Talking Logistics
JULY 27, 2022
At a recent industry conference, a shipper asked me many questions about transportation procurement, such as, “How do you best determine how long and how often to have transportation sourcing events?” It’s a question many shippers are asking today as they try to figure out how to best navigate this ever-changing market.
Logistics Bureau
JANUARY 16, 2025
The resilience of your supply chain is determined by its structure and operations, whether we’re dealing with major immediate events like a pandemic or gradual systemic changes to your business environment over time. Typically it involves carrying extra inventory and hiring more workers than absolutely necessary.
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FreightWaves SONAR
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Here are some great virtual logistics events that can help you stay up to date, engaged, and actively learning during each quarter. Q1 logistics conferences With the start of the new year, it’s time to start thinking about the National Retail Federation (NRF) logistics events too, but that’s not all there is to do. Register Here.
The Logistics of Logistics
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
How to Improve Exception Management with End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility. Original article: How to Improve Exception Management with End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility. Original article: How to Improve Exception Management with End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility. Schedule a demo today.
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It covers how to use the module, the container events and automations available, and FAQs. This guide will help freight forwarders utilize CargoWise Container Automation for increased visibility and productivity.
The Logistics of Logistics
MAY 11, 2022
How to handle VUCA environments and unprecedented times. Covid-19 is VUCA, a “black swan” event. It’s not just one event; it’s a combination of many. COVID and the associated VUCA forced us to completely redesign what we do and how we do it. How to be more resilient? 2021: Uncertainty about uncertainty.
MTS Logistics
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Forwarders need crisis management skills to prevent or minimize such events from disrupting their operations. Forwarders handle these events in a way that does not cause delays in the cargo that will reach the customer, is safe and does not strain the customer’s wallet.
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Many are predicting a recession due to inflation rates, market performance, and global events like Russia's war in Ukraine. How will that economic uncertainty impact your supply chain? Discover 5 major supply chain risks and how to manage them.
Speaker: Fernando Penteado, CPSM - Supply Chain and Logistics Executive, Global Markets Expert, and International Speaker
Now, as a variety of disruptive events cause supply chain challenges, companies are contemplating bold moves to keep business moving, including moving sourcing and manufacturing closer to home markets and maintaining a larger reserve stock to help manage the fluctuations in supply and demand.
Speaker: Dr. Ken Fordyce, Solutions Director, Supply Chain and Advanced Analytics at Arkieva
Risk management is defined as anticipating and responding to an event not yet part of the plan of record that requires a significant adjustment in your demand-supply network (DSN). How to avoid data-driven disasters. COVID-19 has put risk management at the front and center in the supply chain world.
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