Shipchain
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Shippers everywhere face an uncertain future. The constant threat of a trade war and increasing consumer demands have pushed existing operations to their breaking points. Customers want information and visibility at any given time, and any misstep in the supply chain could result in permanent losses to profitability, productivity, and efficiency. The situation leaves very little room for error, and unfortunately, to err is human.
Talking Logistics
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Last week, at the Four Seasons resort in Orlando, I attended a meeting organized by a leading logistics service provider for its sales executives. I moderated several workshops and a fireside chat with the attendees. One of the topics that we discussed was customer experience. I showed them the chart below from a research study we conducted last March (in partnership with BluJay Solutions, a Talking Logistics sponsor) that shows how “To deliver an enhanced customer experience” is the main driver
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Morai Logistics
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Experts say demand-chain models are an effective solution for supply chains to meet the increased need for immediacy and improve the customer experience. Today, consumers crave instant gratification when searching for products and services online. They want access to information and results in an immediate time frame, and this transcends throughout the buying funnel.
Logistics Management
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
The nation’s largest retailer is increasing pay for truck drivers with three years’ accident-free experience to around $87,500. That 89 cents per mile over-the-road rate would make a Walmart driver one of the richest in the industry. Walmart operates the third-largest private fleet in the country with about 6,400 power units, 63,700 trailers and around 200 straight trucks, according to a 2017 compilation of its fleet.
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.
Amware Logistics and Fulfillment
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Performance matters. In track, a split-second can make the difference between finishing first and coming in second. In football, the precision with which the quarterback throws can make the difference between a touchdown and an incomplete pass. Performance matters in your marketing production and fulfillment program, too.
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Kuebix
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Hardly anyone will deny that technology is the future. For companies with supply chains, this means utilizing some combination of a transportation management system (TMS), enterprise resource planning system (ERP), yard management system (YMS) and warehouse management system (WMS) just to keep up with the competition! That’s a lot of different technology to manage, especially […].
Material Handling and Logistics
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
The number of intra-regional and last-mile truck trips has increased while the average length of haul has declined.
Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
It was three years ago that Logistics Viewpoints and DC Velocity launched a survey of logistics practitioners to evaluate the future direction fulfillment facilities, technologies, and practices. The survey’s format evaluated past, present state, and expectations for three years into the future. The findings, published on Logistics Viewpoints and on DCVelocity.com, were well received.
Fleet Owner
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Diesel engines can be temperamental in the winter. Fleet owners get an unwelcome reminder of this every year. But your operation doesn’t have to hinge on the mercy of weather. Here’s what you need to know to put cold weather diesel problems on ice.
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Supply Chain and Logistics
FEBRUARY 2, 2019
MIT’s Supply Chain blog presented a nice research study by Minhaaj Khan and Srideepti Kidambi and supervised by Dr. Tugba Efendigil.
Material Handling and Logistics
FEBRUARY 3, 2019
Blockchain-based applications provide transparency and visibility throughout the entire supply chain.
Logistics Management
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
A combination of rising global interest rates and ongoing trade protectionism will continue to create unexpected turbulence for logistics managers over the course of 2019, say analysts. Meanwhile emerging markets will provide opportunities for faster growth—yet each faces its own set of operational challenges.
Fleet Owner
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
All indications in the National Transportation Safety Board's latest "Most Wanted List" of problems to fix in transportation point to one thing: in many ways, technology across that broad industry isn't just advancing, it's accelerating.
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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.
Kuebix
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
While many companies consider Amazon to be the ultimate competitor, Amazon didn’t become the trillion-dollar retail and distribution behemoth it is today by focusing on what its competition was doing. Instead, it focused on exciting and delighting its customers. Remember, Amazon started out selling books. Bookstores were its main competition. Amazon did not aspire to […].
Material Handling and Logistics
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Organizations and employees must be willing to embrace AI and IoT to ensure progress into the future.
Logistics Management
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
While the prospects for container shipping are brightening, downside risks of increased inward-looking policies and the rise of trade protectionism are weighing on the outlook for carriers.
Fleet Owner
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
While there is no way to manufacture parking spaces overnight, there are some steps fleets can take to ease the parking problem.
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
IoT World Today
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
In the center of Bosch’s CES booth was the prototype of an autonomous electric shuttle with a slew of surprising features. Riders can open the door of the vehicle using a smartphone app known as Perfectly Keyless. Once in the vehicle, a passenger has access to a concierge service that can inform a passenger if, say, an upcoming flight has been canceled and which alternate flight they would prefer.
Material Handling and Logistics
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Suppliers reported emissions reductions of 633 million metric tons of carbon dioxide leading to collective cost savings of $19.3 billion.
Logistics Management
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Inventor of the world’s first temperature-controlled mugs turns to a single third-party logistics provider to support its massive sales growth and worldwide supply chain operations.
Fleet Owner
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Customer expectations are increasing. They not only expect items to be damage-free but also that they have an excellent presentation.
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.
Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Transportation management systems (TMS) have been around for a good 25-30 years, but they’ve struggled with visibility for most of that lifetime. Sure, the TMS industry has long talked about the visibility of their systems. But it’s only been in the last two or three years that we’ve seen measurable leaps forward in visibility capabilities. Like the Princess Bride scene where one character questions another’s constant use of the word “inconceivable,” the term “visibility” is […].
Material Handling and Logistics
FEBRUARY 3, 2019
Once thought implausible, e-commerce drives more projects from coast to coast.
GlobalTranz
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
Automation in the warehouse is essential to meeting the growing demand of e-commerce and the blending of traditional supply chain channels into the omnichannel supply chain. Unfortunately, warehouse capacity around the country is tight, but available capacity is only being used at rates shy of 70 percent. How can warehouse capacity be both tight and utilized less than 100 percent?
Fleet Owner
FEBRUARY 3, 2019
Now that the first ELD Mandate deadline has passed, fleets are looking for ways to extract additional value from their devices. Whether a fleet has already implemented and trained staff on ELD technology or is considering options for migrating AOBRDs to ELDs by the second ELD Mandate deadline, it is wise to look strategically at how to achieve goals beyond ELD compliance.
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Stord
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Last year, the ripple effects from new tariffs on imports from China rocked warehouses and ports in America. At the Port of Los Angeles, for example, a sudden rush of shipments overloaded the local warehouse market. With the threat of more trade tensions on the horizon in 2019, shippers should optimize their supply chains now to minimize disruption.
AIMMS
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Part II in our series on assessing your network design’s maturity . As we wrote in Part I of this series , we recently ran a quiz to help supply chain professionals benchmark their network design maturity. Results show that the majority of respondents use spreadsheets to support network design and consider themselves “advanced beginners” in the use of network optimization technologies.
Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Effectively pricing shipments in the less-than-truckload industry is fiendishly difficult. Leading LTL carriers talk about their approach to this issue. The post Less-than-truckload Carriers Struggle to Effectively Price their Shipments appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.
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