The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Dale Prax and Joe Lynch discuss preventing freight fraud. Dale is the Founder and CEO of FreightValidate , a carrier and freight broker identify verification and vetting system serving shippers, carriers, freight brokers. About Dale Prax Dale Prax is a dad, husband, grandfather, friend, mentor, Marine Corps veteran, inventor, innovator, disruptor, entrepreneur, fighter of fraud, freight executive, mobile app developer, freight rate analyst, philanthropist, and coach.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Sometimes the answer to “Why?” is “I don’t know.” In some cases, nobody knows why. It just is, and the more you try to find a different answer, the more lost you become. That’s all I have for today. Don’t ask me Why? — Moving on, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught. Read more The post Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (February 9, 2024) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Overdrive Online

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Legal minds echo the overarching theme of owner-operators' own perspectives on the contractor status featured in Part 1 of this report -- that the control factor does/should weigh heavily. How the courts will interpret the rest is up in the air.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

As the holiday shopping season reaches its peak, ecommerce business owners everywhere are crossing their fingers, hoping they have enough product in stock and that they didn’t order too much. In a few short weeks they’ll find out just how accurate their demand forecasting method was. In truth, demand forecasting, or estimating how much product you’ll sell in the future, is one of the toughest challenges for any ecommerce business.

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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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Overdrive Online

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

With predatory heavy-duty truck towing in the headlines, this installment of Overdrive's Trucking Law video series offers expert input as a resource. The devil lurks in the details in invoice scrutiny, and tactics to combat predatory practices.

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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Maersk said that the Santiago-based facility will be the organization’s first semi-automated omnichannel fulfillment distribution center, providing PUMA with better end-to-end supply chain visibility.

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NGT News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Healey-Driscoll administration plans to invest $50 million in initiatives to build out electric vehicle charging infrastructure across Massachusetts. The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds will increase access to charging infrastructure for more residents, electrify the state fleet, improve operation of public charging stations, manage the impact of charging infrastructure on the electric grid […] The post Massachusetts Will Invest $50 Million to Advance EV Charging Infrastructure a

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

JCC Lighting is part of the Leviton Group and is a market leader in cutting edge LED technology, which can enable homes and businesses to tackle rising energy costs and reduce CO2 consumption. When the company moved into its new main UK distribution centre in Lux Park in Chichester at the end of 2022, it was a chance to start with a blank canvas when it came to the choice of materials handling equipment for the 60,000ft² warehouse.

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WorkWave

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Time To Read: 3 minutes Finding innovative ways to attract and retain customers in the home service industry is crucial. One effective strategy that’s been gaining traction is price bundling. Also known as packaged pricing, this strategy involves bundling various services together and charging one price. Bundled services are usually cheaper than if customers were to purchase each service individually.

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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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Loginext

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Are you excited for the Super Bowl? Let's dive into the logistics behind the Super Bowl and get to know how logistics management software can become the key to ensure seamless operations for one of the biggest sporting events of the year. The post Super Bowl Logistics: Navigating the Touchdown Hurdles! appeared first on loginextsolutions.com.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Rødding-based Stenderup A/S, the Authorised Bobcat dealer for Denmark, has announced that the company will be offering the new Bobcat range of material handling equipment for Danish customers from 1st April 2024. Troels Stausholm Jensen, Managing Director of Stenderup, said: “Since we were appointed as the Authorised Dealer for Bobcat in Denmark in 2022, we have been successful in increasing Bobcat’s market share in the country.

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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

A diplomat said it was clear that there wouldn't be enough representatives from the 27 EU member states to back the law following Germany and Italy's plans to abstain.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

CMC Packaging Automation, a leading supplier of fully automated right-sized packaging solutions that is proud partner of KKR’s Global Impact team and backed by Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, hosted the 11th edition of its highly anticipated CMC Innovation Day (CID24) at the Italian headquarters in Città di Castello. Attended by 150 industry leaders representing the eCommerce and logistics sectors, CID24 has become a pivotal event, unveiling cutting-edge technologies designed to enhance efficiency

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

With two young daughters who undeniably identify as Swifties, the football playoffs have become a big deal in our house. While they both generally enjoy watching football, things get a lot more interesting when the Chiefs are playing. My youngest daughter just yells for them to throw the ball to Travis Kelce on every play so she can see Taylor Swift celebrate.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Thomas Kuehn has joined independent freight forwarder Unsworth, as managing director of its UK business, with current managing director, Richard Hogg becoming chief executive officer of the Unsworth group , and Charles Hogg leading the company’s client solutions team as commercial director. Kuehn, pictured, joins from World Transport Agency (WTA), where he had been MD for almost a decade, in a year that will see Unsworth celebrate the golden jubilee of its formation in 1974.

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MTS Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The shipping industry, which has experienced a rollercoaster of good and bad times over the past decade, is once again staring down another potential rebound. It has been quite an up-and-down landscape for shipping and logistics. Starting in 2016, with the major development of the Hanjin bankruptcy, it was followed by the formation of shipping alliances.

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