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Taking the Uncertainty and Risk Out of Freight with Erika Voss

The Logistics of Logistics

in Cybersecurity from Northcentral University, while teaching Cyber courses in the evening and advising Women in Leadership at the University of San Francisco. Network Analytics: Shippers gain granular visibility into capacity, helping them optimize sourcing and manage their transportation network more efficiently. Erika holds a Ph.D.

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A Look at Some of the Biggest Trends in Shipping and Logistics

Shipchain

The most high-tech things it could do were make phone calls and send text messages, all hand-crafted in T9 of course. Fast forward fifteen years and now my cellphone also doubles as my HD camera, portable music device, library, fitness tracker, and of course, my means to call and text. Further benefits of A.I,

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Transportation Cost and Capacity Trends

Now, That's Logistics

As shippers either figuratively or literally flipped the calendar page over to 2022, the hope was that at least some of the capacity crunches, driver shortages, labor issues and freight rate increases that took hold in 2021 would begin to heal themselves and create a more balanced transportation marketplace. Unfortunately, this didn’t happen.

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Using a Transportation Management System to Resolve Capacity Issues

Logistics Viewpoints

MercuryGate, of course, is a best of breed provider of transportation management systems (TMS). Business Intelligence Logistics Service Providers Logistics Trends Transportation Transportation Management Systems' MercuryGate’s User Conference 2014 was in New Orleans last week.

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2020 Trends in Freight Transportation, and the COVID-19 Impact

Logistics Bureau

Rather than abandon the idea of updating you on trends emerging in the industry in 2020 and likely to deliver changes in the next two or three years, I thought I’d go ahead with it, and add some insights into how the Coronavirus crisis is accelerating or reversing them. Air Freight Transportation Trends 2020.

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Bucking the Trend in Transportation – Simultaneously Cap Rate Growth and Beat Capacity Constraints

Talking Logistics

If you’ve ever paid $10 for an Uber ride to the cocktail lounge in the evening and then a “surge priced” $50 for the same distance Uber ride back to your home only a few hours later around closing time, you understand the dynamics troubling shippers in today’s capacity constrained transportation market.

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A Crash Course on Navigating Trends in Trucking and Freight for 2018

GlobalTranz

As a result, shippers across the globe are looking for ways to keep up with the Amazon’s unrelenting approach, and these trends in trucking and freight reflect a few of the key ways shippers, third-party logistics providers and truckers will respond 2018. Last Mile Delivery is Quickly Rising in the Ranks of Trends in Trucking and Freight.