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Key Questions to Ask When Considering Predictive Analytics
With the advancement of predictive analytics and other tools, now is an exciting time in the logistics industry. Armed with these questions, you should be one step closer to becoming a savvy consumer of these tools and techniques, and the experts at Echo are always here to help you along the way.
Using Data Insights to Optimize Logistics and Transportation
Logistics and transportation data are critical in enabling proactive decision-making that informs supply chain initiatives.
Big Data, Trucking, Transportation
How Short-Term Bids Can Produce Long-Term Benefits
Mini-bids act as a supplemental strategy, providing short-term revisions to rein in costs and shore up failing routing guides. You need the most accurate and reliable data to execute a successful mini-bid strategy.
Big Data, Risk Management, Technology
3 Vital Steps Toward Contactless Supply Chains
As the industry works toward a contactless standard, shippers can get a leg up on what’s to come by ensuring their operations are digital, interoperable and able to collect and analyze data.
Big Data, Food Logistics, Technology
COVID-19 Supply Chain Resources & Recovery Strategies
Expert advice on how supply chain leaders can continue to rise above unprecedented challenges through building on resilience, rethinking peak season, strengthening cold chain distribution, and even collaborating with competitors.
Agility, Data, and No-Code: Three Trends for the Future
Advances in data integration, IoT, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are changing every part of the supply chain.
Big Data, Transportation Management, Transportation
Procurement Practices That Pay Off
How do you know you’re paying the right price for the right level of service? The right business intelligence drives sound strategies, says Ken Adamo, chief of analytics at DAT Freight & Analytics.
Big Data, Technology , Supply Chain Management
Control Tower Capabilities—Redefined
Control tower capabilities help companies make better supply chain decisions across all industries. Any business that experiences supply chain disruption and wants fast and accurate resolutions to benefit all parties stands to benefit, says Lori Harner of E2open.
Big Data, Freight Payment Services, Technology
Mining Data Insights
Here's how freight bill audit and payment firms unearth and leverage data from freight audits to provide shippers the mother lode of information they need to make intelligent, strategic decisions.
Big Data, Transportation Management
16 Transportation Metrics that Matter
Shippers want the right cargo in the right place at the right time. That takes planning, collaboration, and technology. Here are the metrics they monitor and how they do it.
Big Data, Risk Management, Technology
Fixing Our Broken Supply Chain
COVID-19 is clearly a catalyst for necessary change and our collective global supply chain disruption makes it clear that the time to bring transparency and efficiency is now.
Big Data, Finance, Supply Chain
Do You Have Bad Strategies or Bad Data?
Decisions made with incorrect data lead to no cost savings and compounding incorrect data throughout the supply chain. Here's how to make sure your data is sound.
Big Data, Supply Chain, Visibility
Let Data Lead the Way to Optimization
Having a better understanding of what our customers need, combined with the wider picture we’re capturing from thousands of data points, enables us to work even more effectively for our customers.
Fostering a Data-Centric Culture in Fulfillment Operations
Investing in data management can help your DC run smoother. However, you shouldn’t quit once you’ve rearranged a few aisles. Take your learnings from fulfillment and use them to encourage greater data investment in all aspects of your operation.
I Was a Shipment at Disney
Here's how Disney is leveraging technology and big data to make visitors' experiences magical.
Big Data, Freight Forwarders, Supply Chain
How Freight Agents Can Utilize Data To Grow Their Businesses - Landstar
Freight agents rely on technology to maintain the daily operations of their businesses. But how are they using data gathered from technology to drive growth?
Big Data, Logistics, Transportation
Leveraging Data for Speed and Efficiency
Constant optimizations drive transportation and logistics (T&L) processes. To compete in this ever-evolving sector, you need to be able to take full advantage of the data at your disposal.
Big Data, Global Logistics, Logistics, Supply Chain, Technology
Artificial Intelligence Will Transform the Global Logistics Network in Three Key Areas
Artificial intelligence (AI) use is accelerating as more businesses look to make the digital transformation leap. Here are three areas in global logistics where AI will be the most impactful.
Big Data, Logistics, Supply Chain, Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
Using KPIs to Optimize Transportation Data
Here are some of the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that companies can use to improve supply chain visibility, cut transportation costs, and improve parcel shipping service.
Big Data, Logistics I.T., Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management
Is Supply Chain Planning Right for the Cloud?
Cloud-based deployments can remove IT obstacles and accelerate the launch of supply chain initiatives. However, are the advantages of cloud deployments for supply chain solutions real and worthwhile?
E-commerce, Big Data, Manufacturing, Logistics I.T., Supply Chain
Consumer Behavior: The Missing Link
Retailers and manufacturers can unlock significant competitive advantage by leveraging consumer insights to make category decisions and create localized merchandising assortments.
Big Data, Trucking, Technology
Commentary: IoT and Analytics to Usher in New Era in Logistics
The ultimate way to transform logistics is by improving efficiencies through the help of IoT, analytics, and intelligent platforms that run independently. Here's a look into the future.
Big Data, Logistics, Supply Chain, Technology
How to Find Value in Big Data
Use this advice to get the most out of your big data.
Big Data, Education & Careers, Inventory Management, Legislation, Public Policy, and Regulations, Logistics, Supply Chain, Technology , Supply Chain Management, Transportation
Winter Reading Guide 2017
Winter provides a great advantage–time. The hustle and bustle of the holidays is over and colder weather prevails. There’s no better time to hit the books and amp up your knowledge of important logistics and supply chain management issues.
Big Data, Cloud Computing, Logistics, Supply Chain, Technology
Joanne Wright: Turning Data Into Insight
Profile of Joanne Wright, Vice President of Supply Chain, IBM
Big Data, Last Mile Delivery, Global Logistics, Supply Chain, Technology , Transportation, Visibility
Four Technologies Set to Change the Future of Logistics
Get ready for a supply chain paradigm shift. These technologies will cause shippers to rethink cost-cutting measures and rewrite logistics strategies.
Big Data, Education & Careers, Logistics, Supply Chain
Doug Waggoner: Managing By Consensus and Common Sense
Profile of Doug Waggoner, CEO and chairman, Echo Global Logistics
Big Data, Logistics, Supply Chain, Technology
Self-Improving Supply Chains Have Arrived
Supply chain planning systems can greatly benefit from combining artificial intelligence techniques so they become more intelligent, dynamic, and user-friendly.
Big Data, Logistics, Supply Chain, Technology
Big Data: Breaking Down Key Information and Putting It to Work
When you break down big data, new types of data is found that can be used to benefit customers and build a stronger advantage competitively.
Big Data, Global Logistics, Logistics, Ocean, Supply Chain, Transportation
INTTRA CEO John Fay: Trading Stocks for Ships
Profile of John Fay, CEO of the electronic supply chain platform, INTTRA.
Big Data, Logistics, Partnership, Supply Chain, Technology
Leveraging Collaborative Logistics for Increased Visibility
The cornerstone of collaborative logistics is timely visibility. Data about orders, inventory, transportation, and spend need to all funnel into a common denominator big data repository and be readily accessible.
Big Data, 3PL, Economic Development, Logistics, Third-Party Logistics, Site Selection, Supply Chain, Transportation Infrastructure, Technology , Transportation
Georgia: Enabling Business Growth Through Collaboration
From well-designed redundancies across intermodal shipping methods to creative solutions when the unexpected happens, Georgia’s logistics industry is positioned to help shippers connect, compete, and grow.
Big Data, Education & Careers, Education, Legislation, Public Policy, and Regulations, Logistics, Intermodal, Ports, Supply Chain, Technology , Supply Chain Management, Transportation
Inbound Logistics Winter Reading Guide 2016
It's important to stay up to date on supply chain and logistics developments. Here's a list of books on wide ranging topics.
Big Data, Cloud Computing, Logistics, Logistics I.T., Technology , Supply Chain Management
The Shape of ‘Things’ to Come
The Internet of Things is bringing major changes to the way companies plan and execute supply chain activities as sensors, communications systems, and analytics solutions all become cheaper, faster, and more capable.
Big Data, Logistics, Logistics I.T.
Ditch the Spreadsheet and Grow Your Business with Quality Data
To grow and evolve, shippers of all sizes need the high-quality data provided by modern technologies.
E-commerce, Big Data, 3PL, Logistics, Logistics I.T., Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Supply Chain Management, Warehousing
Building a Smarter Warehouse
Cloud computing, omnichannel management, and big data are the questions. Can your warehouse supply the answers?
Big Data, Lean, Logistics I.T., Supply Chain Management
The Next Frontier of Supply Chain Innovation: Analytics, LEAN and the Power of Big Data
The confluence of faster data access, better analytical tools, and data-driven business decisions, make it more likely that future supply chain optimization will be continuous.
Big Data, Logistics, Partnership, Supply Chain Management, Transportation
Strategic Shipping Solutions
Predictive modeling and big data help develop efficient shipping solutions to lower shippers’ freight spend and overall supply chain costs.
Big Data, Logistics, Logistics I.T., Supply Chain Management, Transportation
Offshore vs. Outsource for Transportation & Logistics
Many transportation and logistics professionals hear outsourcing and think offshoring, but there is a big difference.
How Ransomware Kidnaps Supply Chains
The volume and sophistication of cyberattacks has increased in recent years, but even more so with COVID-19 and the shift to remote work. Most notably, there has been a particularly concerning rise in ransomware attacks.
Big Data, Technology , Transportation
2021: Next-Generation In-Transit Visibility
The Open Visibility Network adds in-transit visibility beyond what’s available today, benefitting customers and shippers.
Big Data, Inventory Management, Technology
SerVaas Laboratories Cleans Up with Business Intelligence
When a company's employee roster includes 100 workers but the products are sold in one dozen countries, accurate sales and inventory data is critical. Business intelligence solutions, however, have traditionally exceeded the budgets of small to mid-sized companies.
Keeping Your Eye on the Prize: What Formula One Can Teach Us About the RFP Process
When managing your next RFP, make sure you have the right tools in place that eliminate inefficiencies and allow you to keep your eye on the prize—finalizing and executing the routing guide.
Aptitive Helps 3PL Derive Insights from Data with Real-Time Analytics Platform
A Chicago-based 3PL turned to Aptitive to design a scalable data and analytics modernization platform. Aptitive delivered a solution that not only helped the provider, but their customers as well.
Big Data, Manufacturing, Partnership
Collaboration Provides Unification, Visibility, and Reporting on Key Factors
TForce Worldwide partnered with a large manufacturing client, building a system that met its needs and a unified platform that provides complex data to support better business decisions.
Big Data, Labor Management, Technology
3 Tips for Using Data-Driven Technology to Augment Worker Safety
Shippers utilizing IoT technology now have more data at their fingertips than ever before. When it comes to optimizing this information to keep workers safe from illnesses such as COVID-19 and injury, here are three tips to keep in mind.
Why Companies Should Consider Employing Robots
Through robotic process automation, Ruan has significantly improved service to its customers.
Big Data, Inventory Management, Technology
Drone Technology Improves Warehouse Performance
An innovative drone-based technology solution enables Romark Logistics to automate pallet counts and offer inventory analytics and insights to its customers.
Big Data, Sustainability, Supply Chain Management
More Companies Seek Sustainability Data
An uptick of 24% more companies are asking their suppliers to report environmental data in 2020 through nonprofit CDP Global, with a 34% surge of growth in North America. Companies then use the data to inform procurement decisions and supplier engagement strategies.
Blockchain Pilots Aren't Landing
Most supply chain blockchain initiatives will remain at the pilot stage through 2022, requiring a different approach to take off.
Preparing for the New World of Work
The supply chain workplace of today faces significant disruption and begs the question: What should businesses be doing to embrace these changes?
Big Data, Logistics Solutions Providers, Technology
Leveraging Your Suppliers: What You Can Do for Me
This story looks at various ways in which companies take advantage of their suppliers’ capabilities and expertise, and at the benefits of those partnerships.
Big Data, Retail, Sustainability, Warehousing
Supply Chain Predictions 2020
Industry leaders look to the future, offering advice and strategies to help you successfully navigate the year ahead.
Big Data, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Logistics I.T.
You Have a Data Problem. Here’s What to Do About It.
In order to make 2020 better than years past, shippers must make this New Year’s resolution: Get the data right before the product leaves the dock.
Big Data, Supply Chain, Technology , Supply Chain Management
Drilling Deeper Into Your Supply Chain
Many industries use supply chain analytics to drive insight, make better business decisions and verify or disprove existing models or theories.
Big Data, Logistics I.T., Risk Management, Supply Chain, Technology
Using Real-Time Tech to Mitigate Risk
Real-time technology can help shippers keep abreast of high-impact incidents around the world and provide extra time and context to activate their supply chain risk mitigation strategies.
Big Data, Logistics, Logistics I.T., Supply Chain, Technology
How Smarter, Stronger Supply Chains Improve the Customer Experience
Companies are turning “big supply chain data” into real insights that improve efficiency, bring products and services to market faster, and deliver differentiating customer value, all of which are key to remaining competitive in the new digital economy.
Big Data, Supply Chain, Technology , Supply Chain Management
What's Your—and Your Company's—Degree of Supply Chain Digital Consciousness?
The age of the digital supply chain is here. And yet, even with technology investments on the upswing, not every company is moving along the digital path at the same pace. Are you up to speed?
Big Data, Manufacturing, Logistics I.T., Technology
Manufacturers Laser-Focused on Technology
Digital transformation is truly underway in manufacturing. While digital technologies such as cloud, mobile, big data and analytics, and Internet of Things have been industry drivers for years, manufacturers now have high expectations for the business value of technologies that are in earlier stages of adoption.
Big Data, Logistics Solutions Providers, Logistics, Logistics I.T., Technology
The Search for a Connected Supply Chain
The Search for a Connected Supply Chain
Big Data, Logistics I.T., Technology
Pushing Blockchain Past the Hype
By developing a more holistic view of company operations, businesses can then turn to the channel community to identify real-world, impactful applications for blockchain.
Big Data, Logistics Solutions Providers, Logistics I.T., Supply Chain, Technology , Supply Chain Management
IN BRIEF | New Services & Solutions
New supply chain services and solutions
Big Data, Logistics, Logistics I.T., Technology
Companies Go for IoT
3PLs and tech providers can empower ethical supply chains, winter warehouse tips, what is most important to carriers when working with shippers, Fleet Advantage 2018 benchmarking survey reveals fleet operators pulse about rising fuel and maintenance and electric trucks, female high school students, findings from 2019 Third-Party Logistics Study, Forrester forecasts that companies will spend $434.9 billion to run IoT solutions by 2023, startup aims to make robots safe around factory workers, conditions ripe for multistory warehouses, automated material handling equipment market to exhibit significant growth during 2018–2024
Big Data, Supply Chain, Technology
Why NextGen Tech Like Blockchain and AI Will Transform Your Supply Chain - MHI
Among the next-gen technologies set to affect the supply chain, blockchain and artificial intelligence are rapidly emerging with potential for significant impact.
Big Data, 3PL, Logistics, Logistics I.T., Technology
How to Prioritize and Select Logistics Technology - SEKO Logistics
Technology is the backbone of today's logistics systems, and shippers want to make the right choices for mission-critical systems.
Big Data, Logistics I.T., Supply Chain, Technology , Supply Chain Management
What Does World-Class Supply Chain Planning Look Like?
Despite its criticality, most companies are very poor at supply chain planning. Here’s a recipe for dealing with complexity and deploying a set of world-class supply chain planning capabilities.
Big Data, Logistics, Technology
Supply Chain Commentary:
How Blockchain Brings New Efficiencies
Blockchain allows shippers and other supply chain participants to collaborate in a new way, removing significant costs—both hard and soft—out of the supply chain. Here’s how.
Big Data, Logistics, Supply Chain, Technology
Supply Chain Commentary: How to Overcome Technology Roadblocks
Right now, there is a disconnect between shippers, carriers, and customers that does not allow for blockchain and deep analytics to be applied. A better platform for collaboration throughout the industry will drive growth and the overall success of the logistics sector.
Big Data, Logistics I.T., Technology
Unblocking the Blockchain: Beyond the Hype
Blockchain adoption is not as swift as it seems. The industry giants leading the charge are backing closed, permission-based blockchain initiatives, which are bound to limit their effectiveness in the long run. Here’s how to unleash the full potential of blockchain.
Big Data, Logistics, Logistics I.T., Technology
IoT and Security in the Supply Chain: Making Smart Choices
IoT is creating amazing opportunities for supply chain stakeholders to process data and automate environmental interactions in new ways. Here’s how to manage security risks.
Big Data, Supply Chain, Technology , Supply Chain Management
Five Reasons to Consider Cloud Services for Your Supply Chain
Cloud technologies support innovative supply chain solutions that deliver the right goods to the right place at the right time—as quickly and cost effectively as possible. Here’s why supply chain managers should look to the cloud now.
Big Data, Manufacturing, Logistics I.T., Technology
Manufacturers Take to Technology, Automation
Manufacturers embrace IIoT to improve quality and operational visibility.
Big Data, Logistics, Logistics I.T., Technology
How Supply Chain Managers Can Use
Artificial Intelligence to Their Advantage
With more and more companies hopping on the AI bandwagon, the technology will affect supply chain planning across industries. Find out which verticals have the most to gain and how supply chain managers can make smarter decisions.
Big Data, Supply Chain, Technology
Digital Change: Realizing the Potential
Digital Transformation (DT) is coming of age. Eighty percent of respondents to a recent IFS Digital Change Survey see themselves as “enabled”, “enhanced” or “optimized” to leverage DT.
Big Data, Logistics, Logistics I.T., Supply Chain
It Happens Automagically
Whether your company is a manufacturer, retailer, distributor, or in e-commerce, the future is happening now, automagically. IL publisher Keith Biondo explores IoT and the Internet of Everything.
Big Data, Logistics, Logistics I.T., Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Technology
The Key to Lasting Supply Chain Innovation: Get Real
Managing a business for sustained growth means finding and implementing innovative solutions to the challenges of complex supply chain logistics. To achieve lasting, repeatable innovation, check out these real-world solutions.
Big Data, Supply Chain, Technology , Visibility
Putting an End to Black Box Shipping
Sometimes, for even the most critical shipments, the shipper receives information for only two data points: when the shipment left their hands and confirmation the shipment has arrived. Here's why so-called black box shipping is on its way out.
Big Data, Logistics, Ocean, Supply Chain, Technology
How to Prepare for the Digital Future
Digitization is rapidly transforming the ocean container shipping industry. Here’s how to prepare.
Big Data, Logistics I.T., Technology
Sierra Wireless Launches Acculink Cargo, A Managed IoT Solution for Asset Tracking
Acculink Cargo provides a near real-time, visibility, global tracking, and exception-based monitoring solution for high-value and sensitive assets to serve the $30B+ global asset tracking market.
Big Data, Risk Management, Security
Can Your Supply Chain Withstand the Unexpected?
How do we defend dynamic threats to the backbone of how we consume goods and services? Here are tips to achieve a secure and available supply chain.
Big Data, Manufacturing, Transportation
Bringing Transportation in Sync with the World
True digital transformation requires the ability to think beyond the next load or the next order to find new and enduring ways to match fluctuating demand with capacity and connect relevant industry partners in efficient ways.
Big Data, Trucking, Technology
Make It Disappear
Learn how digital freight matching companies can work together to solve the unique challenges presented by phantom data.
Big Data, Customer Service, Finance
Master Class in ROI
Large companies invested $153.4 million to transform their supply chain in the past three years, but only 10% became masters in achieving a profitable customer experience.
Big Data, Finance, Supply Chain Management
How to Make Supply Chains “Antifragile”
Cost savings has been the number-one priority for heads of procurement and finance across industries. Unfortunately, there is a common misconception that this must be achieved through lean, just-in-time processes and a focus on limited inventory.
Fortune 500 Retailer Finds Cost Savings, Improves Performance with Data Solution
With RateLinx’s TracLinx module, an electronics retailer gained accurate tracking data and corrected sequential issues in real-time, allowing the company to make better logistics decisions and drive other initiatives.
Big Data, Technology , Warehousing
5 Crucial Ways Warehouse Managers Can Improve Warehouse Efficiency
In this competitive and sizable market, space availability is at an all-time low while competitive pressures have never been higher. Warehouse managers can achieve more with less using these five crucial tips.
Big Data, 3PL, Global Logistics, Supply Chain Management
Plan B: 5 Ways to Weatherproof Your Supply Chain
From establishing secondary suppliers to setting up alternative routes, here’s a look at how Plan B strategies can keep you up and running even during extreme weather events.
Big Data, 3PL, Transportation Management
3PLs Do It All
Third-party logistics providers are future-proofing supply chains, using a toolbox filled with business insights, predictive capabilities, and other new solution sets.
Big Data, Customer Service, Supply Chain, Technology
Supply Chain AI: This Time It’s for Real
While Artificial Intelligence is not a new concept, what has changed is the power of computing, cloud-based service options and the applicability of AI to supply chain and logistics.
Big Data, Manufacturing, Technology
Top 10 Manufacturing Predictions
What's ahead for global manufacturing? Here's what what Manufacturing Insights predicts for the years ahead.
Big Data, Technology , Transportation
Taking Data on the Road: A New Approach to the Transportation Supply Chain
Enabling a data-driven approach with forethought to the unique aspects of a network can provide shippers with new efficiencies that saves them money while still satisfying their customers. Transportation used to simply be about execution, now it’s a competitive advantage.
How to Get Profitable Insights from Fleet Data
Fleets today deal with a huge volume of data — more than they’ve ever collected before — pouring in from ELDs, dashcams and other trucking technology. It’s a double-edged sword. Data has become indispensable because it provides key insights that help inform critical business decisions and, used properly, can boost productivity and minimize expenses.
Big Data, Logistics I.T., Technology
What Are The Possibilities?
Profile of Mark Baker, chief technology officer of Pilot Freight Services.
Big Data, Logistics, Supply Chain
Use Big Data to Improve Your Supply Chain - Transplace
Organizations must have the right processes and strategies in place in order to access that data, analyze it, and then make it actionable.
Big Data, Logistics, Supply Chain
Leveraging Big Data in Your Organization
Use these 10 tips to get the most out of big data.
Big Data, Technology , Visibility
Supply Chain Commentary:
10 Ways to Enhance Visibility
Seeing what’s happening throughout the supply chain is essential in today’s always-on, omnichannel shipping environment. Here’s how businesses can gain the insight and control they need as they move their goods around the globe.
Big Data, 3PL, Import, Export, High-Value/High-Risk Cargo, Ocean, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Technology
Ocean Freight Visibility on the Horizon?
Big Data, Logistics, Supply Chain, Technology
10 Ways to Drive Supply Chain Performance With Big Data
Is more always better? When it comes to a shipper's supply chain and big data, more data doesn't necessarily equate to better productivity. How you leverage and utilize the influx of data is what's key. Use these tips to utilize big data to drive performance in their supply chains.
Big Data, Logistics Solutions Providers, Logistics I.T., Technology
Predictive Applications Take Supply Chains into the Future
Many companies handle supply chain anomalies with reactive planning systems, but this approach leaves them vulnerable to disruption. One new approach to dealing with supply chain uncertainty is to use machine learning to predict what might go wrong.
Big Data, Transportation Management, Transportation Management Systems (TMS), Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), Technology
Get IT Together
Integrated WMS and TMS solutions increase visibility and communication and optimize the movement of goods.
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