Talking Logistics

APRIL 1, 2016

So, I’ll just point you to my past April 1 posts in case you missed them the first time: 2015: Netflix Developing Original Series About Logistics Called “D is for Drones”. Five years after Japan quake, rewiring of auto supply chain hits limits (Reuters). 2014: Facebook, Google, and eBay Announce “Internet of Lost Things” Partnership.

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QAD

JANUARY 9, 2020

Thailand’s 63 paved airports moved 2,134,149,001 mt-km of freight in 2015. Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Australia and Malaysia. Primary import partners include China, Japan, the U.S. With its central location in Asia and robust air infrastructure, Thailand is well-positioned to move goods by air. billion worth of goods.

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Locus Robotics

JANUARY 11, 2023

Collaboration in the “Material Bank® Japan” sample marketplace for order fulfillment of interior design and construction materials. The two companies will introduce 25 Locus AMRs, the first in Japan, to the Material Bank® Japan HUB (Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture) to realize an ESG-friendly and high productivity logistics scheme.

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Supply Chain Digest

JANUARY 21, 2016

Robots and More will be Devastating to Jobs, Oil Now Costs Less than Two Large Pizzas in Most Areas, Maersk Modestly Optimistic about Container Volumes for 2015, but Others Disagree, The Stunning Demographic Changes in Japan

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2016

It was back in January 2015, after reading an article in the Wall Street Journal about bitcoin, that my eyes were opened to the potential for blockchain technology to transform supply chain management. As I wrote at the time in Bitcoin: A New Supply Chain Operating System? Toyota temporarily shut two factories in the aftermath.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Note that the industry aggregate actually went backwards, as did operating margin and inventory for the period 2015-2017. Some manufacturing sites are more focused on regional markets and on mass-market consumer products, others – mostly small branches in the US, France, and Japan – act on global scale for luxury segment.

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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. tremor struck the industry-heavy region of Kumamoto, in southern Japan, early Saturday morning. What Happened. Just two days earlier, a 6.4-magnitude Our take: Don’t wait around. Impact Analysis.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

In late June of 2015, the Senate passed legislation that gave President Obama the authority to present the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade package to Congress with no amendments or filibusters allowed. Tang, UCLA Anderson School.

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Elementum

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

2015 was a big year in terms of logistics and globalization for Amazon, who began making their way into the shipping industry, registering in China as a freight forwarder and a shipping broker for 12 routes, including Shanghai to Los Angeles and Hamburg.

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QAD

JUNE 11, 2020

Registered airlines moved 885,277,991 mt-km of freight in 2015. billion worth of goods to China, the US, Germany, Japan, India, Botswana and Namibia. South Africa also exports electricity to other southern African countries. South Africa has 407 airports, 130 of which have paved runways. In 2017, South Africa exported $94.93

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QAD

JUNE 11, 2020

Registered airlines moved 885,277,991 mt-km of freight in 2015. billion worth of goods to China, the US, Germany, Japan, India, Botswana and Namibia. South Africa also exports electricity to other southern African countries. South Africa has 407 airports, 130 of which have paved runways. In 2017, South Africa exported $94.93

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In 2015, the United States shipped 11.8 billion parcels followed by Japan (9.4B), Germany (3.0B), UK (2.2B) and France (1.5B) – so the growth of the number of parcels is huge. While this figure may seem low – it is predicated on a large base figure.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 3, 2021

It now serves more than five million businesses and has generated $25 billion in global sales since it began in 2015. Within its Q1 earnings press release, for example, Amazon shared some interesting statistics on its B2B platform, Amazon Business. More than half of its total unit sales are from third-party sellers. In the U.S.,

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Kinaxis

JUNE 19, 2017

The current categorization of G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, USA) won’t be applicable. Since 2015, E7 countries have already been marginally ahead of the G7 nations, and Gartner predicts that gap is only going to grow. Realistically, it already isn’t. China already tops that list.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2016

It currently has no limits on truck emissions, unlike other countries such as the United States, China, Japan and Canada, which already have truck fuel efficiency standards. In 2010, Walmart announced its goal to eliminate 20 million metric tons of GHG emissions from its global supply chain by the end of 2015.

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2018

Across twenty additional countries, Amazon’s other centers are predominantly focused on fulfillment and delivery stations while some countries, like Italy, the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Singapore, and Japan also have Prime delivery facilities. billion between 2015 and 2017. Let’s Talk About Boats, Ships, and Trucks. billion to $21.7

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Elementum

MARCH 24, 2016

According to the Economist , China’s steelmaking is bigger than the combined steel production of America, Germany, and Japan. In 2015, China saw pollution rise to levels never before seen, compelling factories to stop production. Steel and LED chips are among a number of markets currently in oversupply. High pollution levels.

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Elementum

APRIL 25, 2016

billion in 2015 to US $548.22 million in 2015, up 110% from 2014. Companies such as FedEx are expanding their global e-commerce businesses in an effort to keep up with the increasing number of packages shipped to consumers in China and Japan. Another eMarketer report forecasts that annual U.S. billion by 2019.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Some will benefit manufacturers that work across multiple geographies, such as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), the Economic Partnership Agreement signed by the European Union and Japan, and Nafta 2.0 — the United States - Mexico - Canada Agreement.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 5, 2018

In 2015, 41 percent of total sales came from online channels, the figure jumped to 60 percent in 2016, and CEO D.G. Its online channels in Germany, Japan and United Kingdom alone grew by 35 percent in 2016. Macpherson predicted that the figure will easily be 80 percent by 2022.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 14, 2015

According to the latest annual CEO survey conducted by PwC on behalf of JDA Software ( Global Retail & Consumer Goods CEO Survey: The Omni-Channel Fulfillment Imperative ), CEOs expressed confidence in revenue growth in 2015 compared to last year. Online and mobile commerce continue to be key drivers of this revenue growth, with a U.S.

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 27, 2014

By the end of this year it expects to have more than 400 stores, mostly in Europe but also in Japan. Since I joined nine months ago we’ve opened nearly 90 stores and if we execute well we will have opened another 100 stores before 2015.”. billion (Euro 235 million) last year. What attracted you to Tiger? “I

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Elementum

OCTOBER 15, 2015

1997 satellite image versus 2015 satellite image. But the typhoons will threaten Taiwan, China, and Japan, leaving countries like Indonesia in need of precipitation. The two satellite images of 1997’s El Niño compared to this year’s are eerily similar, meaning we should see parallels between the two. Image courtesy NASA.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Unprecedented events like the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan rattled global trade and left companies in trouble. Think about 9/11, or the SARS epidemic, or the Japan earthquake and tsunami. I asked Sheffi if he believes that 2015 will be smoother. On the other hand, in-transit visibility is getting better. He laughed.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 6, 2022

“Among Huh’s accomplishments cited by the IMU, he and collaborators Eric Katz and Karim Adiprasito proved the Rota conjecture in 2015 by applying Hodge theory, combining tools from disparate areas of mathematics in novel ways. At the award ceremony, the IMU played a video profiling Huh in which he explained his work.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 5, 2018

In 2015, 41 percent of total sales came from online channels, the figure jumped to 60 percent in 2016, and CEO D.G. Its online channels in Germany, Japan and United Kingdom alone grew by 35 percent in 2016. Macpherson predicted that the figure will easily be 80 percent by 2022.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Since the release of the final text for the TPP agreement, along with President Obama’s announcement on November 5, 2015, that he intended to sign it, the TPP agreement has been a fairly hot topic—across all industries—with some aspects being more controversial than others. What is the TPP agreement? This post is credited to Mike Short.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

In a single day in 2015, Alibaba handled an average of $9.9 According to Adobe research, total US online spend on Black Friday and Cyber Monday in 2015 hit a paltry $5.8 China’s middle class surpassed the US’s middle class in 2015, and is larger than the combined middle class population of Germany, Spain, UK and France.

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KEPLER Consulting

MARCH 25, 2018

offerings while developing demonstrators (Kohler C & C, 2015). Until now, they had never convinced the French manufacturers while they have been working to the satisfaction of everyone in Japan for more than 20 years. Kohler C&C (2015). Sources : Kagermann, H., Wahlster, W., & Helbig, J. Working Group. Kemper, H.-G.,

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BlueYonder

APRIL 22, 2015

While that remains a high priority, the number one focus for CEOs in 2015 is the urgent need to retool the business in response to the requirements of omni-channel commerce and fulfillment. The role of the CEO has long been focused on growing the business. China’s top threat was volatile energy and raw materials costs.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 19, 2019

Between 2015 and 2016, earthquakes in Japan and explosions at a container storage station in China affected parts of the company’s supply chain. by Sarah Harkins Imagine that three natural disasters hit your global supply chain within three years. For Keysight Technologies, this isn’t a hypothetical scenario.

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Elementum

APRIL 26, 2016

Last week, Mitsubishi, Japan’s sixth largest carmaker , admitted to rigging data and overstating the fuel economy levels of its vehicles. Approximately 625,000 cars sold in Japan were affected, compromising the fuel efficiency data of 157,000 eK Wagon and eK Space models along with 468,000 Days and Dayz Roox vehicles it produced for Nissan.

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Elementum

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Further, Shimano Incorporated built its first factory in 2015. Japan was prompted to apply the “China Plus One” investment strategy, aimed at avoiding solely manufacturing in China, to the Philippines. invested in the Philippines with a combined initial capitalization of US $8.92M, bringing in an estimated US $14.5M Fujifilm Corp.,

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Vinculum

JANUARY 27, 2021

Entry costs are also lower than other Asian countries like Japan or China. In 2015, the value of the market was just USD 5.5 Shopee: Founded in 2015, Shopee has emerged as the biggest regional competitor to Lazada. There are still lots of niches and space for eCommerce companies to thrive in the region.

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EcoVadis

APRIL 7, 2017

The Clean Energy Patent Growth Index (CEPGI), which has been tracking green patent trends since 2002, has reported upward trends of green patents in economies around the world , such as Germany, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, as well as in the United States, including in Michigan, California, and Texas. A Few Examples.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Korea leads the way with 82 per cent and Japan in second place with 79 per cent of total connections. Mankins and Lori Sherer, “ Creating value through advanced analytics ,” Bain Brief, 11 February 2015. The Nordic region fares particularly well, with four countries in the top 10. 6] Michael C.

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Elementum

AUGUST 2, 2017

in 2015 to US $15.5T In 2015, the Asian-Pacific region dominated the industry with significant impact from China, India, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, and Malaysia. The global logistics market is expected to grow from US $8.1T by 2023 between its different segments including roadways, waterways, railways, and airways.

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