Harvesting Success This Produce Season
Food Logistics
MAY 7, 2024
A carrier with a strong reputation, the latest technology and equipment, and the ability to scale will be the best partner to handle both the season’s opportunities and challenges.
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Red Sea Risk Matrix: A Model for Managing Supply Chain Disruption
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 7, 2024
If you’re still viewing supply chain disruptions as one-off or random occurrences, you’re doing it wrong. These events are chronic and inevitable.
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The new Volvo VNL, inside and out: 62-inch sleeper walk-around
Overdrive Online
MAY 7, 2024
Volvo opened up the order books for the new VNL just last month. The company's product marketing manager for long haul walked us through this brand-new VNL 660, featuring a 62-inch sleeper, to showcase design decisions/changes.
Introducing the Craft Supplier Risk Management Platform
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 7, 2024
Craft is launching a user-friendly, configurable supplier risk management (SRM) platform designed for team collaboration and proactive risk mitigation.
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.
Advancing Transportation Procurement: The Shift From Spreadsheets to Software
FreightWaves SONAR
MAY 7, 2024
For shippers, the approach to transportation procurement is evolving. Traditionally, shipping companies have relied on manual tools and processes, predominantly managing their requests for proposals (RFPs) and bids using simple spreadsheets. This approach is cumbersome and fraught with challenges such as limited visibility, inefficient data management and difficulties in bid analysis.
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C.H. Robinson Implements AI to Automate Transactions
Food Logistics
MAY 7, 2024
C.H. Robinson announced plans to automate transactions, breaking a long-standing barrier to automation and giving shippers who use email the same speed-to-market as shippers who are more digitally connected.
Maersk Warns of 'Intensified' Crisis for Carriers in Red Sea
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 7, 2024
Maersk also says that vessels will likely continue rerouting around Africa's Cape of Good Hope "for the foreseeable future.
MercuryGate Emerges As Challenger in 2024 Gartner® TMS Magic Quadrant™
MercuryGate
MAY 7, 2024
Our position is to extend our capabilities in machine learning, data analytics, and customer collaboration to deliver even more actionable intelligence and improvements in the end-to-end supply chain. The post MercuryGate Emerges As Challenger in 2024 Gartner® TMS Magic Quadrant™ appeared first on MercuryGate International.
How to Build and Execute an Effective Supplier Risk Management Strategy
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 7, 2024
Managing a global supply chain has never been more challenging, with complex, ever-evolving regulations, increasingly frequent extreme weather events, volatile geopolitical crises, and sophisticated cybercrime.
Load Optimization: A Sustainable Way To Reduce Transportation Costs
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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.
Choosing Between FOB Vs. Ex Works Terms of Sale
I.C.E. Transport
MAY 7, 2024
If you are a small or medium-sized business (SMB) who is buying from an overseas supplier, there's a good chance you're buying under either Free On Board (FOB) or Ex Works (EXW) terms of sale – the two most commonly used purchase terms in global trade. In this article, we'll explore the distinctions between EXW vs FOB and how they can positively or negatively impact how you manage logistics.
As Forced Labor Prevention Enforcement Heats Up, the Focus is on Compliance
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 7, 2024
The most crucial tool a supply chain manager can have to fend off UFLPA or other compliance risks is a transparent view of your suppliers’ critical relationships.
Penske Truck Rental’s Top 10 Moving Destinations of 2023 Revealed
Penske Move Ahead
MAY 7, 2024
Each year, Penske Truck Rental reveals the top 10 cities that people are moving to, based on one-way truck rental data. This year’s Top Moving Destinations list features a new addition and one surprising departure on the 14 th annual list. Beyond where people are moving, Penske also wanted to better understand why people are moving. Penske also released the results of a national consumer survey, Settling In: A Consumer Moving Trends Survey, which unveils new findings about people’s reasons for m
Boeing ‘Missed’ 787 Inspections, May Have ‘Falsified Records’
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 7, 2024
An internal Boeing memo said that “several people had been violating company policies by not performing a required test, but recording the work as having been completed.
Autonomous AI Agents Are the Future of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations
Advertiser: GEP
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.
Mezzanine Specialist given King’s Enterprise Innovation Award
Logistics Business Magazine
MAY 7, 2024
The King’s Awards for Enterprise are the only awards to have the imprimatur of the monarch. Hi-Level Mezzanines , (who design and installs mezzanine floors for top brands including Amazon, Ocado, Tesco, ASOS, Next and DPD) won an Innovation award, with extremely tough competition – across the whole of the UK, only 59 awards for innovation were granted this year.
Maersk Says Decision on Return to Port of Baltimore Could Be Imminent
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 7, 2024
Just under 200 containers have been taken off the Dali container ship to get it ready to float again before it's taken out of the area.
WattEV Opens Fourth Electric Truck Charging Depot Within One Year
NGT News
MAY 7, 2024
WattEV, provider of medium- and heavy-duty electric truck charging infrastructure development and electric freight transport, has opened its fourth electric truck charging depot, this one in Bakersfield, California. The Bakersfield depot will connect the San Joaquin Valley’s agricultural sector and growing warehousing complexes to California’s seaports and inland destinations.
FTC Fines Williams-Sonoma for Deceptive 'Made in USA' Products
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 7, 2024
The FTC discovered that Williams-Sonoma mattress pads listed as "crafted in America from domestic and imported materials" were actually fully imported from China.
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
BAE Systems, Eaton Expand EV System Collaboration to Include Heavy-Duty Trucks
NGT News
MAY 7, 2024
Electric propulsion provider BAE Systems and global power management company Eaton are expanding their collaboration to include electric vehicle solutions for heavy-duty trucks. The solution offers original equipment manufacturers and commercial vehicle modifiers a comprehensive, efficient, advanced and flexible EV system for a wide range of zero-emission platforms.
C.H. Robinson Introduces AI Technology to Automate Email Interactions
Supply Chain Brain
MAY 7, 2024
Generative artificial intelligence now reads and replies to 2,000 emailed quote requests a day.
Philatron Installs Giant Planetary Cabling Line for EV Charging Cables
NGT News
MAY 7, 2024
Philatron Wire and Cable has installed a giant planetary cabling line designed for production of mega-size EV charging cables. With this new technology, Philatron, which supplies 80% of the supercharging cables in the U.S., is positioned to meet the growing demand for large-scale EV charging solutions. This line accommodates seven 50-inch (1270-mm)-diameter reels, each capable […] The post Philatron Installs Giant Planetary Cabling Line for EV Charging Cables appeared first on NGT News.
Penske Truck Rental’s Top 10 Moving Destinations of 2023 Revealed
Penske Move Ahead
MAY 7, 2024
Each year, Penske Truck Rental reveals the top 10 cities that people are moving to, based on one-way truck rental data. This year’s Top Moving Destinations list features a new addition and one surprising departure on the 14 th annual list. Beyond where people are moving, Penske also wanted to better understand why people are moving. Penske also released the results of a national consumer survey, Settling In: A Consumer Moving Trends Survey, which unveils new findings about people’s reasons for m
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.
Accelera by Cummins Battery System to Power BMC Otomotiv Buses
NGT News
MAY 7, 2024
Accelera by Cummins, the zero-emissions business segment of Cummins Inc., is collaborating with BMC Otomotiv, a manufacturer of buses and trucks in Turkey and throughout Europe, to provide battery solutions for BMC’s transit bus operations. The companies have signed a letter of intent for Accelera to power BMC’s city buses. This marks the first time […] The post Accelera by Cummins Battery System to Power BMC Otomotiv Buses appeared first on NGT News.
ShipMonk Makes Managing Online Marketplaces Easy
Ship Monk
MAY 7, 2024
It’s one thing to sell your products on Amazon. It’s another thing to be an omnichannel ecommerce brand that sells through multiple marketplaces, online retailers, social commerce platforms, plus an online store and app, all at the same time. How do you keep track of orders when they’re coming at you from all directions, using different technologies, with different requirements for fulfillment?
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