Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

As you read this, I will be flying home from project44’s Transform conference where I moderated a panel discussion on real-time freight visibility and I recorded several video interviews with project44 customers and partners. Ok, so did everybody else who attended the conference, but it was cool nonetheless.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 18, 2022

We were also joined by over 1,500 people from around the world who attended the conference virtually. The theme for the conference was “Ready. This includes weather events, port strikes, capacity shortages, and unexpected demand spikes. At the conference, the first two Amplifiers were introduced: Demand.AI and Supply.AI.

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Trinity Logistics

MARCH 22, 2023

A few weeks ago, we held our first educational and virtual Agent Conference of 2023. This conference focused on winning sales and growing strong customer relationships as a Freight Broker Agent. Sell Your Capacity Let’s say you have consistent capacity within a certain area. Here are a couple of ideas to get you started.

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Trinity Logistics

JUNE 3, 2021

Some examples of these are: U.S. International Conference on Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH). TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED SHIPPING CAPACITY. Another significant cold chain challenge is available capacity. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In the U.S.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes. The processing units in an oil refinery, for example, operate at high temperature and high pressure. One example of the value of machine learning in demand planning comes from Mahindra & Mahindra. These constraints need to be understood.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 26, 2024

Blue Yonder, for example, has created a microservice for transportation optimization. For example, during the days of the monolithic solutions, vendors that had both warehouse management and transportation management systems would tout the new logistics efficiencies that were possible because they could provide both solutions.

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Trinity Logistics

AUGUST 23, 2024

Volumes increased drastically, and with such a rapid rise came decreased capacity. Shipping LTL got more expensive now that the carriers had to pick and choose who they serviced with their finite capacity. The LTL carriers have course-corrected their capacity concerns.

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Logistics in War

MARCH 11, 2025

The following text is of a presentation given at a 2019 Wiliams Foundation conference, ‘Sustaining self-reliance’ As the original article cannot be found on other sites, it is provided here with some slight adjustments. It examined the threat to US interests from Russia and China as they applied to its capacity to project power.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

AUGUST 30, 2020

Example : A service that calls the South African ports of Durban, Cape Town and Ngqura on a fixed weekly schedule carrying cargo to the UK/NWC ports of London Gateway, Antwerp, Hamburg, Le Havre and Rotterdam. Conference Lines were an important historic feature of ocean liner transport.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

Raja Hammoud, EVP of Products at Coupa, speaking on the main stage at Coupa Inspire Coupa recently completed its Inspire conference. The supply chain design solution, for example, continues to grow in depth and usability. As companies look at long term estimates of demand, they need to make capacity decisions.

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Carter Logistics

JULY 29, 2020

Since most individuals are working from home, or a mix of office and home, I let the customer set the preference for the meeting medium (video chats, conference calls, etc.). As an example, I reached out to a company on LinkedIn that made loading and unloading more efficient. Obviously, face-to-face meetings are out.

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10xLogistics

JANUARY 7, 2018

At that time I had just read an article about the DOJ investigating the airlines concerning collusion on capacity and ticket pricing (The original article was on Bloomberg News and titled: What Does it Take to Prove Airline Collusion ). The example used in the lawsuit is, according to the article: ".airline Something is going on here.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 9, 2015

Further, as JOC.com wrote in a recent article about the Wall Street Journal an alysis: At the moment, shippers at the NASSTRAC conference said capacity is more balanced than a year ago, in the aftermath of the disruptive polar vortex cycle of winter storms. told the conference. Operating at Capacity.

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Freightos

JULY 23, 2015

Logistics is the prime example of a changing industry – colossal, ripe for disruption and utterly opaque. It’s no coincidence that Transport Intelligence just emailed me an invitation to The Future of Logistics conference. Improved cargo capacity by innovative 40 foot container design (fold). Really hot.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

I learned that fact (and many more important things) at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference in New Orleans this week. As the compliance date for the Electronic Logging Devices (ELD) mandate approaches (December 18, 2017), there are two important questions to be answered: How will it impact capacity?

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 24, 2018

Supply chain skills in high demand, digital twins, disruptive technologies, and other takeaways from the 2018 Gartner supply chain conference. I just returned from the highly engaging and inspiring Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. He gave examples of how large companies are acquiring digital startups.

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10xLogistics

JULY 18, 2015

A while back I wrote about how I thought executives in the trucking industry were getting dangerously close to collusion as they discussed capacity in the industry. So, for example, an executive says in an interview in a prominent industry magazine something like, "Until we see better ROI we cannot and will not add capacity to our system".

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

Pete Bennett, and his co-presenter, Mary Byrne, the vice president of supply and demand planning, spoke during a presentation at Kinaxis’ user conference Kinexions. 94% of US and Canadian healthcare systems use Cardinal Health in one capacity or another. This is the penultimate example of leadership commitment. Count them!

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

Throughout the conference I met with several software and hardware providers to get a glimpse into what they were showcasing. The example they gave me was to understand the yield for a burger with pickles at a QSR. Here are the ones that stood out to me, especially as it relates to supply chain data.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

A TMS user, for example, can say to the system, “Show me all uncovered loads,” or an inventory manager can ask, “Which stores have less than three days inventory of product X?” Earlier this year, for example, XPO Logistics unveiled voice-enabled delivery tracking through Amazon.com Inc’s Echo or Alphabet Inc’s Google Home speakers.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

APRIL 25, 2022

A great example that serves the purpose of the class is that according to shipping firm Ocean Network Express, congestion at ports in China and other parts of the world is clogging up around 10% of the worldwide container-ship fleet. “If we can clear that bottleneck, we’ll be able to get services back on track.”

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10xLogistics

DECEMBER 15, 2021

There is no evidence that until significant ship and container capacity comes on line (2023) there will be much improvement. This is a perfect example where shippers will be adjusting their supply chains to deal with the massive margin inflation in purchasing of supply chain services. It takes a while but supply chains will adjust.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The markets, in general, have experienced a strong shift in favor of shippers in terms of pricing and capacity availability,” said Josh Brogan, a partner with the global consulting firm Kearney and co-author of the 34th Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals ( CSCMP ) Annual State of Logistics Report. That is counterintuitive.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 17, 2018

Kuebix Announces New Service to Provide Shippers More Truckload Rates and Available Capacity. This is self-contradictory,” said Jansen at the [Global Liner Shipping Conference]. This example implies that shipments for this company were held at ports or customs for a week or more due to paperwork or faulty data issues.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 7, 2017

MercuryGate Announces Dynamic Exchange Offering Faster, Easier Access to Capacity. In other transportation management news, MercuryGate announced the launch of MercuryMart, “a dynamic information exchange providing TMS users with access to a broad range of sources of available capacity.”

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Logistics in War

AUGUST 18, 2019

Of course additional funding and attention can improve the capability and capacity of any military force to sustain itself in peace and on operations. Part Two offered examples where militaries get it right, and a number of examples where events did not transpire as well as they might. Huston, Sinews of War. 1] See Eccles, H.,

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

For example: Why will it exist? Warehouses are expensive capital investments, so when you design a new one, you want to be sure your business will not outgrow its volumetric capacity or throughput capabilities too quickly. I say “comfortably” because you never want your warehouse to be running at 100% of physical capacity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

Customization is provided for 5 different supply chains (for example, make-to-order, make-to-stock, etc.) Changes to the plan are based on changes to the forecast, manufacturing capacity, supplier constraints, and a host of other factors. This year’s Kinaxis user conference, Kinexions, is May 9-12, 2022 in San Diego. .

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World Food Programme Logistics

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

As the UN’s annual Climate Change Conference kicks off in Madrid, Spain, the World Food Programme (WFP) highlights climate change as one of the key drivers of hunger. The benefits of investment greatly outweigh the cost, and yet the capacity to deliver and access these services is patchy and inadequate, according to the new report.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 22, 2024

trillion, about 30% of world GDP, according to a 2021 report by UNCTAD, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. For example, there has been significant growth in imports from India over the last two years, largely by growing capacity at Indian airports and an increase in the number of direct links to Heathrow.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Coinciding with the upswing in the world economy two years ago, global seaborne trade is doing well, note analysts for the Geneva-based United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Most of the new orders are for delivery in 2020, when BIMCO expects more than one million TEU of new capacity to be delivered.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In the fashion and fast-moving consumer goods sectors alone, these are more than 100 brands, including, for example, Marc O’Polo, Jack Wolfskin, KiK and Wenko. The best strategy is for companies to devise agile approaches to permanently optimise the use of resources and production capacities. Demand fluctuations force action.

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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The automotive industry is being reshaped by the rise of electric and autonomous vehicles but will only stay ahead of the curve in an age of greater supply chain complexity by adopting wider digitalisation as part of its routine operations, delegates at the JDA conference in Barcelona were told last week. Warehouse of the future.

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The Logistics Academy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

in real terms since this time last year, but owing to a continuation of excess capacity issues and lower average oil prices, rates continue to fall in both air and sea freight. For example, airfreight forwarding growth in China is thought to have been robust this past year, while sea freight growth was much weaker.

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Trimble

JANUARY 18, 2022

Back in October 2021, world leaders gathered in Glasgow, Scotland, at the United Nations (UN) climate change conference (COP26) to make a pledge to further cut carbon dioxide emissions; the major contributor to climate change. What is being done?

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Many constituents of the national support base are beyond Defence’s, and specifically the ADF’s, capacity to directly control, let alone influence without the assistance of other agencies and Departments in a whole-of-nation approach. For example, the US national security community uses the term ‘defense technology and industrial base’. [6]

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Shippers and third-party logistics providers are working to find efficiencies, improve service and develop innovative solutions as they navigate increasing freight levels, tight capacity and stricter consumer and retailer demands. Penske is once again a major conference sponsor. State of the Supply Chain.

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