Transplace Acquires Logistics Management Solutions
Acquisition completed by third party logistics provider strengthens north American presence, expands customer base, strengthens chemical focus.
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UPS Cuts Email Response Time in Half with AI Automation
Launched last July, MeRA leverages large language models to automate responses to customer inquiries, significantly reducing agent handle time by 50 percent.
Five Innovations Shaping the Future of Last-Mile Delivery
Discover how drones, autonomous vehicles, and clean technologies are driving efficiency, reducing costs, and improving customer satisfaction.
Barge Hits Texas Bridge in Incident Reminiscent of Baltimore Collapse
A barge collided with the Pelican Island Bridge in Galveston, Texas, causing an oil spill and closing the only road access to the island.
Freight Shipments Continue Downward Trend in April
April's freight market data from Cass reveals ongoing challenges, with a 1.6% month-over-month drop in shipments and a 4% year-over-year decline.
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Driving Efficiency in Pharma Distribution: The SEKO-Peli BioThermal Success Story
Discover how SEKO and Peli BioThermal are revolutionizing pharma distribution in Dublin.
SMC3 Mercury Gate Case Study - Improving Workflows and Enhancing Efficiency with LTL APIs
In this case study MercuryGate needed a way to automate workflows. It turned to smc3 for help.
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Cryoport & UPS Collaborate on Cryogenic Logistics Solutions for the Healthcare Industry
Cryoport, a leading provider of advanced cryogenic logistics solutions, announced that it is collaborating with UPS to enhance its temperature-sensitive shipping offerings to the healthcare industry.
Intermodal Service Issues Persist But Conditions Are Slowly Improving, Say Carriers and Analysts
In recent years, the railroads have made tremendous strides in developing regularly scheduled routes so that freight can be moved with a great level of predictability.
Revitalized Rail Offers Answers to Complex Logistics Puzzle
Due to the driver shortage, highway congestion, lack of sufficient investment in highway infrastructure, and the current capacity crunch in trucking, savvy shippers are turning to rail with the help of their 3PL.
UPS Bringing More Control to Temperature-Sensitive Logistics
Download the attached electronic white paper for more information about the challenges faced by transporters of temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals and the best ways to solve them.
Another Rate Increase from Less-than-Truckload Carriers
These increases come at a time when the LTL market is in a good spot, due to solid manufacturing and industrial production activity, coupled with decent retail-related volumes in advance of the holiday shopping season.
Strategic Business Solutions for the Transportation & Logistics Industries
As the premier source for strategic solutions in the transportation and logistics industries, SJ Consulting constantly invests in staff, technology, market intelligence gathering and new service offerings, such as our Industry Reports.
UPS Sees Six Shipping Days Exceeding Last Year’s Holiday Season Record
The world’s largest package delivery company forecast it will deliver more than 585 million packages in December 2014, up 11 percent from a year ago.
3PL Consulting Can Drive Down Transportation Costs, Improve Service
Shippers everywhere face the perpetual question: What’s the best way to get our products to customers efficiently and at the best cost?
Improving Vendor Compliance with Retailer Requirements
How logistics services providers can help shippers comply with retailers' increasingly stringent compliance requirements.
Retail Importers Hope to See Solutions to Local Port Container Congestion Problems
The congestion at Los Angeles and Long Beach ports has been going on for at least two months, but no one expected it to last this long, and no one anticipates an immediate fix - gridlocked docks possibly threatens holiday season.
Improving Order and Fulfillment Operations: Purchase Order Management
In this brief we’ll examine the challenges that today’s organizations face when managing their global supply chains and look at the role that purchase order management plays in the smooth-running of such systems.
FedEx, UPS Prepare for a Better Holiday Season
The world's two largest shipping companies are building new facilities, adding more temporary holiday workers and pushing retailers to help them avoid a recurrence of a pre-Christmas shipping logjam.
Impact of Panama Canal Expansion on the U.S. Intermodal System
Understanding current trade flows and continuing changes in international trade lanes is critical to optimizing system investment and operations within our own borders.
A Freight Forwarder’s Guide to Achieving Competitive Advantage
Freight forwarding is a complex business and managing multiple customers and multimodal transport carriers, customs challenges, fluctuating demand and allowing for different languages, time zones and currencies all add up to a big challenge that stands between you and competitive advantage.
UPS Raises 2015 Rates Earlier Than Expected
UPS Inc. announced an average rate increase of 4.9% for package, less-than-truckload and airfreight delivery, effective Dec. 29.
Choosing a Location-Based Application for Your Business
This guide provides simple steps that shows how a location-based application can help companies with remote workers, remote assets or fleets of vehicles cut costs, improve productivity, become more efficient, and grow.
AT&T Fleet Management Solutions Help Improve Fleet Performance and Efficiency
AT&T is now offering companies in the transportation industry fleet management solutions that can help them improve safety, increase productivity, and expand savings.
CSX Celebrates Future of Intermodal Transportation at Central Florida ILC Grand Opening
The facility, which began operations earlier this year, provides a centralized hub for transportation, logistics and distribution serving Orlando, Tampa and other regional Florida markets.
7 Core Reasons to Outsource Non-Core Transportation Management Functions to 3PL Providers
A lot of companies are outsourcing entire or part of their transportation department to 3PL providers, and according to a recent report, 3PL use is only on the rise.
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