Ship Monk

APRIL 10, 2024

2024 is 4th Year in a Row 3PL is Recognized with BIG Customer Service Award April 10, 2024 — Customer service is a 365-day a year duty, but today the Business Intelligence Group is shining an extra light on this critical component to any company’s success by announcing the winners of the BIG Excellence in Customer Service Awards.

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Logistics Manager

AUGUST 17, 2020

The logistics start-up subsidiary of Deutsche Post DHL Group, Saloodo !, is on course for expansion and will now launch its platform in Turkey. This, in turn, will help carriers manage existing fleets and optimize capacity with full truckload shipments. responsible for Marketing.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Based on this, there seems to be a natural and immediate view that these lines fit the definition of cartel “ A cartel is a group of independent market participants who collude with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market. Of course, it has long been the case that publishers target their readers.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As a disclaimer, WebCargo , a Freightos Group company, does offers digital services to global forwarders and carriers, including online sales portals, digital eBooking, multimodal rate management and the Freightos.com freight marketplace. . The shift to full end-to-end integration, of course, leaves no one else in the middle.

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FLS Transport

MARCH 18, 2021

These laws would classify workers as an “employee” of the company unless that worker performs a service “outside the usual course of the business of the employer.” In short… if passed, it will kill the owner-operator model that has been a lifeline of the freight business for decades and add enormous pressure to the current capacity crisis.

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The Lean Thinker

JANUARY 25, 2024

Getting a continuous improvement culture into place means changing the day-to-day patterns of interaction between people and groups of people. Or maybe you need to increase your capacity while holding your costs (vs. ” Of course the answer was “No.” just duplicating the existing processes).

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Freightos

MARCH 27, 2024

I was fortunate to be able to attend again this year, and, though I couldn’t sit in on all the sessions or meetings I would’ve liked, here are my key takeaways: Geopolitical challenges, Red Sea especially Geopolitics were, of course, on people’s minds. But Sea Intelligence’s Alan Murphy thinks rates will settle 1.5-2X

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 28, 2018

They found 2 Leader groups with nearly identical truckload performance ratings. Leader Group 1, which used more asset carriers than brokers, achieved an 82% rating; Leader Group 2 used more brokers than asset carriers and achieved 81% (for comparison, Laggards achieved 46%). On time delivery (OTD). Our industry is evolving.

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Parade

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

When Fortune Logistics had big plans to modernize their freight brokerage, they turned to Parade for capacity management and process automation. If they didn’t have a networked carrier available, they had to sift through mass amounts of data to find the capacity they needed to cover loads.

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Freightos

AUGUST 19, 2024

Most larger shippers move the lion’s share of their capacity using long-term contracts. We’re thrilled about the opportunities this acquisition brings, enabling us to offer a truly comprehensive procurement platform to both Freightos and Shipsta customers, and, of course, to our joint customers. That’s exactly where Shipsta comes in.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Capacity : Having excessive unused warehouse space wastes money but being over design capacity probably means the warehouse isn’t operating as efficiently as it could. It is important to note that capacity may have seasonal or temporary variation. Identifying the space versus utilization sweet spot is key.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 11, 2024

Manufacturers of these weight loss drugs face a multi-headed hydra of the three c’s: coverage, competition and capacity. But I’ll focus on capacity, since that is the supply chain lever. With this insight they targeted their limited manufacturing capacity exactly where it was needed.

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FreightWaves SONAR

DECEMBER 21, 2020

A finite group of logistics service providers (LSPs) will inevitably lead to less competition during truckload RFP processes and higher freight spend. Still, if the carrier loses drivers, there is nothing a shipper can do to secure more capacity during peaking asset demand periods. And it’s not always a need to secure more capacity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In the course of updating our annual research on the supply chain planning market , I talked to executives across the industry. At Coupa supplier risk is also flagged for single source or capacity constraints. In the last couple of years, RELEX Solutions has developed new capabilities for autonomous capacity balancing.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Trakm8 welcomes efforts to increase fleet capacity, but as recruitment efforts remain difficult, it is equally important to increase the productivity of existing fleets. Of course, the system’s other benefits, such as a reduction in costs due to accidents and servicing, can free up expenditure to allow for a larger overall fleet. “If

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Airfreight Logistics

JUNE 21, 2019

One of the world’s leaders in the global market for the movement of oversize, unique and heavy air cargo, Volga Dnepr Group , recently announced they would continue to expand their strategic partnership at Leipzig/Halle Airport with Mitteldeutsche Flughafen AG (MFAG). There are capacity bottlenecks in air traffic across Europe.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 2, 2025

Then, I would start on another postal code, or group of postal codes, and carry out the same exercise, and so on, until I had assigned all the planning slips to routes. The next generation of solutions could also plan and configure loads based on packaging dimensions and the capacity of vehicles.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

Meanwhile decisions like how much production capacity needs to be added, or what raw materials need to be purchased, don’t change on a daily basis. But the challenge with the traditional planning systems has been there were silos” not just across different business groups, but silos across different planning horizons.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 28, 2021

He is head of sales for the cement industry at BEUMER Group, a company which since its foundation in 1935 develops future-oriented solutions for the construction and cement industry. The use of high-quality photocells ensures signal transmission even under difficult environmental conditions and the sensors used increase the machine capacity.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

In place of long paper trails and maintenance schedules, machines with the capacity to communicate their needs and issues via the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) are becoming an essential component of effective processes. Of course, these possibilities are not without potential problems.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 9, 2021

During a normal Olympics, millions of spectators flock to venues to watch over 300 events unfold over the course of two-plus weeks. According to Mark Schurman, a spokesperson for Gordon Food Service: “there are also constraints in transportation, with real capacity challenges in moving product, whether in ports or overland trucking.”.

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Airfreight Logistics

AUGUST 11, 2020

Imported from China via a cargo plane provided by the Cargolux airline, this machine has a production capacity of one million masks per week. Bolloré Logistics ‘ hub in Luxembourg recently received a machine to make surgical masks on behalf of the Luxembourg company ALLPHARMA.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2018

Proximity to raw materials, increased capacity, and labor costs are just a few of the ways that global supply chains work to save money for today’s top companies. Following the carrier consolidation predicament that rattled the industry, the ebb and flow of demand is leading to capacity issues for some trade lanes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Some try delving into deep learning or a crash course in generative AI (GenAI), but I don’t recommend starting there. What AI has been able to do for years is find patterns and make predictions at a scale far beyond our human cognitive capacity, such as forecasting for a retailer with billions of sales records and millions of items.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 28, 2021

Industry group warns pallet prices up 400% amid shortage. Over the course of the last year-plus, businesses of all kinds have been dealing with a massive influx of online orders. FedEx cited high volumes and tight capacity, stemming from the pandemic, as reasons to increase the surcharges.

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Airfreight Logistics

APRIL 15, 2020

The Boeing 777-300 will operate two round trips between DFW and FRA over the course of four days, carrying only cargo and necessary flight personnel. The four scheduled flights this weekend are expected to be booked to capacity and transport medical supplies, mail for active U.S.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 15, 2017

Indeed, if any of your company’s warehouses are running at more than 85% to 90% of their total capacity, you’re probably finding it hard to operate them efficiently. Possible Solutions to Increase Usable Warehouse Capacity. metres to narrow aisles (between 2.5 and 3 metres). metres to narrow aisles (between 2.5

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

That’s when you can course correct in any number of ways that make your business more efficient and your customers happier. Supply Planning and Deployment : Will any intra-network disruptions cause imbalances in warehouse and transportation capacity? In other words, visibility is an enabler.

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Logistics in War

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

On one hand it harks back to the Australian strategic policy of the post-Vietnam War years, but it has also been raised in recent debates about the limits of the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) capability, or even the nations defence industrial capacity. It is, of course, prudent to be as self-reliant as practicable.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2022

Scenarios allow planners to ask all kinds of what-if questions to help determine the best course of action under a variety of future outcomes. The best use of fancier math is to automate the obvious and calculate the complexity that is beyond the cognitive capacity of our brains. Why supply chain optimization matters.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

But more blatantly than ever, container liners – and especially Maersk – are on a collision course with the tech companies that provide digital infrastructure for selling goods. For a forwarder, refraining from working with Maersk today is expensive because it removes 17% of global shipping capacity. Enter Big Tech.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

When you can barely see beyond the bow of the ship, when extreme wind and waves threaten to throw you off course – or worse, sink you – it’s understandable that long-term thinking can get chucked overboard like so much extra ballast. I can only imagine what it must be like to be at sea during a major storm.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

MARCH 10, 2020

China overtook the grouping of the Rest of the World countries to reach the highest number of vessels in the world in 2019. By Deadweight Capacity. Of course different freight types have different characteristics and susceptible to different types of cargo damage and needs expert handling in all cases. By number of vessels.

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ShipLilly

JUNE 26, 2019

But there are many components that play a part in shipping at each stage of the journey and sometimes no matter how efficient the network there will be empty capacity. On the pro side, it is cheaper, safer and provides more capacity. Being able to leverage the empty backhauls allows shippers to reach into additional capacity.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 31, 2023

But what if, despite huge progress – dozens of digitized carriers representing over half of air cargo capacity, hundreds of thousands of real-time bookings, more and more solutions built around it – what if…we admitted that today, right now, it’s not really digital. Or, rather, only a small percentage is.

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Now, That's Logistics

DECEMBER 21, 2018

“Freight volumes are continuing to trend upwards at a solid rate by historical standards, helped by strong consumer confidence and robust global investment growth,” the group points out. Nonetheless, amid signs that manufacturing firms’ export order books are no longer growing, other demand drivers have softened over the course of the year.”.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2021

BEUMER Group thinks ahead and, for the first time, commissions a complete packaging line including palletiser – from a distance of over 4,000 kilometres. Helping customers in the event of faults or shutdowns of existing systems is no problem for BEUMER Group – even from a distance. Test run required. Keeping the overview.

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