Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The deepening power crisis has already taken 900,000 tons of smelting capacity offline in North America and Europe. With more than a third of global smelters losing money, there is a risk of 1 million tons of capacity being curtailed in the near future. About 73% of the aluminum cans in the US come from recycled scrap.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The economy is picking up after the severe contraction in labor, productivity, and inventory that occurred during the height of the pandemic. Inventory, Efficiency, and the Extended Supply Chain. But the US ratio of total business inventories to sales is hovering at a 25-year low. Source: Descartes Datamyne.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Pandemic demand for goods, and the shifts from a service economy, increased volume in southern California ports where 40% of ocean carriers unload for entry into the United States. The landlocked ports of Southern California are especially problematic. The California landlocked ports struggled with unloading the larger ships.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2023

Target’s inventories at the end of the last quarter were 16 percent lower than the same period a year ago and Walmart cut inventories in its U.S. Inventories at U.S. Target has been testing high-capacity van routes at Dallas and Minneapolis sortation centers. general merchandise stores expanded 1.2

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Modesto, California-based Save Mart announced that Save Mart banner stores in Lathrop and Ceres, California now offer two-hour grocery delivery via Amazon. Plans call for Save Mart to soon launch Amazon delivery at more stores in California’s Central Valley. The transportation capacity index edged up 1.3

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2022

The availability of capacity in industries like the semiconductor industry is tight. The proliferation of products and capabilities is exponential with over 60% of capacity in Taiwan. But, even then, the relocation of capacity is not a snap of the fingers. Focus on right-sizing inventories. These are our weakest links.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 18, 2023

and European companies may last longer than expected as they try to sell off their bulging inventories in an economic climate where demand is stalling. The notice explained that California and Washington would not need to demonstrate that the FMCSA made a mistake when it determined the laws were pre-empted. 11 release.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Capacity Constraints Continue to Arise. Capacity constraints continue to come under microscope as shippers look for a better understanding to the state of the market. Top causes of capacity constraints include: . Capacity constraints within truckload and parcel have led to spillover within the LTL market.?

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DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Even if they didn’t have cargo on Hanjin ships, big retailers are starting to shift inventory from West Coast distribution centers to other DCs farther east. The load-to-truck ratio in Los Angeles lit up the entire state of California on the DAT Hot States map. area, especially on eastbound lanes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

They have implemented the demand solution, supply planning, and are working on rough cut capacity – a more advanced form of supply planning. Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) is a public cybersecurity company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Typically, supply chain planning drives significant reductions in inventory.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 28, 2022

Imports drop at Southern California ports. Walmart is investing in vertical farming company Plenty and plans to carry the start-up’s leafy greens in all California stores later this year. Some of these workers come from Mexico daily to jobs in places like Arizona and California for the production of leafy greens at this time of year.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

The availability of capacity in industries like the semiconductor industry is tight. The proliferation of products and capabilities is exponential with over 60% of capacity in Taiwan. But, even then, the relocation of capacity is not a snap of the fingers. Focus on right-sizing inventories. These are our weakest links.

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Freightos

JUNE 15, 2021

So to meet capacity, airlines started to convert passenger planes into cargo planes at scale. Ships that WERE sailing were stuck in backlogs before unloading due to COVID outbreaks at the ports and not enough capacity to handle record container volumes at the ports. A third of all cargo is carried in passenger planes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

These conversations include long term commitments to buy from the new factory to encourage the manufacturer to invest in capacity in a new region. There will be one view of inventory across the entire distributed network.”. VF is also building a new distribution center in Ontario, California. We will manage by exception only.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2022

The joint press release points out the technology’s ability to build palletized loads of department-sorted inventory and its strategic role in supporting Walmart’s goal of modernizing its vast supply chain network and allowing the company to transform its regional distribution centers to provide faster responsiveness to store orders.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Tactical has warehouses in both Chino, California, and Elizabeth, New Jersey. The sales increase pushed Amazon’s operational capacity and capability. The Inventory Performance Index , (IPI) is a score Amazon assesses to determine how well sellers are managing their inventory. Ephraim Ausch.

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Demand Solutions

JUNE 10, 2020

For Bio-Medical Devices, that push came when the company faced a critical shortage of the capacity and supply it needed to meet increased demand. For years, hospitals had emailed or faxed their orders to the company’s Irvine, California headquarters, where staff would manually enter them into a Sage software platform.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Pandemic demand for goods, and the shifts from a service economy, drove the increase in southern California ports where 40% of ocean carriers unload for entry into the United States. meters draft, and cargo capacity up to 14,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU); previously, it could only handle vessels up to about 5,000 TEU.

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Logility

MARCH 29, 2022

There were floods in Europe and China, Hurricane Ida on the Gulf Coast, and California wildfires that all played their part. This then provides new insights for faster decision-making, automated planning, and the elimination of time, inventory, and risk throughout your supply chain. Shipping costs have skyrocketed.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 6, 2024

Fisker’s Financial Performance and Subsequent Warning In conjunction with the reporting of 2023 financial performance, California based Fisker announced that the company would lay off upwards of 15 percent of its current staffing, amid cash and ongoing business and supply chain related challenges.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

However, Walmart announced earlier this week that it has started using fully driverless trucks in its online grocery business, aiming to increase capacity and reduce inefficiencies. For the most part, the autonomous trucks that are being tested have used a safety driver to take control in case of an emergency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2022

Customers in Singapore will also benefit from increased European inbound capacity. That allows them to efficiently tap long-standing carrier relationships to cover shipper demand versus being over reliant on using load boards or traditional means to buy capacity at spot market rates.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 24, 2022

Executives hinted that the company’s warehouse and logistics network, which was significantly expanded to support increased online order volumes during the years 2020 and 2021, may now be more than is needed and steps would be taken to alleviate costs of such capacity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2021

Pure Storage, a public company headquartered in Mountain View California in the US, manufactures flash-based storage for data centers. To support this level of responsiveness Pure Storage has more than 200 depots around the world that carry field service inventory. But when demand surges, they can run four shifts.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

This is simply another example of how the combination of capacity, manufacturing, and port delays impacts every aspect of our lives. Biden announces partnership with California on port upgrades. And now on to this week’s logistics news. Supply chain funding in the news. Teenage Stanford dropouts raise $60 million for grocery startup.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Earlier this week, the company announced that it grew its renewable energy capacity in 2022 by 8.3 The partnership will kick off by first sourcing Walmart’s California stores with Plenty’s leafy greens from its Compton farm. GW of energy to create a reaction in the flux capacitor to send Marty McFly back to the year 1985.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Sam’s Club rolling out inventory accessory for cleaning robots. In the final piece of robot news, Sam’s Club is rolling out an inventory accessory for its robotic cleaners. Once installed on a scrubber, the cloud-connected Inventory Scan tower can capture data as it moves autonomously around the club. percent in 2021.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2023

Growing flight capacity at CVG helps Amazon keep next-day deliveries on schedule even for coast-to-coast shipments. A California bill that would require human drivers inside robotic trucks will force Democratic lawmakers to choose between their labor allies and Silicon Valley over how to regulate the emerging autonomous vehicle industry.

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Adexa

JULY 27, 2020

Los Angeles, California – July, 2020 – Adexa, Inc., Dalsa has been using Adexa planning applications for many years to overcome their business challenges such as on-hand inventory reduction, meeting customer requested date and capacity allocation for the demand load and engineering forecasts.

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Freight Plus

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The smaller Panamax ships (~5,000 TEU capacity) will consume ~63,000 gallons of marine fuel per day when operating between 20-25 knots. As factories have struggled to ramp back up (or even open up), obviously the volume of imports to the US is down significantly-especially into California. This in itself will stretch domestic capacity.

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Freight Plus

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The smaller Panamax ships (~5,000 TEU capacity) will consume ~63,000 gallons of marine fuel per day when operating between 20-25 knots. As factories have struggled to ramp back up (or even open up), obviously the volume of imports to the US is down significantly-especially into California. This in itself will stretch domestic capacity.

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Stord

MARCH 24, 2019

The number of ocean imports fell across California ports in February , primarily due to the end of a tariff-driven shipping surge. For months, shippers had been moving inventory from China to the United States earlier than usual, trying to get ahead of a new round of tariffs scheduled to hit in March. from January to February.

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Savi

MARCH 14, 2019

Last week, the Savi Team once again attended the Trans-Pacific Maritime (TPM) conference in Long Beach, California, but this year the team detected a noticeable shift in the conversation. At its core, real-time visibility provides more precise and reliable ETAs, which make it easier to anticipate capacity needs.

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Stord

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

California warehouses are struggling to handle increased import volume ( as retailers ship inventory early to avoid added costs from looming tariffs ). For example, many shippers have accrued fines by leaving full containers at the port for too long or failing to return them promptly after moving inventory.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Supply chain planners (I’m lumping in all the silos, including demand, supply, inventory and capacity planning) today are dealing with challenges that were unimaginable when Lotus notes were the next big thing. 2014 – California wildfires (150 homes destroyed, massive power outages. Times have changed.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 27, 2019

Tactical has locations in New Jersey and California, and I’m based in New Jersey. In my experience, very few cartons get damaged because they make sure to fill the container to capacity. The factors that affect your score are excess inventory, sell through, stranded inventory, and in-stock inventory.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 5, 2022

With the new partnership, retailers will fulfill orders from inventory in their stores, and a Flex delivery driver will pick them up from the retailer. Some of the participating retailers also give shoppers the option to order items online and pick them up at the store. Apparently, warehouses are full.

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