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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. Rather, it’s about winning the ongoing competition between shippers and third party logistics (3PLs) providers to secure those assets in order to maintain supply chain velocity. Build a Reliable Carrier Network.

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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. According to Mr. Sobeck, the SupplyOn solution means that when you need to “register a supplier or to update their information, you only need to do that once instead of several times.” Will the needed parts arrive at their plant on time?

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This Week in Logistics News (October 28 – November 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

Obviously, it is not a new collaboration between the foursome, what with John Lennon’s assassination in 1980, and George Harrison’s passing in 2001. Back in the 1990s, however, the technology just wasn’t there to separate Lennon’s vocals from the piano without some serious degradation to the original take.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 7-11, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Where were you on September 11, 2001 when the planes hit the towers? Remembering 9/11 seems more important to me, even if it doesn’t directly relate to supply chain and logistics. He had just arrived from Cuba, and having grown up on a farm, seeing those tall buildings rise from the ground was simply amazing. I never forget.

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Analog Supply Chains are an Anachronism in a Digital World

Enterra Insights

It was designed with linearity in mind: a singular focus on minimizing transport costs through building high-capacity, point-to-point distribution infrastructure. And as global trade has accelerated in recent decades, greater levels of investment and manpower have been dedicated to expanding capacity to achieve cost efficiencies.

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Successful Cargo Space Delivery

Freightos

We’re huge fans of innovation in the logistics space. Dragon is the name of the space cargo ship that just delivered 7,000 pounds of freight, including the inflatable room. Then came NASA’s SPACEHAB Logistics Double Module , which provided a total cargo capacity of up to 4,536 kilograms (10,000 pounds).

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The Mind-Boggling Complexities of Food Distribution (Why Optimization is Critical)

Talking Logistics

It is also my go-to example when I try to explain supply chain and logistics to my kids. “Do Does one truck deliver to multiple stores or just one?”. For example, here’s a description from a 2001 profile of Kroger’s food supply chain published by Louisville Business First : The frozen food portion of the order is assembled at 6:30 a.m.