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Freight Forwarder: Key Workflows and Technology

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Freight forwarders are experts that boost global trade and international transportation. So in this post, we look at freight forwarders’ role in the global supply chain and discuss how technology can support their operations. In 2021, according to different studies, the freight forwarding market was valued at $186 to $192.5

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Asset Tracking in Logistics: When and Which Technologies to Implement

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Companies lose 10 to 40 percent of supply chain assets annually due to misplacement, theft, or breakage. Telsyte’s Asset Loss White Paper claims that businesses expect a $1.34 The same technologies can also be used to track people within the facility (mainly for security, navigation, or analytics purposes).

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Sustainable Travel: Opportunities Digital Technology Provides for a Greener Business

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Greenhouse gases (tourism is responsible for around 8 percent of global carbon emissions, three-quarters of which is due to aviation), local resource overuse (e.g., Greenhouse gases (tourism is responsible for around 8 percent of global carbon emissions, three-quarters of which is due to aviation), local resource overuse (e.g.,

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Cold Chain Logistics Management: How to Handle Temperature-Sensitive Goods

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When ice cream melts in your hands on a hot day, it can be a bit frustrating; but if a load of vaccines can’t be used because it went bad due to wrong storage or transportation conditions, the results are a lot more serious, if not fatal. We’ll talk more about packaging technologies in one of the next sections.

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Supply Chain Control Tower: Enhancing Visibility and Resilience

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Source: Supply Chain Dive Over the last few years, global supply chains have been so severely disrupted – but also enhanced with cutting-edge technologies. Leading executives focus on building resilient and intelligent supply chains that can withstand the turmoil due to data-based proactive decisions.

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Making Sense of IoT Platforms: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBM vs Cisco

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For the most part, they belong to the Internet of Things (IoT), or gadgets capable of communicating and sharing data without human interaction. The technology will move into an even higher gear with the arrival of fifth-generation or 5G networks supporting a million gadgets per square kilometer — ten times as many as in the current era of 4G.

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Supply Chain Analytics: Opportunities in Data Analysis and Business Intelligence

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Supply chain practitioners and CEOs surveyed by 6river share that the main challenges of the industry are: keeping up with the rapidly changing customer demand, dealing with delays and disruptions, inefficient planning, lack of automation, rising costs (of transportation, labor, etc.), Analytics in logistics and transportation.