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As the transportation and logistics industry morphs, traditional rivals will no longer be the sole or even the most threatening competition, incumbents must adapt to keep up with their customers.

This special report details how enterprise labeling significantly improves your supplier transactions, and by using a simple formula, you can calculate potential savings when you eliminate the relabeling process and reduce costly inventory.

Landstar supports one big-box retailer's seasonal surge business and coordinates their time-critical, inbound international business.

If you’re looking for a holistic computing environment that lets on-premises resources and the cloud smoothly work together, provides a unified approach to management, and allows a single identity everywhere, you’re looking for the Microsoft hybrid cloud.

In just 12 weeks, Whole Foods Market rolled out Azure Active Directory Premium to all 91,000 employees, who use it to gain single sign-on to more than 30 SaaS applications.

The gathering momentum of next generation advanced driver assistance systems technology will revolutionize both the automobile itself and the auto industry, with a handful of automakers have already committed to introducing self-driving vehicles as early as 2020.

The 2017 Top Ten Trends for Modern Demand-Driven Manufacturing is based on interactions with hundreds of manufacturers and industry experts - addressing challenges, supporting innovation and introducing technologies - the constant, key themes that rise to the top are digitization, synchronization and visibility.

For pharmaceutical companies, the landscape is one of increasing change, complexity and competition; to survive in such a challenging and demanding environment, it’s necessary for companies to rethink their labeling strategy.

This review focuses on key developments in maritime safety and analyzes shipping losses (of over 100 gross tons) during the 12 months prior to December 31, 2016. It also identifies some of key risk management challenges the industry faces moving forward.

DHL's Logistics Trend Radar, identifies 3D printing as one of the major disruptive trends to impact the logistics industry in the near future, creating instant production and distribution models.

In this White Paper, we have documented the solutions you can implement to significantly improve your transportation operations and reduce your costs.

The 2017 UPS Pulse of the Online Shopper™ study, conducted by comScore, provides insights into online shoppers’ behaviors and preferences, results are categorized into three areas; constants, emergers, and movers.

As the volume of shipments continues to grow, logistics companies need technology that helps them move packages and cargo safely, efficiently and cost-effectively.

On behalf of Siemens, Longitude Research surveyed 209 senior executives and directors of large US manufacturing organizations to understand the progress of digitalization among discrete and process manufacturers, topics include trends in digitalization, examples of successful adaptation and suggestions to overcome barriers to moving forward in the digital age.

The goal of this shopper research was to understand attitudes toward returns, the connection between the experience and brand loyalty, and opportunities for retailers to differentiate themselves in the returns experience.

ChainsSmart contracts with embedded business rules promise not only to reduce transaction costs but to create more agile value chains that enable closer cooperation and enhanced trust across the extended manufacturing ecosystem.

By leveraging the functionalities of a feature-rich, user-friendly TMS, companies can not only reduce their freight spend, but can also improve service levels, streamline their logistics functions and gain more control over their end-to-end supply chains.

How a software as a service (SaaS), multi-tenant transportation management system puts power and efficiency into the hands of any company that wants to cut freight costs, improve visibility, and optimize activity in today’s competitive business environment.

This white paper looks closely at the value of using forward-looking assessments during parcel solution selection phase; explains how the right parcel system supports returns, supplier coordination, and order entry/e-commerce ratings and tracking.

Retailers are struggling to respond to the new threat of online giants like Amazon, who are siphoning off the customers of traditional retailers, what is driving this and what can retailers do to retaliate against this threat?