GlobalTranz

JANUARY 5, 2015

We continue our series on the most popular blog posts of 2014 in each of our main categories with our very first post of 2014 by featuring another area important to Cerasis and the industry: third party logistics. The Most Popular Blog Posts in the 3PL Category By Pageviews for 2014. Everything occurs in harmony with demand.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 6, 2015

We conclude our “Most Popular” Blog posts series, where we have been giving you the most viewed blog posts in 2014 from our main content categories. 2014 was surely a fun year of content on the Cerasis blog. The 12 Most Popular Freight Blog Posts from 2014. Look out for great stuff in 2015! Read the Full Blog Post.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 12, 2015

This is the first post in a two part series on the “Changing Face of Manufacturing.” ” We have many manufacturing shipper customers, and we love to create content of value for them on such subjects as best practices in logistics or trends around the supply chain. Drop in the price of crude oil.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 31, 2015

We have also featured on our blog over 90 guest bloggers featuring voices from experts in all of the five main categories who have talked about such subjects as the Skills Gap, Reshoring, Technology, Innovation, STEM, the Maker Movement, Lean Manufacturing and Supply Chain, the Internet of Things, and much much more.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 10, 2015

Those 5 key categories are: Logistics, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Freight, and Transportation. For the Manufacturing Blog Posts, we saw a bit of a deviation from that starting trend. For these manufacturing blog posts, it seems that technology, future trends, and a focus on manufacturing process improvement was the focus.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 7, 2015

Yesterday we had said we concluded our most popular blog posts by category for the blog posts written from our major categories for 2014. We featured out of our 200 plus blog posts in 2014, over 50 blog posts in the manufacturing category. Well, manufacturing companies who ship freight in North America.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

As we close the year of 2015, we want to take a look at some manufacturing trends for 2016. We look at 6 core areas that manufacturing companies will take a long look at as they gear up for a successful 2016. E-Commerce for Manufacturing. Manufacturers will seek custom (or specifically tailored) e-commerce solutions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Manufacturing is core to the middle class and a healthy economy. At the end of 2014, many leaders that I work with are preparing their 2015 strategies. The word digital is everywhere in their presentations– digital path to purchase, digital agriculture, and digital manufacturing. As they talked, I winced. e-commerce.

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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. Government Weighs In on Supply Chain Management in Manufacturing. The Numbers Are In.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2015

Many off-shore manufacturers have returned to the U.S., Those changes, along with high costs of transporting materials and finished goods to and from overseas locations, make the value of reshoring likely to become a compelling financial reality for many manufacturers. Engineering isn’t disconnected from manufacturing.

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Locus Robotics

JUNE 26, 2020

VIRTUAL EVENT/WEBINAR Improving Your End-To-End Supply Chain During Turbulent Times. Since 2014, LogiMed has served as the largest gathering for medical device and diagnostics supply chain heads in North America. July 14, 2020. Noon EDT | 9AM PDT. Join Locus on July 14, 2020 Noon EDT | 9AM PDT for the FREE LogiMed Virtual Event!

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 20, 2015

Approximately 60 percent of today's unfilled manufacturing jobs are due to a shortage of applicants with sufficient proficiency in science, technology, engineering, and math ( STEM ) skills. IMPO Executive Editor, Anna Wells provides insights into the complicated issue in her article “Why The Manufacturing Skills Gap Is Serious”.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

” Hau Lee, October 2014. We consistently see that companies focused on functional excellence–a focus within a functional silo like manufacturing, transportation or distribution– or singular metrics– like inventory or costs– underperform against their peer groups. Harvard Business Review.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Holiday shipping prices for 2014 are pretty similar to what they were last year, only a bit higher. Another thing to keep in mind when it comes to holiday shipping for 2014 is the Christmas tree monster. AAA Cooper will be closed or have limited operations on the following days: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 – Closed.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 1, 2014

2014 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. Be it Christmas, the New Year and New Orders, a new budget, Thanksgiving returns, etc.,

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 10, 2015

Supply Chain is just one of our five main categories we are covering all this week, which consist of: Logistics, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Freight, and Transportation. We have already covered the top logistics blog posts and the top manufacturing blog posts by the most views those blogs in those categories have received in 2015.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

Riding a rising five-year trend, retail juggernaut Walmart® grossed $476 billion in the fiscal year that ended in January 2014, up from $408 billion in fiscal 2010, according to The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch. The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2014.” Top 100 Retailers Chart 2014.” Top 100 Retailers Chart 2014.”

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Holiday shipping prices for 2014 are pretty similar to what they were last year, only a bit higher. Another thing to keep in mind when it comes to holiday shipping for 2014 is the Christmas tree monster. AAA Cooper will be closed or have limited operations on the following days: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 – Closed.

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Cost Reduction Strategies Price Reduction Vendor Strategies Resource Reduction 120

GlobalTranz

JULY 10, 2015

In 2014, the total cost of logistics rose to a staggering $1.45 percent in 2014. Motor carrier transportation cost for 2014 was approximately $702 billion, and an additional $10 billion was found to exist within costs related to shipping. In the first quarter of 2014 showed national warehouse occupancy stood at 93.3

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

It is 2014. We have not been able to build the planning architectures that effectively let manufacturers plan from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier. We will also be sharing more insight on this topic on our webinar next week.). It is a story of parts. We are stuck. The Problem. The Dilemma.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 1, 2016

We will feature our 5 main categories all week: Logistics , Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Transportation , and Freight. In modern manufacturing and transportation, savings are everything. The shipping industry saw growth and expansion in 2014 when compared to the state of the industry since 2008.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 10, 2015

We've already hit 3 of our 5 main categories by featuring the most popular blogs for the logistics blog posts, manufacturing blog posts, and supply chain blog posts. UPS now applies dimensional weight pricing, also known as "DIM" Pricing, to ALL packages as of December 29, 2014. Top Freight Blog Posts from 2014.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As we head into 2016, we are featuring our most read articles of 2015 in our five main categories: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Management, and Freight. Yesterday we published the top 10 most read manufacturing articles of 2015. . INFOGRAPHIC] Top 10 Logistics and Supply Chain Facts of 2014.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 25, 2016

Near and far, logistics providers and shippers are renewing their focus on sustainability to build the manufacturing giants of tomorrow. Essentially, an organization cannot gain the trust of the entire supply chain network and its consumers if the organization fails to reveal all processes within the manufacturing and transportation network.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 10, 2015

We will feature our 5 main categories all week: Logistics, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Transportation, and Freight. Many of the following distribution center metrics to track closely mirror those found within transportation and manufacturing, but this listing will focus on those involved in distribution centers.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 4, 2016

Offshoring is basically when a company moves manufacturing to a foreign country in an attempt to save money. For a time, this model of manufacturing seemed to be the paragon of effective business. This may include research and development, product manufacturing, product packaging, and shipping processes. The short answer is no.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 12, 2015

As we have stated in several manufacturing posts , manufacturing is an industry that pulls at a lot of the heart strings of Americans. It defined a generation, was the identity of Americans, and continues to have politicians take up the “Manufacturing” cause time and time again (especially as we near election times).

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 30, 2015

As a recap, and for easy to access link, we have showcased the following: Most Read Manufacturing Articles of 2015. We have published now over 650 articles, and so you should almost find anything related to manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, transportation, and freight. . Top Supply Chain Articles of 2015.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

A traditional viewpoint of manufacturers reveals many flaws in the efficiencies of standard shipping, transportation, and other logistics processes. Inherently, manufacturing and logistics go hand in hand. Manufacturers must receive raw material inbound and send out product to customers outbound.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 2, 2016

While logistics and manufacturing have grown exponentially, problems have become more complicated. Twin private-sector and public-sector resources and use of the IoT, the value of the IoT platform grew to more than $8 trillion by 2014, reports the Cisco and DHL publication, the Internet of Things in Logistics.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 14, 2015

It is surprising then that despite the hundreds of millions of RFID tags sold this year alone that, according to results from the 2014 GS1 US Standards Usage Survey, finally saw the technology living up to the hype in the logistics industry in the last few years.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2015

Yesterday, I presented to 700 global attendees on an APICS webinar. However, in the polling data in the APICS webinar, we found that over 70% of the respondents had deployed solutions from the ERP-expansionists (either SAP or Oracle). Using quantitative surveys, we collected the data in Figure 1 in 2014. Let me share the story.

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The Network Effect

JANUARY 12, 2015

Note: In honor of a similar post from last year, I thought I’d do an update for 2014. Having spent a lot of my time in 2014 in the board rooms and corner offices of companies around the world, I can say without a doubt that this is no longer the case.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a bonus, at the Imagine 2014 Magento e-commerce Conference, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Malcolm McLean (just as he did in this Inc. Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports. More types of goods are traded economically, and much manufacturing is transferring to developing economies. It then overtakes the US in 2014.

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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. Some facilities see orders soar ninefold — but taking nine times as long to meet demand isn’t an option.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Back in 2014, I remember talking on a webinar about Supply Chain KPIs , and when asked about my thoughts on these, I responded as follows: 1) Make them ‘meaningful’. Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in May 2014. 2) Keep them simple. 3) Don’t have too many. Cash-to-Cash Cycle Time. Stock Turns.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 14, 2015

They are a great company and very representative of the pride of American Manufacturing. We are featuring two of their quick blog posts below that are relevant to the state of American Manufacturing today: the real facts about the industry and why someone should work in manufacturing. Manufacturers Can Thrive Against All Comers."

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