3rdwave

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

From optimizing freight movements and controlling freight costs, to supply chain SKU transparency and optimal inventory management, global TMSs deliver crucial functionality.

Global Transportation 49

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3rdwave

JULY 20, 2020

Too often – make that almost always – importers and exporters (BCOs – Benefiticcial Cargo Owners) are dependent on their NVOCC, Freight Forwarder or 3PL (3PL) to provide them with visibility into their global supply chains. When we talk about global supply chain visibility we are referring to: .

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 17, 2013

American Shipper recently released its annual benchmark report entitled “ Global Transportation Management Benchmark Study: Climbing the Visibility Sophistication Ladder.” It is an excellent report covering a number of pertinent industry aspects and challenges around developing visibility sophistication globally.

Global Transportation 57

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 22, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters industry specific commentary, we make the observation that retail industry sales and operations planning and demand support teams, given the current state of recent business financial performance, need to up their game in supply network inventory management agility and added responsiveness. .

Inventory Management Software 52

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3rdwave

AUGUST 8, 2019

Managing global freight is ladened with challenges. Demands on the transportation teams are growing as political posturing ramps up causing rapid disruption to global supply chains. The global TMS functionality necessary to support execution control are: Freight contract management. Freight Invoice Auditing.

Cost Reduction Strategies 74

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Transportation Management Challenges in E-Commerce Although e-commerce represents an excellent opportunity for shippers, it results in the creation of additional challenges in managing freight spend and moving products. This is regardless of whether freight consolidation was used or not. Lowered freight spend.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Executives acknowledged the pull-forward inventory strategies that many wholesalers and retailers executed to prepare for this year’s period, and in turn, mitigate a possible labor strike involving east coast ports. Reportedly, increases in air freight demand out of Asia increased during the summer months. Specifically, U.S.

Forecasting 52

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 29, 2024

retailers have been pulling forward their 2024 holiday fulfillment inventory needs as a hedge toward deepening global supply chain disruptions, geopolitical developments and rising freight rates. retailer inventories to sales level ratio rose to a level of 1.31 Observed was that the ratio of U.S. in April and 1.27

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights the increasing realities of declining global trade and freight rates that are occurring in the first-half of 2023. Background Global wide transportation and logistics costs increased at unprecedented rates during 2021 and 2022. percent decline in global trade.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 14, 2024

We further call attention to a published report indicating that container freight rates might surpass $20,000 per 40 foot container by 2025. Bloomberg has pointed out that the Shanghai Containerized Freight Index for China shipments to U.S. The second is existing shippers turning to air as an alternative mode of transport.

Negotiating Skills 52

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 26, 2019

And bringing air freight services into the spotlight. . Reducing or eliminating inventory carrying costs, along with out of stocks using detailed analysis tactics had been the goal for many. That’s where air freight and third party logistics providers (3PLs)—like C.H. The state of today’s air freight market. The expense?

Supply and Demand 34

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 7, 2023

While 209,000 workers were added in June, 14,000 freight and parcel carriers were cut and 6,900 warehousing and storage jobs were lost. In the past we would expect to see transportation and warehousing ramping up hiring in late summer ahead of peak season. ” So, we have to be very cautious on that. Moeller Maersk last week. .

Logistics Network Optimization Software 52

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 26, 2019

And bringing air freight services into the spotlight. . Reducing or eliminating inventory carrying costs, along with out of stocks using detailed analysis tactics had been the goal for many. That’s where air freight and third party logistics providers (3PLs)—like C.H. The state of today’s air freight market. The expense?

Supply and Demand 35

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 4, 2022

Supply chain logistics B2B platform provider project44 produces a series termed Supply Chain Insights by project44 which extracts select data from the provider’s tracking of global transportation and logistics flows. A July edition provided two reports that responded to the question- Are Global Supply Chains Recovering ?

Supply Chain Planning Software 52

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3rdwave

JANUARY 17, 2020

Global transportation is the nexus through which all related international transportation information flows. Capturing, aggregating, and analyzing all the global supply chain transportation and product/SKU level detail is foundational to having end-to-end supply chain visibility. visibility to performance metrics.

Optimization Software 54

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Intelligent Audit

JULY 5, 2022

Time will tell if these efforts will be enough as daily revenue averages for FedEx Express, FedEx Freight, and FedEx Ground display negative year-over-year KPIs. . German-Based Transportation Company DB Schenker Announces the Acquisition of USA Truck. Massive Inventory Levels Are Crashing Against Signs of an Economic Recession.

Quality 52

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 20, 2015

What’s probably the number one reason shippers avoid transporting their cargo by air? Air freight is often more expensive than any other mode of transportation. When considering the cost of a modal shift to air cargo, keep in mind that the freight cost is only one component of the equation. You guessed it: Cost.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 11, 2022

In this particular assessment, we reflect on our prediction that cost inflation trends that occurred among global logistics and transportation modes last year, would be unsustainable, and would drive remediation efforts. Mid-Year Global Transportation Assessment. Additional Thoughts and Perspectives.

Predictive Analytics Software 52

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TMC

MARCH 9, 2017

Even though the cost of shipping a container by rail can be more than double the cost of using sea routes, for certain products the higher cost can be offset by reductions in inventory costs. Identify global trade opportunities. The post The New Silk Road: Have You Evaluated Your Freight Options? Financial Times, [link].

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TMC

MARCH 9, 2017

Even though the cost of shipping a container by rail can be more than double the cost of using sea routes, for certain products the higher cost can be offset by reductions in inventory costs. Identify global trade opportunities. The post The New Silk Road: Have You Evaluated Your Freight Options?

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

percent for its LTL Freight unit, beginning in January 2023. percent rate increase initiated for this year, along with ongoing fuel and other surcharges added for respective parcel or freight movements. However, the market forces of global transportation are such that in times of industry wide excess capacity, rates often tend to fall.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The idea of a supply chain control tower emerged in 1990’s, triggered by the need to view and control the movement of goods in factories, distribution centers and pipeline inventories. Recently, SRS (an umbrella group for twenty European retailer groups, selected GT Nexus to deploy a global transportation control tower.

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Locus Robotics

MARCH 9, 2023

Robots can safely handle multiple tasks, including moving boxes and pallets, simple assembly, inventory counts, maintaining equipment, and product testing. AI and ML can be applied to inventory management, demand forecasting, freight route planning, and much more.

Supply Chain Software 52

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Supply Chain Collaborator

JULY 21, 2016

In its 2016 Global Transportation Management Benchmark Study, American Shipper reveals a great deal of data about who is using TMS, who should be using TMS and why. Half of those who don’t use a TMS manage less than $10 million in freight.”. This partially explains the robust projected growth of the TMS market.

Benchmarking 60

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MARCH 22, 2017

The third party logistics (3PL) provider you choose with LCL capabilities will combine complementary freight from multiple shippers into a single container. The idea is to use as much of the available space as possible before the ocean vessel cutoff for freight. Do you have global coverage and LCL capabilities to provide flexibility?

Negotiating Skills 34

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 9, 2023

A published Future of Freight study sponsored by Deloitte in September 2022 indicated that U.S. the strategies were exploring nearshoring of prior foreign production, diversifying supplier networks and adding additional contingency inventories. We pointed out that in 2022, more U.S. customers increased to a level of $41.8

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Manufacturing Procurement Expense Reduction Cost Reduction Strategies Resource Reduction 52

Intelligent Audit

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In today’s world, shippers often use a combination of carriers, last-mile deliverers, freight brokers, and third-party or private fleets. To achieve freight optimization , shippers need a better understanding of the best carriers for each shipment, the optimal modes, services, and ship-from locations. Gain Insights from Data.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 12, 2017

Oracle Optimizes Global Transportation and Trade Compliance Processes. March 2017 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Could it develop the necessary technology to manage inventory and shipments across many disparate partners and get the warehouses to use it? and up come the results on the screen.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

APRIL 25, 2016

The third party logistics (3PL) provider you choose with LCL capabilities will combine complementary freight from multiple shippers into a single container. The idea is to use as much of the available space as possible before the ocean vessel cutoff for freight. Do you have global coverage and LCL capabilities to provide flexibility?

Negotiating Skills 34

Negotiating Skills Global Third Party Logistics Cargo 34

CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 15, 2018

One way global shippers can deal with tight transit times and fast changes in demand is to keep a lot more inventory on hand. You can use less than container load (LCL), which enables you to ship more frequently and still lower inventory costs. LCL offers consistent weekly sailing schedules for ocean freight.

Shipping 34

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

It’s important to note that any cargo from the Wuhan, Hubei Province (the origin of the outbreak), and other quarantine zones, are restricted from leaving the province, which includes full container loads (FCL), less than container loads (LCL), as well as air freight. Assessment of inventory levels. Chongqing Municipality.

Inventory Reduction 50

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Supply Chain Matters once again highlights some positive news for global supply chain management teams, specifically transportation and logistics related teams. That would be a clearer sign of conditions of manufacturing recession for some regions, especially countries in the Eurozone.

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Daniel Helmig, head of ABB’s Supply Chain management, is currently busy implementing supply chain transformation throughout the company’s 450 plants and many project sites as the company consolidates back end processes and establishes ten global transportation management centres. “It Warehouse inventory using drones.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 3, 2020

Are you looking to decrease air freight costs? Air freight service is a perfect option for your just in time deliveries, but those that can wait in inventory for additional time may make more sense to move via rail service. Rail freight is an environmentally friendly way to move goods. Several rail options.

Asia 46

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TMC

DECEMBER 8, 2016

These enterprises are no longer reliant on the Suez Canal route for shipping freight on Post-Panamax container vessels to the United States. The preferred amount of inventory held on ships and trucks depends on constraints such as the value of the cargo. Is your supply chain make-to-order, make-to-stock, or both? West Coast ports.

Panama 48

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

It adds efficiency and flexibility to your supply chain and better equips you to quickly replenish inventory throughout the holiday shopping season as consumers sweep through aisles or fill their online shopping carts. When you’re evaluating the costs of air cargo , freight is only one component of the equation.

Optimal Sourcing 47

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

DECEMBER 6, 2018

If your cargo needs to cross oceans or extremely long distances, your most likely choice will be air freight or ocean shipping. Use this guide to determine which is best for your business: Air freight . Shipping globally via air offers two major benefits: speed and reliability. 5 global shipping trends for 2019.

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