The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Tim Higham and Joe Lynch discuss the free TMS, which is of course AscendTMS. About Tim Higham Tim Higham is a leading visionary in the logistics and transportation field, running the highly successful InMotion Global, Inc. AscendTMS). By using (then new) Internet capabilities, he made industry-specific processes nearly paperless.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 10, 2018

If you’re a supply chain or logistics executive and you’re looking for ways to improve as a leader this year, here are my five recommendations that I first made in 2014 but still apply today: 5 New Year’s Resolutions for Supply Chain & Logistics Executives. Did you make any New Year’s Resolutions for 2018?

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2017

China aims to extend its logistics reach from the Pacific to the Atlantic through its One Belt, One Road initiative. The sheer size of the country’s “One Belt, One Road” logistics initiative, for instance, calls into question the true objective of the regional infrastructure plan. Like the country itself, China’s ambitions are massive.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 5, 2017

The near-infinite processing power Cloud computing provides (along with other technological innovations) will cause everyone in the supply chain and logistics field to unlearn the way we’ve always done things, everything from the way we design software applications to how we design and manage supply chain processes.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This interview is with Raymon Krishnan, President of The Logistics and Supply Chain Management Society. I then spent 10 years building up my own Logistics consulting business growing it to where we had close to 70 employees. After selling the business in 2009, I went on to work for a leading US Chemical company and then a global 3PL.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 13, 2021

I, along with my fellow co-founders, enjoy tackling problems at hand, and have been tackling them together since 2009. From 2009 to 2015, in the midst of a national recession, I served as Director, and later VP, of Engineering at Addepar, a wealth management platform.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2016

Dutifully, I plugged in my laptop with each gate change, and keep working away as the irate crowd ebbed and flowed with six gate changes on bad information over the course of five hours. We talked about it at great lengths for the course of two years. An ironic, and unfortunate, set of events. What is a Customer-Centric Organization?

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 12, 2015

DnA Languages presented the Supply Chain Professional 2015 with a personal prize: a language course of his choice. Edith van Erp-Slot, Market Logistics Director, Mars Nederland. Jeroen van Weesep, VP Supply Chain Planning and Logistics EMEA and APAC, Lego Group. Without a second thought, Beers announced: “German!

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2019

Since I first published this article back in 2009, warehouse design principles haven’t altered that much, but as we received many comments, including requests for more information, I figured it might be a good idea to expand on the original piece. Outbound Logistics: Keeping Customers Satisfied. It can go further than this, of course.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

How close is it to significantly disrupting logistics? Walmart is using Uber itself to “uberise” its home delivery network, but logistics operators could become “Ubers” in their own right, offering no-strings, one-off, whenever and wherever logistics services. The same argument might extend to logistics in general.

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

training partner with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in 2009. On October 5, 2016, BrownFlynn and EcoVadis launched the first training for EcoVadis suppliers, followed by a 2-day GRI G4 Certified Training Course. “I with nationwide professional development and executive training programs. In fact, BrownFlynn became the first U.S.

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Supply Chains Rock

JANUARY 5, 2009

Monday, January 05, 2009. By plane, of course. About.com - Martins Logistics Blog. EU Logistics Hub Blog. Latin American Logistics. Still not excited, well visit often and eventually you will be. Subscribe To. How would you ship 500 trees to Iraq? SCM Blogroll. China Supply Chain Council. Global Trade Management.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

By now, you’ve probably thought about all the logistical details like: what items are required to bring the meal together; who’s responsible for bringing each dish; what time guests should arrive; and where dinner should be served so there’s enough room for everyone. The same is true for logistics planning. I hope you enjoy! - Adam.

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Supply Chains Rock

APRIL 16, 2009

Thursday, April 16, 2009. Of course some do, Apple is one of them, but many dont and I pointed out a few that surprisingly dont. Lucky, smartly, outsourced logistics to UPS and the international shipping fee for my order - $20. $20 About.com - Martins Logistics Blog. EU Logistics Hub Blog. Latin American Logistics.

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Supply Chain Network

OCTOBER 13, 2011

My first CSCMP Annual Conference was in 1989 and I always try to get there every year to catch up with all my logistics and supply chain friends! New of course, in it’s second year, is The CSCMP Supply Chain of the Future exhibition. As with every year, there are opportunities to learn new things and meet new people.

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

He joined Logistics Bureau Group back in 2009 and commenced by running the benchmarking business known as Benchmarking Success. They know of course how they did against last year and they’ll probably have some customer satisfaction metrics, but that’s not the full picture. What makes them tick? What ticks them off?

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TMC

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Of course, weather represents only one corner of the supply chain risk universe, and companies have to be vigilant on multiple fronts. In 2009, the United States boosted import duties on Chinese tires from 4% to 35%, and did so with only 15 days’ notice.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 5, 2023

On the optimistic side, muted demand conditions have reportedly led to the quickest improvement in supplier delivery times since January of 2009. The exception is of course India and Thailand, and economists are likely going to dive more into the data to ascertain whether product demand is domestic or global in nature.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

Over the course of the last two years, we at Supply Chain Insight s have worked on a methodology to gauge supply chain improvement. Our approach simply breaks accountabilities and goals across the areas of Manufacturing, Logistics/Network Optimization and Ingredients/Packaging. We named it the Supply Chain Index. What have you learned?

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JULY 26, 2013

Logistics and Distribution. Of course this is & will be an ongoing activity as each month some new codes get added from planning perspective, either they are new products introduced or existing products getting extended to new planning locations. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 4, 2012

Logistics and Distribution. Next three days are going to be full packed with lots of keynote sessions, IBM meetings, client meetings, breakout sessions, birds of Feather sessions and of course meeting with all my Maximo colleagues. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 12, 2012

Logistics and Distribution. I can foresee these robots capable of carrying out these warehousing activities listed below, of course with some modifications in their design to pick and place items that have a definite shape and size: 1.Putaway December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Logistics and Distribution. Of course, the email is sent only after the package has been delivered to the locker by the carrier. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009. April 2009. March 2009. February 2009. January 2009. Financial Services.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 11, 2013

Logistics and Distribution. The Guest speaker was Chris Gardner ( [link] ) of The Pursuit of Happyness fame and he spoke about himself, his philosophy on life and of course The Pursuit of Happyness. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009. April 2009. March 2009.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 8, 2012

Logistics and Distribution. Very candid responses from Woz on his life, how he was helping kids in education, his days with Hewlett-Packards, his inventions, his passion about developing computer games, extremely hard work he put in to be successful, his dancing with stars and of course Steve Jobs. December 2009. November 2009.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Logistics and Distribution. When this retailer was queried as to the specific reason for this sudden change, the response was, of course, we thought that the stove was available from the manufacturer, but that turned out to be not the case. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Logistics and Distribution. There is of course, the risk that the product may become costlier or a better version may appear in the market making the layaway item obsolete. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009. April 2009. March 2009. February 2009.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 7, 2012

Logistics and Distribution. Considering one can only do so much in terms of functionality, cloud enablement seems to be the big trend this year.and of course, integration of the acquistions. December 2009. November 2009. October 2009. September 2009. August 2009. April 2009. March 2009.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Over the course of the last decade, I have carefully recorded and reported presentation after presentation from conference after conference and interview after interview with supply chain leaders. In 2009, the definition of supply chain resiliency was driven by the impact of the Great Recession. Unknowingly, I have told three lies.

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EcoVadis

JULY 28, 2010

19/05/2010: Interview with Luca Guzzabocca, head of Logistics Costs and Supply Chain Management at GRUPPO MONTEPASCHI. Yes, of course it is feasible to assess and develop the CSR performance of suppliers. In 2009, we launched our first CSR evaluation program with EcoVadis, which involved 50 suppliers.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 11, 2015

You have, no doubt, heard of offshore manufacturing, or outsourcing, throughout the course of the previous decades. This is largely due to the role that social media and awareness through the Internet has played in the course of manufacturing. 4 Driving Forces to Understand appeared first on Freight Logistics Company | Cerasis.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This interview is with La Chang, CEO at Think Global Logistics (TGL) , an international freight forwarding company. Here is our interview with one of our great colleagues at Think Global Logistics, La Chang, Chief Executive Officer. How has Business and Supply Chain changed over the course of your career?

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 30, 2019

There’s no question that innovative technologies aid in logistics and supply chain management, but when it comes to the many labor-intensive processes that take place in the warehouse, some fear that robots could make human warehouse workers obsolete. Of course, individual low-level jobs may be lost, that’s very true.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 27, 2015

Obviously, a lot of manufacturing equipment buyers wait for the show before committing to purchase and of course a lot of orders are set up to be taken at the show as well! At the trough of the recessions in 2003 and 2009, only $100 million worth of equipment was being purchased. It was, however, slower in and slower out.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 2, 2019

And it is for good reason, too, considering that many of these tariffs, especially of late, have a direct consumer impact, which is, of course, a cornerstone of economic growth, with consumer spending directly impacting roughly 70% of U.S. ”[4]. ” Retailing in a recession. Footnotes. [1]

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 25, 2016

It is data driven research: a deep analysis of performance, improvement and Price to Tangible Book Value of 320 companies across 31 industries for the period of 2009-2015. Over the course of the next six months, we will be sharing case studies of these companies in our conferences, podcasts, webinars, and writing.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 9, 2015

Among the most discussed catalysts for the next approaching transportation capacity crunch, we have to look at collaboratio n between all the players in the myriad of logistics layers. If the many components of logistics and supply chain management do not engage effectively with the transport workforce and manufacturing skills gap of the U.S.,

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