Transport & Logistics Insights Report

March 3, 2017

Transport and logistics companies must negotiate a complex cocktail of market risks to achieve stability, prosperity, and growth. In an industry where margins are being squeezed, and many SMEs face tough competition from their larger counterparts, harnessing the power of data and technology is essential in facilitating intelligent decision making.

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NEXT Trucking

NEXT Trucking offers an easy-to-navigate online trucking marketplace and app designed first and foremost with shippers, dispatchers and owner-operators in mind. Utilizing predictive load offering technology and intelligent matching capabilities that factor in preferred routes, rates and additional key touch points, truckers are connected directly with shippers searching for efficiency, transparency and competitive pricing.

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Thrust through trust Logistics for the aerospace supply chain transformation

whitePaper | December 19, 2022

The COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 was the most significant disruption ever encountered by the aerospace industry. Nations locked down, flights were cancelled and aircraft were parked and stored. The exceptional scope and speed of the pandemic affected each industry segment: airline, MRO, OEM, vendor and lessor. Even before this unprecedented turbulence,the sector showed signs of distress. Today, the need for change has become a crucialprerequisite for supporting sustainable growth.

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4 reasons why AI is key to smarter fleet management

whitePaper | October 2, 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are leading the way to a smarter world, and the motoring industry is embracing it with open arms. If you’re a regular reader of the , you are likely aware of the impact AI and Virtual Intelligence (VI) have on the motoring insurance sector, but it doesn't stop there.

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Sorting Out Sortation Where and Why Automated Sortation Is Applied

whitePaper | August 23, 2022

With increasing labor costs and supply chain pressures for faster and more accurate and responsive operations, automated sortation systems are finding their way into more and more supply chains, delivering productivity, throughput capacity, accuracy, and accountability for businesses, and a cost effective and efficient flow of goods to consumers. Anyone who has received a parcel delivery, purchased grocery items from a supermarket or ordered a book or DVD online, you will have come into contact with goods that have been handled by an automated sortation system at some stage. And this may have occurred multiple times as the goods made their way through the supply chain to your doorstep

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Beneficial Transportation: How Vehicle-Grid Integration Makes Fleet Electrification a Win-Win

whitePaper | April 23, 2022

As electric vehicle (EV) adoption amongst public and private fleets increases, meeting the energy needs of these vehicles with clean electricity is imperative to the transition to a carbon-free future. Because of the variable and intermittent nature of renewable energy technologies, energy storage will be essential. Today’s grid has been built on the concept of constantly available, stand-by power; tomorrow’s grid must capture and store energy when the sun doesn’t shine or when the wind is still.

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A Standardised Vessel Dataset

whitePaper | February 1, 2023

The Smart Maritime Network’s Standardised Vessel Dataset (SVD) for Noon Reports project aims to provide a free and open list of defined data formats for common vessel operational data points typically found in the daily Noon Report, with the goal of offering maritime stakeholders a central reference point for data mapping that can be applied by shipping companies, technology providers or any related third parties to improve the digital capabilities of the industry.

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SALES & OPERATIONS PLANNING Balancing Supply & Demand in Manufacturing

whitePaper | September 1, 2022

A tale as old as industrialization itself. The former driven by producers, the latter by consumers. Every business is subject to the supply and demand paradigm, but manufacturing organizations in particular, since they determine the supply side of the equation. When we talk about “demand,” we are talking about the quantity of a specific good or service that consumers are willing and able to purchase during a given period of time. When we talk about “supply,” we are talking about the quantity of that specific good or service that is available to consumers.

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Spotlight

NEXT Trucking

NEXT Trucking offers an easy-to-navigate online trucking marketplace and app designed first and foremost with shippers, dispatchers and owner-operators in mind. Utilizing predictive load offering technology and intelligent matching capabilities that factor in preferred routes, rates and additional key touch points, truckers are connected directly with shippers searching for efficiency, transparency and competitive pricing.

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