Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Alaska Airlines Door Blows Out in Flight For 20 years, Boeing has engaged in collaborative product development with a significant number of suppliers. Boeing is now a case study in how not to outsource a supply chain. Advanced software is not a magic wand. Quality issues have recently bedeviled Boeing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

From January 28 to February 4, a Chinese-operated high-altitude balloon was seen in North American airspace, including Alaska, western Canada, and the contiguous United States. aims to block from obtaining American high technology. A big story earlier this month was the reported Chinese spy balloon. On February 4, the U.S.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 18, 2017

The Technology Is Already Here. Real-time resource scheduling that turns “supply chain” into “demand chain”. Harnessing cloud-based software to automate freight pricing. It was clear from the speakers that by and large, air freight technology and signs of innovation already here.

Cargo

RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2019

RFgen has been named one of Food Logistics’ top 100 Software and Technology Providers for 2019, recognizing its unique contribution to ensuring safe, efficient and reliable food and beverage supply chains worldwide. Tracing Food from Field-to-Fork. Food traceability remains a key issue in the food and beverage industry.

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RFgen

DECEMBER 19, 2019

RFgen has been named one of Food Logistics’ top 100 Software and Technology Providers for 2019, recognizing its unique contribution to ensuring safe, efficient and reliable food and beverage supply chains worldwide. Tracing Food from Field-to-Fork. Food traceability remains a key issue in the food and beverage industry.

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Arkieva

MARCH 3, 2017

How do I standardize my supply chain process? In this week’s supply chain talk, Arkieva CEO Harpal Singh, discusses the key components to standardizing supply chains. In a follow-up discussion with a webinar attendee , he mentioned an interest in learning more on how to standardize supply chain processes.

Supply Chain Design Software

RFgen

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Capstone Nutrition, Myers Tire Supply, Trident Seafoods and Domtar all automated their JD Edwards data collection practices to optimize efficiency. Mobile barcoding technology contributed to significant gains: 99.5%+ accuracy, +50% efficiency, +30% staff productivity and more. Myers Tire Supply Cuts Receiving Time by Half.

Case Study

AIMMS

JULY 10, 2018

Five years ago, I took over managing the software package AFW uses to coordinate flights, and I do this for a dozen other organizations in the U.S. They provide travel assistance with small planes at the regional level and work with commercial partners to arrange travel for patients in Hawaii and Alaska. Preparing for Champ Camp.

Analytics Software

The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 24, 2013

Menlo Worldwide Logistics is Con-Way’s supply chain division. Menlo provides supply chain solutions including: transportation management, warehouse management, and information technology. Con-Way Freight’s service area includes the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico

Supply Chain Network

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

Representing the concept of Matrix Commerce diagrammatically is not an easy task and below is my first stab at it which I will continue to refine utilizing other more dynamic presentation graphics tools going forward. The first materials handling system solution I am tracking is the Fulfillment Factory from SSI Schaeffer.

Purchasing Skills

AB&R

JANUARY 10, 2019

The great news about supply chain compliance is that AB&R® makes it a breeze. Supply chain compliance may include things such as employee labor laws, hazardous material handling, and environmental concerns. Labels and Supplies. A compliant barcode is just the first step to supply chain compliance.

Rhode Island

GTG Technology Group

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Cyberattacks a Transportation Management Software Suite Might Face. Today, the preferred tool of attack is the cyberattack. Transportation management software must be designed to withstand this kind of attack, an ever-changing, ever-present threat that forces companies to keep their software updated and protected.

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Resilinc

AUGUST 2, 2022

Readers of Resilinc’s blog will likely be familiar with Tom Linton, the supply chain veteran, senior McKinsey advisor, member of Resilinc’s executive advisory board, and author (whose most recent book Flow: How the Best Supply Chains Thrive with co-author Rob Handfield is now available).

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Resilinc

MARCH 6, 2025

Discover the top five aerospace and defense supply chain challenges of 2024 from Resilincs exclusive EventWatch AI data. The aerospace and defense sectors operate in some of the most complex and highly regulated supply chains in the world.

Aerospace

Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 12, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides a further update on the ongoing production quality, corporate reputational and cultural challenges that collectively surround commercial aircraft producer Boeing. Ongoing supply chain disruptions related to late arrivals add to the pressures for maintaining a monthly output cadence.

Quality

RFgen

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Capstone Nutrition, Myers Tire Supply, Trident Seafoods and Domtar all automated their JD Edwards data collection practices to optimize efficiency. Mobile barcoding technology contributed to significant gains: 99.5%+ accuracy, +50% efficiency, +30% staff productivity and more. Myers Tire Supply Cuts Receiving Time by Half.

Case Study

Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of Boeing ’s latest report of 2023 financial performance along with added and growing implications from the latest 737 MAX 9 aircraft door plug blowout incident. Such urgency is not lost for this industry, its customer base and for its global-wide supply chain networks.

Alaska

Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides an additional update on the incident involving an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft’s decompression. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved.

Alaska

Exiger Perspectives

JULY 14, 2023

The New Trade Controls Will Likely Prompt Companies to Identify Alternative Sourcing Methods China’s move to restrict exports of two metals used in chipmaking and other goods poses a new threat to global supply chains, and makers of consumer electronics, solar cells, and semiconductors could see disruptions soon.

China

Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Supply Chain Matters highlights the announcement from Airbus setting aggressive aircraft production and delivery targets for 2024. Added Perspectives Ten plus years of order backlog spans new product development, not to mention added technological cycles. All rights reserved.

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USC Consulting Group

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These included Alaska (138 minutes), the state with the lowest population density, Arizona (138 minutes), Wyoming (153 minutes), Vermont (172 minutes), and Montana (212 minutes). Utilize remote sensing and inspection technologies to improve maintenance and real-time detection. Why are they occurring on a more regular basis?

Optimal Sourcing

Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 8, 2018

Sorry about your luck, Hawaii and Alaska. It’s the latest in a series of moves by the chain (which have included dollar menus and removing antibiotics from its chicken) to woo customers as competition increases in the food industry. McDonald’s says it’s switching from frozen beef to fresh in some 14,000 U.S. locations by early May.

Hawaii

Claritum

AUGUST 23, 2019

Drivers including opening up new markets/customer groups, investors supporting initiatives for diversity, brand awareness and to encourage increased levels of innovation in their supply chain. Many medium sized businesses are also looking at diversity in their supply chains, for the reasons explained in this article.

Resource Reduction

Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 28, 2014

Technology Services. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Supply Chain Management.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Claritum

AUGUST 23, 2019

Drivers including opening up new markets/customer groups, investors supporting initiatives for diversity, brand awareness and to encourage increased levels of innovation in their supply chain. Many medium sized businesses are also looking at diversity in their supply chains, for the reasons explained in this article.

Resource Reduction

Requis

MARCH 23, 2021

On episode 25 of Supply Chain Next, Richard Donaldson talks with Roberto Reichard about embodied carbon, climate change and taking control of our supply chains to move toward sustainability. Supply Chain Next · 025 – Roberto Reichard. Highlights from the Conversation.

Material Savings

Ware2Go

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Learn which states collect it, its impact on your business, how to reduce it, and how to leverage fulfillment technology to accurately track and control inventory. The states that currently tax inventory are: Arkansas Alaska Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Oklahoma Texas Vermont Virginia West Virginia.

Inventory Reduction

Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Merchants including Dick’s Sporting Goods, Lowe’s, and Walmart say the rising stocks signal a recovery from last year’s shortages driven by supply-chain disruptions and put them in a strong position to take advantage of consumer demand this holiday shopping period. CVS has equipped roughly 8,000 of its more than 9,000 U.S.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

They are demanding more supply chain transparency. What is supply chain transparency? Although transparency sounds like a straight-forward subject, Bateman and Bonanni note, “Less clear is how to define transparency in a supply chain context and the extent to which companies should pursue it.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2023

For those unfamiliar with the metaverse, it is the emerging 3-D-enabled digital space that uses virtual reality, augmented reality, and other advanced internet and semiconductor technology to allow people to have lifelike personal and business experiences online. This will certainly be an interesting trend to watch.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

However, the most surprising new addition, at least to me is supply chain (the chain of processes, businesses, etc. I was beyond shocked that supply chain had never been in the dictionary before. The cutoff dates apply to shipments moving within the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 29, 2018

Then, after an outbreak at an Alaska prison pointed to whole romaine lettuce heads, the CDC targeted all romaine grown in Yuma, Arizona. Food traceability remains a political challenge, with officials seeking to resolve outbreaks quickly and growers and shippers refusing to invest in technology. Supply chain and the consumer.

Connecticut

Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 7, 2024

In this Supply Chain Matters editorial commentary we focus on the passing of the CEO leadership baton for Boeing and challenges that are ahead. After the incident of a rear cabin door blowout of an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 8 aircraft that occurred in January, the U.S. That has been a recommendation from regulators.

Negotiating Skills

QAD

MARCH 21, 2019

The last two states added were Alaska and Hawaii in 1959. The climate is mostly temperate, but Alaska is arctic, Florida and Hawaii are tropical, and the Great Plains are mostly arid or semi-arid. Supply Chain Infrastructure for Manufacturing. It is bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. While the U.S.

United States

Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The holdup makes it exceedingly difficult for businesses to manage supply chains, it said. Blue Yonder , a leading supply chain solutions provider, announced the signing of an agreement to acquire Doddle, a first and last mile technology business. UP.Labs is a division of multi-strategy investment firm UP.Partners.

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