The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

A study by the University of Michigan in 2018 showed how a patty of plant-based Beyond meat compared to a regular US beef patty of meat. We can help business leaders by providing insight on the environment benefits or disadvantages of their different sourcing options to start with, but after that comes the physical moving of goods.

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Stord

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The Port of Los Angeles and trade disruption in 2018: Last year, new tariffs caused direct and indirect problems for shippers. Many retailers tried to move inventory to the United States earlier than normal to avoid impending tariffs, causing a massive influx of shipments. In practice, here are five specific ways to to prepare.

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Cathy Roberson

JANUARY 9, 2023

Carolina Sisters – Since 2018, Carolina Sisters has been sourcing from retailers and selling pallets of wholesale products to the general public. Newmine – In 2018, Newmine shifted its focus towards returns and launched cloud-based software to reduce customer return rates. I wear a number of hats these days.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Loss of inventory in the food industry due to perishable items. Hence, the ability to trace each product to its source (product lineage) is critical for companies. 1] Pieter Vandevelde, “ How to make supply chains ethical and sustainable with blockchain ,” Supply Chain Dive , 5 June 2018. [2] Footnotes. [1]

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Stord

APRIL 7, 2019

Rail freight volumes continued to fall at the end of March alongside service outages due to flooding in the Midwest. These two ports will continue to research the feasibility of lower emissions from freight and equipment going forward. Delta reported a dip in air cargo freight last month compared to March of 2018.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Billal Chouli explains, “A supply chain is a network of suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers, as well as intermediaries including freight companies, warehousing companies, and brokers, who transfer goods, services, money, and information amongst one another. ” 3. ” Neurochain , 11 September 2018. [2] 6] Sarah K.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

Gather AI Raises $17 Million in Series A Funding Computer vision and AI-powered warehouse inventory monitoring technology start-up Gather AI has announced $17 Million Series A-1 funding led by Bain Capital Ventures. Added participation included Tribeca Venture Partners , Dundee Venture Capital , Expa , and Bling Capital.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 17, 2018

” Transactional data : “Post-business-process information such as purchasing inventory records or sales volumes by region.” 1] John Ferraioli and Rick Burke, “ Drowning in data, but starving for insights ,” Deloitte Insights , 11 April 2018. [2] ” That’s where artificial intelligence enters the picture.

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Turvo

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Another study by the EPA, titled Fast Facts on Transportation Greenhouse Gas Emissions , noted that “according to the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks 1990–2018 (the national inventory that the U.S. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2018.”. Turvo Links remove blindspots in the shipment lifecycle.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The real enablers for e-commerce today are the building blocks that have been developed over the past two decades – plug and play payments, fulfillment, returns, inventory management, and more. In 2018, the anticipated growth of B2B e-commerce passed the one trillion dollar mark , one year earlier than anticipated, on track to hit $3.6

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

Founded in 2018 in San Antonio, Skipcart is a delivery platform providing same day and on-demand delivery for a variety of industries including e-commerce, pharmaceutical, retail, food and beverage and more, including convenience-store merchandise, with an average delivery time of 30 minutes, the company says on its website. 7-Eleven Inc.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 25, 2019

Managing inventory. Managing freight transportation. She writes, “In most food-supply chains it might take weeks to figure out where it went from source to destination, and in some cases, the source may not be known, but on a blockchain, it takes just seconds.”[3] Sharing information with customers.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Yet all of the functions that we now associate with Supply Chain have been around for a very long time: Planning, Inventory Management, Logistics, Procurement and Purchasing, Warehousing and many more. The goal of this process is to reduce inventory, increase transaction speed and improve work flow with profit in mind.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Abhishek Hansrajani, a self-proclaimed tech guru, explains, “From conducting payment and audits to tracking inventory and assets, blockchain technology will enable greater supply chain efficiency than ever before.”[2]. For instance, blockchain enhances freight auditing and invoice management, as well as cybersecurity.”[6]

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Key factors influencing inventory levels, supplier quality, demand forecasting, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, production planning, transportation management and more are becoming known for the first time. Source: Machine Learning – A Giant Leap for Supply Chain Forecasting, Material Handling and Logistics Conference (PDF, 28 pp.,

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Note that these figures don’t include restocking expenses and losses on inventory. Since you can’t sell them before including them in your inventory, you won’t make profits from returned items. With this, if one supplier runs out of stock, you can source from another supplier to fulfill your orders. billion packages in 2018.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 17, 2018

With the 2018 General Rate Increase (GRI), FedEx and UPS are further “tightening the vise” for oversize packages. Below is a comparison of 2017 vs. 2018 parameters for oversize shipments: Source: enVista. Have lightweight/low density freight (e.g., Steps for Minimizing the Effects of the 2018 Oversize Changes.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

According to FIFA, a staggering 3.572 billon people watched the 2018 World Cup Russia, with 1.12 With all due respect to Cristiano Ronaldo, moving products halfway around the world — from raw materials sourcing through final customer delivery — is a lot more complex than moving the ball across the pitch.

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Intelligent Audit

AUGUST 5, 2022

There is a massive push to increase inventory in advance, and everyone starts thinking about how they will survive the holiday rush, from food supply chains to other goods. Depending on the source, growth stands near 6% for each quarter, and according to Retail Dive, e-commerce will surpass $1 trillion by the year’s end.

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Elementum

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

by the end of 2018. But the largest source of cost increases for most companies have been driver wages and benefits. As diesel prices tick up and the costs of keeping drivers rises, freight companies are taking action to protect their earnings. Fuel accounts for about 21 percent of carrier expenses. percent and 4.9

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Freightos

MARCH 3, 2015

Inventory management and replenishment as well as reverse logistics can now be managed by mobile as well as payments. yellowbox]Check out where the future of online sales for the freight industry is heading with this free white paper. billion by 2018 with 2.3 through 2018. Gartner expects 3D printer sales to reach $13.4

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 15, 2018

For example, DHL analyzes 58 different parameters of internal data to create a machine learning model for air freight. Rather than subjective guesswork, this method allows freight forwarders to predict if the average daily transit time is expected to rise or fall up to a week in advance. billion by the end of 2021.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Clearly, the benign environment of 2018 is gone, and geopolitics are playing a central role in the global economy. The good news is that ocean freight rates will start trending down somewhat. Dual sourcing and longer term contracts – This is always a challenge. Risks are Increasing.

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3rdwave

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

From optimizing freight movements and controlling freight costs, to supply chain SKU transparency and optimal inventory management, the value proposition for global transportation management is substantial and significant. Global TMS – a key element in managing global supply chain complexity.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 28, 2023

The use of complex technologies in managing inventory, transportation, trade, and other supply chain activities has been evolving for ages. They collaborated to trace a bundle of sliced mangoes back to its source, with traditional paper documents taking nearly seven days to complete the task.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2017

And here’s to hoping that 2018 results in even more significant advancements in the state of warehousing and transportation technology. Click the links below to compare this year's innovations to those from previous years: Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2016 : robot pickers, bridge-inspecting drones, autonomous freight shuttles, and more.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 14, 2023

Venti was founded in 2018 by a team with strong MIT roots, including Chief Executive Officer Dr. Heidi Wyle, Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Xinxin Du, and MIT electrical engineering and computer science professors Daniela Rus, Director, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and MacArthur Fellow, and Saman Amarasinghe.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 21, 2022

As inventory-to-sales ratios dropped to near record lows, inter-modal logistics networks were forced to try to manage and synchronize essentially just-in-time material movements which were out of sync in many important dimensions. business logistics costs for 2021. . Specific Highlights. Rising Costs of Warehousing. percent in 2020 to 3.7

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Proxima

AUGUST 3, 2020

Whether warehousing, automation, freight, retail or e-commerce, business leaders needed to evaluate and address many or all in order to maintain their supply chains and keep up with the demand, which in turn, was drastically altered by the pandemic. billion in 2018 and is expected to reach $96.2 billion by 2024.

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Savi

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Supply Chain Challenges: Freight Volume Rising, Driver Shortage Growing The shipping industry plays a critical role in world economics. Most notably, earlier this year when freight volumes hit records levels while at the same time, the number of available drivers fell by more than 50,000.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

Walmart would not have the ability to provide such low prices and have consistent inventory in the over 5,000 stores in the United States and over 1.3 The company expects to open four such giant facilities this quarter, as it aims to triple online sales by 2018, to $35 billion from $12 billion last year. Decades in the Making.

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Zipline Logistics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Sam’s Club launched its OTIF program in the spring of 2018, following the logistics compliance precedent set by Walmart. These are report cards that grade suppliers on quality and performance, looking at common metrics like on-time delivery, inventory management, missed shipments, lead time, costs, etc.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers. Freight Rates 2019-2021. As a result, companies plug along planning based on historic lead times and freight rates which as you can imagine is doomed for failure.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

The shipper ecosystem is burgeoning with more delivery orders, more inventory to be managed, more deliveries and more services than ever before. USD back in 2018, is expected to reach $1.5 Source: DHL eCommerce Americas, City Freight 2019. The global 3PL market, valued at $728.6B BILLION by 2025. Project 44.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2023

US homes 8 retailers keeping Earth Day alive through a commitment to sustainability Ground parcel delivery costs reached a record high in Q1, although pricing discounts from carriers softened the blow, according to the TD Cowen/AFS Freight Index. percent above its January 2018 baseline, up from 25.2 percent for Q4. percent by 2030.

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Freight Plus

DECEMBER 1, 2018

Imagine if a little freight-gnome traveled along with everything you shipped, stocked, or stored – coffee beans to coffee tables, blackboards to backboards – and monitored it incessantly. As of 2017, eight billion ‘things’ connected to the internet and that number is projected to rise to eleven billion by 2018. Inventory –.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Jason Mathers discussed the 5 Principles of Greener Freight, and provided real-world examples of those principles in action (read the Ocean Spray , Caterpillar , and Boise case studies, and also watch my conversation with Jason from earlier this year on Talking Logistics). Sustainability and Green Initiatives in Transportation and Logistics.

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