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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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2023

The company, headquartered in Stoughton Massachusetts, is now headed by Adam Franklin. Without a dependable forecast on what would be bought, contract manufacturers could not do effective capacity planning or procurement. Mr. Franklin’s goal is to grow the business substantially. It also did not make for a reliable supply chain.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 29, 2022

Yesterday the company conducted a grand opening ceremony for this new production facility located in Methuen Massachusetts , just up the highway from where this blog originates. The facility itself has a reported $20 million in renovations and at full capacity, is capable of producing 750,000 pairs of footwear annually.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 15, 2023

Earlier this month, the company broke ground for a $65 million expansion of the existing manufacturing facility located in Skowhegan, Maine , which will double the capacity of this facility by the end of 2024. The privately held company invested upwards of $20 million in renovations of an existing building and on factory automation.

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Logility

MARCH 3, 2020

Emotional intelligence is the capacity to be aware of, control, and express one’s emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships with empathy and with an appreciation for nuance. In that world, where technology will do much of the heavy lifting, a supply chain professional’s emotional intelligence will take on new significance.

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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.

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6 River Systems

MAY 14, 2019

Our customer base is using collaborative robots to ramp their fulfillment capacity and productivity, at a fraction of the cost of traditional warehouse automation solutions. 6 River Systems was founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 2015 by Jerome Dubois, Rylan Hamilton and Chris Cacioppo. About 6 River Systems.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 10, 2022

For example, carriers plan to reduce the capacity for the Asia-to-North America West Coast trade lanes by as much as 29% in the weeks following China’s Golden week in early October. As the capacity crisis continues, carriers increasingly turn to expanded modalities to increase service opportunities.

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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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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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MIT Supply Chain

AUGUST 28, 2014

But due to the role passenger flights play in providing air cargo capacity, these travel restrictions are effectively quarantining critical medical supplies outside Ebola-affected regions. Most of the flights to Liberia, and their air cargo capacity, were suspended: Arik Air : Banned flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone beginning July 28.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 4, 2023

No detailed information has reportedly been disclosed regarding the acquisitions other than the WSJ indicating that Flexport is acquiring the Shopify logistics portfolio in exchange for upwards of 13 percent stock equity.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2018

It’s been reported, for example, that the destruction of medical device manufacturing capacity in Puerto Rico wrought by the hurricane has led to a national shortage of medical IVs, which has forced some hospitals to use alternative products and find new suppliers. The 105-year-old, Massachusetts-based supplier Cutler-McDermott Co.,

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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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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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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. They suggested that the drugs most impacted by shortages are generic drugs, which are often produced in low cost countries.

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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. Adam graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 1997 with a degree in Natural Resource Economics.

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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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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Massachusetts based Locus Robotics, an autonomous logistics and warehouse management focused mobile robot (AMR) provider recently announced completion of a $117 million in Series F funding, bringing the company’s valuation close to $2 billion. Locus Robotics Raises an Additional $117 Million. Reportedly: “.during

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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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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 Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

7) David Simchi-Levi , Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Chairman at OPS Rules Management Consultants Global financial turmoil, rising labor costs in developing countries, and huge volatility in the price of oil and other commodities can disrupt a company''s entire supply chain and threaten its ability to compete.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 3, 2023

Jordan also served as an investment professional with TA Associates, a global private equity firm in Boston, Massachusetts, and as an investment analyst for J.P. Highway provides brokers with comprehensive data on carrier equipment to supercharge their capacity sourcing and vetting efforts. Morgan in New York City.

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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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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 10, 2018

Robinson challenged Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Transportation and Logistics (MIT-CTL) student, Yoo Joon Kim, to determine just how influential distance and volatility are on carrier rejection rates on high volume lanes. It probably does, since the average tender rejection rate is around 20%.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The only potential hurdle in the frozen turkey supply chain is cold storage capacity in both warehouses and transportation. In Massachusetts, one of the biggest Thanksgiving traditions is high school football. However, football is one fall sport that has been put on hold in Massachusetts, so games will not be taking place.

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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. GM has signed a long-term agreement with GlobalFoundries to establish exclusive production capacity of U.S.-produced And find it I did. Our very own Ms. G did not see her shadow, predicting an annual Spring!

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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). Shippers often face the most stress when it comes to holiday shopping, as the last-mile logistics can be held up by under-capacity or bad weather.

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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’s been four years since Amazon spent $775 million to acquire Kiva Systems, a Massachusetts-based startup that makes warehouse robots and software. and dependability.

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MIT Supply Chain

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In one project sponsored by the Itaú Fund for Research on Sustainability in Latin America, students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of São Paulo (USP) tracked goods vehicles in the Brazilian city of São Paulo. They have twice the capacity of the VUC model, and also face heavy operational restrictions.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 5, 2022

We emphatically encourage ocean carriers to step up their efforts to evacuate empty containers quicker and at higher volumes to free up much-needed capacity for arriving imports in order to keep commerce moving through the port and the region.”. Apparently, warehouses are full. That’s all for this week.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 25, 2019

… As Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist David Autor and others have long pointed out, the increased digitalization of the U.S. What’s more, these workers’ ‘soft skills’ — their capacity to communicate and work with others — are in short supply. ” Busteed counters, “Right now, in the U.S.,

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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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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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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 10, 2023

Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Oregon also are moving to decarbonize drayage. While the Biden administration hopes to see zero-emission trucks make up 30 percent of big rig sales by 2030, California has more ambitious plans. No regulation will put more pressure on companies than California’s Advanced Clean Fleets Rule.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 18, 2022

When production halted at Abbott, the largest of the three, the remaining manufacturing company’s capacity plans and resources were not able to cope with such unexpected increased demand. After speaking with all infant formula manufacturers, the FDA shared that all are producing at an expanded capacity. View this post on Instagram.

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