Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) reached its second highest level in history in August, rising 0.4 Interestingly, of those Amazon shoppers who saw the icon and then made a purchase, most of them ended up not using same-day delivery, opting instead for next-day delivery.”

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

And in Women’s Wear Daily , an interesting article highlighting how the Gap is rolling out ship-from-store capabilities across its network, and introducing a new program called “Reserve” where shoppers select items online and have them held in the stores for purchase and pickup. to Dallas,” the article reports, “[Mr.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 16, 2013

2013 has certainly been an interesting year! I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Not surprisingly, analytics is at the top of the list.

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SupplyPike

JUNE 22, 2020

Learn all about: What Retail Link is and who can use it The challenges of Retail Link What reports and tools Retail Link has to offer. Are you a supplier for Walmart who is looking for a central repository for the information, documents, reports, and special applications to manage your business with Walmart? Retail Link Optimization.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 13, 2015

Like the multi-billion dollar chemical manufacturer that had been paying market rates for ocean transportation for eight years because nobody realized that their contract, filed away in a drawer by a transportation manager who had left the company, had expired. From the article: Columbia Sportswear added $415.6

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Correspondent Bill Whitaker ( @BillWhitakerCBS ) reported, “Getting the goods from here to store shelves is proving to be a lot more daunting. These boxes were called ‘Transporters.’ Rather, it was to reorganize and link intermodal transport by land and sea in a way that no one else had realized before.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2023

Almost two decades of reporting. We find that the companies with the most marked improvement in a balanced scorecard of growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) are smaller and less well-known. Demand latency is the time cycle to translate a channel purchase to an order.)

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SCMDOJO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In this effort, Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) are essential because they provide a variety of supply chain management solutions that simplify warehouse operations, order processing, and transportation. LSPs generally endow tremendous inventory management and warehousing solutions, conveyance of orders and international logistics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 22, 2013

In short, we cannot put a wrapper around ERP, traditional reporting, or traditional fulfillment and call it Big Data, Customer-Centric Retailing or Omni-Channel Fulfillment. It requires new forms of analytics, cloud-based solutions and the design of packaged applications from the consumer back. Today, it matters more than ever.

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 16, 2013

Inventory mismanagement. Ingrained attitudes can block better inventory practices. Depending on which corporate silo you belong to, inventory can be a liability, an asset, or something in between. How do supply chain (SC) professionals overcome these biases and implement optimal inventory management solutions?

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2014

All metal fabricators realize that they have to do some analyses before the company purchases equipmen t or hires new people, but now there seems to be a new intensity about the process. Experienced fabricators have become quite good at predicting what the future holds, but still sometimes they don’t foresee what the future holds.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Instead of setting up brick-and-mortar stores, or keeping inventory on hand, you can start offering this new product on your new store. A recent report by Frost & Sullivan, “The Future of Parts and Service Retailing in the Automotive Aftermarket” , predicts that by 2025, 10 to 15 percent of all global parts sales will be made online.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

Walmart would not have the ability to provide such low prices and have consistent inventory in the over 5,000 stores in the United States and over 1.3 “The net true cost considers issues such as waste-to-landfill, greenhouse gas emissions, economic mobility, worker safety and food safety. restaurant industry made in 2013.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 3, 2017

Boston startup raises $10M for retail software that predicts inventory needs (Boston Business Journal). As Tim Higgins reports in the Wall Street Journal : As a legal dispute ensnares Uber Technologies Inc.’s Self-Driving-Truck Startups Race to Take On Uber (WSJ – sub. QuestaWeb Launches TradeGear Product Line.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. They saw a steady drop in inventory and reduced working capital by about 50% over the period of 2011-2015. Impact of Demand Sensing on Inventory Levels. The reason? The implementation was very successful.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 28, 2017

Utilize automated technologies to locate and track inventory. Using automated gate management, for instance, companies can streamline gate procedures; increase the velocity of check-in and check-out of trailers, yard trucks, shuttle trucks, tractors, and drivers; and electronically reconcile loads with purchase orders.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Argentus is a boutique recruitment firm focused on Supply Chain and Procurement. He cites data from the American Trucking Association that wages have risen between 15 and 18 percent from 2013-2017, and says this should mean that the shortage will be overblown. Fallacy 4: Improved forecasting will always lead to lower inventory levels.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 5, 2017

This ended when Gartner purchased AMR Research in 2010. Since I do not believe in the Gartner business model, I left. In 2013 the Demand-Driven Institute redefined the term “demand-driven,” giving it a very different meaning than the Demand-Driven Value Network concept defined by AMR Research in 1996. Reflections.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

They know stuff gets made, transported, and sold; but, they have little interest in the details. Having coalesced out of traditional support functions including purchasing, distribution and production operations late last century, the profession saw a surge in relevance with the arrival of extensive free trade and the internet.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Conversely, just 8% of businesses with less capable supply chains report above-average growth. 2) According to a 2012 report into corporate insolvencies by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, 44% of businesses in Australia failed because of poor strategic management. Pioneered the use of vendor-managed inventory.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Cost as a percentage of sales (Logistics or Supply Chain). Inventory stock turns in Days. Inventory management. Purchasing and supplier management. Transportation. Inventory levels. A KPI is a metric… but not just any metric. Free Report on KPIs. DIF – Delivery in Full.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 8, 2016

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. The Company has a checkered past.

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MIT Supply Chain

JANUARY 16, 2014

For pure internet purchasing, the searching, ordering, and payment steps typically occur on line with the delivery being made at home. At the other extreme is Walmart.com where more than half of the purchases made online are picked up at local stores where the payment can be made in cash. This makes accounting somewhat difficult.

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Supply Chain Movement

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

The firm’s lean engineers and supply chain engineers help hospitals not only with inventory management and logistics but also with process improvements in catheterisation labs, for example. Consultants used to spend months conducting research, only to present clients with a lengthy report that subsequently ended up in a drawer.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Now let’s juxtapose those same scenarios into your warehouse and transport operations. The driving back and forth by car is your customer-delivery transport. It’s all about leveraging your warehouse , staff, and transport more effectively. How do you calculate the quantities of safety inventory to be held?

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Elementum

MARCH 29, 2018

Transportation companies, e-commerce goliaths, and tech startups worldwide are testing drone and droid deliveries with an array of products, from fast-food orders to consumer goods. German shipping magnate DHL is another major player in the drone development game, having been experimenting with drones since 2013. billion).

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FLEXE

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Inventory was sent in scheduled, bulk shipments and the destination was a shelf, not a doorstep. From new data sources for planning to forward-stocked inventory to better issue resolution, adapting your last-mile supply chain to be customer-centric requires that you: Anticipate demand: know your customer and her expectations.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Other examples: The United States Postal Service (USPS) published a report in May titled Blockchain Technology: Possibilities for the U.S. Postal Service , with supply chain management as one of the focus areas; in October, as reported by Reuters, “IBM, U.S. Toyota temporarily shut two factories in the aftermath.

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Elementum

MARCH 29, 2018

Transportation companies, e-commerce goliaths, and tech startups worldwide are testing drone and droid deliveries with an array of products, from fast-food orders to consumer goods. German shipping magnate DHL is another major player in the drone development game, having been experimenting with drones since 2013. billion).

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 8, 2016

They also give you better negotiating information for suppliers and other third parties (transporters, warehousing companies, product assemblers and others) contributing to your supply chain operations. More detailed cost benchmarking will help even further. Be aware also that different individual costs change. Uncertainty.

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

where products sit”: the inventories of materials, parts, and finished goods stored and being handled in various stages of the supply chain. The Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013 killed over 1,100 garment workers and injured more than 2,000. As per a 2017 report by. Supply chain transparency.

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Tompkins Blog

APRIL 29, 2014

Learn more about aligning strategies by downloading Tompkins Supply Chain Consortium’s report Aligning Supply Chains with Business Strategy.). 2008-2013 Overall Growth. 2013-2018 Estimated Overall Growth. The growth of actual online sales from online purchases between 2012 and 2017 will only grow from 7.7% online retail).

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

where products sit”: the inventories of materials, parts, and finished goods stored and being handled in various stages of the supply chain. The Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013 killed over 1,100 garment workers and injured more than 2,000. Supply chain transparency.

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

While traceability has traditionally focused on product safety, consumers, NGOs, governments, suppliers, and buyers are increasingly demanding more information about the origins of products and materials, and the conditions under which they were produced and transported.

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

While traceability has traditionally focused on product safety, consumers, NGOs, governments, suppliers, and buyers are increasingly demanding more information about the origins of products and materials, and the conditions under which they were produced and transported.

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

While traceability has traditionally focused on product safety, consumers, NGOs, governments, suppliers, and buyers are increasingly demanding more information about the origins of products and materials, and the conditions under which they were produced and transported.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Conversely, just 8% of businesses with less capable supply chains report above-average growth. 2) According to a 2012 report into corporate insolvencies by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, 44% of businesses in Australia failed because of poor strategic management. Inventory shortages. Supply Chain Costs.

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