Stord

MARCH 21, 2024

Growing national footprint helps DTC and B2B brands reach their customers rapidly and more cost-effectively ATLANTA, March 21, 2024 — Stord , a leader in high-volume fulfillment services and supply chain technology for omnichannel mid-market and enterprise brands, announced expanded warehouse capacity with a new Dallas fulfillment center.

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Supply Chain Network

DECEMBER 5, 2018

With rising customer expectations, changing business models, cut-throat competition and the influx of technologies, it’s critical that you prepare your supply chain to address challenges such as the capacity crunch, last mile strategies, balancing of costs, digital freight market opportunities and navigating the ecommerce maze.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2022

This “ecosystem” strategy helps evaluate the skilled capacity in the marketplace versus their internal capacity to ensure the right demand and supply balance based on their long-range model. Recently there was a meeting in Dallas where executives from Blue Yonder were sharing their strategies around WMS and TMS with the partners. “We

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DAT Solutions

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The load-to-truck ratio is a sensitive, real-time indicator of the balance between demand and capacity. Los Angeles to Dallas increased 14¢ to $2.51/mile. The Dallas and Houston markets continue to be extremely slow, with weak load-to-truck ratios. The load-to-truck ratio for vans increased 10% last week, to 5.2

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Kodiak delivers freight daily for its customers between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, operating autonomously on the highway portion of the route, and also provides service between Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio. Key Takeaways: The Kodiak Story.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 30, 2021

Previously, some Prime members could get Amazon Fresh orders and Whole Foods deliveries dropped off in their garage, but only if they lived in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Seattle. Increased demand for consumer goods, especially as the pandemic has lingered on, are exacerbating the capacity crunch.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

In January of 2022, Dallas-based o9 Solutions was valued at $2.7 Meanwhile decisions like how much production capacity needs to be added, or what raw materials need to be purchased, don’t change on a daily basis. A unicorn has a valuation of over $1 billion. One of the more interesting is o9 Solutions. billion after a funding round.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2022

Empty shipping containers are piling up in storage depots on the US east and west coasts, causing a glut of capacity even as they are sorely needed overseas in Asia to ship exports back to the US. The biggest issue now is the fact that shipping containers, once unloaded, cannot be moved. That’s all for this week.

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DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Outbound volumes from Houston also fell 73%, but the rearrangement of supply chains, the difficulty of shipping in the flooded region, and increased seasonal demand in other parts of the country combined to create pockets of tight capacity that put extra pressure on truckload rates. Diesel costs $2.76 RISING LANES. RISING LANES.

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Turvo

OCTOBER 7, 2021

According to Banyan CEO Brian Smith, “The partnership with Turvo will give our joint customers added flexibility in their supply chain systems to help with the ever-changing capacity constraints, optimization requirements, cost savings initiatives and process improvements required to stay competitive in today’s business climate.”.

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DAT Solutions

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Prices could still go up if there's a capacity crunch around the holidays or if winter weather disrupts supply chains. Pricing was more stable in Texas , with changes mostly slight on the high traffic lanes from Dallas and Houston. In recent years, there's been a spike in spot market rates in December.

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DAT Solutions

APRIL 11, 2018

That could have been a contributing factor to the tighter reefer truckload capacity that we saw last week, with truck posts on DAT load boards down 5% for reefers. Dallas volumes were weaker, but the average outbound rate increased 4.9%. Several lanes posted solid gains: Dallas to Houston , up 8¢ to $3.15/mile. NOT SO HOT.

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The throttle is a significant increase in capacity, especially among small and mid-sized carriers. In other periods when carriers had pricing power, capacity expanded fairly quickly to bring the marketplace back into balance. The ratio is a sensitive, real-time indicator of the balance between demand and capacity. RISING LANES.

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DAT Solutions

MARCH 18, 2019

In March so far, volumes are no better than February, and since capacity has been abundant, rates continue slipped. An abundance of capacity has caused van rates to move lower, even though freight volumes in 2019 are actually above previous years' levels. But the momentum has dissipated. Chicago to Los Angeles dropped to $1.51/mi.

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DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Load counts also continued to climb out of Dallas and Houston, as Texas works its way back to business as usual. Rates on many lanes are still higher than they were before the storm, though, with tight capacity and high demand keeping prices high. Houston to New Orleans also declined 19¢ to $2.42/mile.

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DAT Solutions

APRIL 17, 2018

Volumes rose on the top 100 van lanes, but the extra truckload capacity kept prices in check, at least for now. Dallas had the highest load counts, while Stockton, CA , had the biggest improvement in volumes. In Texas, prices adjusted to the higher volumes out of Dallas, with rates from Houston to Dallas down 16¢ to $2.54/mile.

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o9 Solutions

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

DALLAS, 04 November 2021 – o9 Solutions , a leading enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, today announced its collaboration with Vestas , a world leader in wind technology, to develop its global supply chain planning capabilities by leveraging the o9 Digital Brain platform. .

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 28, 2020

Peak produce shipping season refers to the time period when the largest volume of fruits and vegetables are harvested and subsequently shipped to markets across the US, impacting truck capacity. You may need to pay more to attract capacity. How Produce Season Transportation Affects Rates and Capacity – State by State.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 28, 2022

However, the data hasn’t previously been utilized to its full capacity until recently.”[6]. ” Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas, 17 February 2020. [4] Although new AI-driven concepts are being introduced, they aren’t new to the logistics sector. ”[6]. Concluding Thoughts.

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Turvo

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

But there are many challenges faced by 3PLs today, especially with the uncertainties created with COVID, like canceling flights, reduced global supply chain capacities, etc. Turvo is based in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Dallas, Texas, and Hyderabad, India. Request a Turvo Demo. .

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 17, 2019

That extra capacity cut the national van load-to-truck ratio nearly in half. Reefer load counts rebounded 25% last week after the New Year’s interruption, but once again there was plenty of capacity to handle the demand. That meant that trucks were out on the highways in full force following the holidays.

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Turvo

MARCH 1, 2022

As a result, there is often excessive inventory and under-utilized carrier capacity. Turvo is based in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in Dallas, Texas, and Hyderabad, India. To tackle shipment-level concerns, retailers, manufacturers, and carriers are continually at odds with one another.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 9, 2020

As I flew to Dallas, I worked on this post. In the supply chain, there are potential buffers—excess capacity in manufacturing work centers and inventory. Before boarding the plane, I watched a traveler pull a diet Coke from the bin and thought about the struggle to source sweetener with the rise of COV-19.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Here are some details from the press release: The newly acquired intermodal operations, with locations in Jacksonville, FL, Cincinnati, OH, Memphis, TN, Chicago, IL and Dallas, TX, will operate as part of Transplace’s intermodal division – Celtic Intermodal, which is led by President Doug Punzel.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 11, 2014

The contest was more than just a technical exercise; it also tested each team’s supply chain skills as they related to forecasting, inventory management, pricing, capacity planning and other real-world materials management challenges. Uncategorized capacity forecasting inventory pricing' The winning team consisted of: Matt Mulholland.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

As the compliance date for the Electronic Logging Devices (ELD) mandate approaches (December 18, 2017), there are two important questions to be answered: How will it impact capacity? Does this mean that all of this capacity will exit the market? That is, how many carriers will decide to exit the market instead of complying?

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Supply Chain Network

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Initial operations for supporting ToyHouse LLC operations nationally are already gearing up in MonarchFx’s Dallas, Texas location with first outbound shipments commencing in December 2018. ToyHouse LLC is the exclusive distributor for LEGO Systems, Inc.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 28, 2017

Many shippers are looking for locations on the north and west sides of Houston as well as other locations (such as Austin, San Antonio, Dallas) to place their shipments so they are in close proximity as relief comes in the next couple of days. Drayage and equipment within Houston will be delayed; only emergency movement recommended.

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o9 Solutions

DECEMBER 24, 2020

DALLAS, December 23, 2020 – :o9 Solutions today announced that German-based company, Pepperl+Fuchs SE, will implement :o9’s AI-powered platform globally to establish Demand, Supply, and Integrated Business Planning.

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DAT Solutions

JUNE 13, 2018

To get an idea of just how tight capacity has been, reefer truck posts on DAT load boards were down 9% last week compare to the previous week. Florida shows up as dark blue in the Hot States Map above, signaling tight capacity, but that's mostly confined to the middle and upper parts of the state. mile, but on relatively light volumes.

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DAT Solutions

JUNE 5, 2018

In years past, Roadcheck has led to tighter capacity and higher rates, with some truckers taking the week off and others losing driving time due to the inspections. This year, rates are already elevated, and capacity is already tight. Last week included Memorial Day, and truck load demand outpaced capacity.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 9, 2019

Truckload capacity remained tight during the first week of 2019, and national average rates increased 3¢ for vans, reefers and flatbeds. That pushed the load-to-truck ratio up 6%, signaling that demand outpaced truckload capacity. The lane from Nogales to Dallas surged 61¢ to $3.38/mile.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

As reported by the Wall Street Journal this week: Trucking costs are surging in the wake of Hurricane Harvey…The cost of hiring a tractor-trailer to move freight from Dallas to Houston was an average 66% more in the week ended Sept. 2 compared with the previous week, according to online load board DAT Solutions LLC.

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The load-to-truck ratio is a sensitive, real-time indicator of the balance between demand and capacity. to Chicago , Dallas , Phoenix , and Denver. to Stockton , possibly due to expanded capacity at the Ports of Stockton and Oakland. Denver to Dallas paid 18¢ more, but the average is still only $1.34/mile.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 10, 2018

As expected, the electronic logging device (ELD) mandate has made trucks harder to find, while winter storms and truckers taking time off for New Year's Day made capacity even tighter last week. Outbound rates were down in Los Angeles and Dallas, though that's coming after some recent increases. Dallas to Denver dropped 22¢ to $2.58/mile.

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DAT Solutions

JUNE 12, 2018

Last week was the annual inspection blitz, Roadcheck, which typically leads to tighter capacity and higher rates because a lot of truckers take that week off. This year, capacity was already tight from Memorial Day week, so the Roadcheck effect was even more pronounced. mile (Dallas to Houston edged up to $3.03/mile

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DAT Solutions

AUGUST 13, 2018

That extra capacity has taken some of the pressure off of pricing. The spot market cooled in Texas , and outbound rates in Dallas and Houston have fallen more than 10% in the past month. Pipelines are filled to capacity the West Texas oilfields, leading to a slowdown in drilling. Dallas to Denver lost 25¢ at $2.59/mile.

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