Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 29, 2022

The SDGs were set up in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and are intended to be achieved by the year 2030 and are included in a UN Resolution called the 2030 Agenda. The company has established long-term power purchase agreements at the country level.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As part of the CMA CGM Group, CEVA Logistics has a global reach, which means that we can make a global difference. Photo Credit: Changi Airport Group. We are honored to partner with Changi Airport Group in this humanitarian effort for our friends in Indonesia.’’. The CMA CGM Group aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Over the period of 2009-2015, only 88% of companies made improvement on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. (As As a group, these metrics have the highest correlation to market capitalization. As a group, public companies want to make progress to both drive and sustain metrics performance, but they cannot.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 24, 2024

The RTS staff reports, “The United States discards more food than any other country in the world: nearly 60 million tons — 120 billion pounds — every year. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports, “In 2015, the USDA joined with the U.S. billion tons of food every year.”[1] ” What Can Be Done?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Most have a supply organization that has a sub-group that is chartered with forecasting demand for use by supply. In contrast, the demand organization that I am advocating is an analytics group that crosses over sales and marketing into supply. 2) Invest in New Forms of Analytics. Let’s make 2015 a great year!

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

The award, based on beating the industry peer group on rate of improvement on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while outperforming their peer group, is tough to achieve. The orbit chart below illustrates L’Oréal’s performance at the intersection of two metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

How do we harness the power of data with new forms of analytics? Today, technology providers are selling analytics. This week, I received this email from a financial institution questioning why business leaders are not harnessing more insights and redesigning processes based on analytics. S&OP Challenges. Reflection.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 27, 2015

That’s how JDA Software’s CEO, Baljit Dail, summarized the feedback he was getting from customers and partners at FOCUS 2015 , the company’s user conference held last month in Orlando, FL, which had more than 2,000 attendees from 30 countries. “It feels like a new JDA.”. The value of IT is in how you use it. Stay tuned.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2015

October 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Following the transaction, the combined group would hold market shares from 7% to 19% on the routes on which it operates. According to a report in Re/code: The trailers won’t be used to deliver packages to customer doors. Paragon Software Systems Introduces Route Control.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 12, 2015

I was at the GT Nexus Bridges 2015 conference earlier this week. April 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). There are many aspects to cloud computing that make it exciting, including the fact that it is providing companies with almost infinite computing power at a relatively low cost. Post your thoughts below.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 29, 2015

With the sirens going, the police car and motorcycle drove around the neighborhood, and then to the school, where a group of kids, parents, and teachers gathered outside the school watched as my kids emerged from the car, all smiles and proud, with their police badge sticker on their shirts. March 2015 North American Freight Numbers.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Here’s Kintetsu’s statement about the deal: The KWE Group considers the establishment of a management base that can compete on a par with European and U.S. The road less traveled remains untraveled: acquisitions and other actions focused on getting more small and midsize customers, which was one of my predictions for 2015.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which there is a desire for harmony within the group, but the result is an irrational or dysfunctional outcome. I feel that the industry is engaged in ‘Group Think’ No one in this meetings is going to ask tough questions.

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 25, 2024

Meanwhile, FedEx reported that overall revenue for the quarter ending February 29 declined 2.3% ” UPS is also evaluating the possible sale of its truck brokerage service, Coyote Logistics, which it acquired in 2015. Many utilize parcel management technology tools that track and manage a group of carrier partners.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

As shown in the 2015 Supply Chains to Admire report , over time, top performing supply chains plateau. As a result, companies like AstraZenca, BASF, Colgate, Reckitt Benckiser, Seagate, and Taiwan Semiconductor outperformed their peer group in the period of 2006-2014, but sustained improvement becomes more and more difficult.

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GTG Technology Group

DECEMBER 21, 2016

The American Trucking Association (ATA) releases a new trends report each year that provides a snapshot of the industry. The report also highlights the key factors businesses must consider as they plan for the coming years. 2015 Key Findings Overview. The ATA’s 2016 American Trucking Trends publication focused on data from 2015.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The new numbers show that, for the first time, there was a decade-long loss in the number of white Americans who do not identify with other racial and ethnic groups. Together, these groups now comprise more than 40% of the U.S. Even so, some ethnic groups can’t find the products they desire in traditional grocery stores.

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SCMDOJO

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are a group of numerical indicators that may assess how well a firm performs over time. Time- related Logistics KPIs Example: Order to Delivery Lead Time = Actual delivery date – purchase order creation date. Safety – Near Miss Reports = Number of near misses reported each month.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2016

Today Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm, announced a definitive agreement to purchase Elemica, a provider of Supply Chain Operating Networks for the chemical industry. In 2015 Insight acquired E2open, and Infor acquired GT Nexus. Together, we built this model. It is seldom positive for the line-of-business user.

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Unleashed

MARCH 22, 2022

The company was started by a group of friends in Australia, with the aim of promoting mindful drinking – whether customers are just having a night off regular alcohol or quitting it completely. It was established by Ben Branson in 2015 and produces botanicals-based, alcohol-free spirits.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 3, 2018

Consumers now take the digital path to purchase more often than not; but, they don’t care what retailers call their shopping journey or what strategies companies use to make the shopping journey a seamless one. She adds, “There is more you could group under omnichannel, but that’s a good start.” Guess what?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

A report also found that a fifth of the 2,000 largest publicly-listed companies in the world have pledged to pursue a net-zero strategy. Singapore has also embraced solar energy, having multiplied its solar capacity by more than seven times since 2015. Your Questions Answered: What is a power purchase agreement?

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 5, 2021

Supporting this, a recent BCG report highlighted that “AI will be a must in the post-COVID world.”[1] Advanced robots that can recognize objects and handle tasks that previously required humans will promote the operation of factories and other facilities 24/7, in more locations and with little added cost. ”[2].

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I had the opportunity to speak to a group of oil and gas executives at the DHL Global Energy conference this week, held in the Petroleum Club. The conference was a great opportunity to interact with logistics and procurement executives in an environment of open dialogue and discussion.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

It also is increasing the number of ‘carbon neutral’ brands it offers as consumers increasingly value this attribute when they purchase a product.”[6]. Everything from procurement, to production, to logistics can be improved using artificial intelligence. Why sustainability is important. ”[6].

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 29, 2018

.” Consumers now take the digital path to purchase more often than not; but, they don’t care what retailers call their shopping journey or what strategies they use to make the shopping journey a seamless one. They do care about having a good experience. Omnichannel Operations and the Consumer. Omnichannel is just business.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. They saw a steady drop in inventory and reduced working capital by about 50% over the period of 2011-2015. Shell operates as a single-instance of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The reason? Talking numbers worked.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 21, 2023

percent, the slowest rate of growth since 2015. Q3 revenues will include the reported very successful two-day Prime Day shopping promotional held in July. reported a 6.4 The retailer indicated increased market share in groceries as shoppers seek lower costs in food purchasers in the current period. billion and $8.5

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

According to reporting from The Wall Street Journal , a Texas site could begin pilot refining operations as early as the fourth quarter of this year., The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act in the U.S. with commercial volume operations by the end of 2024.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 25, 2016

Based on recent reports, it appears that, three years later, the answer to that question remains the same: We don’t know. Less than 28% of businesses in this group claim to have provided training to employees and local suppliers on modern slavery. 68% of supply chain managers call for legal and financial penalties for non-compliance.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 5, 2018

Whole Foods offers Amazon the opportunity to experiment with retail analytics, customer traffic management and in-store preference-matching. It’ll be a testing ground for the unexplored science of ‘presence marketing,’ the layering online and offline buying analytics while tracking customers’ movements while they shop.”

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 1, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of Amazon ’s report of Q1-2023 financial performance and market trends. Stronger performance was reported for the company’s advertising and international based businesses. Net income was reported as $3.2 Operating income for AWS was reported as $5.1 billion in the latest quarter.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

I find that in this world of the global multi-national that procurement processes have become convoluted and increasingly complex. (In In my opinion, we have made procurement increasingly complex without adding value. My journey to understand SanDisk started in June 2015. When I heard their story, I scratched my head.

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FLEXE

JANUARY 15, 2016

</p> <p>Before the holiday season began, a number of research firms predicted that holiday eCommerce would increase by about 14% over last year to exceed $70B in holiday sales. In their annual pre-season holiday report, comScore estimated that Amazon would rake in about 20% of the online holiday revenue.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 17, 2023

According to the SAP announcement , at a purchase price of $18.15 Mr. Renjen served as global consulting firm Deloitte’s Global CEO from 2015 to December 2022 upon his retirement from the role. in cash per share, the transaction corresponds to a Qualtrics equity value of approximately $12.5 Dr. Plattner’s term expires in May 2024.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Upon closer review it was notable that Home Depot was on the list for the first time since 2015. By definition the Peer group that is providing their Opinion scores is restricted to large companies voting on other large companies. The Gartner opinion group is also restricted to 42 voters. Gartner Survey Metric Notes: 1.

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AFFLINK

MARCH 10, 2016

When UPS conducted their survey in 2014 , 60% of respondents listed regulatory compliance as a top concern, and 78% reported that it was a “top trend driving business and supply chain changes.” In the 2015 survey, one respondent said that “Complying with regulations is paramount. Group Purchasing Organizations (GPO).

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