Logistics

Highlights

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Long Haul Trucking
Transportation

As Trucking Rates Fall, It’s Time to Renegotiate with Carriers

Dec. 5, 2022
Three ways manufacturers can build on existing relationships to get better pricing
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Freight Costs
Logistics

Help! How Can I Get My Shipping Costs Down?

Oct. 26, 2022
IndustryWeek's resident logistics expert shares three ways to beat supply-chain inflation.
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Technology and IIoT

The AMRs and Cobots of Autonomous Mobile Robots & Logistics Week 2022 (slideshow)

Oct. 12, 2022
The industrial manufacturing side of the annual autonomous robot show.
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Roadblock
Regulations

Surprise! Your Supplier Just Got Hit with an ITC Violation

Aug. 31, 2022
How do these international trade infractions happen, and how can you keep them from derailing your supply chain?
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Planning & Forecasting

Supply Chain: Shifting Winds to Watch for in the 2nd Half of 2022

June 29, 2022
China restarts, semiconductor shifts and a sinking oil rig in Yemen factor into the global calculus.

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