Amware Logistics and Fulfillment
JANUARY 6, 2022
The company that handles your retail distribution is not necessarily the best candidate to fulfill your eCommerce orders. While B2B and B2C warehouses look similar from the outside, inside it’s a whole different story. The people, processes and technologies required to get B2C orders out the door vary greatly from those required for wholesale or retail distribution.
Logistics Viewpoints
JANUARY 3, 2022
When does a technology really grow? When it is attached to a need. When it comes to the movement of freight, one megatrend driving the need for better technology is the driver shortage. What would most revolutionize trucking over the next few years? The most obvious answer is autonomous trucking. But when will this technology become operational? Will it take decades?
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The Logistics of Logistics
JANUARY 7, 2022
Winning the Logistics Talent War with Radu Palamariu. Radu Palamariu and Joe Lynch discuss winning the logistics talent war. Radu is the Managing Director Asia Pacific & Europe of Alcott Global and the Global Head of Supply Chain & Logistics Practice. Alcott Global provides Executive Search solutions for the world’s top companies in eCommerce, supply chain, logistics, and tech in transportation.
Shipsta
JANUARY 6, 2022
Strong relationships with your best carriers are more important now than ever before – thanks to today’s low capacity and disruptive supply chain.
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.
Logistics Management
JANUARY 4, 2022
2021 has exposed a sobering fact: several companies have taken their supply chains for granted. Truth be told, they have mediocre supply chains that are causing operational and/or financial challenges.
Logistics Brief brings together the best content for Logistics and Warehousing professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
The Logistics of Logistics
JANUARY 5, 2022
Becoming a Sales Hunter with Mark Hunter. Mark Hunter and Joe Lynch discuss becoming a Sales Hunter. Mark also known as “ The Sales Hunter ” helps companies and salespeople find and retain better prospects they can close at full price. About Mark Hunter. Mark Hunter is recognized as one of the top 50 most influential sales and marketing leaders in the world.
IoT World Today
JANUARY 4, 2022
Artificial intelligence and self-driving cars are viewed as key technologies over the next 10 years, with significant differences based on the region, according to a new study presented at CES 2022 in Las Vegas Monday. For example, China (60%), the U.S. (40%) and Germany (37%) listed AI as the most influential technology of the future, while India (44%) and the U.K. (35%) ranked it second.
Logistics Management
JANUARY 3, 2022
IDC’s analysis of the need for improved forecasting pulls no punches, in explaining that manufacturers have been running supply chains for centuries, and, for nearly that entire period, it is something that they have agonized over, with this zinger to complete the working thesis: “The only thing that has been universally true about any forecast is that it will be wrong.
Logistics Viewpoints
JANUARY 4, 2022
Each year in the United States, the return of goods purchased for the holidays usually peaks on one day in early January; the volume is so significant the day has been designated National Returns Day. This year, due to an increased number of e-commerce purchases, retailers and shippers will experience National Returns Week. How National Return Day Became National Returns Week.
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The Logistics of Logistics
JANUARY 3, 2022
The TextLocate Story with Ryan Rogers. Ryan Rogers and Joe Lynch discuss the TextLocate story. Ryan is the Founder and CEO of TextLocate which provides a freight location tracking and communication solution for brokers and partner carriers. About Ryan Rogers. Ryan Rogers is the Founder and CEO of logistics tech startup TextLocate. TextLocate bridges the gap between truck drivers and logistics professionals by creating a simple way to locate freight through a proprietary text message platform tha
SYSPRO Smarter ERP
JANUARY 5, 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a transformative technology that will enhance people’s. decision-making by using data and creating more accurate predictions. Traditionally, most decision-making has been based on experience and instincts. However, the world has radically changed, and so have supply chains and customer behaviors. In these times when past practices have been overturned, people at all levels in a business need a tool to help them plan and prioritize activities.
Logistics Management
JANUARY 6, 2022
As robotics become more widely deployed and some operations begin to use fleets from multiple vendors, more of the talk is about software-related issues like integration and less on the workings of the robot hardware itself.
Logistics Viewpoints
JANUARY 6, 2022
A recent survey of 200 supply chain management professionals across companies with 500+ employees, conducted by Edelman Intelligence, has found market insights, confidence levels and trends for this peak season and beyond. Let’s look at what the research shows and how it will help your company thrive. Supply Chain Confidence Remains Strong Despite Slight Setbacks .
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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.
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 4, 2022
Last year's historically low auto sales reflect a global microchip shortage that forced carmakers to limit output or ship some vehicles without fully functioning features.
Talking Logistics
JANUARY 5, 2022
Editor’s Note: Indago ResearchCasts are brief videos where we highlight findings from our Indago supply chain research community. As we begin 2022, it’s tempting to make predictions about what will happen in the weeks and months ahead in the world of supply chain and logistics — a world, as we have experienced the last two. Read more Supply Chain and Logistics: What Will Stay the Same in 2022?
Logistics Management
JANUARY 7, 2022
Top trucking executives say their relentless rise in costs for everything from new and used trucks to fuel and driver pay will cause them to continue to ask shippers to pay more for freight services in 2022. How much more? That depends on individual shipper demands, their freight characteristics, and how their tonnage fits into a carrier’s overall freight demand scheme.
Overdrive Online
JANUARY 4, 2022
A major snowstorm left hundreds stranded on I-95, and the harrowing experience united truck drivers, a Senator, and everyday drivers in a struggle to survive a frigid night on the road.
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
Truck News
JANUARY 4, 2022
The New Year is an opportunity to turn over a fresh calendar and forge ahead with new innovations, approaches, partnerships and more. This year we have the added hope that we can transition away from Covid-19 and get back to some semblance of a routine life. While the pandemic has been disruptive, it has revealed […].
IoT World Today
JANUARY 5, 2022
Sony threw its hat into the electric vehicle ring at CES this week, debuting a prototype of its latest concept car. The VISION-S 02 was unveiled a year after Sony revealed the 01 vehicle at last year’s event. It boasts features Sony developed in-house, including CMOS image and Lidar sensors, as well as 5G capabilities, and gives users the option of playing PlayStation video games via a digital video service.
Logistics Management
JANUARY 6, 2022
We’re in a perfect storm with the global supply chain—and 2022 is shaping up to be even more challenging.
Overdrive Online
JANUARY 7, 2022
The 27-hour snow-in on I-95 in Virginia, trapping hundreds of drivers, made national headlines. The fallout's not been kind to outgoing governor Ralph Northam, who blamed drivers for the mess, apologized, and expressed frustration.
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.
NGT News
JANUARY 4, 2022
AmpUp, an electric vehicle (EV) charging provider, has unveiled AmpUp Fleet Manager, the company’s new EV charging fleet solution. AmpUp Fleet Manager is designed to serve fleets small to large, scalable to meet client’s needs from a few electric vehicles to hundreds. AmpUp Fleet Manager offers features to maximize vehicle and maintenance efficiency, including patented […].
Supply Chain Brain
JANUARY 7, 2022
The highly contagious omicron virus variant is disrupting already stressed food supply chains, sickening so many workers that more shortages at grocery stores are all but certain.
Logistics Management
JANUARY 5, 2022
While the rush of holiday gifts appears to have made it to their final destinations to end 2021 through myriad delivery networks, amid some unique challenges, 2022 has kicked off with its own new set of challenges, ones with familiar themes—winter storms on both U.S. coasts and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, specifically the Omicron variant—which are both creating issues for freight transportation and logistics services providers and shippers alike.
Food Logistics
JANUARY 6, 2022
Addressing logistics can feel like a Herculean task, but it doesn’t have to be with the right 3PL partner.
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Overdrive Online
JANUARY 6, 2022
Colin Rodgers drives the truck for the Owatonna, Minnesota-based fleet, hauling a variety of materials across the country. The rig sports a unique paint scheme with an uncommon origin.
Talking Logistics
JANUARY 6, 2022
Communication is central to effective shipper-carrier relationships, especially in today’s competitive operating environment. With new developments in transportation management software (TMS), shippers can bridge the divide with carriers by connecting through a unified platform to create win-win scenarios. Here are seven critical areas where TMS systems can add immediate value to shipper-carrier relationships: 1.
Logistics Management
JANUARY 5, 2022
Winnipeg, Manitoba-based Bison Transport, an asset-based freight transportation services provider owned by James Richardson & Sons, Limited, said it has acquired Bangor, Maine-based truckload carrier Hartt Transportation Systems Inc. Bison said it acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of Hartt, but financial details of the transaction were not issued.
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