Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2015

Global parcel logistics firms have launched groundbreaking new distribution channels to offer Consumer Goods (CG) companies access to the traditional markets in places such as Latin America. The value it […].

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

While electronics, automotive, and consumer goods’ supply chains promote their products, the food supply chain represents a basic human necessity–food. The post The Ever-Expanding Role of AI and AR in Food Logistics appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis. The food supply chain is unlike any other.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Walmart is not the only big retailer with OTIF requirements, but as the world’s largest retailer, and a company with stringent requirements , Walmart’s OTIF requirements are top of mind for consumer goods companies. These solutions allow companies to prove that their goods arrived on-time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

Unlike some of the other trends articles we have covered at Logistics Viewpoints, which take a deeper dive into technology and application specific trends, this article looked at the top trends executives need to be paying attention to before their strategic planning meetings commence. Top Five Transportation Trends ; Chris Cunnane.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

One tactic major retailers have used to help increase their margins is to offer their own private label branded products as lower-cost alternatives to the consumer goods brands. Consumer goods manufacturers have struggled to combat these private label incursions, with varying degrees of success.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2023

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Procter & Gamble (P&G) , the American multinational consumer goods corporation, is continuing to invest in digital transformation, focusing specifically on the supply chain, retail execution, and environmental sustainability. The company is looking to hire 600 engineers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 2, 2023

And now on to this week’s logistics news. However, many of these companies are now reining in their logistics ambitions. There is no doubt that autonomous semi-trucks will change the face of logistics. The post This Week in Logistics News (May 27 – June 2) appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 3, 2022

Mike Allan is the President and CEO at Routeique , a cloud-based software platform for managing the logistics and delivery operation – both in the office, and in the field. Routeique gives fast-moving consumer goods businesses unprecedented supply chain insight, foresight and oversight. About Mike Allan. About Routeique.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 30, 2021

Watching the commercial definitely made me feel nostalgic for the good old days of 80’s cartoon mascots. And now on to this week’s logistics news. The distribution hub will be operated by XPO Logistics Supply Chain, which has already started hiring. You can watch the full spot here ; I won’t spoil the outcome for you.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

While this is not exactly the best news to hear, it’s time to move on to this week’s logistics news. Logistics and real-estate specialists say many large retailers are demanding extra room to store excess inventories, driving up costs for smaller companies and in some cases driving them out of spaces. Walmart to buy Alert Innovation.

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Material Handling & Logistics

MAY 7, 2018

"Today, any company wanting to assess the sustainability of their value chains faces a confusing array of different technical standards and auditing approaches,” Peter Freedman, managing director, The Consumer Goods Forum.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 8, 2023

Shane is Founder and CEO of Square1 Distribution & Logistics , a 3PL Warehouse that focuses on the Beauty and Packaged Food sectors. Shane Hanson Bio Shane Hanson is an experienced logistics executive with over 30 years of experience in distribution. He is also a US Army veteran.

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E2open

JULY 11, 2016

Turning Your Consumer Goods Supply Chain Into a Competitive Advantage. Today’s modern supply chains are multi-enterprise, starting with consumers, retailers, distributors; and flowing through an extended network of suppliers, contract manufacturers, and other third parties. Connect logistics to S&OP. Consumer Goods.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2021

GlobalTranz, a logistics service provider, put out a press release on February 23rd where they mentioned that they had achieved 40% growth in revenue, fourth quarter of 2020 compared to the fourth quarter of 2019. Robinson and Echo Global Logistics. Bob Farrell, Chairman and CEO of GlobalTranz. Echo’s revenues increased 41.9%.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 26, 2020

It is critical for retailers to quickly respond to these sudden changes, but many struggle with this because their planners still rely on spreadsheets and legacy tools to plan their logistics operations. Continue the discussion by clicking here to learn more about our smart solutions for logistics planning.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

Trends Transforming Logistics and Supply Chains In the MENA Region in 2023. by Dr Shereen Nassar , Global Director of Logistics Studies and Director of MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management Suite at Heriot-Watt University Dubai. Flexibility for Resilient and Optimised Logistics and Supply Chain. billion USD by 2026.

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Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 10, 2020

As the world moves toward near-sourcing, instantaneous commerce and automated logistics, these are the steps companies are taking to build efficient supply chains.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Logistics Managers Index (LMI) that declined to contractionary level and reflecting rather noteworthy trending. The report authors indicated that this decline was the largest since the start of the ongoing logistics industry downturn that that occurred in April 2022. Supply Chain Matters highlights the published November 2023 U.S.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Whatever the business — from fast-moving consumer goods to pharmaceuticals or automotive — the success of any enterprise is the result of its vertical market expertise.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2023

Under his leadership, MIT CTL has launched many educational, research, and industry/government outreach programs, including the MIT Master of Engineering in Logistics program in 1998, the MIT Master of Applied Sciences in Supply Chain Management, and the MIT on-line offering, MITx MicroMasters program in supply chain management.

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20Cube Logistics

MAY 23, 2022

Port-Centric Logistics (PCL) is a newly developed concept wherein the logistics and distribution services are located at the port. This is being seen as an alternative to inland logistic channels comprising distribution centres. They serve as the hubs for storing goods that are being delivered to different parts of a country.

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Manufacturing & Logistics IT

JULY 26, 2017

Struggles with the complexity of legacy systems are preventing consumer goods companies from achieving digital supply chain maturity and realising the benefits of end-to-end visibility and real-time access to data, according to research by EVRYTHNG, the Internet of Things Smart Products Platform.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

This is combined with data from external sources on weather, logistics lead times, and sustainability performance. The company claims that for one global consumer goods company the solution was making 12,000 recommendations in a month; 74% of those recommendations were auto accepted. appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Bricz is a consultancy with a focus on all things warehousing – appropriately headquartered in the logistics hotbed of Atlanta. Clarkston Consulting is focused on the Consumer Goods and Life Sciences industries. enVista provides across-the-board supply chain and logistics consulting.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 22, 2022

He is working with Microsoft, Accenture, and other partners to deliver a multi-tenant supply chain model that leverages data, the cloud, and shared pay-for-use robotics facilities, to allow consumer goods to reach customers next or same-day at the cost of standard delivery. The Logistics of Logistics Podcast.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Andrew Lynch is President and co-founder of Zipline Logistics , an award-winning North American 3PL that specializes exclusively in the transportation of retail consumer goods. About Zipline Logistics. Zipline Logistics was selected as an Inc. Zipline Logistics was selected as an Inc. Zipline Logistics.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 7, 2023

Logistics Managers Index (LMI) that dropped to an all-time low for May 2023. The May report narrative reinforced that “ the negatives seem to outweigh the positives in the logistics industry.” logistics industry continues in a state of recession. Supply Chain Matters highlights this week’s release of the U.S. The post U.S.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Editor's Note: Today's blog is from our friends at Morai Logistics. In this blog, Morai shares the top 10 reasons to pursue a career in logistics and supply chain. To most job seekers, a career in logistics or supply chain is just misunderstood — or invisible. The industry that ensures that it runs smoothly is called logistics.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

On today’s episode we welcome Andrew Lynch, Co-Founder & President of Zipline Logistics, an award-winning logistics service provider that specializes exclusively in the transportation of retail consumer goods and food and beverage products. We hope you enjoy “The Freight Project Podcast.”

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Locus

JULY 25, 2023

“E-commerce is becoming a reality,” the management consulting company stated, “reinventing consumers’ path to purchase, forming new customer experiences , disrupting business models, and creating growth opportunities for large and small retailers as well as for a new generation of pure E-commerce players.”

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Zipline Logistics

JUNE 15, 2021

Because of the changes to the retail and CPG industries, forward-thinking sporting goods shippers are looking to logistics as a differentiation strategy. As industries evolved to meet the needs of modern consumers, the supply chain has become a reliable source of competitive advantage.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Background For some time now, Supply Chain Matters has published viewpoints on the disruptive threat that online platform provider Amazon will and has had on both online and physical retail, but also package logistics, transport and last mile product fulfillment strategies surrounding many industry sectors.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Brand owner to contract manufacturer or third-party logistics provider to a retailer.) As shown in Figure 1, there are many types of networks: industry-focused networks, functionally focused networks (like sourcing and logistics) and specialized networks for discovery (marketplaces), product serialization, open innovation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Nulogy, for example, is a platform for collaboration between consumer goods brands and their copacker and comanufacturing partners. Chris Castle, the vice president of product management at Nulogy, said that collaboration in the consumer goods industry was more even handed than in industries like automotive.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 25, 2017

With the advent of digitalization, the logistics and supply chain industry is getting a complete makeover. Based on our observation of the past two years, following is a look at the trends that will revolutionize the logistics industry in 2018. Elastic Logistics. Blockchain. providing agility and scalability.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 3, 2015

Outsourcing in the supply chain of logistics teams may sound farfetched. Yet in outsourced logistics simply refers to hiring a third-party logistics service, 3PL, to handle the logistics services. Rechannels Logistics. Justin Brands Boots Their In-House Logistics Department to Outsourced Logistics.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2019

There is a lot of discussion today about supply chain transformation, most of it focused on the consumer goods and retail industries, but there are many challenges and opportunities in the Oil and Energy industry too. It’s an industry that has a major impact on the world economy and on our personal lives.

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