GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In the age of e-commerce, maintaining the status quo will result in failure, disgruntled customers and added expenses, but shippers that leverage 3PL resources to apply transportation management best practices for e-commerce , as listed below, can navigate the issues that arise in e-commerce and achieve sustained profitability.

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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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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 May report indicated that the Transportation Price index increased 13.7 The key drivers are noted as ship and empty container shortages. are exploding.

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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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3rdwave

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In today’s turbulent trading environment, strong global transportation management capabilities deliver exceptional benefits and value. Massive shifts in supply chains are underway because of trade turmoil increasing the complexity in global supply chain management and related transportation management.

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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.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Creating trucking efficiency through transportation management optimization is an essential part of supply chain management and network navigation. within the transportation network. By embracing local and regional transportation services, both the carrier and the customer can see improvement. current LTL transportation ?rates

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 10, 2024

Nourhan Beyrouti and Joe Lynch discuss building a global logistics juggernaut. Nourhan is Global Chief Revenue Officer at AJEX Logistics Services , Saudi Arabia’s fastest growing transportation company. Ecommerce Experts: AJEX is experiencing rapid growth due to the booming ecommerce market in Saudi Arabia.

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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

APRIL 26, 2018

Proximity to raw materials, increased capacity, and labor costs are just a few of the ways that global supply chains work to save money for today’s top companies. However, the biggest pain point for these global supply chains is the one that seems inescapable – transportation costs. Pain Points Increasing Transportation Costs.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 7, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights additional developments, evidence and added signs that reinforce that there will be no peak holiday focused surge in transportation and logistics in the latter half of 2023. In the past we would expect to see transportation and warehousing ramping up hiring in late summer ahead of peak season. ”

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MARCH 28, 2018

How Generac Power Systems Cut Millions from Its Global Transportation Spend | Transportfolio. Our team provided North American transportation to Generac at the time. Integrating global freight services was only one challenge. Integrating global freight services was only one challenge.

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Intelligent Audit

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

On the transportation end of supply chains, shippers adapt to the transportation needs at any given time to ensure this part of the supply chain continues as well as possible. This is why transportation network optimization is important. What Is Transportation Network Optimization?

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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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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 9, 2023

As the transportation industry waves goodbye (and good riddance) to 2022, innovative logistics professionals are already working hard to make 2023 a banner year for the global transportation industry. surcharge on shipments to domestic packages shipped to remote ZIP codes. 15 press release.

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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. shipping containers and stacking them up to six high. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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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.

Shipping 52

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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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Talking Logistics

JULY 31, 2014

When considering your global transportation network, do you have the infrastructure needed to effectively and efficiently optimize it? Will orders need to be split, to support an urgent demand, while shipping the rest at a lower cost? Before answering that question, define what optimization means within your organization.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Below is a brief extract of this column’s introduction: During and since the global pandemic, businesses and their respective supply chain management teams have acquired considerable process and decision-making data and learning.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

It’s time to stop leaking money from these billing discrepancies and other freight and transportation invoicing errors. The Role of Freight Bill or Invoice Auditing in Transportation Spend Management (TSM). Every detail must be examined, including rates, fees, discounts, shipping weight, amounts, etc. That’s significant.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal , DSV has grown through a series of acquisitions from a small trucking company to a global transport and logistics services provider consisting of surface, air and sea transport coupled with order fulfillment and warehousing services.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 13, 2015

Historically, many companies treated international transportation separately from domestic transportation, much like they treated inbound separate from outbound. Before diving into the topic, Doug gave some of the highlights of his 27-year career in transportation and logistics – a nearly 3-decade span that started at UPS in 1988.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The year featured continual component shortfalls, explosive inbound materials cost increases and continuous global transportation disruptions. Upwards of over 100 container ships were queued across the Pacific Ocean seeking to be processed by the major U.S. Current Year 2022. Correspondingly, U.S,

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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. Do you know which commodities can be coupled and transported together? A Visual Look at a Last Mile Program.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 4, 2022

We indicated in our commentary that August usually represents the global supply chain ramp-up for supporting Q3 and Q 4 holiday spending on consumer goods, gifts and seasonal merchandise. The second half of the year has traditionally been the busiest period in material, transportation and logistics flows. and Europe.

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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.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JULY 1, 2014

Global Transportation: Get the Customer Service You Deserve. Many ocean carriers have been struggling since 2008 when shipping demands practically came to a screeching halt. According to the JOC , on time deliveries for container ships recently fell to the lowest reliability we’ve seen in over two years.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 26, 2024

Added Thoughts What surprised us was that at the summary level, there was little mention of transportation related disruptions brought about by the terrorist attacks on shipping occurring in the Red Sea region. A further global transportation disruption consideration for the second half are reports that U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It was led by London based sustainability investment firm Generation Investment Management, along with the investment arms of two ocean container shipping lines. Moeller Holding , the privately held investment company affiliated with Maersk Line, and France based CMA CGM , now a global carrier in sea, land, air and logistics services.

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Turvo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What’s in this article : A crisis that is affecting the world economy – record-high shipping rates. A problem also linked to shipping companies. Record-high shipping rates are affecting the world economy. The global transportation system in 2021 is experiencing a unique and unexpected crisis.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 31, 2017

The most recent change on the ocean carrier front is the OOCL purchase by Cosco Shipping Holdings and Shanghai International Port Group for $6.3 With an estimated fleet of over 400 ships and 2.9 million TEUs of capacity, this new carrier settles in as the third largest mega-ship fleet in the world.

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TMC

AUGUST 23, 2017

EU shippers tend to pay a higher cost per unit to ship than their U.S. That needs to be considered as you plan and compare transportation costs from one region to the other. While strikes are not extremely common, they can be impactful, making it more difficult for carriers to participate in the EU transportation market.

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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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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. Warehouse Receiving/Shipping POD.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 6, 2020

Now that the fireworks are over and New Year’s resolutions are set, it’s time to prepare for global shipping in 2020. Recapping 2019’s top global shipping disruptors. trade war and the trade conflict between Japan and Korea, these and other disruptions caused serious challenges to the transportation industry.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Global Wide Logistics and Transportation Networks This supply chain industry analyst had the opportunity to partake of a briefing from various senior executives of global based logistics and transportation services provider DHL. and global wide inflation led levels exceeded this level over the prior two years.

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