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Trucking
How Automation Helps Mitigate Supply Chain Disruptions
Automation is appearing in areas of business never seen before. Jason Lockard, SVP of managed logistics of BlueGrace Logistics, talks automation, disruption, labor shortage and other trends impacting shippers, live from ProMat.
Transportation
Shipper’s Guide to Planning Ahead
Software & Technology
Rock Stars of the Supply Chain: Shaping the Future of Global Cold Chains
3PL/4PL
Alexis Asks: Inspiring Women to Keep On Trucking
Cold Chain
DirectFresh Service Enables Perishable Shippers Same-, Next-Day Direct-Store Delivery
Last-Mile
The Gig Economy: How it Evolved and What’s Ahead
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Topics revolve around Procurement, Warehouse Automation, Risk Management, Supply Chain Visibility, Achieving a Sustainable Footprint and more.
Risk/Compliance
Top 5 Supply Chain Threats to Impact Supply Chains in 2023
Even though many of today’s cold food chains continue to face the same disruptions, bottlenecks, challenges and threats they’ve been facing the past 2-3 years, understanding and overcoming such threats will help companies achieve some stability.
3PL/4PL
Nominations Close March 31 for 2023 Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers Award
This award recognizes leading third-party logistics and cold storage providers in the cold food and beverage industry. Submissions close March 31.
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3PL/4PL
The Progression of ELDs into 2023 and Beyond
3PLs will need to continue to follow the ELD trends, support the changes and utilize emerging technology to leverage future users.
Cold Chain
The Top 3 Threats to Fresh Produce Transportation
Whether the recent spike in popularity is due to increasing environmental concerns, personal wellness goals or something else, people are consuming more whole foods in their daily diet than ever.
Software Solutions
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.
Trucking
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.
3PL/4PL
Nominations Close March 31 for 2023 Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers Award
This award recognizes leading third-party logistics and cold storage providers in the cold food and beverage industry. Submissions close March 31.
Trucking
Uber Freight, WattEV, CHEP Partner to Deploy First Electric Truck Pilot
This pilot will combine Uber Freight's expansive network of digitally-enabled carriers with WattEV’s innovative electric fleet and charging infrastructure network.
Trucking
Multi-Shipper Dedicated Fleet Eliminates Empty Miles
The program leverages Leaf Adapt technology to analyze shippers’ data and coordinate multi-shipper moves across the transportation grid.
Ocean Ports & Carriers
2023 State of the Ocean Freight
IMO 2023 is a series of new international regulations that targets vessel efficiency and carbon intensity with hopes to reduce the carbon emissions of all ships by 40% (by 2030) and 70% (by 2050). So, what changes does this bring and why?
Cold Chain
Cold Chain Fulfillment Solution for Grocery Retailers
The ACT 2000 combines the success of the first ACT, just now with learnings from more than 20 commercial installations.
Trucking
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.
Last-Mile
2023 Rock Stars of the Supply Chain: Beans.ai Founder Nitin Gupta Solves Last-Mile Challenges in Food Delivery
Nitin Gupta, founder and CEO of Beans.ai, was named the overall winner of Food Logistics’ 2023 Rock Stars of the Supply Chain award.
Last-Mile
The Importance of Last Mile for Grocery Retailers
Rather than going to grocery stores, consumers went online to buy everything from toilet paper to produce to ice cream. Last-mile logistics for groceries has become increasingly important.
3PL/4PL
How 3PLs Can Lose the “Extra Weight” in Transportation Spend
3PL providers know that much of the extra spending in transportation comes from driver detention, which is often a self-inflicted wound that costs everyone in the end. Your new year goal can be cutting down on this cost.
Automation
How Automation Accelerates Speed of Produce to Store
To minimize the risk of spoilage, fresh foods need to move from farm to store as quickly and efficiently as possible and consumers want them to be as fresh as possible before purchase.
3PL/4PL
L.I.N.K.| Crafting Company Culture in a 3PL World
Managing editor Alexis Mizell-Pleasant sits down with Frank Dreischarf, Vice President of Supply Chain Solutions at R2 Logistics, to discuss ways to incorporate a diverse and influential company culture, in part 1 of this 3-part series.
Trucking
The Truckload Rate Outlook for 2023
How will these trends affect the truckload rate outlook for 2023? Here’s a closer look at what’s happening now in the sector and how freight market conditions might evolve in the year ahead.
Fleet Management
Top 10 Tactics to Tame the Unpredictability of Fuel Prices
Heading into 2023, logistics-focused companies must make strategic and tactical maneuvers to prepare for continued fuel price instability.
Foodservice
Top Food Delivery Trends to Watch in 2023
As demand continues to rise into 2023, competition and costs will be top trends in food delivery, putting pressure on food delivery providers to be more efficient with delivery.
Grocery Retail
Inflation’s Impact on Food Purchasing
With a complex environment ahead, unknowns about the inflation rate and changing interest rates , the best thing retail and restaurant leaders can do is keep a close pulse on how consumers are behaving.
Transportation
2022 Cold Chain Content Rewind
Our most view content in 2022 gives insight into the topics weighing heavy on the industry including the container market, ELD mandates and what new innovation are being leveraged today.
Transportation
Top 5 Articles of the Year: 2022
Food Logistics' thanks you for your dedicated readership in 2022. Here are the top 5 most viewed articles from the year.
Rail & Intermodal
4 Food Shipping Trends That Emerged in 2022
Excess inventory has now put many businesses in delicate positions. Unloading that extra product is impacting every aspect of the freight industry. Here are some of the biggest takeaways.
Last-Mile
On-Time Delivery Metrics: The Data You Need to Know
Here’s how retailers can calculate their on-time delivery rate, discover common reasons for delivery delays and learn best practices for shortening delivery times.
Last-Mile
Staying Competitive in the Race for Last Mile in Grocery
By embracing automation, adopting a delivery management platform and finding creative ways to cut last-mile delivery costs, retailers of any size will be able to run operations that are cost effective across the value chain.
Trucking
Freight Shipping Business Threats
55% of freight shippers experienced loss of time and resources to resolve the issue, while 48% experienced loss of sales and revenue.
3PL/4PL
Shippers Confidence Index Outlines Growth, Shrinkage to Overall Industry Volume: Research
The benchmarks provide shippers predictive insight into what could be expected in future market cycles beginning Q1 2023.
Automation
The Demand for Delivery is Diminishing as Food Prices Skyrocket
While inflation is largely to blame, there is more that retailers and delivery services can do to keep business on the up and up than simply waiting for prices to go down.
Transportation
The State of a “Normal” Supply Chain
Industry experts offer hope to a return to normalcy in the supply chain space, but it will be a new normal of sorts and be quite the bumpy ride in getting there.
Trucking
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.
Transportation
Supply Chain Sustainability Considerations for Transportation Leaders
It’s no secret that supply chain processes directly impact the environment. As the demand for corporate social responsibility grows, supply chain leaders must make strategic course corrections and chart a path toward sustainable supply chain operations.