Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The shipping capacity crunch is not a new topic, but the end of 2017 is shaping up to reveal an unprecedented crunch, reports Chris Brady of Logistics Viewpoints. To successfully mitigate the potential setbacks from the shipping capacity crunch, your organization must understand more about its current and projected driving forces.

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DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Less than ten days after Hurricane Harvey, trucks are already moving freight out of Houston, with almost the same volume as before the storm. Harvey hit Houston on Friday evening, August 25, and hung over the metro area for days, dumping more than 50 inches of rain on Southeastern Texas and Southwestern Louisiana. It could take months.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For shippers, this year’s overly-active hurricane season in the US is raising alarm bells for supply chain logistics operations. gasoline production capacity to drop by 10%. These disruptions impact industries as diverse as food production to manufacturing to retail and many others.

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

to the region of Texas that was affected by Hurricane Harvey, and 300 of them are in the Houston vicinity. Every product used or manufactured today relies in some way on these chemicals and chemical intermediates. “Even if a supplier’s factory is not flooded, the infrastructure (power, water, transportation, etc.)

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Behind the scenes during the tumultuous disaster season of 2017, building materials manufacturers leaned heavily on dynamic digital tools to supply recovery efforts. The urgent phone call to the building materials manufacturer came as yet another hurricane was churning its way toward landfall during the record storm season of 2017.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The shortages in PVC and other materials are even shutting down automotive production lines, as well as other manufacturers that I’ve been speaking with. A resins expert in Houston shared with me the following insights last week: We are through the impact of the freeze – and the LS Force Majeure clauses finally ended, but not until September!

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Elementum

MAY 13, 2015

As recently as Fall of 2014, the Lorenzo Cardenas-Houston route handled an average of only 10-20 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) a week. The project aims to increase the country’s total shipping capacity by 60% by building four new international port terminals and modernizing nine existing terminals. million TEUs.

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 30, 2019

There’s no question that innovative technologies aid in logistics and supply chain management, but when it comes to the many labor-intensive processes that take place in the warehouse, some fear that robots could make human warehouse workers obsolete. But what does that mean for industry employment?

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6 River Systems

APRIL 4, 2019

Logistics can be traced all the way back to the Greek and Roman empires , but it’s undergone several major transformations as new technologies provide opportunities to more efficiently manage the movement and storage of goods. In the digital transformation age, logistics is once again undergoing a major shift. Marc Tuinier.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The issue has become supply chain and manufacturing constraints, which have delayed the deliveries of such essential items as bottles, corks, and even the wine itself for brokers. This is simply another example of how the combination of capacity, manufacturing, and port delays impacts every aspect of our lives.

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TMC

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The waterway’s increased capacity provides more routing options for shipments into the United States. The trade-offs are especially critical for destinations in a “battleground” region that stretches from Detroit in the north to Houston in the south. The savings achieved by routing shipments through the U.S.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Adding insult to injury, manufacturers, suppliers and distributors are facing the impact of the storms at the worst time possible: the lead up to holiday season. Brands can expect to incur increased short-term transport costs in these situations, given transporters are likely already moving at near-peak capacity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 26, 2022

Recently, I presented at the Informs Analytics Conference in Houston and challenged companies to “ think out of the box” and define outside-in processes in Supply Chain Planning. As a recent college graduate, he was chartered with running manufacturing discrete event simulation for an automotive company. He was frustrated.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. A semitruck equipped with Kodiak’s autonomous driving system is making daily delivery runs from an IKEA warehouse near Houston to a store close to Dallas, roughly 300 miles away. Increased capacity and transportation savings are two of the six areas the CPG is focused on as part of its plan.

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

ethylene capacity has been closed. manufacturing of essential items from milk jugs to mattresses. ethylene capacity has been closed, according to PetroChemWire. in Baytown outside Houston, and Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. Few Americans care about ethylene. Many have probably never heard of it. Market Havoc.

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6 River Systems

JULY 3, 2020

You’ll need to know about fire safety codes and guidelines for things like shelving height, hanging weights, human capacity, etc. Elizabeth Brady Elizabeth Brady currently teaches the Supply Chain and ERP course at Mira Costa College for the Bachelor of Science in BioTech Manufacturing candidates.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 11, 2019

However, some categories are capacity constrained. Even if AAP or other auto part companies wanted to move production, there is no manufacturing capacity in the US or anywhere else, so creating redundancy in this case is very difficult. Usually there is a reason why there is open capacity in a country.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 11, 2018

Congested ports, complicated regulations, less than optimal modal capacity, undesirable taxation regimes, dilapidated roads, and overall operational inefficiencies are constant sources of anxiety within the business community. The only reliable mechanism to create lots of jobs is large scale manufacturing, which is driven by exports.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Congested ports, complicated regulations, less than optimal modal capacity, undesirable taxation regimes, dilapidated roads, and overall operational inefficiencies are constant sources of anxiety within the business community. The only reliable mechanism to create lots of jobs is large scale manufacturing, which is driven by exports.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 13, 2023

And now on to this week’s logistics news. The two main planks of the GSA would seek to tackle non-market excess capacity and carbon emissions. Once completed, the deal will allow Blue Yonder’s suite of supply chain management and commerce offerings to expand with final mile, returns management, and reverse logistics solutions.

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