Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2023

Target’s inventories at the end of the last quarter were 16 percent lower than the same period a year ago and Walmart cut inventories in its U.S. Inventories at U.S. Target has been testing high-capacity van routes at Dallas and Minneapolis sortation centers. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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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. We look at 6 core areas that manufacturing companies will take a long look at as they gear up for a successful 2016. Manufacturers will be able to improve their inventory due to the information presented by both supply chain and operations data.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Cass Truckload Linehaul Index January 2016. Here’s what ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello had to say: “Clearly, 2016 started soft for truck tonnage. There was a deceleration in freight volumes during the second half of 2015 which continued into the first month of 2016. Global Supply Chain Resiliency Council Launches Riskipedia™.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

You probably have questions about what the 2016-2017 ocean contract season will bring. The bunker has been trending on the low side and is expected to continue this way through 2016—good news for ocean carriers, as bunker fuel is by far one of their largest operational costs. Consolidations. Bunker Cost. Driven by U.S.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 10, 2016

Target charges suppliers more to help offload unsold inventory (Reuters). Freight Rates Push Lower as Truck Capacity Outweighs Demand (WSJ – sub. Freight Rates Push Lower as Truck Capacity Outweighs Demand (WSJ – sub. April 2016 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). million (TechCrunch).

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Talking Logistics

JULY 15, 2016

May 2016 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). This is particularly important to Brooks because it is the trigger the company would like to use to commit inventory in motion. Unless you are one of the ones who failed, you should be cheering [capacity leaving the market]. As reported by the Wall Street Journal : .

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Kinaxis

MAY 9, 2016

The result being higher profit margins, something Apple could use to leverage exclusivity agreements (such as booking out UPS and DHL shipment capacities). The voting categories are Financial (ROA, Revenue, Inventory Turns), and Voting (Peer and Analyst). Inventory turns, mostly, will follow Revenue. In 2016, it will be $209M.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Cass Truckload Linehaul Index – September 2016. Manhattan Associates Reports Record Third Quarter 2016 Performance. billion in France to double capacity at Roissy airport. According to analysts at Avondale Partners, softening demand and increasing capacity warrant a pricing forecast of -3% to 1% through mid-2017.”.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Capacity crisis, rate boom likely in the coming year, experts say (CCJ). Keeping track of warehouse inventories with an army of fully autonomous drones (TechCrunch). July 2016 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Transplace Survey Identifies Carrier Response to ELD Mandate Varies By Fleet Size. project44 Raises $10.5M

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2016

Customers will be able to better take advantage of information external to their organization and realize decision lead times that could save money on rush orders and shave days off of inventory cycle times. The post This Week in Logistics News (January 4-8, 2016) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

High inventory levels: Stephen Meyer of Gartner mentioned that the Pharma industry on average has 63 days of raw material inventory and 51 days of finished goods inventory. Quite a few companies mentioned inventory savings target of 10% or above that their senior leadership is looking for.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

In the research conducted by Supply Chain Insights , only 35% of the respondents rated their S&OP process as effective or extremely effective in 2019 compared to 65% for the same in 2016. Strategic placement of inventory buffers to ensure sufficient ability to absorb shocks.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 29, 2022

Economic order quantity is one of the “most commonly used inventory-control techniques”. The objectives and advantages of Economic Order Qty (EOQ) are to minimize inventory carrying costs and ordering costs while simultaneously limiting the probability of stock out to avoid any lost sales or customer loss. S = Cost per order.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

APRIL 21, 2016

The Spring/Summer issue of Food Shippers of America magazine has hit the stands with a feature article on the Trucking Industry’s Top 10 industry issues for 2016. The remaining three issues – Driver Health/Wellness, Infrastructure/Transportation Funding and Driver Distraction are as yet, beyond the capacity of Logistics software to overcome.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In supply chain management, it is widely accepted that holding enough finished goods inventory to fulfill every order is just too costly. The thinking goes that at some point, improving service levels means you are not adding inventory in a linear manner but rather exponentially. The company has visibility to demand and inventory.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The original 2016 driver for this shift seems hard to believe in today’s freight environment: a focus on long-term business viability spurred by ocean freight rates so low that they precipitated the bankruptcy filing by ocean carrier Hanjin. Image via StarAir.dk). Behind the Maersk shift. Enter Big Tech. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

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FLEXE

MARCH 21, 2017

We wanted to know how pricing and usage of on-demand warehousing trended in 2016. In supply chain, traditional methods for managing inventory fluctuations with short-term solutions hasn’t been simple. That’s why a lot of businesses are turning to on-demand warehousing to solve for more than just inventory overflow.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Unfortunately for manufacturers, there are many areas in need of improved visibility such as customer demand, inventory, total cost, and supplier risk. There are two initiatives that we believe manufacturers should elevate to the top of the priority list for their company: tracing the upstream supply chain and supplier capacity management.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 10, 2017

From artificial intelligence to refocusing on procurement, the state of supply chain continued to explode throughout 2016, and you need to understand why. The State of Supply Chain 2016 Trends. A 2016 Accenture survey, reports RF Gen , explained how more companies are taking advantage of AI benefits through linked supply chains.

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Arkieva

JANUARY 6, 2017

Just in case you missed some of our supply chain strategy posts , we’ve compiled a list of our popular supply chain posts from 2016 below (ranked based on shares and views). Here is a list of the Top 20 Supply Chain Strategy Blog Posts from 2016. Arrange your inventory based on how often you need to use it. Read More ».

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Among distribution centers with three or more buildings, 28% had six or more buildings in 2016, 22% had six or more buildings in 2017, and 27% had six or more buildings in 2018, according to Logistics Management. The average square footage of distribution centers in 2016 was 539,000, increasing to 473,400 in 2017 and 672,080 in 2018.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Furthermore, the notion of Sustainable Supply Chain Management is often linked with social responsibility or environmental management (Ali Esfahbodi, 2016). This will aim at reducing environmental impact from the acquisition of raw materials to the final use and disposal of the product (Ali Esfahbodi, 2016). 2016, March 16).

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 7, 2016

Source: Algorithmic Supply Chain Planning: The Future of SCP , Amber Salley, May 2016. Software with learning capabilities can help you understand this data to predict demand and inventory needs. The company dramatically improved forecast accuracy and lowered unhealthy inventory by 50 percent.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 22, 2019

Gartner suggests System of Record (SOR) activities such as short-term forecasting where fast-moving daily decisions require lots of data which are beyond human capacity. Both are looking to automate, but where? These are areas, they say, that can be run quite autonomously , sometimes known as “low touch planning” or “ algorithmic planning.”.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Here’s what ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello had to say: “Clearly, 2016 started soft for truck tonnage. There was a deceleration in freight volumes during the second half of 2015 which continued into the first month of 2016. So, that tells me that the inventory situation continues to weigh on truck freight volumes. economy.

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synchrono

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The auto industry, like many other manufacturing sectors, was awash in excess capacity. When consumer demand dropped due to the recession, this excess capacity could no longer be ignored because it led to mountains of unsold inventory and raw materials sitting in the supply chain. Learning lessons from the past.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

For those unaware of the term, shrink is an accounting term used to describe when a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded book inventory. Walmart began working with Alert in 2016 and launched a test of the autonomous cart-based system in a 20,000-square-foot warehouse connected to a supercenter in Salem, New Hampshire, in 2019.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2019

Manufacturing companies are statistically less satisfied with their S&OP processes in 2019 than they were in 2016 at a 90% confidence level. Effectiveness of S&OP Processes in 2019 and 2016. A supply chain team improved forecast accuracy by 22%, but did not improve inventory or customer service. What Makes a Difference?

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 8, 2016

You probably have questions about what the 2016-2017 ocean contract season will bring. The bunker has been trending on the low side and is expected to continue this way through 2016—good news for ocean carriers, as bunker fuel is by far one of their largest operational costs. Consolidations. Bunker Cost. Driven by U.S.

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Logility

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The latest Gartner Hype Cycle, published in July 2016, shows Machine Learning approaching the Peak of Inflated Expectations. One powerful example is the use of Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO) to automatically adjust inventory positions. One cause of this glut of inventory is the emergence of omni-channel retailing.

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OptiProERP

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Smart manufacturing is helping businesses succeed in many ways to include increased production capacity, reduced material losses, enhanced employee satisfaction, and improved lead times. Examples of intelligent factories include on-demand manufacturing and virtual inventories.

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BlueYonder

MAY 11, 2017

billion in 2016 revenues coming from a diversified portfolio of brands, including CALVIN KLEIN , Tommy Hilfiger , Van Heusen , and IZOD. JDA’s planning solutions have brought end-to-end visibility to PVH’s entire supply chain by aligning demand, fulfillment, and capacity planning.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

As recently as 2016, the state of e-commerce logistics triggered a rush to expand warehousing. Also, shippers must consider products that will be customized and how manufacturing may need to move closer to consumers through 3-D printing and lean inventory management. While expansion was necessary, it came with a cost.

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In the latter half of 2016, major trucking companies have been cutting their fleets down to size, a consequence of volatility in shipping demand. By bringing down the capacity of the supply chain, the companies are striving to drive up prices for their services. “Volatility continues to reign,” Costello said.

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RFgen

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In the latter half of 2016, major trucking companies have been cutting their fleets down to size, a consequence of volatility in shipping demand. By bringing down the capacity of the supply chain, the companies are striving to drive up prices for their services. “Volatility continues to reign,” Costello said.

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Logility

APRIL 10, 2017

In many cases you will discover that processes like demand, inventory, replenishment, and manufacturing planning are limited by a lack of software capability. Such scenario capability provides significant value across the entire supply chain, from demand and inventory planning to supply management, capacity planning, and order fulfillment.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 24, 2017

Last year, the 2016 State of Logistics Report alluded to rising shipping volume, partially responsible for decreased overhead costs, as a driving force behind declining overhead costs across all modes of shipping. Less-than-truckload (LTL) shipping has been amid a capacity crunch. Think about the benefits you want from your TMS.

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