CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 16, 2018

They found a potential new way to obtain more predictability and control of profits in 2017. At certain times of the year—for instance, Chinese New Year and produce and holiday shipping seasons—there is more freight flowing than capacity to handle it. Like all carriers, airlines love predictability in their business.

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Cathy Roberson

JUNE 1, 2021

Target acquired a crowd-sourced provider, Shipt, in 2017 and Walmart acquired Parcel in 2017, and JoyRun, a peer-to-peer delivery app in 2020. Some retailers, such as Target and Walmart, have acquired last-mile delivery providers. These acquisitions, however, are primarily focused on the delivery of small items.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

If your supply chain network design has not been under the microscope, and you care about business success, it’s probably time to consider the benefits of a design review and optimisation exercise. Expedite deliveries, but not returns (because it is cheaper to ship slowly and customers are not looking for expedited return shipping).

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

JULY 31, 2018

If the jersey style never changes (for example, the Minnesota Timberwolves changed their jersey design and logo before the 2017-2018 season – see Figure 2) or player never changes teams, then the investment has long-term value. Figure 2: The Minnesota Timberwolves changed their jersey design and logo in 2017 [2].

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

JULY 31, 2018

If the jersey style never changes (for example, the Minnesota Timberwolves changed their jersey design and logo before the 2017-2018 season – see Figure 2) or player never changes teams, then the investment has long-term value. Figure 2: The Minnesota Timberwolves changed their jersey design and logo in 2017 [2].

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2017

No other enterprise function touches as many departments, from sales, marketing, research and development, materials, and production, to shipping, accounting, payments, and finance, not to mention legal and public relations. This is especially true when working in supply chain.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2019

Check out the highlights and photos from our 2016 , 2017 , and 2018 rides. Finds a Faulty Shipping Safety Net for Brexit (WSJ – sub. The full 29 percent would be exercised if Amazon orders up to 300 million euros ($346 million) of Balyo’s enabled products.”.

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6 River Systems

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

VRChat is a game that rose to popularity with the advent of standard VR hardware in 2017. We were shipping Oculus Quests for participants to rent and they had a max world size of about 40-50 mb. She even shipped every participant a custom TechOps Immerse jacket! . In VRChat , I found both! pictured below).

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

He didn’t have to negotiate with carriers and manage the entire shipping process. So when invoices came in it was an exercise in forensic science to try to determine if they were correct or not. Selecting the proper shipping mode is a pivotal decision. But he was happy with the arrangement. Conclusion.

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Arkieva

JANUARY 6, 2017

If you use certain items frequently, keep them closer to the working or shipping area. They tend to move towards following standards and exercise rigorous governance regimes. Hope to share more supply chain strategy post sin 2017. Warehouse efficiency directly depends on its layout. The typical approach is conservative.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Google aims to begin drone package deliveries in 2017. Simply put, as time horizons continue to shrink and the frequency of supply chain design exercises increase, the distinction between supply chain design and supply chain planning starts to blur. The Amazon Effect: Best Buy Adds Same-Day Delivery in San Francisco (Re/code).

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ThroughPut

MARCH 20, 2020

So, in 2017, I enforced a personal rule to start work-from-home early (I start work well before dawn) as the primary option to increase my personal throughput. As a guess, video conferencing gives me up to 20% of my time back to do other things (strategic work, exercise, cook at home, reading, etc.). Expected output gains: Intangible.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Nearly half (47%) of online shoppers globally reported frustration with everything from shipping, to returns, to lost products and miscalculated duties and taxes during the 2016 holiday shopping season. They expect that there is always a way to get the product they want, shipped where they want, when they want it.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 27, 2019

Evans that was struck by the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne during exercises in the early morning hours of 3 June 1969. At the time, the Evans was participating in a SEATO exercise called Sea Spirit. Ironically, the ship was awarded a Vietnam Service Medal the day before the accident. Footnotes. [1]

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2016

But I continue to dust off my crystal ball, nonetheless, because coming up with predictions is a fun exercise for me and they usually generate some thoughtful ideas and conversations. What will happen in 2017? Will prices continue to increase in 2017? 0.75% from 0.25% to 0.5%.

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Techgistics

JANUARY 3, 2017

Making predictions in technology, even just one year out, are generally an exercise in futility, so this really isn't a forecast for 2017, but more a list of trends that I am interested in and keeping my eye on. Which country will take the lead and have the political will to push self-driving vehicles forward in 2017?

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