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Supply Chain
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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Advanced Optimization Techniques For Enhanced Solutions – Hub Group
Hub Group’s technology improved efficiency in a leading retailer’s network, maximizing capacity in constrained markets.
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Leading a Supply Chain With Dogged Determination
Matt Cantatore is chief operating officer of Ollie, a national service that sells healthful, high-quality pet food direct to consumers. Responsibilities: Oversight of day-to-day operations, including sourcing, supply chain management, fulfillment, logistics, and customer service. Also an executive team member responsible for recruiting, goal-setting, and managing the P&L. Experience: Director of operations, Blue Apron; analyst, […]
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5 Insights to Industry 4.0
Nearly all middle market manufacturing executives are at least moderately familiar with Industry 4.0, according to BDO’s Middle Market Industry 4.0 Benchmarking Survey. But while more than half (54%) have either developed or are in the process of developing an Industry 4.0 strategy, only 5% are currently implementing one. Another 25% plan to develop an […]
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Alaska: The Last Frontier
Successfully tapping into Alaska’s growth depends on the perseverance, innovation, efficiency, and resources of logistics providers whose experience has withstood the test of time and travel in this most extraordinary state.
Read MoreThe World Wide Web Turns 30: Can the Supply Chain Emulate its Technological Feat?
This year, the World Wide Web celebrated its 30th birthday. In honor of the milestone, we take a look at some of the most fascinating parallels between what launched the Internets success and what the supply chain must do to fulfill the same ambitions.
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Don’t Gamble With Trade Compliance
Recent trends in tariffs, enforcement, and e-commerce shipping complicate the international trade landscape. To avoid significant fines, businesses must learn to dot every i and cross every t in the compliance process. Even existing allowances and privileges are being threatened, challenged, or taken away from shippers who violate trade regulations, creating an immediate threat to profitability.
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