Enterra Insights

APRIL 4, 2018

Globalism has been a boon to the supply chain by expanding sourcing, opening new markets, accelerating growth and highlighting opportunities to save money. As we step into 2018, enterprises must realize the risks associated with their IoT ecosystem.” ”[1] They continue: “It’s not a simple question. ” 2.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

UPS Tells Shippers to Prepare for Freight Strike (WSJ – sub. Robinson Reports 2018 Third Quarter Results. ” Source: “Competing on Customer Experience: The Driving Force Behind Supply Chain Innovation,” Adelante SCM & BluJay Solutions, Aug. Kroger set to place warehouse order with partner Ocado (Reuters).

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Techgistics

MARCH 12, 2018

Source: The Daily Dot. Paper bills of lading are still the norm for sea-freight shipments and create a whole host of process inefficiencies and additional costs. These are some of the innovative blockchain startups trying to solve real-world supply chain and logistics problems that I’ll be keeping my eye on in 2018.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The digitization of commerce created a path for giants like Amazon and Alibaba to dominate their respective storefront/fulfillment and sourcing roles in the market. million freight containers each year. But this spike put capacity on container ships at a premium, pushing freight rates way up as well.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 14, 2022

1 spot on both the 2018 Inc. Transportation Insight HoldCo serves customers through logistics provider Transportation Insight, LLC, and freight brokerage Nolan Transportation Group. SwapLeap is a next generation TMS and the #1 company on the 2018 Inc. Under Hollister’s leadership, SwanLeap delivered an unprecedented 75,660.8

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

After a year full of more scandals, indictments, political contentiousness, workplace violence, school shootings and natural disasters, maybe it’s time we all took a collective breath and focused on some of the positives that came out of 2018. Supply Chain Innovators of 2013 : paperless food chain, VLMs, cold chain fleet management, and more.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 16, 2024

This article explores challenges identified in a research paper by McKinnon (2006) focusing on vehicle utilization and efficiency in the freight industry [1]. rail and truck) for long distances, can reduce congestion on roads, particularly for high-volume freight [8]. Freight Transport Association. Chen et al., Routledge. [3]

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2024

In March 2024, the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation released the National Zero-Emission Freight Corridor Strategy , which aims to decarbonize and advance zero-emission freight along the United States main shipping corridors. Through the U.S.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 11, 2018

Source: [link]. Freight Operators Dismiss Threat of Digital Startups (WSJ – sub. Robinson launching a trans-Eurasian rail freight service between China and Europe. We celebrate moms for many reasons: for giving us life and nurturing us; for inspiring and comforting us; for their unconditional love.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 17, 2018

Cass Truckload Linehaul Index (July 2018). Meanwhile, Kuebix (also a Talking Logistics sponsor) announced Community Load Match this week that provides shippers with “a single source to access a huge network of trucks that can provide attractive rates and a new, valuable source for truckload capacity.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers. Freight Rates 2019-2021. As a result, companies plug along planning based on historic lead times and freight rates which as you can imagine is doomed for failure.

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Zipline Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2020

Despite a pandemic that has disrupted many parts of the global supply chain, the freight market has been on a recent tear. Based on a few reliable indicators, the market is superseding the booming conditions of 2018. Current outbound tender volume is up 34 percent over 2019 and 38 percent over 2018 in year-over-year comparisons.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 3, 2019

Sustainability is created at the source of our products, services, and consumption. Sustainability is created from Responsible Sourcing. How can you make Responsible Sourcing a Reality? If you can excite the people around you about sourcing responsibly, chances are you’ll be able to formulate a network of internal champions.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 15, 2023

She provided me with some main emission sources in that sector as well as what some companies are concentrating their reductions work on. Main sources are: Enteric fermentation of ruminant livestock during digestion. Down on the Farm I spoke to a contact of South Pole, who works a lot with the agriculture side of things.

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TMC

JANUARY 10, 2019

Here is a look back at our top posts of 2018: Mega Trends Driving Supply Chain Transformations. highways, rail hubs, and ports is a major source of disruptions for shippers. Five Supply Chain Priorities for U.S. Infrastructure Investments. Congestion on U.S. On behalf of supply chain professionals, we spoke to a U.S. is insufficient.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The following is a 5,000 word exploration of Maersk’s strategic shift to end-to-end logistics services, based on open sources. Demand for ocean freight was lower than anticipated, and Hanjin Shipping, another top ten ocean liner, was already teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. The Freight Game of Thrones.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

Thomson Reuters purchased the global trade compliance vendor Integration Point in 2018. A TMS helps companies move freight from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively. Finally, in making sourcing decisions, global trade compliance needs to be part of companies strategic sourcing programs.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 13, 2022

His mission is to help craft the firm’s growth strategy while assisting with deal sourcing, capital raising, and the creation of value within portfolio companies. In January of 2018, Mr. Larkin transitioned from Stifel’s Research Department to Stifel’s Investment Banking team. market share could grow to have 3.0%

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Gartner recently announced their 2018 Top 25 Supply Chains List. The 2018 Gartner Top 25 Supply Chain List. Source: Gartner. But overall most of the list was the same as 2017. In fact if you go back 5 years to 2013 you will find that most of the names are the same as on the 2018 list. Source: Gartner (May 2018).

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TMC

JANUARY 10, 2019

Here is a look back at our top posts of 2018: Mega Trends Driving Supply Chain Transformations. highways, rail hubs, and ports is a major source of disruptions for shippers. The post Top Posts of 2018: Mega Trends and Investments in Infrastructure and Technology appeared first on Connect Blog by TMC, a division of C.H.

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TMC

JANUARY 10, 2019

Here is a look back at our top posts of 2018: Mega Trends Driving Supply Chain Transformations. highways, rail hubs, and ports is a major source of disruptions for shippers. The post Top Posts of 2018: Mega Trends and Investments in Infrastructure and Technology appeared first on Connect Blog by TMC, a division of C.H.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

His mission is to help craft the firm’s growth strategy while assisting with deal sourcing, capital raising, and the creation of value within portfolio companies. In January of 2018, Mr. Larkin transitioned from Stifel’s Research Department to Stifel’s Investment Banking team.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Thanks to container prices rising as much as 600%, money that could be used for advertising went to freight companies instead. 28% of global retailers have tried to find alternative sourcing options due to supply chain issues (RetailNext, 2020). Source: Consultancy.UK. Image source: Fortune. Image source: Financial Times.

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GTG Technology Group

JANUARY 9, 2018

As 2018 approaches, leading companies will pioneer new trends in supply chain management. Freight “Uberization”. Truckers can arrange long-haul freight using their smartphones and offer mobile freight tracking that gives suppliers peace of mind. Sources: [link].

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 12, 2019

alone, Amazon introduced 208 million new products in 2018 — most of which are slow movers, or ‘long-tail’ items. Despite its extreme complexity and scale, Amazon’s July, 2018 earnings doubled shareholder expectations, turning a quarterly profit of a whopping $2.5bn. In the U.S. Applying A.I.

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Freightos

AUGUST 14, 2023

” ( Source) Global freight, with its blend of structured processes, unpredictable variables and high frequency, is perhaps the most fertile playground for the AI revolution. We’ve been here before with Blockchain and Tradelens, which launched in 2018 and was done by the end of Q1 2023 – a good example of hype waves.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

billion, according to a source with knowledge of its terms.”. It brought in revenue of $441 million for 2018, a previously unreported total that represents annual growth of 95%. The investment […] values the San Francisco-based company at $3.2

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 12, 2019

2018) by resting on its laurels. The post Is Amazon In-Sourcing or Creating a New Service? Amazon didn’t get to where it is today (hit a market cap of $1 trillion in Sept. At the time I wrote this, Amazon’s market cap is $777.8 We can all rest assured that Amazon is looking to get back up to $1 trillion and stay there.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers. Freight Rates 2019-2021. As a result, companies plug along planning based on historic lead times and freight rates which as you can imagine is doomed for failure.

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Logility

OCTOBER 18, 2022

COVID-19 didn’t start it all, but it certainly exacerbated serious supply chain disruptions that emerged during the trade wars in 2018 and 2019. This means supply chain leaders have had to shift from using trains back to using ocean freight and getting goods to market takes longer. The pandemic shut down ports and factories.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

A study by the University of Michigan in 2018 showed how a patty of plant-based Beyond meat compared to a regular US beef patty of meat. We can help business leaders by providing insight on the environment benefits or disadvantages of their different sourcing options to start with, but after that comes the physical moving of goods.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

JUNE 25, 2020

In a recent Gartner survey titled “Weathering the Supply Chain Storm”, Raman said, “Already in 2018 and 2019, the U.S.-China The survey shows that a full third of companies with global supply chains intend to move their sourcing and manufacturing activities out of China in the next few years.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 21, 2020

In 2018, the U.S. Allbirds uses recycled cardboards and plastics as well as ethically sourced wool, while Rothy’s uses recycled plastics to create breathable, flexible shoes. Switch to Domestic Sourcing or Manufacturing. Here are a few of them: 1. Perform Energy Audits Regularly. Refining: 18%. Mining: 12%.

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GTG Technology Group

APRIL 22, 2019

5 Tips for Protecting Your Freight Against Cargo Thieves. Protecting freight is one of the responsibilities you have to your clients. In 2018, motor carriers reported almost 600 incidents of cargo theft nationwide. Sources: [link]. The average value of stolen goods per incident was $142,342.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This had been a concept absent in the IMO’s Initial GHG Strategy, or Ambition, set in 2018. The framework covers: freight traffic intensity choice of freight transport mode capacity utilisation energy efficiency switching to low carbon energy There is no “silver bullet” instead a bundle of decarbonisation enablers needs to be activated.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 17, 2019

technologies that interact, communicate and create lakes of vital freight information is now entering the supply chain and these will be instrumental in bringing about the smart supply chain.”[2] 2] Haylle Sok, “ Industry Trends fro 2019 ,” Global Trade , 27 November 2018. [3] ”[1] Those arguments still hold.

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Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Expanding and shifting sourcing Earlier this year, a number of retailers told analysts that they had expanded their sourcing partners to diversify inventories and mitigate risks. Floor & Decor is one of the latest retailers to diversify its countries of origin by moving a large portion of sourcing out of China.

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