Home Depot joins Target, Walmart and, of course, Amazon in stepping up same-day and next-day deliveries. Mark Holifield, the retailer's executive vice president of supply chain and product development, in a statement called the new option "just the
With the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate now having been in effect for the better part of a year, there have since been various impacts from the mandate on shippers supply chain and logistics strategies, as well as having an effect on
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Logistics Management announces 2018’s Top 35 Ocean Carriers. The continued rise in fuel prices and chartering rates had a negative impact on the earnings of the top tier carriers for most of 2018 but, as new alliances mature, industry experts are
A faster-growing United States economy and resulting higher freight demand are expected to keep tightening time constraints throughout 2018, especially for certain types of freight and in certain lanes.
In today’s world of ocean shipping, many carriers have looked to technology to improve day-to-day operations—going beyond legacy systems and manual processes and moving towards more modern, effective and flexible technology solutions.
Historic freight demand is further stretching truck capacity, which already had been constrained by the industry’s chronic shortage of professional drivers.
Descartes Systems Group, the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that it has successfully deployed its advanced capacity matching solution, Descartes MacroPoint Capacity Matching, with several freight
Although the implementation of the electronic logging device mandate sparked widespread compliance concerns and protests from the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA), the visibility to operational metrics can be beneficial for