Logistics > Transportation & Distribution | SupplyChainBrain

Transportation & Distribution: Page 127

Shipping’s Hidden Costs and How to Avoid Them

Shipping’s Hidden Costs and How to Avoid Them

Navigating This Year's Biggest Challenges, Opportunities in Global Trade

Christian Pedersen, head of ocean product and revenue management at Maersk, discusses the uncertainty created by trade tensions between the U.S. and its global partners.

0604 Us Shippers Face Big

Four Components Improving Last-Mile Obstacles in African Supply Chains

Improved last-mile supply chains improve lives, especially when it comes to the delivery of food, medicine and other supplies.

0411 Africas Amazon Is Growing

How E-Construction Can Improve U.S. Transportation

In a list of U.S. industries that have automated business processes, the construction industry is at the bottom.

0530 How E Construction Can

How Crowdsourced Delivery Can Clean Up the Urban Last Mile

The last mile is the most costly and time-consuming part of the shipping process, thanks to high-quantity package drop-offs and low-quantity volumes.

0531 How Crowdsourced Delivery Can

Nationwide Capacity Crunch Shows U.S. Trucking Industry in Crisis

The United States is experiencing a capacity crisis — with roughly 10 loads to be shipped for every easily accessible truck — and shippers are scrambling to be able to service their customers without breaking the bank on every shipment.

0603 Nationwide Capacity Crunch

Robots Edge Closer to Unloading Trucks in Amazon-Era Milestone

As FedEx and UPS beef up automation to keep pace with surging e-commerce and a potential threat from Amazon, they’ve been stumped at a crucial stage: loading and unloading trucks.

Source: Bloomberg

High-Precision Mapping Boosts Accuracy for Global 3PL

Challenge: A global third-party logistics provider (3PL) was looking for distance calculations between fixed locations to be used for cost analysis, bid response and rate quoting. The company also wanted predictive calculation capabilities for shipment delivery delays based on real-time traffic incident data.

Market Leader in Freight Exchange Empowers Customers With Enhanced Location Services

Challenge: A European leader in freight exchange solutions wanted to further enhance its successful planning and calculation program for transport companies by providing near real-time truck location information to telematics and logistics managers.

Amazon One-Day Shipping Is a Tough Perk to Match

Amazon’s announcement registered loudly in the halls of its competitors: e-commerce companies and old-line retailers that will now have to start investing just as furiously to keep up.

An Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center. Photo: Shutterstock.

BigRoad Freight's ELD Load-Matching Platform Adds a New Service for Fleets

BigRoad Freight, an in-app platform that enables users to book loads in real-time, is extending its services to fleet-wide dispatch.

Amazon Pledges One-Day Delivery for Top Clients in U.S.

Amazon.com Inc. will spend $800m in the current quarter to reduce delivery times for top customers to one day from two, trying to revive its main e-commerce franchise and ward off greater competition.

Source: Bloomberg

Page 127 of 686

Featured Product

Photo: iStock/Anastasiia Yanishevska

How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

Mobile geolocation service for track delivery, cargo shipment and freight transportation. Logistic Import Export business (Elements of this image furnished by NASA)

Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

Franchise business e-commerce online e-marketplace or digital marketing branch expansion for growth or use technology to analyze product consumer data website management plan for sale service concept.

Moving Robots Site-to-Site