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How to Protect Your Carrier Assets During Capacity Crunch

Talking Logistics

Having available capacity means more than having enough trucks, rail or steamship carrier assets to manage your business. With capacity in a constant state of flux, it’s critical that shippers and 3PLs maximize efficiencies and assist carriers in maximizing the utilization of available assets. Build a Reliable Carrier Network.

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The Secret Sauce with Mark McEntire

The Logistics of Logistics

In 2001, he completed a two-year Six Sigma certification program with General Electric and is a GE certified Black Belt. The world’s largest shippers and capacity providers use the Emerge Freight Procurement Platform daily, showing immediate ROI for procurement and saving valuable time in the process. Hunt Transport, Inc.

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ZF’s Transition from Lean to Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

ZF has been working with a supply chain solutions provider called SupplyOn since 2001. This enables carriers to optimize their transportation capacity to deliver the shipment on time at best price. ZF’s Digital Supply Chain. SupplyOn provides multi-enterprise supply chain network (MSCN) solution.

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Selecting a Supply Chain Technology Provider is Harder than it Seems

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The pandemic emphasized the need of this feature in a technology provider since backlogs and bottlenecks challenged manual processes and limited the ability to secure additional capacity and adapt to changes.

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Successful Cargo Space Delivery

Freightos

Then came NASA’s SPACEHAB Logistics Double Module , which provided a total cargo capacity of up to 4,536 kilograms (10,000 pounds). Up there in the space-bound cargo stakes, in 2001, Pizza Hut became the first company in history to deliver pizza to residents living in outer space. International Space Station.

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Supply chains remain wonky… and will continue that way for awhile (Jason Miller blog part 4)

NC State SCRC

Freight was completely flat… Until 2001, when they exploded upward. Transpacific capacity will remain oversubscribed, and we will continue to see shortagers in virtually every handoff of product from Asian factories to US store shelves. That plot says it all for how tight air freight capacity currently is.

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[Video] Sanofi Genzyme trends in pharmaceutical supply chains

Kinaxis

The pharmaceutical company is the result of a takeover by Sanofi in 2001. It takes a long time to get volumes and capacity up in this business,” he says. The parent company’s supply chain was “plant-centric,” Calarese says. By contrast, Genzyme’s was completely end-to-end in nature. “Theirs was easier than ours.”