Talking Logistics

APRIL 24, 2015

Lots of supply chain and logistics news this week, so let’s go straight to the items that caught my attention: Amazon now ships to your Audi’s trunk ( USA Today ). UPS Brings Technology and Logistics Expertise to Study of Drone Use in Humanitarian Response. Amazon Reveals Just How Huge the Cloud Is for Its Business ( Wired ).

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 11, 2019

The fastest-growing industries included food and consumer goods (48 percent), plastics and rubber (37 percent), life sciences (31 percent), and electronics (22 percent). As companies use more and more robots in their manufacturing and logistics operations, what will the role of humans be?

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 10, 2023

T he cascading logistical problems caused by the pandemic and the war in Eastern Europe have made securing a reliable supply chain a national imperative. Andrew Lynch is President and Co-Founder of Zipline Logistics , an award-winning North American 3PL that specializes exclusively in the transportation of retail consumer goods.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Logistics Managers, Manufacturing Directors and other Supply Chain leaders often rose from the shop floor, from front-line warehousing and transportation positions. Only 17% of Chief Supply Chain Officers in North America were women. However a new survey shows that the percentage of women in leadership roles is still low.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2023

And now on to this week’s logistics news. For both vehicle passenger traffic, and for goods moving supply chains, this is going to be a major disruption in that region.” Sales of excavators in North America last year rose 23 percent over 2021 to 41,320 machines, the second-straight year of record sales, said Off-Highway Research.

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Supply Chain Network

JUNE 15, 2011

The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) released its 22nd “Annual State of Logistics Report®,” presented by Penske Logistics, today at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The report reveals that business logistics costs rose to 8.3 business logistics system jumped up 10.4

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Enterra Insights

MAY 20, 2022

Supply chain concerns, however, don’t focus solely on the movement of consumer goods. … Beijing’s zero-tolerance approach to Covid has idled factories and warehouses, slowed truck deliveries and worsened container logjams. Hospitals from the U.S. ” Consequences of Chinese Lockdowns. .”[3] ”[4].

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 2, 2022

percent in North America. Services revenues associated with the offering of logistics and order fulfillment services to third-party sellers reportedly rose 9 percent in the quarter. The company’s organic sales grew 8.1 percent in the first half of 2022, reportedly driven by price growth of 6.5 percent and volume growth of 1.7

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides the second in a four-part series of market education postings addressing the evolving use of Cloud based control layer technology platforms applied to warehousing and customer fulfillment processes.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

I started my career in a manufacturing company, working in various functions from the production floor through to warehousing, engineering, Supply Chain, and various back office support functions. In our quest to emulate what the Japanese were doing, here in North America, we looked to import those techniques and philosophies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

” And now on to this week’s logistics news. Gretchen McCarthy, Target’s chief global supply chain & logistics officer, said Target has to keep up with customer expectations — namely getting online purchases conveniently and quickly. The expansion will also grow Target’s workforce.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

This is the one metric within a manufacturer that supply chain/logistics organization, manufacturing and procurement organizations are aligned to. Another example is in Consumer Goods industry with coffee. It is all in the sequence you improve them and what is your starting point.

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