Industry Challenges

Fiscal pressures are being felt across all service offerings in the transportation industry, including Intermodal, Over the Road, Brokerage, and Dedicated. Increased recruiting expenses and mileage pay, truck and maintenance costs, preparation for future regulations on equipment, lost productivity due to new regulations and a precarious market capacity situation are all stressing forces.

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Arrow Transportation Systems Inc.

For almost 100 years Arrow Transportation has been part of the transportation and distribution landscape in Canada and the United States. We started out in 1919 using horse drawn wagons to haul general freight and have evolved into one of the oldest and most respected transportation and distribution companies in our market sector.

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Zero Ready Framework Ensuring shipping can deliver our zero emissions future

whitePaper | November 10, 2022

Shipping faces a critical challenge. The energy transition is well underway and ocean going zero carbon ships must be in service by 2030. The industry is currently focussed on delivering zero Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by fuelling with renewably sourced ammonia, hydrogen or methanol. But solutions for widespread deployment are not ready yet and ships built today have expected lifetimes of 20-30 years. So, the industry now thinks in terms of ‘readiness’, the ability to ensure that a vessel can use zero carbon fuel once this becomes feasible, either by building new vessels that have this capability from the day they are built, or by ensuring existing vessels can be easily converted.

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SPRINT to the future-ready supply chain

whitePaper | January 23, 2022

From the lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, to ongoing geopolitical instability, to the growing consumer and other stakeholder’s focus on sustainability, to the disruptive effect of emerging technologies, the challenges facing today’s supply chains are multiplying and intensifying.

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Zero Trust Manufacturing how to navigate complex supply chains to build trusted IOT devices

whitePaper | June 11, 2022

The rapid adoption of cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) is ushering in billions of connected devices that, left unsecured, represent a significant risk to businesses and consumers. In 2018, Gartner forcasted that the number for connected things would grow to 25 billion by 2021.1 Connected things include a variety of IoT endpoint devices across several critical infrastructure segments, including utilities, automotive, healthcare, retail, and building automation. In these crucial sectors, Gartner estimates that the installed base of IoT endpoints will reach 5.8 billion by the end of 2020.2

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Securing the Internet of Things Supply Chain An IoTSF Whitepaper

whitePaper | June 1, 2022

Imagine that new connected equipment has turned up at your facility. You’ve selected it very carefully through a rigorous procurement process, no doubt considering its excellent security certifications. You are happy. You are looking forward to putting it to work. It is natural to accept it at face value.

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The Future of Software Supply Chain Transparency

whitePaper | March 8, 2022

The Software Supply Chain suffers from a noxious condition that leads to an absolute lack of transparency. While the hardware world would have never developed without standardized product composition information exchange across suppliers, somehow the Software industry made it to this point without such standards. Needless to say, we are paying the consequences of this shortcoming. The worst part of the recent LOG4J vulnerability was not the exploit itself, but the absolute lack of visibility on which products and services it affected.

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How your supply chain can help to gain a competitive advantage

whitePaper | October 29, 2022

If the supply chain configuration is neither designed nor managed, but has evolved without formal planning processes or strategy, it is time to bring the supply chain back in line with the business. At Philips Engineering Solutions, we have developed a 4‐step approach to help our clients to step up in supply chain maturity. The objective is to design a supply chain that actually contributes to delivering a competitive advantage.

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Spotlight

Arrow Transportation Systems Inc.

For almost 100 years Arrow Transportation has been part of the transportation and distribution landscape in Canada and the United States. We started out in 1919 using horse drawn wagons to haul general freight and have evolved into one of the oldest and most respected transportation and distribution companies in our market sector.

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