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Trucking
The Difference Between EDI and API in Trucking
Regardless of which route a transportation company takes when choosing between EDI, API or using both across different customers, setting them up and executing maintenance and updates can be a challenge.
Last-Mile
Top Trends to Transform the Future of Last-Mile Delivery
3PL/4PL
Locus Releases Third-Party Delivery Platform
Last-Mile
6 Steps to Reducing Delivery Costs in the Last-Mile
Transportation
2023 Pros to Know: Candor Expedite’s Nicole Glenn Brings Honesty to the Transportation Space
Software & Technology
Overcoming Supply Chain Struggles with 5G Modernization
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Transportation
2023 Pros to Know: Candor Expedite’s Nicole Glenn Brings Honesty to the Transportation Space
Nicole Glenn, founder and CEO of Candor Expedite Inc., was named the overall winner of Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s 2023 Pros to Know award.
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SCN Summit: State of the Supply Chain 2023
June 6, 2023
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Topics revolve around Procurement, Warehouse Automation, Risk Management, Supply Chain Visibility, Achieving a Sustainable Footprint and more.
Sourcing & Procurement
Submissions Close March 31 for Top Supply Chain Projects Award
This award profiles innovative case study-type projects designed to automate, optimize, streamline and improve the supply chain. Submissions close March 31.
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COLD CHAIN
Access to End-to-End Holistic Healthcare
These cold chains now extend to a variety of industries and economies. Supply chain networks in the healthcare industry are reaching previously unseen scales and continue to grow.
Plant Safety
Prioritizing Worker Health and Safety in Your Supply Chain
Workplace injuries can occur in any industry, but they’re especially prevalent in the supply chain and logistics industry and workers need to be educated on how to be safe.
Software Solutions
Prioritizing Tech Advancements Allow Warehouses to Stay Ahead
The ripple effects of COVID-19, numerous geopolitical shifts, supply chain stagnation and mass labor shortages added atop the steady increase in ecommerce shopping have made logistics challenges an ongoing issue that increased tech can address.
Carbon Footprint
Chasing Reduced Emissions Through Transportation Procurement
When procurement professionals take the lead in pursuing a circular economy, they’re changing that equation in the pursuit of a more global return on investment.
Trucking
Alexis Asks: Inspiring Women to Keep On Trucking
A bi-weekly blog where managing editor Alexis Mizell-Pleasant asks industry experts about various topics in the supply chain. On International Women's Day, we look at women in supply chain and how to inspire the next generation of female drivers.
Supply Chain Visibility
Visibility is the Solution to Today’s Transportation Woes
The best way to avoid seasonal transportation challenges is by planning ahead and communicating changes across the ecosystem to enable all partners to make the best decisions possible.
Transportation
How the Latest ELDs are Transforming the Industry
Through dynamic updates, detailed analytics tools and sophisticated integrations, businesses now have access to enhanced capabilities for managing fleets—and overall logistics processes—in unprecedented ways.
Last-Mile
Logistics Map Aligns Logistics Fulfillment, Delivery Drivers
Rather than be routed to a parking structure that is difficult and time consuming to navigate, delivery drivers will be routed to the most convenient temporary stopping zone using the Logistics Map.
Last-Mile
Dropping Fuel Prices Make for Stronger Shippers Conditions
Even eliminating the strong impact of dropping fuel prices, the December SCI, with a very favorable environment for shippers in terms of freight rates, capacity utilization and volume, would have been the best since the May 2020 reading.
Last-Mile
Reducing Cost, Boosting Consumer Experience Key to Last-Mile Delivery Success
Over the next year, 77% of logistics providers expect their budgets for last-mile delivery technology to grow, while 82% of logistics providers claim they will likely change or buy a new last-mile delivery solution in the next 1-2 years.
Worker Safety
Reduce Workplace Injuries in Truck Driving with These Best Practices
It’s relatively easy to identify and remove physical hazards at company facilities or in the yard, but establishing a safety-first culture requires much more than that.
Rail & Intermodal
Alexis Asks: How Rail Safety Impacts the Supply Chain
A bi-weekly blog where managing editor Alexis Mizell-Pleasant asks industry experts about various topics developing in the supply chain field. Today, we dive into rail safety and how derailments may impact the supply chain.
3PL/4PL
Logistics Companies Brace for a Cooling of Demand. Here’s How.
Demand is going to cool down and logistics companies, especially those providing shipping platforms and freight marketplaces, need to become smarter, leaner and look to third-party partnership opportunities over the next 12 months.
Project Management Software
23% of Supply Chain Leaders Utilize Customer Enablement: Study
Gartner surveyed 650 supply chain organizations on customer enablement and here are the results.
Expert Columnists
Electrification is Coming for Mid-Size Fleets
With the electric medium-duty vehicle market booming and sustainability deadlines looming, companies must keep a pulse on these four key industry trends throughout 2023.
Fleet Management
Delivering Love: How Shippers Provide Flowers on Valentine's Day
As shippers and retailers face an added challenge of market volatility, their deliveries in time for love’s big day are even more impressive. So, how do flowers get from farms to warehouses, to shops and eventually, to their destinations?
AI/AR
7 Questions to Ask of an AI-based Vehicle Safety System
Transportation planners, local officials and the public are actively looking at solutions to our increased reliance on commercial freight vehicles for last mile delivery. What can be done to keep people safe in motor vehicles?
Last-Mile
AxleHire, SEKO Logistics to Try New Last-Mile Delivery Model
AxleHire today announced a new agreement to provide their last-mile delivery service to cross-border ecommerce company SEKO Logistics. SEKO is the first company to use AxelHire's new delivery model.
Retention
How Fleets Can Fill Seats to Tackle Truck Driver Shortage
To keep up, the trucking industry needs to hire nearly 1.2 million drivers in 10 years, which could be challenging due to several key factors contributing to the shortage.
Last-Mile
Maturity Assessment Shows Strengths and Weaknesses in Last Mile
Locus launches a last-mile maturity assessment to help enterprises see their strengths and weaknesses during last-mile delivery.
Last-Mile
84% of Retailers Lack Control of Their Outsourced Delivery Networks
Outsourced delivery networks yield lower cost, faster delivery and increased capacity, however sacrifice control over order tracking and a branded consumer experience.
Transportation
Top 6 Transportation Management Trends in 2023
Transportation management in 2023 will be a battle to get cost and service under control while advancing organizational capabilities to be more resilient, address labor challenges and make a positive impact on the environment.
Transportation
Transportation Insights from SMC3 JumpStart Conference
Managing editor Alexis Mizell-Pleasant shares insights from the SMC3 JumpStart Conference, which took a look into the state of freight and global economic challenges plaguing the supply chain industry.
Software Solutions
3 Out of 4 Organizations Don’t Have Proper Technology to Keep Up with On-Demand Economy
59% of companies and hundreds of thousands of developers are building logistics solutions to meet the requirements of on-demand e-commerce. 71% of these companies are in the retail and manufacturing industry.
Last-Mile
Last-Mile Delivery: Retailers and Carriers Need an Urgent Reset
If retailers want to meet the needs and demands of online shoppers and ride the e-commerce wave, they must rebuild their last-mile operations.
WMS/TMS
TMS Selection: Finding “The One”
The right TMS has the potential to reduce freight spend by 3% to 7%. In order to realize these savings opportunities, it is important to take the time to do the selection process right.
Transportation
Alexis Asks: A 2023 Outlook on Cross-Border Freight
A bi-weekly blog where managing editor Alexis Mizell-Pleasant asks industry experts about various topics developing in the supply chain field. Today's talks about new compliance and regulations in freight.
Trucking
Small Truckload: A More Sustainable Transportation Solution
The challenges for electrification in moving freight are immense. The larger the battery, the less cargo the truck can carry. The heavier the cargo, the shorter the driving range.
Ocean Ports & Carriers
How Shippers Can Pivot During Export Disruptions
Whether its vessel capacity, changing receiving windows at ports or drayage congestion due to limited rail and chassis availability, the challenges have been evolving but constant.
E-Commerce Solutions
Ottobot Facilitates Autonomous Deliveries for Retailers and E-Commerce
Ottonomy.IO has created a viable robot-as-a-service offering that enhances efficiency and addresses gaps in parts of the supply chain for last-mile delivery.
