Transportation Management

The Turning of the Screw: For a few years now, the screw has been tightening for the current transportation market, but the system remained resilient.

Each year, the retailer names the best of the best out of more than 400 third party carriers servicing the company.

This whitepaper describes how Oracle Transportation Management in combination with Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud provide the optimal solution for today’s transportation management challenges.

This report annually looks into the trends that impact how shippers and logistics service providers manage their international freight transportation processes, and the technology that helps support those processes.

In the next two years Amazon, the world's largest retailer, will use its own logistics network to deliver nearly every product sold on its Indian portal.

Shipping starts weeks before the holiday and the best flowers arrive early. But how does a flower that makes the two-week journey arrive with the splendor to light up a Valentine’s bouquet?

As cities continue to grow, both in terms of population and resource needs, they are running up against what will become one of the increasingly important questions of the 21st century: How to manage that growth sustainably.

To improve the logistics of tracking and tracing members of Team USA, a new Team USA Guide app (developed by AT&T) helps athletes, coaches and delegation members communicate with each other.

As New Jersey prepares to host one of the biggest single sporting events on Earth, experts on traffic, security, electric power and foul weather huddle to make sure no one drops the ball on Super Bowl Sunday.

Teamsters workers on Sunday approved a revised contract offer from Overland Park-based YRC Worldwide Inc., an outcome both sides called critical to the struggling freight hauler’s future.

You can read the experts’ views in this report. And we also present some suggestions on how transportation and logistics companies can position themselves. One thing is clear: the race is a marathon, not a sprint. Talent management will need to be at the very top of the agenda for transportation and logistics leaders for decades to come.

The Logistics Trend Radar is very different to most other trend studies. It doesn't just deliver a one-off insight into global trends and new technologies. Instead it is a dynamic living document which screens and reports on a regular basis. Highly systematic research and evaluation ensure we focus on the right topics.

Economy, fuel prices, regulations, trucking freight, truckload capacity, intermodal - there's optimism and pessimism ahead for everyone.

At this time of year, every publication comes out with a top 10 list, Eyefortransport (EFT) compiled a list last year for the first time and it made for interesting reading.

Why 3PL contract renewals tend to have a shorter contract length and thoughts from Robert Vallender, the Head of Logistics for Nestle.

The London 2012 Olympics meant longer trading hours, restricted road access, increased congestion and heightened security across the city. This put pressure on supply chains to deliver products efficiently and reliably.

Do you have unlocked optimization potential in your supply chain set up? A Lead Logistics Partner (LLP) can steer you in the right direction. Scalable, flexible and giving real visibility, your LLP journey can start with a small step.

Supply Chain Matters (SCM) speaks to Mark Patterson, Vice President - Innovation and Product Incubation at DHL Supply Chain, to review the five most important supply chain trends of 2013, and what they mean for companies going into 2014 and beyond.

With the unprecedented power of the omni-channel consumer driving behavior in the global marketplace, companies — regardless of where they sit in the supply chain — must not only find new ways to achieve efficiencies and operational control, but also to accomplish these objectives with the agility necessary to competitively serve today’s end consumer.

American Shipper recently released its annual benchmark report entitled “Global Transportation Management Benchmark Study: Climbing the Visibility Sophistication Ladder.” The study surveys practitioners from a variety of industries as well as a cross section from a diverse organizational scale.