Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Same-day delivery (or is it shipping?) German shipping banks face $22 billion in losses: Moody’s ( Reuters ). Side note: I received a comment yesterday about my Home Depot posting because the title referenced same-day delivery but I also mentioned same-day shipping in the writeup. Three of Five Modes Carried More U.S.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2015

Natural gas and oil expenses contribute to extreme cost disparities in shipping from Asia to the U.S., for example, compared to shipping state-to-state. Errors in interpretation of product specifications, shipping documents, and other critical instructions, due to language barriers are reduced. energy costs have dropped.

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This marked the 34th consecutive quarter of positive net absorption, the longest streak since 2001. Less than one in ten DCs handle only full pallets for outbound shipping. Human error is the most frequent cause of inventory and fulfillment issues. The overall availability rate declined 10 basis points to 7.1 ” 18.

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Elementum

JUNE 7, 2022

And today, even with the Abbott factory coming back on-line, the most optimistic estimates call for shortages to persist for weeks or months before inventory returns to pre-crisis levels. In 2015, the Tianjin port explosion rocked maritime shipping coming out of China. In 2011, the Japanese tsunami hobbled Japanese suppliers for years.

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Freight Plus

MARCH 20, 2019

We attribute the softer demand to factors such as late 2018 inventory growth in advance of the perceived impact of tariffs, the effects of the partial government shutdown on spending and extended periods of inclement weather that impacted the timing of shipping seasonal goods, as well as our ability to safely dispatch our equipment.”.

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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. In 1956, manually loading a ship cost $5.86 A world transformed.

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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. Gulf Coast, surplus fuel inventories may help the industry withstand the worst storm to hit the country in more than a decade.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 14, 2018

The benefits of these tools are principally in the acceleration and increased efficiency of operations, plus improved tracking and inventory optimisation. This in turn allowed Wal-Mart to replicate sales successes between outlets; creating and managing peaks in demand via its systems for buying, shipping, and of course, warehousing.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Effective inventory management can help businesses save up to 30%. Inventory Management plays a vital role. Inventory visibility can be the difference between good or poor profitability. But how a company manage their inventory well? Does your company have pre-defined set of rules when it comes to inventory management?

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crisp

APRIL 13, 2023

With Integral Group’s Commerce Desktop, Vanilla Studio can simultaneously share live inventory data with customers including Home Depot, Lowes, and Wayfair, leading to higher service levels while streamlining the team’s clerical workload. There was also a lag in inventory levels being updated.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 5, 2023

But I also found it interesting that Dick Morley , the father of the PLC (programmable logic controllers to you non-geeks), organized geek pride days in New Hampshire as early as 2001. Why do I find this interesting? Well, ARC Advisory Group , the owner of Logistics Viewpoints, has been conducting research on the PLC market for decades.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Inventory Turns. Better performance in inventory turns than the peer group average for the period studied. Orbit Chart of VTech for the Period of 2006-2015 at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns . The first presented in June 2001 outlined where we were in supply chain and what we needed to do.

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E2open

OCTOBER 22, 2018

E2open to Acquire INTTRA, Adding the World’s Leading Ocean Shipping Network and Software Provider, Creating an Integrated Global Supply Chain and Logistics Operating Network. Today, one out of every four ocean containers shipped globally is booked through the INTTRA platform. MONDAY 22 OCTOBER 2018.

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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.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Freight was completely flat… Until 2001, when they exploded upward. Inventory is piling up in warehouses. Retail ex auto inventories are an interesting situation. Seasonally adjusted, deflated inventories for retail (excluding automotive inventory) exploded upward in December. In other cases (e.g.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 26, 2019

Often, 3PLs don’t have ownership in the inventory. 3PLs can handle everything from receiving new inventory from manufacturers to shipping products to end consumers and everything in between. In 2017, Armstrong & Associates found that 90% of domestic Fortune 500 companies use 3PL providers, compared to just 46% in 2001.

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

There are three methods: spreadsheets, online calculators, or inventory management software. grew their brewery using inventory management software. This takes your data from sales, purchases, inventory, suppliers and production, and turns it into actionable insights for you to slice, dice and visualise. Spreadsheets.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

TOMPKINS: Sellers today find e-commerce inventory allocation and replenishment to be challenging. WILL: Drone development over the past several years has resulted in a variety of applications and more recently use in the inventory and tracking of items in warehouses. The area of most waste was inventory.

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