Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 26, 2023
Last night, I took my 13-year-old son to see the movie Air, which tells the story of how Nike pursued basketball rookie Michael Jordan in 1984 to sign with the company. Last month, the company released its third annual “Brand Protection Report” and said it disposed of over 6 million counterfeit goods in 2022. Inventories at U.S.
Supply Chain Shaman
OCTOBER 25, 2013
This post is a commentary to companies that are challenging the traditional Advanced Planning System (APS) paradigms and trying to forge a new path. With its origins in “fast MRP”, the company has gone through multiple name changes to establish an identity and gain market traction. I am part of the problem. 1) Kinaxis.
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Multichannel Merchant
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Through our work with Gatik, we’ve identified that autonomous box trucks offer an efficient, safe and sustainable solution for transporting goods on repeatable routes between our stores,” said Tom Ward, senior vice president of last mile at Walmart U.S.
Talking Logistics
MAY 12, 2017
Oracle Optimizes Global Transportation and Trade Compliance Processes. Setback for Uber as European court advised to treat it as transport firm (Reuters). Target to test next-day delivery service in Minneapolis (Reuters). March 2017 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). It made a lot of sense, but would it work?
Supply Chain Movement
JUNE 11, 2014
Today it operates in 67 countries with 143,000 employees and has 76 business units on six platforms that cover animal feed, food production, energy and transportation, financial services and pharmaceuticals. Still, after nearly 150 years, it remains a privately owned company. Jaro Caban, moved with Provimi into the Cargill fold.
Supply Chain Collaborator
JUNE 4, 2020
The images of truck driver Reginald Denny pulled from his tractor and beaten to near death during the LA Riots in 1992 are eerily similar to the beating of driver, Bogdan Vecherko on a freeway bridge in Minneapolis this week. And they’re accomplished in ways that do not add to the cost of transportation logistics to the shipper.
DAT Solutions
MARCH 13, 2018
Gene Schultz standing next to one of his company's trucks in 1984. He liquidated the business in 1991, and in 1997 he and two other partners started another trucking company, Hiawatha Transport, which they later sold. Schultz's dispatch board was a series of time-card slots mounted to the wall in the company's dispatch office.
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