Talking Logistics

APRIL 24, 2015

Swisslog acquires warehouse automation provider FORTE Industries in the United States. AWS revenues grew 49 percent in Q1 2015 compared to Q1 2014, while the rest of its North America business grew 22 percent. Though Amazon made its name selling consumer goods, its retail operation is covered in red ink.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

The digital consumer often wants to shop online, pick up at the store, and conveniently manage returns. Each year I go to the Consumer Goods and Technology (CGT) conference where speaker-after-speaker talks about retail/supplier collaboration. Collaborative relationships need a good signal for inventory.

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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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Enterra Insights

MAY 20, 2022

Supply chain concerns, however, don’t focus solely on the movement of consumer goods. … Beijing’s zero-tolerance approach to Covid has idled factories and warehouses, slowed truck deliveries and worsened container logjams. Hospitals from the U.S. ” Consequences of Chinese Lockdowns. ”[4].

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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). For related commentary, see Amazon Tests Robots for Warehouse Item Picking. Watch the short commentary then post your perspective!

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 10, 2023

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. From there, you can properly set up the warehouse location, product mix, and inventory density.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 2, 2022

percent in North America. Company executives cited good progress in addressing the previously acknowledged overbuild of customer fulfillment and warehousing capacity while overall number of employees was reduced by 6 percent. The company’s organic sales grew 8.1 percent and volume growth of 1.7

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2023

This is also about supply chains, about 150,000 vehicles a day, and a good percentage of that is trucking. For both vehicle passenger traffic, and for goods moving supply chains, this is going to be a major disruption in that region.” And now on to this week’s logistics news. Nearly three quarters (74 percent) of U.S.

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RFgen

JANUARY 2, 2019

To meet that regulation and gain full product and ingredient traceability, the food producer successfully deployed RFgen Mobile Foundations for Oracle’s JD Edwards with RFgen Warehouse Director. Consumer Goods. Why Use Mobile Barcoding in Discrete Manufacturing. Electronics and Computers. Aerospace, Aviation and Defense.

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Supply Chain Network

JUNE 15, 2011

percent last year due to higher costs for taxes, obsolescence, depreciation, and insurance, which were offset by a further drop in the inventory carrying rate and warehousing costs. Manufacturing and business spending were the bright spots during much of 2010, while consumer goods production was almost flat.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides the second in a four-part series of market education postings addressing the evolving use of Cloud based control layer technology platforms applied to warehousing and customer fulfillment processes.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

I started my career in a manufacturing company, working in various functions from the production floor through to warehousing, engineering, Supply Chain, and various back office support functions. In our quest to emulate what the Japanese were doing, here in North America, we looked to import those techniques and philosophies.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Your inventory consists of raw material (the tree) to the finished product in your warehouse. Consumer goods manufacturer Boise didn’t have to imagine this scenario. It’s absolutely about being close to customers,” said Tim Ingle, Group Vice President for Enterprise Strategy at Toyota Motor North America.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Another example is in Consumer Goods industry with coffee. At some point, a company like Kraft used to own biscuits, cheese, pizza, confectionery, beverage, meats… with products delivered to customer directly to stores (DSD), through the customer warehouses or via wholesalers across more than 100 countries.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

More companies are exploring ways to staff warehouses with robots but may have to wait a few years for the technology to catch up. More than a fifth of warehouse operators have invested in automation to help address labor shortages, particularly as they worked to handle surging e-commerce orders during the pandemic.

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