Sat.Feb 23, 2019 - Fri.Mar 01, 2019

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3 ways to Automate Grunt Work in Brokerage

Parade

A carrier sales rep’s daily routine at a freight brokerage is taxing–-a continuous grind of calling, communicating through any means possible, selling load opportunities, and driving continuous value for carrier partners. While multitasking is synonymous with the responsibilities of a carrier sales rep, this can impact productivity. A study by Meyer, Evans, and Rubinstein reveals that switching focus can impact productivity by as much as 40%.

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Underwriting preparedness – considering the logistics of the future preparedness system

Logistics in War

By David Beaumont. One of the fundamental questions to answer when preparing a military for war is ‘are the capabilities on hand prepared for X?’ As mentioned in Limping to war: preparedness and its paradoxes , Dr Thomas Galvin of the US Army War College proposes this question with the routine of military life in mind; the generating of forces, individual and collective training, assessing capabilities through preparedness management systems and conducting the frequent remedial acti

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Transportation Optimization For Everyone

MercuryGate

The post Transportation Optimization For Everyone appeared first on MercuryGate International.

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The Future of Logistics is Racing toward the Last Mile

Material Handling and Logistics

Companies must be constantly ready to adapt their supply chains to reflect changing market conditions and customer demands.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Tax law tips for trucking in 2019

Fleet Owner

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Creating Continuous Improvement Within Transportation

Kuebix

Continuous improvement programs are important for reducing waste within your transportation processes – and overall business environment. With rising freight rates, lack of capacity, and the driver shortage, transportation operations must create strategies to eliminate waste, while lowering costs and boosting efficiencies. Continuous improvement is defined as “a method for identifying opportunities for streamlining work […].

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Retail Doubling Adoption of AI

Material Handling and Logistics

As the capability matures, it opens up entirely new ways of doing business that can increase operational agility, improve the quality and speed of decision making, and enhance the customer experience.

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Five tips for better fuel economy

Fleet Owner

You can put all the efficiency technology on a truck you want, but if the person behind the wheel engages in aggressive driving practices you won’t get the gains you are hoping for.

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Shore Thing: Consider a New Jersey Warehouse for Your East Coast Imports

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

If you import, there’s a lot to like about The Port of New York and New Jersey. With numerous terminals, impressive rail connections and billions of dollars’ worth of recent improvements , it’s the country’s third-busiest port – and getting busier every day. In fact, according to a late January announcement, it recently surpassed the annual 7 million TEU mark for the first time in its history.

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Staying Ahead of UFLPA Enforcement: Best Practices for Retail Supply Chains

Speaker: Ethan Woolley, Director at Kharon

This webinar will explore how companies can proactively address compliance risks–rather than reactively responding to–UFLPA enforcement actions. Ethan Woolley will provide insights into the latest CBP enforcement trends, entity list updates, and industries under increased scrutiny, with a look at potential shifts under the Trump administration. Ethan will also explore how predictive data and strategic due diligence can help organizations stay ahead of regulatory challenges and strengthen complia

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A Win-Win for Fleet Owners and Shippers

Kuebix

Right now in the industry there are approximately 10 orders to ship for every available truck. Conversely, there’s a large portion of private fleets that are running their assets with a significant amount of empty backhaul miles. At Kuebix, we don’t think it makes sense for there to be a capacity crisis at the same […]. The post A Win-Win for Fleet Owners and Shippers appeared first on Kuebix.

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Increasing the Fairness of the Global Supply Chain

Material Handling and Logistics

A circular supply chain capability leveraging blockchain, digital identity and payments technologies is introduced.

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Congress tries again to help younger truckers obtain CDL

Fleet Owner

A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Senate and House introduced the DRIVE-Safe Act, giving drivers under the age of 21 a faster path to interstate trucking.

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Industry Trend on the Rise for Supply Chain and Logistics: Automation

Shipchain

According to EFT’s Supply Chain Hot Trends to Watch for in 2019 , one of the most significant trends that we should be paying attention to this year is automation. Industry players have already begun experimenting with technologies like robotics and artificial intelligence. Drones are already delivering packages , and self-driving vehicles are being produced and tested as we speak.

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The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report

Procurement leaders are at a pivotal moment. With CPOs playing an increasingly strategic role, it’s time to leverage innovation and technology to drive resilience and efficiency. Download The 2025 Annual ProcureCon CPO Report to uncover key insights to thrive in a dynamic procurement landscape. What’s Inside: How CPOs are driving strategic decision-making and technology adoption The top priorities and challenges for procurement in 2025 Why AI, sustainability, and data analytics are essential for

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Start. Just Start – PME and the fear of writing.

Logistics in War

By Rebecca Marlow. Through the Logistics in War and over the past two years Dave Beaumont has been challenging logisticians to think and write about their profession. It is important to our profession that we have a robust discussion and challenge perceptions and conceptions there may be about our trade. Earlier this year he challenged all logisticians to write, which had me ponder, ‘why don’t we?

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Congress Introduces Plan to Address Truck Driver Shortage

Material Handling and Logistics

The DRIVE-Safe Act expands the trucking candidate pool and updates safety training.

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How AI tech is protecting fleet equipment

Fleet Owner

First there were trucks, then trucks got computers—followed by lots more computers, sensors, and processors of various kinds. The potential to measure, connect, improve, and protect fleet operations exploded. But achieving real gains from all the data could take prohibitive time and effort. Here to help fleets kill the busywork and guesswork is ever-sharper artificial intelligence.

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Accenture offers up take on e-commerce supply chain challenges

Logistics Management

The rapid growth of e-commerce is driving deep changes in our industry, from tightening up trucking capacity to elevating the importance of final-mile delivery processes. To respond, supply chain managers now need to leverage diverse systems, thereby making processes more efficient.

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How to Prepare for Proposed New Tariffs in 2025

The global trade landscape is shifting. If President Trump’s proposed tariffs come into effect, they will impact your logistics in significant ways. Our free guide provides essential insights for consumer brands and manufacturers. It is crucial to understand what these challenges mean for your logistics operations, and more importantly, how to prepare.

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Putting Your Data to Work

Supply Chain Brain

If your CEO or CIO were to ask you how you are helping your organization use data to your advantage, what would you say?

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Autonomous Delivery Robot

Material Handling and Logistics

The FedEx SameDay Bot is an autonomous delivery device designed to help retailers make same-day and last-mile deliveries to their customers.

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AI: Your fleet’s next ‘smart assistant’

Fleet Owner

The advanced processing of AI becomes more and more necessary as you add more trucks to a fleet.

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CBRE Analysis Confirms E-Commerce and Warehouse Growth

Logistics Management

E-commerce and logistics companies claimed a larger share of the 100 largest industrial-and-logistics leases signed in 2018 than they did a year earlier, underscoring the growing influence of those companies on U.S. warehouse construction, according to a new report from CBRE.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Shipping Tech Integration Trends for 2019

GlobalTranz

Shipping tech integration is the future. It brings together disparate systems, connects IoT-enabled sensors to tracking platforms, and gives shippers more visibility into their operations. This will allow shippers to reduce freight spend, gain control over logistics, and offer better customer service. However, shippers must first understand the shipping technology trends affecting the industry and.read More.

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Let’s Keep Those Young Employees Moving so We Can Hold on to Them

Material Handling and Logistics

Offering career paths and international experiences will keep younger employees moving at the pace they desire and will hopefully lead to retention.

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AI and vehicle health: Less downtime, maintenance

Fleet Owner

Detecting problems on trucks well before they occur can be especially important for fleets, since even after knowing there's a problem, some may take weeks or longer to plan and perform the service to get it fixed.

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Blockchain Technology: It’s More Than a Luxury

Supply Chain Brain

For supply-chain partners, blockchain technology promises an immutable record of provenance, as products pass from hand to hand. And which industry stands to benefit more from that capability than luxury goods?

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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Preparing For Domestic Business Shipping

GlobalTranz

There may be nothing more important for the success of a typical business in today’s environment than logistics. Customers expect a baseline level of service that only a generation ago would have been considered white-glove, premium attention. Next-day shipping or even same-day shipping is becoming the norm, not the exception. If a customer is told.read More.

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Data Not People Are Best Asset Says Supply Chain Expert

Material Handling and Logistics

Data is the competitive differentiator, says Dr. Yossi Sheffi. " Companies that are using current technology which includes artificial intelligence, machine learning, and sensor networks, will jump way ahead of those who don’t.

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Are you tracking and measuring operational efficiencies?

Fleet Owner

Improving operational efficiencies can reduce costs, but it needs to be tracked and measured to ensure your organization's peak performance.