Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2022

The Danish manufacturer saw sales begin to surge as consumers gravitated towards their building sets, which come in a variety of shapes, sizes, difficulties, and characters. So just how did the pandemic affect Lego’s revenues? So just how did the pandemic affect Lego’s revenues? Danish krone, or about $8.06 billion in 20021.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 30, 2021

Domino’s was always able to thwart the Noid’s efforts and make the delivery on time. Domino’s was always able to thwart the Noid’s efforts and make the delivery on time. As I wrote about two weeks ago, Domino’s is now partnering with Nuro in Houston to make robocar deliveries. For those unfamiliar, let me explain.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2018

More than a year into a freight capacity crisis that shows little sign of weakening, it’s time for all parties involved in logistics and freight transportation to meet this issue head on. It was just two years ago that shippers wielded the leverage in the rate market, as capacity was a bit looser than it is now.

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Ware2Go

JANUARY 10, 2022

The 2021 holiday shopping season was characterized by high freight rates, elevated lead times , and over-crowded warehouses. Supply chain procurement strategies had long been favoring Just in Time procurement. Should they be moving away from a Just in Time procurement method to Just in Case?

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TMC

DECEMBER 8, 2016

These enterprises are no longer reliant on the Suez Canal route for shipping freight on Post-Panamax container vessels to the United States. As described in my previous blog post , the enlarged Panama Canal can handle container ships up to 13,000 TEUs in size. Is your supply chain make-to-order, make-to-stock, or both?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 18, 2021

Home Depot contracted its own container ship. The company has contracted a ship that will begin running next month. According to Home Depot’s President and Chief Operating Officer Ted Decker, “we have a ship that’s solely going to be ours and it’s just going to go back and forth with 100 percent dedicated to Home Depot.”

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Elementum

MAY 13, 2015

Walmart’s goods start their nine day journey through Mexico to Houston’s major intermodal transit hub at the Lorenzo Cardenas Port. Before the mega-retailer started shipping goods through Lazaro Cardenas, the KCS had fallen on hard times. Despite these drawbacks, Walmart is continuing to bank on Mexico’s supply chain.

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Warehouse robots are just one form of warehouse automation , but they’re making a big impact. Sarah Boisvert @fablabhub Sarah Boisvert is the author of The New Collar Workforce and founder of Fab Lab Hub that offers Digital Badges for skills such as 3D printing, robotics, CAD design and AI in manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

The organization had intense pressure from their financial team on costs, their customer service (on-time delivery and case fill) was unreliable, and the supply chain systems were not designed to manage one-off customer requests. Urban Dictionary. I treasure the dialogue and the connections. Reflections. Let me illustrate why with a story.

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6 River Systems

APRIL 4, 2019

AI in logistics customer support (through predictive transit times) will reach more consumers this year. Logistics can be traced all the way back to the Greek and Roman empires , but it’s undergone several major transformations as new technologies provide opportunities to more efficiently manage the movement and storage of goods.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 27, 2016

Social media feeds are just one more form of intelligence that can be leveraged to deal with the flood of information. How will real-time intelligence help me any more than what I’m doing today? How do we extend the concept visibility and control beyond our four walls to drive better execution in our supply chain?

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6 River Systems

JULY 3, 2020

A poorly designed warehouse floor plan means warehouse associates must walk longer distances to accomplish tasks, resulting in wasted time and resources. Plan for the flow from production to packaging to shipping. In other words, your warehouse layout has far-reaching effects that impact every facet of your operations.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 2, 2018

Oil prices just hit $60 per barrel, which I predicted a few weeks ago, to some skeptical responses. companies also ratcheted up manufacturing of petroleum byproducts, including plastic resins, which typically move in vans. Looking at this year’s demand, capacity and rate data, however, I see a longer-term trend building.

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