The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 8, 2023

Shane is Founder and CEO of Square1 Distribution & Logistics , a 3PL Warehouse that focuses on the Beauty and Packaged Food sectors. Shane Hanson Bio Shane Hanson is an experienced logistics executive with over 30 years of experience in distribution. He is also a US Army veteran.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

While printing operations have been greatly improved, clearly there is no way that these items are printed on-demand. But what happens to the “Super Bowl Champion” apparel, or really from any major sporting event, for the losing team? And now on this week’s logistics news. Instead, they are printed ahead of time, for both teams.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Supply Chain Matters calls reader attention to a published report that indicates for one retailer, the sudden shift in consumer demand this year may not have been that sudden. Instead, a detailed analysis of consumer buying and general apparel and clothing trends buying trends proved beneficial in limiting overall inventory exposure.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 21, 2017

Now, moving on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Amazon won a patent for an on-demand clothing manufacturing warehouse (Recode). JDA Unleashes New Levels of Supply Chain Visibility Across its Portfolio with TransVoyant. Logistics Platform Haven Sets Sights on SAP with Launch of Haven TMS.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 2, 2024

Supply Chain Matters highlights published reports that Alibaba is expanding is U.S. Reportedly, this five day delivery logistics support has also expanded to countries such as France, Germany, Mexico, Portugal , and Saudi Arabia under the capabilities of Cainiao , Alibaba’s logistics fulfillment arm. based customers.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights the increasing realities of declining global trade and freight rates that are occurring in the first-half of 2023. Background Global wide transportation and logistics costs increased at unprecedented rates during 2021 and 2022. Earlier this month, the forecast was revised to an expected 2.5

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Supply chains used to live in the past. Thanks to the more advanced forms of supply chain analytics like predictive analytics, supply chains are proactively looking into the future and prepping for “what is to come” rather than only ruminating over “what already happened.” Not anymore.

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Logility

JUNE 21, 2022

A transparent digital supply chain will give you the insights you need for faster fulfillment. Key Takeaways: Same-day delivery is preferred by most consumers today, and supply chains must speed up to match that fulfillment speed. Logility’s digital supply chain platform can help you capture your part of the predicted $9.2

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ThroughPut

MAY 2, 2024

Thanks to the increasing competition in today’s global markets, growing customer expectations, and the rising demand for products with shorter life cycles, most businesses have been forced to sharply focus their attention on accurate demand sensing – and planning for it – to stay profitable and sustainable.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 14, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog features our April 14, 17, 2023 edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a synopsis capsule of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news. million in Series A financing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Retailers Struggle to Understand their Omnichannel Costs Kathleen Fischer, a director at Körber Supply Chain, rank ordered the profitability of different omni flow paths for me. In general, retailers can model the transportation costs associated with an omni-order. Some providers of OOM have better solutions for this than others.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2023

An initial estimate of this year’s retail holiday spending indicates a mixed bag, depending on either retail industry, consumer goods producer or logistics and transportation industry perspectives. Holiday Spending- A Mixed Bag first appeared on The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group / Supply Chain Management.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 6, 2022

During this unprecedented period of non-stop global supply chain disruption, the Supply Chain Matters blog provides readers with additional industry specific examples, along with their implications. Sports apparel and athletic shoes producer Nike recently reported flat fiscal fourth quarter sales amid continued supply chain snarls.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 19, 2021

Busy times for all of us and in particular supply chain managers who are dealing with capacity constraints, delays, the rise of e-commerce, forecasting in this crazy environment, identifying and analyzing data, and putting the data to use in strategies. TMS has come a long way since its early days.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Brian is the Founder and CEO of Chain.io, a cloud-based integration platform that connects partners across the global supply chain. As Founder and CEO of Chain.io, Brian Glick has made a career of simplifying complex supply chain and trade compliance IT challenges. With logistics expertise built into the heart of its software, Chain.io

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 22, 2023

A worker stages the robot in front of container doors, and it autonomously moves forward into the container under its own power and direction as it picks boxes, up to 60 lbs from the face and more weight if picked from the top, and places them onto attached conveyor that transports the loads out of the container. First stop, Manhattan.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

From a digitally-transformed shopping experience to global supply chain disruptions and a pandemic that refuses to quit, there’s one thing retailers can count on: People are always going to shop. It engages all of the senses. Supply Chain Challenges Continue. The Retail Trends Shaping How We Shop in 2022. Get the Story ?.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

KION acquired Dematic and Egemin Automation in 2016, forming KION Supply Chain Solutions that operates under the Dematic brand. KION is a publicly-traded company and reports on the Supply Chain Solutions (SCS) segment. Vanderlande is a member of Toyota Industries Corporation within the Toyota Advanced Logistics Group.

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20Cube Logistics

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Though fashion and apparel is an indispensable part of the human lifestyle and one of the basic necessities, we can also say that it has gone beyond the scope of being one and has become a yardstick to judge an individual’s personality. Delays in transportation led to the supply chain sphere incurring huge amounts of loss.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 28, 2022

Practitioners, students and of supply chain management are likely quite familiar with Spain based fashion clothing retailer Inditex and its various retail brands including Zara. Many supply chain management case study curriculums include the notions of how this retail chain pioneered what is today termed “ fast fashion.”.

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Locus

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Add to this the unpredictability of the Covid-19 pandemic and we have a pretty temperamental supply chain environment for fashion retail. While the top apparel and accessory brands agree that product quality should get better with time, inventory priorities are always fluctuating. Fashion retail’s logistics deadlock.

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AIMMS

MARCH 14, 2018

Chicken is prone to contamination by salmonella and other diseases, so transport is strictly regulated and must be done by refrigerated trucks. The problem emerged after KFC switched its deliveries from Bidvest Logistics, a 3PL specialized in food delivery, to DHL and QSL. Preventing supply chain woes.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

Supply Chain Matters features its latest full edition of This Week in Supply Chain Tech , a compilation of funding, partnership and other noteworthy announcements related to supply chain technology support. A special edition of this column highlighted the announced Blue Yonder acquisition of One Network Enterprise s.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 22, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters industry specific commentary, we make the observation that retail industry sales and operations planning and demand support teams, given the current state of recent business financial performance, need to up their game in supply network inventory management agility and added responsiveness. .

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Vinculum

MAY 23, 2022

The e-commerce player and the retailers that strategically sell consumer durables, apparel, groceries, and other relatable products are on the verge of raising their warehouse space to 10-15% every year; with the hike in demand for such services, the e-commerce industries or organization. How to enhance the retail warehouse demand.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Contract logistics – companies that provide warehousing services – certainly falls into that category. The warehouse and transportation industry had a record 490,000 openings in July. That is because it is not just the contract logistics sector that hires labor for their warehouses. Warehouse Jobs Can Be Demanding.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Since produce and fresh ingredients are crucial for holiday meals, safely transporting these temperature-sensitive items, delivering them on time and in full, and keeping them freshly stocked on store shelves is vitally important for retailers. These, combined with holiday deadlines, present unique challenges for the logistics industry.

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Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 11, 2013

Californian based Fox Head, owner of the action sports apparel and clothing brand Fox, is rapidly expanding its reach in the European market. Menlo Worldwide Logistics (Menlo) has recently established a new distribution centre for the company at its Eersel, (Netherlands) Logistics Centre.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

They are demanding more supply chain transparency. ” The demand for transparency is not a passing fad. .”[1] ” The demand for transparency is not a passing fad. What is supply chain transparency? ” You might be thinking, “That sounds like supply chain visibility. .”

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

2022 saw logistics and transport news full of investment, expansion and even supply chain angst associated with EV vehicle and battery production. I spoke to Mr. Voo Wei Keong, Director of Woodlands Transport. The savings in total operational costs of EVs for vans and scooters make for high demand.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

“We use the term omni-channel, but the real issue everyone is tackling is consumer centricity,” said Fab Brasca, VP Solution Strategy at JDA Software in a recent episode of Talking Logistics. So, if you’re a local apparel retailer you’re going to have a very different set of challenges than, for example, a big-box home improvement retailer.

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AIMMS

MARCH 14, 2018

Chicken is prone to contamination by salmonella and other diseases, so transport is strictly regulated and must be done by refrigerated trucks. The problem emerged after KFC switched its deliveries from Bidvest Logistics, a 3PL specialized in food delivery, to DHL and QSL. Preventing supply chain woes.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group, via its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog calls reader attention to two recently published research papers that address evidence of ongoing shifts in global supply component and end production sourcing. At the same time the authors qualify that while China ’s share of U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

On Monday, I would speak in Orlando Florida at the Terra Technology event; and on Wednesday, present the keynote at the Logistic Summit & Expo in Mexico City. I believe that supply chains build economies and save the world. I also believe that supply chains need a revolution. Supply chains respond, but they do not sense.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2017

As part of a natural evolution of their existing offerings, many carriers and brokers are looking to managed transportation services (MTS) to provide greater value for their customers and growth for their organization. So we know there’s a lot of demand and opportunity for MTS. There is lots of demand for niche experts.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 21, 2015

One of the emails I did keep and read with interest was the first item in this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Infor to Acquire GT Nexus. GEODIS acquires OHL (Ozburn-Hessey Logistics) and enhances its Freight Forwarding and Contract Logistics offering in the US.

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Intelligent Audit

JUNE 30, 2022

Retail supply chain management has always been a complicated and complex process. But in the timeframe between 2020 to 2022, a volatile supply chain market showed the weakness in outdated, legacy supply chain execution built on rigid technology or lacking any accurate data that can improve overall decision-making.

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