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How Zero-Emission Refrigerated Grocery Deliveries Are Slowly Becoming a Reality

United World Transporation

It’s no secret, trucks release a lot of emissions as they keep the supply chain moving. However, as technology gets better, the reality of a zero-emission Class 8 truck has gotten closer. Now, the future may really be here because Albertsons just proved that a refrigerated grocery truck could be a zero-emission vehicle. Continue reading below to find out how zero-emission refrigerated grocery deliveries are becoming a reality.

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What You Should Know About LTL Tracking

GoShip Blog

We’re all familiar with those handy tracking numbers that come with our online orders. Simply enter a code, and you’ll see the whole journey of your package! Right from the moment you “add to cart” and until it reaches your doorstep. But does the same rule apply when you need to track a bigger delivery? Less than truckload (LTL) deliveries are more complicated than your average parcel shipping service.

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Port Congestion Surcharge, is it the New Norm?

ShipLilly

Congested traffic of ships at a port. Port congestion is leading to delays and in some cases a surcharge. This article explores the implications of the port congestion surcharge and the possibilities of avoiding or minimizing it. Container shipping charges are high enough as it is without adding avoidable costs. As the shipping industry has grown, port capacity has not always caught up in time in the last 10 years.

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When Order Fulfillment Automation Does, and Doesn’t, Make Sense

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

If you’re looking for interesting soundbites about automation, look no further than Elon Musk and Austin Powers’ Dr. Evil. The first soundbite: In discussing early efforts to mechanize Tesla’s production line, Elon Musk concluded that the automaker had “ automated some pretty silly things.”.

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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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The Critical Mile with Saad Shahzad

The Logistics of Logistics

The Critical Mile with Saad Shahzad. Saad Shahzad and Joe Lynch discuss the critical mile. Saad is the Chief Revenue Officer at Airspace , a company that utilizes a technology-driven platform – backed by machine learning and AI – to deliver time-critical shipments including organs for transplant, medical specimens, airplane parts, and more. About Saad Shahzad.

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Unbreakable and Resilient: Supply chain and logistics of the future

Logistics Management

The pandemic put chief supply chain officers (CSCOs) in the vanguard of change and has empowered them to redefine resiliency and lead transformation in a responsible and sustainable way.

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3PLs Keep on Truckin’

Food Logistics

The e-commerce boom catapulted the 3PL market into the spotlight, but implementing automation and employing driver safety and recruitment programs help trucking companies keep on truckin'.

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How to Grow a Trucking Company with Brian Fielkow

The Logistics of Logistics

How to Grow a Trucking Company with Brian Fielkow. Brian Fielkow and Joe Lynch discuss how to grow a trucking company. Brian is the CEO of Houston-based Jetco Delivery and EVP of Montreal- based The GTI Group. About Brian Fielkow. In his dual role as CEO of Houston-based Jetco Delivery and EVP of Montreal- based The GTI Group, Brian leverages his 25+ years’ experience of leading, growing and transforming multimillion dollar organizations organically and via mergers and acquisitions.

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Kimberly-Clark’s Digital Transformation of Shipping

Logistics Viewpoints

Driver dwell is a key source of driver dissatisfaction and contributes to the driver shortage. Earlier this summer, FourKites held a Carrier Visibility Summit. This was an online event. One of the speakers was Abby Weisenberger, a distribution consultant at Kimberly-Clark. What made Ms. Weisenberger’s presentation particularly interesting was that while Ms.

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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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Getting Started with Scenario Modeling in Supply Chain Network Design

AIMMS

The post Getting Started with Scenario Modeling in Supply Chain Network Design appeared first on AIMMS.

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3PLs Keep on Truckin’: Finding and Retaining Drivers is Key

Food Logistics

Jeff Jackson, SVP of operations, Penske Logistics, details why the biggest challenge right now in the supply chain is labor.

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Are You Hesitant to Make the Move to a TMS?

Trinity Logistics

If you work in logistics, you’ve likely heard the term TMS before. TMS is the acronym of a transportation management system. A TMS is a software program that allows you to manage your entire supply chain, including your internal logistics department, suppliers, warehouses, carriers, vendors, etc. Having a TMS for your supply chain can help provide your company with greater visibility, better reporting, and improved performance through automating many manual processes.

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The U.S. Supply Chain Needs You!

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chains around the country are in great need of warehouse and transportation workers. Just last month I noted that warehouse labor productivity was hindered extensively by COVID-19 and that 80 percent of ARC’s warehouse survey respondents anticipate an increase of order throughput volumes in 2021. Furthermore, COVID-19 exacerbated the existing shift from retail store purchases to e-commerce transactions, with a 32 percent increase in 2020 US e-commerce sales, according to the US Census Bur

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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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Seven Common Shipping Blunders, and How to Avoid Them

Supply Chain Brain

Navigating the world of shipping and delivery can be hugely complex.

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Industrial real estate in short supply—much like the products it stocks

Logistics Management

Faced with product shortages, today not only are shippers looking to replenish shelves, but the movement from just-in-time inventory management to safety stock arrangements is causing an uptick in storage needs.

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How Big of a Problem is Climate Change for Shippers and Freight Transport?

Shipsta

Climate change and sustainability are massive topics in freight procurement right now. But if you were procuring freight just ten years ago, sustainability would barely be on your radar. So, what’s driving this focus on reducing CO2 emissions? And how will sustainability. impact your freight procurement strategy? Here are the facts and figures that break down what’s happening right now….

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This Week in Logistics News (July 31 – August 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

For the US Women’s National Soccer Team, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics were supposed to be another Gold Medal event, as it entered with a 44-match unbeaten streak. That streak came to an end in its first match, a 3-0 loss to Sweden, which happened to be the last team to defeat the US. And while the team still advanced to the knockout stage, its run ended with a hard-fought bronze medal victory over Australia.

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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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The IoT Requires Manpower. When Will We Automate It?

Supply Chain Brain

Current internet of things (IoT) technologies require too much manual intervention to realize the full benefits of a supply chain management system.

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Nationalize the railroads?

Logistics Management

In the 1980s, it was the granting of 48 state authorities by the ICC that opened the trucking and airline industry to competition. This could work for rail—not just local reciprocal switching, but national reciprocal trackage rights might enable competition over shared lines. Let’s reimagine rail.

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CPAP recall leaves truck drivers with sleep apnea between a rock and a hard place

Overdrive Online

After a recall of millions of Philips CPAP and BiPAP devices due to potential health risks associated with using the devices, truckers with sleep apnea are faced with the choice of continuing to use the devices or parking their trucks.

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Know Your Supply Chain KPIs – Procurement

Logistics Bureau

Whether you’re planning to benchmark your supply chain or simply trying to improve how you measure its performance, it makes sense to know a little about the most commonly used KPIs for each supply chain component. While some supply chain KPIs will provide a broad and high-level picture for end-to-end performance monitoring, others enable more granular insights into specific functions.

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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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100 Great Supply Chain Partners of 2021: It Takes a Team to Win

Supply Chain Brain

One thing’s for certain, in this otherwise entirely unpredictable world of supply and demand: companies looking to succeed in commerce today can’t do it alone.

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Q2 industrial real estate activity points to tight market conditions, reports JLL

Logistics Management

JLL observed that the combination of leasing and construction activity in the quarter helped drive industrial real estate momentum, with market availability extremely tight, due to all-time low vacancies and new market-high rents. What’s more, she added that as steel shortages and fluctuating prices continue, there has been a minimal impact on the construction pipeline, which saw 69 million square-feet delivered in the second quarter.

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Happening Now: Import surge may last into 2022

West Coast and California Logistics

As 2021 has had its share of supply chain challenges – particularly related to container imports – we all are looking for the light at the end of the tunnel and a semblance of normalcy.

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6 Easy Ways to Cut Supply Chain Costs

Logistics Bureau

Every cost reduction must, however, be evaluated in terms of local and overall impact. Here are 6 ways to reduce Supply Chain costs without impacting customer service: Related videos on this topic have appeared throughout our website, check them out: Omnichannel Retail and the Cost to Serve Online Customers. An 8-point Guide to Understanding Your Cost to Serve.

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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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DHL to Add Electric Planes to Fleet in Pursuit of Zero Emissions

Supply Chain Brain

The race toward zero-emission logistics chains is expanding from the road to the skies.

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Spin-off of GXO Logistics from XPO Logistics is a done deal

Logistics Management

As expected, the long-awaited spin-off of GXO Logistics from Greenwich, Conn.-based freight transportation services provider XPO Logistics was made official today. This move was originally announced by XPO in December 2020, when XPO introduced its plan to seek a spin-off of its logistics group as a standalone publicly traded company split it into two separate publicly-traded companies on the New York Stock Exchange—with one focused on global contract logistics [GXO Logistics] and the other focus

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Happening Now: Impact of Driver Shortage on Drayage Ops

West Coast and California Logistics

While everyone is familiar with the current driver shortage, many overlook the fact that drayage operations are affected by this shortage just as much as long-haul, LTL or other modes of trucking.

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