Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Amazon says its prepared for supply chain snarls for holiday season. As the holiday season approaches there are many concerns about the global supply chain. This includes trucking capacity concerns, port congestion , and warehouse staff. Apparently the past has arrived. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Stord

JULY 7, 2019

I was first introduced to the complex world of logistics and supply chain in one of my freshman courses at the University of Pennsylvania. So when I came across an article about STORD’s Series A funding and saw the opportunity for an internship, I reached out and the rest is history.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 26, 2014

There are similar scenarios playing out in Texas and Pennsylvania as well. So why does this matter for supply chain professionals? A quiet, but powerful story across supply chains this year has been the stability of fuel prices despite geopolitical turmoil. Rail Capacity. Oil and Gas Oil Boom'

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Intelligent Audit

MAY 5, 2022

According to FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam, enhanced sortation technology is being deployed in sorting facilities and “will increase upstream efficiencies, enabling managers to do better balance and planned sortation operations, thereby unlocking key capacity. For example, during Cyber Week, this technology helped keep 1.9 Amazon’s Q1 loss of $7.6

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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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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Pam Erb has built a 30+ year career at Wegmans, a regional supermarket chain. Her career with Wegmans all started with gourmet foods and cheeses and today, she is the vice president of supply chain. My last assignment in HR was a promotion to HR manager for the distribution and supply chain area. PE: Yes, I do.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

I had the opportunity to sit in a number of academic presentations today, as part of the Environmentally Sustainable Supply Chain Management Workshop for Early-Career Faculty. Capacity planning is also hard because of the infrastructure needed to be in place to balance demand and supply at all times, or the system will collapse.

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AB&R

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

When you go about your daily supply chain tasks, you likely aren’t paying much attention to the barcode on your items. In 1948, a Pennsylvania supermarket manager noticed that his store’s stocktaking and slow checkout times were causing him to lose profits. Now, nearly all retailers use barcodes in some capacity.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Pam Erb has built a 30+ year career at Wegmans, a regional supermarket chain. Her career with Wegmans all started with gourmet foods and cheeses and today, she is the vice president of supply chain. My last assignment in HR was a promotion to HR manager for the distribution and supply chain area. PE: Yes, I do.

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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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Cathy Roberson

DECEMBER 17, 2022

(Source: Reddit ) There’s been a lot of supply chain pains over the years, many of which are well documented – port congestion, capacity issues, rising spot rates, plunging spot rates, hidden fees, maxed out warehouses – just to name a few but one that I’m still trying to wrap my head around is access to bathrooms.

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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. Knowing these timelines is crucial to supply chain planning.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

APRIL 27, 2020

This means one thing — the food supply chain is vulnerable,” the statement said. “As As pork, beef and chicken plants are being forced to close, even for short periods of time, millions of pounds of meat will disappear from the supply chain.”. Each plant can butcher nearly 20,000 hogs a day.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2015

Supply chain risks are reduced. Foxconn, for example, announced plans to reshore in Pennsylvania, investing $40 million for a mostly automated plant. As delivery speed is increasingly important, closer proximity to consumers, supply chain expediency, and convenience of doing business become priorities.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 3, 2019

I received a few questions yesterday about Indago , our new market research community for supply chain practitioners that benefits charities. We investigated two questions with our members this week: “How often is risk considered in your supply chain decision-making discussions?”

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ThroughPut

JUNE 14, 2019

At ThroughPut, we are constantly exploring unrealized capacity and realigning our team to enable more operations to run autonomously, constantly minimizing my involvement unless absolutely necessary. We aspire to operate like a healthy cardiovascular system, which is the world’s most impressive supply chain network to date.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 14, 2019

At ThroughPut, we are constantly exploring unrealized capacity and realigning our team to enable more operations to run autonomously, constantly minimizing my involvement unless absolutely necessary. We aspire to operate like a healthy cardiovascular system, which is the world’s most impressive supply chain network to date.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2023

By the numbers, the top challenges supply chain leaders are currently experiencing include fuel costs (59 percent), inflation (46 percent), delays outside of their control (41 percent), unpredictability (38 percent), driver shortages (32 percent), and losing business due to the economy (30 percent).

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 5, 2022

Supply chain disruptions continue to lead to product shortages around the world. The ongoing pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions, along with the Russia-Ukraine war, limited available supplies of cocoa, edible oil, and other food ingredients. Walmart is jumping on the bandwagon. That’s all for this week.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2023

The Home Depot is undergoing a $500 million cost savings push that will see the company reduce its supply chain holding capacity, EVP and CFO Richard McPhail said during a June 13 investor and analyst conference. We are now gradually reducing that holding capacity as transactions normalize.” Josh Shapiro (D) said.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 30, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The travelling salesman problem is characterized by a single depot, a single salesman (a vehicle of unlimited capacity), a set of customers (nodes) to be visited with deterministic demands of unity magnitude on an undirected network, and no timing restrictions on when a customer is to be visited.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 14, 2021

Philadelphia lobbied for the capital to remain in Pennsylvania, but it was no use. Colonial Pipeline said on Wednesday that it had initiated the restart of operations, but it will take several days for the product delivery supply chain to return to normal. The impacts of the blockage are still being felt in global supply chains.

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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. Allentown, Pennsylvania. On-demand fulfillment is a way for retailers to add fulfillment centers quickly. Atlanta, Georgia. Want a visual?

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