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Key IT Advances Shaping Vehicle Logistics
A comprehensive study from INFORM underscores a robust forecast for market growth in vehicle logistics and identifies key technologies driving innovation.
Last-Mile
Industry’s First Autonomous Ecosystem Represents Future of Last-Mile Delivery
3PL/4PL
BlueGrace Deepens Cloud-Based Technology with Acquisition of Evos Smart Tools Optimization Platform
Supply Chain Visibility
Manifest 2024: Automation, Robotics and Puppies, Oh My
Automation
Ryder, Kodiak Open Truckport for Autonomous Trucks
Software Solutions
Top 5 Trends in Transportation Logistics and Supply Chain
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Risk/Compliance
Mitigating Supply Chains: More Than Just Table-Stakes
Not being able to see ahead and predict and plan accordingly is what sometimes plagues many of today’s supply chain companies. Here’s why mitigating supply chain threats is of utmost importance heading into 2024.
Software Solutions
Nominations Open for 2024 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 29.
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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.
Automation
Intelligent Door Seal Solution for Real-Time Alerting
The Intelligent Door Seal Solution is a smart door seal that incorporates Bluetooth and GPS and immediately notifies users when a trailer door opens.
Last-Mile
The Culinary Future of Autonomous Delivery
Leveraging AI to empower driverless vehicles, promises to provide the industry with new capabilities to boost efficiency and profitability.
Fleet Management
Tech-Forward Tools Help Shippers Optimize Routes
In an exclusive interview with Food Logistics, Armon Shahpar, senior lead, enterprise partnerships, Uber Freight, outlinest how tech-forward tools help food and beverage shippers successfully optimize their routes.
Cold Chain
Nominations Open for 2024 Rock Stars of the Supply Chain Award
NEW THIS YEAR, this award recognizes Top 100 influential individuals in four distinct categories within the cold chain space, whose achievements, hard work and vision have shaped the global cold food supply chain.
Fleet Management
Alexis Asks: Closures, Challenges and Changes Signal a 'Freight Recession'
Managing editor Alexis Mizell-Pleasant asks industry experts about various topics developing in the supply chain field. With multiple closures of shippers and brokerages, and more expected, is this proof of a 'freight recession'?
Sponsored
See how Syfan delivers your shipment fresh!
Discover why the food industry has relied on Syfan for decades. Click this ad to see how we deliver every shipment fresh, on-time, and accurately for our customers.
Trucking
Maersk, Kodiak Robotics Launch First Commercial Autonomous Trucking Lane
Kodiak and Maersk are completing four round trips per week on a 24-hour-a-day, four-day-a-week basis between a Houston facility, where consumer products are loaded onto 53-foot trailers, to a distribution center in Oklahoma City.
Rail & Intermodal
Railcar Location Tracking Technology
Industrial Networks LLC (INet) released the SMRTag system, which fully automates railcar inventory collection for industrial railyards.
Trucking
Zero-Emission Technologies are the Future of Transportation
Nate Springer, VP market development at Gladstein Neandross & Associates, and project director of the State of Sustainable Fleets report, details why zero-emission vehicles must be on the radar of all trucking companies today.
AI/AR
4 Ways AI Can Help Food and Convenience Distributors
By adopting AI technology, your food and convenience distribution company can quickly earn loyal customers in a challenging market.
Trucking
What Advanced Clean Fleets Rule Means for Future of Trucking
Jai Ranganathan, chief product officer for Motive, details the importance of the Advanced Clean Fleets rule and what the industry can expect once in effect.
Transportation
State of Transportation: In the Driver’s Seat and Bracing for Impact
Sometimes even the most cutting-edge technology can’t predict what’s going to happen next in the transportation industry. That’s why trucking and transportation sectors are bracing for impact and in the driver’s seat for what’s ahead.
Trucking
Warehouse Appointment Scheduling Platform
FreightSmith SchedulePro was designed by experts from inbound warehouse operations to streamline and simplify warehouse appointment scheduling.
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?
Trucking
How Self-Driving Trucks Curtail the Driver Shortage
Autonomous trucks have the potential to revolutionize the trucking industry. They could improve safety, efficiency, and productivity, and help to address the the truck driver shortage. However, there are still some challenges that need to be addressed.
Trucking
How TMSA Truly Elevates Supply Chain Relationships
It didn’t matter that some sessions didn't apply to me. For me, it was about relationship building. It was about networking. It was about learning.
3PL/4PL
Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers: Adopting and Adapting are Key to Cold Chain Success
This award recognizes leading third-party logistics and cold storage providers in the cold food and beverage industry.
Sponsored
See how Syfan delivers your shipment fresh!
Discover why the food industry has relied on Syfan for decades. Click this ad to see how we deliver every shipment fresh, on-time, and accurately for our customers.
Ocean Ports & Carriers
Everstream Analytics Acquires BlueNode, Expands Intermodal Analytics Solutions
With the acquisition, Everstream will now offer the ability to make strategic decisions on maritime carbon mitigation that balances shipping time, expense and environmental impact.
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.
Webinars
Everything You Need to Know About Building a High Bay Warehouse and Automated Storage Retrieval Systems
April 26, 2023
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Experts from SSI Schaefer break down how to plan for a high bay warehouse and the various steps and procedures involved.
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.
Emerging Technologies
Into Innovation: My Experience from the Floor at Manifest
The Future of Logistics event showcased new technology, a lot of robots, talk of AI and a highlight on how fresh ideas can transform the supply chain in virtually every space. Here's a look at everything I experienced from the show floor at Manifest.
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.
Fleet Management
Capacity Optimization Tool Automates Truck Assignment
Capacity Optimization takes electronic requests from shipping customers to auto-generate orders. A dispatch scheduling tool calculates variables from appointment windows and truck availability to truck floor space and maximum weight.
Trucking
Why Winterizing Food Distribution Fleets is Different This Year
When food distributors combine a comprehensive annual plan with today’s sophisticated data analytics and maintenance technology, they can keep their trucks on the road more and drivers safe during the winter months.
Fuel Efficiency
How Adding EV Charging Stations to Restaurants Attracts Key Audiences
The increasing EV demand means that restaurants will be competing with other businesses, including shopping centers, grocery stores and convenience stores to attract EV owners and convince them to come stay – and spend – with them.
Emerging Technologies
Nearshoring, Autonomous Vehicles, Data Science to Create Seismic Shift in Future of Freight
Cloud services providers, megaretailers, vehicle manufacturers and tech startups are pursuing the transportation industry and its profit streams.