The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 29, 2024

As cybersecurity becomes a necessity for critical industries, we explore strategies, predictions, API security, and securing legacy maintenance software. The NMFTA Cybersecurity Conference , happening October 27-29, 2024, is the premier event for trucking and supply chain cybersecurity professionals.

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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.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2024

Situation Companies are increasingly confronted with complex planning scenarios due to predictable events such as mergers and acquisitions, category expansions, supplier changes, and distribution evolution, as well as disruptive events including demand volatility, material shortages, capacity constraints, and logistical surprises.

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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. Potential employees want to make sure they work at an environmentally conscious supply chain technology provider.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

We’ve seen how the lockdowns in Shanghai snarled global supply chains. Weather events might also be factors. Today, the shipping peak season is still a march toward the holidays, but that march is now at a breakneck pace and subject to massive volatility. Bottlenecks from future COVID-19 variants are possible.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2023

Professor Sheffi is the author of a 1985 textbook on transportation networks and eight management books, dealing with supply chain resilience, sustainability, industrial clustering, and other business management issues. His latest book, The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, A.I.,

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Trinity Logistics

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

In a recent report in July 2023 by CargoNet , it was found that supply chain risk events increased 57 percent year-over-year (YoY), accounting for 44 million in stolen shipments in quarter two of the calendar year. With such alarming statistics, it’s essential to be proactive against cargo theft and freight fraud.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

He then co-founded Lean Solutions Group, where he spearheaded two successful liquidity events with private equity and scaled the company to over 10,000 employees across Latin America. About CloneOps CloneOps.ai is transforming phone operations with AI-powered solutions engineered for speed, scale, and efficiency.

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IoT World Today

MAY 21, 2020

Supply chains will survive COVID-19, of course, but not without interim pain and structural change. Practitioners must develop a data analytics strategy that gives them insight into supply chain aberrations before catastrophe sets in. “If But with a black-swan event, it just magnifies the risk.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

Last week, Clint Reiser published an article highlighting our 2022 supply chain predictions. While we have published predictions about supply chain technology trends at the beginning of the year in past years. This year we have decided to lead with our predictions about the broader supply chain function.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 17, 2025

Manifest will provide a focused look at whats to come across the spectrum of LogisticsTech and which companies and technologies are transforming the way goods circumnavigate the globe. Las Vegas Venue: Manifest takes place annually in Las Vegas, positioning it as a major industry event held in a central and high-profile location.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

When a company has proliferating stock keeping units created through traditional manufacturing, the supply chain becomes much more complex. Many companies still struggle to achieve segmentation strategies. When it comes to robotics and supply chain management, the biggest question is when are we going to have autonomous trucks?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

but that the supply chain has maximum flexibility as conditions change. Capacity can be easily ramped up or down due to product seasonality, holidays and of course global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Supply chain technology investments were once delegated to a specific function such as procurement or logistics.

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MTS Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2023

Challenge 4: Insurance Challenges The rise of extreme weather events creates dilemmas for the insurance industry. Increased risks from events linked to global warming could result in higher premiums for ships and cargo.

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MTS Logistics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Disruptions and Resilience Natural disasters, such as pandemics (like Covid), geopolitical conflicts, and labor strikes cause supply chains to be vulnerable to disruption. Building resilient supply chains that can quickly adapt to unexpected events is crucial.

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Regardless of their size, companies are reassessing their global supply chain strategies. Diversification of the supply chain is good and has great benefits, but it also comes with potential risks. What are the benefits of supply chain risk diversification?

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 26, 2023

The Future of Logistics is Here Manifest Vegas is the premier global gathering for industry leaders, innovators and investors that strive to find solutions and cutting-edge logistics & supply chain technologies. Hear from leading VCs and CVCs and learn what technologies they are invested in and why. Why Attend?

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MTS Logistics

AUGUST 25, 2023

Climate Change and Extreme Weather Threats to maritime infrastructure and vessel operations could come from rising sea levels and more frequent extreme weather events. It will be necessary to employ adaptation strategies to lessen these effects.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

The company believes now is the ideal time to unveil its new proposition with supply chain uncertainty caused by events such as Brexit, Covid and the Ukraine conflict. Adam Jones, Business Development and Sector Strategies Director, is spearheading the LLP service and industry engagement.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 19, 2020

I intend to hold low-cost, or even free, Supply Chain Secrets seminars in countries and regions that don’t often receive exposure to this type of educational event. The seminars will cover basic supply chain management, and more advanced elements such as strategy, outsourcing, cost to serve, benchmarking, and so on.”.

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MTS Logistics

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Continuous technological progress has prompted the shipping industry to increasingly move toward its digital transformation over the years and embrace various initiatives to benefit supply chain actors, enable performance monitoring, and offer improved decision?support support tools.

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Locus

APRIL 6, 2023

Taking place in Orlando, Florida from May 8-10, the symposium is the ultimate destination for anyone seeking to stay abreast of the latest trends, technologies, and strategies in the supply chain industry. Visit us at Booth #113 Book a Meeting Now!

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CH Robinson Logistics

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

You want to make faster, meaningful improvements to your supply chain that will make a big impact. Here are five such strategies that can help you evolve your retail supply chain for the changing market. Five insights to drive retail supply chain improvements.

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3PL Insights

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

To support your company’s data protection, this software should have a strong security system with password protection, chain of authentication, and the ability of a user to take control. In addition, be sure to regularly back up your files and databases in order to save your data and information in the event of a cyber-attack.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

Weather is an unpredictable force that can wreak havoc on logistics in Europe, but there are strategies to mitigate its impact. As we navigate through the continent’s diverse and often harsh climates, it’s clear that we need a proactive approach to ensure our supply chains remain reliable and efficient.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Also this week, Elemica announced that it has partnered with DHL Resilience360 , a leading cloud-based supply chain risk management platform, “to build a new solution providing unprecedented insight into risk events and their impact on increasingly complex supply chains.”

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 17, 2020

However as supply chains become increasingly global in nature, businesses not only have to contend with minor uncertainties but also have to manage larger global disruptions that may threaten their very existence. These disruptions are like black swan events which no one can forecast or plan for in advance.

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3PL Links

APRIL 5, 2024

Image source: Shipbob | Top 10 Practical Supply Chain Management Tips for Businesses Effective supply chain management becomes an increasingly important sector full of strategic opportunities and difficulties in an increasingly dynamic and complicated network. It goes beyond simply being an operational strategy.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 1, 2016

Maintaining a fast pace and continued perspiration can lead to dehydration, heat exhaustion, increased heart rate, and high blood pressure, which further increase the risk for having a cardiac event, a stroke, or other major health crisis while at work. So, how does this relate to wearable technology in the supply chain?

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The acquisition will strengthen Coupa’s supply chain capabilities, enabling businesses to drive greater value through Business Spend Management. “Incorporating supply chain planning capabilities as part of a comprehensive BSM strategy will give companies more visibility and control across their direct and indirect spend.”

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Blue Grace Logistics

MAY 10, 2021

However as supply chains become increasingly global in nature, businesses not only have to contend with minor uncertainties but also have to manage larger global disruptions that may threaten their very existence. These disruptions are like black swan events which no one can forecast or plan for in advance.

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Locus

MAY 12, 2023

The Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo has once again, exceeded our expectations, leaving us inspired and engaged We had some thought-provoking conversations with stakeholders on the latest industry dynamics, pain points, customer expectations, and innovative supply chain strategies.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Hordes of people in supply chain organizations spend thousands of hours each year manually cleaning data and reconciling between systems. It’s a tedious and expensive process that has, to date, been required to deploy analytics strategies and get a clear picture of what’s really happening.

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CH Robinson Logistics

JANUARY 27, 2021

Due to lean inventory strategies, many manufacturers only keep 15-30 days of inventory on hand. However, we saw similar supply chain outages associated with the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Japan’s earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. Superstorm Sandy was uniquely catastrophic.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 18, 2017

BluJay’s solution footprint is relatively broad, comprised of warehousing, transportation, commerce, and compliance applications, and following its acquisition of Blackbay last month , the company now has a suite of mobile applications (and a mobile development platform) too.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 8, 2019

A smart contract can take input from a ledger and trigger an event. Manual checking of conditions and events are obsolete endeavours. Applications of Blockchain in Supply Chain. In the event of a product recall, the company can also see which batches are affected and who bought them. Electric Power Micro-grids.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 22, 2016

Logistics technologies are changing how modern retailers operate. Home Depot is revamping their distribution center strategy to include a host of regional centers, and logistics providers stand to reap significant profits from increased collaboration in the marketplace. What’s Driving Investments in Logistics Technology in E-Commerce?

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