This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Functional Metrics and the Lack of Alignment to Strategy. Process-based companies continue to focus on manufacturing efficiency (OEE) and discrete on procurement (PPV) without designing the supply chain to balance transportation, manufacturing, and procurement to a balanced scorecard. Note the fall in 2014-2019. Guess what?
As an example, Gartner cites the 94% of supply chain logistics leaders that either currently have a supply chain management transportation system or plan to deploy one in the next one or two years. ( link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.
market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.
market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.
market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.
market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.
market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.
In the first facility management was focused on controlling the workforce through individual metrics. market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. In comparison, in 2000-2007 the U.S.
market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.
Ongoing disruptions in the Middle East are driving up supply chain costs across energy, transportation, insurance, inventory, and technology. Assess and mitigate exposure to new global transportation bottlenecks 2. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! Supply Chain Digest Says.
market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.
market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.
The idea is that the package delivery robots will be transported in Amazon’s fleet of Rivian electric vans and will soon be ready to start real-world testing at a new facility. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! That left logistics costs as a percent of US GDP down a bit in 2024 to 8.7%.
market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.
The US thus spent about $131 billion more in parcel shipping than it did in rail transport last year - a bit more than a delta of $127.4 of total transport costs and 38.5% of total transport costs and 8.9% of transportation spend – down from 6.1% With overall transport costs rising 8.7% Gilmore Says.
market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.
market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.
Deregulation undertaken by Jimmy Carter meant that the federal government no longer had to approve routes and prices for interstate air transportation. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! companies are reshoring and foreign companies are investing in U.S. In comparison, in 2000-2007 the U.S.
market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.
market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.
market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.
Finally, a manager in the transportation equipment sector stated that “The word that best describes the current market outlook is ‘uncertainty.’ market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014.
market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.
market for customer responsiveness, flexibility, quality control, and for the positive branding of "Made in USA" Reshoring including FDI balanced offshoring in 2015 as it did in 2014. link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! locations to be in close proximity to the U.S.
Electric Charging Station Installs Soar in Q2 According to a report from Transport Topics this week, 703 high-speed, public charging stations opened in the US in the second quarter, the second-largest such infrastructure boom on record, according to Department of Energy data. An y reaction to t hese stories? We have to keep this in mind.
Foreign-Trade Zones Hits All-time High of $99Bn in 2014 Bloomberg Southwest Falls on $1B Profit Cut From Tariff Fallout More from this author Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter! Retailer Over Boycott of Xinjiang Cotton Liquor Control Board of Ontario: CPFR-Partnerships & Profits Exports From U.S.
We trudge on with our top posts from our main blog categories by page view for all of 2014 from the Cerasis blog by featuring another area Cerasis is an expert in: Transportation. These tips include how you yourself can better manage your transportation department and maximize resources. Read the Full Blog Post.
Today, we kick off our annual year end series highlighting the top blog posts in each of our 7 main categories: Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Logistics , 3PL , Business , Transportation , Freight. We will feature over the next 7 business days each category’s top 10 most viewed posts over the course of 2014. Read Full Post.
We continue our top blog posts of 2014 from our main categories today by focusing on something at Cerasis we are experts in : Logistics. Some logistics involves transportation or warehouses or both. In fact, the logistics space is so broad, we couldn’t give you only the top 10 blog posts of 2014, but we had to include the top 15.
When you choose a company to transport your freight or to supply you with the materials you need to manufacture a product, you are putting your hard work and reputation in their hands. The next posts in the series will break down metrics and issues to consider in SQM by industry and conclude with a case study on the application of SQM.
Live Episode: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 at 12:00 ET. Building a strong transportation management foundation is a critical pre-requisite for companies to execute their supply chain strategies and achieve their growth and financial objectives. Watch as Chris discusses: The components of an effective transportation management strategy.
That was my opening question to the executives attending last month’s Elemica reveal 2014 Conference in Frankfurt. Meanwhile, the Red Sox won the World Series in 2013, going from worst to first in one year — and then back to worst in 2014. What do the Germany World Cup Team and the Boston Red Sox have in common?
Transportation capacity problems have been a volatile issue over the past twenty years or so. The 2014 winter weather triggered a trucking capacity problem. In 2014 utilization was 100% of capacity, a crisis phase. However, based on Perry’s estimates, by 2016 that rate is likely to escalate to the 2014 rate.
This is in part due to the fact that as a third party logistics company, focused on efficient and strategic transportation management solutions through technology and services, it is vital for us to educate our shipper customers and our team in order to continually improve and always provide value. .
” 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.
I’ve been using the word convergence to describe many of the trends occurring in the supply chain and logistics field today, and convergence was certainly evident at Roadnet’s perform 2014 User Conference a few weeks ago. ——– Excerpt of presentation delivered at Roadnet Perform 2014.
Like the multi-billion dollar chemical manufacturer that had been paying market rates for ocean transportation for eight years because nobody realized that their contract, filed away in a drawer by a transportation manager who had left the company, had expired. million in net sales in 2014 over the previous year, a 25% increase to $2.1
All KPIS have metrics to measure. The Transportation Management System (TMS) of the 3PL can gain rewards for both parties as well through freight optimization. Outputs and measures are put into a Service Level Agreement ( SLA ) with mutually agreed upon win-win, effective Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). 3PL/SLA Skills/Knowledge.
However, over-the-road transportation costs remain low. Companies are also making upstream decisions about which inventory to place on transport and opportunities to pivot to higher-priority items. In the past month, imports — both ocean and air — surged as disruptions exacerbated congestion at the ports.
There should be metrics involved to monitor these objectives to ensure success across the supply chain. These metrics should be reviewed frequently to ensure supply chain success. o Transport—unnecessary movement of product. o Packaging—containers that transport air or allow damage. This sets the supply chain pace.
This week, at Supply Chain Insights LLC, we published our 11th report in the series titled Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. When companies look at singular metrics (labor costs or inventory), they have moved backwards. Aligning metrics matters. Functional metrics in isolation degrade value.
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. Supplier Quality Management: What it is, 5 Key Metrics to Know & a 4 Step Supplier Evaluation Process. As always our goal is to educate and inform.
The report analyzes supply chain performance and improvement by the Consumer Products Leaders in the period of 2006-2014. In the selection of time frames to analyze, we look at the long-term view including the recessionary period of 2006-2009, the post recessionary period of 2009-2014 and the more recent time period of 2011-2014.
We are well into the era of real-time transportation visibility, where shippers and their partners can track freight in real-time across every mode of transport. So why are so many still falling short of OTIF targets (and other key metrics)? What does that look like? Let’s go back to OTIF. That covers “on-time.”
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 102,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content