Savi

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Today’s driver shortage is helping to drive transportation costs higher. Some sources recorded up to a 20 percent annual demand increase for large truckload carriers and fleets. The chart below (courtesy of Peter Boockvar ) illustrates historical truck transport cost and consumer goods cost movement.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2015 : solar-powered vessel, robot dispatcher, 3-D printed flight parts, and more. Content Summary: Personal Mover Transports Employees around BMW Plant. Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2016 : robot pickers, bridge-inspecting drones, autonomous freight shuttles, and more. Warehouse Automation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In 2015, I worked with a manufacturer of men’s underwear. (My A second story is of an electronic distributor. These included cloud-based computing, in-memory processing, parallel computation, and open-source analytics. The evolution is based on open-source collaboration and is not owned by any individual technology company.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Well, my big audacious prediction for 2015 did not come true. more near-shoring and larger, less frequent shipments to minimize transportation costs). How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? TMS for SMB: Breaking Down the Barriers.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 6, 2020

“We have captured many benefits thanks to the decision we took to extend our JAGGAER implementation to include sourcing. And not least, double-digit cost savings on our electronic sourcing bid events.”. Since then OSU has conducted around 900 sourcing events via JAGGAER. Paperless at the O.K.

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Elementum

APRIL 15, 2016

Consumer electronics could be facing months of supply chain disruptions after the Kumamoto quakes rattled manufacturers in Southern Japan. The popularity of semiconductor and other electronics producers in the region, whose fragile manufacturing process could have been critically damaged by the quakes. What Happened. Impact Analysis.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 29, 2016

Amazon reported its Q4 2015 results yesterday, and although it reported record profits for the quarter ($482 million), the company’s shares tumbled in after-hours trading because overall results fell short of analyst expectations. November 2015 North American Freight Numbers. In the quarter, shipping costs jumped 37% to $4.17

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The value of peer-to-peer learning and networking was evident at last month’s Ryder Innovate conference — “an exclusive gathering of senior leaders in transportation, logistics, and supply chain seeking strategic insight, new ideas, and thought leadership to improve their supply chain and fleet operations.”

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

Founded in 2015, the Sayari platform integrates global corporate and supply chain data to surface risk insights for investigations, analytics, and supply chain risk management. location, facilitating delivery of lithium inputs and shipment of battery-grade lithium products over multiple transportation routes.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 29, 2019

They still rely on paper-based, manual processes; they lack electronic connectivity with most of their trading partners; their data quality is still poor (inaccurate, incomplete, and/or not timely); and they have failed to modernize their IT systems.” ” Not all companies are laggards. And that list is by no means exhaustive.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides another update on ongoing strategic sourcing and operational developments occurring among electric vehicle focused supply and production networks. Founded in 2015, Ascend currently operates a facility in Georgia , and aims to build another recycling facility in Kentucky.

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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. Riding this wave were droves of Chinese or Indian manufacturers that can now tap into digital platforms to source, import and sell directly to SMBs or consumers online. The Alibaba Method.

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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. 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.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 30, 2022

Then Jabil handles the sourcing and manufacturing of those products. They are sourcing from over 27,000 suppliers. She worked as a production planner, a master planner, a demand planner, and inventory manager, before leading a team of demand planners in 2015. The company engages in contract manufacturing services for companies.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. They are the most prevalent in the consumer electronics industry. Customer-Centric Supply Chain Processes. Social Listening.

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Freightos

MARCH 3, 2015

So when I asked Cathy Roberson, a senior analyst at Transport Intelligence and a tech-enthusiast who is vox supplychainus on Twitter at cmroberson06 , I was not surprised when she sent me back an analysis that seems to match up perfectly with some of Google’s recent projects: Google Glasses, Android and 3D printing.

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GTG Technology Group

MARCH 29, 2017

Every trucker is familiar with electronic logging devices (ELDs). The final ELD mandate was delivered in 2015 and affects 3 million drivers , but 84% of drivers still don’t have them. Studies from the Center for Truck and Bus Safety of Virginia Tech Transportation Institute showed that ELD drivers had 11.7% link] [link].

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Truckers take government to court over electronic logbook mandate. Here are some details from the article: Leasing 20 jets would be a significant expansion of an Amazon trial operation out of Wilmington, Ohio, operated by ATSG on Amazon’s behalf, sources said. Congress grants US truckers driving restriction reprieve (JOC.com).

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Oracle Announces New Releases of Oracle Transportation Management and Oracle Global Trade Management. TMW Systems Announces New Products, Features that Enable Transportation Businesses to ‘Make the Most of Now’ HighJump Announces Brewers’ Edge. eBay Launches New Speedy-Delivery Membership in Germany (Venture Beat).

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 31, 2023

Background In a number of prior Supply Chain Matters blog commentaries, we have highlighted for readers how global smartphone and consumer electronics provider Apple has behind the scenes been influencing key contract manufacturing and component suppliers to begin to establish alternative sourcing of materials and production beyond China.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

Source: Google. Descartes Systems Group Revenue 2006-2018 (Source: macrotrends). Velocity Mail (June 2018) : “an electronic transportation network that provides global air carriers with mail and parcel shipment scanning and tracking solutions.”.

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QAD

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Though, as the country has relied less on nuclear energy and imported fuels, thermal power has become the country’s largest energy source. Japan is also enabling alternative power sources that should help the manufacturing sector. As befits an island nation, transportation in Japan is robust across all modalities. About 2.9%

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GTG Technology Group

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) released the current electronic logging device (ELD) mandate at the end of 2015, and the clock has been counting down ever since. ELDs replace paper logs by electronically recording a driver’s record of duty status and uses that data to document hours of service (HOS) compliance.

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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. . Top 10 Supply Chain Articles from 2015.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 25, 2022

Supply challenges arising from the war will hit many industries, with electronics being a prime example, since Russia and Ukraine are both sources of materials such as palladium and neon , vital for the manufacture of semiconductors. In 2015, it stood at around $5.40. From Fuel to Fertiliser, Supply Shortages Start to Bite.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 19, 2016

2016 will be a defining year for the logistics industry , and transportation management practices must adapt to these changes. Some of these transportation management trends reflect real worries for the logistics industry. Take a look at six of the trends to watch for in transportation management this year.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 8, 2024

Extreme weather like this would damage manufacturing and transportation infrastructure in the U.S. If a celestial event like this happened, we would likely see disruptions to transportation, communication, and resource availability. San Andreas (2015) If California was a country, its $3.1 and key regions worldwide.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 10, 2015

We continue our "Most Popular Blog Posts of 2015.So 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. Most Popular Supply Chain Blog Posts from the Cerasis Blog for 2015 So Far.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 10, 2017

UltraShipTMS has won Stevie Awards in 2017, 2015, 2014 and 2013 across a number of categories including Gold Stevies for “ Product of the Year in 2013 ” and “Best Customer Support Department” in 2014 and a Silver Stevie also in 2014 for “IT Team of the Year”. The American Business Awards is the nation’s premier business awards program.

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TMC

OCTOBER 27, 2016

In previous posts , we’ve explored ways to prepare for supply chain disruptions that are predictable using the rich functionality of modern transportation management system (TMS) technology. Editor’s note: This blog post originally ran in 2015. These types of incidents happen with little or no notice.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

As people conduct more and more transactions electronically, whether it’s consumers on Amazon or organizational buyers on Ariba, Coupa, or other P2P solutions, the relational component of supply chains seems to be going down. UPS and FedEx both saw package volumes soar by 17% or more during the Christmas season over last year).

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The following is a 5,000 word exploration of Maersk’s strategic shift to end-to-end logistics services, based on open sources. After a rough 2015, the first half of 2016 was no different. Maersk would split into two divisions – a Transport & Logistics division, and an energy division. Driving the Maersk Shift.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 2, 2017

Instead of tapering off after October, as retail freight did in years past, a boom market emerged for truckload transportation in November and December. E-commerce was a major source of spot market freight for what is usually a quiet season, boosting truckload rates to a surprise peak in the last two months of the year.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The aforementioned NHS for instance has partnered with a large logistics-service company, which owns the distribution centres and transport fleets that supply NHS hospitals. Mercy chose to insource storage and transportation, and claims to have saved 15 to 30% annually on logistics and distribution costs.

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GTG Technology Group

AUGUST 31, 2016

Although the FMCSA’s implementation of the Unified Registration System (URS) has been ongoing since late 2015, certain aspects were delayed. Ultimately, the URS will overhaul the existing ID numbers transportation businesses must obtain and convert the registration process from paper to electronic. Here’s what you need to know.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 21, 2016

I was also impressed by the fleXipod module, a mobile proof of delivery and fulfillment system the company introduced in May 2015. As described in the press release: fleXipod is an electronic proof of delivery system that can be implemented using PDA, tablet, and smartphone devices.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 4, 2015

Jabil sponsored a global Dimensional Research survey to capture hard data on current experiences, challenges and trends with the supply chains of electronics manufacturing companies. The results show some of the biggest supply chain management trends in supply chains for 2015.

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