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State of Logistics Outsourcing: Plenty of Room for Growth as Shipper Dissatisfaction & Technology Expectations Increase

GlobalTranz

The year on year increase in customer dissatisfaction of logistics outsourcing has pushed many players into a defensive corner. The industry is going through a quiet revolution, which makes it an exciting time to be in the logistics outsourcing business. Cautious Optimism Abound in the Logistics Outsourcing Outlook.

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Experts Reveal Top Transportation Trends to Watch

Supply Chain Opz

In this article, leading experts from various sectors in transportation industry will discuss transportation trends you should take a closer look. In North America the low hanging fruit for long-haul loads is rail. Each full “truckload” equivalent of freight moved by rail reduces C02 emissions by 66%.

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Managing Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) For Future Growth

IQMS

Across the wide spectrum of technologies that enable real-time monitoring, IQMS is seeing growing interest in and adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) to bring even greater accuracy, speed, and scale into warehouse management. Gillett January 14, 2016.

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This Week in Supply Chain Management Technology – Shopify and Panasonic

Supply Chain Matters

Online commerce platform provider Shopify , often compared to Amazon in the ability to support small and mid-sized businesses create and maintain an online shipping presence, announced thi9s week its intent to acquire end-to-end online logistics San Francisco based fulfillment provider Deliverr for a reported $2.1

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Yards Are Hard

Logistics Viewpoints

Managing yard and warehouse operations has long been one of the thornier aspects of transportation logistics. Yards are a choke point between transportation and warehousing — and wherever you have choke points, you have a higher risk of inefficiencies that drive up labor costs, detention fees and delivery commitments.

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Takeaways From Gartner’s Top 25 Supply Chain Rankings 2017

Shipsy

Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing and advanced analytics have been some of the most disruptive technologies that leaders are adopting. In the last five years there has been a triple-digit growth in the implementation of industrial robots in manufacturing and warehousing especially in North America, Europe and Asia.

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Supply Chain Matters Highlights of SAP Sapphire 2022 Conference

Supply Chain Matters

Enterprise Cloud software provider SAP SE conducted its 2022 North America Sapphire Now customer conference last week. This strategy can be beneficial for businesses that outsource a significant portion of production, customer fulfillment or logistics services to outside third parties.

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