Thu.Jul 18, 2024

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The Cybersecurity Problem (and Opportunity) in Supply Chain Management

Talking Logistics

John Adams famously said, “Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.” I recalled this quote when I read that Google is reportedly acquiring cloud security company Wiz for $23 billion. As reported by Reuters, this would be “Google’s most expensive acquisition and provide it with cybersecurity products that defend against ransomware gangs wreaking havoc on.

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Editor’s Choice: Control Tower: New Essential for Supply Chain Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

Note: Today’s post is part of our “Editor’s Choice” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide supply chain insights and advice. This article comes from Solvoyo and looks at the importance of a control tower. Effective supply chain planning is crucial for maintaining competitiveness and ensuring customer satisfaction in today’s fast-paced business environment.

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Trucking Law: Marijuana and what rescheduling means for truckers

Overdrive Online

Comments on the federal effort to reschedule marijuana are due July 22. While nothing is changing short-term about cannabis-derived products for owner-ops and other truckers, dig into a shifting legal landscape in this video.

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Peak Season Prep: 2024 Trends & Strategies

Ship Monk

What can your operations team do now to ensure a successful peak season ahead? Today we’re going to look at some of the consumer trends that might affect your preparations for peak season 2024, and strategies to maximize them. Key Takeaways Consumers expect an omnichannel experience, but omnichannel fulfillment requires fully integrated systems and a robust 3PL software platform.

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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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Watch: What's Next for Supply Chain Management: Moving to Proactive Intelligence

Supply Chain Brain

Proactive intelligence enables you to balance the fine line between cost and resilience, says Brandon Daniels, chief executive officer of Exiger.

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Trucking Industry Gets Boost as Peak Shipping Season Arrives a Month Early

Supply Chain Brain

With concerns over transit delays in the Red Sea and the looming threat of an East Coast and Gulf port longshoremen strike, retailers began restocking shelves in June.

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How Transloading Facilities Can Benefit Your Supply Chain

West Coast and California Logistics

When your imported products hit the port, do you want them to head out to market as quickly as possible? If so, it’s time that you give transloading a closer look. In this article, we’ll examine transloading in greater detail, including what you should look for in a 3PL provider that operates transloading facilities.

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Podcast | The Short Shelf Life of Electronic Components in A&D

Supply Chain Brain

How do we solve the problem of obsolete electronic components in the aviation and defense industry?

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Ben Cadle's personal 2024 Pete 389 showcases polished Dorsey flat

Overdrive Online

Small fleet owner Cadle showed the sharp 389 hooked to a brand-new polished-out Dorsey flatbed that his parallel Trelco Trailers business, leasing and selling trailers, took to the Large Cars and Guitars truck show in Kodak, Tennessee, in May.

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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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How iPaaS Can Pave the Way for Seamless Automation Adoption

Supply Chain Brain

Chief information officers today face increasing pressure to keep pace with advances in technology. And that brings the role of the integration platform as a service (iPaaS) into prominence.

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5 ways to be flexible and reduce bulk freight rates

Bulk Connection

Shippers often ask us, “what’s the best way to reduce my bulk freight rates?” Our answer is best summed up in one word: flexibility. In this article, we’ll look at how flexibility helps your bulk transportation providers and tell you ways to make your operations more flexible.

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California Pours $27M into Port Data, Technology Projects

Supply Chain Brain

The funds will be used for 10 separate projects across five ports, including cargo route optimization, emission reductions, and trucking appointment systems.

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What does the 2024 presidential election mean for trucking?

Commercial Carrier Journal

A president’s influence on transportation is felt from many directions: labor, emissions regulations and even heads of departments that oversee trucking and its ruleset.

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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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Omani Wealth Fund-Backed Port Operator Sets Sights on Asia Ports

Supply Chain Brain

The firm with $4 billion of assets is keen to branch out from its Middle East base to play a larger global role as economic growth expands demand for shipping.

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How AI in Logistics is Transforming the Food and Beverage Industry

Loginext

Explore the transformative role of AI in logistics for the food and beverage industry. Learn how LogiNext leverages AI to enhance delivery efficiency, customer experience, and operational reliability. The post How AI in Logistics is Transforming the Food and Beverage Industry appeared first on loginextsolutions.com.

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Port of LA Volumes Up 14% for First Six Months, YoY

Supply Chain Brain

The Port of Los Angeles processed 827,757 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) in June, a 10% increase over the previous month

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Industrial Users Leased More Megawarehouses in First Half of the Year

Food Logistics

Claiming the largest shares of the 100 leases were traditional retailers and wholesalers, followed by third-party logistics (3PL) providers, e-commerce operators and food and beverage companies.

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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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Dior, Armani Under Fire for Misleading Consumers Over Abuse of Workers

Supply Chain Brain

Prosecutors in Milan found that Armani and Dior had subcontracted out production of their handbags to Chinese-owned companies in Italy that violated a litany of ethical labor regulations.

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BlueGrace Logistics Promotes Vice President of LTL Pricing and Carrier Relations

Food Logistics

Personnel updates sees growth at BlueGrace, the Oakland Board of Port Commissioners and more.

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Digital Catapult Platform to Solve Supply Chain Setbacks

Logistics Business Magazine

Digital Catapult has today launched the Digital Supply Chain Hub, a platform designed to facilitate strategic collaboration between manufacturers and digital solution providers across the UK. The new platform will meet industry demand to accelerate the digitalisation of supply chain operations, driving resilience and sustainability through the application of deep tech solutions.

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Range Energy, South Coast AQMD Partner to Showcase Electric-Powered Trailers

NGT News

Range Energy, a company bringing powered trailers to the commercial trucking market, has formed a partnership with the South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD), the California air pollution control agency. The project will focus on building and demonstrating electric-powered trailers for the Class 8 truck market and advancing emissions reduction technologies for […] The post Range Energy, South Coast AQMD Partner to Showcase Electric-Powered Trailers appeared first on

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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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Life Science Centre Cooling Facility Opens

Logistics Business Magazine

Federal Express Corporation has opened its first European Life Science Center in Veldhoven, the Netherlands. The state-of-the-art cooling facility joins a global network of FedEx Life Science Centres, with capabilities to receive, store, kit, and pick/pack/ship healthcare products. With this facility, FedEx offers an end-to-end supply chain solution for temperature-sensitive medical storage and transport, allowing pharmaceuticals, the clinical and biologics industry to deliver care for their pat

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Ford Pro Rolls Out Complimentary EV Chargers in California

NGT News

Ford Pro, the commercial division of Ford Motor Company, has introduced the Ford Pro Smart Charging Bundle in California, one of America’s larger commercial fleet markets. Charging operations for electric vehicle fleets can be complex. The Ford Pro Smart Charging Bundle aims to help California businesses with EVs in their fleet while improving operations and […] The post Ford Pro Rolls Out Complimentary EV Chargers in California appeared first on NGT News.

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11 Best Lawn Care Route Planners for Lawn Care Businesses in 2024

WorkWave

In the world of lawn care businesses, efficiency and organization are key to success. With the ever-increasing demand for immaculate lawns and gardens, it becomes crucial for these businesses to optimize their time and resources. That’s where the use of lawn care route planners comes in. To help lawn care companies and lawn care professionals stay on top of their game in 2024, we have curated a list of the 11 best lawn care route planners.

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New Add-in Tool Brings SONAR Data to Excel

FreightWaves SONAR

Excel analysis of the new SONAR tool shows how truckload competes with rail intermodal by lane Prior to last month, SONAR data was available in two ways: by using the browser-based visualization tool or via an API connection. SONAR customers that perform complex analyses, such as regressions between SONAR data and their own proprietary data, have historically opted to pull data directly via API, but not everyone has a data science team behind them to assist with technicalities.

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The Ultimate Guide to Transportation and Load Building Optimization

Enhance your transportation and load building efficiency with our comprehensive guide. Learn to tackle today's supply chain challenges and optimize your approach with advanced planning strategies. This guide covers: Supply Chain Challenges: Discover how transportation planning can address critical issues and improve efficiency. Load Building Benefits: Understand how effective load building can enhance your transportation processes.

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Project to Expand Distribution Operations Completed

Logistics Business Magazine

A state-of-the-art shuttle system, automated processes for incoming goods, 130,000 storage bins, and new picking workstations: Erwin Müller has significantly expanded its warehouse capacity at the Buttenwiesen / Germany site. FORTNA was commissioned with the concept design and implementation of the new future-oriented distribution operations, where they were a driving force and key partner throughout the project up to the go-live in December 2023.

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For McAbee Trucking, New Workhorse Electric Truck Delivers More than Mail

NGT News

McAbee Trucking Inc., a pioneer in the operation of alternative fuel trucks on Star Carrier Mail Contractor Routes, has taken a step forward in sustainable transportation by acquiring a new all-electric W4 CC box truck from Workhorse Group Inc. This purchase marks McAbee Trucking’s first addition of an electric vehicle to its fleet, following a […] The post For McAbee Trucking, New Workhorse Electric Truck Delivers More than Mail appeared first on NGT News.

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CMA CGM and Google AI Partnership for Shipping and Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

CMA CGM and Google today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) across CMA CGM’s operations worldwide. By leveraging Google’s proven AI solutions and insights from experts, CMA CGM will help empower its employees’ decision-making. In fact, every program and tool developed within the partnership will be designed to assist users in their decision-making processes across several key workflows.