Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

They integrate AI into demand forecasting, inventory optimization, and logistics operations to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and mitigate risks. Companies must react after the fact, often incurring higher costs and reduced service levels. Predictive maintenance of transportation fleets reduces downtime and repair costs.

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IFS Blogs

MARCH 17, 2025

Boosting Sales in the Logistics Industry: Proven Strategies for Growth In todays competitive logistics industry, increasing sales requires a combination of strategic planning, advanced technology, and a customer-centric approach. Below are key strategies to enhance sales and drive revenue in the logistics sector.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 16, 2025

Just as your body needs multiple defense mechanisms to fight off illness, your supply chain needs various strategies to handle disruptions, whether they’re local supplier issues or global crises. Let’s look at five proven strategies that can help you create a more resilient supply chain.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 10, 2023

Ben Gordon and Joe Lynch discuss highlights from the BGSA Conference , an annual event designed to bring together top industry leaders from all segments of the supply chain and provides an intimate and candid setting where CEOs and leaders can privately network and explore ideas with their peers. The Greenscreens.ai

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 25, 2024

By integrating Nauto’s AI-powered Video Event Data Recorder (VEDR) solution with Beans.ai’s precision location data and micro-routing technology, the collaboration offers a comprehensive solution tailored to meet the needs of last-mile deliveries, including VEDR compliance. Nauto and Beans.ai

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3PL Links

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

With logistics, labor, and inventory costs on the rise, finding targeted ways to reduce expenses can have a significant impact on your bottom line. Here are seven proven strategies every supply chain manager should explore to streamline operations, boost efficiency, and drive profitability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In the 1940s, Gujarat’s dairy farmers united against exploitative pricing by private firms, led by Verghese Kurien. This laid Amul’s foundation, empowering farmers with fair prices and delivering quality dairy products to consumers at affordable rates. This empowers them to have a stake in the business and share profits.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

For example, an ERP for automotive distributors needs to include not just a standard sales function but also allow for automotive-specific processes like call-offs and contract pricing, as well as other processes like returns and lot traceability. There are several business processes that an ERP must have to support automotive distribution.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 21, 2017

At the next Logistics Bureau Free Executive Breakfast (which will take place in August), I’ll be discussing the alignment of supply chain and business strategy along with eight other important levers for supply chain performance improvement. The Failing Kmart Business Strategy. The first Kmart store opened way back in 1962.

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Locus

MAY 8, 2024

As per research by supply chain dive , 59% of retail participants that were surveyed told that they would hike pricing to mitigate impact from supply chain disruptions and 36% said they were taking a margin hit to keep price levels. And it does translate to serious business losses. Read also: Why Do Businesses Need Route Optimization?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 6, 2023

In today’s dynamic and unpredictable business environment, companies face various challenges such as changing consumer demands, global uncertainty, and the impact of natural and man-made events. The common goal for all categories of product is that they must be available at the right time, right quantity and right prices.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

Your organization’s ability to anticipate disruption, adapt to events, and build resiliency is rooted in how you maintain operational continuity. A wide range of events could prevent your supply chain from operating normally, but not all events have an equal impact. Price fluctuations and sourcing issues.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Judah Levine October 15, 2024 Weekly highlights Ocean Rates – Freightos Baltic Index Asia-US West Coast prices (FBX01 Weekly) fell 3% to $5,565/FEU. Asia-US East Coast prices (FBX03 Weekly) climbed 1% to $6,787/FEU. Europe prices (FBX11 Weekly) fell 11% to $3,625/FEU. America weekly prices decreased 23% to $5.43/kg.

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Blue Grace Logistics

APRIL 1, 2024

In an era where resilience and adaptability are key to survival, technology has become the bedrock upon which supply chain professionals build their strategies. This enables 3PLs to optimize inventory levels, reducing the risk of overstocking or understocking, even in uncertain economic times.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 16, 2025

AWS , Google , and Microsoft are also investing heavily in custom AI chips to reduce their dependence on NVIDIA and optimize performance and cost. Nvidias Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit is a new compact generative AI supercomputer that is designed to provide increased performance at a lower price. billion in funding.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 20, 2021

Whether it’s a pandemic, severe weather events, trade disputes and tariffs, economic upheaval, or even unexpected surges in customer demands, you can’t prepare for every eventuality. Large companies with a supply chain risk strategy already in place couldn’t fully cope with the impact of the pandemic.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

So everything in the retailer’s Supply Chain strategy needs to be focused on the customer, and of course the shareholders, that goes without saying. Effective retail supply chain management also helps to manage inventory levels, reduce waste and ultimately customer satisfaction. Price; this needs to be competitive.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The logistics industry has grown so complex, with so many challenges such as regulatory changes, capacity issues, pricing fluctuations, and worsening weather events, that customers are looking for a one-stop shop, backed by assets and technology, to help them navigate the current shipping environment.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 25, 2021

These disruptions, which will only get more frequent in the coming years as major weather events wreak havoc on freight transportation, have supply chain stakeholders scrambling from crisis to crisis. This can be done through street turn matching, which reduces empty miles that generate significant carbon emissions. In the U.S.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 17, 2023

Despite their best efforts, current events and market dynamics caught up with them, leading to issues managing their suppliers and sourcing the materials needed for their products. Price Volatility. Price volatility is expected to continue into 2023, spurred by inflation, rising interest rates and fears of recession.

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WorkWave

AUGUST 25, 2022

Targets will help you create a more direct and effective strategy and ensure that you’re not wasting time or resources on unrelated efforts. With analytics tools such as Google Analytics, you can better define which marketing strategies produce conversions (signups or sales) and revenue for your HVAC business. LEARN MORE.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 5, 2018

For example, a black swan event may include both the physical damage and ongoing disruption caused by a hurricane and subsequent bottlenecks, so shippers that know how to isolate the causes of poor visibility and areas that are likely to contribute to worsening of black swan events can effectively reduce their chances of coming to fruition.

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WorkWave

JULY 31, 2019

By pairing a solid organic social content strategy with a full-funnel social advertising strategy, you will gain much greater value and be able to tie efforts to actual ROI. Put this code on every single page of your website and add a lead event tracking code to all of your thank you pages, as well as any other relevant events.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 31, 2016

When customers step up pressure on prices and when economic growth flattens or dips, a supply manager’s mind turns to cost reduction. Or rather, it turns even more to cost reduction, as squeezing out savings that then show up directly on the bottom line is a goal that never goes away. Elimination of redundant activities.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 26, 2023

For instance, the influx of approximately 2 million visitors[1] during the event creates immense strain on transportation infrastructure and public services. Additionally, the increased demand for accommodations can lead to price gouging and substandard lodging conditions for visitors[3]. 1] [link] [2] [link] [3] [link]

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

This ensures the secure, high-capacity, and bi-directional transfer of essential information such as master data on products, customers, production-distribution infrastructure, transactional data on sales, inventory status and position, transportation execution data, external data e.g. competitor pricing, weather, recommendations, action triggers.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2021

Don’t expect to plan for every disruption; instead, develop a strategy to overcome supply chain disruption, regardless of the source. Preparing your supply chain for resiliency begins with risk management and a proactive strategy. It’s not enough to have a Plan B, just in case. Overcoming Supply Chain Disruption.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This 26th Annual ARC Industry Forum will be a hybrid event, in person in Orlando, Florida on February 14-17 and online March 7-10. Please reach out Conrad Hanf ( Chanf@arcweb.com ) to learn more about attending, speaking, or even sponsoring the event. Container shipping rates could raise import prices by 11%. October 2021.

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Regardless of their size, companies are reassessing their global supply chain strategies. By diversifying suppliers across different regions, companies can reduce the impact of localized disruptions. and European companies to reevaluate their supply chain strategies. What are the benefits of supply chain risk diversification?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Geopolitical events. Fifty-two percent of respondents are working on individual digital projects but lack an overarching strategy that links all these efforts. In just minutes, BD was able to see and manage the delivery and order-fulfillment challenges created by this unforeseen event, in real-time. Natural disasters.

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Stord

MARCH 5, 2019

Another company, Packsize, explained how its On Demand Packaging eliminates waste and saves customers money. In another session, an Anheuser-Busch representative explained how the company uses data insights to improve pricing and supply chain forecasting.

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Logistics Bureau

JUNE 5, 2023

There are ways and means to reduce excess expenditure in fleet operation , and you can separate them roughly into three categories. Consider Downsizing Your Fleet Reducing fleet size might be the most drastic option for cost reduction, but it’s also the one likely to deliver the most significant savings.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Now, the suppliers themselves may get creative with offerings such as: Volume discounts / tiered pricing. Leading organizations are deploying cloud based technologies to launch sourcing events, invite bids, and employ sophisticated combinatorial optimization techniques to evaluate bids, and down select suppliers.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Inventory management is a crucial aspect of supply chain management, and effective strategies can help businesses reduce costs, improve customer service, and increase profits. But what does a great inventory management strategy look like? Amazon did not invent the random storage approach. Book your free consultation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2022

While the gas prices spiked in early March and have since come down somewhat, ongoing uncertainty has kept prices above historical norms. Now, these shipments are being shifted to ocean and air, radically reducing rail shipments. Increased input costs: Russia is the second largest crude oil supplier in the world.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Oil prices tanked, cancellations increased and Maersk drilling and supply chain services would run up nearly $2 billion dollars in annual losses. So three months after an executive meeting on June 23rd , an updated strategy was released, tracking a radical shift into a slimmer Maersk, focused on providing end-to-end logistics services.

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CH Robinson Logistics

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

event of 2022, my colleagues, Christina Carroll, vice president of LTL, Alan Rowlett, director of global operations and strategy, and I set out to offer exactly that. There were several popular questions that we didn’t have time to address during the live event. In our first Market Insights Live! How is C.H.

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