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What’s the Difference Between 1PLs, 2PLs, 3PLs, 4PLs, and 5PLs?

Ship Monk

Logistics. Here at ShipMonk, we live it and breathe it, but there’s no denying that this is one industry that, despite being ubiquitous in our daily lives, can leave “outsiders” feeling a bit puzzled. Of course, if you’re an eCommerce business owner, your paths are almost guaranteed to cross, even if you never actually step foot inside a fulfillment center.

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Are autonomous trucks the answer to frequent driver shortages?

Loginext

Quick answer: Not yet. There are enormous strides being taken in the autonomous trucks space and driver shortage is a real problem but we’re at least a decade away from autonomous trucks becoming mainstream. In the meanwhile, hybrid is the way and optimization holds huge potential!

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Staying Safe on the Road

Women in Trucking

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Optimizing eCommerce Order Fulfillment to Boost Customer Satisfaction

Cyzerg

eCommerce order fulfillment has become more relevant today since an ever-increasing number of people are now opting to make their purchases online. However, this has proven to be a challenge for businesses and warehouse managers since consumers expect fast delivery times and low shipping costs. One way to achieve this is by optimizing your eCommerce order fulfillment process to ensure customers are satisfied and continue patronizing your business.

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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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Driving Sustainability in the Age of Supply Chain Disruption

Logistics Viewpoints

The global pandemic has created a watershed moment for global supply chains. As we adjust and respond to this “new normal”, one important area is the effect of these shifts on the environment. From that perspective some changes have been clearly positive (e.g. fewer commuting miles driven), some largely neutral (e.g. alternate sourcing strategies), while others are potentially negative (e.g. the daily delivery of packages to our homes).

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Do You Really Need Two-Day Delivery for Your Online Orders?

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

There’s a perception among eCommerce companies that today’s customers won’t settle for anything less than two-day delivery for online orders. But is that actually true? Maybe not.

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Optimizing eCommerce Order Fulfillment to Boost Customer Satisfaction

Cyzerg

eCommerce order fulfillment has become more relevant today since an ever-increasing number of people are now opting to make their purchases online. However, this has proven to be a challenge for businesses and warehouse managers since consumers expect fast delivery times and low shipping costs. One way to achieve this is by optimizing your eCommerce order fulfillment process to ensure customers are satisfied and continue patronizing your business.

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How to Achieve the Perfect Delivery

Logistics Viewpoints

Last month I participated in Oracle’s Perfect Delivery Virtual Summit , along with Matt Leonard from Supply Chain Dive, Marcelo de Matheus from Tramontina, and Mohamed Absar from DP World. The point of the virtual summit was to discuss how streamlining the order-to-fulfillment process achieves perfect delivery, improves customer loyalty, and reduces costs.

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What is Digital Freight Procurement?

Shipsta

Digital freight procurement is the use of digital technologies to rapidly source, compare and analyse bids from carriers. By automating complex tasks and providing greater visibility of data, digital freight procurement helps businesses control freight cos ts and manage risk in their supply chain.

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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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National diesel average falls for the fourth consecutive week, reports EIA

Logistics Management

With a 0.005-cent decline, the national average now stands at $3.124 per gallon, following a 1.5-cent decline, to $3.129, for the week of April 12, and a 1.7-cent decrease, to $3.144, for the week of April 5, and a 3.3-cent decrease, to $3.161, for the week of March 29.

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Back to Basics: Improve Your Customer Experience while Reducing Costs

Supply Chain Brain

As demand for faster fulfillment surges, the sweet spot where customer experience meets cost efficiency gets smaller. Ballooning trip volumes, LTL capacity crunches, increasing fuel consumption, lack of driver availability and the need to scale self-service type delivery models pose significant operational challenges for 3PLs/carriers. To help you address these challenges, hear how global 3PLs/carriers efficiently balance customer experience and operational costs by leveraging intelligent delive

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A Model for Employing Disabled Workers in Warehousing

Logistics Viewpoints

On Monday, March 8th, a vice president of supply chain for a large retail chain – a chain with over 5,000 stores – spoke at Körber’s supply chain conference Elevate. Körber is a leading provider of logistics software, material handling, voice, and consulting solutions. This retailer seeks to become a leader in employing people with disabilities.

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Crucial Mistakes for Warehouse Optimisation

SIPMM Professional Publications

Many aspects of the use of time, space, and resources are taken into consideration when designing modern logistic warehouses and distribution centers, making processes more effective through careful planning to increase customer satisfaction and experience. One of the most important considerations for processing tasks that are dynamically changeable in time and are related to technical […].

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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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How to Identify the Overall Health of a Supply Chain

Food Logistics

Here’s some common “symptoms” of supply chain issues, and how to build a treatment plan for companies to keep in mind for the future.

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Watch: A Stress Test for Supply Chains, Part 2

Supply Chain Brain

David Simchi-Levi, professor of engineering systems at MIT, brings us up to date on the results of applying a supply-chain “stress test” to companies in multiple industries.

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Higher costs, reduced opportunity – worries dominate small fleets' Biden administration outlook

Overdrive Online

On a scale of 1-5, with 1 being "Extremely negative" and 5 "Extremely positive," independent owner respondents to a recent Overdrive survey rated the likely Biden administration business-conditions impact a 1.6 on average.

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DAT Truckload Volume Index hits new records in March

Logistics Management

The DAT Truckload Volume Index reflects the change in the number of loads with a pickup date during that month, with the actual index number normalized each month to accommodate any new data sources without distortion, with a baseline of 100 equal to the number of loads moved in January 2015. It measures dry van, refrigerated (reefer), and flatbed trucks moved by truckload carriers.

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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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Truck Dispatching Tech Grows

Food Logistics

SmartHop opens two new headquarters during the pandemic, exhibiting the growth of technology in the trucking industry.

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Consumers Want Supply-Chain Transparency. Are Food Brands Listening?

Supply Chain Brain

Sixty percent of global consumers cite sustainability and social responsibility as essential considerations when choosing which products to buy. They look to their preferred food brands to make the best decisions, but are those companies looking out for their consumers’ best interest?

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The Future of Shopping for Groceries

Kuebix

This past year has brought on a number of changes regarding the “typical” way of doing things. One of the biggest changes has been how we shop for groceries. Grabbing a shopping cart and filling it with fresh produce, fruits and vegetables has been the way the world buys food for a long time. However, […]. The post The Future of Shopping for Groceries appeared first on Kuebix.

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7 Tips For Building Supply Chain Resiliency

GlobalTranz

Shortages of products from toilet paper to microchips during the coronavirus pandemic highlighted the value of supply chain resiliency, and the opportunities for companies that aren’t as prepared as they would like. A supply chain built for resiliency allows a company to adapt to unpredictable forces while maintaining customer service. By contrast, supply chains that are too lean may not have enough flexibility and redundancy to survive unscathed.

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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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CP and CN make respective cases for acquiring Kansas City Southern

Logistics Management

With yesterday’s news that now the other Canadian Class I railway, Canadian National (CN) made an unsolicited offer to acquire Kansas City Southern (KCS), for $33.7 billion, following the previous announcement by its Canadian brethren, Canadian Pacific (CP) was set to acquire KCS for $29 billion, the current situation remains somewhat in a state of flux.

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Watch: What to Do About the Global Container Shortage

Supply Chain Brain

Rob Handfield, Bank of America Professor of Supply Chain Management with the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative in the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University, discusses the reasons behind the current worldwide shortage of ocean containers, and what carriers and manufacturers must do to solve it.

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What Food Transportation Companies Need to Know about Canada’s Impending ELD Mandate

Food Logistics

Because the Canadian ELD mandate rules vary from those in the United States, carriers should look at choosing an ELD vendor that supports both the Canadian HOS rules and is committed to achieving third-party certification.

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Celebrating Agent Appreciation Day

Trinity Logistics

Written by Karen Nagel, Senior Agent Relationship Specialist. Trinity Logistics was founded in 1979 by Ed and Deanna Banning. Ten years after its inception, the company had posted revenues of just over three million dollars. Mr. Ed, the then president, realized that establishing an Agent Division would allow the company to grow faster and gain more national exposure.

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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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How the Food and Beverage Industry can Transform Itself for the 21st Century

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Since the first quarter of 2020, there have been more black swan events than could ever have been expected. First, of course, was the Coronavirus pandemic, then the Texas winter storm, and finally, a ship that blocked the Suez Canal for six days. For the food industry, these have all created major disruptions. The Suez Canal blockage […]. The post How the Food and Beverage Industry can Transform Itself for the 21st Century appeared first on SYSPRO US.

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The Gig Economy Is Booming, Despite Debates Over Workers’ Rights

Supply Chain Brain

The debate over what constitutes a “gig worker” rages on, but that hasn’t stopped the gig economy from exploding.

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Small-business lender Yellowstone to pay almost $10M in fraud settlement

Overdrive Online

A leading provider of a type of small-business funding that has caused problems for small motor carriers will pay more than $9.8 million to settle Federal Trade Commission fraud charges. Much of that sum is intended for refunds to victims.

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