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E-Fulfillment Picks Up Speed
A look at strategies used by shippers and their transportation partners to deliver e-commerce orders with the speed that consumers require.
Airfreight Update: Managing the Turbulence
The air cargo market has faced numerous challenges since the pandemic began. Here's how airlines, airports, shippers, and others are stepping up to meet them.
Expedited Carriers Guide 2020
To help make sense of all the expedited delivery options, we compiled this A-to-Z guide to some leading expedited carriers who can get your shipments where they need to go, as fast as they need to get there.
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5 Must-Take Actions to Prepare for the 2020 Holiday Season
Given this new normal, what are global supply chains to do? How are they supposed to keep inbound goods flowing, deliver products, and reduce bottom-line risk? Now that your expectations are realistic, let’s dive into a few actions you should take this holiday season.
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Innovator of the Year
How much does Dave Cox, president of Polaris Transportation Group, believe in building partnerships with clients? Enough to walk away from a million-dollar account that wasn’t interested in developing a relationship.
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Preparing to Automate Your Warehouse
Optimizing warehouse efficiencies is an important first step before implementing automation.
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Supply Chain Checklist for a COVID-19 World
Here are some key strategies for improving your supply chain in the current environment, as well as preparing to adapt to the uncertainties ahead.
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Top Priorities for 3PL Warehouse IT in 2021
Information technology leaders should focus on these three key areas in their warehouse operations to stay competitive in 2021 and beyond.
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Online ExclusiveTom Holland, Territory Sales Manager, UK and Ireland, Sigfox
How IoT Solves Global Supply Chain Challenges
With so many components to account for, it can be difficult for supply chain operators to confidently manage them all without the proper tools. To ensure packages are being handled as efficiently as possible and that losses are kept to a minimum, operators need visibility, which they can achieve using the Internet of Things (IoT).
Online ExclusivePierre Gelpi, Director, Wireless and Sensing Products Group, Semtech
Creating a Smart Asset-Tracking Solution for Pallet Monitoring and Beyond
Implementing an IoT solution can enable smarter and simpler management of pallets, make workers’ lives easier, and help cut costs for a quick ROI. As shippers aim to streamline their logistics processes, technologies can offer new solutions for improved asset management for pallet monitoring and more.
Online ExclusiveMahesh Veerina, CEO, Cloudleaf
How Cold Chains Can Be Optimized for the Delivery of a COVID-19 Vaccine
Cold chains need to be able to provide the right vaccines in the right condition and at the right time to be successful. Pharma companies can successfully distribute the COVID-19 vaccine if they can achieve true visibility and collaborate to creatively solve cold logistics issues.
Online ExclusiveAra Aslanian, CEO, Inverselogic
How to Protect Your Supply Chain from Cyberattacks
Supply chains have been stretched to their limits by COVID-19 lockdowns, border closures, and sudden shifts in consumer demands. Now, they’re facing a growing threat from hackers. The fastest-growing threat is ransomware, which encrypts a company’s data until a ransom is paid to the hackers to decode it.
Online ExclusiveRandal Kaufman, Black & Veatch Transformative Technologies Business
Fleet Electrification Offers Opportunity in Shipping, Logistics
Electrification of medium and heavy-duty vehicles is advancing fast, but e-trucks are a nonstarter without well-designed, high-powered charging facilities. By planning now, shipping and logistics managers will maximize the benefits.
Checking InKeith Biondo
Do You Like Raspberries?
Honest players in the food supply chain need to protect themselves and their trusted partners before the market gives you a raspberry.
Good QuestionKatrina Arabe
What's the most unusual or unexpected transportation move or logistics project you've been involved in?
Supply chain leaders share the most unexpected logistics scenarios they've ever encountered.
The Lean Supply ChainPaul A. Myerson
Omnichannel and Supply Chain Work Together for Competitive Advantage
Accomplishing omnichannel service with high levels of service, while remaining profitable, requires real-time visibility of inventory across the supply chain and a single view of the consumer as they move from one channel to another.
Viewpoint: Logistics & Supply Chain AnalysisBindiya Vakil
Reshoring Starts with Mapping Suppliers
After COVID-19 disrupted Chinese-made supplies of personal protective equipment, reliance on Chinese suppliers was portrayed as a weakness. It's time for companies with suppliers in China to evaluate whether to reshore or nearshore parts of their supply chains. Here are four key points to consider.