HICX Solutions

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Peter is a former Senior Strategic Procurement Manager at Air Canada , who, after more than 25 years at the organization, has a wealth of experience in areas including strategic sourcing, category management and supplier management. A case for innovation and improving supplier relationships.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

From January 28 to February 4, a Chinese-operated high-altitude balloon was seen in North American airspace, including Alaska, western Canada, and the contiguous United States. A big story earlier this month was the reported Chinese spy balloon. On February 4, the U.S. Air Force shot down the balloon over U.S.

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RELEX Solutions

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The real opportunity for retailers of all sizes is to grow by leading innovation and causing disruption. The real opportunity for retailers of all sizes is to grow by leading innovation and causing disruption. Agile adaptation is a defensive strategy, but agile innovation is aggressive. How agile must retailers be?

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PINC

OCTOBER 29, 2019

If you happen to be in the Toronto area or are planning to attend the Distribution Logistics Summit in the first week of November in Toronto, Canada, I would like to invite you to attend the panel titled The Bionic Supply Chain. For companies that aren’t already using autonomous robots, for example, launching a strategy can be intimidating.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Conferences are a great example of peer-to-peer learning in action, but with so many supply chain and logistics conferences available, how do you decide which ones to attend? Highlights from 3Gtms Innovate 2018 User Conference. Nulogy : xChange 2019 , TBA (2018: May 6-8, Toronto, Ontario, Canada).

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Freightos

APRIL 16, 2015

We’ve rounded up the top 20 logistics technology innovations changing the way over $18 trillion dollars of goods are shipped annually. Here we go: Technology Innovations in Logistics. Freight Marketplaces : Cargomatic is a prime example of the rebirth of freight marketplaces. One example? ZDnet , @talk19 ].

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

To reach this goal, policymakers and industry leaders seek assistance from technological innovations, including big data, IoT, analytics, and cloud computing.”[3] As an example, sensors are now able to detect the location of a bale of hay in a field, as well as the amount of moisture it contains. ”[1]. Footnotes. [1]

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 25, 2016

Last May, for example, Pitney Bowes acquired Borderfree for $381 million. freight by value with North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners Canada and Mexico in January 2016 than in January 2015,” according to U.S. percent of the value of the freight to and from Canada but the total was down 4.0 Trucks carried 60.5

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Unleashed

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For example, changes to consumer behaviour show that people are thinking more and more about their immune system, and how their eating habits can impact it. Larger inventories, for examples, could lead to a greater risk of shrinkage. Changing habits: Healthy food, healthy body.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 7, 2021

and Canada several times over the last decade or so. For example, suppose a manufacturer has a high-value product mix with a very low tolerance for damage during transit. Benefits of Logistics Outsourcing. Improved flexibility and scalability. through delivery delays), etc.

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USC Consulting Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Few innovations have so saturated modern society quite as much as digital has. Perhaps the best example of all is in the consumer products space. For example, in 2018, directors, front office executives spent a combined $1.3 A classic example is in the manufacturing space.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Other industries that don’t ship physical goods (for example Financial Services or Insurance) have adopted sophisticated Strategic Sourcing methodology for their Procurement. According to the Canadian Women’s Foundation , women in Canada hold only 25% of Vice-President positions across all industries, and a paltry 10% of CEO positions.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 7, 2013

Robinson also discussed in a recent Talking Logistics episode, “ Why Supply Chain Innovation Matters in a Fast-Changing World ”). For example, a concept Tony’s written about is managing in NOW mode , which he defines simply as “If it’s happening now, you deal with it now.” Tony speaks from experience.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

That said, implementing Lean concepts would undoubtedly be part of that strategy, for example, - Lean Warehousing : Many firms (both retailers and manufacturers) are now aggressively rolling out Lean in their warehouse operations. This will make the supplier sluggish to respond to changes and slow moving on innovation. What can you do?

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 14, 2017

Here are two examples that I experienced last week, courtesy of Amazon and AAA. Earlier this year, for example, the Wall Street Journal published an article highlighting how IKEA is designing its packaging with shipping in mind , which for one product alone is translating into almost 7,500 trucks being removed from the road annually.

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QAD

JULY 15, 2021

adopted similar regulations prior to COVID-19 around unique device identification (UDI), and many other countries are now accelerating deadlines, including China, India, Canada, Brazil and others with the ultimate goal of improving patient safety.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 24, 2022

CaliBaja region fosters the means to ensure North America supply chain continues to be competitive in the global market, becoming a hub for innovation on how to manage a supply chain when it comes to competing worldwide”, said Dr. Sanchez. Big data can also help anticipate supply chain threats.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 13, 2016

We have discussed how manufacturers are changing the landscape through surprising, innovative trends. Then at the bottom, you can take a look at a fantastic logistics industry trends infographic from our logistics friends in Canada, Morai Logistics. Logistics Entities Move Towards Sustainability.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

China, Canada, Spain and elsewhere. Several Hanjin ships have been seized by creditors or barred from shipping cargo from Busan, South Korea’s main port, and vessels have been turned away from ports in the U.S., With Hanjin’s capacity on the sidelines, rates have also spiked this past week, as much as $1,300 more per container in some cases.

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USC Consulting Group

AUGUST 5, 2019

Were America’s manufacturing sector its own country, it would be in the world’s top 10 economies , ahead of Spain, Brazil, and Canada, based on estimates from the Manufacturing Institute. For example, plastics are a major environmental hazard due largely to their ubiquity. What makes manufacturing techniques advanced?

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Take a look at the retail industry, for example, which hired more than 750,000 workers between October and December to support the holiday season. We’ll see increased innovation to simplify and expedite trading partner (B2B) connectivity, with APIs and Web Services replacing EDI as the preferred approach moving forward.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 24, 2019

For example, people often think about Apple as a global brand… but not in China or India, the two biggest markets in the world! In North America, we are likely going to move towards a Canada/US/Mexico triad, and much of the labor will likely be moving to Mexico. Second, becoming more regionally focused is also good for business.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 8, 2015

For example, Kiva robots, require brand new batteries every year. The Convenience and Innovation of Light Weight Sustainable Power and Energy. This innovation cut the cost of storing electrical energy in batteries by 50 percent. Lead acid battery life is still an issue. – HP45 By Daniel Sancho. Prius by Jbleeker.

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Elementum

APRIL 26, 2018

This can undermine innovation all the way up the supply chain. For example , the company stocks dozens of types of canned chili but carries only three nationwide. In 2015, Target Canada lost over $2B before eventually closing. The rest are stocked according to local tastes. Case Study.

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Freightera

APRIL 28, 2020

The Alliance for Logistics Innovation Through Collaboration (ALICE), supported by the European Union, made the Physical Internet a key part of their freight systems. Asia has a huge opportunity for transformation and innovation. People in Canada are starting to work on PI, but very small projects so far.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 12, 2018

Cloud Logistics Announces Record Revenue, Growth and Innovation for 2017. Canada takes U.S. In other cases, where more sophisticated and expensive 3D printing capabilities are required, third-parties will manufacture the products on demand and deliver them to us (or we can pick them up at the local UPS Store, for example).

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BlueYonder

MARCH 5, 2018

For example, Grainger, the largest industrial distributor in the United States and number 3 in the world with revenue exceeding $10 billion, has seen online sales continuously become the larger contribution to the company’s total sales. Everything in logistics is accelerating though, which is a challenge providers face.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

In his examples of gameful interaction design, Dr. Nacke will talk about transforming non-game tasks into games with the goal to increase user motivation and retention. Looking toward the future is the job of JDA Labs , a global research and development team headquartered in Montreal, Canada. We do, every day.

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Elementum

APRIL 26, 2018

This can undermine innovation all the way up the supply chain. For example , the company stocks dozens of types of canned chili but carries only three nationwide. In 2015, Target Canada lost over $2B before eventually closing. The rest are stocked according to local tastes. Case Study.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

I started my career at IBM Canada in 1990 as student intern working as a Power Products Test Engineer. In 2014, I co-founded and continue to Chair the Board of ReMAP which is a $25M private/public partnership focused on accelerating the commercialization of Canadian innovations in the advanced and electronics manufacturing space.

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

On one hand, some companies innovate and leapfrog one another in an attempt to meet customers’ environmental expectations by proposing legitimate and genuinely sustainable products. With the surge of more creative and innovative green products, services and processes, greenwashing would need to be as innovative to keep pace.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 5, 2018

For example, Grainger, the largest industrial distributor in the United States and number 3 in the world with revenue exceeding $10 billion, has seen online sales continuously become the larger contribution to the company’s total sales. Everything in logistics is accelerating though, which is a challenge providers face.

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Kinaxis

JANUARY 15, 2015

Take, for example, a typical medical device maker that has a laser focus on research and development (R&D), product design, and the goal of delivering innovative products that meet and exceed the expectations of its customers.

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Shopify was founded in Canada in 2006, and since then has become Canada’s largest publicly traded company by market capitalisation – which gives you an idea of how eCommerce has flourished in recent years. Covid 19 has accelerated numerous trends and digital innovations that are likely here to stay.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 3, 2023

It goes beyond the concepts found in textbooks by providing real-world examples and useful advice. Procurement leaders who embrace innovative thinking and aim to drive organizational change will find this course particularly valuable.

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 24, 2017

This position is supported by some recent survey data that points to gaps between the customer expectation in digitalization and the ability of 3PLs to respond: only 35% of 3PL customers feel that their 3PL can support their Big Data initiatives, for example, and only 65% of 3PLs customers are satisfied with their 3PLs IT capabilities.

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Requis

MAY 22, 2020

For example, if we’re manufacturing something in China there are labour costs, the costs to ship, plus tariffs. In the post-COVID world, suppliers in the US, Mexico, and Canada will become much more integrated. For example, forced labour is at a peak, especially in the apparel sector. It’s not about nationalizing everything.

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