Freightquote

JANUARY 24, 2019

Learn more about the freight shipping trends expected to impact the industry through 2019.

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Bringg

JANUARY 24, 2019

Automating your delivery operations chain is critical if you want to meet the new status quo for customer experience while maintaining profitability. Here’s why. Recently, we wrote about the ways in which rising customer demands are redefining last mile delivery across multiple industries. Shoppers today are demanding an unprecedented level of control over when, where, and how they purchase and receive goods and services.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 22, 2019

For inbound automotive supply chains, returnable packaging just makes sense. No carmaker wants to spend money on wood, paper and cardboard again and again, only to have to fork out straight away for costly waste disposal. Far better to pay once for a robust, reusable container that provides better protection for parts and can, ideally, hold them all the way from supplier to lineside.

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The Lean Thinker

JANUARY 25, 2019

In this video clip, author and speaker Simon Sinek articulately explains why the things that matter most aren’t measurable, nor can they be created over the short term. Watch the video, then I’d like to extend his thought process into continuous improvement. The idea of doing the little things consistently over time is a powerful one that we often overlook in our hurry to show a spectacular result this week.

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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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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

JANUARY 22, 2019

Any way you look at it, Amazon’s fulfillment arm, Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA), has an enormous warehousing footprint. It currently operates about 128 fulfillment centers in the U.S. alone – and that doesn’t even factor in Amazon’s many Prime Now hubs, Whole Food grocery DCs, delivery stations, and other distribution locations. For Amazon sellers, using FBA simplifies things by handing over all fulfillment and customer service requirements to Amazon.

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Fleet Owner

JANUARY 22, 2019

Fleet technology is evolving faster than ever. To avoid being left in the dust, it’s important to implement new tools designed to help you succeed.

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Kuebix

JANUARY 24, 2019

Being a truck driver is an underappreciated profession. There are nasty stereotypes and the general public often show a lack of respect to truckers when they’re on the road. Driving a truck is often considered to be a “last resort” profession, even for a culture built proudly on the backs of blue collar workers. This […]. The post 5 Reasons Being a Trucker Should Earn More Respect appeared first on Kuebix.

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Amware Logistics and Fulfillment

JANUARY 22, 2019

Any way you look at it, Amazon’s fulfillment arm, Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA), has an enormous warehousing footprint. It currently operates about 128 fulfillment centers in the U.S. alone – and that doesn’t even factor in Amazon’s many Prime Now hubs, Whole Food grocery DCs, delivery stations, and other distribution locations. For Amazon sellers, using FBA simplifies things by handing over all fulfillment and customer service requirements to Amazon.

Warehousing 120

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2019

Starting in September 2019, Walmart will require suppliers of fresh, leafy greens to implement real-time, traceability of products back to the farm by participating in the Food Trust Consortium. The Food Trust consortium, run by IBM, is focused on using Blockchain for Supply Chain technologies. The post 2019 is the Year for Blockchain in Supply Chain Management, but Will it Have Legs?

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Fleet Owner

JANUARY 23, 2019

Family-owned fleets, second-generation drivers and engineers share the secrets of their success.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 24, 2019

Tata Steel is one of the world’s largest steel producers. In fact, it’s very likely that Tata Steel plays a role in your life today, by providing raw material for the car you drive, the house you live in and the roads you drive through. The company was established in India as Asia’s first integrated private steel company in 1907. Today, the steel manufacturing leader has an ambitious digital transformation agenda and is leveraging AIMMS technology to optimize operations in its home country.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JANUARY 22, 2019

"Leadership on environmental issues, shown by a recent ranking of companies based on environmental policies, goes "hand in hand with being a successful and profitable business,” says CDP which curates the list. As leaders gather at the of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos for a week of high-level discussions on the future of the global economy, the CDP group released its annual rankings of the top green businesses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 24, 2019

Over the past several years, companies have been incorporating sustainability in the supply chain, thanks in part to younger consumers who place a higher premium on environmentally-friendly practices. In fact, according to a Nielsen study, 81 percent of global consumers feel strongly that it’s a company’s duty to help improve the environment, making “going green” a must for many organizations.

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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 Software

Fleet Owner

JANUARY 25, 2019

Safety is too often portrayed only as preventing mistakes and responding to problems. Key to successful defensive actions, though, is planning and preparation.

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Logistics Management

JANUARY 21, 2019

Mixed economic signals are proving to be somewhat of a Rorschach Test for shippers trying to gauge freight demand levels heading into the strongest part of the 2019 freight season.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JANUARY 25, 2019

To qualify for these jobs drivers are required to have 30 months of experience over the past three years and a good safety record.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 22, 2019

Trade issues, usually of esoteric interest to readers of the business pages, are increasingly and literally becoming front page news, most notably with the current US-China trade spat. Given this rather fraught backdrop, free trade proponents would have been heartened by the long awaited launch of the Asia Pacific FTA known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, or CPTPP, just before the turn of the new year.

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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

Optimal Sourcing

Fleet Owner

JANUARY 20, 2019

Jared Polis (D), the new governor of Colorado, has signed an executive order proposing the state pass a regulation that would require a gradual transition to zero-emissions vehicles.

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Logistics Management

JANUARY 24, 2019

While DSV acknowledged that a combination of DSV and Panalpina would create a leading global transport and logistics company with significant growth opportunities and potential for value creation, adding that a combination presents a unique opportunity for both companies and their respective stakeholders including shareholders, employees, customers and suppliers, it now appears that the chances of a deal coming to fruition are less than likely.

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Logistics in War

JANUARY 23, 2019

Preparedness and its paradoxes. By David Beaumont. ‘Over time we lost strategic agility. Our units became hollow. Our ability to operate away from the Australian support base degraded dangerously. Our capacity to generate, sustain and rotate forces eroded. The tremendous efforts of all of the Australian Defence Force in East Timor concealed these deficiencies in the Army’s capabilities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2019

Today is the day of global trade compliance software. It's not every day that trade compliance is top of mind. ARC Advisory Group’s Global Trade Compliance Systems (GTC) market research shows that the breadth of high-profile tariff changes has catapulted trade compliance ot the top of supply chain concerns and consideration. The post Global Trade Compliance Software Gets Its Day!

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Cost Reduction

Fleet Owner

JANUARY 25, 2019

Companies making investments in inventory systems to maximize accuracy, employing set delivery routes that run multiple times a day, including late at night.

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Logistics Management

JANUARY 23, 2019

For those that still think Amazon does not directly compete with the parcel duopoly of FedEx and UPS, a report in The Wall Street Journal today drives home the point that it may be time to reconsider that notion. The reason, according to the report, is that a new seven-days a week delivery network being introduced by the global e-commerce bellwether, aims to take customers from FedEx and UPS by zooming in on fuel surcharges and extra fees, which increase home delivery costs.

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Networks 92

GlobalTranz

JANUARY 23, 2019

Freight management is crucial for companies around the globe. Effective freight management reduces delays for consumers, helps companies offer Amazonesque shipping benefits and much more. Shippers that wish to succeed in 2019 need to know the top trucking and freight management trends for 2019 and how they will affect shipping practices, global trade, last-mile , and even drivers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2019

This past Sunday was a remarkable day for the NFL, with both conference title games going to overtime for the first time ever. Here in Boston, it was business a usual, as Tom Brady and the Patriots advanced to yet another Super Bowl. But in New Orleans, a horrible missed pass interference call has left the city reeling, with many people saying they will never get over this loss.

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Fleet Owner

JANUARY 24, 2019

Many fleets are looking to their parts suppliers and manufacturers for help developing just the right part tracking and ordering schedules for their operations.

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Logistics Management

JANUARY 23, 2019

The ATA’s advanced seasonally-adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index for December, at 111.9 dropped 4.3% compared to November’s 116.9 reading, whose sequential change compared to October (which was an all-time high at 122.8) was downwardly revised to -1.3% from +0.4%.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JANUARY 24, 2019

A new safety vest from Amazon allows robots to detect warehouse workers from farther away and change its route to avoid them.

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