Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Where were you on September 11, 2001 when the planes hit the towers? I was in a meeting with folks from Manugistics (now part of JDA) getting an update on the company and its transportation management system. And despite all the advances in technology, supply chains are still plagued by incomplete, inaccurate, and late information.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Freightos

AUGUST 28, 2018

In today’s Information Age, the world’s pace has accelerated. Modes of transportation and communication evolved, culminating today in instant-gratification last-mile/last-touch, in a world of one-hour delivery and online bookings. I’m a strong believer in the role freight data should play in informed decision-making.

Pricing Training

The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 13, 2013

Now, UPS has aggressively grown into freight and other transportation solutions through a series of strategic acquisitions. The latest addition to this portfolio includes LTL and truckload freight services, which complements UPS’s global capabilities to provide customers a single source for multiple modes of transportation.

Puerto Rico

Logility

AUGUST 25, 2020

Would access to better supply chain and IT performance information have helped avert or mitigate these failures? Warehousing and transportation costs. Queue times, rejection rates, and transport metrics such as cross-dock rates are key. Significant loss of market share. Huge loss of IT talent. Supply chain cost per unit sold.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

I consider her the best in the biz for transportation management consulting. Ellen’s was to design and execute the transportation planning logic. in to transportation management to drive routing information and booking optimization). How Do We Connect Supply Chain Planning Architectures to Transportation Planning?

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Global supply chains are built on three assumptions: rational government policy, availability of transportation resources, and low variability. In 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization, increasing access to China as both a channel and a supply source. The pandemic taught us many lessons that we are quickly forgetting.

Supply Chain Design Software

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 30, 2022

Having the right transportation technology can improve everything from route efficiency to supply chain sustainability. You will want to consider your potential transportation technology provider’s track record. The supply chain technology provider’s record.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Talking Logistics

MARCH 2, 2017

The effective utilization of order management and transportation management systems (TMS) can electronically broadcast logistics requirements to the market, identify available trucking assets in the network and quickly match capacity to your needs from a qualified list of carriers. “By Max Out Your TMS Benefits. Benjamin Franklin.

Capacity

E2open

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Combination of E2open and INTTRA forms the Global Logistics and Supply Chain Network with Access to World-Wide Ocean Container Capacity and information. The combination of INTTRA’s ocean carrier and shipper network with E2open’s industry leading business network will create a unified global logistics and supply chain network.

Supply Chain Network Software

Supply Chain Network

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Before joining Menlo in 2001, he held logistics and operations management positions with Delphi Automotive Systems and Penske Logistics. billion freight transportation and logistics services company headquartered in Ann Arbor, Mich. For more information about Con-way, visit www.con-way.com. About Con-way Inc. NYSE:CNW) is a $5.0

Freight

Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 13, 2020

For over a century, we have seen increasing automation in supply chain, especially in manufacturing and the pace has quickened in the past decade with robotization in production, warehousing, and transport. System Complexity The interconnectivity of elements within a system as well as between a system and its environment (Chan, 2001).

Supply Chain Software

Enterra Insights

AUGUST 27, 2019

If your risk management operates based upon information collected periodically, the enterprise is making decisions based upon dated information. Without technology enabled by artificial intelligence, you are left with a job that is insurmountable. Science Fiction. “It is wrong to see sci-fi as chiefly predictive, however.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Logistics Bureau

MARCH 14, 2018

Transport optimisation considerations dictate that warehousing is used at the end-point of a transport system to amass enough products for a full load for the subsequent transport system. Less passenger traffic and reduced congestion means flexibility for TNT in scheduling onward transport, whether by air or road.

Warehousing

Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The software should be thought of as the brains and other devices, the extremities that feed the software with information. Tracking vehicles and assets gives you information about travel time and alerts you to any potential delays in the arrival of deliveries or vehicles. This does not replace a CB radio; it merely enhances it.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

We restructured all of the documents and created one of the first service-oriented websites so all of the information was available on line. We dug that company out of terrible financial difficulty after the “internet bubble” burst in 2001. Remember Dick Tracy’s watch that he talked to and got information from?

Gartner

Vanguard Software

JULY 20, 2021

And before that, in 2001, Nike also had a demand planning blunder that led to a $100 million loss in sales. Supply planners are not well informed enough to plan for optimal production and inventory without a proper demand forecast. They can provide advanced information to transportation/shipping partners to avoid shipping delays.

Supply and Demand

6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This marked the 34th consecutive quarter of positive net absorption, the longest streak since 2001. Vacancy rates in key transportation hubs and seaport cities were even lower,” according to a report from JOC.com. The overall availability rate declined 10 basis points to 7.1 The national vacancy rate edged down to 4.3 ” 36.

Warehousing

Precoro

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Kearney in 2001 and widely used since. They also break down the cost components of the product and assess them along with raw materials, transportation, and labor costs. Then, the procurement department uses that information to forecast the spend and determine how much budget to allocate for buying a certain quantity of goods.

Optimal Sourcing

KEPLER Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2019

1/ Managing the quality of information. Exhaust-data analyses (OTD, pallet volume, transport, suppliers, returns, etc.) Supply chain inventory management and the value of shared information”, Management science, vol. The value of information sharing in a two-level supply chain”, Management science, vol. et Fischer M.,

Supply Chain Planning Software

RFgen

AUGUST 7, 2022

Two major pieces of food legislation are guiding food traceability rules at most companies: 2001 Bioterrorism Act: This law requires food processors to be able to identify the origin of all food—including all ingredients—received by lot, code or other identifier and provide the same information to the FDA upon request within 24-hours.

Food

Gravity Supply Chain

MAY 20, 2022

Spire provides real-time information and analytics based on global maritime automatic identification system (AIS) technology—Spire’s constellation of small satellites captures the courses and current status of container ships across the globe. A major global event challenges a globalized system.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Suppose you use “right-sized” cardboard boxes to pack your products and optimise storage and transport. The UK water industry found this out in 2001. Transport problems stopped deliveries from the one chemical plant supplying over 70% of the chlorine for water purification across the nation. Here’s an example.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2015

Those changes, along with high costs of transporting materials and finished goods to and from overseas locations, make the value of reshoring likely to become a compelling financial reality for many manufacturers. Transportation and freight costs are reduced. Overall, from 2001 to 2008 average Asian wages increased 7.1-7.8%,

Cost Reduction Strategies

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!

Shipping

Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2015

The company branded as GT Nexus in 2001 and purchased Tradecard in 2013. GT Nexus is one of the strongest providers of transportation visibility for the global ecosystem. The opportunity is to deepen both the analytics and the capability for GT Nexus to use real-time information and drive higher levels of decision support.

Prescriptive Analytics Software

Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 4, 2019

When I was a Gartner analyst in 2001, there were over 120 B2b platforms. EDI is an electronic interchange of business information using a standardized format; a process that allows one company to send information to another company electronically rather than with paper.) Then we termed them trading exchanges.

Manufacturing Procurement

Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 11, 2018

New forms of data abound–weather data, consumer insights, rating/review information, sentiment analysis—but they are not used. New forms of Internet-of-Thing (IOT) data enables information at the speed of business, but companies struggle to build streaming data architectures. Connecting Planning Information to the Back Office.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Talking Logistics

APRIL 15, 2015

speed, simplicity and predictability of formalities) by border control agencies, including customs; Quality of trade and transport related infrastructure (e.g., ports, railroads, roads, information technology); Ease of arranging competitively priced shipments; Competence and quality of logistics services (e.g., Source: World Bank.

Cuba

Elementum

AUGUST 29, 2017

Harvey is not the first lethal and damaging flood to hit Houston: Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 killed 41 and caused $9 billion in damage, as well as flooding in 2016 that shut down the city for days. According to analysis by freight research firm FTR Transportation Intelligence , Hurricane Harvey will strongly effect over 7% of U.S.

Forecasting

Requis

JULY 8, 2020

Transportation is still heavily dependant on fossil fuels. When I earned my business degree in 2001, supply chain was not available as a degree— it wasn’t even a very common term). Lean is about visibility, about information sharing, alignment, relationship building, communication, and flow.”

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Since their inclusion in the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 (at the beginning of a decade of precipitous decline in U.S. Author information Adams Nager Economic Research Analyst at Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Adams Nager is an economic research analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

Mexico

GlobalTranz

JULY 18, 2016

The first recovery was from 2001 to 2007, but it was halted with the Great Recession of 2008. Rather than using this information as a call to panic, it simply should be taken at face value. For example, foreign countries may not protect proprietary information as thoroughly as the U.S. Since 1991, the U.S.

Cost Reduction Strategies

GlobalTranz

JANUARY 24, 2017

million manufacturing jobs traveled overseas to China between 2001 and 2013, not counting millions of other jobs outsourced overseas through the close of the 20 th century and spurring the demand for change in the political conversation. 3PLs Grew Service Offerings, Going Beyond Transportation-Only Services.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Biden-Harris Administration Announces Request for Information about EV Charging Technologies and Infrastructure Needs of Medium- and Heavy Vehichles The U.S. This effort aligns with the Biden-Harris Administration’s goals to build a Made-in-America EV charging network and decarbonize freight transportation through zero-emission vehicles.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Biden-Harris Administration Announces Request for Information about EV Charging Technologies and Infrastructure Needs of Medium- and Heavy Vehichles The U.S. This effort aligns with the Biden-Harris Administration’s goals to build a Made-in-America EV charging network and decarbonize freight transportation through zero-emission vehicles.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Freight Waves

JULY 29, 2025

The UP-NS combination will be the first judged under the Surface Transportation Board’s 2001 merger review rules. Promises of smooth integration Railroad mergers in the modern era have had one thing in common: Service problems that occur while meshing operations and information technology systems. Merger synergies of $2.75

Freight

Freight Waves

JULY 25, 2025

The Surface Transportation Board has launched merger resources pages on its website just a day after Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern confirmed that they are engaged in advanced talks over a combination that would create the first U.S. Certain mergers involving KCS were exempt from the board’s 2001 rules. transcontinental railroad.

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