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Supply Chain Investments Represent a Significant Portion of Total VC Investing

Logistics Viewpoints

Flexport – a logistics service provider whose services include order management, delivery, trade financing, insurance, freight forwarding, and customs brokerage – raised $260 million on an uncapped convertible note from Shopify. Skydio, an intelligent drone technology, received $230 million Series E fundraising.

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NEW Webinar: 7 Uncommon Keys to WMS Project Success

The Logistics of Logistics

Dan is a recognized thought leader in WMS, with experience prior to his role at Softeon as the founder of Supply Chain Digest, CMO at RedPrairie (now BlueYonder) and as lead WMS analyst at META Group (later acquired by Gartner). Dan Gilmore. CMO Softeon. The Logistics of Logistics Podcast.

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Yards Are Hard

Logistics Viewpoints

Case-in-point: my company FourKites will collaborate with 16 other supply chain industry leaders — including BlueYonder, e2open, Oracle, Uber Freight, and JB Hunt, to name a few — as part of the Scheduling Standards Consortium (SSC).

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Freight Rates: Don’t Settle for the Status Quo

BlueYonder

With tightening freight capacity, shippers need more carrier coverage to make an informed decision about the right price to be paid to transport freight. Shipping freight and the costs that come with it are often seen as fixed. Even as the current driver shortage in the U.S. The Problem with the Status-Quo.

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Freight and Football/Soccer: Five Interesting Analogies

BlueYonder

I do this to point out the sheer analogy between such a goal – which in the commentator’s words “ oozes class ” – and the freight management/logistics management industry. Here are five soccer analogies that will help you succeed in the freight management/logistics management industry: 1. for our customers.

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Digital Transformation in Freight

BlueYonder

I had the privilege to co-present a CSCMP webinar recently called “The First Steps Toward Digital Transformation In Freight” with Hunter Yaw, VP, Product and Business Development, at Loadsmart. The post Digital Transformation in Freight appeared first on Supply Chain Nation. Watch a replay of the CSCMP webinar here.

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Connecting and Optimizing Freight Capacity with Blue Yonder

BlueYonder

About $3 billion worth of it comes from empty miles traveled, according to Shelley Simpson of JB Hunt in an interview with Freight Waves magazine. Enabling truckers and shippers to better match their freight and capacity is key to margin improvement on both ends.