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Supply Chain

The Impact of Technology on Trucking
Trucking companies and fleet managers must incorporate emergent tech and process innovations to stay relevant and retain their competitive edge.
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Singularity: Shape-Shifting Self-Aware Supply Chains?
Recent AI advances indicate that self-aware, or cognitive supply chains, may be closer than we think.
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Electric Truck Market Powers Up: 1.5 Million by 2025
The future looks bright for the electric truck market.
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How Freight Agents Can Utilize Data To Grow Their Businesses – Landstar
No matter what technology freight agents consider investing in, or have access to through the transportation provider they work with, it should be as mobile as they are.
Read MoreIndustry 4.0 and the Agile Supply Chain: Materials Inventory Meets AI
Materials inventory is no small matter for manufacturing companies. Duplicate parts in your storeroom place a needless burden on your books, while depleted or inaccurate inventories threaten your supply chain with unexpected downtime when equipment fails. To top things off, managing inventory can become a headache for employees tasked with harmonizing or syncing data from […]
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Tackling the Talent Gap From the Inside Out
To address the logistics talent gap, we need to put far more emphasis—and money—on sourcing future leaders from inside our companies.
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Japan Tests Self-Driving Delivery System
A self-driving delivery system could be the key to helping areas in Japan hit by the 2011 Fukushima earthquake.
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What to Look for in Real-Time Track & Trace – RateLinx
If you’re interested in real-time track and trace systems, here’s what you need to know.
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CRM System Brings Ease of Use and Multimodal Benefits – DLS Worldwide
Customers want their processes to be simple and efficient. That’s where CRM systems come in.
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Soy to the World
The longer the trade tensions between the United States and other countries persist, the more the U.S. agricultural industry needs to rally around containerized soybean shipping to overseas markets.
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How to Leverage a 3PL’s Expertise with Packaged Applications
Using adaptable applications doesn’t force customers to fit into a single box, but rather creates a unique box for each customer.
Read MoreLast-Mile Logistics: How Sellers Can Make It a Strength and Not a Setback
The last mile, defined as the movement of items from a transportation hub to the final delivery destination often residential, is often the most challenging, costly, and technologically deficient portion of the delivery process. But as more and more consumers use e-commerce to order and ship everything from medicine to artwork, the shipping and logistics […]
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IT Gap? 3PLs Close the Loop
To help shippers meet technology needs and manage customer relationships, 3PLs come armed with solutions and expertise.
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Integrating Multiple Data Sources in a TMS
Q: What are some of the data management challenges to expect in a transportation management system (TMS)? A:The most important thing is to decide what data you want/need, which trading partner has it, and how you will obtain it in a format that will be required for standardization of reporting and data mining. Typically, for […]
Read More2019 Logistics IT Market Research Survey
What’s hot in logistics IT? Which innovations are taking hold?
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Can You See Me Now?
New technologies including blockchain and IoT, as well as advances in existing tools such as RFID, are helping companies gain greater supply chain visibility.
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On-Demand, One Package at a Time
From launching Silver Top Taxi service in the 1980s, which morphed into Silver Top Delivery, to running American Expediting today, Victor Finnegan puts his entrepreneurial spirit and business expertise to work to move thousands of packages a day, one delivery at a time.
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Choose Your Own E-Venture
With e-commerce fulfillment as their endgame, retailers are making their move. From stepping up automation to strategically setting up DCs and integrating inventories, here’s how retailers chart a path to e-tail success.
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