The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 21, 2023

has won several awards for its innovative technology, including the 2019 AI Breakthrough Award for Best Conversational Interface Platform. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, but also has offices in London and Bangalore.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

The philosophy of lean, triggers us to look for the “Ideal Way”. For companies not adopting lean, Peter Hines’s Six Rights seems to be a good start, which are Right Product, Right Place, Right Time, Right Quantity, Right Quality, and Right Price. Arguably, it is criticised that acting too lean can cause breakdowns in crisis.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

John Larkin was named an Operating Partner at Clarendon Capital in May of 2019. John is Strategic Advisor of Transportation & Logistics at Clarendon Capital , a private equity sponsor focused on developing investment opportunities and providing strategic advisory services to the transportation, logistics and distribution sectors.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Invest in lean and easy to use software . To master analytics quickly, you need to self-enable your team with lean and easy to use software. Gartner predicts that the analytics output of business users with self-service capabilities will surpass that of professional data scientists by 2019.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 8, 2019

While demand is likely to continue to increase, we expect the pace of the increase to be slower in 2019. IATA announced estimated demand growth for 2019 at 3.7%, which would be the lowest growth rate since 2015. Any conversation about international trade in 2019 must include the trade relationship between the United States and China.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 8, 2019

While demand is likely to continue to increase, we expect the pace of the increase to be slower in 2019. IATA announced estimated demand growth for 2019 at 3.7%, which would be the lowest growth rate since 2015. Any conversation about international trade in 2019 must include the trade relationship between the United States and China.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

With the continued increase in supply chain complexity and greater pressure to keep inventories lean and accelerate shipments, is your supply chain ready for what 2019 has in store? There are bound to be similar events in 2019. Robinson are investing in technology to help meet 2019’s challenges head on.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

With the continued increase in supply chain complexity and greater pressure to keep inventories lean and accelerate shipments, is your supply chain ready for what 2019 has in store? There are bound to be similar events in 2019. Robinson are investing in technology to help meet 2019’s challenges head on.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 19, 2023

Automotive manufacturers continue to look for ways to improve operational efficiencies and create stability to be able to deliver to their customers, including leaning on the experts to implement new technologies and operational efficiencies. Will automotive production recover to pre-pandemic levels in the near future?

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Enterra Insights

MAY 5, 2022

In order to make ground beef, we import lower-value lean meat trimmings, which we don’t produce enough of. In 2019, Mexican prosecutors revealed that in Michoacán, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG,) was battling it out with the Tepalcatepec Cartel, the Zicuirán Cartel and a local gang, the New Michoacan Family. Footnotes. [1]

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Invest in lean and easy to use software. To master analytics quickly, you need to self-enable your team with lean and easy to use software. Gartner predicts that the analytics output of business users with self-service capabilities will surpass that of professional data scientists by 2019.

Analytics Software 156

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Kinaxis

JANUARY 9, 2020

As the millennial and Gen Z cohorts continue to become more of the buying market (by 2020 they will make up 64% of the world’s population according to Forbes ), their preferences will only further dictate where the industry leans. Hacking a short-term fix to the looming threat of tariffs will no longer suffice in the coming year.

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PINC

JANUARY 22, 2020

Matt Yearling’s articles ranked on both Logistics Viewpoints’ and Talking Logistics’ most-read article lists for 2019. . For 2019, he holds the distinction of being one of the top-read authors for both Logistics Viewpoints and Talking Logistics. The post Top Supply Chain and Logistics Articles of 2019 appeared first on PINC.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 13, 2022

John Larkin was named an Operating Partner at Clarendon Capital in May of 2019. Many freight brokerages are also partnering with staffing and technology firms like Lean Solutions Group to reduce their costs, while gaining access to talented people based in lower cost countries. About John Larkin, CFA.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Note the elongation of the cash-to-cash cycle in the chemical industry of 38 additional days when comparing the 2014-2019 averages to the pre-recession period of 2004-2006. In lean terms, we have too much muda (waste) and too little inventory working for us. It is worse in some industries. The average is twenty-five days.

Optimal Sourcing 229

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QAD

MARCH 23, 2023

Mass retailers, meanwhile, saw a 93% jump in online sales from 2019 to 2020. Fortunately, sustainability is also about cutting waste and doing more with less, which can be beneficial from a business perspective and aligns with the principles of lean manufacturing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

By the end of 2019, Autoliv realized that there were new technologies and supply chain risk management providers that could promote a competitive advantage in their risk management program. As a first step, we’re operating a “lean” Control-Tower within our supplier relationship management system. This is our “supplier board”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

While lean manufacturing and just-in-time were game-changing concepts when they were introduced, agility and resilience must be taken to an entirely new level post pandemic. In fact, IT spend as a percent of business capex crossed over the prior ~10 year average in 2019 and we see that trend extending in early 2020.”.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 25, 2020

1] Joe Terino, “ Strategy First: Reimagining Your Supply Chain ,” Bain & Company, 16 December 2019. [2] 3] Dave Food, “ An Agile Supply Chain is needed to survive ,” Prophetic Technology Blog , January 2019. [4] Footnotes. [1] ” Supply Chain Digital , 7 January 2020. [3]

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Meltzer ( @JoshuaPMeltzer ), a Senior Fellow focusing on the Global Economy and Development at the left-leaning Brookings Institute, and Neena Shenai, a Visiting scholar at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, explain, “Calls for the repatriation of supply chains and restrictions on investment in key industries are on the rise.

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Kinaxis

MAY 6, 2019

by Leah McGuire Leah McGuire, Kerry Currier and Francini Ortiz at the 2019 MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics Women in Supply Chain Summit, where the gender gap in supply chain was the topic of focus. Embrace and lean in to those qualities; be your best version of yourself. There are times when showing emotion is important.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

Takeaways from Evolution 2019. A couple of weeks ago, I attended the Descartes Evolution Global User & Partner Conference 2019. In Toyota’s case, the customer is the company’s manufacturing plants, which run in a lean, just-in-time environment where every minute of downtime is very expensive.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 15, 2022

But, the double-digit year-over-year increase in inventories that many retailers report is, in most cases, compared to exceptionally lean inventory levels last year when consumers were consuming anything and everything. It's even higher than in the second quarter of 2019, when the DIO was 105.29.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 26, 2021

Former McKinsey analyst Markus Zils adds, “The circular economy aims to eradicate waste — not just from manufacturing processes, as lean management aspires to do, but systematically, throughout the life cycles and uses of products and their components. Opportunities to make better use of the materials we are using today. Footnotes. [1]

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Kanban Logistics

AUGUST 12, 2021

Since that time, the project has had some tumultuous starts and stops before being revived in 2019 by the Carolinas Gateway Partnership and other key players. compared to Q2 2020 and up 6% compared to Q2 2019 (pre-pandemic). Lean on Kanban Logistics to support your CSX intermodal movements.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 6, 2020

projected that the global economy would contract by 3 percent in 2020, an extraordinary reversal from early this year, when the fund forecast that the world economy would outpace 2019 and grow by 3.3 It should be noted that the current crisis has many pundits questioning lean, just-in-time strategies.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 16, 2021

”[3] He notes, “Grocery prices stagnated from 2015 through 2019, but have increased during the pandemic. 6] Angus Loten, “ Retailers Lean on Software to Combat Rising Costs ,” The Wall Street Journal, 28 July 2021. [7] He writes, “Expect to keep paying more for groceries in 2022.”[3]

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Kanban Logistics

JUNE 10, 2021

in 2019 – before the pandemic. Lean on temporary agencies. Lean on Kanban Logistics to keep your operations running smoothly. And, after all this, there are still the omni-present challenges of retaining employees once they are hired. Logistics automation isn’t just a dark force that seeks to replace employees.

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QAD

AUGUST 3, 2023

Updated: August 3, 2023 Published: April 1, 2019 Achieving Customer Satisfaction and Competitive Advantage at Lower Costs Understanding and meeting customer expectations is at the heart of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and are key requirements for any business to be successful.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Since 2019, U.S. Density equates to profitable volume; if a shipper’s volume is not profitable, they will either pay more or have to turn to alternative last-mile carriers. Rising Per-Piece Revenue Drives Margin Expansion. revenue per piece has increased by 23%.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This infographic from Storetraffic looks at some of the complexities of being an independent retailer and offers a comprehensive survival guide for 2019. Introducing Lean In Retail … Start in the Backroom! So, it’s clear that there is plenty of opportunity to not just survive but thrive. retail #strategy.

Retail 51

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Locus

APRIL 3, 2023

from 2019 to 2025. Implement lean practices: Lean practices can help you reduce waste and increase efficiency in your supply chain operations. The global last-mile delivery market size is expected to reach $61.57 billion by 2025, growing at a CAGR of 16.7%

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Enterra Insights

JULY 19, 2021

Howland reports, “Except for March and April last year, when, for most of those weeks, retailers selling discretionary goods were shut in an effort to stem the spread of the coronavirus, retail sales in 2020, as tracked by Retail Dive, rose each month compared to 2019. It may be a new day for clothing sales.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 22, 2020

While lean manufacturing and just-in-time were game-changing concepts when they were introduced, in 2020 and heading into 2021 they must be taken to an entirely new level. 1] “Fueling Your Logistics Business through Digital Transformation,” Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics in partnership with Blue Yonder, 2019.

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RFgen

JANUARY 16, 2020

The ISM index of manufacturing activity hit its lowest level since the Great Recession in December 2019, indicating industry contraction. 2019 began with a strong promise of growth throughout the manufacturing industry. To combat these global pressures, companies are looking for ways to cut fat and operate as lean as possible.

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RFgen

JANUARY 16, 2020

The ISM index of manufacturing activity hit its lowest level since the Great Recession in December 2019, indicating industry contraction. 2019 began with a strong promise of growth throughout the manufacturing industry. To combat these global pressures, companies are looking for ways to cut fat and operate as lean as possible.

Supply Chain Software 52

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Kanban Logistics

MARCH 11, 2021

That was followed by a December which saw volumes 16 percent higher than December 2019. Lean on Kanban for East Coast logistics services. The Port handled over 280,000 TEUs in November, making it the Port’s all-time busiest month. These enhancements will support visits from larger Post-Panamax ships.

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