Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This growth was primarily attributed to the long-term project business, and regionally to North America and western Europe. Vanderlande is a member of Toyota Industries Corporation within the Toyota Advanced Logistics Group. KNAPP offers integrated warehouse systems and logistics software solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 15, 2022

Over the last couple of years, as the Covid pandemic has changed the way consumers interact and shop with retailers, brands, and consumer goods companies, last mile delivery has become increasingly important. The company uses FarEye , an intelligent delivery logistics platform, for its last mile delivery solution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Mars is one of the largest fast moving consumer goods companies in the world. Mr. Beery began by visiting Procter & Gamble, UPS Logistics, the devices division at Microsoft, and other companies with advanced supply chains. Mars Wrigley is achieving success in North America with this solution.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

Planners in China rely on different data sources and operate with different business practices than those in North America. If you take a big consumer goods company, you don’t need to just model products and customers,” o9’s CEO explained. appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 25, 2021

The past 12 months have been a year unlike any other for suppliers and providers in the CPG logistics world. According to data from the Consumer Brands Association (CBA), CPG sales in 2020 grew by 9.4% COVID’s Effects on CPG Logistics . Since the first quarter of 2020, CPG logistics costs have risen by 37% to an average of $1.71

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 24, 2015

Lots of supply chain and logistics news this week, so let’s go straight to the items that caught my attention: Amazon now ships to your Audi’s trunk ( USA Today ). UPS Brings Technology and Logistics Expertise to Study of Drone Use in Humanitarian Response. Amazon Reveals Just How Huge the Cloud Is for Its Business ( Wired ).

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Zipline Logistics

APRIL 13, 2020

Why You Should Care About a Logistics Provider’s Financial Risk . Shippers can suddenly find themselves receiving collections calls from carriers who were never paid by the shuttered logistics provider. That applies to any organization but is especially true for those in the consumer goods sector.? .

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Con-way Truckload and Con-way Multimodal Join Forces to Launch New Intermodal Service for North America. CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. Labor and management work out deal at Port of LA/Long Beach ( Logistics Management ).

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This is surprising because logistics technology adoption has historically occurred initially in North America and Western Europe, and then other economies adopt the technology after a substantial time lag. However, at this point it appears that mobile warehouse robotics adoption has accelerated rapidly in China.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 11, 2019

The fastest-growing industries included food and consumer goods (48 percent), plastics and rubber (37 percent), life sciences (31 percent), and electronics (22 percent). As companies use more and more robots in their manufacturing and logistics operations, what will the role of humans be?

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o9 Solutions

MARCH 1, 2021

Chris Gaffney and Dirk Lembregts will be sharing experience and insights from their long careers in supply chain management and logistics. Chris was previously the President of the National Product Supply Group, the governing body of the National Product Supply System responsible for 95% of the volume produced in North America.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 10, 2023

T he cascading logistical problems caused by the pandemic and the war in Eastern Europe have made securing a reliable supply chain a national imperative. 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.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Logistics Managers, Manufacturing Directors and other Supply Chain leaders often rose from the shop floor, from front-line warehousing and transportation positions. Other industries that don’t ship physical goods (for example Financial Services or Insurance) have adopted sophisticated Strategic Sourcing methodology for their Procurement.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2023

And now on to this week’s logistics news. For both vehicle passenger traffic, and for goods moving supply chains, this is going to be a major disruption in that region.” Sales of excavators in North America last year rose 23 percent over 2021 to 41,320 machines, the second-straight year of record sales, said Off-Highway Research.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 20, 2022

Supply chain concerns, however, don’t focus solely on the movement of consumer goods. ”[3] As a result of these logjams, McKinsey’s Tom Bartman ( @tom_bartman ) reports, “Global supply chains have been buckling under the strain of unprecedented demand and constricted effective logistics capacity. ”[4].

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Companies have shifted manufacturing outside of North America , and shipping has been consolidated to large, central import locations. Consumers are also getting pickier, and domestic manufacturing offers stronger quality control, and quicker turnaround from manufacturing to sale. What does this mean for freight?

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Supply Chain Network

JUNE 15, 2011

The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) released its 22nd “Annual State of Logistics Report®,” presented by Penske Logistics, today at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The report reveals that business logistics costs rose to 8.3 business logistics system jumped up 10.4

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 30, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters commentary, Executive Editor Bob Ferrari pens highlights of the 2022 Crossroads Event recently conducted by the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. This Editor had the opportunity to attend the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics ( CTL ) 2022 Crossroads Event. Background.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 2, 2022

percent in North America. Services revenues associated with the offering of logistics and order fulfillment services to third-party sellers reportedly rose 9 percent in the quarter. The company’s organic sales grew 8.1 percent in the first half of 2022, reportedly driven by price growth of 6.5 percent and volume growth of 1.7

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Zipline Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2021

According to a Logistics Management survey of industry professionals, “there is a strong sentiment that the 2021 Peak Season will be more active than it was a year ago, with 79% of respondents indicating that will be the case, with 16% contending it will be similar to 2020, and 5% expecting it to be less active.”. Supply Side Constraints.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 2, 2023

In contrast, performance levels related to North America , Europe and South America were noted as remaining weak, on average, compared to Asia. The trending likely involves industry-specific dimensions, a good example being high tech and consumer electronics supply network resiliency needs.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 26, 2021

For one of the high grade ethylene required, there is only one manufacturer in North America, who is in Texas (Eastman Chemical). This episode was a humbling experience, and if variants in weather due to global warming continues to occur, companies need to look at alternative ways to manage their plastics and materials supply chains.

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Elementum

AUGUST 2, 2017

by 2020 globally, the logistics industry is booming. Logistics, the complex operation involving the movements of people, facilities, and supplies, is applied in every industry from manufacturing to retail to trade. The global logistics market is expected to grow from US $8.1T XPO Logistics Inc., in 2015 to US $15.5T

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 15, 2019

I consulted with some of the contacts I’d built at the executive level across North America. We’ve built a peerless network in the areas of Procurement, Logistics, Change Management, Strategic Sourcing, Planning, and other functional areas in Supply Chain. At that point, I found myself at a bit of a crossroads.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Specific Example- A Multinational Foods Manufacturer A specific example involves a multinational consumer goods food manufacturer. This particular company’s product production and distribution network material flows involve 38 facilities across North America. AutoSchedler.ai

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In our quest to emulate what the Japanese were doing, here in North America, we looked to import those techniques and philosophies. And then the concept of Just In Time came to North America from Japan. Pouring millions into fixed warehouse structures with some level of automation. A shortage of healthcare items (eg.

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Elementum

JUNE 11, 2018

Think about the supply chain of virtually every consumer good. Transportation can be a significant part of a business’ logistics costs— potentially upwards of 55 percent. Around a 26 percent increase is expected for this trend, significantly in Europe, while onshoring will increase in North America. Nearshoring.

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Elementum

JUNE 11, 2018

Think about the supply chain of virtually every consumer good. Transportation can be a significant part of a business’ logistics costs— potentially upwards of 55 percent. Around a 26 percent increase is expected for this trend, significantly in Europe, while onshoring will increase in North America. Nearshoring.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Earlier this week, FedEx announced a partnership with eight historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to build a pipeline of logistics and supply chain professionals. Some of the fastest growth in robot orders is in the metals and food and consumer goods industries.

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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Interviews with executives at 10 companies across the food, consumer goods and commodities sectors reveal that many are grappling with how to defend their profit margins as transportation costs climb at nearly double the inflation rate. A third said it was discussing prospective price increases with retailers.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 15, 2013

The meeting was kicked off by a business meeting, and I had the distinction of being elected as the Chairman of the newly formed Carolinas chapter, with Larry Basil (VP from APS Logistics, far left) serving as the Vice Chairman. Center for Global Logistics and the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative at NC State University.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

That makes China a highly attractive market for imports, if you have a logistics provider who knows how to deliver your imports. Logistics companies in China are not created equal. Requirements for importing goods to China are stringent, and not all logistics providers will have the capabilities to ship where your products are going.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

” And now on to this week’s logistics news. Gretchen McCarthy, Target’s chief global supply chain & logistics officer, said Target has to keep up with customer expectations — namely getting online purchases conveniently and quickly. The expansion will also grow Target’s workforce. That’s all for this week.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

This is the one metric within a manufacturer that supply chain/logistics organization, manufacturing and procurement organizations are aligned to. Another example is in Consumer Goods industry with coffee. It is all in the sequence you improve them and what is your starting point.

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Material Handling & Logistics

MARCH 23, 2018

Since consumer goods account for a large chunk of exports from China to the U.S., the Beijing-based computer manufacturer, gets almost a third of its $43 billion in annual revenue from North America by selling its products to companies such as HP Inc. some Chinese manufacturers are preparing for the worst.

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