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5 Reasons Why The Use of the IIoT by Manufacturers Is Unavoidable

GlobalTranz

The Industrial Internet of Things ( IIoT ) has been a major topic among manufacturers and third-party logistics providers ( 3PLs ) for several years. However, the IIoT is beginning to encroach on all aspect of manufacturing and supply chain management for its wide-ranging deployment and application to improving processes. In the U.S.,

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REPOST: The True Cost of OTIF Failure with Andrew Lynch

The Logistics of Logistics

Zipline Logistics , founded in 2007, is a digitally enabled transportation partner specializing exclusively in serving the food, beverage, and consumer product manufacturers. The 3PL’s capacity procurement team utilizes a proprietary qualification process to identify and contract the highest quality providers to operate within its network.

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The True Cost of OTIF Failure with Andrew Lynch

The Logistics of Logistics

Zipline Logistics , founded in 2007, is a digitally enabled transportation partner specializing exclusively in serving the food, beverage, and consumer product manufacturers. The 3PL’s capacity procurement team utilizes a proprietary qualification process to identify and contract the highest quality providers to operate within its network.

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Jason Miller Blog 2: Will Intel’s investments make a dent in our dependence on foreign semiconductors?

NC State SCRC

A great deal of hoopla is being made of Intel’s investments in its new $20 billion semiconductor chip plant near Columbus, Ohio, which Intel claims could expand into a $100 billion complex with eight fabrication plants. The first piece of data is the overall level of capacity utilization for semiconductor production in the United States.

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What’s the deal with the semiconductor shortage?

NC State SCRC

The problem with capacity in chip making is that manufacturers are loath to invest in additional chip making capacity until they’re certain that there’s going to be the demand for it. And so chip manufacturers can only invest in capacity in large chunks – e.g. an entire facilities.

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America Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos

Operations and Supply Chain Management

February 17, 2022, 12:01 AM EST. On the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, where the remains of a 200-year-old canal built to connect Cleveland with Cincinnati snake around new warehouse parks, a modern tributary of the global economy widens a little more with each planeload of goods that roars down its runways. Photographer: Ryan Dickinson/U.S.

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Contracts, Cancellations, and Closures: Persistent Trends Leave a Pre-Peak Season Logistics Industry on Edge

Intelligent Audit

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. port capacity is close to maxing out, potentially forcing ports to invest in costly construction projects.