Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Many enterprises have taken heed and determined that inbound and outbound transport and warehousing are consequential processes of their business rather than fundamental or core processes. For example, companies that have their own in-house vehicle fleet often struggle to deliver products on time. Performance is sub-optimal.

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MTS Logistics

JANUARY 21, 2025

The maritime transportation industry is undergoing significant transformation, driven by the increasing need for cost reduction, enhanced operational efficiency, and growing competition within the global supply chain. In response to these pressures, major shipping companies are increasingly forming strategic alliances.

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WorkWave

DECEMBER 2, 2024

As customers increasingly demand rapid and reliable delivery, optimizing this final leg of transportation becomes essential for businesses aiming to enhance customer satisfaction and operational efficiency. Timely and efficient last-mile deliveries are critical for meeting customer expectations.

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This advancement not only speeds up delivery times but also significantly reduces transportation costs. By optimizing transportation routes, improving energy management, and enhancing load efficiency, AI significantly reduces emissions and promotes eco-friendly practices across supply chains.

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MTS Logistics

JANUARY 18, 2023

What is Multimodal Transport? Multimodal transport, also known as combined transport, is a transport system that involves the movement of goods using multiple modes of transport such as trucks, rail, air and ships. Multimodal transport supports various transport systems. Truck-Railroad. Truck-Ship.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 12, 2023

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published a report on transportation sector emissions in December of 2022. The largest source of emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2, the most common greenhouse gas) in the United States is the transportation sector. Most emissions in the transportation sector come from cars and trucks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Fuel prices and a shortage of drivers are putting transport logistics under immense pressure. The biggest challenge in the transport sector today: there just aren’t enough drivers. Big data for real-time optimizations in transport logistics. Which truck should be used for transportation? Look at the big picture.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Meeting today’s logistics challenges of the three C’s – customer service, carbon, and cost – companies are not just looking at gathering data, but also how to better interpret and understand this data, and then use it to drive additional value. How about your need for a seamless corporate transportation analysis?

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WorkWave

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Starting a delivery and transportation business can be incredibly rewarding, but like any venture, it requires careful planning. For a delivery and transportation business, your executive summary might include: A brief description of the services you’ll provide (e.g., through 2027. Are you operating locally, regionally, or nationally?

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CH Robinson Logistics

MAY 4, 2021

If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that your transportation strategy can break at any time. If your transportation strategy is rigid, if it’s one-dimensional, if it’s a disconnected patchwork, that makes it even more susceptible to breaking down. That’s just one example. Build in flexibility to improve shipping performance.

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Trinity Logistics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

If not managed properly, your transportation can cost you substantial money. With costs rising recently, it’s easy to see why the challenge for many companies has been to reduce their transportation costs. Before we jump into how to reduce your transportation costs, it’s essential to understand what factors are causing them to rise.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Transportation Networks and Modal Shifts A good transportation strategy is one of the best ways to reduce emissions. This means consolidating shipments to max out load factors, using route optimization algorithms to minimize distance travelled, and shifting to lower emission transport modes. Through network optimization.

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Dedola Global Logistics

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Institute for Supply Management: ISM These delays are often compounded by damage to domestic transportation infrastructure—rail lines, highways, and bridges—which slows the movement of goods inland from affected ports. companies but global operations​.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

The company also sells supply chain planning and transportation management solutions. This reflects the difficulty in synching the plans finalized in an integrated business planning executive meeting with what the shop floor is capable of manufacturing and fulfilling in the short-term time planning horizon.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

It encompasses multiple aspects such as transportation, warehousing, loading and unloading, packaging, circulation processing, distribution, and information processing. International Logistics must find a balance between more economical costs and higher efficiency to meet the needs of different countries.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 17, 2021

Today’s article is from GlobalTranz and explores white glove services in transportation management. That’s the overview of white glove services evolution and it’s another piece of the transportation terminology puzzle. It’s important to know how white glove services and transportation management go together.

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Trinity Logistics

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Using transportation management software (TMS) is a powerful way to gain control and visibility over your supply chain. But trying to decide which transportation management provider to use can be overwhelming. There are so many different software platforms available and providers who offer transportation management software.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Retail Supply Chain Costs These costs will of course vary by company and sector and are just an example. For example, buying in large quantities from suppliers, to get a lower unit cost. As another trade off example, we might adopt a policy of allocating all stock on receipt. Often 60-70% of total sales.

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3PL Links

JANUARY 21, 2025

Image source: iStocks | 7 Tips to Choose the Best Shipping Company With the growing demand for freight transportation services, choosing the best carrier for your company can be a challenge. In this article, we will learn about 7 tips that can help you choose the best carrier to meet your company’s needs. Check it out!

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2025

An efficient supply chain strategy is one that takes every aspect of your supply chain into account, from inventory management and warehouse design to freight tendering and transport optimisation. A responsive supply chain can help to ensure that you always meet customer demand, even if you face inevitable obstances.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A ‘big bang’ approach, applying a one-size-fits-all AI solution, is not viable in an environment where industrial-grade solutions are needed to meet health, safety, and sustainability goals, Mr. Masson points out. The platform has thresholds that say, for example, “If the dollar value of orders changes a little, that doesn’t matter.

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3PL Links

DECEMBER 24, 2024

For example: we have the traditional warehouse and the cold storage warehouse. Using automated picking systems, for example, can speed up the product-picking process compared to manual picking, reducing the time needed to prepare shipping orders. Reduction of operating costs (transport and storage).

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2025

Transportation options: Costs and lead times for each available transportation mode. Transportation costs: Freight rates, fuel and labour costs, and other transportation expenses. Route data: Transportation routes, distances, and transit times. Inventory turnover: Inventory turns for each SKU.

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3PL Links

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Efficient Route Planning and Cost Management With rising fuel prices and increased delivery expectations, optimizing routes will be crucial for reducing costs and meeting customer needs. How to Adapt: Investing in hybrid or electric vehicles for local deliveries can help companies meet emission standards while saving on fuel costs.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Third party logistics providers that consider their activity to be rooted in traditional transport and the physical carriage of goods may go the way of the American railroads, which failed to see how aircraft and the private motor car would so drastically affect their transportation market and rob them of so much of their market share.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 20, 2025

The Value of a Common Platform More importantly, by having the largest 11 bottlers on a common platform, the bottlers can work together to meet customer demand efficiently. The demand, supply, transportation, and warehousing plans are created on the Blue Yonder platform. Eventually, these plans are executed.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 22, 2024

A KPI is a practical and objective measurement of progress, either: Towards a predetermined goal, or Against a required standard of performance It might help to think of a KPI as something like an instrument on a car dashboarda speedometer, for example. Why Are KPIs Important?

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3PL Links

DECEMBER 10, 2024

For example, less-than-truckload shipping requires 12 linear feet and pallets ranging from one to six, with a maximum of 10 pallets per truck. A professional LTL freight carrier will tailor the delivery of your cargo to meet your requirements. It is primarily developed by the NMFC based on the difficulty of your freight transportation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2021

Pinnacle Propane implemented demand management, replenishment, and order promising solutions from John Galt Solutions with the goal of improving service – reducing what they call “out of gases” – while reducing transportation costs. For example, a warehouse might have a big propane tank they use with forklifts that run on propane.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Implementation Examples Across the Supply Chain In Procurement Gamification can be used to encourage better supplier relationship management, more effective negotiation outcomes, and improved compliance with purchasing policies. Many of the big firms have been introducing game like elements into their software.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Are they meeting consumers’ home delivery expectations, whether that’s affordable delivery, specific time windows, or sustainable options? For example, price-conscious consumers don’t need an expensive next-day delivery option; instead, delivery service with a longer lead time but lower cost will appeal to this group.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 1, 2024

Top Challenges Faced by Companies: Customer Preferences: Example: An online fashion retailer faces the challenge of constantly changing customer preferences. Supply side shifts: Example: A global coffee manufacturer experiences disruptions due to a natural disaster affecting one of its key suppliers in Brazil due to dry weather.

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3PL Links

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This helps companies to better organize products, from storage to delivery to the end customer, for example in a warehouse where robots are responsible for moving the products from one side to the other. For example, an automated system can better organize delivery routes, saving fuel and time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

There are three responses in this question that address supply chain sustainability: align with our goals, mission, and values; meet consumers expectations; and increase profitability. The second reason to address sustainability topics, from a supply chain perspective, is to meet consumer expectations.

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TransAudit

MARCH 25, 2025

Industries such as semiconductors, electric vehicle (EV) batteries, and transportation equipment are at the forefront of reshoring efforts , leading to a fundamental shift in freight demand patterns. Aerospace and transportation equipment companies are investing in Arizona and New Mexico. Midwest U.S. Southwest U.S.

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Now, That's Logistics

JANUARY 10, 2022

In June, for example, Roche was granted EUA for its cobas® SARS-CoV-2 Nucleic acid test for use on the cobas® Liat® System, which can identify an infection within 20 minutes. More than half of pre-pandemic global commerce was transported in these passenger planes,” said Kovacs.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The biggest problems are in transportation operations, closely followed by warehouse operations, and the impacts are being felt throughout the supply chain, from financial performance to customer service. Black Friday only works as a great opportunity to offload discounted stock, for example, if the fulfilment process is super-efficient.

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