DC Velocity - March 2016

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Other supply chain software providers sell similar tools, but ClearMetal’s technique can predict trends further into the future, the company claims. By leveraging massive computing power that was unavailable just a decade ago, ClearMetal uses artificial intelligence (AI) to govern a machine-learn-ing algorithm that can analyze millions of data points and container contingencies.

Without this processing power, standard business intelligence platforms cannot sort out the “nearly unmanageable complexity” of constant changes in weather, port congestion, customer demand, and booking changes that determine the flow of some 20 million cargo containers in constant motion around the world’s oceans, ClearMetal founder and CEO Adam Compain said.

Compain’s solution involves predicting where vessels will be before they even arrive. “ClearMetal forecasts the future with certainty, allowing carriers to accurately and effectively allocate, reposition, and utilize their assets,” he said in a statement.

To better support air service in the Los Angeles area, reduce delays for customers, and improve its tracking capabilities, C.H. Robinson has opened its second certified cargo screening facility in Carson, Calif. … The Allen Lund Co. has opened a new office in Greenville, S.C. … Roadrunner LTL, the less-than-truckload arm of Roadrunner Transportation, has moved into newly expanded facilities in Dallas and Houston, Texas, and has added a facility in Memphis, Tenn., to provide better delivery date visibility to customers. … NorthPoint Development has started construction of Inland Port V, a 654,656-square- foot spec building at Logistics Park Kansas City. The Kansas City logistics park is a 1,500-acre master-planned distribution and warehouse development anchored by BNSF Railway’s newest intermodal facility, located in Edgerton, Kan. ground breakers

International Business Systems, a supplier of integrated ERP
software, warehouse management systems, and supply chain
solutions, has appointed Jayne Archbold chief executive officer.
… Storage, material handling, and logistics solutions provider SSI
Schaefer has hired Terry Shaw as manager of integrator partners
in its North America automated systems division.
… Lucas Systems Inc. has welcomed Ron Kubera
as executive vice president and chief marketing
officer. … To expand business both regionally and
internationally, Hannibal Industries has appoint-
ed Steve Rogers executive vice president, Ryan
Peck regional sales director in the South and East,
and Gary Steen regional sales director in the North and West. In
addition, the company has hired Nathan Sherwood as a region-
al account rep in the North and West, and Josh Strickland as a
regional account rep for the South and East. … James J. Radous III,
president of UniCarriers Americas, has been named a UniCarriers
corporate officer for the global UniCarriers Corp. in Tokyo. Adding
to the team, Radous has hired Tom Prusinski as senior vice presi-
dent and chief financial officer, and Eric Victor as senior vice pres-
ident of strategic management and business operations.
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