Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ZF offers product and software solutions for established vehicle manufacturers and newly emerging transport and mobility service providers. 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.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

Although this does not help to avoid tariffs for the components of your product, companies may benefit from decreasing transportation costs as they move final transportation closer to their customers. China trade war is causing what has been described as the biggest cross-border supply chain shift since China joined the WTO in 2001.

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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. AI-driven platforms can even analyze your data to identify.

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Logility

AUGUST 25, 2020

Warehousing and transportation costs. Following lean management principles, KPIs are mapped by seven categories of waste and inefficiency in a business: Excessive waiting, Overproduction, Rejects, Motion, Processing, Inventory, and Transport. Queue times, rejection rates, and transport metrics such as cross-dock rates are key.

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Freightos

AUGUST 28, 2018

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. On that basis, most of the transportation industry in the United States was deregulated in the 1970s and 1980s. Freight has not been impervious. On the Cusp of Change.

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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?

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Dan has been in the logistics industry since 2001 when he began working the preload shift for UPS. About Linkage Logistics Linkage Logistics is a full-service freight brokerage and manage transportation company, specializing in high touch, high priority, full truckload shipments.

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Freightos

APRIL 24, 2016

US Army uses the “Transporter” container, developed four years earlier for removals, for Korean War supply movements. First intermodal cargo transportation (containers are stacked on deck). Development of intermodal container shipping is impacting other transport modes. Shipping between Europe, S.E. Significance.

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DELMIA Quintiq

AUGUST 27, 2015

An artist and a cartoonist for the magazine, Strothmann envisioned the future of transportation in 2001: Flying buses and trams, sky stations, and private zeppelins instead of cars. We may not have met Strothman’s vision for public transport in 2001, but what if we had? Sky-high challenges on the horizon.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. Instead, most companies manage based on functional metrics—lowest manufacturing, procurement, or transportation costs. Less Collaborative. Even though companies use the term collaboration frequently, it does not drive behavior.

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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. Shipping between Europe, S.E.

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Supply Chain Insights

JANUARY 18, 2018

The untethered exuberance reminds me of the race for Y2K, the futile experimentation with trading exchanges in 2001, or the race for e-commerce. Cryptocurrency is adopted for bifurcated trade (price and promotion) and transportation in emerging markets. For me, most of the time, it feels like a lion in sheep’s clothing.

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o9 Solutions

JUNE 21, 2021

Founded in 2001, vTradEx is the leading provider of intelligent cloud solutions that redefine supply chain execution for global organizations operating in China. About vTradEx.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. Instead, most companies manage based on functional metrics—lowest manufacturing, procurement, or transportation costs. Less Collaborative. Even though companies use the term collaboration frequently, it does not drive behavior.

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Freightos

APRIL 12, 2016

NASA awarded the company a commercial orbital transportation services contract in 2006, to design and demonstrate a launch system to resupply cargo to the ISS. 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.

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o9 Solutions

OCTOBER 16, 2020

By amalgamating o9’s next-generation planning capabilities with our cloud transportation in-transit visibility and synchronizing our automated warehouse management with real-time inventory in the o9 platform, together we will solve several complex issues Chinese businesses are currently tackling.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 16, 2024

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg also indicated last week that regulators “ won’t be rushed ” into clearing the 737 MAX 9 model to fly again. The Journal report makes reference to a white paper published in 2001 penned by a then Boeing aerospace engineer.

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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. Max Out Your TMS Benefits.

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Intelligent Audit

MARCH 18, 2020

In a sobering assessment, Morgan Stanley stated that we will be entering a situation that is “worse than the global recession of 2001.” A report put out by Moody’s this week cites the transportation industry as one of “high exposure” to a recession in the current climate. What Happens to Shipping.

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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).

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Supply Chain Opz

MAY 25, 2013

According to Lummas et al 2001 , the word "Logistics" in English appeared in the article as early as in 1898. Muller explained in a very comprehensive manner about how "movement" of each type of soldiers should be done which included marching, transportation, wheeling, advancing, formation, transport of heavy guns, how to cross the river etc.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Redefinition of Transportation Management. This is the start of the definition of outside-in transportation processes. Overtime companies will redefine a new transportation planning market that is outside-in making the current applications obsolete. Demand-Driven Transportation: [link]. Demand-driven Models.

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Freightera

MARCH 10, 2023

Introducing our partner, Motherload Transport, and their General Manager, John Bennett Motherload Transportation is a small Vancouver Island freight brokerage with over 20 years of history, unique character, and many accomplishments. The company was founded by Sharon-Anne Tallieu and her daughters, Erin and Jackie in 2001.

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USC Consulting Group

MAY 16, 2023

Over the years, we expanded into other industries like mining & metals, food & beverage, life sciences, transportation & logistics and more. In 2001, we changed our name to USC Consulting Group to better reflect the breadth of our services and a few years later, relocated to Tampa, where our corporate headquarters is today.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

It was designed with linearity in mind: a singular focus on minimizing transport costs through building high-capacity, point-to-point distribution infrastructure. They explain, “The global supply chain is a creation from the past, ill-suited to today’s fast-changing world. Yet cooperation will be key.”

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 14, 2016

Manufacturers can see what’s going on, review how workers’ responsibilities could be changed, and determine if the changes would save the manufacturer money, a key point in a 2001 publication on virtual reality. Training Protocols.

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MIT Supply Chain

OCTOBER 24, 2013

In 2001 the government of Aragón in northern Spain realized that its economy had become overly reliant on a small group of industries, notably auto manufacturing. The organization was involved in a project to lower the cost of rail transportation between Aragón, Paris and Brussels, by improving rail load factors.

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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%,

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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. They can provide advanced information to transportation/shipping partners to avoid shipping delays. Not too long ago, in 2014, Walgreens had a $1 billion forecasting error that led to the exit of two executives.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 10, 2018

Unfilled Jobs Stacking Up in Transportation, Other Sectors. The Wall Street Journal reports that t he number of unfilled jobs in the transportation, retail and business-services sectors is growing , as workers become scarce in a fast-growing economy. Labor Dept. Labor Dept. On average, there were 6.7 percent last month.

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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. He is a graduate of Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich., About Con-way Inc.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 10, 2018

Unfilled Jobs Stacking Up in Transportation, Other Sectors. The Wall Street Journal reports that t he number of unfilled jobs in the transportation, retail and business-services sectors is growing , as workers become scarce in a fast-growing economy. Labor Dept. Labor Dept. On average, there were 6.7 percent last month.

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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., transport operators, customs brokers); Ability to track and trace consignments; Timeliness of shipments in reaching destination within the scheduled or expected delivery time.

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Freight Plus

MARCH 20, 2019

On Monday, Convenant Transportation became one of the first carriers to show the results of a depressed freight market as their first quarter earnings failed to meet expectations. Scott Shepherd of Rincon, Georgia was driving his 2001 MR2 Spyder on Monday morning when the crash occured, reports WTOC. Toyota MR2 Spyder 1 Semi-truck 0.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

We dug that company out of terrible financial difficulty after the “internet bubble” burst in 2001. Just think about it, we are discussing touchless orders, lights-out warehouses, autonomous transportation for delivery, and prescriptive actions taken by intelligent robots. My tenure at AMD was amazing.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Jayesh has been in the marketing field since 2001 and with Fortress Mobile since 2020. He is also the author of “Rogue’s Guide to Acquisition: Principles from the Final Frontier” listed on Bill Gates Recommended Summer Reading of 2012. Article originally written for Supply Chain Game Changer and published on September 16, 2021.

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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. According to analysis by freight research firm FTR Transportation Intelligence , Hurricane Harvey will strongly effect over 7% of U.S.

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