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. So, what set sustainability leaders apart from the rest of the pack? Rethink Partnerships.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2021

In April of 2005, just a month after completing my first half marathon (and vowing I would never run a full marathon in my life), I went to the finish line at the Boston Marathon and saw Team Hoyt for the first time. Team Hoyt became a fixture at the Boston Marathon, completing the race 32 times, while running another 40 marathons as well.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 6, 2017

Make it a part of your larger transportation strategy and achieve a meaningful and sustainable ROI with creative, tailored and comprehensive capacity solutions. Here are some key questions for shippers to consider when it comes to their freight solutions: Are you using the right mode for every order you ship, regardless of freight flow type?

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 23, 2021

Maybe it’s shipped in multiple boxes or sold in a plastic container that isn’t recyclable. ” The Sustainable Packaging Imperative. So, they end up shipping these materials overseas or sending these materials to landfill.” million to make toothpaste tubes less frustrating ,” Boston Globe, 29 April 2021. [10]

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 11, 2021

MIT spin-off ISEE brings autonomous trucks to shipping yards. Late last Friday, the US Air Force launched a new rocket cargo program with the Space Force to study the use of commercial spacecraft to ship supplies around the world, and they may look to NASA’s lunar lander program for ideas. US trade deficit dips to $68.9

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Locus

DECEMBER 22, 2021

With last-mile delivery costs contributing to more than 50% of total shipping costs, the rising expectations in home delivery increases the risk of encountering inefficiencies. Sustainability and green logistics . – Boston Consulting Group, Climate Action Pays Off in Transportation and Logistics, July 2020.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2015

It is easy to understand why strategy is often set aside to meet immediate needs of getting product shipped out the door. Large and mid-size shippers typically have procurement personnel but may lack coordination across shipping locations. Keep in touch with market realities.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

It was a cold, crisp winter in Boston. During that winter, I was staying at the Westin in Boston and working remotely. This can only be sustained for one-to-two quarters before companies have to admit to themselves that they are facing a market downturn. My feet slipped and slid on the ice on the sidewalks.

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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. And of course, there was his famous speech following the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, where he declared “this is our f—— city and nobody is going to dictate our freedom.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Look at the gyrations of Boston Scientific and Eli Lilly for the same period of time. Hospitals lack a basic understanding of supply chain management and the legacy defintion of the sales relationship to the physician is a barrier to driving sustainable value. Pyrex bowls they had shipped without packing materials broke in transit.

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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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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Focussing on lowering logistics costs by coordinating time charters or invest in joint shipping lines to capture ship-owner returns. Only 17% of global chemical companies are “digital champions” (Boston Consulting Group) – also confirmed by GPCA on status of GCC chemical industry.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 25, 2022

For instance, there’s more likely to be a steady demand for flip flops in Santa Monica year-round than in Boston (unless you’re one of those New Englanders that just doesn’t care). Maybe they’ve waited too long to buy that gift, and the deciding factor is now fast shipping or a dependable BOPIS (buy online, pick up in-store) experience.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 22, 2019

They write, “Manufacturing matters to the United States because it provides high-wage jobs, commercial innovation (the nation’s largest source), a key to trade deficit reduction, and a disproportionately large contribution to environmental sustainability.”[1] And these sensors are producing data at an unprecedented rate.”

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Requis

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It’s the same stuff I learned in Boston, and of course they’ve updated it because MIT’s great at being in front of what’s happening, and supply chain management has changed. We’re almost out of time but I have so many more questions – we haven’t touched on circularity or sustainability or new technologies like blockchain or cryptocurrencies.

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Maintaining a manual labor workforce when it makes no economic sense to do so is not sustainable. “Warehouse robots are becoming more prevalent as service level demands get tighter… ” …and increase to meet these service levels, like same day shipping. Or can they pick individual items, package and ship?

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FLEXE

JULY 18, 2018

Fast, free shipping? We can find the products we need in an instant, and if we’re dissatisfied with price, product availability, or shipping costs and times, we can quickly find another vendor that meets our needs. You wouldn’t use the same materials to ship all of your goods, would you? That isn’t hyperbole, just fact.

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FLEXE

JULY 18, 2018

Fast, free shipping? We can find the products we need in an instant, and if we’re dissatisfied with price, product availability, or shipping costs and times, we can quickly find another vendor that meets our needs. You wouldn’t use the same materials to ship all of your goods, would you? That isn’t hyperbole, just fact.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 22, 2024

It easily surpassed the previous record holder, Boston Dynamics’ Atlas, which lagged behind at a steady 5.59 Over that period, many ships have been forced to take longer, more costly routes, all while the ongoing crisis in the Red Sea has complicated a crucial alternative to the Panama Canal. m/s, equivalent to about 7.4

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6 River Systems

JUNE 29, 2020

And this is where supply chain professionals, along with sustainability professionals, the sales teams, and new-product development, now need to come together and to evaluate what the market looks like, what downstream impact is going to have on their customers and on their suppliers, and their supplier’s supplier.” ” — Thomas Y.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

For example, a certain product is ready to be shipped from the manufacturing facility. Some companies are having to retract and tighten up production and inventory levels to ride out the storm, while others are finding innovative work-arounds to get their goods shipped and imported with respect to packaging, labeling and logistics.

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