Talking Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2015

companies liable for child labor, slavery, human trafficking and dangerous working conditions among their suppliers, the risks to corporate brands grows by the day, said Chris Johnson, the former general counsel of General Motors North America who heads the ABA business section’s supply-chain initiative. Litigation is increasing.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 17, 2021

These topics are highly relevant to a wide range of shippers across North America and may help you make smarter, more informed supply chain decisions. The strong economic recovery and need to rebuild retail inventory creates high out-of-season demand in port cities. Once sales rebalance, will inventory follow?

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 16, 2016

In the past, the logistics industry’s growth was driven by Asia to Europe and Asia to North America exports. The idea is to give clients more control of transportation and inventory since they are looking for more visibility. Equipment in the work place as well as management techniques will need to adapt to these workers. .

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Unleashed

MAY 22, 2022

Go back to their inventory and stock build and factor in this sort of possibility – alongside all the other supply challenges they’re facing these days. Tackling America: ‘Eating the Elephant’ Within a huge market like the US, more granular localisation is key. “The Three Spirits’ solution?

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Many tree crops in California have been impacted including almonds, peaches, citrus, avocados, and other fruits and nuts, and California’s agricultural heartland is projected to lose more than a 10 th of its acreage by 2040. One of the big bottlenecks is nitrogen and refrigerants.

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Zipline Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Currently, 70 ships are backlogged off Southern California ports , the area responsible for nearly half of all US imports , waiting to be unloaded. Wearied by out-of-stocks and enormous demand, retailers are pulling ahead inventories to keep pace with consumer spending. That means making your goals our goals and working to meet them.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2024

So, the parking spots are getting more and more occupied with drop trailers, meaning lot capacity shrinks while finding the trailer with the highest-priority inventory becomes even harder. Problem number three: appointment scheduling is a mess. For various reasons, many drivers show up unexpectedly and at the same time.

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Supply Chain Network

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Improve inventory turns at retail by reducing fertilizer order minimums. the Company’s Scotts®, Miracle-Gro® and Ortho® brands are market-leading in their categories, as is the consumer Roundup® brand, which is marketed in North America and most of Europe exclusively by Scotts and owned by Monsanto. In the U.S.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 28, 2022

California, Mexico sign historic toll- sharing pact for Otay Mesa East Port. Sam’s Club finalizes chain-wide deployment of robotic inventory scanners. In North America, it delivered over half a million packages with EVs, although that number should grow as the company ramps up its use of Rivian EVs in the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The partnership will kick off by first sourcing Walmart’s California stores with Plenty’s leafy greens from its Compton farm. Moller – Maersk is turning to flying drones to manage inventory counts in its warehouse network, the Danish firm said. Maritime containership giant A.P.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2021

Pure Storage, a public company headquartered in Mountain View California in the US, manufactures flash-based storage for data centers. To support this level of responsiveness Pure Storage has more than 200 depots around the world that carry field service inventory. 70% of Pure Storage’s business is in North America.

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DAT Solutions

JULY 28, 2016

Reefer load volumes continued to drop seasonally last week, especially in Southern California. And reefer rates get a bump from back-to-school inventory build-up at supermarkets. Arkansas is always a good bet, but there are a lot more reefer loads available in Texas , California and Illinois. California (3.1). Ohio (1.8).

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Requis

DECEMBER 11, 2020

We have quite an entrenched infrastructure here in the US, and in California for a while there was an oversupply. Michelin North America is committed to using recovered carbon black, they’re going to phase out the furnace stuff and a lot of others are doing the same thing. For the most part solar, wind, small hydro.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 10, 2022

The Normalcy Index calculated weekly by the Economist projects that North America is 67% of the way back to normalcy from COVID, but globally, it is lower at 50% with many flare-ups. In the United States, fire activity increased in February and March 2022 — fire is not just a California issue.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 26, 2023

Of the four existing volume production sites, Fremont California , Austin Texas , Shanghai, China and Berlin, Germany , Austin and Berlin are not currently optimized for available capacity at the present time. Hence, there is some upside capacity to take advantage of.

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Claritum

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

We’re really excited about working in partnership with ADS to grow our businesses in Europe and North America.”. ADS Solutions is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area in Novato, California, USA. Accolent ERP delivers the full suite of business functionality required by wholesale distributors.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 27, 2015

With my son’s travel baseball team scheduled to begin its season next weekend, the coaches are employing some field maintenance tools you don’t normally see at a baseball field: For all of you who play baseball in California, Texas, and Florida, you have it so easy my friends. Another week, another acquisition in the 3PL industry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2022

FedEx Express is teaming up with California Bay Area-based Elroy Air, the company building the first end-to-end autonomous vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial cargo system. FedEx also plans to test autonomous drone cargo delivery, partnering with Elroy Air.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 8, 2024

Deep Impact (1998) In Deep Impact , a comet strikes the earth, creating a mega-tsunami that devastates the Atlantic coasts of North America, South America, Europe, and Africa. San Andreas (2015) If California was a country, its $3.1 Thus, a catastrophic earthquake in California would have a profound supply chain impact.

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Global Trade Management

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

The ability to in real time identify the location and status of the sourced goods gives the importer the ability to fine tune its distribution channels, its inventory management and its ability to fulfill commitments to its end users.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In higher-traffic markets, Advance Auto Parts has “hub” stores that keep more inventory in-stock to give customers what they need when they need it. Bed Bath & Beyond is also implementing inventory reduction strategies and is on track for a 5% reduction year-over-year by the end of the current fiscal year.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In North America we certainly hear a lot about Florida oranges and as such I myself have certainly assumed that Florida was the Orange capital of the world. 70% of production comes from Florida, followed by California. What exactly is the Orange juice Supply Chain and how does it work? The Orange Juice Industry. Within the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Sam’s Club rolling out inventory accessory for cleaning robots. Companies across North America laid out more than $2 billion for almost 40,000 robots in 2021 to help them contend with record demand and a pandemic-fueled labor shortage. We have written about the ongoing port congestion in California quite a bit lately.

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6 River Systems

APRIL 4, 2019

AI will be able to survey an area or room and create an accurate inventory in seconds, including weights and volumes, and determine damage on items. Companies can accurately forecast demand, timely order raw materials and manage inventory more efficiently. Marc Tuinier. . Abbas Dhilawala. Abbas Dhilawala is the CTO of Galen Data.

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FLEXE

MAY 25, 2017

Retailers have started popping-up fulfillment centers across North America. Los Angeles, California. With inventory closer to customers, they can shorten delivery times and offer one- or same-day shipping on certain products to improve conversion rates and reduce shopping cart abandonment. Seattle, Washington.

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