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4 Tips All Shippers Should Follow This Produce Season
To help successfully plan for your reefer needs this year, it's important to understand why produce season affects capacity everywhere — not just in produce regions — and for everyone — not just produce shippers.
Cold Storage
Lineage Logistics Rebrands to Lineage
Risk/Compliance
Safeguarding Platform to Help Combat Fraud in Transportation and Logistics
3PL/4PL
Streamlining Transportation Management Strategies
3PL/4PL
Relying on 3PLs in a Flat Market
Last-Mile
The Role of Medium-Duty EV Trucks During Peak Seasons
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Ocean Ports & Carriers
How Baltimore Bridge Collapse Continues to Impact Shipments
Baltimore is running out of freight to pick up due to the lack of inbound shipments, so the containers at port have been sitting for a while.
Warehousing
Nominations Close June 7 for 2024 Women in Supply Chain Award
This award recognizes female supply chain leaders and executives whose accomplishments set a foundation for women in all levels of a company’s supply chain network. Submissions close June 7!
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SCN Summit: State of the Supply Chain
June 4, 2024
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Register now to hear from experts about the State of Today’s Supply Chains through topics revolve around Warehouse Automation, Generative AI, Automation, Electrification, Company Culture and more.
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Micro-Fulfillment
Micro-Fulfillment – From Warehouse to Grocery Store
The growth of consumers staying at home and buying food/merchandise online is not slowing down. Luckily, grocers have a wide range of technology and suppliers to move forward developing micro-fulfillment operations to satisfy the demand.
3PL/4PL
Sheer Logistics Acquires CargoBarn, Enhances 3PL and 4PL Services
Sheer Logistics acquired CargoBarn, a tech-enabled third-party logistics provider (3PL) that provides full truckload freight brokerage, expedited, drayage, and other specialized services.
Trucking
4 Questions Food Shippers Should Ask Prospective Freight Brokers
Shipping bid season is upon us as shippers look to add certainty and flexibility to their operations. Often, this means leveraging broker agreements to add scalable trucking capacity.
Material Handling Equipment
Automation Guidance Consulting Service to Help Operations Upgrade Automated Material Handling Equipment
Kenco launched Automation Guidance, a consulting offering dedicated to helping operations managers upgrade their existing facilities with automated material handling equipment assets.
3PL/4PL
3PL Market Experiences Decline in Shipments, Invoice per Shipment and Total Revenue
Total shipments saw a 4.7% quarter-over-quarter decrease and an 8.9% year-over-year decline. Invoice amounts per shipment and total revenue also faced significant drops, indicating that the fourth quarter was the toughest of 2023.
3PL/4PL
BlueGrace Deepens Cloud-Based Technology with Acquisition of Evos Smart Tools Optimization Platform
BlueGrace Logistics acquired Evos Smart Tools, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) optimization platform that helps shippers maximize resources and reduce costs through advanced supply chain algorithms and real-time data analytics.
Cold Chain
Cold Chain Boxing Service for Influencer Brands
Cold Chain 3PL handles everything from curating bespoke influencer kits to managing shipping logistics.
Trucking
Logistics Confidence Index Signals Flat Shipper Confidence for Q2
The second quarter of 2024 forecast reveals horizontal to slightly down confidence from shippers across industry segments, according to research released by BlueGrace Logistics.
Last-Mile
Why AI and Accuracy Are a Requirement for Optimizing the Last Mile
Years of innovation to revolutionize the last mile has answered the call to improve costs and drive efficiency, culminating in the latest advances in AI that synthesize analytics and tracking to transform the future of 3PL operations.
Trucking
Technology & Communication Lead to Improved Real-Time Visibility in Food Supply Chain
Having visibility from the time a load leaves the shipper until it arrives at its destination allows for recovery plans to be made in real time.
Supply Chain Visibility
Manifest 2024: Automation, Robotics and Puppies, Oh My
The week of Feb. 5 in Las Vegas was ripe with lights, bells and tons of buzz, but it wasn't just because Super Bowl LVIII was to take place that weekend. It was because of Manifest 2024.
Emerging Technologies
Manifesting a Bigger, Bolder Space for Supply Chain
The 2024 Manifest Las Vegas event proved again to be a space where big ideas prosper in big ways.
Trucking
New Space Construction Experiences 50% Drop While Consumer Sentiment Remains Positive: Study
Despite inflation, holiday spending in 2023 outpaced the year before, and the annual growth of spending continues, but the rate of growth is slowing and returning to pre-pandemic levels, according to new data from ITS Logistics.
3PL/4PL
Nominations Open for 2024 Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers Award
3PLs and cold storage providers remain a key puzzle piece to building and nurturing partnerships, cultivating resilience and helping companies in the cold food space overcome supply chain disruptions. Submissions close March 22.
Supply Chain Visibility
Rock Stars of the Supply Chain: Disrupting Supply Chain Disruptions
Supply chain rock stars are the backbone of the cold food chain. Meet the winner's of this year's Rock Stars of the Supply Chain award.
3PL/4PL
Impact of Advanced Logistics and Data-Driven Strategies on the Food Supply Chain
One of the keys to the transformation of the global food supply chain is data, and how the industry’s ability to harness, analyze, and translate data into comprehensive supply chain strategies has impacted the food supply chain.
3PL/4PL
Container Management & Visibility Platform Saves Customers Tens of Millions
ITS Logistics announces its proprietary, custom-built container management and visibility platform, ContainerAI.
Trucking
Parts and Labor Costs up 1.9%
Parts and labor expenses rose 1.9% during Q3 of 2023, according to data released by the American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) and Decisiv Inc.
3PL/4PL
Vizion Announces Global Trade Intelligence Solutions through Collaboration
The TradeView SaaS platform will provide live monitoring of over $7.5 trillion in goods powered by 130+ data sources covering over 60% of container shipments from origin.
Fuel Efficiency
Navigating the Diesel Price Surge
While the scale of food and beverage logistics networks makes diesel prices particularly impactful, exploring cost-competitive alternative fuels can provide network price stability and reduce emissions.
Cold Chain
Rock Stars of the Supply Chain: Fresh Freight's Matt Heroux Named Overall Top Shipper
Matt Heroux, president of Fresh Freight, was named an overall winner of the Top Shippers category for this year’s Rock Stars of the Supply Chain award.
3PL/4PL
Index Reveals LTL and Truckload Q1 Expectations
The latest release of the index expects LTL rates to remain relatively flat with subtle fluctuations and truckload rates to continue hovering near the floor established in Q2 of last year.
3PL/4PL
Navigating Industry Shifts into the New Year
Here are projections for 2024 based on the events of the previous year and an outline of strategic moves that logistics companies can implement to fortify their businesses and maintain resilience in the evolving landscape.
Ocean Ports & Carriers
How Contract Logistics Providers Help Organizations Future-Proof Supply Chains
Contract logistics providers help with product development, manufacturing, marketing, and sales. Here's how.
3PL/4PL
Enhancing Warehouse Safety with 3PL Partnerships
3PLs play a pivotal role in enhancing warehouse safety for shippers.
Supply Chain Visibility
Supply Chain Industry Challenged by Volume and Variety of Disruptions
In an exclusive interview with Food Logistics, Tom Madrecki, VP, supply chain, Consumer Brands Association, details why the top supply chain challenge isn’t anything specific, but the sheer volume and variety of those challenges, all at the same time.
Emerging Technologies
Top 5 Articles of the Year: 2023
Thank you for your continued readership in 2023. Here are the Top 5 most viewed articles from the year.
Supply Chain Visibility
2024: the Year of the Rabbit
Here’s to a Year of Longevity, Peace and Prosperity. Here’s to a Year of Rebuilding Supply Chains and Embracing New Relationships. Here’s to Hope.
Transportation
Transportation, Logistics Deals Drop Below Pre-COVID-19 Levels
Strategic investors far outpaced financial buyers in making deals, responsible for 80% of all deal value compared to about 50% in the years pre-COVID-19.
3PL/4PL
What's Next: A 3PL Trends Outlook for 2024
If 2023 was the cusp of a transformation for 3PLs, 2024 will be the era of implementation. It's time for 3PL providers to decide what technology and strategy is going to propel them forward to a sustainable and efficient future.