The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Supported by advanced technology, their multifunctional customer portal provides instant booking, quoting, real-time tracking, and other features designed to streamline the shipping process. Expedite All offers exclusive-use, direct deliveries to ensure reliability and timeliness.

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Freightos

APRIL 2, 2024

The Digital Impact All airlines on the WebCargo platform provide digitized, real-time rates reflecting available capacity on specific flights that freight forwarders can then view and book instantly. These carriers saw bookings increase more than 50% month-on-month as demand surged.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2020

In the review of my first book, Bricks Matter , Keith Harrison, former Global Director of Product Supply at P&G asked me, “You mention the need for supply chains to shift from a focus on cost to value. Improving the portfolio increases the price-to-tangible book or market capitalization. Here, in this blog, I explain.

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Freightos

JUNE 15, 2021

When trying to book a specific slot on a container ship (yes, the ones that can handle the equivalent of 20,000 containers), prices have exceeded $16,000 (!). On our end, Freightos has been working on digitizing the space for the past eight years, helping players within work more transparently and smarter on a global booking platform.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 8, 2024

If you were writing a book or a song about supply chain and logistics in the first quarter of 2024, what would its title be? Here are some ideas: The truth is I’m having a hard time characterizing this year so far. We’re arguably in a less stressful and disruptive environment today than we were.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2023

Yossi Sheffi and Joe Lynch discuss AI and the future of supply chain, which is the central theme of Yossi’s latest book, The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, A.I., His latest book, The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, A.I., and the Future of Work. and The Future of Work, was released in April 2023.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 12, 2025

Book your free consultancy with ToolsGroup Contact us now In todays fast-moving and unpredictable supply chain landscape , companies that optimize inventory effectively will have a competitive edge. The key to success?

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 1, 2021

Reduce confusion over bookings, pickups, and deliveries by sharing critical documents within an overarching TMS platform. Quote, book, and track all aspects of your shipment, from booking to delivery. Use analytics to identify trends contributing to higher-than-anticipated returns, repairs, or recycling levels.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 17, 2025

To learn more about how our demand planning and forecasting solution can help your company, book your free consultation with ToolsGroup now: Contact us On average, our customers achieve: 99.9%

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 25, 2022

Kary is the CEO of Trucker Tools , the leading carrier relationship management platform that helps brokers grow their carrier network, book loads digitally, track freight, and build enduring relationships with carriers to drive reuse. Digital freight matching – easily find and book the right freight. About Kary Jablonski.

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Freightos

JANUARY 26, 2023

As of this morning, Freightos is a public company trading on Nasdaq with the ticker CRGO , taking the next step in our journey to make global trade more efficient with the world’s global freight booking and payment platform. Meanwhile, other industries had gone through their digital revolutions for booking and payments.

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SCM Research

OCTOBER 10, 2022

These books are great, otherwise they wouldn’t be so popular. I could also have imagined at least a few more critical and sustainability-focused books in the list. Of course, my simple approach has limitations due to the search for only one term and, therefore, some books may have been overlooked.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Advantages Beyond Shipment Booking and Execution. But the Maersk website, which the company cites as one of the top ten global B2B websites by revenue, likely generates far more in terms of searches, booking, and tracking data. By the end of 2019, 24% of spot shipments were booked using Spot. It’s worked.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Set up an on-site meeting with ToolsGroup to learn how smarter, more responsive retail planning can unlock new growth opportunities for your business: Book a meeting here. ToolsGroup also invites all NRF attendees to visit Lounge #4 to take a spin on ToolsGroups popular Supply Chain Wheel of Fortune.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of “Factoring CO2 Emissions in Transportation,” an e-book by Adrian Gonzalez published by Manhattan Associates.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 6, 2023

EchoShip – A self-service shipping platform giving shippers the ability to quote, book, ship, and track, as well as manage invoices, all online. With consistent updates and new location management features, clients have more control over managing their location details, making the booking process faster and more efficient than ever.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In a book by that name, Marshall argues that all sorts of decisions, but especially political decisions, are influenced by geography as decision-makers confront the reality of the Earth’s mountains, rivers, valleys, and oceans.

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Freightos

AUGUST 19, 2024

Crossing one million bookings annually in 2023, we’ve made significant headway in digitizing spot freight pricing and bookings, especially in air cargo. But, as we hear from our freight forwarder and shipper customers again and again, spot bookings aren’t everything. And it’s happening.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Last year, Rebecca Henderson’s, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire , was on the short list for Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. But then,” according to the book, “something unexpected happened. Walmart has used TMS to both save money and reduce carbon emissions. That is not surprising to me.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 13, 2023

“I am haunted by humans.” – The character Death from ‘The Book Thief’ by Markus Zusak My daughter’s friend’s husband was killed in Israel this week. He and his wife were not married for very long. He was only 23 years old.

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SCM Research

APRIL 25, 2024

I am pleased to announce that our new book, The Supply Chain: A System in Crisis , co-edited with Stefan Gold, is now available. Our book highlights the multifaceted challenges facing modern supply chains. It contains very insightful chapters by fantastic colleagues.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 19, 2022

In his book “Have a Little Faith,” Mitch Albom shares the following story from a sermon given by Rabbi Albert Lewis in 1975: “A man seeks employment on a farm. He hands his letter of recommendation to his new employer. It reads simply, ‘He sleeps in a storm.’ ’ “The owner is desperate for help, so.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 8, 2022

Just music and books and the great outdoors. It’s time to unplug and get off the grid. No email, no social media, no television. Before I disconnect and head to the land of ice, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Walmart Tells Suppliers New Fuel and Pickup Fees.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Book a meeting at the event here To learn more about ToolsGroups solutions for aftermarket supply chains, visit: [link] About ToolsGroup: ToolsGroup’s innovative AI-powered solutions enable retailers, distributors and manufacturers to navigate through supply chain uncertainty.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 14, 2025

In her highly accessible and practical book Imaginable How to See the Future Coming and Be Ready for Anything (2022), she describes how back then she developed a simulation game in which 20,000 participants immersed themselves in a future society with a global pandemic.

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

But easing rates – even slight declines – in the weeks just before Golden Week when there’s typically upward pressure on prices, together with many anecdotal reports of decreasing ocean bookings, point the other direction.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 24, 2024

In Figure 1, we share the results on growth, inventory turns, operating margin, ROIC, Price to Book, and Market Capitalization for the companies making the Gartner Top 25. And why discrete companies exhibit more resilient patterns at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns? The insights would be helpful to the industry.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

This book, now in its seventh year of publication, is a compilation of my best-read blog posts from the prior year. I usually publish this book for my Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , but with the COVID-19 shutdown, I am sharing it virtually. Flipping Book link: [link]. This is the subject of my new book.

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Logility

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In 1904, a writer researching a new book went undercover for nine months in a Chicago meatpacking plant. In early 1906, an influential politician read the book. The writer and book: Upton Sinclair, The Jungle. These systems have (thankfully) matured since Sinclair’s book shocked Teddy Roosevelt. That’s now forbidden.

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Freightos

APRIL 15, 2024

Similarly, fifteen years ago K+N’s homepage didn’t even mention tech: Today, it’s the core focus, offering complete self-service control across freight quoting, instant bookings and shipment tracking from any device. Standards have evolved.

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