Supply Chain Digest

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Gas and Diesel Prices Soaring, Rat Problem at Family Dollar DC. Thousands of Cars Destroyed in Ship Fire. Backups at Other Ports besides SoCal

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In February 2022 I ordered a lovely midcentury modern table. The distribution center (DC) hadn’t released the order, but customer service didn’t have access to the right systems to see exactly what was wrong. Customer service couldn’t call the DC, only email them, and her emails weren’t getting responses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

Last week, Clint Reiser published an article highlighting our 2022 supply chain predictions. Continuous Warehouse Optimization and The DC Technology Gap ; Justin Ritter and Dan Keller ( Lucas Systems ). Three Logistics Imperatives for Managing Uncertainty in 2022 ; Terence Leung ( Blue Yonder ). How can this be?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

September 2021-March 2022. March 2022-Onward. If you follow our work and are interested in attending, mark your calendar for September 6-9th 2022. We will hold the event at the Westin, Dulles in Washington, DC. Most companies continue to invest by following their in-house standardization compliance directives. Rebuilding.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 6, 2022

My colleague, Clint Reiser, wrote about Körber’s ongoing supply chain transformation, highlighting the company’s three main focus areas for 2022: 1) investments in assisting Körber customers’ journey to SaaS, 2) bringing a new product, named Universal Control System (UCS) to market, and 3) offering warehouse modeling for operations.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2023

This large retailer has expanded its capital expenditure budget to upwards of $20 billion in 2022. At this DC , robots unload cases of goods from truck trailers while autonomous forklifts move materials within the facility. Symbotic had its IPO in June 2022 and is now listed on NASDAQ.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Reinke is a Washington, DC native, and graduated from the National Cathedral School. TIA 2023 3PL Policy Forum , September 25-27, Washington DC Opportunity for seasoned veterans and first-time attendees to shape the future of the industry in the nation’s capital. She received a B.A. from Rice University in Houston, and a J.D.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 27, 2022

1] Jeff Schmitz, “ Why Supply Chains and Manufacturers Can’t Ignore the Retail Revolution ,” DC Velocity, 20 February 2018. [2] 6] Diane Burley, “ What shoppers want requires AI – while tech execs are wary ,” Retail Dive, 22 February 2022. [7] Footnotes. [1] Footnotes. [1]

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Resilinc

JANUARY 16, 2023

One day in August 2022, a group of military and defense strategy experts gathered in Washington, DC, to play a game that simulated a Chinese amphibious invasion of Taiwan in 2026. The problem is temporary, but it only goes to underline what a priority it is for the U.S. What does this mean for supply chain managers?

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Intelligent Audit

MAY 5, 2022

parcel market underwent a shift in Q1 2022 as year-over-year average daily parcel volumes dropped for the two largest third-party parcel carriers. For example, AxleHire recently announced it had expanded into Washington DC and Baltimore, giving it a presence in three of the five most populous East Coast cities. FedEx reported a 0.1%

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I was shortly however completely astonished when the head of the DC called me to say that the Distribution Centre was out of space and could no longer receive and process goods, all in advance of the critical holiday season. Imagine my surprise that as goods started to come in our DC was unable to handle the volume of goods.

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Intelligent Audit

AUGUST 8, 2022

Supply Chain Dive reported that this new delivery service launched on July 28, 2022, “allows the LaserShip-OnTrac combination to reach 74% of the US populations across 30 states and Washington, DC.” Trucking Industry Foresees Favorable Q3 and Q4 Data.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

To get product from one coast to the other meant a delay in getting to market by the amount of time it took to get out of the DC and shipped across the country. Originally published on November 8, 2022. I worked in one company which had only one centralized Distribution Centre serving the entire country. All Rights Reserved.

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West Coast and California Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Weber Logistics has secured a 684,675-square-foot, omni-channel distribution center (DC) in Moreno Valley, CA. This brand-new multi-client facility, Weber’s largest, is the company’s seventh DC in Southern California’s Inland Empire region, and its fourteenth DC in California.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 12, 2022

Cover of the Supply Chain Shaman’s Journal, Published August 2022. Registrations are pouring in for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 6th-8th in Washington, DC. (He was bothered that he had to dig for old blogs on the site.) This is post is 502 in a series started in 2012.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

33% annually from 2022-2027. There are many myths when it comes to the implementation of what some call “ human in the loop ” robotic systems or just optimizing “sharetasking” between humans and robots in the DC. 09 billion by 2027 and grow at a rate of 15. But there is still much to learn. This can lead to integration complexities.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

In the 2022 analysis, twenty-two companies meet the Supply Chains to Admire Award criteria for Supply Chain improvement, performance, and value. Registrations are pouring in for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 6th-8th in Washington, DC. We calculate the results based on public data from the period 2012-2021.

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Kanban Logistics

JULY 14, 2022

For example, you can: Build a combined factory/distribution center, with Kanban operating the DC. North Carolina is a business-friendly state that has just been voted the Best State for Business in 2022 by CNBC. This can include involving Kanban in your day-to-day logistics operations or going it alone.

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QAD

MAY 30, 2023

These were just a couple of the questions we had the opportunity to delve into on the sidelines of the 2022 Original Equipment Suppliers Association (OESA) Annual Automotive Supplier Conference in Novi, Michigan, and the answers may surprise you. It’s a challenge to figure out who’s best to talk to.

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Kanban Logistics

MARCH 11, 2021

Two more cranes are expected to be delivered to NIT in 2022. Located in Eastern North Carolina, less than two hours from the Port, Kanban has over 1 million square feet of prime DC space. The two new cranes are expected to support 400,000 additional container lifts per year. Expansion of the rail yard at NIT terminals.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 25, 2022

. “Google falsely led consumers to believe that changing their account and device settings would allow customers to protect privacy and control what personal data the company could access,” said DC Attorney General Karl Racine. Originally written for Supply Chain Game Changer and published on May 25, 2022.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One of my career highlights I’ll share with you: a couple of years ago I had a chance to run the Government affairs organization, and that allowed me to participate in a lot of important meetings back in Washington, Dc. The post Supply Chain Market Report – September 2022 appeared first on Elementum. You can understand why.

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Elementum

AUGUST 31, 2022

One of my career highlights I’ll share with you: a couple of years ago I had a chance to run the Government affairs organization, and that allowed me to participate in a lot of important meetings back in Washington, Dc. The post Supply Chain Market Report – September 2022 appeared first on Elementum. You can understand why.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

GRIs for 2021 and Prospects for 2022. While understanding what a GRI stands for in shipping is great, it’s important to understand how these charges are shaping up for the remainder of 2021 and 2022. With the exception of FedEx, major carriers have yet to release data on expectations for annual GRI for shipping in 2022.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 20, 2021

According to DC Velocity , all parcel carriers reported record-setting throughput in Q1 of 2021, and even more concerning, the ability of the supply chain to stretch appears to be headed toward a breaking point. Both companies have announced intentions to hold off on integration of services until well into 2022.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Reportedly, if the regional director upholds the original ruling, Amazon may seek an added NLRB review in Washington DC. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Amazon has the financial resources to elongate such efforts. We will elaborate in blog commentary later this year. .

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A growing number of logistics operators and industry observers see the snarls bottling up supply chains this year extending deep into 2022. DC Velocity). A truck navigates container stacks at the Port of Los Angeles last Friday. Photo: MARIO TAMA/GETTY IMAGES. Freight heavyweight J.B. Logistics Manager). Write to him at paul.page.

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Multichannel Merchant

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

locations with hubs from Chicago east to Washington, DC, as well as Florida, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Utah, with plans to reach national coverage by the end of 2022. Also taking part were The Chainsmokers Mantis VC Fund and the founders and CEOs of Allbirds, Everlane, FIGS, Harry’s, Flexport and Warby Parker.

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crisp

APRIL 19, 2023

Taelor Conley-Marselle joined Illy in early 2022 as Director of Sales to expand the company’s U.S. Distribution partnerships are a big responsibility, because with one DC you’re supporting all the retailers that roll up into it. footprint, and was happy to see that the team was already onboarding with Crisp.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2023

Once completed, the facility will house 40 dual-port DC fast-charging stations, 40 electric vehicles and 40 electric refrigerated trailers. Long Beach saw a 30 percent decline from 2022 as the port processed 603,878 containers compared with 863,156. In 2022, Publix recycled over 100 million pounds of materials.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 22, 2023

In February 2022, I wrote the first of a five blog series using the name Intelligent IBP. The launch of a Decision Intelligence (DI) definition by Gartner later in 2022 further cemented my believe that this new discipline will become mainstream. And artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent agents will be part of the solution.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 16, 2019

He draws that conclusion from a World Economic Forum (WEF) survey that found: new, emerging jobs, are set to increase their share from 16% in 2018 to 27% in 2022; jobs expected to become redundant are set to decrease from 31% in 2018 to 21% in 2022; 48% of jobs are expected to remain stable over the 2018-2022 period.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 12, 2022

So let’s take a look at how firms are tackling DC design. To start with, the average floor space of modern DCs is shrinking. And while the average amount of DC floor space is shrinking, that does not mean facilities are getting smaller. Today, the average height of a DC is around 34 feet.

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Multichannel Merchant

JUNE 6, 2022

The company posted the upbeat news under the looming shadow of Amazon Prime Day 2022, happening sometime in mid-July, and two weeks after a substantial earnings drop , with a 2.3% topline gain that beat the analyst estimate.

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Herlitz Inventory Management

JULY 21, 2022

For example, if you have 110 cases in the DC today, that doesn’t mean they will all be sellable before expiring. The top row shows lot 679649 is already fully expired because today is April 27, 2022 and the expiration date was April 24th. Then we have 3 lots with an expiration of June 5, 2022. This is a customizable parameter.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A WMS is a software platform that collects real-time information on all the moving parts of a distribution center (DC) regardless of size — whether it’s manned, fully automated or even a dark DC, equipped to handle inventory based on systems commands. billion in 2022 to $7.30 Warehouse management system (WMS). Automation.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In a 2022 research project at MIT, Himanshu Halbe and Jinwoo Je worked with Boston Scientific, the $12B medical devices manufacturer, to evaluate the potential benefits of inventory balancing for finished goods. A couple examples below give a more tangible feel for what’s at stake and the potential benefits. MIT Study at Boston Scientific.

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