Enterra Insights

MAY 2, 2019

Thanks to the popularity of e-commerce, warehouses are some of the hottest properties in real estate. Phillips ( @EricaEPhillips ) reports some retailers were so desperate to find warehouse space this past holiday season they created pop-up warehouses in vacant suburban lots and parking garages.[1] ”[2] He adds, “Freestanding big-box stores closer to population centers than they are to warehouse districts are the primary candidates for such conversions.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Several years ago, I interviewed CIOs and IT executives from leading third party logistics (3PL) companies, and one of the most interesting findings was that their teams spent a majority of their time fixing and cleansing data. Therefore, I wasn’t surprised by an article in today’s Wall Street Journal about how faulty data is hindering the HealthCare.gov rollout. BMW to Mazda Imports Slowed as Strike Shuts Baltimore Port ( Bloomberg ).

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Freight Plus

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The most efficient hospitals in the study were data driven and shared supply chain info cross departmentally. Amazon’s safety record scrutinized after Baltimore warehouse tragedy. Normal. false. false. false. EN-US. X-NONE. X-NONE. Trucking capacity in 2019 is about speed not rates according to industry analysts.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 24, 2015

My first job was a warehouse supervisor trainee for a public warehouse (nowadays a 3PL), in Baltimore, Maryland. We used centroid analysis on transportation data to fully understand the detail inputs to make key decisions: How many facilities, where should they be to minimise costs, bearing in mind the service parameters that needed to be met. Like the sea-faring coffee traders who inspired its logo it’s not all been plain sailing at Starbucks.

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Transplace

MARCH 26, 2020

One issue that is becoming more of a pinch-point is warehouse capacity. Baltimore’s Seagirt Marine Terminal will close for delivery and receipt of inbound and outbound containers on March 30th and 31st and shortened operating hours thereafter.

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