SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 19, 2022

There’s no doubt that the pandemic, with its harsh lockdowns and impact on economies worldwide, has played a dramatic role in the supply chain disruptions being experienced by manufacturers. Many businesses in the US, and elsewhere, were sourcing their componentry from China. New trade routes.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Kane Is Able Purchases Vintners Logistics. As the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday, “Resurgent demand in the long-stagnant industrial sector and a big seasonal boost in e-commerce are pushing more goods through shipping networks on the land, water and air, say operators who expect the strengthening U.S. cities in 2019 (Reuters).

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Insufficient warehouse capacity and a lack of containers while supply chain shortages make headline news. Four industries–B2B Technology, Aerospace and Defense, Retail Apparel, and Food Manufacturing–grew inventory during the pandemic. Look at the 72 ships off the coast of Long Beach (up 65% from a year ago).

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

When the ball drops on Times Square to welcome in 2022, the employees at the Port of Long Beach will celebrate moving 9 M TEUs in imports: a 26% increase in year-over-year volume. Returning containers is an ongoing issue resulting in some manufacturers investigating a return to break-bulk shipping (container free).

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Insufficient warehouse capacity and a lack of containers while supply chain shortages make headline news. Four industries–B2B Technology, Aerospace and Defense, Retail Apparel, and Food Manufacturing–grew inventory during the pandemic. Look at the 72 ships off the coast of Long Beach (up 65% from a year ago).

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Insufficient warehouse capacity and a lack of containers while supply chain shortages make headline news. Four industries–B2B Technology, Aerospace and Defense, Retail Apparel, and Food Manufacturing–grew inventory during the pandemic. Look at the 72 ships off the coast of Long Beach (up 65% from a year ago).

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The “Economic Belt” shortens rail transport time from China and Europe, with the prospect of spurring Central Asian and Eastern Europe economies, with better trade connections to Western Europe and North East Asia. It’s not just talk. Image Source: Brics-Info.org. Freight In The Year Of The Monkey.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2022

I just read about a different take on facial recognition software that uses artificial intelligence in a little different way. Five major UK supermarkets are set to trial age estimation technology to accurately guess customers’ ages when purchasing alcohol. Certainly sounds like interesting technology.

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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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QAD

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Lara has many years of experience in not just the wine industry, but global supply chains, including the food and beverage supply chain and logistics. Over the last several years, all manufacturers have faced tremendous disruptions and the wine industry is no exception. Steve: Hi Lara, thanks for joining me today. That’s not all.

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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. The biggest influences were the Four Es: Economic growth. E-commerce. Electronic logging devices.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2022

Port of Long Beach goes big on trains to relieve congested docks. As e-commerce continues to grow, companies are looking at new and innovative ways to ensure they get orders delivered on time to their customers. After more than two years, I finally traveled for a conference again. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2021

But this isn’t regular, run-of-mill congestion; earlier this week 24 container ships were anchored off the coast waiting for space at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. On top of that, there is a severe shortage of railcars in Los Angeles-Long Beach is causing rail container dwell times to double.

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Freight Plus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Capacity remains incredibly tight. Because of this, we are estimating that there was a 5% capacity hit. There is an international CVSA Road Check also scheduled for 9/9-9/11, and we anticipate capacity to take another hit then. Imports continue to remain strong, and July was a record month for the Port of Long Beach.

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Freight Plus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Capacity remains incredibly tight. Because of this, we are estimating that there was a 5% capacity hit. There is an international CVSA Road Check also scheduled for 9/9-9/11, and we anticipate capacity to take another hit then. Imports continue to remain strong, and July was a record month for the Port of Long Beach.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

” In August 2021, after a long road trip, this happened. There is no true end-to-end solution that enables bi-directional orchestration across deliver, make, and source processes. The optimization routines single thread through functions not enabling trade-offs across source, make, and deliver. The problem?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Artificial intelligence has been applied to just about every supply chain application imaginable, including transportation management and execution, demand planning, supply chain planning, warehouse management, and order management. There’s still a long way to go to clear the backlog. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 19, 2024

In the past weeks, ocean freight rates have risen as much as $10,000 per 40-foot container, as container ships seeking to avoid the attacks embarked on long detours around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, diverting more than $200 billion of cargo away from the critical trade artery. But I will get into the details in a future article.

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Ware2Go

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This post was originally published in Financial Times. One measure of this is the daily tally of container ships idling outside the congested ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach — the entry point for about 40 per cent of goods imported into the US. Container ships are anchored by the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.

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