20Cube Logistics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Why Trade Lanes Affect Freight Forwarding Prices. A trade lane represents a means of transportation between a combination of locations. In the freight forwarding industry, this classification explains how a shipment will travel from its source to the destination. For example, you might describe the trade lane for a national supermarket chain’s shipment of produce as “Within Australia Using Means of Transport Refrigerated Truck” Trade lanes for freight forwarding vary in price b

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GoShip Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Many people are hesitant to ship engines and transmissions. They’re bulky, heavy, and irregularly shaped. They also contain potentially hazardous liquids and oils. Despite these concerns, engines are actually one of the easiest items to ship! They’re durable machines that can handle the shipping process with ease. With that in mind, there are a few things you have to keep in mind when shipping engines, such as prepping and packing for safe shipment.

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Now, That's Logistics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

By putting data into the hands of the companies, business partners, and customers that want it, supply chain visibility helps all stakeholders track products from the point of manufacture to the final destination—and all points in between. This “Holy Grail” of global supply chain management has been talked about for decades, but it wasn’t until the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world’s supply chains on end that “supply chain visibility” turned into a household word overnight.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The Freight RFP Process is Broken – Let’s Fix It with Maggie Petrovic. Maggie Petrovic and Joe Lynch discuss the freight RFP process is broken – let’s fix it. Maggie is the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Emerge , a company that is Reinventing Freight Procurement. About Maggie Petrovic. Maggie Petrovic joined Emerge just over a year ago following 8 years with Coyote Logistics as Director of Enterprise Sales.

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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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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

If you’re new to using outsourced fulfillment services, you might hesitate to turn over complete control of your fulfillment operation without some guaranteed supervision. Some eCommerce sellers choose to place a fulfillment representative on-site at the fulfillment center to keep a dedicated line of communication open and ensure that the third party logistics provider (3PL) performs as expected.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Disruption has been the name of the game for more than a year as supply chain leaders have been dealing with changing buyer behaviors, inventory management challenges, labor shortages, weather and pandemic-related uncertainty, cyber security threats and capacity constraints that continue to create significant supply chain volatility. With peak shipping season approaching, companies continue to face supply chain risk as the pressure increases to meet customer and delivery expectations without add

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Rethinking the Freight RFP Process. Once a year, shippers and carriers begin the arduous freight RFP process, when shippers send out request for pricing (or proposal) for contract rates to their list of trucking companies. Unfortunately, “process” might be a generous term for what’s really going on. The process is broken and dreaded by both shippers and carriers.

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Whether you’re outsourcing fulfillment for the first time or looking for a new 3PL, expect a lot of questions when you talk to prospective partners. As the saying goes, the devil is in the details. The best product fulfillment houses will be just as curious about your business as you are about theirs. They need in-depth information about your products, markets and operations to determine if they’re a good match for your company and arrive at an accurate price for their services.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

As Industry 4.0 has transformed manufacturing, a new kind of participant has emerged: the “reborn in digital” company.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Earlier this month, I wrote an article about the diverse range of mobile warehouse robotics solutions available in the market today. Although the solutions vary greatly, they’re alike in the ability to offer greater flexibility than many of the traditional automation alternatives. The ability to adapt automation to changing requirements is increasingly important to warehouse operators due in large part to the rapid and unpredictable change that has been occurring in recent years (even prior to C

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Carbon Capture for Semi-Trucks with Paul Gross. Paul Gross and Joe Lynch discuss carbon capture for semi-trucks. Paul is the co-founder and the CEO of Remora , a company that is building a device that captures the carbon emissions from a semi-truck. About Paul Gross. Paul Gross is the co-founder and CEO at Remora. While at Yale, he conducted experimental research that uncovered solutions to collective action problems like political polarization and the climate crisis.

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Logistics Management

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Data recently issued by Los Angeles-based industrial real estate developer CBRE indicated that leasing volume for the United States industrial market is on track for a new annual record in 2021, with total activity through July, at 587 million square-feet (SF), a 52% annual gain.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Businesses everywhere are looking to build supply chain resilience. Here are five places to start.

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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 Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Taco Bell continues to be innovative in its efforts to get tacos into its customers hands. A few weeks ago, I wrote about a Taco Bell franchisee that is building a new restaurant that the chain said will be the fastest way to get its food: a two-story, technology-heavy unit with four drive-thru lanes dubbed Taco Bell Defy. Of the four drive-thru lanes, three will be devoted to advanced orders.

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Overdrive Online

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Apart from a sleeper extension from 70 to 120 inches by Evans Add Ons some years ago, the Wallace owner-operator team's biggest adds were geared toward max efficiency.

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Logistics Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

How to prepare a flexible response framework for the next disaster.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Artificial intelligence is a warehouse "game changer," but organizations are struggling to use it optimally, according to a study from Lucas Systems Inc.

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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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NGT News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

DeepWay, a Baidu-backed company, has unveiled Xingtu, a smart new energy heavy-duty truck with a computing power of more than 500 TOPS and ultra-long-distance sensing capabilities of more than 1 kilometer. This announcement marks Baidu’s entry into the global freight market. The truck is powered by Baidu’s AI technology stack and the Baidu Apollo autonomous […].

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Overdrive Online

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Archer, who drives for Airgas USA, performed his original song, "Heavy Load," for the finale, which streamed live on Sept. 16. He won a full day of recording sessions at Jay's Place Recording studio in Nashville.

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Logistics Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The company said that through this partnership project44 will become the first strategic partner for real-time transportation visibility to integrate its capabilities into the Google Cloud Supply Chain Twin offering—which optimizes planning and decision-making by orchestrating supply chain data from enterprise business systems, partners, and public sources and enables shippers to bring together data from multiple sources and require less partner integration time than traditional API-based integr

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Comgem, an e-commerce platform provider, launched three new products and a website to help U.K. small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) sell more products and services with less effort.

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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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Supply Chain and Logistics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Furniture is hard to get. And it appears that ocean liner companies are causing problems in the furniture markets. This lawsuit was just settled, so there will not be any revelation of what practices were not up to snuff.

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Food Logistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Clean label products increase in the food industry, as consumers look for healthier products. But what does this mean for the 3PLs that transport them?

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Logistics Management

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Late last week, one global Atlanta-based company purchased a smaller Atlanta-based one, with freight transportation and logistics titan UPS announcing it entered into an agreement to acquire Roadie, and on-the-way delivery service with the nation’s largest local same-day footprint.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

And now, after a year and a half of lockdowns, countless business closures and severe shortages of both essential and non-essential goods, comes the revenge economy.

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Supply Chain and Logistics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Demurrage and Detention (D&D) charges are commonplace in ocean container shipping. Standard contracts specify a number of days the container may stay in the yer without charge.

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Overdrive Online

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Overdrive pays homage to America's truckers during National Truck Driver Appreciation Week.

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West Coast and California Logistics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal , trucking companies are concerned that the new federal vaccination and testing mandate which seeks to curb the spread of COVID-19 may keep drivers away from available trucking positions.

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