Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

When a company undergoes a digital transformation, the transformation should be based on an understanding of what they want to achieve. When companies want to digitally transform their supply chain capabilities, moving to an integrated business planning process (IBP) is often at the heart of the transformation. Dean Sorenson concurs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2022

Ferrero tells suppliers to stop sending it palm oil from Malaysian company. As I wrote about a few weeks ago, Google’s sister company Wing launched what it calls the first commercial drone delivery in a major metropolitan area. The company partnered with Walgreens to make deliveries in suburban Dallas.

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Elementum

APRIL 21, 2017

On August 5, 2016, e-commerce giant Amazon inaugurated its air transportation network , wherein the company entered into agreements to lease 40 Prime Air cargo planes to further expand its delivery capacity for its clients. He explained further why the company is investing in the new hub. What’s New?

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Synovos

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Donald Shoemaker, Vice President Engineering & Consulting Services for Synovos, the leading pure integrated supply chain management company in the world, has been selected to present a paper at the upcoming Reliable Plant 2020 conference in Louisville, KY. Shoemaker will present his paper “ Should We Be Doing More?

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 23, 2024

Controlled agriculture also allows vegetable farms to operate where there is no arable land, whether in Kentucky coal country or an Egyptian desert.” He said some companies may be struggling to scale up, with problems that come from launching in spaces that aren’t necessarily built specifically for indoor farming.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2021

While Amazon has rolled out its own digital freight matching marketplace named Amazon Freight, the company is always looking at new opportunities in this area. One way is to build its own pool of drivers, and to do this, the company is reportedly building an incubator for startup trucking companies.

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QAD

JULY 7, 2022

The company issued this statement at the time: “We explicitly prohibit child labour in our operations and have been working relentlessly to take a stand against this.” as a tornado struck a town in Kentucky in December 2021, workers at. Companies are acting, and responding. z International, which owns Cadbury.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 1, 2023

Upon successful completion of the CTSC program, individuals will reportedly have the knowledge to help improve their company’s competitive position and profitability by shifting operations to a more value-focused, cross functional model. Identify tools and technologies to enable effective supply chain transformation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2023

. “Around 0600 Pacific Time Tuesday morning, multiple Waymo vehicles in San Francisco encountered very dense fog and determined they should pull over temporarily,” a company spokesperson said. And now, as the company continues to look at ways to cut costs, it has instituted a new fee for some returns when using a UPS Store.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Subject to securing a final agreement and appropriate regulatory approvals, the companies plan to establish a joint venture manufacturing company with the purpose of investing in and operation of a factory in Europe to produce larger vans. Others in this area include Li-Cycle Holdings Corp.

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Arkieva

MARCH 2, 2016

With today’s instability in the economy, companies should increasingly focus on the adoption of supply chain best practices and development of their supply chain talent to help navigate the rough waters ahead. A perfect example of this is the opportunity provided by the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 14, 2017

Because despite all the adoration Amazon receives for its logistics operations, they’re no different than so many other companies that waste a lot of money, materials, and space shipping air.”. Contrast that experience with the one I had a couple of months earlier with the garage door repair company. “Because they can,” I said.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

A startup local Atlanta-based 3D printing company, CloudDDM , is looking to make an impact. Atlanta is home to many Fortune 500 companies like Coca Cola, Home Depot and UPS. The two companies have jointly opened a facility near the UPS air hub in Louisville, Kentucky, with more than 100 industrial 3D printers.

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Material Handling & Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Horrific working conditions endured by children farming tobacco in North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia were reported in January of this year by Human Rights Watch. I know that most companies are looking into these issues and have corporate social responsibility policies to rid the system of these abuses. And the U.S.

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AB&R

JANUARY 10, 2019

Be sure to check out this case study to read how we helped a major healthcare company implement a new UDI labeling process for medical devices. Company Name *. Our dedicated team of in-house label exports can provide exactly what you need. Learn more about how our label solutions will fit practically any application could imagine.

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QAD

AUGUST 8, 2019

state of Kentucky. QAD Production Orders allows simplified setup and operation of any type of manufacturing, and QAD Internationalization enables companies to identify and overcome the challenges associated with taxes, regulations and globalization. Spain is about five times the size of the U.S.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 13, 2022

The company that loaned you the money will deduct the money from your account as soon as you get your next paycheck. Direct lending companies will loan to anyone who has a credit score. In order to apply to get secured payday loans from direct payday lending companies, applicants must meet the requirements for approval.

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2018

Their early 2018 competition assessment noted that “companies that provide fulfillment and logistics services for themselves” are competition. Not huge, but it’s only going to grow – the planned 210 acre Amazon airport in Kentucky will support up to 200 flights daily. So where does that leave logistics companies?

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FLEXE

MARCH 5, 2017

The growing company began selling clothes under its own name, it procured a distribution center in Kentucky, and venture capitalists started to take notice—leading to at least $40 million in funding. By then she had a brand, an eCommerce website, and the start of an online empire. In 2012, things began to pick up even more.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2015

And, according to a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study, 54% of companies with above one billion in revenues are now considering reshoring. And, some companies just instinctively followed the corporate crowd toward outsourcing. For additional information about companies reshoring to the U.S., a move known as reshoring.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

In many cases, demand for mobile solutions is what’s driving companies to invest in fleet management applications. Relatively few companies today are just looking to implement a routing and scheduling solution; most implementations today include a mobile component too. When Amazon acquired Kiva in March 2012, the big question was, Why?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 13, 2024

There are large variations by state with Wyoming, West Virginia, and Kentucky power dominated by coal, but South Dakota takes the crown for renewable power from wind, while Washington, New York, Vermont, and California are the leaders with carbon free power mostly due to hydro and/or nuclear.

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Supply Chain Network

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

By installing a warehouse in this region, the Company expects to improve its environmental footprint by reducing the number of miles traveled within its distribution network while also reducing costs and improving its customer service levels. The Company’s brands are the most recognized in the industry. About ScottsMiracle-Gro.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Amazon airplanes then whisk them via the future Amazon hub in Kentucky to the local FBA distribution center in Lakeland, Florida, before delivery in Miami Beach overnight…by an Amazon delivery man. billion dollars , while aggressively partnering with logistics companies worldwide. A Tale of Two Potential Logistics Giants.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 2, 2020

Betsy Westhafer and Joe Lynch are discussing the strategies logistics companies can use to have deeper, more focused relationships with their customers and to utilize those relationships for company growth. Betsy is the CEO of The Congruity Group and has years of experience in helping other companies improve their customer focus.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2024

From the very beginning, Amazon’s mission has been to be the earth’s most customer-centric company. The company also offers a range of logistics services to third-party sellers, allowing them to tap into Amazon’s extensive network and benefit from the same efficient delivery options.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

There’s another unfortunate entry in the annals of Supply Chain failures that burst into the wider world of business and pop culture: More than half of the UK’s Kentucky Fried Chicken stores recently closed because they ran out of chicken! Check out McDonald’s Supply Chain Challenge: Switching from Frozen to Fresh Burgers!

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Elementum

MAY 27, 2015

However, for the first time in recent years, there are concrete financial benefits to reshoring, which may be fueling the influx of companies. Across a large number of industries, companies are reshoring factories and citing cost as their primary reason. companies find many hidden costs once they decide to offshore.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2023

The company announced last year that Amazon Prime customers in Lockeford, CA, will start receiving package deliveries by drone by the end of 2022. The company began piloting this feature in March 2022 as part of a small beta test and is now officially rolling it out. Well, the wait is finally over. Online pet retailer Chewy Inc.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 14, 2018

Content Summary: Kentucky ranks 3rd in the nation in total air cargo shipments. Kentucky offers the UPS World Port in Louisville, DHL Americas hub in Northern Kentucky and several large FedEx ground hubs throughout Kentucky. It also hosts 11,500 trucking companies, two of which are in the nation’s top ten largest.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The April network breach led to an outage affecting the company’s operations after Americold forced it to shut down its IT network to contain the breach and “rebuild the impacted systems.” The bid would not be “confirmable by a bankruptcy court or in the best interests of Yellow’s stakeholders,” the letter said. The U.S.

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Lucas

JULY 9, 2019

Companies like Amazon and Walmart started this trend and now everybody else has to follow suit. Many companies are beginning to adapt to these new technologies to help the operate and meet needs of their customers. According to Rakuten (data company) who has been tracking Amazon for the last 2.5 United Parcel Service- 17%.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 15, 2020

I, as an employee of a growth venture ProcureTech company , am (of course) a bit biased within my opinions surrounding the stereotyped image of a startup, but I view startups as ‘market gap-fillers’. I have a vivid memory, as a child, of asking my grandfather about this right before the running of the Kentucky Derby. It’s blinders.

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 6, 2016

4 Ways the New Overtime Rule Hits Trucking Companies. The states named in the lawsuit include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin. NEW OVERTIME RULES. Department of Labor.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

After two years of negotiation, the two companies plan to build a $1.6B states under consideration are: Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. others at supplier or manufacturing support companies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Humans are meant to work alongside new machines in a way that should reduce injuries, the company says. Sequoia enables the company to put up items for sale on its website faster and be able to more easily predict delivery estimates, said David Guerin, the company’s director of robotic storage technology.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 24, 2013

YRC Worldwide is a Fortune 500 company based in Overland Park, KS. In 2012, the company had revenues of $4.9B. lower than 2011, however, it was the first time in 6 years that the company earned a profit. The company was founded in Oklahoma City, OK. YRC Freight is the largest subsidiary of YRC Worldwide Inc. Yellow Corp.

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