Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 10, 2024

Just last week, my colleague Clint Reiser wrote an article about the top logistics and supply chain conferences to attend in 2024. Best Logistics and Supply Chain Conferences to Attend in 2023 ; Clint Reiser Welcome 2023! And with the new year comes an increasing return to in-person supply chain conferences and trade shows.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The software will allow you to digitally organize inventory data, monitor and manage shipping, and tracking information, and create electronic bills of lading or invoices with ease. Big Data Will Envelope and Empower all Other Supply Chain Technology Applications. Source: SupplyChainOpz.com.

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Penske Move Ahead

APRIL 28, 2023

The 2024 Third-Party Logistics Study survey is now live and is seeking input from supply chain professionals. A complimentary copy will be available after it is released at the CSCMP EDGE 2023 supply chain conference in October. Please click here to take part. It will close on June 30. 3PLStudy.com.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2024

I want to say a special thank you to Steve Banker and Conrad Hanf who I have worked closely with for the last 10+ years on Logistics Viewpoints as well as countless research projects, surveys, and events. Department of Transportation (DOT) has added three major West Coast ports to its data-sharing supply chain platform.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

If you’ve attended any logistics conferences lately, or just tried covering a load in recent weeks, you know that the tide is turning in the transportation market. At the CSCMP conference in late September, I heard a lot of speakers talking about the aggregate equipment loss — 50,000 to 70,000 units were taken out of service.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 11, 2024

Synchronizing people, processes, and data is core to concurrency, so that the supply chain can be rebalanced to affect what is happening, with the impact of any change being immediately reflected across the entire network at once. Historically these roles are siloed, focused on their own functional metrics. Has that changed?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2023

Throughout the conference I met with a number of software and hardware suppliers to get a glimpse of what they were showcasing. But Manhattan has built a single platform that shares data across applications at all times. Here are the ones that stood out to me. Traditionally, the unification of TMS and WMS was done through the ERP.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 12, 2015

What’s key to making this work: big data visibility, flexible processes, and an agile ecosystem that can move swiftly to serve an increasingly fragmenting, but exceptionally demanding consumer base. Crowdsourcing networks not only provide new ideas – they also vote on them – eliminating beta test groups and surveys.

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Penske Move Ahead

MAY 13, 2022

The survey is now live and will close on June 29. The study is a collaboration between Penske Logistics , NTT Data Services and supply chain professor Dr. Your insights are welcomed and please remember that your answers will be confidential. Please click here to begin. All prior studies can be accessed at no cost at www.3PLStudy.com.

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Freightos

MARCH 31, 2016

In 2012, The Economist assessed the impact that technology developments will have had on business by 2020, surveying and interviewing global technology and business leaders. For those who can master it, “big data” will become a business of its own. Want to know the future? At the time, the predictions seemed unreal.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2023

We have certainly seen more focus on women in supply chain over the last few years, and nearly every conference that I attend has tracks dedicated to women in supply chain. Trade between China and Canada hit record levels in 2022, with imports breaking the $100-billion mark for the first time, Statistics Canada data show.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 24, 2024

Last week I attended the Blue Yonder ICON conference. The bank said Friday that it is launching new “Supply Availability Indexes” via a blog posting on Monday that going forward will feature as part of its regular monthly surveys of regional business activity. My write-up gets into all of the great things I saw while at the show.

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Penske Move Ahead

MAY 9, 2022

Report author and leading clean technology consulting firm, Gladstein, Neandross & Associates (GNA), unveiled the findings at their Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo , a four-day conference which drew a record number of attendees. Report authors surveyed nearly 250 U.S.-based By 2025, U.S.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 16, 2022

At its San Francisco customer conference, ‘Beyond’, Samsara Inc. Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, an integrated platform that enables customers to access, analyse, and act upon real-time data to digitally connect their physical operations. This year’s economic environment is one for the books.

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Penske Move Ahead

APRIL 6, 2021

The survey is now live and will close on July 2. The study is a collaboration between Penske Logistics , NTT Data Services and Penn State University. A complimentary copy will be available later this year after it is released as part of the CSCMP EDGE 2021 supply chain conference in September. Click here to get started.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2018

While a degree of uncertainty over the future of free trade between Mexico and its Nafta neighbours to the north once again hung over discussions at this year’s Automotive Logistics Mexico conference, it was more than matched by confidence in the future of the automotive sector.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

At this virtual conference supply chain leaders will focus on driving positive environmental impact through supply chain transformation. According to a survey by Reuters and FourKites, 84% of European supply chain leaders are either increasing or staying focused on their sustainability commitments.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MAY 29, 2018

Perry advises managers to keep themselves informed of the changes in the industry as well as in emerging technology by attending trade events and transportation conferences where many new projects and start-ups get their grand unveiling. . The Survey By the Numbers . How BlueGrace Can Help . This is where we can help.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 21, 2020

Surging use of cloud-based video services such as Zoom and Cisco WebEx for business conference calls. Britain’s main Internet providers have removed data caps on fixed-line broadband, and have agreed to support those customers struggling to pay their bills. How Governments and Providers are keeping the World Connected.

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Women in Trucking

MARCH 9, 2020

Conference shared a variety of best practices. It’s remarkable, then, that a recent customer survey by DriverIQ, a provider of back- ground screening for the trucking industry, showed that 35 percent of companies have NO programs aimed at recruiting and retaining women drivers! Data shows that wages do indeed impact driver retention.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The survey of 318 UK supply chain managers found that nearly half (48%) do not believe their organisation is transparent enough with consumers, clients and regulators about sustainability, with 19% admitting they don’t even know how sustainable their products are themselves*. A lack of supply chain sustainability data – 27%.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

9, according to Xeneta, a Norway-based transportation data firm, reflecting lower freight demand as retailers cut orders and consumer spending continues to decline. In its January survey of grocery executives and consumers, Grocery Doppio, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based West Coast was $2,618 as of Feb.

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Penske Move Ahead

APRIL 2, 2019

The survey is now live for the 2020 Third-Party Logistics Study: The State of Logistics Outsourcing, and we are seeking input from supply chain professionals. Please use this link to take the survey that closes on May 17: [link]. The 2020 Special Topics: Analytics in 3PL Relationships. Clean Logistics. Supply Chain Finance.

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Penske Move Ahead

MAY 16, 2024

The forward-looking 2025 Third-Party Logistics Study survey is now live, and we are seeking input from supply chain professionals. A complimentary copy will be available after it is released at the CSCMP EDGE 2024 supply chain conference this fall as part of an educational session. Please click here if you would like to participate.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The majority of respondents taking part in the 2019 Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals/Penske Logistics Young Professionals Survey, which surveyed more than 100 supply chain professionals under age 30, said they enjoy working in the supply chain and that it makes them content.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 10, 2019

Discussions in the packaging Ideas Lab at the Automotive Logistics Europe conference last year pointed toward smaller collaborations as a good starting place, where two OEMs and a packaging provider worked together to come up with a standard product and then shared it with the wider industry.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 27, 2015

You may want to introduce some checks or surveys throughout the year rather than waiting till the end of the year to find out if you’ve achieved your objective. IT improvement outputs : is the customer delighted with the IT integration, customization, inventory and transportation tracking visibility, and data information.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

“According to the Körber 2023 State of Complexity Survey, 71 percent of supply chain professionals say that supply chain operations have become more complex in 2022, with only one in five able to stay ahead of their most pressing challenges.

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Penske Move Ahead

APRIL 29, 2020

It was first presented at CSCMP's 2019 EDGE conference in Anaheim, California. The issues rest with the ways to create clean and useful data, and insufficient resources to best utilize analytics (are there data scientists on the team?). The publication, available at no cost at www.3PLStudy.com Why is there an analytics gap?

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Here are a few notable findings from the report, released today at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) EDGE conference: . Shippers recognize the need for agility, but 42 percent of survey respondents said they have not made the required changes to improve their agility over the past five years.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 10, 2018

Perry, who recently launched a new informational website, “ Transport Futures,” also advises managers to stay well informed on dynamic changes in the industry by attending conferences and trade events. Furthermore, survey results suggest that end-to-end supply chain transparency is the No.

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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 24, 2018

The mood at the 3PL association’s annual conference was buoyant based on truckload demand, but concerns about brokers’ digital strategies floated. billion, and it’s on track to exceed $200 billion in revenue in 2019. The report includes data on the most common sales processes and contract lengths. percent in 2017 to $184.3

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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Here are a few notable findings from the report, released at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) EDGE conference: What are the top concerns and challenges in regards to supply chain decisions? Yet, only roughly a third of all survey takers agreed that companies do enough to effectively manage last yard issues.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

“According to the Körber 2023 State of Complexity Survey, 71 percent of supply chain professionals say that supply chain operations have become more complex in 2022, with only one in five able to stay ahead of their most pressing challenges.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The majority of respondents taking part in the 2019 Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals/Penske Logistics Young Professionals Survey, which surveyed more than 100 supply chain professionals under age 30, said they enjoy working in the supply chain and that it makes them content.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 20, 2018

It is a topic of daily discussion at every industry trade show and conference, while also getting a ton of attention in the form of commentary or data being issued fairly frequently. A good example of that was apparent in an October 2017 survey of 1,500 motor carriers conducted by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI).

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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The intersection of supply chain technology, changing online consumer spending habits, data management, delivery preferences, and other factors are all serving as game changers in how 3PLs are continually striving to better serve shippers.

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