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A Complete Breakdown of the 26th State of Logistics Report

GlobalTranz

On June 23, 2015, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals ( CSCMP ) released the “State of Logistics Report,” which happens to be in its 26 th year. Manufacturers and logistics providers have the ability to build more warehouses to meet the growing demand for additional storage space. for everyone else.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2015 : solar-powered vessel, robot dispatcher, 3-D printed flight parts, and more. UPS’ eBike electric bike program, activated in Portland, Ore., Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2016 : robot pickers, bridge-inspecting drones, autonomous freight shuttles, and more.

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Have Spot Market Rates Bottomed Out?

DAT Solutions

For multiple reasons, spot market freight volumes and rates have been trending down for most of 2015 -- van rates since March, and flatbed and reefer rates since June. The cities with tight capacity include Memphis, Rock Island, IL, and Portland, OR. in October, the Non-Manufacturing Index (NMI) is up to 59.1

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What are America’s Most Inventive Cities?

QAD

The city is located in a prime position to travel to major west coast locations such as Seattle, Portland and the Silicon Valley. We again used Census data to find average populations for every state in the country from 1963-2015 and used that as a basis for another calculation of how many patents are issued for every 100,000 people. .

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