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Ecommerce Forecasting Best Practices for Efficient Warehousing

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

Today, eCommerce forecasting remains a mystery that continues to make efficient warehousing a challenge for most eRetailers. 32 Degrees, an activewear brand that sells direct to consumer and through retail channels, is an exception.

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XPO launching in-house OTR operation

Commercial Carrier Journal

The Road Flex program is part of the XPO’s previously announced strategy to insource third-party linehaul carrier miles.

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Ecommerce Forecasting Best Practices for Efficient Warehousing

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

Today, eCommerce forecasting remains a mystery that continues to make efficient warehousing a challenge for most eRetailers. 32 Degrees, an activewear brand that sells direct to consumer and through retail channels, is an exception.

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An EV Talent Gap Will Weaken the U.S. Battery Supply

Supply Chain Brain

America’s battery supply chain is still in development, but to ensure its resilience and reliability will call for best-in-class professionals.

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Rethinking warehouse work culture: Can automation create better workplaces?

Heico Sandee, CEO of Smart Robotics, explores how automation redefines warehouse culture. By shifting repetitive tasks to skill-based roles, automation improves safety, fosters collaboration, and makes warehousing more appealing to today’s workforce.

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Trucker Communication Doesn’t Cost Much but Can Make All the Difference

TransAudit

The transportation and trucking sector is one brimming with responsibility, challenge, and on-road solitude. Amid this unique landscape, carriers continuously seek ways to enhance the driver experience, recognizing the paramount role drivers play in the industry. One of the most profound, yet cost-effective, strategies is enhancing trucker communication.

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How Small Ecommerce Brands Compete with Big Ecommerce Brands

Ship Monk

Competition—it can be a great thing that pushes us to be our best, but it can also be terribly stressful depending on your industry. For small ecommerce brands, competition is part of daily life. However, it’s hard enough trying to compete amongst each other. Competing with bigger, sometimes even giant ecommerce brands can feel a lot like a gopher taking on a giraffe.

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Robots to the Rescue: Creating a Flexible Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

Robots offer a perfect solution to market changes, as they can be added or taken away as needs require.

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Why Use The Best TMS System To Manage Logistics?

MercuryGate

Change is the only constant in logistics and supply chain management. From shifting consumer expectations to global supply chain disruptions, managers have their work cut out for them. As companies strive to enhance their resilience in the face of present and future disruptions, leveraging the best TMS system to navigate the intricate world of logistics emerges as an essential solution.

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RIZON Medium-Duty EVs Gain HVIP Approval

NGT News

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has designated RIZON’s Class 4/5 battery-electric cabover trucks as zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) in the state of California, making the vehicles eligible for the state’s Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP). The HVIP enables fleets to apply for a base voucher of $60,000 per vehicle purchased. […] The post RIZON Medium-Duty EVs Gain HVIP Approval appeared first on NGT News.

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Load Optimization: A Sustainable Way To Reduce Transportation Costs

Discover strategies to optimize load building and achieve significant transportation cost savings. Plus, learn how load optimization can help reduce CO 2 emissions and align with climate regulations and consumer expectations. Finally, discover best practices for sustainable load optimization.

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Watch: Tapping the Power of Integrated Business Planning

Supply Chain Brain

Andrea Montecchi and Ben Sellers, business advisors with Oliver Wight, explain the basics of integrated business planning (IBP), and why it’s such an important process for companies today.

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Five Benefits of GPS Telematics for Dump Trucks You Aren’t Thinking About

Trux

GPS telematics, short for Global Positioning System (GPS) and telematics technology, is a system that combines GPS tracking with data collection and transmission capabilities. It is used to monitor and manage vehicles, assets, and equipment in real-time.

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Siemens Integrating BlueBox Systems Data into AX4 Platform

Supply Chain Brain

This collaboration will provide over 500,000 AX4 users with access to data from over 130 airlines, giving BlueBox and AX4 members access to real-time figures and information.

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Danish 3PL Relies Visual Consignment Tracking

Logistics Business Magazine

In a time of increasing demands on delivery speed and quality, it is crucial for logistics companies to keep track of all incoming and outgoing shipments. However, as the manual search for specific goods in trans-shipment halls is time-consuming and error-prone, seamless shipment tracking plays an increasingly important role in the everyday life of transport companies.

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Autonomous AI Agents Are the Future of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations

As early as next year, procurement and supply chain operations will begin to adopt AI agents, often called “agentic AI,” to work alongside employees to make and execute decisions with precision across procurement and even the most complex global supply chains. Unlike LLM-based generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, these AI agents do not require prompts from humans.

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CSCMP Report Addresses Vulnerabilities of the U.S. Semiconductor Market

Supply Chain Brain

The report suggests the U.S. is in for an extended period of perhaps a decade or more of change regarding how supply chains for semiconductors are designed and executed.

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Mastering Supply Chain Management KPIs: A Comprehensive Guide

3PL Links

Learn how to monitor your supply chain more efficiently This is a question you may have asked yourself. How can supply chain performance be improved? The solution is frequently not obvious, therefore in this post, we’ll try to make it clear how you may evaluate and boost the efficiency of your company’s supply chain. Mastering Supply Chain Management KPIs: Your Comprehensive Guide to Success | Image source: Pixabay What are supply chain management KPIs?

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Port of LA Cargo Volumes Beat out 2022 Figures for Second Straight Month

Supply Chain Brain

Despite the rises in monthly volumes, the total for the first nine months of 2023 was 6,398,126 TEUs, an 18.6% decrease from the same period last year.

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e-commerce Box-making Solution

Logistics Business Magazine

Emmeci, a Coesia company in the design and manufacturing of machines and systems for the production of premium packaging, launches E-BM, a complete fit-to-size box making solution for the e-commerce sector. The ideal packaging is fit-to-size, compact and robust With e-commerce, the packaging must follow the object’s dimension, to ensure its integrity first and foremost.

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Freight Procurement Simplified: Bids from Hours to Minutes

Speaker: Eric Berdinis, Ran Sun, & Chris Chmielewski

Procuring freight can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and error-prone. If you’re frustrated with the complex and manual processes for obtaining bids for your contract and spot freight, you’re not alone. In today’s fast-moving supply chain environment, optimizing these processes is critical to staying competitive and cutting costs. Join this exclusive webinar with experts from Uber Freight to learn how the latest digital tools and automation can transform your freight procurement strategy by strea

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Finalists Announced for 2023 Influential Woman in Trucking Award

Supply Chain Brain

This year’s finalists are Western Logistics Express' Tori Blake, Shelley Simpson of J.B. Hunt Transport Services and Walmart's Megan Ferguson.

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NEOM and DSV Establish Logistics Joint-venture

Logistics Business Magazine

NEOM and DSV have announced a $10 billion exclusive logistics joint venture to support the development of the ambitious projects taking shape in NEOM, Saudi Arabia. The partnership will focus on providing logistics services for NEOM in the coming years. Under the agreement, the joint venture will provide end-to-end supply chain management, development and investments in transport and logistics assets and infrastructure as well as transport and delivery of goods and materials within NEOM.

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Six People Appointed to STB’s Rail Energy Transportation Advisory Committee

Supply Chain Brain

Bryan Boaz, Sean Brewer, Sandra Ellis, Leila Ford, Edward Quinn and Robert Zmudka are the new members, who will each serve a three-year term.

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Meet 'Topsy,' Edison Motors' diesel-electric vocational prototype

Overdrive Online

It's the novel creation of Chace Barber and the team at Canada-headquartered Edison Motors, and the first new build for the company after several retrofit diesel-electric designs, and recently shown at an Ontario truck and car show.

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Lynas Allowed to Import and Process Rare Earths in Malaysia Until 2026

Supply Chain Brain

Previously, the government had ordered the company to move its leaching and cracking processes out of the country by the end of 2023.

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Supply Chain Leaders Virtual Forum Returns November 16, 2023

Supply Chain Brain

Industry IoT brings together supply chain experts for a powerful annual forum addressing key concerns for supply chain leaders.

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UAW Strike Forcing Some Suppliers, Automakers to Make Layoffs

Supply Chain Brain

Roughly 40% of suppliers said they have had to lay off some employees since the work stoppages started in September.

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