I was in the Alabama National Guard and the California National Guard. If you’re a JDA customer, you’ve likely been helped by Rebecca Torres, one of JDA’s delivery success managers. MORE
states under consideration are: Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. The search will be site-specific and there are several certified mega sites available to accommodate the required area: one is the 1,550-acre Glendale mega site in Hardin County, Kentucky and there’s the 1,252-acre Limestone County mega site near Huntsville, Alabama. MORE
In this article, Professor Burcu Keskin from University of Alabama will share 7 supply chain trends that working professionals should watch. We continue our "Most Popular Blog Posts of 2015.So Far" series today highlighting supply chain blog posts. Supply Chain is just one of our five main categories we are covering all this week, which consist of: Logistics, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Freight, and Transportation. MORE
The massive Pickup Towers, located near store entrances, debuted last year in Bentonville, Arkansas, and are now being rolled out to more than a dozen stores in cities across Arizona, Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia and Virginia. Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. MORE
Try Alabama. All gone! Okay, not ALL. But van load availability returned to mid-November levels last week, as a 25% decline in load posts reversed a big, post-Thanksgiving gain in spot market freight. The national average load-to-truck ratio lost 38%, plummeting from 2.8 loads per truck. MORE
In this article, Professor Burcu Keskin from University of Alabama will share 7 supply chain trends that working professionals should watch. Editor’s Note: This blog post is from SupplyChainOpz. MORE
Sweet Home Alabama. Making Waves. Walmart has announced that it plans to add 1 million jobs to the United States by investing $250 billion in U.S.-manufactured manufactured goods over the next decade. MORE
Truckloads of gasoline have been pouring in from neighboring states like Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama, and government officials have lifted regulations around fuel transport to ensure supplies are delivered to Florida, Miller said. MORE
This has alerted shipping lines and prompted some to entertain rerouting cargo to New Orleans and Alabama, and even as far away as the Bahamas and Mexico. The rain has stopped in Houston, Texas, but the traumatic conditions left by Tropical Storm Harvey have not yet cleared. MORE
Besides Texas—Toyota’s new North American headquarters—other states on the companies’ shortlist are Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina, WSJ reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the potential investment. MORE
On August 14, 2013, a UPS cargo plane bound for Birmingham Alabama from Louisville Kentucky crashed in the early morning hours just short of the airport runway, tragically killing both pilots on-board. Flight 1354, an Airbus A300 cargo plane crashed shortly before 6am Eastern time near a parallel access road in the immediate airport area, about a half mile from the runway. MORE
Four states in the Southeast have declared a state of emergency as the storm approaches including 29 counties in Florida , six counties in Mississippi , the state of Alabama , and the state of Louisiana. Hurricane, tropical storm and storm surge watches have been declared from the Florida-Alabama border to as far east as Indian Pass. MORE
These macroeconomic trends led to geographic shifts, as Alabama rose in prominence and Texas declined in importance as sources of flatbed freight. Trucks were readily available on the spot market in 2015 , and at bargain prices -- at least when you compare to average rates in 2014. MORE
Flatbeds will find loads more easily in Alabama , Arkansas , or Texas.) There's been a shortage of trucks in Arkansas , Mississippi and Alabama , and outbound rates are jumping in Charlotte , Atlanta and Memphis. MORE
Mitchel Hulsey, an Alabama owner-operator, installed an ELD and kept running. MORE
The states named in the lawsuit include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin. MORE
Tuscaloosa Alabama facility and instead be manufactured at AM General’s commercial assembly plant in Mishawaka Indiana. An interesting news release came across our Supply Chain Matters news feed last week, one that perhaps demonstrates the broad capabilities of certain contract manufacturers within the automotive and truck sector. Mercedes Benz’s U.S. MORE
Universities that have category management programs, like DePaul University, University of Texas at Austin, University of North Alabama, Western Michigan University and others, need not only technology, but curriculums that focus on data science, analytics and data research. MORE
– ‘Sweet Home Alabama’, Lynyrd Skynyrd. I watched a great documentary the other night about the music that came out of two studios in a little town called Muscle Shoals, Alabama – a place made famous in a line from the hit song’ Sweet Home Alabama’ by the band Lynyrd Skynyrd. MORE
But flatbed load-to-truck ratios are soaring in Alabama and Arkansas. Freight markets are heating up in the Sun Belt. Even though van and flatbed rates lost 1¢ per mile last week as a national average, the underlying trends were strong. MORE
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Professor Burcu Keskin from University of Alabama adds , “Data coming from different sensors located at different suppliers from their production and transportation operations carry a lot of information regarding the quality of production process and timeliness of delivery. MORE
Dr, Mike Watson of Northwester Says Planners Can Learn from Saban Approach MORE
The New York Times Money Issue recently featured a profile of the Airbus factory in Mobile Alabama, complete with some stunning photo and video images. Aerospace Supply Chain Procurement and Sourcing Transportation and Logistics Airbus A321 supply chain Airbus supply chain Supply chain Matters blog MORE
percent, 555,300 jobs), Alabama (13.1 percent), Alabama’s 4th (48,500 jobs, 19.2 While US manufacturing has been hit hard by nearly two decades of policy failures that have damaged its international competitiveness, it remains a vital part of the U.S. economy. MORE
By taking overt trade action against Bombardier, it would appear that Boeing squandered the opportunity that Airbus executed this week in landing a Delta Airlines deal for upwards of 200 new A321 aircraft, and in adding a solid future for the Airbus Mobile Alabama production facility. MORE
Current Storm Status: While Irma has weakened to a tropical storm , it’s still packing winds of up to 97 kph and now covers six states : Alabama, North and South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee. MORE
In this article, Professor Burcu Keskin from University of Alabama will share 7 trends that procurement and supply chain management professionals should watch. MORE
A series of recent accidents — including one in Quebec last July that killed 47 people and another in Alabama last November — has put pressure on regulators […]. MORE
Check out Jonathan Shieber’s TechCrunch article Alabama-based Shipt raises $40 million to challenge dominant grocery delivery startups to learn more. Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. This week: There are differing opinions on the future of retail; omni-channel still has some bugs to work out; and a southeastern U.S. grocery delivery service has big plans for the future. Retail may just need a facelift. MORE
However, how do you justify people in places like Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas all scrambling to get a piece of the BP pie? MORE
The reporting suggests that lawmakers there are feeling emboldened by recent fuel tax hikes in Alabama, Louisiana and Oklahoma, and may follow suit accordingly. MORE
it’s watermelon season in Alabama, so carrier capacity is suddenly an added constraint. Everything is humming along, sales are picking up, and things in general are going well. Life is good! And then, just like that, you find yourself in the midst of a perfect storm. MORE
The Southeast is hot for vans , and the map shows high load-to-truck ratios in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missisippi and Alabama. National average rates fell a few cents for vans and reefers last week, after an end-of-quarter spike in the previous week. MORE
Loads were readily available, and trucks are relatively scarce, in a handful of Hot Markets, including: Twin Falls , ID; Bismarck , ND; Des Moines , IA; Rock Island , IL; Hutchinson , KS; Kansas City and Joplin , MO; Memphis , TN; Columbia , SC, and pretty much all of Alabama. MORE
Nick Sabans Process for Running Alabamas Football Program has led to Great Results and His Insights are Transferable to Supply Chain Planning Processes MORE
We were surprised to find that many states with the highest Location Quotients were not states that are typically associated with the biofuels economy, including Oregon, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Maine, and others. I had the opportunity to present at a hearing in Washington last week – this was a public meeting of the Biomass Research and Development Technical Sub-Committee. MORE
At one point, the air conditioner on our bus broke down in the hottest part of Alabama, forcing everyone to retreat into the nearest fast-food restaurant to avoid the heat. A few years ago, I was taking a bus full of high school students on a road trip. The driver presented us with several options. Option 1: The driver could attempt to fix the bus on his own (even though he didn’t know what the issue was and would need to call someone to figure it out.) MORE
The $600 million plant, located near Mobile Alabama is designed to produce various Airbus single-aisle aircraft specifically for the U.S. In September of last year, we updated Supply Chain Matters readers on the official opening of the Airbus’s first-ever commercial aircraft manufacturing facility in the United States. market. Airbus announced this week that the […]. MORE
ScottsMiracle-Gro currently has warehouses connected to operations for the co-distribution of fertilizer with growing media products at 16 locations in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. A new 100,000-sq. warehouse will be added to The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company’s operation in Lebanon, Conn. to service the Company’s home center retail customers in northeastern U.S. MORE
Alabama Related Topics Supply Chain Matters
DECEMBER 15, 2017
By taking overt trade action against Bombardier, it would appear that Boeing squandered the opportunity that Airbus executed this week in landing a Delta Airlines deal for upwards of 200 new A321 aircraft, and in adding a solid future for the Airbus Mobile Alabama production facility.
Supply Chain Digest
MARCH 16, 2016
Dr, Mike Watson of Northwester Says Planners Can Learn from Saban Approach
The 21st Century Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 26, 2014
General News Response Management Sales and operations planning (S&OP) Supply chain collaboration Adoption Advanced Encryption Standard Alabama Shakes Andhra Pradesh APICS The Association for Operations Management Associated Press Bruce Wasserstein Business Business process Business valuation Cloud computing Colorado Commercial bank Company Connecticut Enterprise resource planning (ERP) Information technology Investment banking Mergers and acquisitions SAP ERP by John Westerveld.
Supply Chain Matters
MAY 17, 2017
The New York Times Money Issue recently featured a profile of the Airbus factory in Mobile Alabama, complete with some stunning photo and video images. Aerospace Supply Chain Procurement and Sourcing Transportation and Logistics Airbus A321 supply chain Airbus supply chain Supply chain Matters blog
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Logistics Viewpoints
AUGUST 25, 2014
A series of recent accidents — including one in Quebec last July that killed 47 people and another in Alabama last November — has put pressure on regulators […].
The 21st Century Supply Chain
AUGUST 11, 2017
Besides Texas—Toyota’s new North American headquarters—other states on the companies’ shortlist are Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina, WSJ reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the potential investment.
Supply Chain Matters
FEBRUARY 3, 2015
Tuscaloosa Alabama facility and instead be manufactured at AM General’s commercial assembly plant in Mishawaka Indiana. An interesting news release came across our Supply Chain Matters news feed last week, one that perhaps demonstrates the broad capabilities of certain contract manufacturers within the automotive and truck sector. Mercedes Benz’s U.S.
Supply Chain Matters
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
On August 14, 2013, a UPS cargo plane bound for Birmingham Alabama from Louisville Kentucky crashed in the early morning hours just short of the airport runway, tragically killing both pilots on-board. Flight 1354, an Airbus A300 cargo plane crashed shortly before 6am Eastern time near a parallel access road in the immediate airport area, about a half mile from the runway.
Cerasis
APRIL 6, 2015
In this article, Professor Burcu Keskin from University of Alabama will share 7 supply chain trends that working professionals should watch. Editor’s Note: This blog post is from SupplyChainOpz.
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TMC
JULY 6, 2017
it’s watermelon season in Alabama, so carrier capacity is suddenly an added constraint. Everything is humming along, sales are picking up, and things in general are going well. Life is good! And then, just like that, you find yourself in the midst of a perfect storm.
Supply Chain Nation
OCTOBER 18, 2016
Universities that have category management programs, like DePaul University, University of Texas at Austin, University of North Alabama, Western Michigan University and others, need not only technology, but curriculums that focus on data science, analytics and data research.
Supply Chain Nation
JULY 7, 2017
The massive Pickup Towers, located near store entrances, debuted last year in Bentonville, Arkansas, and are now being rolled out to more than a dozen stores in cities across Arizona, Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia and Virginia. Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date.
Supply Chain Nation
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
I was in the Alabama National Guard and the California National Guard. If you’re a JDA customer, you’ve likely been helped by Rebecca Torres, one of JDA’s delivery success managers.
Supply Chain Nation
JUNE 9, 2017
Check out Jonathan Shieber’s TechCrunch article Alabama-based Shipt raises $40 million to challenge dominant grocery delivery startups to learn more. Friday in 5 – interesting news bits from around the supply chain horn, served up in one spot to keep you up to date. This week: There are differing opinions on the future of retail; omni-channel still has some bugs to work out; and a southeastern U.S. grocery delivery service has big plans for the future. Retail may just need a facelift.
LeanCor
JANUARY 8, 2015
At one point, the air conditioner on our bus broke down in the hottest part of Alabama, forcing everyone to retreat into the nearest fast-food restaurant to avoid the heat. A few years ago, I was taking a bus full of high school students on a road trip. The driver presented us with several options. Option 1: The driver could attempt to fix the bus on his own (even though he didn’t know what the issue was and would need to call someone to figure it out.)
Tailwind
MAY 29, 2017
– ‘Sweet Home Alabama’, Lynyrd Skynyrd. I watched a great documentary the other night about the music that came out of two studios in a little town called Muscle Shoals, Alabama – a place made famous in a line from the hit song’ Sweet Home Alabama’ by the band Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Cerasis
AUGUST 10, 2015
In this article, Professor Burcu Keskin from University of Alabama will share 7 supply chain trends that working professionals should watch. We continue our "Most Popular Blog Posts of 2015.So Far" series today highlighting supply chain blog posts. Supply Chain is just one of our five main categories we are covering all this week, which consist of: Logistics, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Freight, and Transportation.
DAT Solutions
JUNE 23, 2016
Flatbeds will find loads more easily in Alabama , Arkansas , or Texas.) There's been a shortage of trucks in Arkansas , Mississippi and Alabama , and outbound rates are jumping in Charlotte , Atlanta and Memphis.
DAT Solutions
OCTOBER 6, 2016
The states named in the lawsuit include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin.
Cerasis
JANUARY 5, 2016
Professor Burcu Keskin from University of Alabama adds , “Data coming from different sensors located at different suppliers from their production and transportation operations carry a lot of information regarding the quality of production process and timeliness of delivery.
Elementum
OCTOBER 6, 2017
Four states in the Southeast have declared a state of emergency as the storm approaches including 29 counties in Florida , six counties in Mississippi , the state of Alabama , and the state of Louisiana. Hurricane, tropical storm and storm surge watches have been declared from the Florida-Alabama border to as far east as Indian Pass.
Cerasis
MARCH 6, 2015
percent, 555,300 jobs), Alabama (13.1 percent), Alabama’s 4th (48,500 jobs, 19.2 While US manufacturing has been hit hard by nearly two decades of policy failures that have damaged its international competitiveness, it remains a vital part of the U.S. economy.
Elementum
SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
This has alerted shipping lines and prompted some to entertain rerouting cargo to New Orleans and Alabama, and even as far away as the Bahamas and Mexico. The rain has stopped in Houston, Texas, but the traumatic conditions left by Tropical Storm Harvey have not yet cleared.
DAT Solutions
APRIL 13, 2016
The Southeast is hot for vans , and the map shows high load-to-truck ratios in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missisippi and Alabama. National average rates fell a few cents for vans and reefers last week, after an end-of-quarter spike in the previous week.
DAT Solutions
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
Mitchel Hulsey, an Alabama owner-operator, installed an ELD and kept running.
Supply Chain View from the Field
AUGUST 6, 2013
However, how do you justify people in places like Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas all scrambling to get a piece of the BP pie?
DAT Solutions
DECEMBER 17, 2015
Try Alabama. All gone! Okay, not ALL. But van load availability returned to mid-November levels last week, as a 25% decline in load posts reversed a big, post-Thanksgiving gain in spot market freight. The national average load-to-truck ratio lost 38%, plummeting from 2.8 loads per truck.
Elementum
SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
states under consideration are: Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. The search will be site-specific and there are several certified mega sites available to accommodate the required area: one is the 1,550-acre Glendale mega site in Hardin County, Kentucky and there’s the 1,252-acre Limestone County mega site near Huntsville, Alabama.
Supply Chain Collaborator
MAY 11, 2017
The reporting suggests that lawmakers there are feeling emboldened by recent fuel tax hikes in Alabama, Louisiana and Oklahoma, and may follow suit accordingly.
DAT Solutions
MARCH 15, 2016
But flatbed load-to-truck ratios are soaring in Alabama and Arkansas. Freight markets are heating up in the Sun Belt. Even though van and flatbed rates lost 1¢ per mile last week as a national average, the underlying trends were strong.
DAT Solutions
DECEMBER 30, 2015
Loads were readily available, and trucks are relatively scarce, in a handful of Hot Markets, including: Twin Falls , ID; Bismarck , ND; Des Moines , IA; Rock Island , IL; Hutchinson , KS; Kansas City and Joplin , MO; Memphis , TN; Columbia , SC, and pretty much all of Alabama.
Supply Chain Network
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
ScottsMiracle-Gro currently has warehouses connected to operations for the co-distribution of fertilizer with growing media products at 16 locations in Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. A new 100,000-sq. warehouse will be added to The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company’s operation in Lebanon, Conn. to service the Company’s home center retail customers in northeastern U.S.
Elementum
MAY 27, 2015
Sweet Home Alabama. Making Waves. Walmart has announced that it plans to add 1 million jobs to the United States by investing $250 billion in U.S.-manufactured manufactured goods over the next decade.
DAT Solutions
JANUARY 11, 2016
These macroeconomic trends led to geographic shifts, as Alabama rose in prominence and Texas declined in importance as sources of flatbed freight. Trucks were readily available on the spot market in 2015 , and at bargain prices -- at least when you compare to average rates in 2014.
Supply Chain View from the Field
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
We were surprised to find that many states with the highest Location Quotients were not states that are typically associated with the biofuels economy, including Oregon, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Maine, and others. I had the opportunity to present at a hearing in Washington last week – this was a public meeting of the Biomass Research and Development Technical Sub-Committee.
Material Handling & Logistics
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
Truckloads of gasoline have been pouring in from neighboring states like Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama, and government officials have lifted regulations around fuel transport to ensure supplies are delivered to Florida, Miller said.
Elementum
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
Current Storm Status: While Irma has weakened to a tropical storm , it’s still packing winds of up to 97 kph and now covers six states : Alabama, North and South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee.
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