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When will passenger flights alleviate the air cargo capacity crunch?
Shippers and other supply chain stakeholders are now routinely paying upward of 250-percent more than usual for air cargo rates on core routes, so...
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Air cargo looks to supply chain digitization during COVID pandemic
Nobody in the air cargo industry is saying the COVID-19 pandemic has been good for business, but compared with the passenger side of aviation, the impact on the air...
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The Trucking Industry Has a COVID-19 Problem: Technology Can Help
The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic is squeezing the trucking industry. Logistics businesses are seeing large drops in rates and with the economic recovery expected to take several...
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Real-Time Tracking Technology in the Global Supply Chain
Efficient supply chains rely on fast, accurate, effective tracking of raw materials, products, shipments and fleets, wherever they are in the world. As the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution transforms...
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Spot Markets and Rates for Logistics, Explained
If you want to ship goods regionally, across a country or around the world, it’s important to understand how much you’ll pay. The prices you’re charged by a logistics...
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How Supply Chain Digitization Benefits IMCs and Trucking Drayage
One of the most vital links in the supply chain is the role that Intermodal Marketing Companies (IMCs) and the trucking community play in transporting goods from rail ramps...
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Benefits of Digitizing the Supply Chain for Air Cargo Carriers
Air freight has an important part to play in a healthy supply chain ecosystem. Although air cargo is one of the more expensive ways to ship goods, it has...
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How Ocean Freight Forwarders Can Overcome Barriers to Digitalization
Digital transformation is impacting every part of the global supply chain, from streamlining operations, through deep visibility into costs, to aligning supply and demand cycles. The supply chain organizations...
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How Ocean Freight Forwarders Can Manage Their Challenges
Ocean freight forwarders are under pressure as new regulations, volatile marketplaces and changes in supply and demand are increasing operating costs and hurting the bottom line. These factors all...
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How Audits Can Help You Modernize and Digitize Your Supply Chain
Every organization in a supply chain — from sourcing and manufacturing to distribution and logistics — is facing significant competitive challenges. The move to globalization combined with eroding profit...
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How Will 5G Technology Benefit Logistics Service Providers?
The next mobile technology revolution is already here, and it could radically change how you provide logistics services. Known as 5G (because it’s the fifth generation of cellular technology),...
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Logistics Service Providers: From Visibility to Action
Every logistics service provider (LSP) is competing to provide the most efficient and cost-effective storage, transportation and supply chain management for its customers. Visibility is a major part of...
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Ports and Their Impact on the Global Supply Chain
An efficient supply chain relies on optimized relationships, effective technology, excellent information sharing and streamlined infrastructure. Although there’s plenty that organizations can do to reduce delays and ensure accuracy...
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LSPs—Why You Should Integrate with a Supply Chain Management System
A Logistics Service Provider (LSP) business like yours needs to squeeze every efficiency it can out of its processes and systems. Historically, that’s often meant building and tweaking your...
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Six Surprising Benefits of Digital Transformation in the Supply Chain
International supply chains are some of the most interdependent and complex processes that happen between businesses. Even small, incremental technology changes can have a big impact when magnified across...
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What Services do Third-Party Logistics Providers Offer?
If you’ve ever wondered exactly what third-party logistics (3PL) providers do, we’ve got the answers you need. From transportation to warehousing and supply chain management to logistics operations, 3PL...
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How to Optimize Your LSP Operations—Your Questions, Answered
Logistics service providers (LSPs) face a very competitive marketplace, with multiple businesses bidding to store, transport and manage goods through an increasingly global supply chain. LSPs need to streamline their operations to...
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Seven Ways a Digital Supply Chain Will Improve Your Business
Digitizing your supply chain and logistics operations will transform the way your business operates. Digitization will enhance communications, let you resolve issues, reduce delays, connect partners, provide visibility and...
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The Differences Between the Supply Chain and Logistics
Global supply chains are essential to worldwide commerce, and the underlying logistics involved in sending, receiving, moving, and storing goods is central to that success. It’s no surprise that...
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4 Steps to Digitizing Your Logistics Execution
Technology is revolutionizing global supply chains, and as sourcing and manufacturing becomes more global, logistics service providers are embracing digital transformation. The ever-expanding scope of logistics management brings its...
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How Logistics Service Providers Can Use Technology to Compete
Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) are in constant competition to provide a complete, end-to-end service for transporting goods around the globe. If LSPs want to continue winning business, they need...
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Understanding the Challenges of Logistics Service Providers
Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) are facing a rapidly changing industry. Increasing customer demands, expanding global supply chains, fleet and capacity restrictions and high fixed and variable costs all impact...
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How IMO 2020 Could Impact Your Supply Chain
We’re less than six months from the start of IMO 2020 — the International Maritime Organization’s new regulations aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, protecting public health and supporting...
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How Railroads Are Vital to the Supply Chain
Last Month, we celebrated National Train Day, a day to recognize the importance of our railway system – a centuries-old mode of transportation that’s still chugging and continues to...
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The Power of the Network Effect on the Next-Generation Supply Chain
By Victoria Brown, Research Manager, Global Supply Chain Execution, IDC It’s getting closer to the holidays and your products have hit all the must-have lists for buyers. Demand...
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How to Get Better Control Over Your Logistics Costs
Cost control is vital to any profitable, international supply chain. Every part of the supply chain generates expenses, from extracting raw materials to manufacturing parts or assembling into finished...
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Three Takeaways on Intermodal Freight from IANA 2019
Blume Global headed to the Midwest last week, to Lombard, Illinois for IANA’s Intermodal Operations, Intermodal Operations, Safety & Maintenance Business Meeting. At the event, our Group VP of...
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Why a Customer-Centric Supply Chain Matters
Customers have never had more choice, and providing exceptional products to consumers is becoming increasingly important. If your business wants to thrive, it needs to differentiate itself. Businesses are...
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A Quick Guide to Smart Contracts, Blockchain and the Supply Chain
Most people think of blockchain as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but the blockchain has many other applications. One of the most interesting is in creating and managing...
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The Role of Location Intelligence in Supply Chain Visibility
The modern, global supply chain is incredibly complex, which means there’s plenty of opportunity for things to go wrong. One of the main issues with sprawling, international networks is...
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3 Ways to Optimize the Consumer Products Supply Chain
Consumer products, which are sold to end customers, rely on a large, widespread and complex supply chain. Consumer products are sold directly to customers through traditional, brick-and-mortar retail stores,...
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The History and Evolution of the Global Supply Chain
The global supply chain has seen enormous changes over the last 100 years. Every part of how we source, manufacture and transport goods has been transformed. From the introduction...
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Supply Chains for High-Tech Companies: Unique Challenges and Solutions
The world’s most cutting-edge companies like Apple, Google, HP, Samsung, Intel, Cisco or Microsoft are technological leaders. Consumer devices like computers, smartphones and tablets or business hardware like routers,...
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Top 4 Automotive Supply Chain Challenges and Solutions
The automotive supply chain for manufacturing cars, trucks and other vehicles is one of the most complex in the world. It’s becoming more global too, second only to the...
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Modes of Transportation in the Global Supply Chain
The supply chain relies on the efficient management of assets and logistics to get raw materials, parts and finished products from one place to another. When you’re sending goods...
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How to Attract and Retain Supply Chain Talent
Running a successful supply chain operation means you need to have top-tier talent in your team. There’s just one issue—employers are finding it harder to attract and retain high-quality...
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming the Retail Supply Chain
Artificial intelligence is making a huge difference for retail supply chain optimization, as there’s a greater need for fast delivery to shops and end customers, and an increasing focus...
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Railroads’ Role in the U.S. Supply Chain
Railroads are a popular way to move raw materials, parts and products around the United States. This railway infrastructure is critical to a healthy, functioning supply chain. In this...
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How to Solve Your Supply Chain Challenges
The increasing complexity of international supply chains means that supply chain managers must use a combination of tools, techniques and approaches to meet everyday and long-term challenges. We’ve explored...
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What Are the Main Supply Chain Challenges?
The modern supply chain must evolve to meet new demands and supply chain challenges, and supply chain managers need to plan ahead to keep everything flowing smoothly. A combination...
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How to Remove Silos Across the Supply Chain for Better Efficiency
It’s no secret that managing international supply chains is becoming more and more complex. As the demands on the supply chain increase, how can you work across your supply...
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Tracking a Product’s Journey Across the Supply Chain From China to the U.S.
It’s clear that the United States is one of the biggest marketplaces in the world, and China is a manufacturing powerhouse. So, you might wonder exactly how a product...
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How to Create a Supply Chain Competitive Advantage
Data insights. Agility and precision in decision-making. Amazing customer experiences. Software is the key enabler for companies to enjoy a supply chain competitive advantage and gain visibility and orchestration...
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9 Key Players in the Global Supply Chain Ecosystem
International supply chains are complicated. A typical supply chain could involve hundreds of steps and handoffs—from sourcing materials through transport and manufacturing to international shipping and final distribution to...
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7 Ways to Transfer Data Across a Logistics Network
Data connectivity is at the heart of any good logistics network. Because logistics needs to work with multiple organizations to store, manage, transfer and transport goods, excellent data communication...
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A Guide to Intermodal Shipping Containers and Containerization
Shipping containers and containerization aren’t something that most people, even supply chain managers, think about that much. That’s not surprising, as these containers are so ubiquitous it’s easy to...
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How Robotic Process Automation Can Streamline Supply Chain Operations
Robotic process automation (RPA) allows an organization to deploy smart software bots that will automate common operational processes throughout the business. These bots are intelligent agents that can learn...
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6 Ways Technology Reduces Environmental Impact of Supply Chains
Global supply chains are growing and becoming more complex as consumer demand increases. This greater need for products, ingredients and raw materials directly translates into increased environmental impact. As...
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An Introduction to Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics for Supply Chain Optimization
Analytics is the collection, analysis, processing and presentation of data that drives business intelligence and smart decision-making. Broadly speaking, there are three main types of analytics used by businesses:...
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Benefits of Natural Language Processing for the Supply Chain
Natural language processing (NLP) is technology that allows software and computer systems to analyze, understand and act on requests and information input through normal human language. Traditionally, we interact...
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A Beginner’s Guide to Blockchain for the Supply Chain
Blockchain is a digitized, verifiable, decentralized technology that’s used to capture and verify transactions between two parties in a provable and permanent way. Due to its decentralized nature, multiple...
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How the Internet of Things Is Transforming Supply Chain Management
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a collection of interconnected physical devices that can monitor, report on and send and exchange data. IoT devices are typically connected to computer...
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How Artificial Intelligence Improves the Supply Chain
Artificial intelligence (AI) is technology that allows machines, software and systems to emulate some types of human intelligence and behavior. AI is driven by systems that use “intelligent agents”...
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How Machine Learning Optimizes the Supply Chain
Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence that allows an algorithm, system or piece of software to learn and adjust without being explicitly programmed to do so. This...
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The Supply Chain, Explained
A supply chain is a connected system of organizations, activities, information and resources designed to source, produce and move goods from origination to a final destination—typically from a supplier...
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