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Nominations Open for Supply & Demand Chain Executive's 2023 Pros to Know Award

Are you or someone in your organization an outstanding leader, reinventing what it means to be a supply chain professional? Get them nominated by Dec. 30.

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Industry Leaders Urge Congress to Take Action to Prevent “Paralyzing” Rail Strike

The national rail strike, which could happen as early as Dec. 5, could threaten the nation’s coal shipments, supply of drinking water and shut down passenger rail.

Five Steps to Developing a Supply Chain Digitalization Strategy

Five Steps to Developing a Supply Chain Digitalization Strategy

DHL Supply Chain provides five steps to develop a supply chain digitalization strategy that leverage the value of innovation while managing the risks.

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4 Ways UHF RFID Can Accelerate Supply Chains and Logistics

This technology can greatly reduce the time, energy and manpower required to optimize supply chain, logistics and asset management tasks, while accelerating acquisition, accountability and distribution of parts or finished goods.

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Order Backlogs Lessen, Contract Rates Fall

With consumer demand stagnating and capacity loosening over the past 12 months, the spot market has continued to soften, causing owner-operators to enroll with larger fleets.

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Logistics TMS Increases Freight Movement Visibility

Trailer Bridge launches MasterMind TMS to increase visibility into customers freight movement and efficiency in its operations.

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Optimizing Last-Mile Delivery with Stord Parcel

DTC and omnichannel brands can access deeply discounted negotiated carrier rates from a network of international, national and regional carriers.

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Transportation Platform Streamlines Procuring Freight

This agile transportation procurement platform assists carriers and shippers in uncovering better ways to move freight together.

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Kiosk for Supply Chain TMS Keeps Drivers In-Cab to Improve Safety

The IntelliTrans mobile app delivers driver’s GPS coordinates to confirm they are on-site, enables drivers to review and acknowledge gate agreements, safety requirements, shipment details and other information and e-sign.

Five Steps to Developing a Supply Chain Digitalization Strategy

Five Steps to Developing a Supply Chain Digitalization Strategy

DHL Supply Chain provides five steps to develop a supply chain digitalization strategy that leverage the value of innovation while managing the risks.

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Virtual Job Assessment Tool for Commercial Drivers

VJT for Drivers enables recruiting teams responsible for large volume hiring to quickly, ethically and more accurately identify best-fit candidates based on job-specific content.

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Mobile Device Management: The Supply Chain’s Unlikely Hero

A simple digital upgrade may be your company’s affordable solution to avoiding the major challenges associated with a supply chain crisis while remaining ELD compliant — mobile device management.

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Challenges and Solutions in the International Movement of Vehicles

International vehicle logistics are a constant moving target, but logistics providers can guide customers to shore by anticipating challenges, providing expanded capacity avenues and on-demand solutions implemented across border lines.

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Delivering on Consumer Expectations

Without the proper tools or guiding strategies, the cost of meeting consumer expectations can easily chip away at retailers' margins.

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Vector.ai Rebrands to Raft

The rebrand to Raft points toward the greater need for forwarders to have a single platform for their day-to-day workflow.

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British International Freight Association, Manpower Develop Training Program to Recruit Candidates in Freight Forwarding

The Freight Development Pathway to help identify, attract and train suitable candidates from outside of the freight forwarding and logistics sector for career opportunities with freight forwarding and logistics companies.

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How Extreme Weather Affects Cold Supply Chains

Cold supply chains are necessary to ensure the efficacy of certain medications, vaccines and other biopharmaceutical products, but the addition of extreme temperatures presents new obstacles that can make the process even more difficult to manage.

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Keeping Trucks and Trailers on the Road Longer with Preventative Maintenance

Maximizing tractor and trailer uptime only benefits companies in the long run, as avoiding costly repairs on the road and increasing utilization improves the bottom line.

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How Companies can Successfully Retain Truck Drivers in a Competitive Market

In today’s labor market defined by phenomena like the Great Resignation and quiet quitting, keeping employees is challenging. These trends combined with unprecedented global supply chain issues make retaining truck drivers even more difficult.

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Optimizing the Supply Chain to Lower Fuel Costs

As supply chain woes continue and gas prices remain at record highs around the country, many businesses are looking for ways to cut down on fuel usage. Here's some options.

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Looking Ahead to the Future of Supply Chain Operations

As the supply chain continues to evolve in the face of new challenges, companies can stay ahead of the curve by doing regular roadmap alignments and implementing technologies that allow them to anticipate change.

Five Steps to Developing a Supply Chain Digitalization Strategy

Five Steps to Developing a Supply Chain Digitalization Strategy

DHL Supply Chain provides five steps to develop a supply chain digitalization strategy that leverage the value of innovation while managing the risks.

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Best Practices for Operating a Logistics Marketplace

If a brokerage is looking to introduce much-needed digitization via the marketplace model, here are some fundamental best practices for a successful implementation.

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Fuel Costs Overturn Driver Shortage as Top Trucking Issue: ATRI Study

Fuel prices were ranked as the top industry concern, replacing the driver shortage, which had been the No. 1 issue for five years in a row.

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Decarbonizing Medium, Heavy-Duty Trucks

Not all technologies will work for every fleet. The key is to combine the solutions that work based on particular applications and needs, while investing in innovation for future technologies.

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Third-Party Storefronts for Retailers: The Hidden Costs

With e-commerce increasingly dominating consumer preferences, third-party storefronts may no longer be a retailer’s best option.

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Digitalization, Who? 60% of Freight Brokers Still Use Paper Checks

Nearly 60% of those surveyed still pay carriers and shippers with paper checks, despite over two-thirds (68%) saying eliminating paper checks would improve their business operations.

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Owners-Operators Facing More Challenging Conditions Ahead

About 33% of respondents expect load growth to decline over the next six months, the lowest reading since 1Q20 and significantly higher than 3Q21 at 9%.

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What is the Supply Chain and How Does the Network Work?

Supply chains are ever-complex systems involving numerous factors including uncertainty, various decision-makers, global interactions and intricate webs representing the dynamics between products, money, information and people.

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Driver Shortage Remains Near Record High

The shortage could swell to more than 160,000 over the next decade.

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Solving the Last-Mile Problem in the Age of Driver Shortage, Global Supply Chain Uncertainty

As companies learn from the supply chain crises, innovative technology solutions that use data-driven approaches to enhance visibility, insights and actions across the supply chain will continue to explode.

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Why Freight Broker Bonds are Important for Logistics Companies

While a freight broker bond doesn't protect against liability, it is a requirement if you want to operate your logistics company and don't want to tie up $75,000 in a BMC-85 trust.

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Scenario Planning Keeps Shipping Companies Afloat Amid a Recession

Digital twin scenario planning provides the foundation for developing suitable processes in crises.