Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

We now add highlights of March and Q1-2022 key global transportation and logistics indices. Global and Domestic Transportation and Logistics Indices. Global Shipping. The World Container Index , assessed by Drewy Consultants, is a compilation of eight major shipping routes to and from the United States , Europe and Asia.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 15, 2020

Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, writes, “The coronavirus has disrupted U.S. Therefore, reverse logistics companies are preparing for managing the influx of returned or replaced items during this time.”[2]. Reverse logistics: An inconvenient challenge. percent in brick-and-mortar stores.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Labor shortages in transportation and warehousing are quick to make headlines, but job opportunities across the supply chain continue to go unfilled despite promising pay and benefits. And within the sector, the warehousing and storage category has added the most jobs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

Organizations then convert those demand forecasts to the associated quantities of raw materials to purchase, goods to be manufactured, or finished products to ship. It turns out the Super Bowl happened on February 12 th in Glendale, Arizona. The post The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 8, 2022

Logistics Managers Index. Warehousing and Inventory metrics continue to buoy the logistics sector. GDP in the second quarter), and warehouses continue to struggle to hold and manage the volume.”. Similarly, transportation and logistics cost volatility remains uncertain. Additional Data- U.S.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Last year, I attended a three-day conference in Las Vegas conducted by the Reverse Logistics Association, a trade group whose members deal with product returns, unsold inventories and other capitalist jetsam. RETAILERS TRY TO KEEP UP Returns are expensive for sellers, since shipping alone often costs more than the items can be resold for.

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 5, 2020

Currently, we are seeing little fluctuation in the domestic logistics market when compared to the past few weeks. . But the Logistics Manager’s Index skyrocketed from the end of Feb ruary through April. Zipline Regional Logistics Market Updates . Northeast Logistics . Midwest Logistics . 01 per mile.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The chain is testing the program across 17 locations in Tucson, Arizona from September 9 until November 24. And now on to this week’s logistics news. This comes at a time when Amazon is trying to expand its warehouse operations in a very tight labor market. Talk about a cool concept. That’s all for this week.

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 12, 2020

Produce shipping is showing signs of strengthening and should begin building activity for the remainder of the month before leveling off in June. Regional Logistics Market Updates. Here is what each region is seeing currently: Northeast Logistics. Warehouses in New York and New Jersey are reopening in the next 30 days.

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 19, 2020

Logistics? ? . Warehouses in New Jersey and New York are reopening in the next 10-20 days and we expect to see an increase in outbound volume as a result. . Warehouses in New Jersey and New York are reopening in the next 10-20 days and we expect to see an increase in outbound volume as a result. . Logistics? ? .

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 28, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. 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. Imports are tumbling at the nation’s busiest container port complex even as the backup of ships waiting to unload breaks records.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Inventory is then put on pallets and shipped as freight. When I was Materials Manager at Maricopa County, Arizona, the second largest county in the country, I introduced Vendor Managed Inventory. I took our line of fasteners: bolts, nuts screws and washers and put them in one location in the Warehouse.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 12, 2024

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Retailers and manufacturers are flying more goods around the shipping crisis in the Red Sea , industry experts say, helping boost international airfreight operators after a long period of sagging cargo volumes. Now 27 ships navigate the Panama Canal each day, compared with 39 previously.

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Multichannel Merchant

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Veho, a startup whose software platform matches demand to crowdsourced drivers and handles deliveries and returns out of its own warehouses, has raised another $170 million to reach a $1.5 Veho plans to expand the doorstop returns program nationally as well, and improve its warehouse automation capabilities.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Dealing with the Shipping Container Crisis. Material Handling & Logistics ). Material Handling & Logistics ). Following a March 2022 surge of Covid-19 in Shanghai, shipping company A.P. Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 15, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. UPS wants to ship packages in the metaverse. Market fulfillment centers are a compact, modular warehouse built inside or added to a store, which, in addition to fresh and frozen items, can store thousands of other items. ” I wonder if the metaverse expects same-day shipping.

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6 River Systems

DECEMBER 11, 2018

As the biggest players in fulfillment, distribution and omnichannel retail continue to push boundaries, logistics and planning strategists are forced to innovate. Seeing this, we decided that it would be helpful to compile a curated list of 50 of the best tips on logistics planning and strategy that we could find.

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Cathy Roberson

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Photo courtesy of GLS UK-based postal operator, Royal Mail further expands its international operations through its subsidiary, General Logistics Systems (GLS) with the acquisition of Canadian freight operator, Rosenau Transport, announced on Oct 8. How does this all benefit postal operator Royal Mail? International cross-border.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Innovations in technology are changing how the world does business, and technology is dramatically changing how entities in the logistics industry function in nearly every aspect. Yet, technology breakthroughs are further pushing the bounds on what we see as normal shipping standards. However, the rise of the cloud has changed that.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

But the sales person tells you, “I can find you a small at the store in Phoenix Arizona, and will have them ship it to you free of charge…you should get it in two days.” As noted earlier, order fulfillment is now using retail stores as warehouses. Inventory and Warehouse data.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

As we head into 2016, we are featuring our most read articles of 2015 in our five main categories: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation Management, and Freight. When I was Materials Manager at Maricopa County, Arizona, the second largest county in the country, I introduced Vendor Managed Inventory.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

We are currently working with Arizona State University (ASU) to use advanced operations research techniques to understand the patterns in our database of 52 supply chain financial ratios for the period of 2006-2013. I want to help. It is all in the sequence you improve them and what is your starting point. What does this mean?

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Resilinc

AUGUST 10, 2021

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union is trying to stop the next round of automation at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles because it will eliminate jobs. Still an automated, robotic future of logistics and supply chains seems to be arriving more quickly than a science fiction screenwriter could have imagined 10 years ago.

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