Kane is Able

MAY 27, 2021

About 53% of all carriers are private carriers, for a total in the U.S. of about 620,000 registered carriers, according to the ATA. Close to 70% of outbound freight moves on private fleet trucks. When a company decides to manage its own private fleet, it’s essentially creating a trucking company and assuming responsibility for everything from leasing the trucks to hiring and retaining the drivers to marketing backhauls to pay for the significant overhead investment.

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Outbound Trucking Freight Transportation 88

Conger

MAY 28, 2021

This is the ultimate guide to forklift safety training. By the end of this article, you’ll learn: Why forklift operator safety training is important. OSHA’s training requirements. Where to get forklift operator training. How to develop your own in-house forklift training program. Let’s dive in. Table of Contents. Why Is Forklift Operator Training Important?

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

MAY 27, 2021

Even in the safest fulfillment center operations, managers and associates can benefit from regular warehouse safety tips. There’s a lot of hustle and bustle in eCommerce fulfillment centers as order fulfillment associates strive to get orders picked, packed, and out the door. Without good safety practices, the warehouse environment is ripe for accidents.

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Tips Operations Strategy eCommerce 177

The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 26, 2021

The post Everything to Everyone with JD Redmon appeared first on The Logistics of Logistics.

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Logistics 221

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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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 25, 2021

The global supply chain is routinely beset by challenges, both large and small, but the past couple of years have delivered a string of significant logistics disruptions that have threatened to upend the tightly choreographed dance of global freight transportation. The coronavirus pandemic is the most obvious of these hurdles, but everything from the threat of tariffs to the temporary blockage of the Suez Canal (and even the ongoing closure of the I-40 bridge in Memphis) could have had lasting r

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

MAY 25, 2021

When choosing a third-party logistics (3PL) partner to handle your order fulfillment, you probably consider factors like the company’s experience, technology, warehouse capacity and locations. But do you give any thought to its fulfillment warehouse customer service?

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Logistics Network Optimization Software 3PL Handling Capacity 177

Supply Chain Brain

MAY 25, 2021

To achieve a reliable yet lean approach, supply chains must be simultaneously agile and resilient. But both qualities have historically depended on “clean” data.

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Data Reliability Supply Chains 137

Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

Five Forces Reshaping Logistics as We Know it. Because warehousing and transportation represent significant cost centers, intelligent logistics decisions are critical. And, more than ever, these decisions have to be made on the fly, in real-time. As logistics managers grapple with their own challenges, including labor shortages and emerging commodity marketplaces, the logistics function has never been under more pressure to deliver.

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eCommerce Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Software Supply Chain Planning Software 152

Logistics Management

MAY 25, 2021

For the week of May 24, the national average came in at $3.253 per gallon, edging out the week of May 17 by $0.004 cents and also topping the weeks ending May 10, and May 3, at $3.186 per gallon and $3.142 per gallon, respectively.

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Kuebix

MAY 26, 2021

The first half of this year has been filled with a number of challenges and new opportunities for supply chains. The pandemic has changed the volume and pace at which consumers are purchasing products. As a result, logistics professionals have been identifying ways they can pick up the pace of their operations without sacrificing quality. […].

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 23, 2021

Having successfully sidestepped the first Covid wave, the government now faces a health emergency — only about 1% of its population is vaccinated so far — with the potential to disrupt the chip industry that dominates the local economy, and which is critical to an already-squeezed global supply.

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Government Industry 133

Overdrive Online

MAY 24, 2021

As the movie debuted, the May 1977 Overdrive highlighted the magazine’s involvement in 'Smokey and the Bandit,' notably the inclusion of a truck race banner bearing its name.

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Trucking 127

Logistics Management

MAY 26, 2021

Entitled the Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act of 2021, the Senate subcommittee said that the bill establishes a new historic baseline funding level of $303.5 billion, which would be allocated for Department of Transportation (DOT) programs for highways, roads, and bridges, and is 34% higher than the current surface transportation authorization, the FAST (Fixing America’s Surface Transportation) Act.

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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 Bureau

MAY 24, 2021

Among the universal challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed upon the supply chain management profession is the question of inventory, specifically, “how much is enough?”. Not that it was ever an easy question to answer, but the Coronavirus crisis has perhaps turned it on its head, or at least, helped to do so. It wasn’t long ago that businesses were asking, “By how much can I reduce my levels of inventory?”.

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Trinity Logistics

MAY 25, 2021

The Trinity Foundation held its 11 th annual Heart and Sole 5K this past Easter weekend. Since its inception in 2010, the Heart and Sole 5K has benefited cardiac rehabilitation efforts for our local hospital, TidalHealth. Prior to this year’s event, we were presented with an opportunity to help the 1-year grandson of one of Trinity’s team members. .

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 26, 2021

As we begin to emerge from under the COVID-19 cloud, there is time to take a deep breath and make your last-mile delivery better. The changes in consumer purchasing habits look like they will outlast the pandemic, so i f you haven’t made that pivot, it's not too late to get into the eCommerce fulfillment game.

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eCommerce Strategy Purchasing 119

Logistics Management

MAY 26, 2021

Less than one week after Class I railroads CN and KCS said they reached a deal and entered into a definitive merger agreement, with CN acquiring KCS for $33.6 billion, which they said will “create the premier railway of the 21st century,” the companies announced today that they have made a joint filing with the Surface Transportation Board (STB).

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Definition Transportation 123

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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Talking Logistics

MAY 26, 2021

It’s been almost twenty years since Manhattan Associates (a Talking Logistics sponsor) entered the Transportation Management Systems (TMS) market via its acquisition of Logistics.com in 2002. Although the company has continued to innovate its TMS capabilities in the years since, TMS has remained mostly in the shadows of Manhattan’s Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Omni-Channel.

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Optimization Software Transportation Logistics Optimization 105

Overdrive Online

MAY 27, 2021

When he bought the truck in 2016, truck owner Greg Eudy says "it was a blank canvas." It was a day cab with a short wheelbase, so he stretched it and added a flattop sleeper off of a Peterbilt 359.

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Operations Trucking 109

Supply Chain Brain

MAY 26, 2021

ANRA Technologies, a specialist in integrated airspace management, recently announced SmartSkies DELIVERY, an end-to-end mobile and web-based software solution providing drone delivery services for commercial, government and medical applications.

Government 119

Government 119

Logistics Management

MAY 25, 2021

A piece of bipartisan legislation introduced in the United States House of Representatives earlier this month by Representatives Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Seth Moulton (D-MA) focuses on augmenting road safety through a requirement by the Department of Transportation (DOT) to enact a Safety Fitness Determination test for motor carriers, coupled with requiring manufacturers and shippers to make certain that trucking companies are licensed, registered, and insured.

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Trucking Transportation 122

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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NGT News

MAY 26, 2021

ElDorado National (ENC), a subsidiary of REV Group that specializes in heavy-duty transit buses, says the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), a department of the City and County of San Francisco responsible for the management of all ground transportation in the city, has awarded a contract for 30 30-foot hybrid-electric E-Z Rider II model […].

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Modeling Groups Transportation 105

IoT World Today

MAY 24, 2021

Key takewways in this article are the following: As technology and geopolitical risks converge, cyberthreats of all kinds become more prevalent and costly, from ransomware to trade-and-tariff wars. This “weaponization” of trade has become a significant threat to the supply chain, disrupting the flow of goods. Organizations need to build supply chain resiliency into their strategies in the face of an increasingly connected world with new attack vectors.

Supply Chain Planning Software 105

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 26, 2021

David O’Sullivan, Senior Counselor with Steptoe & Johnson LLP, outlines some of the major policy actions and concerns issuing from the European Union today.

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Logistics Management

MAY 27, 2021

Join us to hear how Epson, a Loftware customer and partner, standardized and integrated labeling with their WMS application and across their operations. You’ll learn how Loftware’s flexible, easy to use labeling solution allows Epson to adjust to complex customer labeling requirements.

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Operations 117

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Overdrive Online

MAY 26, 2021

Renewed mainstream dialogue over the specter of a "driver shortage" shows some move toward realism, yet more often continues to ignore basic fundamentals. At the same time, in the push to recruit post-COVID, willingness to hold a grudge counts.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2021

Pet Supplies Plus Senior Director of Logistics, Jerry Troupe, discussed how his company’s adoption of a modern mobile solution including Android mobility devices and Manhattan Associates’ WM Mobile application have delivered substantial and measurable efficiency and productivity improvements at the company’s distribution center. This time last year I wrote about Manhattan Associates’ announcement of Pet Supplies Plus as the first Manhattan Active WM customer.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 25, 2021

Join speakers from HERE Technologies and Siemens Healthineers as they explore how tracking and monitoring the location, condition and ETA of time-sensitive medical equipment brings real-time, end-to-end visibility into the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Software Supply Chains 119