Talking Logistics

AUGUST 15, 2019

Ask anyone in supply chain – the past few years have been particularly active for natural disasters and major weather events. Globally, natural disasters caused $160 billion in damage in 2018 according to a report by German insurance company Munich RE. In the U.S. alone, the annual average number of billion-dollar disasters over the past. Read more What’s on Your Radar?

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Kuebix

AUGUST 14, 2019

FedEx is breaking up with Amazon as the e-commerce giant continues to make waves in the shipping industry. The carrier announced that it will choose not to renew its ground freight contract with Amazon for any final mile delivery, effective September 2019. This comes only 2 months after FedEx announced that it would end Express […]. The post FedEx’s Breakup with Amazon Draws Battle Lines in the Fight for Shipping appeared first on Kuebix.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 12, 2019

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is cool again. Not all EDI, just EDI based on value added networks (VANs). The reason? More and more companies are engaging in digital transformations. In many companies supply chains, it is the end-to-end portion of the supply chain, knowing what upstream and downstream partners are doing, where there are digital black holes.

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The Lean Thinker

AUGUST 13, 2019

The factory is running complex automated equipment. At the morning meeting today we heard “machine x was down for broken bolts.” Actually “again.”. Background – the bolts in question resist pressure in molding equipment. The details of how the equipment works aren’t relevant here. This isn’t the first time I have heard of “broken bolts” being the source of downtime.

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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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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 12, 2019

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Food Logistics

AUGUST 15, 2019

Food Logistics announces its Top 3PLs & Cold Storage Provider winners.

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Logistics 151

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

AUGUST 13, 2019

If you’re searching for sound budgeting advice, look no further than the Rolling Stones who once said: “You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometime, you find you get what you need.”.

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2019

While the market is expected to grow at 12.6% over the next five years; a new survey predicts a temporary dip in revenue growth between 2020 and 2021.

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Automation Survey 139

Fleet Owner

AUGUST 14, 2019

Newly proposed HOS rule offers five main revisions to the existing HOS rules, including the ability to split up off-duty time.

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Food Logistics

AUGUST 15, 2019

Food Logistics announces its Top 3PLs & Cold Storage Provider winners.

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Logistics 132

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 13, 2019

Artificial intelligence has the potential to radically change just about everything for the better. But there are a number of obstacles to its successful adoption in the supply chain.

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Supply Chains 109

Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2019

Our annual look at how the best companies excel at managing their global supply chains.

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Supply Chains 133

Fleet Owner

AUGUST 16, 2019

The Yield Curve vs. the Coyote Curve: Recession remains a wildcard, but the freight cycle is set to turn favorable for truckers, industry analysts and forecasters agree at ACT Research event.

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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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Food Logistics

AUGUST 15, 2019

Food Logistics announces its Top 3PLs & Cold Storage Provider winners.

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Logistics 128

Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2019

Sustainability is an initiative that thankfully more companies are taking on. One area of concern for a lot of people is around single-use coffee pods. These pods are one of the best (or worst) examples of unnecessary single-use plastics that are polluting our planet. Coffee pods can wind up in rivers where they wash into lakes and oceans. Over time, the plastic breaks down into smaller pieces that choke and kill wildlife.

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2019

The dwindling pricing advantage means that there is less financial incentive for shippers to transport cargo “intermodal” rather than just utilizing trucking for the entire length of the trip.

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Fleet Owner

AUGUST 13, 2019

The outside hire will replace retiring Richard Peretz.

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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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Food Logistics

AUGUST 15, 2019

Experts in the field are waiting for the FDA to decide when and how to implement safety inspections.

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Logistics Management

AUGUST 12, 2019

Determining if there are counterfeit products in your supply chain is no easy task. How do you know if you’re buying and using true products from your suppliers and distribution channels?

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2019

The current crackdown is only an extension of what the agency has been doing for quite a while.

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Fleet Owner

AUGUST 12, 2019

The rise of on-demand delivery apps and free-shipping has changed how consumers shop and raised expectations for deliveries.

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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.

Cost Reduction

Overdrive Online

AUGUST 12, 2019

"The No 1. place when someone stops paying me is when the truck is at a repair shop," one lender recently told Overdrive. Likewise, another take from Truckstop.com's Brent Hutto, who corroborates that lender's account. More here.

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Trucking 99

Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 12, 2019

Iceland continues to act as a proving ground for the use of drones in package-delivery services.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 13, 2019

Global enterprises spend a lot of money on technology — up to 7% of revenues go toward hardware and software to communicate, gather, store, curate, and analyze the organization’s data. However, a robust IT infrastructure is only as valuable as a company’s ability to use it to transform data into actionable insights. Insights are the.

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Data Logistics Network Optimization Software Logistics Analysis 91

Fleet Owner

AUGUST 13, 2019

Dealers were notified at the beginning of July, but owner notification and repairs are to begin by Aug. 19.

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Overdrive Online

AUGUST 15, 2019

Is it time to treat distraction behind the wheel among the motoring public as tough as DUI? Clifford Peterson suggests trucking organizations would do well to team up with insurers to at the very least increase penalties for motorists' distraction, to combat what's clearly a safety problem.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

AUGUST 14, 2019

I spend a lot of time talking to people in the manufacturing world about SYSPRO’s manufacturing operations management (MOM) solution. Occasionally the person I’m talking to will frown and say: ‘We already spent a lot of money on an ERP, why do we need MOM as well?’ That’s when I start my ‘Automation 101’ lecture, watching them closely and […].

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Automation Operations ERP 89

Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2019

Note: Today’s post is part of our “Editor’s Choice” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide supply chain insights and advice. When I started my career in the late ’90s, supply chain was a cool place for math geeks! As a discipline supply chain was not really that big in the universities. The traditional pathway into supply chain was through a major in operations research, industrial engineering, or business, often […].

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