GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 27, 2021

As the logistics market continues to create supply chain disruption, shippers are looking for consultative support and solutions to help maintain a competitive advantage. Creating trucking efficiency through transportation management optimization is an essential part of supply chain management and network navigation.

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3rdwave

AUGUST 7, 2019

There are 4 fundamental areas where global transportation is challenged. Three of these challenges are variants on traditional transportation challenges and the last is relatively new but growing in importance. Transportation Cost Management. Transportation Cost Management. Information Accessibility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2024

Ongoing attacks on vessels in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthis continue to disrupt shipping lanes in the chemical industry’s supply chain, according to Al Greenwood, chemicals expert and deputy editor at ICIS. The Houthis are creating significant supply chain disruptions for chemical companies and governments.

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 18, 2023

The report also found that global transportation costs have fallen below their long-term average thanks to lessening pressures on shipping, rail, air and road freight.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 31, 2017

Change is the only real constant when managing global supply chains, regardless of the type of goods or any other supply chain attribute; change is driving your supply chain. With an estimated fleet of over 400 ships and 2.9 With an estimated fleet of over 400 ships and 2.9

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Freightos

DECEMBER 1, 2016

What If Your Supply Chain Had A Control Tower? Wouldn’t you want that same sort of control over your supply chain? She is an avid reader and supply chain lead, specializing in the area of end-end supply chain and control tower. What are the key features of the supply chain control tower?

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

According to Michael Khalil of Inbound Logistics, primary transportation management challenges in e-commerce include: Increased complexity of shipping strategy. Increased complexity may be the result of additional shipping volume and the use of the freight consolidation and the consolidation program. Faster shipping.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 10, 2024

Key Takeaways: Building a Global Logistics Juggernaut AJEX is a global transportation and logistics company based in Saudi Arabia. AJEX customers gain the following advantages: Comprehensive Services: AJEX provides express shipping, freight forwarding, pharma, and cold chain solutions.

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QAD

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Supply chains were pushed to their breaking points in 2020 for all manufacturing vertical segments, resulting in: Halted or slowed production by manufacturers in the auto industry. What Challenges are Supply Chains Facing in 2021? The pandemic still plays a role in most people’s lives in some way, every day. Labor Issues.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2021

Three major US drug distributors have requested the government to expand the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain network as the country strives to immunize its population against the novel coronavirus as quickly as possible. Global transportation is at the forefront of sustainability efforts.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 19, 2022

As supply chain challenges continue to disrupt the global transportation network, container shipping companies need to adapt to equipment shortages and delays by transforming their operations.

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RFgen

AUGUST 7, 2024

The aerospace industry plays a critical role in global transportation, defense, and economic growth. It underpins the global transportation network, enabling the movement of people and goods across vast distances.

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TransAudit

JANUARY 12, 2023

Supply chains have had a rough few years. Despite these challenges, you can establish a thriving supply chain this year. The key is to be intentional and proactive about your supply chain decisions. Start shoring up your supply chain now so that you’ll be ready when the time comes.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights an added dimension to our monthly summary of global supply chain activity trending and implications. In a prior published commentary, we provided highlights of March and Q1-2022 global production indices along with their implications. Global Shipping.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 3, 2016

If the start and end point of a company’s supply chain followed a straight and narrow path, software solutions would be simple to create. In reality, the supply chain looks more like a freeway interchange filled with twist, turns, and crossing lanes. Anthony has 16+ years of transportation and software experience.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 25, 2021

An ‘aggressive’ fight over containers is causing shipping costs to rocket by 300%. Shipping costs have skyrocketed as desperate companies wait weeks for containers and pay premium rates to get them, according to industry watchers. The container crisis affects all companies that need to ship goods. KEY POINTS.

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Supply Chain Network

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Since the inception of EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) in the early 1970’s logistics professionals have always taken for granted the accuracy of EDI tracking transactions sent for various activities across their global supply chains.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2018

Global supply chains tie the planet together, providing goods to consumers, jobs to workers, and dividends to shareholders. And this global trip isn’t just for sightseeing – leading companies find that a diversified sourcing base and far-flung manufacturing can help cut production costs, increasing the bottom line.

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Unleashed

APRIL 18, 2022

Covid, Brexit and the war in Ukraine have all sent supply chain shocks around the globe, forcing firms to rethink their business-as-usual supply chain management strategies, and concentrate instead on building supply chain resilience. What is supply chain resilience?

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3rdwave

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Managing a global supply chain network requires the ability to manage and control both global transportation execution and the associated freight spend. In a constantly shifting and competitive global trading environment, it is increasingly important to control all costs across the entire supply chain.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Temperature-sensitive goods demand proactive planning, quick turnaround, and expertise in temperature controlled shipping so that they maintain the correct temperature all the way to their final destinations. Service centers and network capabilities play a key role in the fresh supply chain. Do you have service centers?

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TransAudit

JUNE 27, 2023

The supply chain, an integral part of modern commerce, continues to evolve, learning from the impacts of industry trends and global events over the years. In the realm of supply chain management, machine learning’s capabilities are indispensable. It thrives on reliable, high-quality, and timely information.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

In this posting we wanted to alert readers to a contributed column from Supply Chain Matters Founder and Executive Editor Bob Ferrari in the September -October edition of Supply Chain Management Review magazine. Elevating the importance of synchronizing supply chain planning and execution analytics and decision making.

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3rdwave

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In today’s turbulent trading environment, strong global transportation management capabilities deliver exceptional benefits and value. In 2014, a Supply Chain Council survey found that managing global supply chain complexity was among the top 5 major issues. A very recent survey of U.S.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 9, 2015

“We haven’t had much trouble getting trucks yet,” Candace Holowicki, director of global transportation and logistics for $1.5 “Supply and demand are so closely matched right now, there’s no room in the industry for one glitch,” she said. 3PLs Eat Much of Shipping Costs. told the conference.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 14, 2024

Supply Chain Matters highlights for readers indications that ocean container shipping spot rates involving routings from China and Asian ports to the U.S. The latest monthly global Container Market Forecaster issued by the Container Xchange indicated that in May, container prices surged 45 percent across China.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 4, 2015

There are many reasons for this including a multitude of additional service providers, currency and language conversions, import and export compliance restrictions, a lack of supply chain data, and the confusing nature of working with and managing disparate technology systems across various global locations.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 20, 2021

”[4] He adds, “Companies must be constantly ready to adapt their supply chains to reflect changing market conditions and customer demands.” To this extent, logistics and shipping represent the final and essential factor in the equation for e-commerce success.” They are: High delivery costs.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 4, 2022

In our prior published Supply Chain Matters commentary, we reviewed and provided some added insights on July’s global manufacturing PMI indices which are pointing to declining global supply chain production momentum. State of Global Transportation and Logistics. One Perspective. and Europe.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 26, 2024

Supply Chain Matters highlights results of a recent survey indicating the level of global supply chain disruptions. This survey likely reinforces what supply chain and business leaders have already sensed and are managing. That could change in the second-half.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 29, 2024

Current published reports and available industry data reinforce indications that the peak both in volume and in ocean container shipping rates may have been reached. Once more, current longer term industry trends imply a period of excess global container vessel ship capacity by 2026. Observed was that the ratio of U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides a special edition of our ongoing series, This Week in Supply Chain Tech. In this edition we specifically focus on this week’s announcement from Danish based global logistics services provider DSV for the acquisition of Schenker , the logistics arm of Deutsche Bahn.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog unveils a summarized overview of our annual prediction themes for industry and global supply chains for the year 2023 and beyond.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 7, 2014

In some instances, Google packs orders and hands them off to shipping partners for delivery the following day. . Mode shift is one of the key trends related to international transportation, a topic I will discuss next week on Talking Logistics with Ross Romine, VP of Global Transportation Services at LEGACY Supply Chain Services.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 11, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group shares a Part Three commentary addressing our mid-year assessment of published 2022 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains made available at the beginning of 2022, and specifically addressing supply chain cost inflation implications.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Supply Chain Matters highlights an added admission, this time from a shipping industry senior executive, indicating that the period of windfall profits among global shipping players is coming to an end. . However, what remains are the implications of what has occurred since the start of the global pandemic.

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3rdwave

AUGUST 8, 2019

Demands on the transportation teams are growing as political posturing ramps up causing rapid disruption to global supply chains. A global TMS solution provides an automated and systemic way of addressing the challenges that are the reality for most organizations that source globally. Execution Control.

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