crossing the Canadian Border. In global supplychain management that spans across North America, shipments and carriers constantly have to cross borders in and out of multiple ports. Documents Required at the Canadian Border. BOL ( Bill of Lading).
How to Elevate Your Logistics Operations with AI & ML Technology Global supplychain organizations are embracing digitization to propel their supplychain planning to new heights. What is SupplyChain Planning? Data informs transportation capacity and rates.
The document specifies the HTS code assigned to the goods you’re importing, and the code dictates the duty rate applicable to the shipment. HTS codes designate goods by their name, material, and use. When cargo sits at the port past the designated last free day, demurrage starts to accrue. Commercial Invoice Information.
Introduction: 7 Game-Changing Shifts You Can't Ignore Did you know that 70% of importers faced unexpected supplychain costs in 2024? From AI-driven efficiency to non-negotiable sustainability, supplychains are being reimagined. Don't let 2025 catch you off guard. As of April 2025, U.S.
From stringent quality standards to comprehensive documentation requirements, Class 1 and 2 manufacturers must navigate a complex landscape to ensure compliance and product excellence. This holds true across all five key components of a medical manufacturing business: Design, Manufacture, Distribution, Maintenance, and Service.
Smart factories are growing in prominence as continued supplychain disruptions and pressures from the 4 th Industrial Revolution make embracing technology a necessity for manufacturers. For manufacturers to remain competitive, adopting more IoT technologies into their supplychain is key.
In smart factories , physical and digital processes are integrated within the factory and across supplychains to optimize current and future supply and demand requirements. The post Future-Proof Your Manufacturing Business With ERP appeared first on SYSPRO Blog.
Increasingly, car makers are asking their suppliers to provide full traceability of parts through the supplychain. Traceability for the automotive industry is a process that documents the genealogy of the parts and subassemblies associated with a specific vehicle or range of vehicles. Benefits of traceability. Yes, it is.
(Graphics created by Emily Ricks) In today’s world, it’s easy to lose sight of what makes supplychains function efficiently. Compliance with routing guides can reduce costs like processing damaged products and saves time when the operations staff doesn’t have to figure out a shipment with missing documents.”
There are 6 phases that make up any ERP implementation project: Approach, Discovery, Design, Implementation, Monitoring, and Evolution. Approach: In this phase you will need to start developing the project plan, document the internal and external participants, resources required and understand the objectives.
In this blog, we will explore the appropriate fees typically associated with ocean freight shipping, shed light on hidden fees that can emerge after the cargo has shipped or landed, and guide avoiding these hidden or fake fees to ensure a fair importation process into the USA.
Our blog posts and articles here at Logistics Bureau are almost always written to inform, but this time we’re writing with a request for information. We’d like to know what you believe your managers and staff need from a supplychain education program. A Brief Overview of SupplyChain Leaders Academy.
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On April 28th, the World Economic Forum (WEF) officially published its much-anticipated document about how to properly leverage blockchain technology. The toolkit is a part of WEF’s Redesigning Trust: Blockchain for SupplyChains project, which is aimed at making blockchain accessible to all.
Value-engineered gate control solution designed for small, leased facilities wanting to eliminate manual processes while improving efficiency and sustainability. Charlotte, NC September 12, 2022 – Nascent Technology, a global leader in Automated Gate Systems (AGS) for the container supplychain and Buckeye Mountain, Inc.,
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Margins for manufacturing firms are under pressure from increasing competition, rising material prices, high labour costs and supplychain disruptions. Shipping (printing documents, knowing weight/volume to obtain freight quotes, etc.). It’s a perfect storm. Picking (in batches, by expiry date or by location, for example).
We now have an entire category of blog posts dedicated to better working with suppliers, analyzing them, and what to look out for in order to get the most value in working with suppliers. We plan to continue developing FMEA-based quality inspection programs to reduce our PPM across our entire global supply base.”.
Margins for manufacturing firms are under pressure from increasing competition, rising material prices, high labour costs and supplychain disruptions. Shipping (printing documents, knowing weight/volume to obtain freight quotes, etc.). It’s a perfect storm. Picking (in batches, by expiry date or by location, for example).
The IOT, as you may recall from previous blogs, represents basically any piece of machinery involved in a supplychain. This, in turn, will improve the overall competitiveness of goods transport in the supplychain and make it more environmentally, economically and socially sustainable.
In that interview we mentioned that he would visit Made In USA Zipper manufacturer, UCan Zippers to film a video documenting the company's commitment to American Manufacturing for nearly 30 years. Why are we having an interview with an American Manufacturer on a logistics blog, you ask? It's simple. Think about it for a second.
We constantly strive for Best in Class SupplyChain performance , but only 20% of companies ever achieve it. The sad truth is, that most SupplyChains tend to remain right where they are, without significant performance improvement. Where do you think your SupplyChain sits? Why aren’t you there yet?
We have robust protections for our clients’ most sensitive communications, documentation, and financial information. . We deployed URL-blocking software to keep our team safe from links that install harmful software and spoofed sites designed to capture sensitive data. We have safeguards in place to protect our sensitive data.
The document specifies the HTS code assigned to the goods you’re importing, and the code dictates the duty rate applicable to the shipment. HTS codes designate goods by their name, material, and use. Delays at the Port and Demurrage charges When cargo sits at the port past the designated last free day, demurrage starts to accrue.
It is perhaps because of the technological advancements and digitization, a blog gets published online and reaches out to a wider group of audience, which might otherwise not have been possible with manual efforts. Manufacturing processes like the design and rapid prototyping are likely to be benefitted the most by this particular technology.
Billing Questions and Discrepancies The fees associated with ocean and air freight are complex, and invoices are designed to provide a clear and concise summary of charges. No Visibility No matter how long or short a supplychain is, importers and manufacturers need to know where their goods are at all times.
The fees associated with ocean and air freight are complex, and invoices are designed to provide a clear and concise summary of charges. No matter how long or short a supplychain is, importers and manufacturers need to know where their goods are at all times. Popular Resource: Blog – How to Reduce Soft Costs.
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