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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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

For those of us that follow the logistics industry closely, the statistics and issues raised in the segment are not new to us, but educating the general public is important nonetheless because, at the end of the day, we all have to be willing to pay, whether it’s higher gas taxes or some other funding mechanism, to fix this problem.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 27, 2015

you look at the data even more closely, you can see pretty big spikes in September 2012 and September 2014 – Those were the months of the IMTS show in Chicago. Midwestern industry (particularly Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee) is still the largest consumer of machine tools and manufacturing technology.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 6, 2015

percent, 214,500 jobs), Michigan (13.5 percent), Michigan’s 2nd (57,500 jobs, 18.6 million manufacturing jobs would have been created through the third quarter of 2014. The top 10 states ranked by manufacturing’s share of total state employment in 2013 are Indiana (16.8 percent, 491,900 jobs), Wisconsin (16.3

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2016

Michael Rockett has been a Supply Chain Design Consultant with LLamasoft since May of 2014. Before coming to LLamasoft, Mike received a MBA and a MS in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan and completed multiple supply chain resiliency consulting projects with companies such as Boeing and Keurig Green Mountain.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

APRIL 30, 2014

WSJ – Updated April 28, 2014 6:37 p.m. The auto maker has expanded its operations in the area to include product planning, vehicle design, consumer finance and logistics. Some 250 purchasing employees will be shifted to Michigan from Kentucky. What are the major risks to Toyota associated with this decision?

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 3, 2017

With corrected vision, here is the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Longshoreman Union Leader Stalls Planned Work Shutdown (WSJ – sub. DHL trials city hub trailer for bike delivery (Logistics Manager). So today I need glasses to see far away and I need glasses to see things right in front of me.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

Third-party logistics companies ( 3PLs ) specialize in distribution, warehousing and fulfillment services. The core competency of these companies is logistics , and they do it well. Even Amazon used third-party logistics companies when the company first started, until reaching sufficient scale to have a logistics arm of its own.

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