3PL Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2020

15, 2020— Evans Distribution Systems, a provider of third-party logistics and supply chain solutions, has earned another ISO 9001:2015 certification for its fifth facility located on Huron River Drive in Romulus, Mich. MELVINDALE, Mich. , The ISO 9001:2015 certification is the leading industry standard for quality management.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2024

Founded in 2018 , Ann Arbor, Michigan based Optilogic provides Cloud -native supply chain design application termed Cosmic Frog that is designed to enable businesses to evaluate trade-offs across financial performance, service levels, and systemic risk.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 29, 2022

To answer this question, my colleague Jason Miller at Michigan State University did a few calculations, and used bit of guess-work and a few assumptions, which gives us a pretty good idea. Employment in March 2020 was 103 thousand, down from 229.5 thousand in March 2020 (see the graph below). billion in 2020, down from $90.9

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

To help offer perspective, we took this question to Jason Miller, associate professor of supply chain management at Michigan State University. Our relationships with research firms and universities like Michigan State, combined with C.H. The answer is not simple and involves research and analysis across a number of factors.

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3PL Insights

JULY 15, 2021

Last week’s applications count marked the lowest level for claims since March 2020, the month the pandemic hit the U.S. million in the week ended July 3, also the lowest level since March 2020. million in the week ended July 3, also the lowest level since March 2020. But filling positions has been difficult, Mr. Swaney said.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 22, 2020

Chris Dolce ( @chrisdolcewx ) reports, “The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is off to a fast start with three named storms by early June.”[1] … This could be more bad news for the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, which is already off to a roaring start with a record three named storms so far.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 26, 2022

So we invited Jason Miller, associate professor of supply chain management at Michigan State University, to offer his perspective on the current state of trucking capacity. From February to April 2020, the U.S. While decreasing from the high point in Q2 2020, job flows have remained at elevated levels since. Robinson.).

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 25, 2023

This technology took a step further in 2002 when Michael Grieves publicly introduced the concept and model of the digital twin at a Society of Manufacturing Engineers conference in Troy, Michigan. 2] Charlie Osborne, “ The rise of the Digital Twin: Why the enterprise needs to take notice ,” ZDNet, 3 May 2018. [3]

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 22, 2022

It is my pleasure to begin this series of joint blog posts with Jason Miller, Associate Professor of Logistics at Michigan State University. Consider the following observations: [1]: The gross margin ratio [(selling price – cost of goods sold) / selling price] for Kroger, Publix, and Albertsons are down in 2021 from 2020.

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Resilinc

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

What’s more, according to joint research by McKinsey and Michigan State University, companies that regularly collaborate with suppliers “demonstrated higher growth, lower operating costs, and greater profitability than their industry peers.”.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 26, 2020

”[1] Trebilcock goes on to note that a 2018 article co-authored by Michigan State’s Steve Melnyk argued, “The next generation of supply chains will be tasked with delivering an experience as well as a product.” ” Components of a great customer experience. .'” ” Footnotes. [1]

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The six companies who agreed invested in the company and in March 2020 equipment showed up at what was to be our Michigan HQ and testing grounds. A few days later COVID hit, so we put everything on pause. About a year later, we refined the technology we created with our newly minted CTO.

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 29, 2020

Author Affiliations: authors of the books on our list are university professors from Michigan State University, Stanford University, Northwestern University the University of California at Berkley and Cranfield University (UK).

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Supply Chain Opz

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The authors of this article are the late Donald Bowersox, David Closs and Theodore Stank (at that time all of them were at Michigan State University). In the year 2000, Journal of Business Logistics published the article named " Ten Mega-Trends That Will Revolutionize Supply Chain Logistics ".

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 5, 2022

Traverse City, Michigan based provider Starboard provides an innovative and interactive digital twin of a physical supply chain network leveraging gaming technology to allow users to explore what-if supply chain and business scenarios. Added Perspective. billion.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 14, 2022

Michael Baudendistel ( @FWavesRail ), an analyst and Market Expert at FreightWaves, reports, “There were some interesting, if perhaps intuitive, highlights from the latest University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. The Council notes that nearly half of consumers “were new to a CPG brand in 2020.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Since 2020, online shopping has hit $1.7 Eight US states have made package theft a felony: Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. Based on data from the FBI and Google Trends, package theft is big business.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This is based on some recent collaborative work with Professor Jason Miller from Michigan State University, who developed a new supply chain pressures index, which was based on a post from the Cleveland Fed [1] , going back to Q1 2004. Look at the problems we’ve had in 2020 – and then compare them to 2021.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2016

GlaxoSmithKline would like to be the most sustainable healthcare company and has set a target to reduce its carbon footprint by 25 percent by 2020 and have a carbon-neutral value chain by 2050. He holds a Master’s Degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 21, 2016

The eCommerce consumer expects free shipping, fast delivery, and hassle-free returns, asserts the E li Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. percent until 2020. Yet, warehouses cannot be conveniently located in every region, or can they?

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Requis

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

I’m originally from Uruguay, and I came to the United States to pursue my MBA from Michigan State with concentrations in finance and supply chain. No one seemed to know exactly what it was, but I found out that Michigan State ran one of the strongest supply chain programs in the country, so I applied and was accepted.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 11, 2023

Roach, “ Decency and Difference ,” Michigan Publishing/University of Michigan Press, 2019. [2] 6] Jaden Love, “ What decency has to do with dialog ,” Jostle Blog, 29 October 2020. [7] ” Footnotes [1] Stephen C. 2] Staff, “ National Decency Day ,” nationaldaycalendar.com. [3] 4] Gordon B.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 1, 2020

Michigan Latest State to Seek Ban Mandatory on RFID Implants at Work. Mall Owners Should Seek Retailers Using RFID. No One is Tracking Your Movements Using RFID Tags in Car Tires

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Pero, department chair, Supply Chain Management, with Michigan State University. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the number of jobs in logistics will grow by 26% between 2010 and 2020, according to Crandall. Where historically there was a strong emphasis on quantifiable capabilities, now it is the softer skills that are needed.

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USC Consulting Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

” Wally Hopp of the University of Michigan Ross School of Business goes further. ” “Lean manufacturing is about maximizing customer value while minimizing waste.” “In a lot of the lean literature, that’s just stripped out,” Hopp said. In many ways, it’s a way of life and highly prioritized.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2023

including money for the construction of new assembly plants and battery-making facilities, according to the Center for Automotive Research, a nonprofit organization based in Michigan. Through November, about $33 billion in new auto-factory investment has been pledged in the U.S., Online pet retailer Chewy Inc. The Plantation, Fla.-based

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Based on a study conducted at DePaul University in September 2015, the retention of category management professionals will begin to erode, and by 2020, organizations could lose up to 20,000 category management professionals. There is a call to action.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Based on a study conducted at DePaul University in September 2015, the retention of category management professionals will begin to erode, and by 2020, organizations could lose up to 20,000 category management professionals. There is a call to action.

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Elementum

JUNE 7, 2022

Since 2020, here ’ s a sample of products that had experienced major disruption: garage doors; computer chips; lumber; toilet paper; bicycles; motorcycles; potatoes; cream cheese; gas; coins; champagne; chlorine; maple syrup; avocados; and resin. And, they ’ re rationalized as transitory or par-for-the-course.

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3PL Insights

JULY 16, 2020

She was hired as a Customer Service Representative (CSR) at Evans’ Artesian building in Detroit, Michigan. In January 2020, Renee was promoted due to her “wealth of knowledge regarding customers’ operational needs.”

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Enterra Insights

JULY 6, 2022

at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 2014. “He joined the Princeton faculty in 2021 and had taught at the University twice previously: in Spring 2017, when he was the Oswald Veblen Fellow at Princeton, and in the 2019-2020 academic year, when he was the Robert and Luisa Fernholz Visiting Professor of Mathematics.

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3PL Insights

AUGUST 8, 2017

They plan to release in 2020, and the ‘Freightliner Inspiration Truck’ is already officially licensed to operate on the highways of Nevada. In Michigan, there is a $15 million statewide connected vehicle infrastructure program currently underway which will see hundreds of charging stations installed and ready for use in the coming years.

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IQMS

MARCH 2, 2020

The innovation of our manufacturing customers was spotlighted at the Plastics News Excellence Awards ceremony on February 26, 2020. The award ceremony was held at a dinner on February 26, 2020 as part of the Plastics News Executive Forum at the Naples Grande Beach Resort in Naples, Florida, which ran February 24-26, 2020.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

In 2002, the University of Michigan gave Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin an estimate of 1,000 years for scanning the library’s seven million volumes. vi] Cisco estimates that some 25 billion devices will be connected in the Internet of Things (IoT) by 2015, and 50 billion by 2020. [vii]

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Steven Melnyk, a professor of supply chain and operations management at Michigan State University, told Nguyen, “This year, Christmas will be very different. They explained, “The true cost of Christmas decreased in 2020, as [the 2020] index account[ed] for cancellations of many live performances.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 14, 2014

NTBTRK in Michigan “guarantees” drivers 48 hours off/week. Long-term, this looks like a viable solution, especially as forecasts put the shortage at 300,000 by 2020. Do your benefits “influence” a young driver’s decision to join a company? Consider vacation, training, hiring bonuses, to name a few. Do you offer guaranteed time off?

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 20, 2021

They write, “The country was in the grips of the second wave of COVID-19 when Halloween 2020 rolled around, resulting in neighborhood grab-and-go trick-or-treat baggies and Zoom costume parties. billion in 2020.”[4] .”[2] The staff at Trendalytics are buoyantly optimistic about this year’s holiday.

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