Sat.Mar 16, 2019 - Fri.Mar 22, 2019

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5 Common Logistics Technology Issues & Their Real Causes

Cyzerg

Logistics technology issues too often bring businesses to a halt. In a study by Compuware , almost half of respondents (48%) reported that technology problems happen anywhere from a few times a week to every day. Seventy-five percent reported that the frequency of technology failures is staying the same or increasing.

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As trucks get more complex, so does fleet maintenance

Fleet Owner

Technicians are turning to new tools and technologies to overcome these challenges and reaping dividends through predictive maintenance and less vehicle downtime.

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Utilizing Smart Sensors Creates Agile and Efficient Supply Chains

Morai Logistics

With 43% of supply chains using smart sensors, the industry must continue to integrate IoT tools to ensure efficiency and agility. Last week, Morai Logistics presented the benefits of implementing smart manufacturing into supply chains. The integration of technology into factory level operations, ‘ helps to create opportunities that improve efficiencies, productivity and operations on the ground floor ’.

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Why Do eCommerce Supply Chains Fail?

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

Did you know that, according to Bloomberg, 80% of eCommerce businesses fail within the first 18 months? One reason is a lack of focus on product fulfillment operations – the invisible function that gets orders out the door accurately and on time. Here are some common causes of eCommerce supply chain failures and how to avoid them.

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Rethinking warehouse work culture: Can automation create better workplaces?

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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Cyber Attack Puts a Spotlight on Fragile Global Supply Chain

Material Handling and Logistics

The interconnected nature of supply chains isn’t unique to the metals industry. As manufacturing processes becoming increasingly complex and spread out around the world, more companies will have to navigate the risk of a disruption from cyber attacks.

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Top E-Commerce Trends in 2019

Talking Logistics

For consumers e-commerce is increasingly the preferred method for shopping. Younger shoppers already embrace it and more frequently older shoppers are as well. As e-commerce continues to grow, companies need to adjust their approaches in order to win customer loyalty. According to Nasdaq, by 2040, 95% of purchases will be facilitated through e-commerce.

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How a Good Fulfillment Partner Helps You Save Money

Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

This is the fifth in a series of blogs focused on getting the most from your marketing fulfillment program. It includes insights drawn from an Amware-sponsored Mighty Guide titled 8 Experts on Marketing Fulfillment. You can download the eBook here.

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How Drone Technology is Going to Shape the Future of Supply Chain

Kuebix

What’s the Big Deal? Drones are classified as “a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) which typically refers to a pilotless aircraft that operates through a combination of technologies, including computer vision, artificial intelligence, object avoidance tech, and others.” Their flexibility to perform virtually any report or inspection and easily collect and share data has allowed them […].

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Pentagon Supply Chain Improving Distribution Process

Material Handling and Logistics

The Pentagon, which manages a $35 billion commodity supply chain, is testing a cloud-based Warehouse Management System in one of its distribution centers to "better align with industry standards.

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Load Optimization: A Sustainable Way To Reduce Transportation Costs

Discover strategies to optimize load building and achieve significant transportation cost savings. Plus, learn how load optimization can help reduce CO 2 emissions and align with climate regulations and consumer expectations. Finally, discover best practices for sustainable load optimization.

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Pre-TMC: Starting the big trucking show takes planning and precision

Fleet Owner

Thousands of fleet and trucking professionals descend upon Atlanta this week for ATA's Technology & Maintenance Council Annual Meeting & Transportation Technology Exhibition.

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The Autonomous Mobile Robot Market is Growing Explosively

Logistics Viewpoints

We just completed the new global market study on the Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) market. The market is exploding. In my twenty years of doing market research I have never seen anything like the growth this market is experiencing. The post The Autonomous Mobile Robot Market is Growing Explosively appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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The High Costs of Final-Mile Delivery

Kuebix

The final mile of delivery is said to be the most expensive portion of the equation. BI Intelligence equates the share of the total cost of shipping for the last mile at 53 percent of delivery costs overall. It is costly because it has a larger human element than the other segments of transportation with drivers […]. The post The High Costs of Final-Mile Delivery appeared first on Kuebix.

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NYC Maritime Hackathon 2019: Connecting Big Data And Maritime

Logistics Management

Over an intensive 36-hour period, entrepreneurs, investors, maritime executives and tech leaders will collaborate to develop solutions that aim to transform the maritime industry

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Autonomous AI Agents Are the Future of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations

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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Drive Safe Act with a twist

Fleet Owner

A bi-partisan bill called the Drive Safe Act would change that and allow, under some strict requirements, drivers under the age of 21 to drive interstate.

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The Warehouse Labor Gap is Unsustainable

Logistics Viewpoints

US warehousing and storage industry (3PL) employment grew from 779 million in January 2015 to 1.2 billion in December 2018, a CAGR of 11% from 2015 through 2018. At the same time, US unemployment is at historic lows. This suggests that the warehousing and storage industry must hire workers from other industries. Stories about individual warehouses paints a picture of high demand for labor, low availability, and high turnover rates.

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Starbucks Fully Embraced the Middleman and Bloomed

Food Logistics

Starbucks’ joint venture with Uber Eats will succeed so long as it fully embraces the middleman technology and becomes a tree. Yes, a tree.

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Let’s play ball! Teamsters down to the wire in talks with YRC over new contract

Logistics Management

As baseball season is upon us, negotiators for the Teamsters and YRC Freight units are in the bottom of the ninth inning in their attempt to nail down a new five-year labor contract. Both labor and management are under strong pressure to hit a home run in the YRC talks. The Teamsters would like to restore a 15 percent wage and 75 percent cut in pension concessions made a decade ago in order to lay claim to what Teamsters President James P.

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Freight Procurement Simplified: Bids from Hours to Minutes

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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Behind the scenes at the refinery: The science of making fuel

Fleet Owner

Refining starts with crude oil, breaks it down to its most basic parts then puts those parts back together in new ways to create fuel. Sounds easy in theory, but in practice, there’s a lot more to it.

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Figuring Congestion’s Impact on Fuel Consumption and Emissions

Material Handling and Logistics

Highway traffic bottlenecks are raising fuel costs and hurting the environment, ATRI Finds.

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Deliver On-Time and In-Full with a Retail Consolidation Program

Talking Logistics

The pace of change in today’s retail environment is faster than ever. E-commerce and shifting, more demanding consumer behaviors have led retailers to tighten requirements for shippers across the board. Penalties for late or partial shipments are steep and can make or break a shipper’s relationship with a retailer. Shippers can mitigate this challenge with a retail consolidation program.

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How Predictive Analytics and the Gig Economy Can Bridge the Supply Chain Skills Gap

Supply Chain Brain

The automotive manufacturing supply chain has become almost too massive to manage, leaving manufacturers and suppliers with the challenge of finding qualified workers with the skills to identify and prevent quality risks.

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

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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Labor Dept.: Don’t believe media on trucker shortage

Fleet Owner

Meanwhile, conversations at TCA surround just how high driver pay needs to be.

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Finding Truck Capacity Is More Than Location Data: The Carrier Intelligence Game

Parade

Starting with Location Data Creating a carrier system of records and intelligence system will be the first step towards freight brokerage digitization. What is carrier intelligence and why is it so critical for a freight brokerage to implement? A robust carrier intelligence system uses a mixture of data sources that crosses multiple data sets, multiple systems of record like a Transportation Management System (TMS), a Carrier Management System (CRM) and other valuable information pools like gove

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Streamlining and Automating the Procure-to-Pay Process

Talking Logistics

Streamlining and automating the procure-to-pay (P2P) process is something many companies are focused on, especially those dealing with hundreds, if not thousands, of suppliers and high volumes of purchase orders, shipments, and invoices. What are the current challenges companies are facing in their efforts to streamline and automate their P2P processes?

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5 Reasons Why Parcel Rapid Delivery is to Become the Shipping Standard for 2019

GlobalTranz

Parcel rapid delivery is used to describe same-day and next-day delivery, but it actually implies any delivery requiring two or fewer days to complete. According to Chain Store Age, the value of rapid delivery is stark with most consumers willing to pay a premium for faster delivery of their packages. With the explosion of e-commerce.read More. The post 5 Reasons Why Parcel Rapid Delivery is to Become the Shipping Standard for 2019 appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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The Ultimate Guide to Transportation and Load Building Optimization

Enhance your transportation and load building efficiency with our comprehensive guide. Learn to tackle today's supply chain challenges and optimize your approach with advanced planning strategies. This guide covers: Supply Chain Challenges: Discover how transportation planning can address critical issues and improve efficiency. Load Building Benefits: Understand how effective load building can enhance your transportation processes.

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TMC and be seen: Trucks rock the exhibition floor

Fleet Owner

The 2019 Technology & Maintenance Council Transportation Technology Exhibition in Atlanta showcased hundreds of products in booths on the exhibit floor.

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Uber Freight announces European expansion

Logistics Management

Uber Freight will first establish European operations in the Netherlands in the coming weeks, with local carriers and drivers able to book and move loads with Uber Freight, at which point the company intends to expand access to European regions thereafter.

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Researchers Say Autonomous Vehicles Could Be Racist

Material Handling and Logistics

Study finds object detection systems are poorer at detecting pedestrians with darker skin types.

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