Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In a survey conducted by the ARC Advisory Group in 2018, when warehouse executives were asked how many applicants that they had received per job in the year 2013, the most common answer was between 6 and 10. The United States has 5 million fewer jobs than it did pre-pandemic. The numbers back her up. Workers have choices.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The company said it has invested more in inventory planning and partnerships with suppliers so it has enough goods on hand while making sure it can route items to where they’re urgently needed.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 24, 2015

Supply chain management in manufacturing is by no means a simple process, but the United States is learning from past mistakes and they're poised to start playing a little catch-up in the manufacturing world due to their expertise. The Numbers Are In. was a renewed, cross-sector, national effort to secure U.S. The End Goal.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

A new Gartner 2014 Top US Supply Chain MBA Program Rankings report of top supply chain MBA programs within the United States came out yesterday – with the NC State Jenkins MBA and the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative making the list for the first time ever! This most certainly applies to NC State.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 25, 2016

Inventory measurement is critical and it is money after all in that it took a capital expense to procure. The goal is to keep inventory levels at a minimum to meet customer needs. Review Inventory turns and Return on Assets. Other areas to consider measuring as it relates to transportation: Managing inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 21, 2013

There are new challenges: With managed care, in the United States, the hospital will bear the costs of infections from hospital stays. Be sure to not overlook the inventory carrying costs and the impact of demand latency. Published by Supply Chain Insights in January 2013. The standards for accountable care are evolving.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2024

The challenges brought about by the pandemic made many rethink strategy when it came to inventory, stock on hand, secondary options and the ability to guarantee supply and resiliency. Their main reasoning was to contain supply chain costs, reduce the amount of space used for inventory at hospitals and ultimately help provide better care.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 6, 2015

In the process of compiling the Supply Chains to Admire report for last year’s Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , the research team at Supply Chain Insights calculated the rate of supply chain improvement of companies by industry for the period of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013. We studied this pre and post-recession.

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Supply Chain Movement

JULY 23, 2013

2013 Trends and Strategies in Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Embracing Global Logistics Complexity to Drive Market Advantage. In the United States and Europe, talent shortages are also a function of demographics. Proactive strategies should include research and development, procurement, production and sales.

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Elementum

MARCH 6, 2018

From 2013 to 2014, the number of units Xiaomi shipped in China grew 186 percent, while its total worldwide shipments grew 224 percent. In fact, in its early stages the only brick-and-mortar buildings that Xiaomi operated were its “e-commerce warehouses”, optimized to handle the fast-moving inventory necessitated by Xiaomi's model.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

From 2013 to 2014, the number of units Xiaomi shipped in China grew 186 percent, while its total worldwide shipments grew 224 percent. In fact, in its early stages the only brick-and-mortar buildings that Xiaomi operated were its “e-commerce warehouses”, optimized to handle the fast-moving inventory necessitated by Xiaomi's model.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

From 2013 to 2014, the number of units Xiaomi shipped in China grew 186 percent, while its total worldwide shipments grew 224 percent. In fact, in its early stages the only brick-and-mortar buildings that Xiaomi operated were its “e-commerce warehouses”, optimized to handle the fast-moving inventory necessitated by Xiaomi's model.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 17, 2017

million trailers in the United States, which on average make 500 million moves a year. Companies may write off spoiled perishables or misplaced inventory as lost product. He joined PINC Solutions as chief executive officer in March 2013 and is responsible for the overall strategic and operational management of the company.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Amazon made another move this week — it increased the minimum for free shipping from $35 to $49, the first increase since 2013. As reported by Reuters : President Barack Obama signed a bill on Wednesday barring the import of goods produced by forced labor from entering the United States, throwing the weight of the U.S.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 14, 2020

Second, there are problems with the idea of re-shoring manufacturing to the United States. We are not going to be able to control manufacturing capacity which, even if contractually reserved, were unavailable to tap into during the COVID crisis (and remain so today) During any major global crisis, this will similarly be the case.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 1, 2016

I am bolder on Samsung, simply because they had the highest 2016 Inventory Turns aside from McDonalds. 42 nd President of the United States. 65 th US Secretary of State, Four Star General. Three pieces of edgy insights from this: a. My Bold Predictions were not far off. Alan Greenspan. Bill Clinton. Colin Powell.

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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. coli outbreak at Chipotle in 2015 or the E. About the Author.

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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. coli outbreak at Chipotle in 2015 or the E. About the Author.

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

According to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 48 million people in the United States (1 in 6) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die each year from foodborne diseases. About the Author Rene Jacquat is the principal of LogiChain Solutions, LLC, based in San Francisco, United States.

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

According to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 48 million people in the United States (1 in 6) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die each year from foodborne diseases. About the Author Rene Jacquat is the principal of LogiChain Solutions, LLC, based in San Francisco, United States.

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

According to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 48 million people in the United States (1 in 6) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die each year from foodborne diseases. About the Author Rene Jacquat is the principal of LogiChain Solutions, LLC, based in San Francisco, United States.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2015

I have done this report twice before–once in 2012 and again in 2013. In addition, 85% of the vendors in the multi-tier inventory optimization market that I wrote about in 1995, are now part of larger platforms. I am glad to be back in the United States. What Is New? It is a rewrite. Why do it again? Visualization.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 20, 2014

TEUs in 2013—about 40.9% Communicate with the destination distribution centers and warehouses to ensure they have the ability to plan and receive the additional inventory. Or, will we see a repeat of 2002, when a 10-day lockout left dozens of ships lined up outside the West Coast docks, unable to unload? of all U.S.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

” Also this week, news that Amazon and the United States Postal Service (USPS) have partnered to deliver packages to customers on Sundays. Tweet The post This Week in Logistics News (November 11-15, 2013) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. Song of the Week: “Bleed Out” by Blue October.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2014 : hybrid DCs, 3-D prototypes, location-based inventory system, and more. Supply Chain Innovators of 2013 : paperless food chain, VLMs, cold chain fleet management, and more. Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2015 : solar-powered vessel, robot dispatcher, 3-D printed flight parts, and more.

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

In the United States, a craft brewer must produce 6 million barrels of beer or less. This equates to approximately 3 percent of annual beer sales in the United States. Managing craft beer inventory. Essentially, craft beer means small, in comparison to the large-scale beer giants of the industry.

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Elementum

AUGUST 11, 2016

Trucking is the main means for freight transportation in the United States. Around 14,547M tons worth of cargo was in transit in 2013, accounting for 73% of cargo delivered that year. It states that weak demand, high capacity, and customers’ demands for lower rates led to the decline in revenues.

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Locus Robotics

JULY 5, 2019

Although many of the data points mentioned below are from the United States, these 8 Factors are relevant to the supply chain globally. As detailed in the chart, distribution center wages for warehouse workers were basically flat from 2002 through 2013 before starting to see a rapid increase.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 2, 2014

JDA held its annual user conference this week, where it announced its Distribution-Centric Supply Chain Suite, “an integrated set of cloud-based best-of-breed supply chain planning and execution solutions that holistically and iteratively solve inventory planning, replenishment and order fulfillment challenges.” million earned in Q1 2013.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

In any typical year, companies around the globe must factor the New Year shutdown into their inventory management plans. That means companies in the industry, like seafood importers, must maintain higher inventory levels inside expensive cold storage facilities for lengthier periods than ever before. Hunt Transport Services Inc.’s

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MIT Supply Chain

JANUARY 16, 2014

Will the splintering of sales channels redefine supply chains in the United States? The inventory in the stores is now fair game for fulfillment within other channels. This store-based model raises some interesting new challenges in determining where to pull inventory. This makes accounting somewhat difficult.

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AFFLINK

MAY 17, 2017

As a 2013 UNLV paper points out: “One of the biggest challenges with information technology at the Four Queens and the Venetian/Palazzo is the poor flow of information which ultimately affects areas of the hotel’s supply chain in areas of costs, flexibility, and delivery of goods and services. Inventory Management. The reason?

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Elementum

MARCH 29, 2018

Another significant application includes inventory control in warehouses, where drones have the upper hand in terms of both efficiency and accuracy when compared to their human counterparts. German shipping magnate DHL is another major player in the drone development game, having been experimenting with drones since 2013.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The implication was that orders came in huge surges, and supply chains that were not prepared, particularly those without robust inventory allocation or tight inventory visibility across their brick-and-mortar retail and online retail systems paid a price in customer loyalty. It also adds exposure to increased working capital costs.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

In 2014, Deere & Company was listed 80th in the Fortune 500 America’s ranking and was 307th in the 2013 Fortune Global 500 ranking. The company was replenishing dealers’ inventory weekly, using direct shipment and cross-docking operations from source warehouses located near Deere & Company’s manufacturing facilities.

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Elementum

MARCH 29, 2018

Another significant application includes inventory control in warehouses, where drones have the upper hand in terms of both efficiency and accuracy when compared to their human counterparts. German shipping magnate DHL is another major player in the drone development game, having been experimenting with drones since 2013.

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

Concerns have been raised about possible widespread rail service failures this fall much like we saw in 2013-14. Estimating there are about a half-million truck drivers in the United States, Bob Costello, American Trucking Associations chief economist observed, "When you're short 51,000 on a base of 500,000, that's a lot.".

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