The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2023

FreightWaves’ SaaS product, SONAR, is the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. Modernizing the logistics back office. pageviews a month and over 1.5B monthly impressions.

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Demand Driven Technologies

JUNE 13, 2024

I recently attended a Supply Chain conference, where it became clear that we, industry professionals, have been terrible predators – criminals. Read more Source Forbes recently published an article. Forbes recently published an article.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The conference as a whole was fantastic, from the location and networking events to the conversations I had and sessions I attended. The conference did not disappoint. Teams need a single source of the truth that creates a seamless workflow, enabling immediate action.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2022

FreightWaves’ SaaS product, SONAR, is the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. FreightWaves is made up of three interconnected pillars: FreightWaves’? pageviews a month and over 1.5B

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Stord

MARCH 5, 2019

The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA)’s conference attracts retail and supply chain leaders from the biggest brands in the country, providing a forum for innovation, networking, and collaboration. If you couldn’t make it, or want to refresh your memory, here are five big themes from the 2019 conference.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2024

The announcement came on May 15th at the company’s annual user conference, Momentum. The same disconnect can happen in the warehouse and in transportation. What Manhattan is doing on the transportation side is just as revolutionary a transformation. This puts their SCP on the same microservices platform as their other solutions.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

John is CEO of FreightPath , an innovative talent firm that offers both a comprehensive learning management system and a direct candidate sourcing solution. FreightPath addresses multiple industry challenges by offering both a comprehensive learning management system and a direct candidate sourcing solution.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 19, 2015

Nonetheless, my takeaways below from the recent GT Nexus Bridges 2015 conference provides some insight about the company, it’s success to date, and where it’s heading (assuming Infor doesn’t make any significant changes). I was driven by a challenge offered by GT Nexus: the person who tweets the most from the conference will win a drone.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2015

In my opinion, the best source of practical knowledge and advice are your peers — that is, executives just like you who have already met and overcome the same challenges and opportunities you face today. Below is a short list of the supply chain and logistics conferences scheduled this year.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 18, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters blog we provide highlights and insights regarding SAP SE’s 2022 Sapphire ASUG Now customer conference held last week in Orlando, Florida. . Enterprise Cloud software provider SAP SE conducted its 2022 North America Sapphire Now customer conference last week. Executive Keynote. All rights reserved.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I speak at many industry conferences throughout the year, where the majority of the audience are shippers — that is, supply chain and logistics executives from manufacturing and retail companies. How do you plan for the future of transportation? There’s a similar focus on the carrier side.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. Expand the “FLOW” program for logistics information sharing to forecast transportation flow. Improve cross-government data sharing and analyze resilience.

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Supply Chain Network

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

One of the things I most look forward to when attending the RILA Supply Chain conference is all of the great retail global logistics & supply chain professionals and information to be found assembled all in one place. Click here to review the balance of this post on the RILA Checkout Blog !

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Last month, I attended and spoke at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference , where I learned many things about the Heavy Building Materials (HBM) industry. The elevation journey actually began the day before the conference officially started. So, what are some of the data challenges the industry faces?

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 27, 2015

I believe transportation is the least complex, yet most critical component of the supply chain. And so, the role of a transportation manager today is very important. Given that transportation managers are responsible for enabling excellence in transport operations, how should they proceed and get started?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2023

I attend this conference every year, but this time, strolling the exhibition floor and surveying the 110+ technology providers’ latest wares, I was struck by a dichotomy. Breaking down those silos was the focus of a panel discussion Rob Haddock and I led at the conference. Step 1: Unlock the full value of your data.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 6, 2020

SaaS product, SONAR, is the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. FreightWaves is made up of three interconnected pillars: FreightWaves’? pageviews a month and over 1.5B

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2015

These influences are changing shipper and LSP transportation requirements in real time, which creates a need for designing the right solution to address those challenges. Designing a solution to better manage transportation involves a 3-step approach: Evaluate and understand the current state. Design the future state.

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MIT Supply Chain

MARCH 2, 2021

Latin American countries have particular challenges related to truck transport. Truck transportation comprises 75% of all freight in Latin America. So for a company to be competitive in the region, it’s imperative that they know how to effectively navigate countries’ transportation markets.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Many of the case studies being presented at today’s conferences were born during the pandemic and the post-pandemic turbulence. They are not active on conference circuits. With more than forty-five years of experience in the industry, I struggle with the lack of progress and the current level of Groupthink. Is this success?

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SCMDOJO

JULY 18, 2024

Biofuels, derived from renewable sources like plant materials, boast a lower carbon footprint while still being compatible with existing diesel engines (often in blends) (Khare & Sharma, 2003). Read more about Top 10 Transportation Challenges and Solutions Identified in Research on our SCMDOJO website! increase in fuel efficiency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

spoke on best practices on supply chain risk management at ARC Advisory Group’s Digital Transformation in Industry conference. Risk management solutions scrape data from hundreds of thousands of online & social-media sites, but Autoliv also has access to sources of information that they pay for. The implementation was not trivial.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 7, 2022

SaaS product, SONAR, is the leading freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. BTU is more than a podcast or a website – it is a new brand within the FreightWaves universe.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 17, 2024

Understand the meaning behind the name “Gnosis” and the company is transforming international logistics Explore the challenges and opportunities in international logistics and how Gnosis Freight tackles these complex problems Gain insights into the importance of accurate data in solving supply chain execution problems and the challenges of data integration (..)

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Dual sourcing and longer term contracts – This is always a challenge. Even with the transportation savings – Mexico is difficult, because many of the raw materials are still coming from China. Vertical integration – Home Depot and Lowes are buying their own container ships for example!

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 25, 2022

As associate editor at American Shipper Magazine for more than a decade, he wrote about trade, freight transportation and supply chains. FreightWaves.com, the company’s news site, is the leading provider of news and commentary for the transportation and logistics space. Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 2, 2020

The design of the global supply chain at the start of the pandemic assumed frictionless borders, availability of transportation resources, and supply with few constraints. Supply chain management as a discipline—a set of flows combining the processes of source, make and deliver together to drive value– is relatively new.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2024

As an old gal attending multiple conferences (more than I would like at times), I have listened to speakers waft eloquently about the value of concepts like networks, big data, industry 4.0, Without tangible results, the concepts evaporate over time. Each has a cycle, typically a large investment, but leaves no fairy dust residue.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Our commitment to innovation, excellence, and customer satisfaction has gotten us recognized in Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Transportation Management Systems (TMS), and Supply Chain Planning (SCP) analyst evaluations. Several of our customers recently stood up at our customer conference, Blue Yonder ICON, to share their results.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Source: Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference. Now, speaking at September's Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in London , P&G’s product supply director Onofrio Caradonna reveals how the company is applying planning capabilities to its distributor network.

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Shipchain

MAY 28, 2020

Seemingly everything has been shaken up by COVID-19, and the shipping, logistics, and transportation industry is no different. Now, all of those norms are long gone, and it has left the shipping, logistics, and transportation industry wondering what lies ahead once COVID-19 begins to decline. Consider our lives before the pandemic.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

The answers were revealed at the SummerCon 2017 conference a couple of weeks ago where LLamasoft introduced “Planning by Design” and SupplyChainPlanning.com, which the company describes as “building blocks to improve your current planning capabilities through design technology.”. Source: LLamasoft.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

RRD Supply Chain Solutions offers a comprehensive suite of services that includes solution design, print, packaging & labeling, sourcing, configuring, postponement & fulfillment.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Everlane does this by showing the cost breakdown of the goods that it offers through its website and so you can see the costs of materials, labour and transport for it best selling court sneakers. It is interesting that Everlane is using this approach to demonstrate the cost savings that the consumer can benefit from through this model.

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Logility

DECEMBER 1, 2021

I had the pleasure of discussing the role of chain of custody in supply chain traceability at the recent Traceability & Sustainability Conference , hosted by the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA). But a new layer of complexity now presents another existential topic: the chain of custody.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 19, 2024

Previously, Kevin founded CarrierLists, a carrier sourcing platform that was acquired by Highway in 2022. Kevin is the owner of Brush Pass Research, a sales and marketing research firm that helps companies sell to freight brokerages across North America.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

The Green Corridor: Looking for the Green Lining by Timothy Foote, Director Transportation & Network APAC at Asendia and Founder of Susymbio 2023 is soon enough to end, and the transformation to a clean logistics future moves forward. Air transport emissions reduction goals sadly will be hampered by insufficient supplies of SAF.

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