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New Global Visibility App Sees Delays Before They Happen
Organizations can’t manage what they can’t see, but a new application from supply chain software provider E2open is offering clarity.
Photo: Bloomberg
Vector Announces Contactless Pickup and Delivery Supply Chain Solution
Vector, a mobile-first workflow automation platform for enterprise shippers, 3PLs, carriers and retailers, recently announced enhancements to its catalog of contactless solutions, including document digitization, mobile workflow automation and contactless electronic bill of lading.
C.H. Robinson and SAS Join Forces on Business Planning Solution for Retail and CPG Companies
C.H. Robinson, a global logistics company, and SAS, a data analytics company, recently announced a partnership to create an end-to-end supply chain solution that integrates inventory and demand signal data with real-time transportation data.
Watch: Obtaining Adequate Supplies of PPE in the Pandemic
Jamie Teets, partner with GRJ Health, explains the reasons for the critical shortage of nitrile gloves that has plagued hospitals and healthcare workers since the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic.
Obtaining Adequate Supplies of PPE in the Pandemic
Transportation Insight Acquires Spend Management Experts to Strengthen Small Parcel Solutions and E-Commerce Offering
Transportation Insight, a North American provider of enterprise logistics solutions, recently announced the acquisition of Spend Management Experts LLC. Spend Management Experts is a provider of parcel optimization, transportation management and e-commerce services helping companies optimize their parcel and e-commerce spend.
Can Smaller Grocers Survive the E-Commerce Game?
Attempts in the early dotcom era to sell food and other grocery items over the internet sputtered. But with the coming of COVID-19, everything has changed.
A worker places groceries from an online order into a Peapod delivery bin at a Stop & Shop supermarket. Photo: Bloomberg.
USPack Expands Pharmaceutical & Critical Parts Distribution Capabilities with Acquisition of Capital Delivery Systems
USPack, a national provider of high-speed final-mile logistics and a NewSpring Holdings platform company, recently announced the acquisition of Capital Delivery Systems, expanding its final-mile delivery capabilities and national footprint.
LSP Saves Customer $1.5 Million a Year With Kinaxis Global Inbound Management
Challenge: A multinational oil and gas company relied on thousands of suppliers worldwide — including remote partners in Azerbaijan, Alaska and Angola — for time-critical materials. However, the company lacked adequate visibility and transportation management over it’s 60,000 purchase orders per year, resulting in incomplete deliveries, poor shipment-status insights and high administrative and process costs.
Ship Orders Slump 50% With Owners Unsure Which Green Fuel to Use
Orders fell almost 10% in 2019 and then more than 50% in 2020 to the lowest in at least two decades, IHS Markit data show. If activity doesn’t pick up, that could lead to a dearth of vessels and a spike in freight rates in a few years.
Source: Bloomberg
Watch: The Department of Transportation in the Biden Administration
David Winstead, an attorney with Ballard Spahr LLP and former Secretary of Transportation in the state of Maryland, speculates on U.S. Department of Transportation challenges, initiatives and priorities under the incoming Biden Administration.
The Department of Transportation in the Biden Administration
Twelve Post-Pandemic Supply-Chain Trends for 2021
As vaccines roll out more broadly, and countries begin to get the coronavirus under control, attention will turn to the recovery and a return to normal operations. The supply chain will play an integral role in this effort, and will itself emerge in a different shape, with COVID-19 leaving a lasting legacy on many areas of transportation and warehousing.
Photo: Bloomberg
Seven Shifts in Retail Logistics to Expect This Year
It’s time for retailers emerging from a shaky peak season to reflect and plan for what’s ahead.
A delivery driver holding a package exits her van. Photo: Pexels.
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