Enterra Insights

APRIL 27, 2021

Quick delivery, lean operations and a widely distributed footprint have been the top priorities. The varied goods in the containers illustrate the far-flung nature of modern supply chains and show how transportation problems on one side of the world can affect the production of goods and store inventories thousands of miles away.”[5]

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Zipline Logistics

JUNE 22, 2021

We are here to break down what you need to master delivery into the retailer’s various distribution centers. Since then, the grocer has expanded beyond the West Coast, opening its first stores in the Boston area in the 1990s. It also requires all suppliers to arrange delivery to one of its regional distribution centers.

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Kanban Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2022

North Carolina sits smack in the middle of the East Coast, midway between Miami and Boston, with easy access to several vital interstate highways like I-95, I-85, and I-40. This prime location enables 1-day distribution, over the road, to 70% of the US population. Central Location. in terms of favorable business costs. Port Access.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 6, 2016

It’s a story that made the headlines in The Boston Globe this week, but about 10 percent of the newspaper’s subscribers weren’t able to read about it because, well, they were the victims of this story. It is extremely difficult to do something like this without a transition period,” Boston Globe CEO Sheehan said in today’s article. “To

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 6, 2017

Shippers looking to make structural improvements within their logistics operations often immediately turn to more significant changes such as implementing new technology solutions or redesigning their distribution network in order to see the best return. Robinson in Boston where he spent almost 7 years.

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Kanban Logistics

JULY 14, 2022

Adjacent to our existing 175,000-sq-ft distribution center in Rocky Mount , NC Kanban has a pad in place for a new, as-large-or-larger facility that can be built to suit your precise needs. For example, you can: Build a combined factory/distribution center, with Kanban operating the DC. The following are a few reasons why.

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Kanban Logistics

JULY 13, 2023

Prime East Coast location: North Carolina sits in the middle of the East Coast, midway between Miami and Boston, with easy access to several vital interstate highways like I-95, I-85, and I-40. That extends to logistics as NC has lower costs for industrial space, lower labor costs, and lower transportation costs (i.e.,

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Kanban Logistics

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The terminal enables rail containers to be offloaded from freight cars arriving at the terminal and then loaded onto another train or truck for final distribution. The Connector site is halfway between Boston and Miami, located just minutes from I-95 and close to I-40 and I-85.

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IQMS

JUNE 25, 2019

By 2020, Discrete Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics and Utilities industries are projected to spend $40B each on IoT platforms, systems, and services. Combining blockchain’s distributed ledger framework with the Internet of Things’ (IoT) proven real-time monitoring and tracking capability is redefining supply chains.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2015

The critical difference is that transportation is the last step in forward logistics and the first with reverse, which can cause problems. Mr. Bentz has more than four decades in supply chain consulting, transportation and logistics, and currently leads Transplace Consulting Services.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Roadnet Transportation Suite 3.6.7 July 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Last month, when Uber announced its API, I wondered aloud if Uber would become a value-added feature of a transportation management system (TMS). Whole Foods Market and Instacart partner to offer one-hour delivery across 15 major U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2022

Founded in 2014, this Boston based robotics technology firm leverages capabilities that are described as mimicking human hand-eye coordination, leveraging machine-learning to a vision system on a gripper and allowing mechanical fingers to bend and twist around objects to perform piece-picking tasks.

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MIT Supply Chain

DECEMBER 12, 2013

These are: the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (Cambridge, USA), the Zaragoza Logistics Center (Zaragoza, Spain), the Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (Bogotá, Colombia), and the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (Shah Alam, Malaysia).

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MIT Supply Chain

AUGUST 28, 2014

The personal protective equipment (PPE) – shipped by our team of doctors and logisticians in Boston [1] – is destined for the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in Liberia, which will then distribute supplies to locations at the front lines of the health crisis such as JFK Memorial Hospital in Monrovia.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 12, 2017

With expiration at risk, any exception with suppliers, in the warehouse, customs, transportation or delivery is catastrophic to sales and company success. He has a PhD in distributed systems for integral inventory management from Eindhoven University of Technology. He was previously vice president of IT for CEVA Logistics.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 6, 2021

BOSTON, April 6, 2021 – ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software , is proud to support global humanitarian and environmental organizations including Unicef, the Ocean Cleanup, World Wildlife Fund, and Banco Farmaceutico Foundation.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 18, 2017

This past April 1st, it snowed over 6 inches here in Boston. Supply chains today, however, are much more distributed, global, dynamic, and complex — and the pace of change continues to accelerate. It was a cruel April Fools’ joke, but not as cruel as April 1, 1997 when a blizzard dumped more than 21 inches of snow here.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 20, 2016

I’m at Heathrow airport waiting to board my flight back to Boston, which is delayed by over an hour so far. You get on the M25 and before long you have a front seat view of the biggest transportation challenge facing companies in England and many other countries around the world: traffic congestion.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 17, 2015

In May, 2014 Raytheon gathered a group of its largest suppliers in Boston, MA to discuss the launch of the company’s Supplier Advisory Council. Supply chain concepts are generally understood in a linear pattern of consecutive planning in the form of plan-source-make-distribute-return/dispose. Foster partnerships based on trust.

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Freight Plus

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

“Instead of having conversations about what the detention rates are going to be, I’d rather focus on not having detention at all,” Rob Roberson, director of logistics at steelmaker Nucor, said at the JOC Inland Distribution Conference. We’ve used our transportation management system to make load times a critical metric for us.”.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

BOSTON and MILAN (Sept. Sarah Voorhees has spent the last 12 years of her career in supply chain leadership roles, where she’s reimagined demand and supply planning and inventory management practices at consumer goods and distribution companies. In 2020, RAJA experienced exceptional demand increases of up to 45%.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Shippers should pay attention to this study by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and C.H. The investment and routing decisions of rail and truck carriers, and the location of distribution centers, are likely to change, based on trade-offs that shippers make between the cost and speed of transportation.

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Kanban Logistics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Written procedures must describe the distribution process for each drug. It also enables the 3PL to perform inventory management protocols like FIFO (first in first out; the oldest lots of items will be distributed first) and FEFO (first expired first out; the products closest to their expiration dates will be distributed first).

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ShipBob

MARCH 23, 2020

They will deliver free, fresh salads and bowls to hospitals in the cities they serve: DC Area, Philadelphia, Boston, NYC, SF, LA, Chicago, and Houston. Countless alcohol, beer, and spirit producers are using their facilities to create hand sanitizers that they are distributing to those in need. Submit your hospital here.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Some have used corporate jets or leased aircraft to transport fuel and other resources to secondary airports in the San Juan area, while others have used helicopters to ferry supplies from airports to their facilities because of demolished roads, Student said. Boston Scientific Inc., Companies ranging from Eli Lilly & Co.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

All of the information about a product, its sub-assemblies, components, and its distribution path to market can all be traced transparently through blockchain. Boston: Springer), pp.413–422. Dr. Nicolas Hubbard is Director of Programmes in the Faculty of Transport and Logistics at Muscat University. In addition to Industry 4.0,

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Kanban Logistics

MARCH 26, 2020

In this article, we’ll examine the business and logistics characteristics of the state and explore the advantages your operation can enjoy by locating your distribution centers in North Carolina. Advantages of distribution centers in North Carolina. Quicker transportation times result in lower freight costs.

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MIT Supply Chain

JANUARY 15, 2015

The Lab is part of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics. The other members of the consortium are the University of Massachusetts Medical School, which leads the current initiative, the Boston Children’s Hospital, Avenir Analytics, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. million grant from Paul G.

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Freight Plus

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We’re not fine, we’re not good,” said Walter Kemmsies, economist at JLL, “Even if a US-China agreement leads to more US exports, the US lacks transportation infrastructure needed to a support a more export oriented economy,”. Trade was a big concern among attendees as a poll showed 75% held it as their main worry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 3, 2022

A growing number of consumers are asking the brands they buy from to invest in sustainability throughout the supply chain, from the materials they use to make products, to the transportation options they use to deliver products. She lives in the Boston area. So, what set sustainability leaders apart from the rest of the pack?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2023

Two months ago, I assumed this was going to be championship week for the city of Boston. Instead of two championship parades, Boston fans could only sit back and watch two franchises win their first ever championships. The Bruins were coming off a historic season with an NHL all-time best 65 wins and 135 points.

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Locus

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Transportation activities (aviation, rail, shipping, heavy and light trucking) are responsible for approximately 17% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. – Boston Consulting Group, Climate Action Pays Off in Transportation and Logistics, July 2020. Omnichannel fulfillment: The new reality .

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MARCH 22, 2016

While their analysis might show that it makes sense to open or expand East Coast distribution centers, that decision will require partnering with a new or expanded set of ocean and land carriers and logistics service providers. For their part, carriers must evaluate investments, pricing, routing, and customer development.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Introduction: Procurement Planning for Distribution-Intensive Businesses Procurement planning is not a widely recognized category of supply chain software, but it should be. However, suppose you are in one of the distribution-intensive industries described above.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 6, 2023

In addition to those who grow, raise, and produce our food, individuals and organizations involved in how that food is stored, processed, packaged, transported, and sold must also be involved. Analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BSG) ask, “What might the global food system look like in 5, 10, or 15 years?”[7]

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Just like oil, data is not evenly distributed among geographies and owners. Similar to big oil, data ownership is distributed asymmetrically across the supply chain. The Boston Consulting Group discusses data sharing arrangements for sustainable development and other societal challenges.

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Kanban Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2021

Prime East Coast location: North Carolina sits smack in the middle of the East Coast, midway between Miami and Boston, with easy access to several vital interstate highways like I-95, I-85, and I-40. That extends to logistics as NC has lower costs for industrial space, lower labor costs, and lower transportation costs (i.e.,

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