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. Sounds like a typical day in supply chain and logistics to me. What are the odds I’ll use them again?

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news: Amazon in the news: Amazon closes, abandons plans for dozens of U.S. Earlier this week, the company warned officials in Maryland that it plans to close two delivery stations next month in Hanover and Essex, near Baltimore, that employ more than 300 people. And what a glorious season it is.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 5, 2024

And now on to this week’s logistics news. This announcement comes on the heels of Blue Yonder’s acquisition of flexis AG, offering factory planning, sequencing and slotting capabilities, and Doddle, offering returns management and reverse logistics solutions. It was supplying jet fuel to Delaware’s Dover Air Force Base.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 2, 2019

David Sparkman, head of David Sparkman Consulting, reports, “Empty stores and shopping centers are increasingly being converted into warehouse and e-commerce distribution centers, according to the global industrial real estate firm CBRE, which examined in detail two dozen such projects ranging from southern California to Baltimore.”[2]

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 12, 2024

And now on to this week’s logistics news. The strategy, the latest sign of how companies are adjusting their supply chains in response to geopolitical shock waves and disruptions, comes as European importers are seeking to avoid delays caused by longer voyages around Africa by containerships that usually travel through the Suez Canal.

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Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 24, 2015

After four years in global logistics he was posted to Amsterdam in 2012 as senior vice president, Supply Chain Operations, EMEA. He is tasked with integrating the supply chains to implement the future growth strategy. My first job was a warehouse supervisor trainee for a public warehouse (nowadays a 3PL), in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. In contrast, the digital manufacturing study evaluates the rate of adoption of new technologies like The Internet of Things and 3D printing to change manufacturing strategies. ” —Translation from the Greek by Ludwig Edelstein. Today, nine out of ten supply chains are stuck.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 19, 2024

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Baltimore is not included in Global Port Tracker’s national totals because its data is reported later than other ports. A logistics strategy called transloading , used by trucking companies during the pandemic to ease the container backlog, is increasing in popularity again after U.S.

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