AB&R
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
A Key to Manufacturing and Warehousing Success in Arizona The Phoenix metropolitan area and surrounding cities are booming with new warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturing plants right now. AB&R helps thousands of companies across North America identify, track, and manage their critical assets and inventory.
Logistics Viewpoints
AUGUST 28, 2023
UPS is the largest parcel delivery company in North America. Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors have documented heat indexes of 126, and temperature readings provided to NBC News taken by workers in their trucks in Arizona and Florida have shown temperatures above 150 degrees.
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Supply Chain Shaman
JANUARY 8, 2024
In the past five years, companies have 5-10X the number of AGVs in their warehouses, but 40-60% more planners in corporate. We have successfully reduced warehouse labor, but planning is more labor intensive today, and less effective. One will be for the Americas on Monday mornings and one for Europe/Asia (7:00 EST) on Wednesdays.
Supply Chain Matters
AUGUST 7, 2023
While 209,000 workers were added in June, 14,000 freight and parcel carriers were cut and 6,900 warehousing and storage jobs were lost. In the past we would expect to see transportation and warehousing ramping up hiring in late summer ahead of peak season. ” warehouse workers in June of 2022. There were 1.96
Resilinc
OCTOBER 11, 2022
One of those voices is Hitendra Chaturvedi, professor of practice in supply chain management at Arizona State University’s W. Chaturvedi: So far this year, Ohio, Arizona and Tennessee have seen the most job announcements associated with reshoring. We should also look strategically at nearshoring to Latin America and Canada.
Logistics Viewpoints
JANUARY 28, 2022
Earlier this week, David Ortiz got the call from the Baseball Writers Association of America that he was the lone candidate elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Some of these workers come from Mexico daily to jobs in places like Arizona and California for the production of leafy greens at this time of year.
Supply Chain Matters
APRIL 7, 2022
Data published at the end of March indicates that for movement of ocean container shipping transit from Asia to North America , the average time had declined to 108 days, upwards of 15.4 and Warehousing Prices (90.5) Warehousing Capacity also hit a record in March, reaching an all-time nadir of 36.1 US Logistics Index.
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