Morgan Olson

Logistics

Infor | July 06, 2022

Infor, the industry cloud company, today announced that Q&L Industrial Services, a third-party logistics (3PL) provider headquartered in Slovakia, is migrating to the Infor WMS warehouse management cloud solution to improve performance of stock operations. Q&L expects the new system to provide additional benefits in speed and accuracy for its customers. With its current system, Q&L got to a vendor-lock situation with long lead times while needing to improve flexibility...

Supply & Demand Chain Executive | August 21, 2020

The constraints created by the COVID-19 pandemic are forcing manufacturers, suppliers and distributors across the world to revisit their global supply chain strategies and accelerate the adoption of digital technologies, says GlobalData, a leading data analytics company.“Increasing labor shortages, forced closure of factories, disruptions in delivery routes and logistics hubs due to lockdowns, along with evolving customer behavior are the major factors driving companies to deploy dig...

Supply Chain Dive | February 19, 2020

China is experiencing a shortage of truck drivers as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak and quarantine, Hapag-Lloyd reported Wednesday. Offices in China, other than its Wuhan location, are open along with all of its terminals and depots. There is also a limited supply of reefer plugs in China's ports, resulting in congestion and a lack of availability COSCO Shipping said in a service alert last week. Ocean carriers are continuing to blank sailings between the U.S. and China with MSC announcin...

Procurement and Sourcing,Freight

Convoy, J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc., and Uber Freight | December 07, 2022

Convoy, J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc., and Uber Freight announced the formation of the Scheduling Standards Consortium (SSC) which aims to solve transportation scheduling challenges by establishing the freight industry's first formal set of appointment scheduling application programming interface (API) standards. Complex, pervasive, industry-wide challenges such as this require collaborative, industry-wide solutions; the makeup of the SSC's founding members underscores the need to stan...