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.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2023

My colleague Clint Reiser has completed a study on warehouse management system (WMS) boutiques. 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.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 3, 2022

Routeique gives fast-moving consumer goods businesses unprecedented supply chain insight, foresight and oversight. With Scott’s expertise in the warehousing space and Mike’s expertise in technology, they first created an order portal and increased the number of tools from there. About Routeique.

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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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3PL Insights

JANUARY 10, 2023

January 10, 2023 — Evans Distribution Systems, a full-service third-party logistics provider of warehousing, transportation, fulfillment, value-added, and staffing solutions, has been recognized as a 2023 Top 3PL Provider by Multichannel Merchant (MCM). MELVINDALE, Mich. For more information, visit our website at www.evansdist.com.

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3PL Insights

JULY 19, 2021

Evans offers a full spectrum of 3PL services including warehousing, transportation, fulfillment, value-added services, staffing and packaging. The evans365 portal showcases warehouse data graphically and provides customers with interactive dashboards.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 7, 2022

These lower costs can then reduce the overall cost of consumer goods. which furthermore enables them to lower the costs for consumer goods. By some estimates, 65 percent of consumer goods are delivered using trucks. This is a requirement to effectively satisfy today’s consumer demands.

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C3 Solutions

AUGUST 31, 2022

Inefficient warehousing practices are a serious issue. Essentially, the warehouses of yesteryear can no longer accommodate today’s volumes. Spikes in demand result in more raw materials and machinery to accommodate a larger supply of consumer goods.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I see a similar paradigm playing out in the warehouse automation landscape of China. Sure, it may have higher throughput (bandwidth) than warehouse robotics, but robotics offers benefits in other forms – greater flexibility and faster time-to-value. Traditional “bolted-down” automation is the landlines in this paradigm.

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3PL Insights

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

February 14, 2023 — Evans Distribution Systems , a full-service third-party logistics provider of warehousing, transportation, fulfillment, value-added, and staffing solutions, introduces Leslie Delekta as the Director of Customer Solutions. MELVINDALE, Mich., Delekta has been with Evans since 2016.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2023

A central part of Amazon’s ultrafast delivery strategy is its network of warehouses that the company calls same-day sites. The facilities are a fraction of the size of Amazon’s large fulfillment warehouses and are designed to prepare products for immediate delivery. The company’s Supply Chain 3.0

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Consumer Goods Logistics

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Along with the truck driver shortage, reliable warehouse workers are also hard to find and keep, and wages continue to rise. Warehouse automation, mechanization and robotics can be part of the answer to the warehouse labor shortage, but they can’t be universally applied.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Blue Yonder was named a Leader in this inaugural report and the leader in the Better Functionality quadrant based on an evaluation of our Blue Yonder Warehouse Management solution. The consumer-centric era needs new levels of fulfillment speed, agility, responsiveness, and risk mitigation. In Charles A.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 2, 2021

Kimberly-Clark is public consumer goods company that generated over $19 billion in revenues last year. This consumer goods behemoth has driven ongoing supply chain productivity through their FORCE (Focused On Reducing Costs Everywhere) program. Not surprisingly, many of FourKites’ users work in transportation operations.

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Consumer Goods Logistics

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This is an update of a previously published blog on warehouse change management. With the explosion of technology on the warehouse floor and the increasing use of robots and other warehouse automation , work processes are changing.

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Consumer Goods Logistics

AUGUST 12, 2021

Vacancy rates for distribution warehouse space are near all-time lows and that’s forced shippers and 3PLs to rethink traditional strategies to support growth. We recently talked with KANE’s Chief Commercial Officer, Stan Schrader, about the impact of the real estate shortage on current product distribution.

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Consumer Goods Logistics

MARCH 30, 2021

Today, it’s a seller’s market and power users of warehouse space, like large CPG companies, don’t have the same ability they once had to access the space they need at the rates and terms they desire. The industrial real estate market has changed dramatically in the last year.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

A McKinsey’s report published in 2022 indicates that 32 per cent of people from industries like automotive, consumer goods, and pharmaceutical find demand variability and forecasting responsible for value chain disruptions. There is a rise in eco-friendly warehouse facilities, and improved use of electric fleets in the industry.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A variety of other technologies, such as robots and advanced warehouse management systems, leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for data-driven decision-making. Robotics enabled with AI and ML augment the work of humans in warehouses and distribution centers. Artificial Intelligence AND Machine Learning.

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Cross docking is an option to consider if you’re thinking about ways to streamline your supply chain – it’s a popular distribution system for fast-moving consumer goods, but can be used in a variety of other industries. The goods are sorted and transported to their final destination. Why is cross docking used?

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6 River Systems

JULY 3, 2020

There are many factors to consider when designing a warehouse layout, and every design decision can have a significant impact on operational efficiency. Curtis Barry & Company , labor comprises more than half of a warehouse’s total operations costs. According to F.

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Alloy

JUNE 13, 2023

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Consumer Goods Logistics

MAY 24, 2018

Warehouse productivity. Every warehousing operation on earth would like to be more productive, but too few actually invest the time to stop, retool and make it happen.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

Top 20 Warehouse Automation Suppliers Worldwide ; Clint Reiser. ARC Advisory Group began conducting formalized research on the global warehouse automation market in 2014. I picked a good time to cover what is now well-known to be a hot market consisting of many successful warehouse automation suppliers. billion in 2019.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

In consumer goods industries, better forecasting leads to lower fines from retailers for late or incomplete deliveries. Large consumer goods companies believe that solutions based on a graph database also have real potential. This increases sales.

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RFgen

JUNE 21, 2017

Warehouse managers have many opportunities to respond to the “Amazon Effect.” For example, a Logistics Viewpoints story guest written by industry expert Karen Sage explained that consumers increasingly expect free shipping within a day or two, one small response to Amazon’s business models.

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RFgen

JUNE 21, 2017

Warehouse managers have many opportunities to respond to the “Amazon Effect.” For example, a Logistics Viewpoints story guest written by industry expert Karen Sage explained that consumers increasingly expect free shipping within a day or two, one small response to Amazon’s business models.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Imagine stepping back in time to visit a large warehousing operation in 1990. To save you from a meltdown, let’s take a brief journey through warehouse operating developments from 1990 to 2045. 1990: A Fine Vintage for Warehouse Operators. 1990: A Fine Vintage for Warehouse Operators. Is your mind boggling yet?

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 6, 2023

which is attributable to Q4 holiday sales and the subsequent dips in Warehousing Capacity (+3.6) and slowdown in Warehousing Utilization (-14.0) The above is relatively good news for retail and consumer goods businesses given the inventory overhang that has dogged the industry for far too long.

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RFgen

JULY 18, 2017

Decentralizing a business’ warehouse setup creates overhead and complexity that has long left companies working to bring resources into a central location. This may be a simple version of a distributed warehouse model, but even this method is highly reliant on careful collaboration between supply chain and warehouse managers.

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RFgen

JULY 18, 2017

Decentralizing a business’ warehouse setup creates overhead and complexity that has long left companies working to bring resources into a central location. This may be a simple version of a distributed warehouse model, but even this method is highly reliant on careful collaboration between supply chain and warehouse managers.

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Consumer Goods Logistics

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Manufacturers and retailers who outsource distribution activities to third-party logistics companies (3PLs) understand that there is a certain amount of churn among warehouse workers. When you work with a 3PL with high warehouse employee turnover, it drags down your business in ways far beyond what you might think.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

In the past five years, companies have 5-10X the number of AGVs in their warehouses, but 40-60% more planners in corporate. We have successfully reduced warehouse labor, but planning is more labor intensive today, and less effective. Planning Needs to Change. Performance Declines. ” My answer is, “I don’t think so.

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20Cube Logistics

MAY 23, 2022

This resulted in inefficient transportation networks that consumed unnecessary time and cost. Through a Port-Centric Logistics model, the goods can be delivered directly from the port warehouses to the customers. All the goods and services are treated as fast-moving products as the urgency has become a norm.

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Consumer Goods Logistics

JANUARY 19, 2022

But an increasing number of CPG companies are recognizing the huge cost advantages up – to 30% of combined warehousing/packaging/freight costs – of integrating final packaging with distribution center operations, and working with secondary packaging suppliers that can make that happen.

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