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Exploring the Benefits of Dedicated Fleet Services

Kane is Able

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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Forklift Safety Training: The Ultimate Guide

Conger

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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Warehouse Safety Tips and Strategies for Fulfillment Operations

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

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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Everything to Everyone with JD Redmon

The Logistics of Logistics

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

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7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders are presented with their fair share of challenges, with a host of tools and strategies to resolve them. That said, what’s the best path forward to leverage this year’s trends? In this recap of a recent GEP-WBR webinar, 7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024, GEP’s Pramod Sethumadhavan explores seven vital leadership trends that will help guide procurement and supply chain decision-makers.

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Supply Chain Sustainability Gathers Steam

Logistics Viewpoints

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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The Importance of Fulfillment Warehouse Customer Service

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

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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FedEx announces surcharge increases for certain ground and express services

Logistics Management

The company said that in order to provide its customers with the best possible service during this challenging time, these surcharge increases are being implemented

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Profitably Delivering eCommerce with Consumer-Centric Priorities

Logistics Viewpoints

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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World’s Supply of Chips Is in Danger Unless Taiwan Gets Vaccines

Supply Chain Brain

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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Artificial Intelligence and the Transportation Industry

Artificial intelligence has quickly become a feature of everyday life: Using face ID to unlock a phone, communicating with online chatbots, and letting “smart” appliances help manage our homes are just a few of the ways that we interact with AI regularly. Forward-looking businesses are also using AI to transform their operations and gain a competitive edge.

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Overcoming Challenges in the Supply Chain with Technology

Kuebix

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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Diesel average rises for the fourth consecutive week, reports EIA

Logistics Management

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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'Bandit,' an unlikely hit of a trucker outfoxing a bumbling sheriff, endures as cult favorite

Overdrive Online

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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Inventory Optimisation: How Much Stock is Right for Your Company?

Logistics Bureau

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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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller

As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe

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Manhattan Momentum Connect 2021: TMS In The Spotlight

Talking Logistics

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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Senate EPW Committee introduces Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act of 2021

Logistics Management

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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2021 Heart and Sole 5K Raises over $55,000

Trinity Logistics

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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ANRA Technologies Launches Drone Delivery Solution

Supply Chain Brain

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.

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How to Create a Blueprint for Fleet Resilience

Speaker: Jeff Dickinson - President and CEO of Railgistixs Transport, Supply Chain and Logistics Thought Leader

Despite the ongoing transformation of the supply chain and logistics landscape, the steadfast importance of carrier safety remains a core principle. From prioritizing preventative maintenance to optimizing fleet utilization, the fundamentals persist. If you’re overlooking and neglecting essential safety precautions today, this could result in expensive repairs and potential safety hazards in the future. 🚧 Join Jeff Dickinson for a conversation on how to mitigate risk, enforce compliance,

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North Carolina-based operator's 2000 Peterbilt 379, from 'blank canvas' daycab to stretched flattop sleeper

Overdrive Online

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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CN and KCS make joint filing with the STB for voting trust approval

Logistics Management

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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SFMTA Adds 30 Hybrid-Electric Low-Floor Buses to Fleet

NGT News

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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Maximize eCommerce ROI by Quickly Adding Last-Mile Delivery to your SCM Strategy

Supply Chain Brain

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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Next-Gen Procurement: Transforming Processes with the Power of Generative AI

Generative AI goes beyond just automating tasks and providing real-time answers. Did you know that implementing generative AI reduces sourcing cycle times and allows for faster decision-making across procurement operations? In this whitepaper — Next-Gen Procurement: Transforming Processes With the Power of Generative AI — experts reveal how the strategic application of generative AI within procurement processes is paving the way for groundbreaking improvements.

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Supply Chain Resiliency Poised to Become Competitive Differentiator

IoT World Today

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.

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Bipartisan Motor Carrier Safety Selection Act makes a case for needed upgrades

Logistics Management

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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Where are the empty shelves? Keep those rate increases coming, shippers

Overdrive Online

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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Watch: The State of the EU and Global Trade Policy

Supply Chain Brain

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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Mastering Order Management: Backorders & Out-of-Stock Inventory

The unfortunate truth is that you will always have low stock and backorder issues with your supply chain. But that doesn’t mean you can’t be prepared to handle them. This brief video explores some of the primary drivers of inventory issues – and how modern technology and best practices can mitigate these issues and ensure a superb customer experience.

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[Video] How Logistics Technology Helps Shippers Overcome Challenges

Talking Logistics

There’s never a dull moment for transportation professionals. Whether it’s finding capacity, managing costs, meeting more stringent service requirements, or creating a more resilient operation — the list of challenges is long. Fortunately, ongoing innovations in technology are helping shippers keep pace with changing market dynamics and customer requirements.

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Customer Label Demands: How Epson Manages Unique Label Requirements

Logistics Management

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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'If they want us to stop, supply us a place to stop': As pandemic eases, owner-operators take stock of parking, biz pressures, more

Overdrive Online

Owner-operator Greg Eudy on the parking shortage, particularly along his North Carolina lanes. He's one among six voices on the biggest issues today in this podcast. Also: truckers take stock looking back over the last pandemic year in Overdrive Radio.