Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Cosco, China Shipping Group in Advanced Merger Talks (WSJ – sub. August 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). UberRUSH was first announced in April 2014 , but I’m sure that Amazon’s recent announcement of a competing service called Amazon Flex prompted Uber to put the spotlight back on itself. Order Management.

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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 That income was generated by more than 4,100 stores and fed by a sprawling supply chain, ranked 14th in 2014 by research and analyst company Gartner. ” Walmart states early on.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Oz’s solutions address a number of pain points for e-commerce shippers by automating logistics and supply chain processes, including order fulfilment, inventory management/scanning, and shipping. And with that, have a happy weekend! Song of the Week: “Mountain At My Gates” by Foals. Note: Descartes is a Talking Logistics sponsor.

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Elementum

MARCH 6, 2018

On April 6, 2015, the Guinness World Record for the most smartphones sold in 24 hours was broken. From 2013 to 2014, the number of units Xiaomi shipped in China grew 186 percent, while its total worldwide shipments grew 224 percent. Though Xiaomi saved money on inventory costs, the public was often left pining.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Bhattacharjee, 2015). When the product has a defect after its production, it is sent back to the inventory to reuse or recycle it. Cardwell, 2014). It is done by Logistrap in Mexico, they reduced their space within the warehouses and container ships to transport more within the same number of trips (Logistrap, 2020).

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

On April 6, 2015, the Guinness World Record for the most smartphones sold in 24 hours was broken. From 2013 to 2014, the number of units Xiaomi shipped in China grew 186 percent, while its total worldwide shipments grew 224 percent. Though Xiaomi saved money on inventory costs, the public was often left pining.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

On April 6, 2015, the Guinness World Record for the most smartphones sold in 24 hours was broken. From 2013 to 2014, the number of units Xiaomi shipped in China grew 186 percent, while its total worldwide shipments grew 224 percent. Though Xiaomi saved money on inventory costs, the public was often left pining.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 25, 2016

One of my predictions for 2016 was that cross-border e-commerce would become the next frontier for shipping and logistics growth. E-commerce sales rose 29% in 2015 to $362 million, about 10% of total revenue. percent from 2015 to $82.4 percent from January 2015 primarily because of a 9.3 in February. Trucks carried 60.5

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ShipBob

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This sequence of events involves many moving parts, including purchasing, packaging, shipping, and transporting materials to distributors to sell to the end customer. Inventory management. expecting same day delivery, two-day shipping, etc.) Inventory Planner. Warehousing and storage. Freight forwarding. Demand planning.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Well, my big audacious prediction for 2015 did not come true. How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? Like oil prices, interest rates impact supply chain policies and decisions, especially with regards to inventory. Of course, what happens in the U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

For December 2015, retail sales were the lowest since 2009. When we do these types of analysis, we look back at the data as far as we can reach (Y chart data is available only back to 2006 in a reliable form) and then we look at the period of 2006-2014 and the more recent period of 2011-2014. What does this mean? The difference?

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 10, 2015

2015 is coming to a close and as we herald in the New Year, shippers (manufacturers, retailers, and distribution centers) around the country are busy gearing up for the holiday season and have holiday logistics best practices on the brain. Make your Inventory OmniChannel. Get out From Behind the Desk.

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Freightos

MARCH 3, 2015

Today, we’re proud to present Cathy Roberson’s… 3 Technology Trends Changing the Supply Chain (2015-2020) Part IV. In fact, according to eMarketer, there were estimated 1.75bn smartphone users worldwide in 2014. million units shipped. Technology Trend 1: Mobile. This represented about 24.4% through 2018.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

JANUARY 25, 2016

There is still time and budget for shipping organizations to implement new TMS solutions or upgrade existing ones – yielding benefits like automation, efficiency improvements, expanded visibility and scalability – if they’re to be well-protected against what appears to be a looming downturn. Headline: Truck Stocks Plunge in 2015.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Now Amazon’s Free Shipping Will Cost You at Least $49 (Wired). XPO Logistics Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2015 Results. December 2015 North American Freight Numbers. Amazon made another move this week — it increased the minimum for free shipping from $35 to $49, the first increase since 2013. in January.

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Demand Solutions

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Shipping containers that send updates to your supply chain planning system. In 2014, 45% of respondees considered IoT to be “disruptive and important,” while 42% said it was “interesting but of unclear usefulness.” ” By 2015, those numbers had changed to 64%, 31%, and 5%, respectively.

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Demand Solutions

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Shipping containers that send updates to your supply chain planning system. In 2014, 45% of respondees considered IoT to be “disruptive and important,” while 42% said it was “interesting but of unclear usefulness.” ” By 2015, those numbers had changed to 64%, 31%, and 5%, respectively.

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Elementum

AUGUST 10, 2015

Update 8/10/2015, 06:16 PST: Soudelor Prompts Authorities to Issue Emergency Alert in China. Update 8/09/2015, 18:03 PST: Tropical Storm Soudelor to Hit South Korea on August 11. Super Typhoon Soudelor, the strongest storm system of 2015, is set to reach Taiwan and China tomorrow morning local time.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

According to a survey by Deloitte from 2014, 79 % of companies with high-performing supply chains achieve revenue growth superior to the average within their industries. In 2014, a survey by Tompkins Consortium delivered a shocking revelation. Pioneered the use of vendor-managed inventory. Inventory shortages.

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Elementum

MAY 1, 2018

With contingency plans in place, the company announced that it had a healthy inventory supply of finished products and did not foresee a risk to patient supply at that time. West Coast Port Strike Disrupts Shipping Lanes. Tianjin Port Explosions Disrupt the Auto Industry.

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Elementum

APRIL 25, 2016

billion in 2015 to US $548.22 By redesigning supply chains, companies could prevent mismatches between inventory and demand as well as accurately monitor the movement of goods. million in 2015, up 110% from 2014. Another eMarketer report forecasts that annual U.S. e-commerce sales will grow from US $349.06

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Elementum

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Smartphone users in India doubled from 2013-2014, from 51 million to 104 million. In Indonesia, the number of web users jumped from 55 million in 2012 to 125 million in 2015. In 2011, Nigerian startup Mall for Africa, which ships American brands to Nigerian consumers, took in $17 million in 2014. The market is there.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2016

In technology news, INTTRA announced a partnership with JDA Software, which will give JDA customers access to INTTRA’s full suite of ocean shipping software, data and services. The company’s overall share of container volume has grown from 22% in 2014 to 24% in recent months.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 4, 2016

It was cheaper than producing products in the US, manufacturers could produce large inventories with little capital up front, and consumers did not really have a public voice. This may include research and development, product manufacturing, product packaging, and shipping processes. In contrast, there were 47 recall notices of U.S.-made

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Marketing campaigns largely focussed on mate-ship and camaraderie. For example, Carlton United Brewery’s marketing strategy for Victoria Bitter portrays a sense of the Australian culture:mate ship, and reward for a job well done with its “hard earned thirst” campaign that ran from the 60s to early 2000s.

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Elementum

MAY 1, 2018

With contingency plans in place, the company announced that it had a healthy inventory supply of finished products and did not foresee a risk to patient supply at that time. West Coast Port Strike Disrupts Shipping Lanes. Tianjin Port Explosions Disrupt the Auto Industry.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2015

Motivations and Stats on the State of Reshoring in 2015. Natural gas and oil expenses contribute to extreme cost disparities in shipping from Asia to the U.S., for example, compared to shipping state-to-state. Obsolete and excess inventory carriage are more preventable. a move known as reshoring.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2014

We believe that a supply chain leader is defined by both the level of performance on the Effective Frontier (balance of growth, Return on Invested Capital, Profitability and Inventory Turns) and driving supply chain improvement. Resiliency is the tightness of the pattern, or the reliability of operating margin and inventory turns results.

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ShipBob

APRIL 22, 2020

trillion by 2021 , a staggering 246% increase since 2014. In honor of Earth Day, it’s time to rethink packaging products and all of the shipping materials and boxes that are constantly discarded. Packaging is a necessary evil in ecommerce to get orders delivered safely while preventing shipping damages.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

” CNN Money Watch, August 12, 2015. ” The team needed to make a decision on when to shut down their plants, the right levels of inventory to build during the plant closure and how to predict the duration of the downturn. Economic markets plummeting… D aily we see the financial charts roll across the news.

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FLEXE

APRIL 12, 2017

Between 2015 and 2016, total eCommerce sales grew 15%, while total spend in retail only grew 2.9%. In 2005, department stores alone sold $60 billion in apparel; in 2015, it was half with nearly $28 billion shifting to online retailers like Amazon. Building an in-house distribution network is expensive, but so is fast shipping.

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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. 18 | Management: Supply Chain Consultancy reaches a turning point. Manufacturers find themselves at a crossroads.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 3, 2015

An organization can pay a supplier or shipping company in regular intervals and have strict terms for contracts, but all businesses are susceptible to events outside of their control. The World Economics Forum put together a Global Risks report for 2015 to see what concerns international supply chains could face in the near future.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 3, 2015

An organization can pay a supplier or shipping company in regular intervals and have strict terms for contracts, but all businesses are susceptible to events outside of their control. The World Economics Forum put together a Global Risks report for 2015 to see what concerns international supply chains could face in the near future.

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RFgen

APRIL 15, 2016

Businesses must take advantage of innovations to provide visibility of inventory management to prepare for the worst and consistently deliver the best. The Hapag-Lloyd transportation company reported a 65 percent increase in hazardous cargo mislabeling between 2014 and 2015, according to JOC. Preparation is essential.

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RFgen

APRIL 15, 2016

Businesses must take advantage of innovations to provide visibility of inventory management to prepare for the worst and consistently deliver the best. The Hapag-Lloyd transportation company reported a 65 percent increase in hazardous cargo mislabeling between 2014 and 2015, according to JOC. Preparation is essential.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2015 : solar-powered vessel, robot dispatcher, 3-D printed flight parts, and more. Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2014 : hybrid DCs, 3-D prototypes, location-based inventory system, and more. Click here to read the full story. Printer-friendly version. Facilities Management. Media Type.

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