Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 28, 2022

He changed the course of the 2013 playoffs with his game-tying grand slam against the Tigers that sent Tori Hunter tumbling over the right field wall and into the Red Sox bullpen. The produce industry is warning that the US could experience similar disruptions based on the sheer volume of food imported from Mexico during the winter months.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 11, 2013

UPS Expands Expedited Ocean Freight Service To Mexico. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) reached its second highest level in history in August, rising 0.4 Exclusive: Cisco, Google, SAP discussing BlackBerry bids – sources ( Reuters ). percent from August 2012.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 29, 2015

This is especially true when outsourcing transportation management, as transportation can include a large part of your overall supply chain and business costs. Consider the many shippers who have outsourced transportation management and other logistics functions to third-party logistics (3PL) providers the past few years.

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Elementum

MAY 13, 2015

Over the last several months, Walmart— the world's largest retailer— has slowly been increasing the share of products it imports through Mexico, a move that many other retailers have been reluctant to make for decades. counterpart, while doubts about the security of goods being transported give carriers pause. State of New Mexico.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 16, 2014

Latest Versions of SAP® Transportation Management and SAP® Extended Warehouse Management Now Available. Transplace and Celtic Expand Intermodal Services in Mexico. enVista’s Transportation Solutions Practice Attains Record Revenue in First Quarter 2014. March 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI).

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 4, 2014

The 30 th SCRC meeting kicked off today with a theme on “Transportation Strategy in an Infrastructure Constrained Environment”. This is a theme that was discussed a year ago at a conference in DC on Transportation Infrastructure, over coffee with William Lucas from Caterpillar. It is also happening at border crossings such as Mexico.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The sustainable purchase becomes easier through the year with fewer barriers as customers increase their demands for environmentally friendly goods (Vishal Gupta, 2013). Vishal Gupta, 2013). 2013, January). Patagonia produces their wetsuits from natural rubber and parkas which are made from plastic bottles. Cardwell, 2014).

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 27, 2017

Donald Trump’s Tough Talk on Trade With Mexico Weighs on Logistics Boom (WSJ – sub. Brings Advanced Freight Collaboration Solutions to the Transportation Industry. warehouses from Chinese merchants selling on its site—taking on a role it previously left to global freight-transportation companies.” in December.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 24, 2017

Paragon Software Systems Ensures Drivers Follow Optimized Transport Plans with Paragon Waypoint Mapping. LOG-NET announces release of Next Generation Global Transportation Management with its version 8.0. Finally, as talk of renegotiating NAFTA continues, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics reports that U.S.-NAFTA

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Looking back, I estimated the market in 2013 at $6.4 In 2013, Daifuku acquired Wynright, a US-based provider of warehouse automation and material handling systems. Some of System Logistics prominent project include Coca-Cola Iberian , Coca-Cola HBC, Constellation Brands in Mexico, and Toscano Supermercati in Italy.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JANUARY 23, 2018

Executives in a new survey, 2018 Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index, are divided about whether a new pact would help Mexico (24.3%); hurt Mexico (21.8%); or leave trade unchanged (25.7%). 8 Mexico even though the Brazilian economy is roughly 70% larger. . In the 50 country rankings, Brazil slips two spots to No.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 1, 2016

2013: Amazon Ups the Ante, Delivers Goods to Customers Before They Order Them. Canada and Mexico in Week 12 (Progressive Railroading). So, I’ll just point you to my past April 1 posts in case you missed them the first time: 2015: Netflix Developing Original Series About Logistics Called “D is for Drones”.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2015

We first started writing about and featuring reshoring content back in September of 2013, and have since added 10 more reshoring related posts in our reshoring blog category. Transportation and freight costs are reduced. Excessive time-to-market delays due to overseas transportation issues are eliminated.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 25, 2016

Omnitracs’ Roadnet® Transportation Suite 3.7.4 Pitney Bowes is past the halfway point in a planned five-year turnaround begun in mid-2013. Speaking of cross-border trade, “all five major transportation modes – truck, rail, pipeline, vessel and air – carried less U.S. percent of the value of freight to and from Mexico.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Truckers applaud move to revert to pre-2013 Hours of Service regulations (Logistics Management). Retailer Wal-Mart de Mexico to invest $1.3 billion in Logistics in Mexico (Reuters). The Colorado Transportation Department and infrastructure developer Aecom Inc. Electric Trucking Charges Up (WSJ – sub. First UPS U.S.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 12, 2018

From Mexico to the U.S., Remember that patent Amazon filed back in November 2013 that envisioned sending 3D manufacturing instructions to a truck equipped with a 3D printer that could manufacture an ordered product while enroute to the customer? Hospitals Wrestle With Shortage of IV Bags, Linked to Hurricane (WSJ – sub.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 13, 2015

Here’s the news that caught my attention this week: January 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Here are some of the highlights: Freight TSI Index : The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI)…fell 0.2 We are sad, but we are also comforted by the news that our beloved Beach Sandman will be visiting us soon. .

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 16, 2015

The increased interest has exposed many misconceptions within the shipping community, which otherwise cloud the fundamentals of cross-border transportation. Mexico trade relationships. When shipping to Mexico, only the Importer of Record can empower a Mexican Customs Broker. Customs Broker is needed when importing from Mexico.

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Elementum

MAY 27, 2015

More than job creation, companies are looking for efficiency in creation and transport. With the cost of labor increasing in China, transportation costs begin to bear heavier on these companies. Companies with strong foreign demand will be less likely to reshore, as transportation costs would skyrocket. Easing Up Congestion.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 3, 2017

Mexico Warns U.S. Two MIT professors, Vivek Farias and Devavrat Shah, founded Celect in 2013 based on research they had done around how to model the purchasing choices consumers make. It’ll Cut Off Nafta Talks If Tariffs Added (Bloomberg). Self-Driving-Truck Startups Race to Take On Uber (WSJ – sub.

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RFgen

MARCH 19, 2015

According to The Wall Street Journal, supply chain managers have increasingly shifted their destinations to ports on the East Coast, Gulf Coast and in Western Mexico and Canada instead, hoping to bypass any West Coast congestion. By comparison, the vacancy rate at the end of 2013 was more than 9 percent. Roughly half of all U.S.

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RFgen

MARCH 19, 2015

According to The Wall Street Journal, supply chain managers have increasingly shifted their destinations to ports on the East Coast, Gulf Coast and in Western Mexico and Canada instead, hoping to bypass any West Coast congestion. By comparison, the vacancy rate at the end of 2013 was more than 9 percent. Roughly half of all U.S.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Transportation. Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in May 2013. Broadly speaking though, the following areas are those where KPIs will be necessary: Order capture. Inventory management. Purchasing and supplier management. Production/manufacturing. Warehousing. The download comes with many added bonuses as well.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In early 2013, Belk launched a vendor-direct program. In 2017, DB Schenker opened a new regional headquarters in Miami-Dade as well as several new support offices throughout the Americas, with continuous investment in contract logistics focusing on Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, as well as new Free Trade Zones and cross border facilities.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 11, 2016

Spot market rates were higher in 2015 than in 2013, the most recent "normal" year. Load volume in 2015 was on par with 2013 , due entirely to heavier demand in the first half of the year. 2015 Looks Like 2013, but With More Trucks. The result: 2015 looked a lot more like 2013 on the spot market, but with more trucks.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 26, 2015

Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. GSP will be retroactively renewed to July 31, 2013, (when it originally expired) allowing importers to obtain refunds for duty paid throughout that period. This could potentially come before Congress within the next two to three years.

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