The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2024

Advocating for Safety: TIA prioritizes safety in the transportation industry, pushing for training programs, equipment standards, and policy changes that minimize risks and accidents on the road. There’s no other event out there designed by 3PLs for 3PLs, so don’t miss it. When: April 10-13, 2024.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 11, 2024

Advocating for Safety: TIA prioritizes safety in the transportation industry, pushing for training programs, equipment standards, and policy changes that minimize risks and accidents on the road. There’s no other event out there designed by 3PLs for 3PLs, so don’t miss it. When: April 10-13, 2024.

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WorkWave

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

However, those working in the skilled trades need not worry. People, however, will see the skilled trades integrate with technology to do their job better. How Can Technology Help Skilled Trades? Augmented and virtual reality can help train new employees as well as help diagnose maintenance problems.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

Handle Peak Demand Demand spikes, such as those during holidays or major promotional events, can overwhelm unprepared warehouses. Investing in Training and Collaboration : Beyond technology, workforce training and effective partnerships ensure systems are utilized fully.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 13, 2021

He has spent more than 20,000 hours providing consulting, training, and facilitation for large and small groups for hundreds of organizations internationally on a wide range of topics. MetaExperts are talent operational excellence (OpEx) hands-on-deck, training, and get-it-done partners. About MetaOps and MetaExperts.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 16, 2025

Datacenter Hardware: The demand for powerful computing to train ever larger and more accurate AI models is insatiable. AWS has custom AI chips Trainium and Inferentia , for training and running large AI models. Key announcements from the event include: Introduction of ChatGPT Pro : This broadened the usage of frontier AI.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

Agentic AI involves creating a system of interacting agents, each trained on a specific task or dataset. These agents can communicate, negotiate, and collaborate to solve complex problems. The occurrence of any of these events disrupts the global supply chain and can deeply impact profitability. In part, this was skill.

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IFS Blogs

MARCH 17, 2025

Proposal & Negotiation: Present customized solutions and negotiate terms that align with the clients operational goals. Trade Shows & Networking Events: Attending industry events helps establish credibility and build connections with key decision-makers.

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Logistics in War

MARCH 19, 2018

Logistics in War has contended with the topic of training, and the preparation of logisticians for a variety of operational and garrison possibilities. Others have been more specific to the challenge of training such as Michael Lane who describes the need for logisticians to be better prepared for the most likely events they will face.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 15, 2019

The buyers (our prospects) control the buying process. Industry events. Training your people. In today’s podcast, Steve and I will discuss those 3 ways to improve sales. Steve, I got lots of great feedback on the buying process podcast, but now I want to discuss The Only 3 Ways to Improve Your Sales. Hire more sales people.

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MTS Logistics

JUNE 11, 2024

a New York-based freight forwarding and logistics company, announced that its 14 th Annual Bike Tour with MTS for Autism event, held on Saturday, June 8 th , raised over $120,000 for autism awareness and acceptance that will help provide job opportunities for young adults with autism. NEW YORK, NY – June 11, 2024 – MTS Logistics, Inc. ,

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2024

Situation Companies are increasingly confronted with complex planning scenarios due to predictable events such as mergers and acquisitions, category expansions, supplier changes, and distribution evolution, as well as disruptive events including demand volatility, material shortages, capacity constraints, and logistical surprises.

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Trinity Logistics

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Continued education is needed for you to stay current with the latest developments, skills, technologies, and more. Trinity has an in-house Education Team that provides you with many opportunities to continue your education and training on business strategy, industries, modes, sales, and other skill sets you may need.

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The Lean Thinker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The make, mix and skill levels of the volunteer workforce changes continuously. This means securing funding, getting permits, mobilizing unskilled and skilled labor, and orchestrating everything to meet the specific needs of specific clients on a massive scale… fast. Every client has different circumstances. How They Achieved It.

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Material Handling and Logistics

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

For example, when shipping produce, it is essential to keep the product at a certain temperature throughout the supply chain, so by installing sensors on the container of fruit or vegetables, both the seller and buyer can ensure the load maintains a proper temperature while in transit. Data in Transit. Along the Rail. The Last Mile.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2022

With less than a week to go until FANUC UK opens the doors to its Coventry HQ (2nd-4th November 2022), the automation specialist has unveiled the full speaker line-up for its Open House event. Visitors will also have the chance to pit their skills against this and previous years’ finalists of the WorldSkills UK for industrial robotics.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

You are not alone, especially as in the time since we first penned this article, one huge and unforeseen event has raised awareness of the global importance of this vital sector—and shown it to be an attractive career choice. That event was the global COVID-19 pandemic, which erupted during the first half of 2020. Networking.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 10, 2024

12,000 SAP customers and partners attended the event, and another 15,000 watched remotely. Most of the new in-context GenAI solutions have been pre-trained on 200,000 pages of SAP’s training and technical documents. The Customer Permission Issue Most of the Joule use cases have been developed using SAP’s internal training data.

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MTS Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2021

In today’s logistics environment, EDIs (electronic data interfaces) and the Internet are the most used tools to transfer documents among buyers, sellers, vendors, banks, customers and government entities. A pro forma invoice is a preliminary bill of sale sent to buyers in advance of a shipment or delivery of goods. Pro Forma Invoice.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

It is not just about training people in their current role, but it’s also about developing people to the maximum of their potential. A skills assessment survey was done to measure potential gaps against a pre-determined skills matrix. Based on the findings, a skills enhancement program was created.

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WorkWave

JULY 29, 2019

You also need to hire and provide training for cleaning staff while concentrating on growing your business and meeting quality standards. Here are seven tips for training new maids and house cleaning employees. Cover Basic Training With Strategic Team Scheduling. Concentrate on Soft Skills.

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3PL Insights

MARCH 6, 2020

There is always an event showing our holiday spirit, whether it be Halloween, Christmas, Thanksgiving, March Madness and Opening Day. We also throw holiday themed events like our recent Valentine’s Day blog-a-thon. The goal of these events is to allow employees to have fun with other employees they don’t normally work with.

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MTS Logistics

APRIL 2, 2024

The event is the shipping and logistics industry’s largest biking event ever. The wonderful work of Spectrum Works provides job training to young adults with autism. All proceeds from our annual bike tour event go directly to Spectrum Works to support its mission and work. We thank you for your consideration!

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Penske Move Ahead

JUNE 19, 2019

Penske Truck Leasing representatives will return to the 55th annual National Leadership and Skills Conference in Louisville, KY, June 24-28, 2019. The conference, a showcase of skilled trades, will bring together more than 19,000 students, teachers and business partners.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MARCH 5, 2019

For Rohingya women, finding a safe space to meet with each other, build skills and share their experiences is a challenge in the largest and most densely populated refugee camp in the world. These will serve as a hub for women to come together, learn new skills and get an education. Read more about WFP’s work in Bangladesh.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Both buyers and sellers of transportation services face ongoing challenges in aligning capacity and assessing fair pricing. Transporeon’s Freight Marketplace addresses these challenges head-on with a new solution designed to transform logistics procurement and redefine how companies buy, sell, negotiate and contract.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 7, 2022

The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is supporting this week’s National Careers Week 2022 with a series of events aimed at demonstrating its commitment to promoting careers in logistics. The trade association’s events will culminate with a free one-hour online event on Friday 11th March at 14.:00 00 GMT/15.00

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2025

3: From People-Power to Technological Talent The supply chain arena has always been about people and their relationships, along with asset utilisation, meaning that talent acquisition is typically focused on skilled operators and people managers. These qualities will continue to hold exceptional value in future supply chain operations.

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Locus

JANUARY 22, 2025

AI systems analyze historical trends, seasonal fluctuations, economic indicators, and even local events to predict delivery volumes with high precision. Train Your Team: Ensure staff understand how to interpret and act on real-time data. Staff Training: Equip your team with the necessary skills to use integrated platforms effectively.

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Envase Technologies

AUGUST 16, 2022

In the Spring of 2022, we kicked off our gender diversity initiative, #SheDrays at the Harbor Trucking Association’s flagship event, DrayTech. What’s one on-the-job skill you learned that you couldn’t do without today? When/how did you first get into the industry? Silvia: Yes, my father.

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TransAudit

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As Josh Dritz, VP of Operations Technology and Automation at Messen Medical Surgical, pointed out, Geopolitical factors, extreme weather events, labor issues, and pandemics are just a few of the challenges that constantly threaten supply chains. Ensure ongoing training to adapt to new technologies and processes.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 30, 2015

Millennials have witnessed countless layoffs, periods of market instability, offshoring of manufacturing entities , and other significant events in their lives. Unfortunately, these events lead to one common issue: millennials do not view the manufacturing industry as previous generations did.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Autonomous Quotation Price negotiations remain opaque and manual in the growing freight spot market. The module is based on a customised trained prediction model and is backed by data science and machine learning algorithms that incorporate bidding outcomes over time to increase accuracy.

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Penske Move Ahead

JULY 11, 2023

The companywide, voluntary event was designed to test, sharpen and evaluate Penske’s fleet maintenance associates on the mastery of skills required to maintain today’s increasingly complex commercial trucks. Penske Truck Leasing recently announced the top five finishers of its 2023 National Tech Showdown competition.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It also helps with training and monitoring delivery drivers in safety and performance, managing assets and resources, and analyzing the efficiency of logistics operations. Last year’s negotiations took place as dozens of container ships were backed up off the coast of California waiting to unload cargo. Retailers in the U.S.

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3PL Insights

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

In addition, be sure to regularly back up your files and databases in order to save your data and information in the event of a cyber-attack. Train Your Employees. It is imperative that all personnel be trained on the proper cybersecurity procedures. Employees should be aware of potential cyber interference or hacking attempts.

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Trinity Logistics

JANUARY 19, 2024

Foundational Model This is where the training/learning takes place, where you’re teaching the AI how to look at things and look at input. Large Language Model (LLM) This model is trained on vast amounts of text, can interpret what you’re asking of it, and can put a response in words that you can understand.

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