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Chinese New Year 2020: Avoiding Delays in Your Supply Chain

ShipLilly

Although the Chinese New Year of Spring Festival is a significant fixture in every season, it can be unclear for newer shippers. In about a month, this holiday will start to mark the start of the “Year of the Rat” following on from the “Year of the Pig,” which is the year we are in currently. The fact that factories will shut down for several weeks is an essential consideration for all those that are involved in the shipping industry.

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Sulfur 2020: New Year, New Regulations for Ocean Transport

Trans Global Auto Logistics

Ready or not, the New Year is bringing sweeping changes globally to the ocean transport industry. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) will implement the new Sulfur regulation rule on January 1, 2020. The regulation reduces the amount of Sulfur contents allowed in a ships’ fuel oil to.50%. The current amount allowed is 3.50%. Why the Change?

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Electronic Proof of Delivery Software Gives Santa High-Tech Tools to Deliver Old-School Christmas Cheer

Paragon

The post Electronic Proof of Delivery Software Gives Santa High-Tech Tools to Deliver Old-School Christmas Cheer appeared first on Paragon Routing.

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How Can a Dirty Truck Scale Cost You Money?

Quality Scales Unlimited

A good way to remain in compliance and prevent downtime is by properly maintaining truck scales. If a scale is dirty or has a build-up of debris and material it can lead to various problems like inaccuracy and potentially cut down the life of the scale. Repairs or the need to purchase a new truck scale can be avoided by some basic maintenance. Increased Chances of Rust and Corrosion.

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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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2020 LTL Shipping Trends: 3 Key Updates on the Market

GoShip Blog

Last year was huge for LTL freight, with a high demand primarily driven by the rapid growth of e-commerce. In 2020, experts forecast a steady growth with more balanced demand, the significant impact of technology, more small companies and startups entering the market, the rise of mobile tech, and the increase of freight rates. Let’s take a deeper dive into 2020 LTL shipping trends and see what will influence the LTL industry in the nearest future. 2020 LTL shipping trends: what to watch for?

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Guide to a Successful Wireless Warehouse Implementation

Cyzerg

As the pressure to move cargo more quickly and with minimal errors increases, having a reliable wireless network is necessary. Cyzerg estimates that 7 out of 10 warehouses of small and mid-size businesses are experiencing issues with their wireless warehouse networks. Our experience in overhauling wireless design in warehouses has helped us to understand the root problems surrounding underperforming and unreliable wireless networks.

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What is Predictive Analytics and How is it Used in Supply Chain Operations?

Kuebix

You may be familiar with the term predictive analytics – but have you ever stopped to ask yourself what it really means for your supply chain? Analytics help companies streamline process efficiencies and make sure important trends aren’t overlooked. Regardless of the industry your company is operating in, predictive analytics can help your company interpret […].

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Deja New:  Why Today’s Subscription Box Fulfillment Is Especially Challenging

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

If you’re a big fan of subscription boxes, join the club. According to recent research from Clutch, more than half of online buyers currently use one or more versions of this highly convenient purchasing model. But with tremendous growth comes tremendous challenges, especially on the subscription box fulfillment side.

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Gather ’round the fire …

Overdrive Online

Six years ago around this time of the year, Overdrive asked readers to name the "best Christmas song of all time." From a big list, readers then voted on a final list -- these songs represent the results, from bottom to top. Bonus: A selection of trucking-themed holiday tunes. Merry Christmas.

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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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Trillium Completes Two CNG Stations at Love’s Sites

NGT News

Trillium, a provider of alternative fuel systems and renewable fuels, is adding two new public compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations to its network of California locations. Trillium designed and built the CNG stations at two Love’s Travel Stops located in Lost Hills and Tehachapi, Calif. The stations will offer renewable natural gas (RNG) refueling […].

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[Video] Preparing For Brexit: What Supply Chain Leaders Need To Know

Talking Logistics

Arne Mielken, Senior Global Trade and Customs Manager of E2open, discusses the current status of Brexit and how supply chain leaders should respond to the ongoing risks and uncertainties. Podcast version (click to play): The post [Video] Preparing For Brexit: What Supply Chain Leaders Need To Know appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Supply-Chain Innovation: In the Front Office or Back?

Supply Chain Brain

In recent years, supply chain has become a hotbed of innovation and a darling of venture investors. A series of new technologies has matured and brought new life to this historically rather stodgy space.

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Is there a Santa Claus?

Overdrive Online

An answer to the question from owner-op Clifford Petersen, and this special wish: "Merry Christmas, my fellow drivers. May the road ahead be clear and dry, and may you always remember and never neglect the gift you have been given.".

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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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Echo Global Logistics CEO Waggoner provides a deep dive on market trends and issues

Logistics Management

Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently spoke with Doug Waggoner, CEO of Chicago-based 3PL Echo Global Logistics, about various topics, including pricing, capacity, trucking insurance, and Peak Season.

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Working with rising rates throughout the holidays and beyond.

Freightquote

Freight rates are expected to increase during the coming holiday season and into the new year. Learn how small to medium-sized businesses can account for rising rates and secure capacity in 2020.

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Taming the Beast of Retail Supply-Chain Operations

Supply Chain Brain

Retail supply-chain executives are under intense pressure to support the seamless omnichannel experiences that consumers are demanding in the digital age.

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Tracking Shipment Crucial for Customer Experience

20Cube Logistics

Technology is a boon in today’s world. With technology, we are doing certain activities that were not possible some time ago. Take any industry today, it would have implemented some kind of automation to streamline and simplify the process. Same applies to Logistics or a supply chain industry as they are keen on adopting new innovations that will help them provide more than just promising to deliver the consignment safely and on-time.

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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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Humanitarian logistics beyond national boundaries

Logistics Management

As global logistics managers know, the world is seeing the greatest displacement of peoples for over half a century. Indeed, millions are fleeing from war, persecution and poverty, while the proliferation of crises and needs is becoming extraordinary as are the dramatic humanitarian consequences.

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The KANE story – in the style of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Kane is Able

It’s the evening of Christmas day. I’ve retreated to my home office after enjoying an outstanding day filled with family, great food, and the sharing of presents. Being a supply chain wonk, I’ve already pondered the Christmas magic of how all these goodies find their way to their final destinations. Yes Virginia, it is all about logistics.

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Automation Allows Companies to Shed Human Workers. Can It Also Save Them?

Supply Chain Brain

Automation is generally seen as the enemy of human workers. But can it also be used to avoid layoffs?

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Countdown through a parking shortage, tech surge, truck boot … 2019’s Top 10 podcast episodes

Overdrive Online

Listen: A year-in-review on the Overdrive Radio podcast this week, covering a boatload of ground all told: From trucking history to shutdowns and slow rolls, parking and booting, the ELD mandate and hours of service, small fleet business and the limits to quick growth, working the spot market and so much more. Listen: A year-in-review on the Overdrive Radio podcast this week, covering a boatload of ground all told: From trucking history to shutdowns and slow rolls, parking and booting, the ELD m

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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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A view from the supply chain roundtable

Logistics Management

Last summer, we heard from supply chain executives from three small to mid-sized companies on the challenges faced by their organizations and how they’re addressing them.

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ONE Chooses TPS Valparaíso to Launch XVELA Platform in Latin America

Logistics Manager

XVELA, the world’s first maritime business network for ocean carriers and terminal operators, announced that Ocean Network Express ( ONE ) and TPS Valparaiso have successfully implemented XVELA as part of a partnership between the three companies announced earlier this year. ONE selected XVELA to help improve visibility and efficient data exchanges between various stakeholders and chose TPS Valparaiso as the launch point for its global collaboration campaign.

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The Cloud: Transforming Supply Chains Part 2

Morai Logistics

The cloud is redefining the way in which supply chains can operate to their tremendous benefit—here’s how. . The cloud is a technology that at times goes overlooked. It doesn’t quite generate the same attention as some other tech buzzwords like blockchain or AI. Yet, the cloud is the facilitator of supply chain innovation. It is the mechanism through which digital transformation becomes a reality.

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GTI Seeking CNG Refueling Partner for the M2M Project

NGT News

The Gas Technology Institute says it is seeking a partner for the Michigan to Montana I-94 Clean Fuel Corridor Project (M2M). This endeavor seeks to ensure that a 1,500-mile span of Interstate 94 from Port Huron, Mich., to Billings, Mont., will have adequate fueling sites to serve alternative fuel and electric vehicle driver needs. The […]. The post GTI Seeking CNG Refueling Partner for the M2M Project appeared first on NGT News.

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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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Echo Global Logistics CEO Waggoner provides a deep drive on market trends and issues

Logistics Management

Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently spoke with Doug Waggoner, CEO of Chicago-based 3PL Echo Global Logisitcs, about various topics, including pricing, capacity, trucking insurance, and Peak Season, among others.

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THAI Updates Latest Status of MRO at U-Tapao

Airfreight Logistics

Thai Airways International Public Company Limited ( THAI ) reported the progress on the Selection Committee’s approval the maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) facility at U-Tapao (UTP) International Airports. The revised documents have been approved and authorized by the Selection Committee – UTP MRO Project to issue and submit the revised Request for Proposal (RFP) and its attachments to investors for further proceeding on the consideration and preparation the proposal until March 2020.

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The Evolution of Container Ships

MTS Logistics

Container shipping has significantly evolved over time. Both ships and the technology used for container shipping have developed throughout the years. In this article, “The Evolution of Container Ships”, I have compiled the changes that the shipping container and ships have undergone throughout the years. Until 1956, international cargoes were manually packaged and loaded into ships by port workers.