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Smart and Sustainable Freight: The Role of AI in Green Supply Chain Logistics

Logistics Viewpoints

With freight transport accounting for a significant share of global emissions, efforts to improve logistics now extend beyond operational metrics to include resilience, regulatory compliance, and climate performance. A related challenge lies in emissions tracking and reporting.

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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

When it comes to executing mode-specific freight moves from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively, transportation execution and visibility solutions play a critical role. Transportation execution solutions allow shippers to connect to multiple carriers and then tender, track, and pay in the system.

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?Best Practices to Improve OTR Transportation

GlobalTranz

Track Carrier Performance Data. Capturing carrier data gives you more visibility into your freight spend and enables you to make data-driven decisions that positively impact your business. Analytics provides visibility into your transportation network and operations. Forecast Demand?with?Analytics. a shipment?doesn’t

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Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

As of January 1, 2022, it was taking a company an average of 73 days to deliver goods to truck or rail carriers after booking with an ocean carrier and completing the cross-ocean journey, according to E2open’s Ocean Shipping Index. HOW DID WE GET HERE?

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This Week in Logistics News (March 4-8, 2019)

Talking Logistics

Here are some excerpts from the article: The retailer wants suppliers that ship full trucks of products to deliver orders within a specified two-day window 87% of the time, up from an 85% rate it targeted previously. Providers of real-time freight visibility solutions. project44 Adds Ocean Visibility to Platform.

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FedEx Suspends Money-Back Guarantee

Intelligent Audit

The suspension comes on the heels of recent rate increases from FedEx and UPS — and is sure to frustrate shippers already burdened with lower-than-expected peak season shipping volumes. . In a No-Guarantees Shipping Industry, Shippers turn to Analytics for On-Time Performance. Beginning Dec. 13, 2022, through Jan. domestic and U.S.

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15 Ways to Reduce the Impact of GRIs & Increased Shipping Rates

Intelligent Audit

In recent years, shipping GRIs among carriers tend to be around 3% to 5% each year. This average shipping rate increase index is a reflection of how carriers look to balance demand with capacity, but it’s not always the same. The types of business intelligence software used in most organizations.