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2024 Trucking Perspectives
In its annual market report, Inbound Logistics looks at the road ahead for the trucking sector, and explores the issues of greatest concern to carriers and shippers.
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10 Tips for Managing Inventory Effectively
Effective inventory management starts with a proactive philosophy. Here are 10 steps to take that can help you improve accuracy, increase efficiency, and control costs.
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Reader Profile: Autonomous Trucking “Oddball” Reveals What’s Ahead for Driverless Trucks
Pivoting from entertainment to the trucking industry, Kodiak Robotics Chief of Staff Lauren Harper considers herself an oddball in autonomous trucking. While her path to her current position might be unexpected, she’s clear-sighted about her goals for driverless vehicles. She believes autonomous trucks can save lives on the road and U.S. soldiers on the ground.
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What Song or Lyric Best Describes Your Supply Chain Experience or Approach?
From Beatles classics to pop hits, here are the tracks that capture supply chain professionals’ experience and work approach. Tune in:
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Alternative Routing: Go Another Way
In the face of constant supply chain disruptions and unexpected events, shippers must be ready to reroute at a moment’s notice. Finding the road—or waterway— less traveled can sometimes make all the difference for transportation success.
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Beyond the Rack: Retail Supply Chain Strategies That Work
In the challenging retail sector, supply chain efficiency can be the difference between succeeding and just barely hanging on. From weaving together disparate systems into a single information flow, to ensuring products appear effortlessly on shelves, to fulfilling online orders with lightning speed, here’s how thriving retailers rack and roll.
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Be Prepared, Post-Pandemic
The events of 2020 pulled back the curtain on procurement and supply chains. Despite lessons learned, are organizations and procurement teams any better equipped to handle another ‘black swan’ event?
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10 Tips for Ensuring Transportation Sustainability
Eight of 10 supply chain executives are investigating sustainable transportation practices, according to EY. This is an excellent focus area because transportation represents 24% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Here’s how to ensure sustainability.
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Warehouses Need Ecosystem Integration to Ensure Supply Chain Survival
As the dust settles after the pandemic ecommerce boom, the warehouse industry is returning to a new normal. Consumer activity over the past few years catapulted warehouse construction into overdrive to accommodate increased consumer spending. Now, the warehouse industry is adjusting to a new pace of slower demand.
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Port Profiles
These leading U.S. gateways make gains in operational efficiency and offer robust infrastructure to support increased cargo demands.
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Better Service, Lower Cost – The LTL Electronic Bill of Lading
You can future-proof your shipment lifecycle with electronic bills of lading.
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4 Strategies to Reduce Rail Demurrage Costs
3PLs can take a proactive approach to significantly reduce demurrage fees charged by rail carriers. Here are four ways to minimize these costs.
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Last Mile Puts Talent, Technology First
Serious changes are happening in the supply chain as the ecommerce market continues to grow. The uptick in more online sales means an increase in the back-end logistics that go into getting a package from an online sale to the customer’s doorstep.
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Leveraging Warehouse Robotics
Maximizing storage density, improving picking dexterity, and gaining prowess through artificial intelligence, these robotic innovations and recent deployments are enabling new levels of warehouse efficiency.
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IN BRIEF: New Services and Solutions
Ocean Network Express’ ONE Modern, the first ship on the ocean carrier’s West India North America (WIN) service, called on the Port of Savannah in June 2024, establishing the latest connection between India and Georgia Ports. The new WIN service offers a weekly route from Bin Qasim, Hazira, Nhava Sheva, and Mundra to New York and Savannah. The service is provided by a fleet of nine vessels, all of which are operated by ONE.
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A Sense of Fulfillment
Reflecting on ways to sharpen fulfillment operations and keep up with growth? Ease your mind by partnering with experienced providers.
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2024 Summer Reading Guide
Cool down with some hot insights into logistics and supply chain management this summer. Whether you’re lounging on the beach or killing time while traveling, our handpicked book list will keep you informed and entertained.
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Precision Shipping: The Rise of Item-Level Visibility Solutions
Whether shipping fruit, pharmaceuticals, high-value commodities, or any other goods, solutions that precisely track individual items throughout their supply chain journey are becoming increasingly accessible and valuable.
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Sizing Up Project Logistics
Navigating extraordinary challenges, from coordinating national concert tours to delivering aid in war-torn regions, is all in a day’s work for project logistics providers. How do they get the job done? Strategic planning, innovative problem-solving, and meticulous execution.
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Ranking the Top U.S. Ports; Warehouse Taxes on the Rise; Global Trade as Election Issue; and Other News
Find out which U.S. container ports rank top for imports; see how global trade policies will impact the presidential election; and catch up on other supply chain news.
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