Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

The company launched their platform in 2014. Planners in China rely on different data sources and operate with different business practices than those in North America. Meanwhile decisions like how much production capacity needs to be added, or what raw materials need to be purchased, don’t change on a daily basis.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

They source from approximately 15,000 suppliers with a sourcing spend of over €7 billion. But even multi-sourcing is not enough. They built them between 2012 and 2014, and then enhanced them when better supply chain risk management solutions became available. Their revenues exceed €25 billion.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2016

In the meantime, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: EU Approves FedEx Acquisition of TNT Express ( WSJ – sub. The company’s overall share of container volume has grown from 22% in 2014 to 24% in recent months. And with that, have a happy weekend!

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

History of Alliances in Container Shipping Source: Port Economics, Management and Policy What are Global Shipping Alliances (GSAs) in the shipping industry? The alliance was formed in 2014 and covers major shipping routes between Asia, Europe, and North America. How alliances in the shipping industry might impact shippers?

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Sustainable supply chain management: The original model of Supply Chain Management follows a linear production that hypothesizes the constant input of natural resources and an unlimited capacity to assimilate waste. Cardwell, 2014). 2014, July 30). reverse logistics in a circular economy. Vishal Gupta, 2013). Cardwell, D.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Google did not acquire a third-party logistics (3PL) company or a logistics software vendor. Making supply chain and logistics predictions is like throwing darts at a moving target. How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? What will happen in 2016?

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Talking Logistics

JULY 17, 2015

Now, this week’s supply chain and logistics news, which was dominated by transportation-related items: Are Imports Moving to the East Coast? And here’s a chart they included in the post: Source: [link]. For related commentary, see my February 2014 post Enough Talk: Time to Fix Transportation Infrastructure Funding.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 25, 2023

In a subsequent blog post, we will highlight another breaking development, that being a significant joint announcement from global shipping lines Maersk and MSC that should garner the interest to supply chain management transportation and logistics management teams. billion has already been invested, amounting to 5.4

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

percent from December 2014. percent compared to Q4 2014. The data stream continues to trend negatively in regard to freight, capacity, and freight rates,” said Kenny Vieth, ACT’s president and senior analyst. Capacity is much more readily available than last year at this time.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

APRIL 13, 2022

The war and imposed sanctions will create a knock-on effect across the supply chain , and businesses will be impacted by material shortages, material cost increases, demand volatility, logistics and capacity constraints as well as cybersecurity breaches. Consider holding safety stocks where applicable to prevent breaks in production.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 17, 2015

But by 2014, the U.S. Logistics complexities in the conventional sector can quickly drive up costs and eat into profit margins, if not well managed. Source: “The Future of Natural Gas: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study,” [link]. As the table below shows, back in 2008, the U.S.

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TMC

JULY 6, 2017

We’ve all been there—and it’s every logistics professional’s nightmare. it’s watermelon season in Alabama, so carrier capacity is suddenly an added constraint. Think back to the Hanjin bankruptcy, the Polar Vortex of 2014, or pretty much any time there is a strike at the Port of Los Angeles. Life is good! Final thoughts.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 5, 2015

Launched – 2/25/2014. Launched – 1/24/2014. This sector creates solid middle-class jobs, helps strengthen the economy and increases our export capacity. Each institute will be linked to an academic or innovation consortium and a federal agency partner. Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII).

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Logistics and Transportation Managers at manufacturers will have reports at their fingertips on how to continue to reduce transportation costs, a heavy portion of the expense budget, by leaning on data to continually improve. Between 2010 and 2014, the average robot sales increase was at 17% per year (CAGR). The Role of Robotics.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 6, 2015

Guest Blogger, Rich Chrzanowski — Container volume at US ports hit an all-time high in 2014 and a DOT transportation study projects volume to more than triple in coming years. Improved Supply Chain Planning for Inbound Logistics. Shippers may also consider sourcing more of their products domestically instead of from overseas.

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TMC

JULY 6, 2017

We’ve all been there—and it’s every logistics professional’s nightmare. it’s watermelon season in Alabama, so carrier capacity is suddenly an added constraint. Think back to the Hanjin bankruptcy, the Polar Vortex of 2014, or pretty much any time there is a strike at the Port of Los Angeles. Life is good! Final thoughts.

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TMC

JULY 6, 2017

We’ve all been there—and it’s every logistics professional’s nightmare. it’s watermelon season in Alabama, so carrier capacity is suddenly an added constraint. Think back to the Hanjin bankruptcy, the Polar Vortex of 2014, or pretty much any time there is a strike at the Port of Los Angeles. Life is good! Final thoughts.

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MIT Supply Chain

JANUARY 15, 2015

The delivery was organized by the Academic Consortium to Combat Ebola in Liberia (ACCEL), a network of academic centers with technical expertise in emergency medicine and logistics systems. The Lab is part of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics. ACCEL is sourcing products locally where possible.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

In case you’re not familiar with the term, a sharing economy is basically a way to enable the optimization of resources through the redistribution, sharing and reuse of excess capacity in goods and services through collaborative consumption. Think Uber , Airbnb , and other peer-to-peer lending services. Not an easy task.

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FLEXE

MARCH 5, 2017

an online retailer focused on fast fashion for millennials, has gone from generating $85 million in revenue in 2014 to bankrupt in 2016… What happened? Investing in the wrong kind of logistics. But, because it operated at such low product minimums, it struggled to source quality factories that produced quality product.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 11, 2014

It consolidated Cargill’s global animal feed production and strengthened its internal supply chain capacity for food production and processing. I split this off from global sourcing because we had plenty of buyers but not enough planning and logistics so service and documentation was failing. With a price tag of $2.1

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

The project includes research into supply chain issues related to such large-scale local food sourcing and distribution, plus outreach and at least one new academic course designed to help prepare NC State students for positions as buyers for sustainable agricultural products or other supply chain roles.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 27, 2020

Craig Fuller is CEO and Founder of FreightWaves, the only freight-focused organization that delivers a complete and comprehensive view of the freight and logistics market. FreightWaves.com, the company’s news site, is the leading provider of news and commentary for the transportation and logistics space. About Craig Fuller.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 25, 2019

I’ve noticed that to write about logistics, you have to know logistics. This city has more people connected to logistics per capita than any other city in America. They founded Access America, and it grew to about $600 million in revenue in 2014. If you’re a freight broker, it’s about price and capacity discovery.

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6 River Systems

APRIL 4, 2019

Logistics can be traced all the way back to the Greek and Roman empires , but it’s undergone several major transformations as new technologies provide opportunities to more efficiently manage the movement and storage of goods. In the digital transformation age, logistics is once again undergoing a major shift. Marc Tuinier.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

So we’ve mapped out five changing Chinese trends that will echo throughout global logistics this year, carving out opportunities for ambitious logistics experts to realize serious gains. 22nd on the 2014 World Bank Infrastructure index ), improvements – especially in rural areas – can have a huge impact.

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Techgistics

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

online sales growth, and sales by 3rd party merchants on Amazon continue to grow, illustrating the success of Amazon Marketplace and Fulfillment by Amazon: Source: Statista. Amazon has built so much scale that the research firm Gartner estimated that AWS offers more than 10 times the computing capacity of the next 14 vendors combined.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2021

In 2014, the company’s revenues were $43 million. Dual sourcing has also helped with partner responsiveness. Pure Storage reduced their dependency on sourcing from the Far East. They moved their core sourcing location for core subassemblies to the US and Mexico. Mexican sourcing also provides for tariff mitigation.

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Global Trade Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

By having many service providers involved, which among each other are often not connected, the friction in moving goods from source to destination are very high. Businesses in the EU and US are increasing their investment in manufacturing and sourcing offshore. ► 2014. (13). Subscribe To. Monday, 19 November 2007.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Logistics and Distribution. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. They are order sourcing, order scheduling, order release and finally order shipping & delivery. The first problem was that of underutilized capacity. Communication Services.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

I got started just as the dotcom craze was taking off, with new logistics startups coming to market every day (all of them announcing they were “The world’s leading provider of X” even though they were just a few months old). Source: Google. Descartes Systems Group Revenue 2006-2018 (Source: macrotrends).

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Logistics and Distribution. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing,Procurement,Contract & Spend Management (38). January 2014. Copyright © 2014 Infosys Limited. Communication Services. Consumer Packaged Goods. Healthcare.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Logistics and Distribution. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Inventory and Capacity Visibility to Order Management System. As, there is no postcode change in this case, there is no change in inventory sourcing warehouse and delivery van route.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Logistics and Distribution. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing,Procurement,Contract & Spend Management (38). January 2014. Copyright © 2014 Infosys Limited. Communication Services. Consumer Packaged Goods. Healthcare.

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Global Trade Management

AUGUST 4, 2008

By having many service providers involved, which among each other are often not connected, the friction in moving goods from source to destination are very high. Adoption of e-docs and WCO data standardization would greatly reduce the burden existing documentation practices place on consignees and logistic service providers. ·

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Source: DAT. Starting at 13,565 at the beginning of 2014, their number has risen to 15,203 in Jan. Strong growth drives tightening freight capacity, which in turn leads to higher rates. They have also started to warm up to the idea of outsourcing their logistics, which is of course, good news for freight brokers.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 21, 2016

If you or your logistics colleagues can’t pinpoint a time when your network was examined using a modeling approach, the chances are that it never happened. Between mid-2014 and mid-2015, for example, both retail and food industries saw global increases of greater than 100% in mergers and acquisitions. Click To Tweet.

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