The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 22, 2022

I’m not talking about how shipping and logistics are key in keeping the supply chain connected during global health crises so we can keep essential supplies like medicine, food, and toilet paper moving. I also advocated DHL to join United for Wildlife , a high-profile community founded by Prince William and The Royal Foundation in 2014.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 29, 2014

The first day of JDA FOCUS 2014 ended with a festive Grand Party at the MGM Pool Deck last night. In his riveting speech, Captain Phillips recounted his dramatic capture and shared his experience as a “floating CEO” in charge of the operations of a multi-million dollar ship and its crew.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Flagship Logistics Group, Rising Sun Systems and Corporate Traffic are among the first customers. Amazon employees then package, label, and ship the items directly to the people who ordered them [online].”. Tweet The post This Week in Logistics News (February 24-28, 2014) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 11, 2024

As a group they aren’t slow moving, but they have to be replenished as individual items. back in 2014, so we have had two decades of learning that proves almost all of Blue Yonder’s retail Fulfillment customers can reduce inventory and improve service levels with our Blue Yonder Slow Mover solution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

When FedEx, UPS, US Postal Service packages should be shipped for upcoming holiday season. The American Trucking Association (ATA) , along with three state trucking associations and a number of groups representing various facets of the supply chain, have sued the Biden Administration over its employer-based COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 16, 2013

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. 2013 has certainly been an interesting year! Not surprisingly, analytics is at the top of the list.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

Technology companies have an average of 125 suppliers in their tier-one group and more than 7,000 across all tiers. Data on ocean shipments, for example, is generally available across the globe, due primarily to greater standardization in ocean shipping. Starting with real-time transportation visibility data, not all markets are alike.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 9, 2022

Just last year many were chartering their own cargo ships to get all these goods to their destinations.) He founded FourKites in 2014 after recognizing pain points in the logistics industry and designing elegant and effective systems to address them. Matt Elenjickal is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of FourKites.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Robinson , Descartes Systems Group , MercuryGate , Transplace , Opus9 , Paragon , and TranzAct Technologies. Okay, turning the corner, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Amazon offers free shipping on all orders for the holidays (CNN). Hub Group To Acquire CaseStack, Inc.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If you’re Home Depot, you reserve an entire ship for your own exclusive use. He founded FourKites in 2014 after recognizing pain points in the logistics industry and designing elegant and effective systems to address them. In light of all of this, I’d posit we can no longer look at the events of the last year as an aberration.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

ARC Advisory Group began conducting formalized research on the global warehouse automation market in 2014. In my own defense, things kind of took off after 2014. Top 20 Warehouse Automation Suppliers Worldwide ; Clint Reiser. Looking back, I estimated the market in 2013 at $6.4 billion globally, and I forecast it to grow to $9.9

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 25, 2023

In a subsequent blog post, we will highlight another breaking development, that being a significant joint announcement from global shipping lines Maersk and MSC that should garner the interest to supply chain management transportation and logistics management teams. billion has already been invested, amounting to 5.4 More to come.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

To date, however, Boston Consulting Group analysts assert, “Digital agriculture has not yet lived up to its potential.”[1] Neth Daño, Asia director of the Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration, insists, “Precision farming is actually designed for large industrial operations. 7 October 2014. [8]

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2015

Today, on average, there are 10-25 ships sitting on the water waiting to unload. 2014 was not a good year for the western ports. In contrast, Kinaxis, a close competitor to E2open, went pubic in 2014 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Yes, there was lots of the usual hype coming from NRF, and CES conferences filling the airways.

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Freightos

MAY 10, 2015

I threw in a healthy dose of interesting (globalization, shipping trends and the business of logistics), a dash of history (the evolution of longitude), a sprinkle of next generation manufacturing (lean manufacturing) and some great company success stories (FedEx, Walmart. I think you’ll like the list too.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Last September, a jury at Southwark crown court in south London found Amazon guilty of shipping dangerous goods by air. As reported by The Guardian : The items included lithium-ion batteries and flammable aerosols, which were flown in and out of the UK between January 2014 and June 2015. It’s just viewed as paperwork at our company.”.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 21, 2015

According to CoStar Group, a provider of commercial real estate information, the number of malls with vacancy rates greater than 40 percent — which generally means the mall is in “a death spiral” — has increased from less than 0.5 percent in 2014. Data Source: “E-Commerce and Logistics Real Estate,” Prologis, July 2014.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 9, 2023

That profitability warning represented the lowest profit for the company since Q3-2014. Rival memory ship producer Micron Technology indicated in November that quarterly revenues dropped by nearly half and prompting plans to reduce supply in 2023. Total revenues are expected to decline by 8.6 All rights reserved. .

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 9, 2022

The previous five-year labor contract was ratified in 2014 , after a total of nine months of contract negotiations and considerable urging from government officials for both sides to reach resolution. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved. . The post U.S.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Rodriguez ( @OlgaRRod ) reported, “A group of thieves smashed windows at a department store at a luxury mall in Los Angeles, triggering a police pursuit just days after high-end stores throughout the San Francisco Bay Area were targeted. The group stopped the train and blew up its safe. tracks in the middle of Los Angeles.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

The company launched their platform in 2014. For example, for a yogurt company, decision of where to ship a short lifecycle product coming out of a factory is done daily because “demand can shift in very short time frames.” This January the company reported that its annual recurring revenue grew at over 84% year-over-year.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Maersk to buy German shipping line Hamburg Sud (Reuters). As Web Sales Spike, Retailers Scramble to Ship From Stores (WSJ – sub. This follows Transplace’s acquisition of Canadian third party logistics provider Torus Freight Systems in 2012, and the opening of offices in Calgary and Montreal in 2014.

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2016

By 2014, it reached $77 trillion dollars. This tremendous growth was driven by freight shipping, which scaled in size but didn’t significantly improve underlying technology, getting bigger, not getting smarter. For example, 26% of the 730 million TEUs shipped annually and approximately 30% of trucks on the road are empty.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

International shipping though is a year round occupation and in the case of many coastal areas around the world – this causes conflict between industry and nature. The same Santa Barbara Channel where I went whale watching is also a primary shipping lane for container and other ships from Asia to reach the West Coast of the U.S.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 17, 2014

October 28-30, 2014. Session Title: “Accelerating Vision to Value: Integrating Supply Chain Operations” Avaya has been on a 4 year transformation to create a Best In Class supply chain with industry leading On Time Ship, Inventory Turns, and Expense to Revenue ratio.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

A behemoth in the logistics industry, UPS has operations in shipping, air freight, trucking, last-mile delivery and drone delivery. Deutsche Post: DHL Group DHL , though founded in the United States, is a German company today. Tsukumo Shokai Shipping company was founded transporting passengers from Yokohama to Shanghai.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

With peak shipping season just around the corner, the logistics industry is looking forward to a smoother supply chain than previous years have provided. is working to overhaul its extensive network of trucks, planes, trains, and ships–beginning with its relationships with the freight brokers that supply their transportation channels.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 29, 2018

It’s part of the reason why Descartes acquired ShipRush last year, a provider of e-commerce multi-carrier parcel shipping solutions. The fast growth of cross-border e-commerce is also a big reason why Pitney Bowes acquired Borderfree in May 2015 and why UPS acquired i-parcel in 2014.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Editor’s Note: This is a blog by one of our affiliate partners, Global Vision Group , a Federal Maritime Commission licensed Non Vessel Operating Common Carrier (NVOCC) and Ocean Freight Forwarder (OFF). Global Vision Group is a logistics provider that will insure that none of the links of your supply chain is weak.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Richard Branson’s Virgin Group has invested in Hyperloop One (CNBC). CSX customers demand end to shipping bottlenecks as CEO apologizes (Reuters). Hurricanes Harvey and Irma also contributed to demand, as the storms disrupted supply chains and boosted spot truckload rates to levels not seen since December 2014.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In 2014, while sipping on an early morning coffee, Maddy called to ask me a question. Answering the question was the genesis of the network of networks share group. The Story of the Network of Networks Share Group. The focus of this group is to define multi-tier processes for B2B connectivity. Four years have passed.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Smartphone users in India doubled from 2013-2014, from 51 million to 104 million. In 2011, Nigerian startup Mall for Africa, which ships American brands to Nigerian consumers, took in $17 million in 2014. Another e-commerce platform, Konga, saw revenues grow 450 percent in 2014. Why Now is a Good Time to Invest.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2022

Lee Partners , an investor in automation and supply chain; and SoftBank Vision Fund 2 , which is part of the SoftBank Group. B2B supply chain Cloud platform technology provider E2open announced that the company has acquired Logistyx Technologies , a provider of global parcel and E-Commerce shipping and customer fulfillment technology.

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Intelligent Audit

AUGUST 30, 2022

” Logistics experts warn that if the issues surrounding delivery at FedEx aren’t resolved soon, they could have significant effects on the holiday shipping rush. . its main lobbying group signaled the fight would continue.”. food price index to rise more than 14% higher than its average between 2014 and 2016.”

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AFFLINK

JULY 20, 2017

Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate. Another title focusing on supply chain strategy is Ninety Percent of Everything , Rose George's tour de force from 2014.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

FedEx Fulfillment has one of the industry’s latest same-day fulfillment cut-off times, two-day ground shipping to the majority of the U.S. population, and the capabilities for a hassle-free returns process.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 10, 2017

CX North America Integrates Its Freight Collaboration Platform With Active Aero Group’s Technology. While the containers themselves can be loaded on a ship in a matter of minutes, a container can be held up in port for days because a piece of paper goes missing, while the goods inside spoil. (WSJ – sub.

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