Enterra Insights

JANUARY 11, 2024

Moore , the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, and Max H. Mankins and Lori Sherer, “ Creating value through advanced analytics ,” Bain Brief, 11 February 2015. They write, “Think in expected values. 5] Michael C.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Over the past two years, I’ve addressed those questions in various posts (see links below), but you have to look no further than Chipotle’s Q4 2015 financial results for the answers. The fourth quarter of 2015 was the most challenging period in Chipotle’s history,” said Steve Ells, founder, chairman and co-CEO of Chipotle.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 19, 2015

My travels this week took me to California and Boston. He advised that it will take an average of three additional weeks for container unloading for the west coast ports throughout 2015. Today is a rainy day in Philadelphia. I am recovering from bronchitis. I am reflective as the rain sheets down my window. The program is shaping up.

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DAT Solutions

JULY 5, 2017

Load availability was up 30% compared to May, and 84% compared to June 2015. HOT MARKETS: The biggest changes last week were in California, where reefer freight finally started to move out of Fresno and Sacramento in serious quantities, but load counts fell sharply in L.A. and Ontario.

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Resilinc

JUNE 29, 2021

As recently covered by Supply Chain Dive , wildfires have in recent years cut off the major highways I-5 and I-15 in California. over the last 20 years, with 2015, 2017 and 2020 seeing more than 10 million acres burned (see below chart). “Sometimes they’re cut off for a week at a time,” said B.J.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Google, automakers object to California rules for self-driving cars (Reuters). in September; compared with September 2015, the SA index fell 0.7%, the first year-over-year decline since October 2015. Consumers Trust Amazon, FedEx, UPS, Post Office Over Google For Drone Deliveries (IoT Daily). Last month the U.S.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 23, 2017

If At First You Don’t Succeed… ”) Based on the website, it looks like the company is still in stealth mode and stuck in 2015 (the date of its last press release). See my April 2014 post “ Webvan 2.0: Further proof that the grocery home delivery business remains a tough nut to crack.

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 18, 2018

The California Transparency Supply Chains Act, for instance, which was enacted in 2012, requires companies to disclose information regarding their efforts to eradicate human trafficking and slavery within their supply chains. There were plastic straw bans in individual municipalities in Florida, New Jersey and California.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Workers sympathetic to the California dock workers, as well as diverted freight have slowed down operations at other ports up and down the west coast. Negotiations threaten to stretch well into 2015, but the ramifications of this could be felt much longer. So What Is An Importer To Do?

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 11, 2016

Trucks were readily available on the spot market in 2015 , and at bargain prices -- at least when you compare to average rates in 2014. Spot market rates were higher in 2015 than in 2013, the most recent "normal" year. Load volume in 2015 was on par with 2013 , due entirely to heavier demand in the first half of the year.

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RFgen

JULY 21, 2016

As Footwear News explained, California’s bisphenol A restrictions are cause for concern for many brands, as this causes the need for adjustments in the manufacturing process. BPA has been linked to heart disease, diabetes and cancer, and now states are creating stricter policies, including California. The Ups and Downs of Trade.

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RFgen

JULY 21, 2016

As Footwear News explained, California’s bisphenol A restrictions are cause for concern for many brands, as this causes the need for adjustments in the manufacturing process. BPA has been linked to heart disease, diabetes and cancer, and now states are creating stricter policies, including California. The Ups and Downs of Trade.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

My journey to understand SanDisk started in June 2015. Founded in 1988 in Milpitas, California, SanDisk is publicly traded on NASDAQ with 8,600 employees globally, and market capitalization in 2015 over $13B. I had the opportunity to visit with the SanDisk team in July 2015. When I heard their story, I scratched my head.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Even though there have been concerted efforts to reverse the downturn experienced in the year 2015, most shipping lines have not succeeded in reversing the trends in supply chain. Revenues, and in turn profits, took a turn for the worse in 2015 due to stagnating volumes and over-capacity. Stagnation of Air Cargo and Sea Freight Rates.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 7, 2016

miles I will ride next Saturday with my Logistics Leaders for Type 1 Diabetes Cure teammates at the JDRF Death Valley Ride in California. Hanjin containers clog Southern California ports (American Shipper). All of these miles are in preparation for the 102.7 Rand McNally Launches Next Generation E-Log and Fleet Management Device.

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

In the United States of America, in 2015, 12,000,000 new LPs were sold, up from 1,000,000 in 2007 (Source: Wikipedia ). In an article by Vish Knanna on Pitchfork , he talks about one in particular: Rainbo Records in Los Angeles, California. The vinyl resurgence surprised many, and the industry has been slow to react in many ways.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Hrushikesh “Hrushi” Sager, an internal executive was promoted to lead not only gigafactory operations but operations at the auto maker’s vehicle assembly plant in Fremont, California. Founded in 2015, Ascend currently operates a facility in Georgia , and aims to build another recycling facility in Kentucky.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 7, 2018

Back in 2015, Nestlé committed itself to “be an industry leader in determining where the seafood [in its supply chain] is coming from and demanding it is Sourced Responsibly.” 4] “ Responsible Sourcing of Seafood – Thailand Action plan 2015-2016. ” The fishing industry case study. Footnotes. [1]

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Supply Chain Movement

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Contents Supply Chain Movement 16 – 2015 Q1. Publishing date: 27 February 2015. 14 | Consulting Subway Map 2015. 6 | News & Background. Jungheinrich aiming for Europe’s number 1 position. Winners of last quarter: Lalamove and UberCARGO. Loser of last quarter: Philips. Our supply-chain future: fair sharing – column.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

JULY 14, 2015

Opportunity Knocks – The Wall Street Journal reports the West Coast ports’ share of container imports fell precipitously year over year between May 2014 and May 2015 according to U.S. What are the contours of the opportunity and how were some retailers prepared to seize it while many others weren’t? Census Bureau data.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

2015) note that simple monitoring through a self-managed set of narrowly defined evaluative activities is no longer enough to meet stakeholder demands for accountability in the supply chain. Further attention was drawn to sustainable supply management as a result of the California Transparency Act in 2010. Gualandris et al.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 23, 2015

A massive El Niño occurred in 1997-1998, unleashing record rains in California, deadly tornados in Florida, and a brutal drought in Indonesia, thus landing the term firmly on the radar (no pun intended) of millions of people around the globe. And it still isn’t, despite the headline of this post.

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Supply Chain Network

OCTOBER 24, 2015

The per-share consideration represents a premium to the ordinary shareholders of approximately 50% compared to the closing price of UTi on 8 October 2015, and a premium of approximately 34% compared to the 30-day volume-weighted average closing price. In the 12 months ending 31 July 2015 UTi achieved consolidated revenues of USD 3.9

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Elementum

OCTOBER 15, 2015

1997 satellite image versus 2015 satellite image. It will probably alleviate California’s drought. El Niño is set to bring copious amounts of precipitation to California and the Southern United States. will see a wet winter while California is preparing for storms that will bring floods and mudslides. The Southern U.S.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 25, 2018

Either way, in a three-year time span, the last few months create a very rare picture: Van rates declined through 2015 , but rebounded in mid-2016. That hasn't happened since 2014, probably because of lower crop yields during the multi-year drought in California, but before then, it was a typical pattern.

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Freight Plus

MARCH 14, 2019

Wagers, who was hired last April, may have initially been brought on board to help reaccelerate the company’s mergers & acquisitions which had been stagnant since 2015. Seattle to Salt Lake City, Buffalo to Chicago, and various lanes in California all saw the biggest declines in rates. The national van rate closed at $1.88/mile,

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 4, 2016

At the annual Modern Supply Chain Experience in San Jose, California, Oracle announced plans to devote more time and energy into improving cloud supply chain management seems to point towards an eventual shift of all supply chain management from legacy-based systems to the use of the cloud.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 8, 2016

Overall, the port activities in Los Angeles is a major activity node in Southern California, employing about 900,000 people throughout the LA County Region and 3.6 million worldwide. However, the capacity expansion of the Panama Canal may change this shipment pattern.

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Elementum

MAY 19, 2015

Los Angeles has handled 5% fewer containers so far in 2015 compared to last year. 3% fewer containers in 2015 compared to 2014. At the peak of congestion at the port, 31 container vessels sat anchored outside of the Southern California docks. container imports has shrunk from 54% to 49% in the first quarter of 2015.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Inventors from San Jose, California have been issued more patents than any other city on our list despite having a population less than 1/8th the size of New York’s. Joining San Jose in the top five are two more staples of the California tech industry, San Francisco and San Diego. patents issued per 100,000 people that live there.

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MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For instance, the California Supply Chain Transparency Act (2010) and the UK Modern Slavery Act (2015) require companies to exercise due diligence when evaluating suppliers and to report their findings. Some examples point the way.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Short lived , the fidget frenzy was just the latest consumer fad to push global production into overdrive, like 2015’s hoverboards. Amazon’s licensed NVOCC (ocean freight forwarder), Beijing Century JOYO Courier Service, imports the spinners from China, where they are delivered to a California Amazon fulfillment center.

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Material Handling & Logistics

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 (“UK Act”) requires businesses doing £36 million turnover in the UK to publish a statement on their website indicating the steps they are taking to combat modern slavery throughout their supply chains. Consumer Enforcement. Failure to make a statement can result in an injunction from the attorney general.

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ModusLink Corporation

JULY 22, 2011

coli outbreak in Germany and the pharmaceutical industry’s ePedigree requirements which will require traceability of Pharmaceutical products in the state of California beginning in 2015. Examples include the food industry ‘farm to fork’ traceability which will be more important after the recent E.

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

On behalf of a resident of California, USA, three US law firms have filed a lawsuit against American grocery retailer Costco and its fish supplier CP Foods for allegedly misleading consumers about the fact that they are inadvertently supporting slavery.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 14, 2015

This process has already been deployed in vending machines owned by Cantaloupe System in California. When a customer places an order, the IoT supply chain will enable automated transmission of the information. Cantaloupe System uses the IoT to help monitor the temperatures of their vending machines, detect thieves, and monitor inventory.

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EcoVadis

APRIL 20, 2015

Modern Slavery Act became law on March 26 th , 2015. Here’s a brief excerpt: The Act sets a new European precedent in the eradication of slavery, and it transcends recent legislation including the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act ( TISC ), and the Dodd-FrankAct-Section 1502. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.

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