GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog from our friend Jake Rheude with Red Stag Fulfillment. Technologies such as RFID tags are already being rolled out and used wherever their application can save money. Once the customer’s payment has cleared, the supplier will place the corresponding order which may be in a warehouse 500 miles away.

Supply Chain Design Software 122

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MIT Supply Chain

AUGUST 14, 2014

Two companies that attended the Last-Mile Delivery Roundtable organized by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics explained their experiences. A Spanish food company makes 37,000 deliveries a month in Madrid, Spain, a city with almost 7 million inhabitants and a population density of nearly 14,000 people per square mile.

Government 75

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 8, 2014

On April 24 2014 the Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon is testing a distribution network for the “last mile” delivery of purchased goods to customers. At that point Amazon will be able to pose a real threat to the established parcel carriers; in effect, the online giant will become a “last mile” distribution carrier.

Retail 88

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 6, 2021

RFID tags (radio frequency identification tags) are already in use and will become a much more disruptive influence. One technology that facilitates this is the RFID tag. RFID tags are already used in warehouses, on assembly lines, and in retail. RFID tags are more expensive than barcodes. Automated Warehouses.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 31, 2016

Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog from our friend Jake Rheude with Red Stag Fulfillment. RFID tags (radio frequency identification tags) are already in use and will become a much more disruptive influence. The technology that facilitates this is the RFID tag. New Technologies Waiting in the Wings. Automated Warehouses.

Supply Chain Design Software 123

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Tagging along was a young French filmmaker, Jules Naudet, who, with his brother, Gédéon, was planning a documentary about firefighters. Traveling at 443 miles per hour, steered by hijackers, American Airlines Flight 11 passed overhead and an instant later crashed into the upper floors of 1 World Trade Center. A roar in the sky.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The last two plus years have provided many firsts for retailers and manufacturers in overcoming numerous challenges and supply chain disruptions. The event that is being tagged as the Prime Early Access Sale is an obvious effort to garner first-mover advantage for this year’s holiday fulfillment period. Time will tell. Stay tuned. .

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 6, 2019

The Escort joined its fellow junk metal comrades in an automotive-parts junkyard a few miles away from my childhood home. Procurement is a business function that has undergone a lot of change in the last few years. She soon selected the Prius as her car of choice for its environmentally friendly features.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Other applications include strategic planning, multiple kinds of maintenance, the collection of accurate physical addresses, operational planning, last-mile solutions, cargo tracking, better customer service, management of perishable inventory, route optimization, and many more. How is it done?

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The current e-commerce revolution and demand for faster last-mile delivery actually requires warehouses to run as efficiently as possible. Kevin Lawton @TheNewWarehouse Kevin Lawton is the founder of the brand new distribution and logistics blog called TheNewWarehouse.com , which focuses on warehouse startups, transitions and change.

Warehousing 78

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MIT Supply Chain

JANUARY 2, 2014

In the same blog post, I also identified four emerging and growing macro trends that I posited could have significant impacts on supply chains within the United States: Densification of Product, Diversification of Sales Channels, Decentralization of Production and Digitization of Products.

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MIT Supply Chain

MARCH 13, 2014

In my previous blog post Impact of Macro-Trends on Supply Chains: Digitization of Products , I looked at how product digitization might impact distribution networks. The first example is additive manufacturing (AM) that I discussed in my last blog post. Here are just three. AM allows formanufacturing in batches as small as one.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Blog post originally published at [link] and permission to publish here provided by Raanan Cohen. retailers say they have seen an increase in the number of “serial returners” over the last 12 months. Email Address. Check out The State of Customer Returns … And What to Do Next! Infographic).

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Before he started his blog last year, he worked for 20 years in the construction business, where logistics and cost optimization play a very important role. “The #1 way to reduce logistics costs is to optimize routes and transports…” Every mile you can avoid in the route saves costs.

Cost Reduction Strategies 98

Cost Reduction Strategies Expense Reduction Material Savings Inventory Reduction 98

GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

If it is on a Walmart shelf today, you could pick up your order without even leaving your car, or you can peruse the shelves, wait in line and fight with cashiers over price tags. Online sales grew 12 percent in 2016, and growth is forecasted for 2017, reports Ludger Schuh of the Inventory and Supply Chain Blog.

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