The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

Ocean Risk Management part 2: Navigating Global Shipping Alliance The shipping industry continues to evolve. In this article, we explore the pros and cons of the alliance model in the shipping industry, compare the solo strategy versus alliance strategy, and provide tips on how shippers can prepare for market swings.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2022

He had a load full of cotton bales, and while idling away hours at a shipyard watching stevedores load other cargo onto ships he dreamed up containers that transformed global supply chains. Containerization eventually reduced shipping and loading costs by at least 75%. The myth of the “perfect plan”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

The supply chain industry is on a years-long digital transformation journey, and one of the key objectives that industry leaders almost universally aim to achieve is true end-to-end (E2E) visibility across their complex global networks of suppliers, partners and customers. So, what is true E2E supply chain visibility?

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Note: Today’s post is part of our “Editor’s Choice” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide supply chain insights and advice. Additionally, the global nature of supply chains means that companies are increasingly exposed to cyber threats from overseas.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Global Trade Authority Rob Garrison, CEO and Co-Founder of Mercado Labs, shares insights from over 30 years of supply chain experience working with a variety of Fortune 500 companies. Here, he explains what caused current global supply chain disruptions, and shares the five steps needed to overcome today’s supply chain issues.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Prior to 2020, every supply chain in the world was challenged by increasing levels of demand unpredictability and market volatility. The sudden onset of COVID-19 only reinforced a lesson that supply chain professionals had already realized: uncertainty is the only real certainty. The Road to Agility and Resilience.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2021

Three years ago, my colleague Steve Banker wrote an article about the Amazon supply chain , asking if it was the most innovative in the world. How do each of these drive the Amazon supply chain? The delivery stations are the final link in Amazon’s supply chain that begins with its large regional fulfillment centers.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

This tends to demonstrate that the industry is hopelessly linked with a tremendous amount of waste and therefore linked to emissions which damage our planet. They reduced the number of health service closings caused by no supplies by 21% while increasing the variety of other medicines on hand for use by health practitioners 10%.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Digital Twin from Infor Nexus Drives Supply Chain Agility for Molex. The fact that most manufacturers struggled to achieve supply chain agility during COVID is not news. The Molex Supply Chain. The Molex global supply chain is complex. It is part of Koch Industries. The Advantages of Agility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 20, 2022

We’ve all been talking about the looming supply chain talent shortage for quite some time. Autonomous cargo ship completes 500-mile voyage. The supply chain’s little-known weakest link: railroad workers. Nations aim to secure supply chains with “friend-shoring”.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A Freightos survey of 300+ companies sheds light on how importers have been navigating supply chain disruptions. You might not think about shipping containers and ocean freight when you click “buy” on your Amazon order, but there’s a direct connection between the two. What’s changed in a year?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This year, with the LA Rams being Super Bowl champs, Good360 said it will ship thousands of “unsellable” Bengals-branded hats, T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, COVID-19 masks, and scarves to struggling people in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. New wave of contracts will lock in much higher shipping rates.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Readers' choice!

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Resilinc

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A similar story could be told for manufacturing industries whose supply chains extend into Florida. By contrast, OEMs that had mapped their supply chains on their own or with a supply chain risk management firm such as Resilinc had a much more complete picture of how Ian could affect their supplies and revenues.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Okay, maybe I’m being a bit dramatic, but coffee has gotten me through, well… everything… and now it’s in short supply. Since the South American nation provides a third of the global coffee supply, the higher-than-average temperatures and lower-than-average rainfall aren’t good news for farmers or java drinkers anywhere.

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Freightos

APRIL 24, 2016

The History of the Shipping Container. 26 April 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the Ideal X and the birth of modern container shipping, a development that played a critical role in spurring the global economy. But the modern shipping container has changed much more than one industry. Category Key.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 3, 2022

Most corporations that seek to voluntarily reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must dig deep into their supply chains to uncover and pursue opportunities to reduce the indirect GHGs emitted at every link. Known as Scope 3 GHGs, this includes raw materials extraction and processing to packaging and shipping.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

In decades past, companies could claim ignorance about much of what went on throughout their supply chains; especially, activities involving second- and third-tier suppliers. Too many articles about how blockchain will rid supply chains of things like slave labor fail to detail the groundwork necessary to make supply chains ethical.

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20Cube Logistics

DECEMBER 22, 2020

What is drayage shipping? When a freight forwarder has to move consignment over short distances, viz between rail yards, ports, facilities or other shipping hubs of the same metropolitan area is considered as container drayage shipping. Generally, drayage shipping is handled by trucks and is a part of the intermodal transport.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Planes, Cranes, and Barges: How America Is Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos. With global cargo lanes clogged, businesses are turning to new ways to deliver goods. Mississippi River cargo traffic near Luling, La. We had a good cargo business before the pandemic. We had a good cargo business before the pandemic.

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Freightos

MAY 10, 2015

There are tens of thousands of books about logistics and supply chains. Amazon has 31,817 books about supply chain and 24,934 about logistics. That’s 56,751 supply chain and logistics books. All those books would weigh 49,000 kilograms – half the cargo mass of a Boeing 747-200F.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Those challenges may be exacerbated due to the current sorry state of supply chains. Robinson, explains, “Reverse logistics refers to any portion of the reuse of products and materials in a supply chain. If a consumer returns or exchanges a product, it re-enters the supply chain. ”[2].

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 18, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The trucking industry provides shipping services for goods and products from the manufacturing/production point to the consumers, mainly using trucks. The carrying capacity is usually vast since it directly links a producer who serves many consumers. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Companies of all sizes have been capturing the value from Global Supply Chain to increase the economies of scale and scope for years. In this article, we will show you tips from worldwide experts that you can use to streamline your global supply chain operations. However, you may wonder what kind of practices really work.

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Supply Chain Movement

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

It is this ability to present the entire freight transport and logistics supply chain under one roof that makes Multimodal the go-to event for shippers, importers, exporters, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers – all seeking ways to run a slicker supply chain. But essentially, it increases your bottom line.

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Ware2Go

JANUARY 21, 2022

Understanding the differences between small parcel and freight shipping allows fast growing eCommerce sellers to reduce shipping costs and maximize profitability. One way to minimize shipping costs is understanding the differences between small parcel and freight delivery. What Is Small Parcel Shipping?

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Bristlecone

OCTOBER 25, 2019

If you are a supplier catering to the food value chain, you know how difficult it is to deliver perishable goods to their ultimate destination in the right quality, quantity and condition, at the right time and place. Transparency, traceability and embracing the power of IoT are key to attaining true end-to-end supply chain visibility.

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3rdwave

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As a non-technologist working in supply chain management, I live in awe of the human mind and its ability to develop applications that create visibility into the international movement of goods. At its core, terminal operations represent the transition from international to domestic shipping. Unfortunately, that’s not the case.

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Locus

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses in the Middle East fared well in facing supply chain risks compared to those from other regions, despite reportedly facing a high number of logistics shocks as seen in Africa. They have started earmarking their investments for food supply chain networks since the pandemic.

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Locus

JUNE 3, 2022

What is also real is the impact it has on supply chains. In fact, it will not be a stretch to say that climate change is currently the biggest threat that global supply chains are facing today and is responsible for shortages and disruptions in several industries. First things first: Climate change is real.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 26, 2017

Many of these advancements were expected to bring substantial investment into supply chains, and they did just that. But, you need to understand where the investments focused, how they relate to improving supply chains and why they are essential to omnichannel logistics solutions. How Machines “Talk” Expanded.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

Professionals in supply chain management use various methods to identify best practices to improve the operations. In order to accelerate the learning, this article has gathered 20+ most sought-after supply chain case studies, analyzed/categorized them by industry and the findings are presented.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The term “supply chain” was coined because it denoted key linkages from raw resources to finished products. Connecting those links has been the essence of supply chain operations since trading first began. Through the centuries there has also been a focus on making supply chains more efficient.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 8, 2018

Today, there is a lot of talk about supply chain transformation and the emerging technologies driving that transformation. We need to remember there are some traditional supply chain principles that still apply — even in the Digital Age. Seven timeless supply chain principles. Supply chain iS business.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 6, 2019

There are undoubtedly moments when risk managers would like to “take a knee” in order to find respite from the risks their supply chains face. The report points to potential vulnerabilities in a significant percentage of global supply chains. First, supply chains have grown complex and global.

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Cathy Roberson

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Online publication Supply Chain Dive noted in an article on the acquisition, “This acquisition is expected to expand ADS’ brokerage and distribution operations in the western United States,” Ashley Furniture said. Rempell told analysts during the company’s Q3 earnings on Nov 23.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

With a holiday weekend upon us, let’s go straight to the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Retailers Seek U.S. Help With Shipping Crisis (WSJ – sub. GE Acquires Top Supply Chain Software Provider ShipXpress to Expand Digital Rail Offerings. Hanjin handles about 7.8

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