Talking Logistics

APRIL 1, 2022

Of course you do, but can you spot the fake news headlines among the real ones below? Welcome to April. The first of April. You know what that means, right? I bet you can, but which fake headline is closest to being true? Post a comment and let me know. Shanghai Covid-19 Lockdown Poses Fresh.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In 2004, I joined AMR Research, a Boston Analyst firm. Over the course of the five months, we iterated on the model over seven sessions. Reflection. To illustrate the point, let me share a story. I volunteered to write a report on supply visibility. I thought it would be easy. I asked Greg Aimi, currently at Gartner to help.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 9, 2023

… During recessions, of course, consumers set stricter priorities and reduce their spending.”[1]. 8] David Young and Simon Beck, “ The Strategic Race to Sustainability ,” Boston Consulting Group, 12 July 2022. [9] ”[1]. This allows them to commit to these campaigns more productively and for the long-term.”

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Supply Chain Insights

APRIL 8, 2015

Aside from a short stint living in Europe, I’ve always lived in Boston, MA. As I got older, and progressed in my career, I stayed in Boston because of different reasons. Of course, you don’t have to take my word for it. There’s an old song lyric “ wherever I lay my hat that’s my home” (…attribution to Marvin Gaye).

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I live in the Greater Boston area. This provides me with the valuable convenience of visiting with the innovative warehouse robotics companies in this metropolitan area – a large number of companies I called the Greater Boston Robotics Cluster. An Interview with Warehouse Robotics Veteran, Jon Schechter. Jon Schechter.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 15, 2020

I gave thanks when the Patriots jet—championed by Mass General and Robert Kraft (owner of the Patriots)—landed in Boston with a million masks. Just as data and science are the best course to improve public health, they are also the best prescription to drive supply chain effectiveness in these uncertain times. These are my thoughts.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As explained by the Boston Consulting Group , supply chain leaders should gather all stakeholders from an organization. Automated notifications via TMS or other connected platforms when an error occurs can also help to reduce inconsistencies or errors throughout the course of work. Bluetooth-connected sensors. Hand-held scanners.

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Janeiro Digital

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Republished with permission by Boston Speaks Up, a multi-platform storytelling series from Fabric Media documenting the civic leaders, entrepreneurs, creators, innovators and artists with connections to Boston. To hear the full podcast from Boston Speaks Up , please go here. Where did you grow up? .

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American Global Logistics

AUGUST 1, 2023

Port business has also increased at the ports of Boston and Mobile, Alabama. The ocean shipping industry can chart a course toward a prosperous future. Ocean Shipping: Trends and Innovations in Global Trade Looking toward the future, several trends and innovations have emerged to shape the ocean shipping industry in 2023.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 2, 2018

We spent the last week exploring each category's top 10 most viewed posts over the course of 2017. Depending on the industry and size of the company, a business can spend more than 40% of its annual freight budget on inbound shipping, according to the Aberdeen Group, a research firm in Boston. Share This: Read More. [e-Book]

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 17, 2013

My wife’s cousin Mike ran the Boston Marathon on Monday. After months of training and fundraising for cancer research, Mike made it to the 25th mile before the police stopped him and everybody else still on the course from going any further. Life Stories Boston Marathon creative writing death short stories terrorist attack'

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2013

They were born from well-intentioned, bright professors from great schools – Boston College, Carnegie Mellon, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT )– in operations research. Over the course of the decade, the inventory optimization market stalled. I should have followed my intuition. Results stagnated.

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SupplyPike

JUNE 24, 2020

This method analyzes the surrounding area and determines the course to be taken, as per the data. A joint study done by Boston Consulting Group and Google found that “CPG companies can generate more than 10% revenue growth through more predictive demand forecasting.” Google’s self-driven car is an example of prescriptive analytics.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 17, 2020

Patrick’s Day parade was actually held in Boston in 1737, not in Dublin. ” Of course, it carried with it a certain tone of derision, as if to say, only by sheer luck, as opposed to brains, could these fools succeed.’ In fact, it might surprise you to know that the first St.

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The stakes were high because besides winning the title of Global Challenge Champion 2013 the prize for the winning team was a one week executive supply chain course at the prestigious institute MIT in Boston. Weighted ROI. United States of America. MIT Scalers. Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte. Fuji Xerox.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 25, 2019

Of course, to extract value using analytics you need the right data for the right model. 4] He explains, “Twenty years ago, Boston Consulting Group’s Harold Sirkin warned that competition is no longer ‘company versus company but supply chain versus supply chain,’ signaling a new era of supply chain relevance.

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Elementum

JUNE 6, 2016

In addition, per the Boston Consulting Group, manufacturing in Mexico is about 4 percent cheaper now than in China — compared to being 6 percent more expensive over a decade ago. Mexico has its share of challenges, of course. Looking Deeper. These advantages give the country an edge over, say, China and Brazil.

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Janeiro Digital

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Fixing the Web is a bold aim for any venture, after three decades of citizens handing their personal data to corporations, and getting little in return except tracking and advertising – plus permission to use a cloud platform, of course. Isn’t it now far too late to change our online behaviours?

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Wendy Woods, a Managing Director and Senior Partner at Boston Consulting Group, insists, “The only way we’re going to make substantial progress on the challenging problems of our time is for business to drive the solutions.”[6]. And then of course in a downturn, it’s one of the first programs to be cut.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 5, 2023

What role do you believe KIVA played in Boston becoming the robotics hub that it is today? MARK: Kiva was absolutely fundamental to the germination of the robotics community in Boston. In warehousing, there are major paradigm shifts yet to come.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 1, 2019

Analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) explain the first three revolutions were driven by steam, electricity, and automation. Industry 4.0 is the popular name given to the fourth industrial revolution ushered in by the digital age. ”[1] The fourth revolution is being driven by data.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 26, 2022

”[4] Of course, we all have. According to Boston Consulting Group (BCG) analysts, it does. BCG analysts conclude, “The factors influencing digital marketing maturity will evolve with time, of course, as new technologies disrupt the market and as competitors further develop their capabilities. ” Footnotes. [1]

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 19, 2015

And of course, Uber’s $40 billion valuation is based partly (perhaps largely) on the bet that the company will “upend the delivery business much as it has for taxis,” as the Wall Street Journal put it. Finally, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and C.H.

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Requis

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Along with your 11 courses on LinkedIn Learning, you’ve got a new edition of your book coming out. How do you incorporate that into things like your LinkedIn Learning courses ? As I was working at Caterpillar, I was asked to help them structure the program, and then I was invited to teach the introductory course.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Boston Consulting Group estimates that this year — and for the foreseeable future — a full 60% of stock will be sold via markdown. Of course, most businesses can’t afford not to offer markdowns, especially in the face of inventory surpluses created during lockdowns. Habits and history can’t be trusted as much as we think they can.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Of course, stated expectations mean little given the speed at which technologies are emerging, maturing, and being superseded, so the report doesn’t exactly hint at a meteoric rise in blockchain adoption. This is the debut presentation of what I think will be a nightmare-inducing robot” — Marc Raibert, CEO, Boston Dynamics.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 9, 2020

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) analysts remind us that the push for upskilling or reskilling the workforce preceded the pandemic. Online learning platforms like Coursera, Udacity, and EdX, for example, saw major spikes in course enrollment in March and April, much of it driven by workers at the direction of their employers.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2023

What role do you believe KIVA played in Boston becoming the robotics hub that it is today? MARK: Kiva was absolutely fundamental to the germination of the robotics community in Boston. In warehousing, there are major paradigm shifts yet to come.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 21, 2022

The latest “Age” is the Digital Age and analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) note, “The pandemic has put the power of digital on full display.”[1] ”[7] Of course, even extensive use of AI and ML can’t guarantee success. ” It ended because people created better technology. ”[8].

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DAT Solutions

MARCH 7, 2018

We had a turnaround in van trends last week, reversing course from the declines we’ve been seeing since mid-January. Philadelphia to Boston rates also rose 18¢ to $3.83/mile. There was a rare spike on the lane from Boston to Allentown, PA , which was up 15¢ last week at $2.33/mile.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 28, 2022

Ortiz was a larger-than-life figure in the Boston sports scene for 14 years, with more memorable moments than anyone other baseball player I can think of. He changed the course of the 2013 playoffs with his game-tying grand slam against the Tigers that sent Tori Hunter tumbling over the right field wall and into the Red Sox bullpen.

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DAT Solutions

MARCH 28, 2017

There were also only a couple big drops in rates: Philadelphia to Boston was down 12¢ to $3.14/mile. You have to look back over the course of the past month to find much movement with reefer trends, because last week was fairly stagnant. See if you can spot the theme: Elizabeth, NJ, to Boston fell 46¢ to $3.66/mile,

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 30, 2024

Researchers measured productivity of more than 5,000 customer support agents, based primarily in the Philippines, at a Fortune 500 enterprise software firm over the course of a year. The study monitored the impact of giving GPT-4, OpenAI’s latest and most advanced offering, to employees at Boston Consulting Group.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 25, 2021

3] There are, of course, all types of robots. Two of the most prominent examples of humanoid robots are Hanson Robotics’ Sophia (see the video below) and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas.” ”[2]. The world is filled with nearly three million robots, most of them (2.7 The staff at Built In places robots in five categories.[4].

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The goal of any war gaming exercise is to generate the best options from which to choose a course of action (i.e., Boston Consulting Group (BCG) analysts Luc de Brabandere and Alan Iny assert, “The ‘what if?’ In the military, scenario-based planning is generally referred to as war gaming. to develop decision superiority).

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 22, 2022

”[4] Now, of course, is the time to act. … Boston and New York would see seas rise by nearly a foot by 2050, while near San Francisco and San Diego the expected change is about 0.8 Unfortunately, too many politicians, business leaders, and private citizens don’t feel the urgency to act. feet, compared with 2020.

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Arena Solutions

AUGUST 17, 2023

Bottom (Left to Right): Mike Albert, Sichen Zhang, Sakshi Shah This year Arena, a PTC Business was delighted to host 12 bright and talented students at its offices in Boston, San Mateo, Suzhou, and Barcelona for the PTC Summer Internship Program. Atharva: An internship is the natural course for most students in my field.

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