Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2023

The company, headquartered in Stoughton Massachusetts, is now headed by Adam Franklin. The Franklin Sports Supply Chain 75% of Franklin Sports goods products, by revenue, are produced by third party contract manufacturers. 40% of the finished goods are shipped directly to retail clients by their contract manufacturers.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 15, 2023

It will be held on Tuesday, March 28 th , at the MIT Wong Auditorium (Tang Center) , 2 Amherst Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. This year’s event will have limited capacity and tickets are required for attending, the earlier, the better.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 4, 2020

“As countries shut down, stock markets crumble and economic activity slows to a crawl,” writes Yossi Sheffi ( @YossiSheffi ), the Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “it is hard to believe that in a few months the coronavirus crisis may be over.”[1]

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Material Handling & Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2018

For example, an analysis carried out by AIR on the potential impact of Hurricane Harvey on regional manufacturing found that, based on percentage of the total potential revenue loss, the top three subsectors are petroleum and coal products manufacturing (37%), chemical manufacturing (13%), and oil and gas extraction (12%).

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This begs the question: Even if the industry gets more truck drivers, just how much is enough to relieve the strain on trucking capacity? Below, Jason shares his insights and offers recommendations for what shippers can do to obtain capacity and plan for the coming months. for Q2 2021, relative to Q2 2018.

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In a recent NBC news broadcast a lead story addressed the drug shortage by referring to a meeting of the Emergency Preparedness Team held last week at Massachusetts General Hospital. This includes the manufacturer, distributor, pharmacy benefits manager, hospitals, pharmacies, physicians (who provide the scripts) and of course consumers.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

As the logistics industry reexamines capacity challenges ahead of the 2022 holiday shipping season, SupplyChainDive gathered a group of transportation experts to discuss how shippers should prepare for a potentially tough peak season. port capacity is close to maxing out, potentially forcing ports to invest in costly construction projects.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

New hours of service, capacity restraints and global trade regulations are also items we’ve had to account for and work into our mix. He is primarily responsible for complex supply chain implementations across Retail, Pharmaceutical and Manufacturing verticals.

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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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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks. Flexibility, in particular in manufacturing, is an important skill that when implemented well can produce long term efficiencies and robustness to the supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 11, 2021

In a joint statement, Space Force and Air Force officials said “these new opportunities are expanding cargo capacity and dramatically reducing launch costs.” A concept released by the US Air Force Research Laboratory looks at the Starship prototypes being tested by SpaceX in South Texas.

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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

JANUARY 15, 2015

“Our team of medical and supply chain experts with years of field work experience quickly assessed both the healthcare and logistics capacities in Liberia and planned a rapid response to support service providers on the ground,” said Dr. Jarrod Goentzel, founder and Director of the MIT Humanitarian Response Lab , a member of ACCEL.

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Kinaxis

JANUARY 16, 2017

Robots already stand side-by-side with their human counterparts on many manufacturing floors, adding efficiency, capacity (robots don’t need to sleep!) It is still the dream of many manufacturers today. When it comes to supply chain, the possible role of automation extends well beyond manufacturing and logistics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

G, the official groundhog of Massachusetts made her 16 th annual Groundhog Day forecast at Drumlin Farm in Lincoln, MA. The workforce reduction comes as the spices and seasonings manufacturer pursues more automation in facilities to add efficiencies. And find it I did. Our very own Ms. produced semiconductor chips.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Dr. Yossi Sheffi is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he serves as Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL). Consider manufacturing companies: “It used to be—go to China for products, parts, and material. Operations managers now must be more discerning.

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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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Stord

APRIL 26, 2022

The Three Types of Supply Chain Strategies Making Waves Today, we’re seeing businesses take creative approaches to increasing the resiliency of their supply chain, and these strategies boil down to three categories: changes to the way goods are manufactured, transported, and stored. Manufacturing changes tend to be the most challenging.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 5, 2022

Samsung has two big factories in China while SK Hynix Inc is buying Intel Corp’s NAND flash memory chips manufacturing business in China. chipmaking equipment to factories in China that manufacture advanced NAND chips. he crackdown, if approved, would involve barring the shipment of U.S. Apparently, warehouses are full.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 10, 2023

The gauge brings together 27 variables that take the temperature of everything from cross-border transportation costs to country-level manufacturing data in the euro area, China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, the U.K. Akorn Operating Company filed for bankruptcy in 2020 but had continued to manufacture albuterol until last fall.

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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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Elementum

JUNE 5, 2020

Solving this and other operational issues like VPN capacity, phone connections and getting the teams up to speed on virtual meeting platforms was only their first hurdle. Ken’s Foods started out as a restaurant in Framingham, Massachusetts called Ken’s Steakhouse. and warehouse staffing issues compounded.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 31, 2021

Think of the film that came out a few years ago: “ The Perfect Storm “, which describes how a boat in Massachusetts was lost at sea. 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.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2021

If you don’t have time to watch the video, Stank and his colleagues describe the effect this way: “ The bullwhip effect is a business phenomenon first described in the early 1960s by Jay Forrester at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and more recently explored by researchers at Stanford University.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Content Summary: Total Quality Logistics, one of the country’s largest freight brokerage firms, connects customers needing to move truckload, less-than-truckload or intermodal freight shipments with carriers having the capacity to move them. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, TQL employs more than 4,200 people in 59 offices nationwide.

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

If you can use new technology to enhance communication with suppliers, manufacturers and more, you will have a tighter grasp on everything that is happening around your company. He has worked with 300+ clients in manufacturing, IS selection and implementation and project management. and Design 2 Part. Brown @TheMichaelBrown Michael D.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 31, 2017

iconic places, such as the Route 128 tech corridor around Boston, Massachusetts; Research Triangle Park in Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Austin, Texas; Seattle, Washington; and, of course, California’s white-hot Silicon Valley. congressional districts, 50 states, plus the District of Columbia.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2023

Growing flight capacity at CVG helps Amazon keep next-day deliveries on schedule even for coast-to-coast shipments. Patrick’s Day, the weekend, and the song of the week, The State of Massachusetts by the Dropkick Murphys. The 800,000-square-foot facility’s central location in the U.S. That’s all for this week. Enjoy your St.

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Freight Center

JANUARY 1, 2019

Phoenix and Tuscon are Arizona’s freight activity centers for consumer goods and manufacturing. Massachusetts. This is due to the automobile and industrial manufacturing industries in the state. Montana is a very rural state, without a great deal of industrial manufacturing. South Dakota.

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Freight Center

JANUARY 1, 2019

Phoenix and Tuscon are Arizona’s freight activity centers for consumer goods and manufacturing. Massachusetts. This is due to the automobile and industrial manufacturing industries in the state. Montana is a very rural state, without a great deal of industrial manufacturing. South Dakota.

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Freight Center

JANUARY 1, 2019

Phoenix and Tuscon are Arizona’s freight activity centers for consumer goods and manufacturing. Massachusetts. This is due to the automobile and industrial manufacturing industries in the state. Montana is a very rural state, without a great deal of industrial manufacturing. South Dakota.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Of course, that is perhaps the easiest because we have manufacturing facilities in the United States, in Europe, and in Asia: about one third, one third, one third.". "We We are already on a path to create so-called multi-modality factories where we can manufacture stuff from other business units. "One is rearranging our supply chain.

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