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Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 23, 2025
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.
Logistics Viewpoints
DECEMBER 8, 2022
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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Talking Logistics
MARCH 8, 2019
Providers of real-time freight visibility solutions. Back in July 2017, I interviewed Bennett Adelson, the former CEO of MacroPoint (which was later acquired by Descartes Systems Group, a Talking Logistics sponsor) about OTIF and how it is driving demand for visibility solutions. project44 Adds Ocean Visibility to Platform.
BlueYonder
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
A TMS is software that collects data and tracks the processes associated with moving goods, both inbound and outbound, and across all modes of transportation including rail, air, surface, and sea. Blue Yonder’s TMS also links directly to leading visibility partners to increase end-to-end insights. billion in 2022 to $7.30
SCMDOJO
APRIL 29, 2024
Warehousing: Warehousing involves the storage and management of inventory. Effective warehousing strategies ensure that goods are properly stored, organized, and readily available for distribution when needed. It involves the movement of goods from one location to another, whether by road, rail, air, or sea.
Logistics Bureau
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
By contrast, the third-party logistics model is where a manufacturer retains oversight of its supply chain but outsources such processes as warehousing, shipping, packing, and distribution to a 3PL provider. When the COVID-19 pandemic began wreaking havoc in global supply chains, smaller companies turned to 3PL providers for help.
SCMDOJO
JULY 24, 2023
It involves outsourcing logistics activities, such as warehousing, transportation, distribution, inventory management, and order fulfillment, to a dedicated logistics service provider. They can be trucking companies, airlines, shipping lines, or rail operators, depending on the mode of transportation chosen for the specific shipment.
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