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Digital Freight Forwarding: how are shippers adapting to market changes?
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How Digital Freight Forwarding Revolutionizes the Online Shipping Experience
In today's global marketplace, shippers face multiple challenges, from navigating complex supply chains to meeting evolving customer demands. Fortunately, digital freight forwarding is emerging as a powerful ally for shippers, offering a host of benefits that are transforming the shipping experience. ...
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Romain
Bouchet
Product & Growth Manager
Romain Bouchet is a Product leader at GEODIS, dedicated to developing digital products and enhancing GEODIS customer experiences. Romain stays at the forefront of the company's digital revolution, shap...
How to Improve Your Logistics Forecasting
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How to Improve Your Logistics Forecasting
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forecast supply chain
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Accurately balancing supply and demand management, optimizing inventory levels, and forecasting future needs is challenging. Customers expect speed, flexibility, transparency, and reliability from brands. Forecasting and staging inventory effectively is critical, making a strong understanding of current and future inventory requirements. We have already examined how reliable lo...
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Evelyn
McCarter
Contract Logistics Marketing Analyst at GEODIS, Americas
Evelyn is the Contract Logistics Marketing Analyst for the Americas with GEODIS. She writes content for the GEODIS Americas marketing team with the help of experts in supply chai...
5 reasons why you should invest in end-to-end visibility to turn your supply chain into a strategic asset
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supply chain data
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According to a 2021 study by the Economist Intelligence Unit, more than half of companies lack end-to-end visibility into their supply chains. This lack of visibility is one of the biggest challenges in logistics today. Not knowing the exact status of an order or shipment involves many risks. It can turn your supply chain into a cost center, whereas it should – and could be – a ...
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Joe
Fordney
Senior Vice President – Global Business Development
Joe has been solving supply chain problems for over 23 years. His experience is global having worked on three continents supporting customers across every vertical market. His background...
How to attract and retain talent with CSR
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While corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been talked about since the 1950s, it has taken on a whole new dimension in recent years due to the climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. With companies now aware of the interdependent relationship they have with society, they must align their growth ambitions with environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.
The war for...
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Audrey
Lemaître
Talent Acquisition & Diversity Manager
Audrey has been in HR development position for 12 years and has significant experience in change management and HR projects. Prior to joining GEODIS, Audrey spent 5 years as Generalist HR wit...
Reducing the environmental footprint of ocean freight
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International trade could not exist without ocean freight services. From clothing to foodstuffs and other goods, no less than 90% of the world's traded goods cross our oceans.
However, despite the logistics sector’s efforts, this mode of transport still causes pollution, in terms of atmospheric and water contamination. There are somewhat fewer initiatives to reduce CO2 emission...
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Florence
Gautrais
GEODIS Global Ocean freight director
Florence has been a top executive in the domain of Ocean freight and freight forwarding solutions for more than 20 years. She manages Ocean freight products and innovative door-to-door collaborati...
How and why do we establish and implement a multimodal transport plan?
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Facilitating transactions worldwide while limiting your greenhouse gas emissions; this is made possible through multimodal transport.
Combining at least two modes of transport (rail, road, inland waterways or ocean transport, etc.), from the initial loading of the production units up to delivery, enables goods to be transported over long distances and to increase local site del...
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Marc
Vollet
Director of Operational Excellence
Marc Vollet is Director of Operational Excellence for the Road Transport business line of GEODIS. He is in charge of all operations, with the main objective of greening transport plans through multimodal...
Is your online marketplace geared up for holiday season?
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Online marketplace pick season christmas
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With Christmas shopping accounting for approximately 60% of annual online sales, and with an expected 20% increase versus last year, the holiday rush is bound to be tidal. At the same time, there’s a global pandemic underway, so (put the reverse) Stock-outs and supply issues are expected to create demand peaks). As an online marketplace, being able to provide excellent customer ...
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Jason
Denne
Global Account Manager, Online Marketplaces at GEODIS
Jason has been in Senior Management positions in Global Logistics for more than 25 years and has significant experience in designing, implementing and managing Global Supply Chains that...
Customized delivery: the logistical cornerstone of a successful worksite
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delivery worksite constraint construction supply chain solution
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While carefully organized project management, quality of the architectural plans and expertise of skilled workers are indispensable factors for a successful construction site, delivery logistics to the worksite, including tools and materials, is just as important. Without meeting the dual imperatives of fast and quality delivery, no project can be built to the owner's satisfacti...
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Laurent
Rocchesani
Responsable National Course/Medical Direction Commerciale Geodis Distribution/Express chez GEODIS
Graduate of a business school with dual degrees in France and America after spending a year in the USA.
Strong management experience ...
Is your Healthcare delivery model aligned with your supply chain?
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Is your Healthcare delivery model aligned with your supply chain?
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medical healthcare goods supply chain
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You can rely on a successful integrated solution to sustain distribution to your patients with GEODIS’ compliant suite of services, from customer services, warehousing and transportation to cash collection.
To respond to its steady growth worldwide, our customer, a world leading healthcare company was looking for a reliable logistics partner.
GEODIS supports its developmen...
Expanding your B2C e-commerce business to the European market
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e-commerce B2C parcel delivery MyParcel
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Across the world people found various ways of coping with strict pandemic lockdowns and for the vast majority, they started clicking. They clicked for food, they clicked for clothing, for cleaning supplies. And whether they were brick and mortar loyalists or avid online shoppers, lockdowns and the ongoing digital transformation changed consumption habits drastically. Today, e-co...
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Ashwani
NATH
Global Head of e-commerce
Global Head of e-Channel solutions and previously Global Retail Director for GEODIS. He records more than thirty-seven years of experience in the logistics sector. He is leading the design and deployment of new ...