Material Handling & Logistics

JANUARY 15, 2019

For example, the catastrophic Tohoku earthquake and tsunami a few years ago resulted in a massive US$210 billion in costs for Japan. Unable to import or export needed parts, Toyota, GM and Nissan all closed down their facilities temporarily in Japan and the United States. You’re proactive, not reactive.

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Freightera

JUNE 29, 2017

Transport News INTL has just selected Freightera as “Best Online Freight Marketplace – North America” in their Logistics, Warehouse & Supply Chain Awards 2017! Freightera creates partnerships and systems and promotes new technologies that allow business to find the best price and lowest emission transportation options.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 17, 2017

warehouses from Chinese merchants selling on its site—taking on a role it previously left to global freight-transportation companies.” Here are some more details from the article: In China, it is unclear whether Amazon would be booking airspace via other carriers or flying its own planes. Europe and Japan.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 13, 2022

Supply Chain Matters readers will recall that in April 2021, Panasonic announced that the Japan based manufacturing and services company would purchase the remaining 80 percent of Blue Yonder shares for $5.6 billion, and the release indicates strong bookings growth for Blue Yonder’s Luminate Commerce business. billion.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Shipping between Europe, S.E.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Amazon Buys Thousands of Its Own Truck Trailers as Its Transportation Ambitions Grow (Re/code). October 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Now, on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… CMA CGM to acquire NOL, reinforcing its position in global shipping. Paragon Software Systems Introduces Route Control.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Yossi Sheffi is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he serves as Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL). His latest book, The Power of Resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected , was released this month. “The How to Build Agility.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2014

I also think that Quintiq’s leadership in concurrent planning to solve new problems is promising, especially in the design of transportation and inventory flows. For example, we discovered that transportation and duties are 5x the expense of labor and overhead. Is it duties, or is it transportation? Find out what it is.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2023

Japan asks its insurers to retain marine war cover for LNG shippers in Russian waters. Ground transportation’s consolidation process also generates fewer carbon emissions and leaves a smaller environmental footprint than shipping individual items back to retailers. Descartes acquires Supply Vision.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2022

Maersk said Tuesday it was halting bookings in light of the sanctions imposed on Russia, including congestion being caused by customs authorities inspecting cargo bound for the country and changing credit terms impacting its customers. Moller-Maersk A/S and Mediterranean Shipping Co.,

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Freightos

APRIL 24, 2016

US Army uses the “Transporter” container, developed four years earlier for removals, for Korean War supply movements. First intermodal cargo transportation (containers are stacked on deck). Development of intermodal container shipping is impacting other transport modes. Shipping between Europe, S.E. Significance.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JANUARY 14, 2016

Given that it took place in Japan, I imagined quite an animated discussion around making another leap in the manufacturing of things. Besides those cases, there were of course the ubiquitous examples of autonomous transport vehicles. The vessels arriving on time berth at the terminal within a pre-booked berthing window.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 18, 2016

The recent earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador are a sad reminder of how deadly natural disasters can be. As of this morning, 41 people are confirmed dead in Kumamoto prefecture, the epicenter of Japan’s earthquakes, and 272 people have died in Ecuador , with thousands more injured and displaced from their homes.

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 15, 2016

Tim is a global supply chain executive originally from Australia, who has been studying the evolution of the Trans Pacific Partnership closely, and is writing a book on the subject. Timothy Barnes is the President of Asia Pacific Consulting, based in Chapel Hill, NC and author of an upcoming book on TPP. Email: tbarnes@apac-nc.com.

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MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

lu, an economist at the MIT Department of Economics, and co-author of the book The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (Penguin Press, 2019). At the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics’s 2021 Crossroads conference, Acemo?lu One of them is societal inequality, according to Professor Daron Acemo?lu,

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USC Consulting Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The specifics of what makes the Kaizen method so effective are catalogued in the book “Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success,” which was written by the automaker’s former chairman back in the mid-1980s. Much like happiness, achieving Kaizen is more about the journey than the destination.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The regions reported as having the most declines in production volumes were noted as Brazil, Canada, Japan , and the United Kingdom. The report’s authors indicated that five sub-indices, output, new orders, manufacturing employment, purchasing stocks and suppliers’ delivery times were collectively at levels of deterioration.

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NC State SCRC

JULY 29, 2017

In my new book “ The Living Supply Chain ” co-written with Tom Linton, we reflect on the new capabilities required to be able to work with the evolving imperative of real-time data. Examples include the Tianjin explosion, the tsunami in Japan, and the port closure in Los Angeles. These principles are not new.

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Supply Chain Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

The reason why they can do this is that customized products are sold directly to customers so they have the higher profit margin to compensate the higher transportation cost. Managing transportation at this scale is the absolute challenge. Library Prime Storage is the area dedicated for book/magazine.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 5, 2020

hoku earthquake and tsunami significantly affected many industries, even those with production plants outside Japan. It is important to share forecasts, production schedules, inventory, transportation plans and other vital information. Upheavals in one country can heavily impact manufacturers worldwide, too. For example, the 2011 T?hoku

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Resilinc

APRIL 4, 2023

The most extreme sanctions have impacted supply and manufacturing capabilities across the Energy, Aerospace, Transportation, Chemicals, Metals, and Automotive industries. The country has also joined Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US by implementing the same price caps from G7 on refined petroleum products in Russia.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 18, 2018

Modern transportation is currently experiencing major changes thanks to transformative transportation technologies. Let’s take a look at 6 transportation technologies sure to impact the trucking and transportation industries forever. The Freight & Transportation Management Trends to Know in 2018.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 14, 2022

Freightos Limited , a global freight booking and payment platform, and Gesher I Acquisition Corp., According to a published report from the Japan Times , Panasonic Holdings announced that its battery manufacturing unit plans to quadruple production of electric vehicle batteries by fiscal 2028 amid increasing demand from U.S.

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Intelligent Audit

JUNE 10, 2021

Now, UPS has followed the trend as well, with new surcharges set to take effect on June 13 for shipments originating from Japan. And shippers need to know a few things about these new surcharges and their impact on transportation spend. Choose Intelligent Audit to Keep Your Books in Line as Surcharges Continue Across Carriers.

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Intelligent Audit

JUNE 10, 2021

Now, UPS has followed the trend as well, with new surcharges set to take effect on June 13 for shipments originating from Japan. And shippers need to know a few things about these new surcharges and their impact on transportation spend. Choose Intelligent Audit to Keep Your Books in Line as Surcharges Continue Across Carriers.

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Supply Chain Movement

JANUARY 15, 2015

3) Logistics (inbound/outbound transportation, materials and finished goods warehouses). We conceive transportation management in a holistic way: whether materials are coming from a supplier or a finished product is going to a customer, it’s about connecting the dots on a map and trying to optimise the total amount of logistical flow. (4)

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ThroughPut

MARCH 20, 2020

As of right now, top lines have been essentially wiped out for industries like air transportation, freight, gastronomy, tourism, travel, and many more. These are uncertain times for businesses that are used to having cash flow, steady top lines, and predictable bottom lines.

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Abivin

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Global Maritime Routes and Chokepoints Maritime routes are a few kilometers wide corridors that connect economic regions and cross land transportation gaps. Major routes also involve the transport of raw commodities, including petroleum, grains, minerals, and food items. They form a continuum. More than 1.14

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Modern transportation is currently experiencing major changes thanks to transformative transportation technologies. Let’s take a look at 6 transportation technologies sure to impact the trucking and transportation industries forever. Transportation Technologies will Impact Public Transportation for Individuals.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The result was a rather embarrassing public apology and a canceling of orders just prior to the Christmas holiday because the retailer was unprepared to deal with the crush of booked online orders. Inventory allocation processes were not able to effectively support customer fulfillment needs across both physical store and online channels.

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Freightera

MAY 26, 2017

Currently international freight transport is about 10% of the total greenhouse gas emissions but it’s going to grow based on the recent projections of the European parliament to between 20 and 50% of the total global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 under business as usual scenario. Transport uses 64% of the oil globally.

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Provenance

AUGUST 13, 2018

In 2011, these concerns, specifically complaints from the United States, Japan and the European Union (EU), prompted the World Trade Organisation to rule against China’s export restrictions. A move that led to international concerns around supply security and the political motivation behind China’s export restrictions.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 13, 2017

Apple has traditionally been relying on a supply chain based in East Asia, using Korea to produce memory chips, Japan to produce displays and China to assemble products. His most recent projects include books on cloud computing, small business management, sales, business coaching, social media marketing, and career planning.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 10, 2020

While he performed technical consulting for Toyota Motor, Honda sent many of his fellow workers into the company for the purpose of establishing an automobile industry in Japan. These concepts are technically complex and hard to translate often outside of Japan. Those that Kotaro Honda advised were called Honda School Leaders.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Meanwhile, it appears that the Trans-pacific Trade Partnership (TPP) will move forward without the United States ; Japan just completed a trade deal with the European Union ; Brexit negotiations remain contentious ; and the World Trade Organization’s role and relevance are being challenged.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 4, 2018

While he performed technical consulting for Toyota Motor, Honda sent many of his fellow workers into the company for the purpose of establishing an automobile industry in Japan. These concepts are technically complex and hard to translate often outside of Japan. Those that Kotaro Honda advised were called Honda School Leaders.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 22, 2017

Finally, Jason commented on insights from his latest book “ Jobs for Robots “, that suggest that higher level human jobs will never be fully replaced by robots, but that mundane and low cost jobs very well could be. Education is the best medicine against having your job “robofied!

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