Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2022

Once a customer places an order, the item is fulfilled from the store, packaged, loaded into the drone and delivered right to their yard using a cable that gently lowers the package. The US Department of Transportation reported that transborder freight between the U.S. billion, up 23.8% compared to March 2021.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) Mobilizes For California Fires. California Fires: How Can Logistics Professionals Help? ALAN is now seeking support in response to the California fires. Tide in a Box: E-Commerce a Catalyst for Smarter Packaging.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 20, 2022

In this situation, an autonomous vehicle brings a package to a customer’s house, whereupon the customer enters a code and retrieves the package from a cargo hold. Nuro has partnered with Dominos, Kroger, Walmart, Chipotle, FedEx, and 7-Eleven and has been piloting its technology in Texas, Arizona, and California.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Coke announces industry-leading target for reusable packaging. California seeks to ease port congestion by leasing six container storage sites. Design: make all primary consumer packaging recyclable by 2025 and use 50 percent recycled material in our packaging by 2030.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 13, 2021

Robinson experts provided in-depth analysis of current supply and demand trends, our updated forecast, and the impact of global import volumes on North American freight transportation. Updating and professionalizing benefits packages. Watch the webinar recording for more freight transportation market answers.

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 24, 2023

Faced with economic uncertainties, transportation industry leaders are focused on building supply chain resiliency. No matter which way you look at it, 2023 is off to a challenging start for much of the transportation industry. The surcharges primarily target packages that require additional handling, as well as large packages.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

I read earlier this week that pressure on the supply of critical materials will continue to mount as road transport electrification expands to meet net-zero ambitions. per package during the first surcharge cycle. per package, will begin October 3 and run until Jan. The first cycle of surcharges ends October 2. 15, FedEx said.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2023

For routes previously served by sedans, SUVs and minivans can deliver more than double the number of packages while the company’s “high-capacity vans” are able to service nearly five times as many packages, Mulligan said. Target has been testing high-capacity van routes at Dallas and Minneapolis sortation centers.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 27, 2019

In practice, however, relatively few companies are using optimization technology, particularly in transportation. What factors are shifting transportation optimization from a “nice to have” to a “must have” capability? Why is transportation optimization key today? Cost and complexity. It’s not a problem anymore. “As

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Intelligent Audit

JULY 7, 2022

Within the 48 continental states, California has often been in a class of its own. On June 30, 2022, CA AB-5 On June 30, 2022, the California bill, known as AB-5, went into effect. According to the Department of Industrial Relations , the current state of California hourly salary, effective January 1, 2022, is $14.00

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Zipline Logistics

APRIL 4, 2023

Freight Market California’s AB5 AB5 has the potential to destabilize the trucking market in California, which can create a variety of issues for shippers moving freight in and out of the state. Capacity could suffer a blow if a significant number of truckers decide to leave California.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Ryder Announces Acquisition of Contract Packaging Provider IFS Ryder System announced a definitive agreement to acquire Impact Fulfillment Systems (IFS), a contract packaging production and warehouse services provider primarily catering to consumer product goods and healthcare companies.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Maintaining frozen foods or fresh products within a precise temperature range during storage and transportation is very difficult, however. Inefficient transport monitoring is one of the main reasons for delays and waste, especially when it comes to perishables, and this is unfortunately deficient for many businesses.

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Logility

JANUARY 26, 2021

The idea was to package our learning with a structure that you can leverage and adapt. Transportation is one thing, but what about storage? Consider what storage in California while wildfires are raging will be like. It’s 12 steps, and in the first two posts I covered steps 1 through 6: Assessment. Justification.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 7, 2016

miles I will ride next Saturday with my Logistics Leaders for Type 1 Diabetes Cure teammates at the JDRF Death Valley Ride in California. Hanjin containers clog Southern California ports (American Shipper). Finally, yet another study was published analyzing different mechanisms to fund highway transportation projects.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 13, 2016

California Shippers Face Trucking Surcharge (WSJ – sub. March 2016 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). On Wednesday Hyperloop One (one of several companies, including Hyperloop Transportation Technologies , focused on bringing this idea to life) conducted a test of its propulsion system in North Las Vegas.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2023

The “ holy grail ” in these efforts is automation that can replicate the dexterity and adaptability of warehouse workers for truck unloading, package sorting and material movements. In February, the retailer announced plans to close technology hubs located in Austin, Texas , Carlsbad, California and Portland, Oregon.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 15, 2017

FedEx, UPS Want to Steer Santa’s Packages to the Local Drugstore (Bloomberg). California looks at dumping gas tax for per-mile fee as cars use less fuel (Sacramento Bee). Supervalu expands Instacart program to all of its retail stores (StarTribune). Online Shopping: Disrupting Retail, and Drivers’ Lives (New York Times).

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 16, 2016

Let’s Celebrate: The Western Growers Transportation Program Turns 10.Transportfolio. Transportation is (and always has been) a fundamental issue for fresh produce. In fact, a handful of growers in the Imperial Valley located in southern California founded Western Growers because of a transportation issue. Transportfolio.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 21, 2017

MacroPoint Announces Platform Integration with JDA Transportation Management Solution. UPS Installs Beacons On Package Cars To Improve Loading Accuracy. Apple Gets Permit to Test Self-Driving Cars in California (New York Times). Airbus and Singpost testing last-mile drone package delivery (Straits Times).

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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 ). This rush of shipments has filled the nearby warehouse market, slowed transportation speeds, and driven up other supply chain costs.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 23, 2017

transportation assets) to the equation. Regarding the peak surcharge UPS announced this week, check out my post from yesterday: Free Shipping is Costing More (As Small Packages Flood Delivery Networks). Brick-and-Mortar; it’s been about who can best leverage the two to unlock new efficiencies, business models, and services.

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USC Consulting Group

AUGUST 11, 2020

“During the COVID-19 outbreak, corrugated packaging materials are essential for the transport of food, medicines, and medical equipment,” the authors wrote. “In addition, the self-quarantine may accelerate the growth of online shopping in this emergency period.” ” How Charmin rose to the occasion.

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Freight Plus

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

We dedicate quite a bit of commentary to the impacts of the Hurricane on the transportation markets in this month’s issue so please be sure to check that out. The residual impacts of the hurricane will be felt for weeks across all modes of transportation as well as the fuel markets.

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QAD

MARCH 30, 2023

There are two types of RFID tags commonly used in logistics and transportation: Passive RFID tags utilize the power in radio waves emitted by fixed or portable readers to rebroadcast their unique identification. They don’t have an internal power source, so range and data storage is sacrificed to gain cost efficiency and lifespan.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 4, 2015

First, as reported by CNBC last Wednesday, a Lowe’s Orchard Supply Hardware store in Mountain View, California introduced “3-D printing and scanning services that let shoppers customize their home accents and fixtures.” In the meantime, as I prepared for this session, I came across a couple of news items that caught my attention.

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ShipBob

MARCH 30, 2020

With so many millions of packages shipped across the country on any given day, it’s vital that systems are in place to keep them on track and make sure they’re delivered to the right place on time. The differences include packaging requirements, warehousing needs, and ultimate shipping destinations and customer types.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In logistics, last mile delivery is defined as being the movement of goods from a transportation hub to the final delivery destination. ”[3] He continues, “Simply not delivering a package on time will dramatically increase the rate of returns, and poor last mile in e-commerce delivery can contribute to increasing logistics costs.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 20, 2018

Podcast Summary: In this podcast, Joe interviews Troy Goode, Co-Founder and CTO of Lanetix, about increasing transportation and logistics sales for companies using customer relationship management (CRM). Lanetix catering only to the transportation and logistics industry. 21:35 – Other California tech companies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2023

DoorDash can now return your packages for you. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos boldly declared nine years ago that in just a few years, last mile drones would be delivering packages across the country to customer’s front doors. Or, you can type “package” into your search bar. And with that, let’s get to the news.

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Intelligent Audit

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

for First Class Package Service (applies to parcels weighing less than 1 pound) 6.6% The MK30 drone, set to come into service in 2024, is lighter and smaller than its predecessor, the MK27-2, which will begin operating later this year in Lockeford, California, and College Station, Texas. Roughly 2.5%

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

However, transportation management experts caution logistics providers not to get too excited. As the logistics industry reexamines capacity challenges ahead of the 2022 holiday shipping season, SupplyChainDive gathered a group of transportation experts to discuss how shippers should prepare for a potentially tough peak season.

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AIMMS

JULY 10, 2018

In the summer months, they also run around 500 flights to transport children to summer camps like Camp Kindle (a camp for kids affected by HIV/AIDS), Champ Camp (a camp for burn survivors) and The Painted Turtle (a camp for children with serious medical conditions), among others. I picked her up for transport to the Bay Area.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

UPS to Rollout Fleet of Electric Vehicles in California. Another of my predictions was the continued adoption of alternative fuel vehicles, and this week UPS announced the deployment of 100 fully electric commercial vehicles in California. FedEx Introduces Enhancements to Deep Frozen Shipping. million, up 18.2 percent from 2011.

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Ware2Go

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The global supply chain was not prepared for the abrupt switch in transportation and fulfillment needs or the staggering increase in consumer demand. Between increased final mile carrier vehicles on the road and container ships idling off the coast of California, shipping emissions rose nearly 5% during 2021. Fast Shipping in 2022.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It also launched four “sortation centers” which build on the chain’s “stores-as-fulfillment-hub” model to sort and route packages by neighborhood, which streamlines loading and processing for carriers like FedEx and UPS. The smaller ships currently transport only a small percentage of the retailers’ goods—less than 20% in the case of Costco.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 18, 2023

The Port of Kahului is fully operational, and interisland freight and transport company Young Brothers noted in an Aug. The shipping company is currently working with government agencies, customers and partners to coordinate the transport of relief supplies. without any extra packaging. 11 release.

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