The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Andrew earned a BA in Psychology from Indiana University and an MBA from DePaul University. Emerge’s award-winning marketplace provides access to direct capacity and live market conditions helping shippers and carriers make the strongest, most beneficial decisions when procuring domestic freight. About Emerge.

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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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Zipline Logistics

JULY 28, 2020

Menards services 12 distribution centers throughout its territory with facilities in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Michigan, Missouri, and South Dakota. Zipline Logistics works with every Menards’ preferred carrier and is continually sourcing capacity from its extensive retail-specialized carrier network.

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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. Namely, the market is seeing increased volume and limited capacity in the region.

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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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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 31, 2022

billion has been raised from an initial public offering, with corporate strategy aiming to focus on acquiring adequate manufacturing capacity and demonstrating capability and actual delivery of designed vehicles to the market in order to garner a first-mover advantage in the EV market segment. Thus far, $13.7

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Managing Carrier Capacity in an Improving Economy. Is tightening capacity a short-term trend or the beginning of a new normal? The more forward visibility shippers can provide carriers about changes in their capacity requirements, both increases and decreases, the more time and opportunity carriers will have to respond with a solution.

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 5, 2020

Still easy to cover for all markets except outbound south Texas and Florida to the northeast as capacity out of these markets is harder to come by. . South Texas is heating up for outbound volume and capacity has tightened in response. This sentiment is a result of increased volume and more limited capacity in the region. .

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 7, 2016

“We have doubled our capacity in the last twelve months and that allows us to ship to a majority of the U.S. population in one day,” Traweek said. Wal-Mart in the last four fiscal years has accelerated its investment in e-commerce and digital initiatives, excluding acquisitions, from about $300 million in 2013 to $1.1

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 5, 2015

Management teams and employees are providing enhanced value to customers by combining internal data warehouses with IoT sources to support order optimization, pricing, and capacity decisions,” C.H. The forum, an annual event at Kelley in its third year, joins analytics and thought leaders from various industries and firms, including C.H.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

You can also expect to see reductions in downtime, better capacity utilization, and reduced costs. Robert Jacobs Professor Emeritus of Operations Management Operations and Decision Technologies Indiana University, Bloomington jacobs 812-219-5088 The ability to scale is an important part of operational analytics.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

APRIL 27, 2020

The result is that the nation’s pork processing capacity had declined by about 25% as of last week, said Steve Meyer, an industry economist with Kerns and Associates in Ames, Iowa. And Smithfield Foods halted production at its plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Each plant can butcher nearly 20,000 hogs a day.

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Van demand rose 11% last week, in the end-of-quarter rush , and truck capacity tightened by 2.9%. Pockets of demand and favorable ratios can also be found in western Kansas and southern Indiana. That yielded a 14% increase in the national average load-to-truck ratio, from 1.7 loads per truck on DAT Load Boards.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 23, 2023

Unionized UPS workers could strike this summer Walmart opens largest fulfillment center in Indiana Target tests larger next-day delivery effort Commerce Dept. supplier capability and capacity. And now on to this week’s logistics news. population with its service.

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DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Some individual markets offered a lot of loads , and trucks were relatively scarce, creating opportunities in Southern and Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington, Southern Idaho, much of Wisconsin and Indiana, and Western Pennsylvania. Texas had less freight than usual, and a lot more trucks, especially in the Dallas area during the GATS Expo.

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DAT Solutions

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Leaving Columbus, find a shorter haul to Michigan, Indiana or Kentucky, and pick up a second load from there back to Chicago. Daily maps, along with detailed information on demand, capacity and rates for individual markets and lanes, can be found in the DAT Power Load Board. You make almost $1,300, or less than $650 per day.

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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.

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FLEXE

OCTOBER 26, 2016

You can pop-up capacity when and where you need it. The additional capacity is helping them compete with Amazon’s delivery speed and improve customer satisfaction. Indianapolis, Indiana. Retailers have been popping-up distribution space to add capacity for years, but it has been a clunky and expensive process.

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DELMIA Quintiq

JUNE 22, 2015

Contract manufacturing (CM) is a feasible way to add capacity and flexibility without investing in new facilities. All parts of the R-class vehicles will be assembled and painted on AM General’s production line in Mishawaka, Indiana. The contract manufacturer needs to signal his priorities through committed volumes and capacities.

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Tailwind

MARCH 29, 2018

Listen bud, I want the characters played by Tom Hanks fighting in the hedgerows in Normandy, landing planes on the Hudson River, or the Liam Neeson characters that ‘have a particular set of skills’, not to mention Harrison Ford’s ‘Indiana Jones’. We are starting to gain momentum and the confidence that comes with that.

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ShipBob

MARCH 21, 2024

In the case of rentals, the business will pay a fixed monthly fee for using the storage space regardless of whether you use the full warehouse capacity. They had a 30,000-square-foot warehouse in Florida and a 35,000-square-foot warehouse in Indiana, totaling 65,000 square feet of storage space.

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FLEXE

MAY 25, 2017

You can pop-up capacity when and where you need it. The additional capacity and fulfillment services are helping them compete with Amazon’s delivery speed and improve customer satisfaction. Indianapolis, Indiana. On-demand fulfillment is a way for retailers to add fulfillment centers quickly. Louisville, Kentucky. Want a visual?

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Freight Center

JANUARY 1, 2019

Indiana’s freight shipping rates tend to remain consistent year-round. That being said, the lower capacity and demand can sometimes result in lower rates. Illinois is one of the more economical states when it comes to freight shipping. This is because the industry generally remains constant regardless of the season. South Dakota.

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Freight Center

JANUARY 1, 2019

Indiana’s freight shipping rates tend to remain consistent year-round. That being said, the lower capacity and demand can sometimes result in lower rates. Illinois is one of the more economical states when it comes to freight shipping. This is because the industry generally remains constant regardless of the season. South Dakota.

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Freight Center

JANUARY 1, 2019

Indiana’s freight shipping rates tend to remain consistent year-round. That being said, the lower capacity and demand can sometimes result in lower rates. Illinois is one of the more economical states when it comes to freight shipping. This is because the industry generally remains constant regardless of the season. South Dakota.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 24, 2022

Freight transportation analysis firm FTR said that diesel prices stabilized in April, but softer capacity utilization and freight rates made for positive but lackluster market conditions. truck market: freight volumes, freight rates, fleet capacity, fuel price, and financing. for April after sinking to -7.38 for March.

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FLEXE

OCTOBER 26, 2016

You can pop-up capacity when and where you need it. The additional capacity is helping them compete with Amazon’s delivery speed and improve customer satisfaction.</h3></blockquote> Retailers have been popping-up distribution space to add capacity for years, but it has been a clunky and expensive process.</p>

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

JUNE 28, 2023

Organizations can seek to augment core AI competencies by fully leveraging the AI ecosystem to gain access to partners’ unique AI capacities, technologies, and capabilities. Robert Jacobs Professor Emeritus of Operations Management Operations and Decision Technologies Indiana University, Bloomington jacobs 812-219-5088 Market scan.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2022

Chip shortage forces GM to pause production at Indiana plant. The deal also requires UK-based steel producers owned by companies in China to undergo a financial audit to evaluate whether there are any market distorting practices that “would materially contribute to non-market excess capacity of steel,” according to a statement.

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