Technology

Find out how Nebraska Furniture Mart-Texas is using system-directed yard and dock management to easily handle 65 inbound trailers and trucks per day through 24 receiving dock doors while requiring only 2-1/2 full-time equivalent yard truck drivers.

The companies said that the new version of Community Load Match represents “the first milestone” in their shared goal of a connected transportation supply chain, with Community Load Match now enabling shippers to use advanced matching capabilities to more easily find available carriers for truckload shipments and also leverage improved map visualization through the Trimble MAPS offering.

Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently spoke with Doug Waggoner, CEO of Chicago-based 3PL Echo Global Logistics, about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the freight transportation and logistics sectors, and other topics, including trucking supply and demand, and Peak Season prospects, among others.

Join Joe Bellini, COO of One Network Enterprises, along with Tom Lee, Chief Supply Chain Officer for Lovesac, as they share insights on how to ensure crisp execution, gain market share, and protect revenue growth in these challenging times by going direct-to-consumer (D2C).

Over the last few years, IAM Robotics has scaled up from a PowerPoint startup to a commercially-viable solution provider

Earlier this week, global electronics giant Panasonic said it has made a 20% equity investment in Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Blue Yonder (formerly JDA), a provider of AI-driven and end-to-end supply chain management services. Panasonic made this investment through a secondary sale of shares, with Blue Yonder having an enterprise value of $5.5 billion. The companies have enjoyed a strong strategic relationship, which notably includes a Japan-based joint venture in April 2019.

Putting the corporate social responsibility strategy to work as the world responds to the global coronavirus pandemic.

Chicago-based project44 has rolled out multiple new offerings to what it calls the industry’s “first and only unified global visibility offering,” which is known as its Advanced Visibility Platform.

The only way to survive and thrive in this omnichannel, contactless era lies in understanding the impacts that are reshaping the state of last-mile distribution in 2020 and what it means for supply chain visibility, use of technology, and growth going forward.

The UL Supplier Cyber Trust Level solution helps organizations mitigate supply chain cybersecurity risk

Two global companies with household names—freight transportation and logistics bellwether FedEx and software and technology services giant Microsoft—announced they have partnered up for a multiyear collaboration, with an emphasis on meshing their respective key elements, including the FedEx global digital and logistics network, with Microsoft’s intelligent cloud power.

Startups bring innovation, talent and horsepower to the party. But it’s not as simple as onboarding an established supplier.

Working with a startup is different from working with a large established supplier. But it can be done successfully

Merchants are pivoting from a business-to-business (B2B) to a B2E (business to everyone) model, with unique shipping, logistics and fulfillment requirements.