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Email and PDF attachments are still fully embedded in the ocean freight booking process. Most origin teams must open, read and interpret thousands of carrier email communications to keep systems updated and freight moving every day. Limited human capacity and data silos have presented significant hurdles until now.

Generative AI-enabled technology is consuming and interpreting information in any format, any system, and any portal. This is a huge opportunity for one of the most important processes in global logistics - ensuring that millions of TEUs of containerized freight move as planned.

Join leaders from Century Supply Chain Solutions and Slync.io as they shed light on ways the ocean booking process is going completely digital and its impact on operational efficiency, agility, and customer value short and long-term.

Moderator: Alessandra Barrett, Associate Director, Special Projects, Journal of Commerce by S&P Global

Speaker(s): Jim McCullen, Chief Information Officer, Century Supply Chain Solutions John Urban, Chairman & CEO, Slync.io  

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With efficiency and cost-effectiveness being paramount in today’s logistics landscape, harnessing the power of cutting-edge technology is crucial. Keelvar’s intelligent sourcing optimization solution has revolutionized the way companies approach procurement and sourcing processes and empowered customers spanning the logistics industry worldwide.

During this webinar, our expert panel will delve into the transformative impact sourcing optimization is having on logistics sourcing worldwide.

Whether you’re a logistics professional seeking to optimize your company’s procurement function or a supply chain manager striving for enhanced operational efficiency, this webinar is a must-attend.

Moderator: Alessandra Barrett, Associate Director, Special Projects, Journal of Commerce by S&P Global

Speaker(s): Dylan Alperin, Vice President, Professional Services, Keelvar

Thomas Storch, Senior Manager, Insight Sourcing Group

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Trucking’s crystal ball isn’t just cloudy, it’s been cracked by a high level of economic uncertainty and the volatile events of 2023. A major strike or the loss of a large carrier could flip the market just as shippers prepare for the fall shipping season and overstocked inventories give way to replenishment. But shippers and carriers also could continue mapping the market bottom they reached in the second quarter. How much of a surge in demand should we expect for trucking services this fall? How should shippers be thinking not just about the second half but early 2024, when some see a tighter market emerging? 

This webcast — which will serve as an early look at some of the industry issues to be addressed at the Inland Distribution Conference on Sept. 25-27 in Chicago — will discuss these questions and all topics related to the trucking outlook. 

Moderator:

William Cassidy, Senior Editor, Trucking and Domestic Transportation, Journal of Commerce by S&P Global

Speakers:

Chris Caplice, Senior Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, Chief Scientist, DAT Freight & Analytics

Bobby Holland, Vice President/Director of Freight Business Analytics, U.S. Bank

Jason Miller, Associate Professor of Logistics, Michigan State University

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US containerized imports are showing signs of stabilizing, if not yet showing a significant rally, as supply chain trends return to some semblance of new normal following the dramatic two-year, pandemic-driven surge in imports and consumer demand. Total US imports hit nearly 2.1 million TEUs in May, according to data from PIERS, a sister company of the Journal of Commerce within S&P Global. Although that was the highest total monthly import volume this year, it was still down more than 20% from the same month in 2022, continuing a streak of year-over-year double-digit declines that started last November. As the trans-Pacific prepares to enter its busiest quarter of the year, the question now is whether this period is a correction that will lead to increased stability, or whether further receding will occur. For now, the peak season is shaping up to be dull — a recent CNBC survey revealed that retailers expect a weak holiday season, marked by heavy discounting, an indication that holiday-related imports could be week through the summer-fall peak season. What does this mean for shippers, carriers, and forwarders and the prospect for accessorial charges? Will carriers be forced to lay up capacity, leading to more blank sailings in the fall? And, with a tentative West Coast labor agreement reached between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and Pacific Maritime Association, will importers re-evaluate their routing decisions, leading to West Coast ports recapturing some of the market share they’ve shed during the uncertainty around negotiations? 

This webcast will address these questions and more as the peak shipping season gets under way. 

Moderator:

Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor, West Coast, Journal of Commerce, S&P Global

Speaker(s):

Julia Bedanova, Chief Operating Officer, Million Dollar Baby 

Paul Bingham, Director-Transportation Economics Consulting, S&P Global Market Intelligence

Jan Tiedeman, Vice President-Liner Strategy, Alphaliner

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Shippers across modes have been saddled with an unenviable amount of volatility, on both the high and low side of the rate and capacity-availability spectrum. That volatility is throwing a number of long-held beliefs about freight procurement — most notably a reliance on annual contracts and devotion to a multi-round bidding process — into question. As technology advances in all areas of logistics take hold, it's appropriate for shippers to wonder if the time they take determine the appropriate carriers, allocate freight, and find the right rate equates to a commensurate amount of value. This webcast will focus on how bidding across freight modes is changing, how the proliferation of rate information is changing procurement models, and whether it makes sense to be more flexible as a buying organization.

Moderator:

Eric Johnson, Senior Editor, Logistics Technology, Journal of Commerce, S&P Global Market Intelligence

Speaker(s): Jason Cook, Founder and Managing Director, Ardent Global Logistics Eric Gauthier, Founder and President, MyTLA Transportation and Logistics Agency Inc. *Check back soon for more information! Interested in sponsoring this webcast? For more information, please visit https://subscribe.joc.com/mediasolutions/