The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 10, 2023

By manufacturing in Mexico, clients of The Nearshore Company can reduce their operating costs by up to 80%, increase production efficiency, and grow their businesses. The nearshoring trend is driven by several causes including: China is no longer the lowest cost country for manufacturing.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Supply chain conferences are an excellent way to connect with industry professionals, learn about new technologies, and refine your operation through the experience of others. It is up to your organization to decide which conferences to attend and how you will leverage the information presented. GET YOUR COPY HERE.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

5000 developers are working on product enhancements and extensions to the SAP spend management suite. With that level of investment, one would expect an aggressive product buildout. At SAP Spend Connect Live, held October 14-16 in Las Vegas, SAP did make several significant product announcements.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2017

A notable exception is MercuryGate (a Talking Logistics sponsor), which was founded 17 years ago and recently held its annual user conference in Las Vegas. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘The Future of Delivery,” which I love because it raises a lot of questions and possibilities (see my recent post on the topic).

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Talking Logistics

MAY 25, 2017

Addressing this problem is at the heart of Manhattan Associates’ Active Solutions, which the company introduced a couple of weeks ago at its Momentum 2017 conference. In short, I walked away feeling like this was a start-up within Manhattan Associates taking a modern and cloud-native approach to product development and deployment.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Most of the conferences on our list are in the U.S., Also, if you have a favorite industry conference not included on the list, please post it in the comments. “Who As I’ve shared in the past, here are three questions you should ask yourself: Does the conference agenda align with the key initiatives I’m working on?

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Last month, I had the opportunity to speak at CLX Logistics’ 6th Annual Customer Conference in Philadelphia. Mark Chrencik, Director of Operations at CLX Logistics (a Talking Logistics sponsor), kicked off the conference with a market update where he covered various trends in the industry, including fuel prices and linehaul rates.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

SaaS product, SONAR, is the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. In the podcast interview, Andrew discussed some themes and trends he observed in the FreightTech 25. FreightWaves’?

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WorkWave

JANUARY 17, 2024

Time To Read: 3 minutes The four-day event brought together diverse industry leaders to network and focus on key topics, including market success, private equity trends and more. The conference featured keynote speeches from WorkWave’s Chief Executive Officer David F. HOLMDEL, N.J.

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WorkWave

JUNE 14, 2023

Time To Read: 3 minutes The 2024 Beyond Service User Conference, being held January 7-10, 2024 in Orlando, is an opportunity for the industry’s leading field service companies to network, learn and think outside the box HOLMDEL, N.J.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Which is why a drone took flight from the stage during Ryan’s keynote address at the Descartes Evolution 2017 Conference a couple of weeks ago and broadcast real-time video of the audience as it flew across the front of the hall. The R&D team delivered about 350 product releases in 2016. Will this include drone deliveries?

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Talking Logistics

MAY 18, 2017

As I prepared my keynote presentation for the BluJay Solutions’ SOAR 2017 conference , I recalled this experience and saw it as a good metaphor for the difficulties many companies are having today responding effectively to the blizzard of supply chain management.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2018

As reported in MarketWatch , “The global construction industry has a chronic productivity problem. Over the past 20 years, productivity has grown at only 1% annually, only around one-third the rate of the world economy and only around one-quarter of the rate in manufacturing.”. Getting Started with Digital Transformation.

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Log-hub

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The center of science, knowledge, and supply chain leading innovations is found in the Annual Conference of the Operations Research Society of Germany. The Conference took place at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), from 6 – 9 of September, 2022. The post Log-hub at the OR Conference 2022 appeared first on Log-hub.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Last month, I attended and spoke at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference , where I learned many things about the Heavy Building Materials (HBM) industry. Cement is one of the raw materials that goes into making concrete, which is the finished product. To wrap up, this was my first time attending the Command Alkon conference.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 10, 2024

Often times at Logistics Viewpoints, we like to look to the future and highlight the key trends that we see in a given market, or make predictions about what technologies will emerge as game changers in the new year. Best Logistics and Supply Chain Conferences to Attend in 2023 ; Clint Reiser Welcome 2023! in December 2021.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

Did LLamasoft (a Talking Logistics sponsor) help to create these inflection points or did it simply see these trends coming before others and caught the wave early? What would this “next generation solution” be? Would LLamasoft start competing more directly with other best-of-breed supply chain planning vendors?

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 1, 2016

What’s your opinion of attending conferences, seminars, and industry workshops? The Career-Boosting Value of Conferences. Perhaps you are an employee wondering why you should attend conferences or a leader contemplating the value of sponsoring attendance. Conference speakers are typically at the forefront of their field.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2018

Yesterday, we talked about delivery of a product,” Hughes added. Today, delivery is the product.”. It’s the reason why more than 300 people attended this year’s Shipper Symposium: to learn about the trends shaping the industry and to discuss how to rewrite the rules for success moving forward.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 10, 2023

I spent the better part of last week in Las Vegas, NV attending the Blue Yonder ICON customer conference. This was the first time I have attended a Blue Yonder conference in person since 2019, which feels like a lifetime ago. Mr. Usie pointed out that the goal is to make every product better and more efficient.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Ralf Duester, member of the board of the SCM software specialist Setlog, shows which trends will shape the year 2023. The best strategy is for companies to devise agile approaches to permanently optimise the use of resources and production capacities. Collaboration will be implemented. Sustainability laws force action.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Results from The Conference Board’s C-SUITE OUTLOOK survey showed supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and rising inflation to be 3 of the 5 high impact external factors on the minds of CEOs. Negative Impact from External Factors The Conference Board survey results indicated labor shortages and inflation to be top concerns for CEOs.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 6, 2017

I’ll be doing both for the first time in a couple of weeks at Seminarium’s Logistics & Operations Conference 2017 (October 18th in Santiago, Chile). Here’s a short video I recorded in Spanish highlighting the topic of my presentation: If you plan to be at the conference, I look forward to learning and networking with you.

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Penske Move Ahead

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Penske Logistics will appear on a trio of educational sessions and once again serve as a Global Sponsor at the upcoming Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals ( CSCMP) EDGE conference in Anaheim, California, from September 15-18. trillion gross domestic product (GDP). to reach $1.64 trillion, or 8% of 2018’s $20.5

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Trinity Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

At PMA Fresh Summit over 20,000 professionals will gather to network, showcase new products throughout the expo, and stay up to date on produce industry trends. PMA marks the first of many trade shows and conferences that Trinity and Burris Logistics will be exhibiting together.

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Material Handling and Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

And every conference showcased the latest technologies available to help you do so. Production uncertainties leading to changes in supply. Production uncertainties are caused by unexpected occurrances, such as yields that are different from forecasts, or factory machines that break down. Everyone was excited about it.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2024

Scale drives profitability,” Turner told a group of industry analysts on April 22 nd , the day before the Coupa Inspire user conference began. The goal is for the company to go from $1 billion in annual recurring revenue today to an ARR of $2 billion in the next three years, but to do so in a more profitable manner.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 29, 2019

I’ve been trying to learn the basics of the game, and as luck would have it, at the Descartes Evolution 2019 conference this week (more about the conference in a future post), I sat with a Descartes executive who is an experienced rugby player — he even coached the women’s team at his university.

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MTS Logistics

MAY 21, 2021

Besides containerized cargo, according to United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) data, 11.076 billion tons of cargo were carried over the sea in 2019. Dry bulk cargo consists of mostly unfinished goods which are used in the global manufacturing and production process. or non-unitized form such as a bundle.

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Freightera

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Freightera’s CEO, Eric Beckwitt Gives His Predictions on The Trends in Sustainability in 2024. Although interest rates are widely predicted to fall in 2024, and the freight recession may end, the multi-decade trend of moving manufacturing overseas, especially to China, may be largely over.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 27, 2020

SaaS product, SONAR, is the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. I love talking about these trends. FreightWaves’? Interview . [01:04] That’s pretty astounding. [41:21]

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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. Will these trends continue in 2018? Capacity is tightening and rates are going up. What impact will the Electronic Logging Devices (ELD) mandate have on the market?

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FreightWaves SONAR

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The hook is the alternative reason for reaching out to a prospect that does not involve trying to sell your product or service. It could be casually talking about an announcement your prospect’s company just made about a new product or customer. Or it could be a conference presentation or webinar your prospect just delivered. .

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

What struck me the most was when an actual AI scientist at the conference told me that, when he looked around, all he saw were hundreds of companies poised to waste a lot of money applying AI solutions to problems they didn’t actually have. Yes, I know that is bucking the trend. People are implementing AI for its own sake.

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WorkWave

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Across industry events, conferences, expos and meetings, AI is the topic that everyone wants to hear more about. Predicting Service Needs : By analyzing past data, pest activity patterns and seasonal trends, AI can forecast future service demand. Artificial intelligence (AI) is seemingly everywhere.

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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. The facilities are a fraction of the size of Amazon’s large fulfillment warehouses and are designed to prepare products for immediate delivery.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 22, 2024

ASCM, the global leader in supply chain organizational transformation, innovation and leadership, provides industry professionals with essential insights about the global technologies, trends and innovations. In the Exhibit Hall, companies will share their newest products and services.

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