Operations and Supply Chain Management
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
With global cargo lanes clogged, businesses are turning to new ways to deliver goods. Mississippi River cargo traffic near Luling, La. The former wartime airbase handled a record 1,655 international cargo arrivals in 2021, a 73% jump from 2019, and overall tonnage rose 18%. We had a good cargo business before the pandemic.
Stord
MAY 2, 2022
That resulted in bottlenecks, such as the record backlogs at the port of Los Angeles, where container ships waited for weeks to offload cargo. It was more beneficial monetarily for people to stay home, and the industry wasn't ready for that.” If all your inventory is in my building in St. Louis and St.
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DAT Solutions
MAY 10, 2016
“While the FDA ruling is a backward step for 3PLs and our liability — in that the lines are once again blurred between carrier and broker — it’s not that big of a change as far as our responsibility and procedures,” said Lindsey Graves, vice president of operations for Sunset Transportation in St.
New Horizon Supply Chain Blog
AUGUST 1, 2022
trucking industry because of driver shortages and stricter hours-of-service regulations. Source: Data from the Federal Reserve Board of St. There’s also the problem of empty miles (trucks driving with no cargo after completing a delivery), with an estimated 35% of truck miles being empty in the U.S. Rising Transportation Costs.
Operations and Supply Chain Management
APRIL 24, 2015
This is perhaps most manifestly seen right now in the Internet of Things and how industrial companies especially are currently or prospectively leveraging IoT to create new products and services. Was in many way the start of today’s supply chain planning software industry. The network analyzed was that of Hunt-Wesson Foods.
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