Kinaxis

AUGUST 11, 2017

The outcome is expected to either significantly impact an existing automotive supplier network or prompt manufacturers and suppliers to move or begin operations. By further increasing its production capacity in the U.S., The Wall Street Journal reports that at least 11 states are in talks to land the manufacturing plant.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Many of their suppliers were using the same sub-tier manufacturers. Last summer a hurricane was coming up through the Gulf and across the Panhandle of Florida.” Dr. Runkle also believed that if the strike did occur, the ability to get truck capacity would be severely constrained.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Currently, Hurricane Irma is monitored north of Cuba, where mandatory evacuations were ordered, and is forecast to hit Florida. Fuel shortages were already reported in Florida and analysts estimate that the Irma’s cost could hit $125 billion should it make landfall in Miami. Several businesses in Florida, including banks , were closed.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2018

While I thaw out a bit, here are the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Tight Trucking Market Has Retailers, Manufacturers Paying Steep Prices (WSJ – sub. Peloton holds 1,000-mile platooning demo in Florida (CCJ). Peloton holds 1,000-mile platooning demo in Florida (CCJ).

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

As shown in the map, the company has 4 distribution centers wherein each location is shipping to several places across the US (for the sake of simplicity we are not showing the manufacturing and sourcing locations here). Key capacity constraints will need to be effectively and optimally managed before pursuing expansion opportunities.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 1, 2023

Last month, at the 2023 Gartner ® Supply Chain Symposium in Orlando, Florida, there were many key supply chain themes that emerged. The team carried out transformation initiatives that essentially flipped the supply chain upside down, from a manufacturing plant-led supply chain to a top-down, digital-twin type of supply chain.

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 12, 2020

However, capacity remains loose around the country, as many trucks remain idle. We expect cross-industry reopening, combined with produce season, to marginally tighten capacity on a regional level in pockets around the country in the coming weeks. Tennessee, Georgia, Texas, and Florida all still desirable locations for carriers.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

If you happen to be involved in any way in supply chain, whether it’s supply chain planning, manufacturing or distribution, your next thought after hoping people are okay is likely, “holy crap!”. Are there other capacity disruptions? What orders should be filled with the limited supply available? How long will it take to recover?

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 19, 2020

Most states across the US have opened for business in some capacity. reopening, combined with produce season , to continue to tighten capacity regionally in the coming weeks.?? . We expect rates in these markets to fluctuate week to week b ased on capacity and demand. . Currently, we are seeing signs of recovery.

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MIT Supply Chain

APRIL 29, 2013

Ocean Spray, CSX (the rail operator), and fruit shipping companies partnered in order to enable Ocean Spray to ship more products intermodally from its New Jersey distribution center to the company’s Florida facility. Prior to the collaboration, these boxcars were returning empty to the Florida region.

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Unleashed

MAY 22, 2022

As Ben Vear puts it: “Business is keeping up with category growth, and category growth keeping up with manufacturing bases? Dairy alternatives haven’t, so they’ve outgrown the capacity globally of manufacturers.” A cautionary tale is provided by the dairy alternative category. The lesson? Three Spirits’ solution?

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DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Houston is home to a number critical industries, including energy exploration, oil and gas refineries, and related manufacturing of petrochemicals and plastic resins, among others. The port has since re-opened, as have some portions of the railroads, but some capacity has yet to be restored. and dozens more in the Caribbean.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 30, 2017

During Irma, for instance, people were rushing to the pumps and nearly every gas station in the Florida was running low on gasoline. They can even reroute or direct shipments, boost capacity and much more. That particular plant was responsible for producing a majority of a type of resin necessary for auto manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

gasoline production capacity to drop by 10%. Damage to sugar cane fields in Florida which produce nearly a quarter of U.S. These disruptions impact industries as diverse as food production to manufacturing to retail and many others. Spot rates from Texas to other states have spiked and delays are the order of the day.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Hurricane season is upon us, and the latest one, Hurricane Michael, has caused serious damage and disruption in the Florida Panhandle region and beyond. Historically, when trucking capacity gets tight, which is the case today, demand for intermodal goes up. Hurricane Michael: How Can Logistics Professionals Help?

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Hundreds of Cafe Bustelo cans washed ashore in Florida this week. Here are some details from the press release: This acquisition would enable CMA CGM to reinforce its position in the container shipping industry, and achieve the following: capacity of 2,399 thousand TEUs and combined fleet of 563 vessels. Source: Laurie Cus.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2023

According to GEP, the April numbers show that while global demand for raw materials, commodities, and components remains subdued, it is much improved from the trough in December 2022, indicating some stability in the face of consistently high interest rates and a global manufacturing sector under intense pressure.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Transplace delivered more than 50 customer solutions in 2012 using the CombineNet sourcing technology, in industries including consumer goods, chemicals, manufacturing, and retail. Ultimately, the joint service provides a new solution for customers of both companies for U.S.-Mexico

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2017

UPS To Launch eBike In Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The looming question is what will happen to trucking capacity, rates, and productivity once the electronic logging devices (ELD) mandate starts getting enforced on December 18, and longer term, can our ports and other transportation infrastructure handle the growth?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

The Port of Shenzhen –a central manufacturing and export hub including the Yantian terminal that handles 25% of all U.S.-bound Still, the manufacturing plants and distribution centers are closed. Taiwan manufacturers 60% of global semiconductors. Semiconductor manufacturing consumes 10% of the island’s water supply.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 14, 2015

We were out of capacity, needed to build it, and needed to redefine the supply chain. They will be featured in our digital showcase and are a part of the Jabil story on digital manufacturing. Commodity prices were driving high interest in agriculture and we had run out of a lot of product. Race for Supply Chain 2020.

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Mangkhut weakened as it moved on to Hong Kong and other ports and manufacturing centers in Southeastern China, but high winds and flooding damaged property and infrastructure. loads per truck, with areas of tighter capacity along the West Coast. The ratio is a sensitive, real-time indicator of the balance between demand and capacity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Preparing for cyber, judicial, and financial risks: As manufacturing and distribution facilities become increasingly cloud-connected through retrofitting equipment or upgrading to new generation equipment, gaining deeper understanding of the reliability and authenticity of the supply base is more critical than ever. He received his Ph.D.

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IQMS

MARCH 2, 2020

The innovation of our manufacturing customers was spotlighted at the Plastics News Excellence Awards ceremony on February 26, 2020. The award ceremony was held at a dinner on February 26, 2020 as part of the Plastics News Executive Forum at the Naples Grande Beach Resort in Naples, Florida, which ran February 24-26, 2020.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

As organizations look for reducing dependencies on concentrated sources of supply, Eastern Europe, Mexico, and South Asian countries will start providing viable alternatives to the current manufacturing powerhouse countries. In the current capacity constrained environment, such technologies will become a significant competitive advantage.

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Zipline Logistics

JUNE 9, 2020

And Midwestern manufacturing hubs are potent sources of outbound volume as parts of the industrial economy have restarted following their March downturn. Southeast Logistics—Outbound Volume from Florida, Georgia, Texas. South Texas outbound volume is heating up and capacity is tightening.

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Elementum

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

We’ve talked about the truck driver shortage and its potential to disrupt domestic freight shipping—fewer people are choosing to become truck drivers, leading to a serious dip in trucking capacity over the course of just a few years. Today, labor shortages are driving down capacity and driving up prices.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 18, 2022

This made it incredibly difficult for manufacturers to accurately gauge the market size for production. The situation became dire in February of 2022 when Abbott Nutrition, one of the country’s three main powdered formula manufacturers, voluntarily recalled several formula brands and shut down its Sturgis, Michigan factory.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

We’ve talked about the truck driver shortage and its potential to disrupt domestic freight shipping: fewer people are choosing to become truck drivers, leading to a serious dip in truck capacity in only a few years. Today, labor shortages are driving down capacity and driving up prices. A few companies have found the answer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Biden’s great-great-grandfather was charged with attempted murder and incarcerated for a term of two years of hard labor on a remote island near modern-day Florida. This is the largest award to date out of $39 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act aimed at revitalizing semiconductor manufacturing in the United States.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 6, 2020

Loads on the spot market, in which retailers and manufacturers buy trucking capacity as they need it, rather than through a contract, have fallen by a chilling 62.6% (in 2019),” according to an article published by Business Insider. The increase in shipping strained capacity and drove rates up. Southeast Logistics.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 2, 2018

Those four factors added up to extraordinary pressure on spot market truck capacity, driving rates up as high as we’ve seen them since at least 2010, when we established the freight rates database that forms the foundation of DAT RateView. At least two of the Four Es will continue to affect freight volume, capacity and rates in 2018.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 11, 2016

Fracking activities were curtailed, and the drilling equipment and materials of 2014 disappeared, freeing up rail, intermodal and flatbed capacity, and removing an alternative source of employment opportunity for would-be truck drivers. Some of these new rules will affect capacity in 2016, for good or for ill.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 31, 2021

We all know by now how the semiconductor shortage occurred when the automotive industry failed to order enough chips, which led the semiconductor industry to reduce their capacity. The problem with containers is that most of them are stuck in the US, but need to be at ports and manufacturers in China! Let’s start with COVID.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2023

Starting next week, Amazon will start actively recruiting existing small businesses in 23 states including Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, North Dakota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, South Dakota, and Washington. percent), manufacturing (4.5

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2023

Frozen dairy manufacturers reduce packaging footprint. Walmart, along with its partner DroneUp, now operates drone delivery hubs in seven states, including Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Biden climate blueprint promotes modal shift away from trucks. US container imports tumbled in December.

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6 River Systems

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Inventory not only ties up working capital, which has its own cost that can impact the bottom line, but it also occupies space which costs money, requires handling which costs money and, when a warehouse’s storage is over-capacity, it creates inefficiencies in the workflow around the warehouse, which again will cost money. guavafamily.

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