Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I was on the phone with Australia, China, Indonesia – really everywhere – trying to negotiate directly with suppliers. These are big data platforms that monitor news sources and assorted databases from governments, financial institutions, ESG NGOs, and other sources to detect when a negative event has occurred or may be about to occur.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 19, 2017

Buy online, ship direct to consumer, return to brick and mortar store. Buy via mobile, ship to a third party location (like work or a hotel). Emerging economies, those classed as part of the E7 (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Turkey), are hitting the leaderboard of the top 10 countries with the most purchasing power.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

BD and its 75,000 employees ship more than 45 billion devices annually to customers in over 190 countries. Only through this extensive mapping can you see that it may be because there’s a Tier 5 supplier who is not able to get the rare earth mineral out of China that goes into the microprocessor (we purchase).

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Freightos

MARCH 10, 2016

For shippers, carriers and logistics providers, the JOC ’s TPM (Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference) is one of the must-attends on the annual events calendar. Transpacific Shipping in 2016. China’s booming e-commerce is a great opportunity for logistics providers given the potential for scaling. Express Logistics.

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Freightos

JANUARY 4, 2018

However, despite formidable challenges, the logistics industry has been anything but stagnant. Value-added services like customs brokerage, insurance, and reverse logistics add layers of complexities well beyond the scope of a carrier’s core competence. Bringing Freight Online In The Carrier Space.

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Freightos

JANUARY 28, 2016

There’s been several great predictions for logistics in 2016. From praising China’s “slowdown” to the benefits of overcapacity (for some), we’re kicking back against some industry givens. Margin Squeeze - Big Surprise Driver Of Change. Tech giants thrive on opportunity, and more are exploring logistics opportunities.

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Freightos

JANUARY 28, 2016

There’s been several great predictions for logistics in 2016. From praising China’s “slowdown” to the benefits of overcapacity (for some), we’re kicking back against some industry givens. Margin Squeeze - Big Surprise Driver Of Change. Tech giants thrive on opportunity, and more are exploring logistics opportunities.

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Freightos

JANUARY 4, 2018

However, despite formidable challenges, the logistics industry has been anything but stagnant. Value-added services like customs brokerage, insurance, and reverse logistics add layers of complexities well beyond the scope of a carrier’s core competence. Bringing Freight Online In The Carrier Space.

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DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 28, 2014

With growing consumer expectations for faster delivery, shippers are expecting value-added logistics services from 3PL operators. This increases the urgency for 3PLs to leverage on the best market trends to increase logistics flexibility. So how will logistics planning and optimization technology help 3PLs to overcome these challenges?

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

I don’t think that they will step back from this big investment, and also, for example, when you look at China, China is in five years, I think the biggest economy in the world. There was a big peak. All the shipping companies were completely, let’s say, sold out.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Data, cognitive technologies, and the digital path to purchase. One of the benefits of consumers taking the digital path to purchase is that they leave data trail markers during their journey. ”[3] Bhagat lists fourteen ways big data analytics and cognitive technologies can help retailers and brands. ”[2].

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DELMIA Quintiq

APRIL 5, 2016

To the enthusiasts of ‘salvation by big data’ and the Internet of Things (IoT) – let’s consider the facts. The Google vehicle has collected 3,500,000 miles worth of driving data through a reasonably sophisticated array of IoTs, a massive amount by any stretch of imagination. What automation can and cannot do. No, not at all.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 9, 2019

this season, an above-average year is anticipated for East Asia that could affect production of consumer electronics sourced from China and Taiwan and more advanced technology products from Japan and nearby regions.”[1] While Resilience360 predicts a slightly below average number of hurricanes will affect the U.S. Footnotes. [1]

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DELMIA Quintiq

JANUARY 14, 2016

In another customer example from China, a steel manufacturer –cameras measuring the quality of steel slabs and coiled steel were used to identify non-conformance with the sales order specifications still on the milling line, instead of leaving the discovery of non-compliance problems only at the finished goods lots.

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Supply Chain Movement

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Following on from its other two highly popular subway maps of supply chain software vendors and logistics service providers, the quarterly magazine Supply Chain Movement has now published the third edition of the Consulting Subway Map Europe showing the European supply chain consultancy sector. 34 | Mindmap Global Logistics Integration.

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FLEXE

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

But, your delivery promise and logistics strategy is more important than ever. From a logistics standpoint, you can gain a lot of momentum by teaming up with technology providers that reduce traditional costs of warehousing and moving goods from point A to your customers’ doorsteps. Retailers—of all sizes—are jumping on this trend.

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 12, 2020

According to the 30th Annual State of Logistics Report by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), companies spent $1.64 trillion on logistics and transportation services in the United States in 2018, an increase of 11.4% Overall, logistics spending in 2018 reached 8% of U.S.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Year 2020 has so far been very turbulent as the world is going through the Covid-19 Pandemic and the US-China trade war. Companies need to switch to smart solutions with respect to inventory, warehousing, logistics and distribution management. Same set of data flows through the chain.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 8, 2019

I kicked off the meeting with an overview of the current dilemma facing supply chain executives, given the uncertainties of tariffs with China, Brexit in the UK, and the disturbances in Hong Kong and the Middle East that create a path with many risks in every direction. You can either ship it by boat from China (30 days) or by plane (FedEx).

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Freightos

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Freight and logistics trends that rate in the news. Check out our roundup of nearly 100 digital logistics/supply chain sources. The big retail sales season started better than expected, in the U.S. It broke records in China and elsewhere in Asia. MEDIUM TERM: CHINA’S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE. DECEMBER 2015.

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Shipchain

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We follow an exhaustive list of supply chain and logistics blogs to make this possible. If you want to start learning, we suggest you check out these top logistics and supply chain blogs. Top Logistics and Supply Chain Blogs We Love. Ship Lilly. China carrier relations and much more. More Than Shipping.

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Ware2Go

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Beyond their spending power, these retail juggernauts continue pushing the limits of fast shipping. At these large warehouse transfer points, goods are moved from one form of transportation to another and passed to fulfillment centers or big box stores. Keeping up with Amazon and Walmart is extremely challenging.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

tariff on China electronics is seeing a rise in demand for these products from other countries within Asia. Logistics is a whole other ballgame. Ports are having to off-load cargo onto the new mega-ships offshore from multiple smaller ships because they don’t have the capacity to handle the bigger vessels.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 27, 2016

We are used to operating in functional silos that involve managing people and keeping them in buckets, and the data these people are exposed to reinforces these silos. Customers change the quantity they ship inside of lead times set by the supply base, and the quantities double.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 24, 2020

China was locking down hundreds of millions of people and closing manufacturing facilities. As China is the largest manufacturing country in the world the economic repercussions were really starting to be felt. It is not by accident that China has become the highest manufacturing output country in the world. And the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

FourKites , a provider of real-time transportation visibility solutions, has a big data set around transportation. They apply their own human expertise plus machine learning to this Big Data to predict estimated times of arrivals and pricing. Because of this, they are predicting rates will skyrocket for Ocean and Air.

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Shipchain

DECEMBER 17, 2019

That’s why we’ve created this list of the top logistics and supply chain journalists and thought leaders that we follow and suggest you check out in 2020. . Top Logistics & Supply Chain Journalists & Thought Leaders We Follow. Adam Robinson is the Marketing Manager for North American Third-Party Logistics Provider, Cerasis.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

“As the logistics industry faces extraordinary pressures, maintaining a culture of compliance is more critical than ever. “When US–China trade tensions flared last year, leading companies already started to rethink the cost of network risk and invest in more resilient supply chains. EY; Twitter: @EYnews 6. “The U.S.-China

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Logistics and Distribution. Cloud & Big Data. An equally important test as we swing into the 2012 surge will be how online, brick and mortar retailers, along with their respective direct ship suppliers, exercise capabilities in multi-location stocking and fulfillment capability. Communication Services. Healthcare.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The head of supply chain for DCG is Tim Carroll, with direct reports of John Gannfors (CPO), Howard Katowitz (Planning and Execution), and Jerry Gross (Global Logistics). Planning and Execution (Howard) owns planning, inventory and production, with Logistics (Jerry) owning inbound and outbound. OE to ship is about 5 days.

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FLEXE

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Companies like Amazon and Inditex , who set new industry standards for innovative logistics in 2016, are a testament to the role supply chain plays in a company’s success. An “innovate or die” climate is taking over, putting a microscope on logistics and the impact it has on earnings, growth and customer loyalty. manufacturing?

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 24, 2017

Third-party logistics operations (3PLs) saw additional gains and enhancements throughout 2016, as predicted earlier in the year. Reshoring was set to become a major trend as well, but at the close of the year, actual reshoring and nearshoring efforts did not surpass most logistics trends. Logistics Operations.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In recent years, firms both large and small have launched new “Data Science” or similarly named groups. As the phenomenon of Big Data has taken hold in the private sector, many firms which as recently as 10 years ago devoted minimal resources to large scale database mining and analytics have reversed course. “But

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