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Implementing new technology is a key step toward improving the efficiency that drives bottom-line revenues, but identifying your company’s best path there can be challenging. With factories across the globe and complex logistics, one of the world’s largest bakeries Grupo Bimbo faced this question and identified asset utilization as the strategy to stay ahead of their competition and serve customers best. Their process uncovered logistics insights that can be applied across the transportation industry.

On October 13, join BlackBerry Radar and its special guest, Eric McCann, Grupo Bimbo’s technical fleet manager, for a live discussion and audience Q&A addressing the challenges they faced and how they used asset tracking technology to overcome those hurdles.

The webcast will examine:

- How improved asset utilization drives business efficiency

- ROI and operational efficiencies gained

- Improved customer service and useful reporting tools

Moderator: Alessandra Barrett, Senior Content Editor, JOC, Maritime & Trade, IHS Markit

Speakers:

Christopher Plaat, Senior Vice President & General Manager, BlackBerry Radar

Eric McCann, Technical Fleet Manager, Grupo Bimbo

Freight payment is a function that is often overlooked by domestic and global shippers, largely because it’s seen as a routine finance process, and not one with more intrinsic value and challenges. Accurate invoices not only enable a smoother payment process but also yield hugely valuable shipment data that can be used to measure service providers and impact future procurement cycles. A smooth payment and audit process also can help a shipper be a better customer for its carriers and third-party logistics providers. In recent years, technology and business models around the freight payment and audit process have become more refined, but it’s still a highly fragmented section of the industry, with little regulation.

This webcast will explore how technology providers in the domestic and international freight management markets are helping shippers manage this process more effectively and profitably.

Moderator/Presenter:

Eric Johnson, Senior Editor, Technology, JOC, Maritime & Trade, IHS Markit

Speakers:

Cecil Bryan, President, Logistics Alliance Network

Brad Klaus, CEO, Haven

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From March through July, the US trucking industry seems to have completed a cycle that would normally take at least a year, from a recessionary plunge to an unexpectedly strong recovery that is shifting pricing power to carriers. This isn’t a straightforward, V-shaped demand-driven recovery, however. Several factors — especially unprecedented supply chain disruption and dislocation in the COVID-19 pandemic, and changes in consumer purchasing patterns — have affected the availability of truck capacity. Certain types of shippers, and carriers, are doing better than others, as the economic recovery looks different depending on your industry. What should shippers expect from trucking providers in the fourth quarter and in early 2021?

In this webinar, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Transportation Analyst Lee Klaskow and Michigan State University Associate Professor for Logistics Jason Miller will present an overview of a market and recovery that Miller has called “bifurcated.”

Moderator/Presenter:

William Cassidy, Senior Editor, Trucking and Domestic Transportation, JOC, Maritime & Trade, IHS Markit

Speaker (s):

Lee Klaskow, Senior Analyst, Transportation and Logistics, Bloomberg Intelligence

Jason Miller, PhD, Associate Professor of Logistics, Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University

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What has 2020 meant for global container port efficiency? This year, after all, was to be the watershed year for initiatives such as port call optimization, finally driven to progress by intensifying pressure to reduce emissions, combined with advancements in digitization and standards to help get to the new levels of collaboration required to make it happen. Then came COVID-19, one of the biggest and most unpredictably disruptive events the global economy has experienced. It could reasonably be expected that the large reduction in ship calls in the first half of the year would translate to better overall port efficiency due to reductions in waiting times and other factors. In fact, IHS Markit’s Port Efficiency Data shows that on a global level, average call sizes — the number of boxes exchanged per port call — grew by more than 4 percent on a global level in this year's first half compared with a year earlier, suggesting better load factors and proactive capacity management by operators. But landside capacity challenges resulting from truck shortages and the inability of some distribution centers to receive goods may have offset any efficiency gains resulting from lower overall volumes passing through ports and terminals in the first half of the year.

This webcast will look into IHS Markit’s unique Port Efficiency Data to uncover key trends in port efficiency in 2020, including the impact of COVID-19. It will discuss the outlook for port efficiency and port call optimization and the roadblocks that remain to effectively leverage these promising areas to reduce emissions and improve profitability.

Moderator/Presenter:

Turloch Mooney, Senior Editor, Global Ports, JOC, Maritime & Trade, IHS Markit

Speakers:

Jan Hoffmann, Chief, Logistics Branch, UNCTAD

Andy Lane, Partner, CTI Consultancy

Henning Schleyerbach, Chief Operating Officer, Digital Container Shipping Association

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Carriers and forwarders operating in the Asia-Europe trade are reporting rising volume through their networks as economies on the continent begin their slow recovery from COVID-19 lockdowns. As we move deeper into the traditional peak shipping season, concerns that cargo rollings would increase as rising volume overpowers available capacity are abating, with carriers cautiously reinstating blanked sailings and supplying extra loaders to pick up containers bumped off overbooked vessels. Yet even as demand increases, the threat of a second wave of coronavirus infections remains, with countries in Europe imposing targeted measures on affected cities and regions to combat sporadic outbreaks. With the end of a chronically disrupted 2020 insight, speakers at this webcast will take the measure of the container shipping industry and try to fathom what lies ahead for carriers and their customers.

Moderator/Presenter:

Greg Knowler, Europe Editor, JOC, Maritime & Trade, IHS Markit

Speaker (s):

Andreas Bütfering, Senior Director Trade Management Far East, Hapag-Lloyd AG

Alan Murphy, CEO & Founder, Sea-Intelligence ApS

Mats Samuelsson, Senior Vice President, Global Logistics, H&M

Dominique von Orelli, Executive Vice President, Global Head of Ocean Freight, DHL Global Forwarding

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