Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 5, 2021
Founded in Berkeley, California in 1966, Peet’s Coffee touts itself as the original craft coffee. All their coffee is produced in small batches and roasted at their own LEED Gold certified roasting plant in Almeda California. These DSD warehouses in turn receive less-than-truckload size shipments on at least a weekly basis.
Stord
MARCH 3, 2019
The new facility will open in California this summer , and will combine less than truckload shipments from small suppliers into full truckloads for distribution centers and stores. Ships are increasingly using electrical power at the Port of Oakland and reducing diesel emissions.
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Operations and Supply Chain Management
JUNE 5, 2023
Dockworkers Throttle Ports; Shedding Warehouse Space; China Plus Many By Paul Page International operations at the Port of Oakland, shown in March, were effectively shut down on Friday. PHOTO: JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES A new wave of job actions is casting uncertainty over imports at U.S. West Coast ports.
DAT Solutions
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
October is a critical month for retail freight in advance of the Christmas season, and retailers want to prevent stock-outs while they wait for Asian imports to clear through congested docks and warehouses on the West Coast. The load-to-truck ratio in Los Angeles lit up the entire state of California on the DAT Hot States map.
Logistics Viewpoints
DECEMBER 8, 2022
The need to know where products are, whether they are on the way to the warehouse, store, or customer, when there are delays, and alerts for these delays, is critical to ensure a positive experience. The rise of visibility solutions at the container level is helping to drive the transportation execution market to new heights. Infor Nexus.
Stord
DECEMBER 1, 2022
To date, our volume has concentrated around ports and major cities with our top volume in cities like Oakland, California. Learn more about our warehousing and distribution network by speaking with our team or reading more about us. These hubs will serve to compliment our already existing nationwide network of facilities.
Supply Chain Collaborator
MARCH 12, 2015
Case in point, the Wall Street Journal reports that these three giants (among others) have reshaped their logistics plans to avoid US West Coast-bound ocean routes (and the subsequent OTR and rail routes) due to recent labor-dispute-driven disruptions at ports in Long Beach and Oakland.
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