Logistics Viewpoints
MARCH 29, 2024
In the early morning hours of April 26, at approximately 1:35am, a cargo ship leaving Baltimore Harbor struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, triggering a catastrophic collapse of the 1.6-mile-long The bridge is part of the heavily traveled Interstate 695 linking Baltimore to Washington, D.C. mile-long span. An estimated 11.5
Unleashed
APRIL 11, 2024
Baltimore bridge disaster adds new stress to global supply chains. That’s why AOV is an essential metric to improve. US manufacturing activity expands for first time since 2022. The latest ISM Manufacturing PMI report registered an unexpectedly high 50.3% in March – up 2.5% from February.
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Logistics Viewpoints
JULY 29, 2022
Starting this week, customers across the US will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages , with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. Louis, among other cities.
Freight Plus
NOVEMBER 9, 2018
We’ve used our transportation management system to make load times a critical metric for us.”. Amazon’s safety record scrutinized after Baltimore warehouse tragedy. Hospitals overpaying by $25 billion on their supply chains according to report. And I'm not about to answer that question without them," he said.
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 17, 2013
Each time that they are published, the Shaman sighs and chuckles in her little apartment in Baltimore. Over the last decade, the only metric that we have improved is revenue/employee (see below). The first definition of Demand-driven Supply Chains was pushed into the market by AMR Research (now part of the Gartner Group) in 2004.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 16, 2014
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1943. _. I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear. ” —Translation from the Greek by Ludwig Edelstein. Today, nine out of ten supply chains are stuck.
Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
For the prior ten years, as a city dweller in Philadelphia and Baltimore, I walked everywhere. Substitute corporate dashboard metrics like margin, customer service, growth, and inventory health for functional metrics like OEE and Purchase Price Variance. In 2017, when I moved, I bought an old car.
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