As a business 3T have been continually monitoring the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) through a number of Government, media and industry sources. In the event of the UK Government moving into the next phase of their Action Plan we are ready. In preparation we have enhanced our internal Business Continuity plan to prioritise the provision […]
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“The top 10 most-used road transport performance measures and how they should be applied to drive continuous improvement” – Gartner, Top 10 Operational Metrics for Logistics Leaders to Improve Their Road Transport Performance, Sean Hurley, 10 September 2020. Operational metrics for logistics leaders. At this time of the year, most logistics leaders will have already set
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Leading independent 4th Party Logistics (4PL) technology and service provider 3T Logistics has made it to the finals in the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Annual Awards for Excellence in the Freight Transport category. 3T submitted an entry that featured a case study on how they’ve partnered with Honda to deliver a highly
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Demand for premises in the logistics sector has helped the logistics and industrial real estate category to rank as the most in-demand among European commercial real estate investors, according to the latest report from CBRE. For the first time, industrial and logistics premises are the top priority for a higher percentage of commercial real estate
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The old problems of siloed data are being overcome using ‘data lakes’ – huge, single expanses of compiled business data – which 4PLs and others in the logistics sector are using to revolutionise industries, according to Monte Zweben. Writing for infrastructure development news site The New Stack, the co-founder and CEO of software company Splice
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A report from Deloitte has outlined the potential impact of Brexit on consumer goods suppliers, including why the UK’s exit from the European Union is likely to increase companies’ reliance on 3PL and 4PL. The analyst’s January 2018 Consumer Review reveals that a third of consumers believe goods and services in general will cost more
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Logistics integration like the coordination delivered by 4PLs has been linked with dramatic reductions in carbon monoxide emissions and in the running costs associated with logistics networks. An article in the journal Transport looks at integrated distribution processes by three medium-sized logistics operators in Warsaw, Poland. It investigates how central management of warehouses can improve
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‘Digitalisation’ is allowing outsourced logistics providers to offer more than the typical third-party logistics (3PL) model by customising services and adopting cloud logistics platforms, according to a newly published report. The article, published in a special issue of the journal Logistics, is called Third-Party Logistics Providers in the Digital Age: Towards a New Competitive Arena?
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Technological developments in 4PL are allowing service providers to address a range of different issues for their clients with better visibility and centralised control, according to a newly published report. Global procurement intelligence advisory firm SpendEdge released the report, entitled simply ‘4PL Procurement Research Report’, at the end of September, and it looks at best
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4PLs have been singled out by researchers as being in the “ideal position” to promote collaboration across massive logistics networks in ways that would not be possible for individual companies within those networks. The study in Transportation Research Procedia looks at how just one 4PL can manage multiple networks – in this example, four European
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