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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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. The study will also provide continuing the conversation updates and allow for further context on current industry trends. Please click here if you would like to participate. The speakers will be Dr. C.

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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. This week, for example, CCJ reported that “60 percent of fleets running between 1 and 100 trucks have yet to adopt ELDs, according to a recent survey conducted by CarrierLists.”

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Penske Move Ahead

MAY 9, 2022

In the third annual State of Sustainable Fleets Market Brief , released today and available at no cost, transportation fleets continued to report a resounding trend — their use of clean fuels and advanced vehicle technologies is rapidly progressing. Report authors surveyed nearly 250 U.S.-based By 2025, U.S.

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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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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. That trend, along with technological advancements, gave FedEx incentive to overhaul its Express unit’s network in a bid for long-term savings.

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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! She sees a trend toward formalized outreach programs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 11, 2024

No one wants to be trapped in a conference room waiting for hours as various teams to dash out to run some numbers on an idea, so the ability to run scenarios iteratively together is only possible with the instant results concurrency delivers as part of supply chain orchestration. Has that changed?

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 6, 2024

The premier conference and exhibition is a key maritime and logistics event dedicated exclusively to the breakbulk, project cargo, heavy lift and Ro-Ro sectors. Responding to our attendees’ survey last year, we have extended the opening hours and added a closing party for even more networking opportunities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The shortage projection, released on the final day of the ATA Management Conference & Exhibition at the San Diego Convention Center, is expected to grow over the next decade, Costello said. A deceleration in fundamentals during late September was notable in responses to a monthly supply chain survey. percentage points higher at 76.9

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 14, 2015

It is surprising then that despite the hundreds of millions of RFID tags sold this year alone that, according to results from the 2014 GS1 US Standards Usage Survey, finally saw the technology living up to the hype in the logistics industry in the last few years.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 10, 2019

An aftermarket report published by Transparency Market Research suggested the disposable packaging market would be the largest contributor to the global automotive parts packaging market between 2017 and 2027 (Automotive Parts Packaging market: Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2017-2027).

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 20, 2018

To gain insights on that question and more, Adelante SCM and BluJay Solutions conducted a web survey of supply chain and logistics professionals in March 2018. A total of 137 respondents completed the survey from Manufacturing, Retail, Logistics Service Provider, and other companies in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.

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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. This survey returns, seeking to answer these questions.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The Number of Retailers Offering Same Day Delivery has Tripled in the Past Year to Meet Elevated Customer Expectations, According to a New BRP Survey. Next week I’ll be at the CSCMP EDGE conference in Atlanta, GA. Truckload Turnover Surges in Second Quarter. If you’ll be there and would like to meet, drop me a line.

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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). He lives and works in San Francisco, providing readers with a Pacific Rim perspective on industry trends and forecasts. Compliance to U.S.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 6, 2024

The premier conference and exhibition is a key maritime and logistics event dedicated exclusively to the breakbulk, project cargo, heavy lift and Ro-Ro sectors. Responding to our attendees’ survey last year, we have extended the opening hours and added a closing party for even more networking opportunities.

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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. The study will also provide continuing the conversation updates and allow for further context on current industry trends. Please click here if you would like to participate. The speakers will be Dr. C.

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Blue Grace Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2021

One of the most common trends among WIT’s Top 100 companies was the establishment of employee resource groups (ERGs), often employee-led voluntary committees that represent a specific group of individuals. Create an Employee Resource Group. BlueGrace’s No.

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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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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This was inspired by the recent global IRU survey of transport operators on key trends impacting the industry which found that safety is considered to be one of the biggest innovation opportunity for transport and logistics companies. Participants will be able to capture the business potential offered by new technologies.

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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. Subscribe to Logistics Management Magazine!

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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. Macroeconomic trends, combined with intensifying supply chain complexity, means demand for 3PLs is increasing, Armstrong & Associates said, pointing out that the market grew 10.5

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 27, 2019

This was inspired by the recent global IRU survey of transport operators on key trends impacting the industry which found that safety is considered to be one of the biggest innovation opportunity for transport and logistics companies. Participants will be able to capture the business potential offered by new technologies.

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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. 3PLStudy.com.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The timing for such a conference could not have been better, say industry analysts, as transpacific rates have been volatile and unsteady during the peak season for a variety of reasons related to carrier consolidation and pending trade conflicts. Eleven freight forwarders participated in the pilot, said spokesmen. Subscribe today.

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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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World Food Programme Logistics

MAY 23, 2019

The buzz of only four drones, like a swarm of flies, drifts into the conference room. Adam Marlatt surveys the ‘mouth of the poisonous caterpillar’ before the exercise begins. More than 45 standby partner organizations assist 14 UN agencies, providing additional staffing and expertise for specific missions.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 8, 2018

Among the report’s key findings was that forwarders that quote manually took 57 hours on average—an improvement on previous surveys, but still 20th century performance. Furthermore, 72% of those forwarders surveyed failed to quote, thereby missing out on digital business. Suspicions confirmed. Technology alone can’t do that.”.

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Automotive Logistics

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Europe’s finished vehicle sector faces several big challenges in coming months, as speakers at the recent ECG conference in Germany made clear. At last week’s annual conference of the Association of European Vehicle Logistics (ECG), held in Mainz, Germany, speakers discussed what they were doing to tackle these problems.

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247 Customs Broker

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The military initially was the leader in drone use, but corporations also are adopting them to survey construction zones, deliver packages and monitor inventory in warehouses, among other tasks. Paper presented at the International Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management, Huntsville, AL, October 18-21, 2017. .

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 19, 2022

During his tenure at Stifel, his awards included ranking #1 in stock picking multiple times in the Wall Street Journal’s Best on the Street Analysts Survey and in Financial Times/StarMine America’s Top Analysts report. This trend will be very advantageous for the less-than-truckload industry. LTL Future: Labor.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 23, 2021

During his tenure at Stifel, his awards included ranking #1 in stock picking multiple times in the Wall Street Journal’s Best on the Street Analysts Survey and in Financial Times/StarMine America’s Top Analysts report. This trend will be very advantageous for the less-than-truckload industry. LTL Future: Labor.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2023

At the same time, the Celtics finished with the second-best record in the Eastern Conference. The failure will affect the movement of people and goods, he said Monday at an annual conference of the American Council of Engineering Companies in Washington. It seemed like a run to the Stanley Cup was inevitable.

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Blue Grace Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2017

This year, BlueGrace Logistics held their National Conference at the beautiful SandPearl resort in Clearwater Beach, FL. To no surprise, the conference was jam packed with fantastic speakers including Don Hutson, Alex Sheen and Brian Holloway. Everyone enjoyed learning experiences, lunches and a reception back at headquarters.

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