Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

When you can barely see beyond the bow of the ship, when extreme wind and waves threaten to throw you off course – or worse, sink you – it’s understandable that long-term thinking can get chucked overboard like so much extra ballast. I can only imagine what it must be like to be at sea during a major storm. He lives in Chicago.

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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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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 6, 2017

2017 started right where 2016 left off: with plenty of supply chain and logistics news. Radiant Logistics Announces Plan to Acquire Canada-Based Lomas Logistics. October 2016 North American Freight Numbers. Of course, Amazon continues to make the headlines. Happy New Year! The answer is at the end. million in cash.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

At the original Thanksgiving feast, the pickings were much slimmer and all ingredients were sourced locally. 1] She note there are only two known historical sources describing the three-day long feast shared by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag natives at Plymouth Colony in 1621. The pilgrims hunted and ate the eastern wild turkey, M.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 3, 2023

Of course, the essential question is: How do we get there? Luciano Sieber, Vice President of End-to-End Supply Chain for North America at Colgate-Palmolive, sums up the need to recognize and master volatility: “Resilience has a clear definition at Colgate: thriving in a world of uncertainty.”

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 21, 2015

Instead, I clicked the Delete key about 985 times over the course of the week, because most of the emails were either junk, outdated, or not worth keeping. One of the emails I did keep and read with interest was the first item in this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Infor to Acquire GT Nexus.

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Cathy Roberson

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Expanding and shifting sourcing Earlier this year, a number of retailers told analysts that they had expanded their sourcing partners to diversify inventories and mitigate risks. Floor & Decor is one of the latest retailers to diversify its countries of origin by moving a large portion of sourcing out of China.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 20, 2022

Of course, Shanghai isn’t the only Chinese city affected by COVID-19 outbreaks. ”[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. ”[2]. ”[4]. .”[7]

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

To date, most of our content has covered topics related either to logistics or manufacturing outsourcing. But, of course, what those circumstances are is for you to decide. However, I can’t recall writing a general guide about exploiting outsourcing opportunities to improve your supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2021

Thirty-six years ago today marks either one of the greatest marketing blunders or success stories of all-time, depending on how you look at it, of course. And now on to this week’s logistics news. In total, the company will source enough renewable energy in Europe to power the equivalent of more than two million homes a year.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 8, 2016

This increase in bottleneck capacity will undoubtedly reshape the freight flows between Asia and North America. Nevertheless, a major disruption, such as a strike, in the Port of LA leading could easily precipitate this course of action, so adopting a complacent attitude could have severe consequences.

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Elementum

JUNE 6, 2016

Mexican government sources cite competitive advantages such as a stable currency exchange rate, advantageous regulatory conditions for trading, and highway and rail accessibility with over 150 international harbors. Mexico has its share of challenges, of course. These advantages give the country an edge over, say, China and Brazil.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Over my career I have established supply chains for global leaders like EMC, Cisco, HP and others in China, Europe, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, Mexico and across North America. How has Business and Supply Chain changed over the course of your career? Over the last 25 years Supply Chain and Business have evolved dramatically.

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IQMS

JULY 2, 2018

This month IQMS interviewed 151 manufacturers in North America to understand the current and plans for analytics and manufacturing intelligence, mobility, quality and real-time monitoring. Source: Capgemini Internet of Things (IoT) study, Unlocking the business value of IoT in operations.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 26, 2020

Our interactions spanned the full range of Customer-Supply Chain activities: materials costing, planning, materials availability, inventory, delivery performance, and logistics. How has the Business and Supply Chain changed over the course of your career? Derek was always the consummate professional.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 11, 2014

Cargill Animal Nutrition (CAN) is clustered around five major regions: North America; Latin America; EMEAR, including Russia; South Asia and East Asia. I split this off from global sourcing because we had plenty of buyers but not enough planning and logistics so service and documentation was failing.

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Unleashed

MAY 22, 2022

Now all of a sudden we have grown from where we were to where we are now, and we can see that if we triple the size of our business again in the next 2–3 years, we’re going to need to have a far easier supply chain, and a far easier source of supply of those ingredients to ensure that we can actually deliver that growth.”

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Our interactions spanned the full range of Customer-Supply Chain activities: materials costing, planning, materials availability, inventory, delivery performance, and logistics. How has the Business and Supply Chain changed over the course of your career? Derek was always the consummate professional.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

The company sources goods from 34,000 suppliers out of 30 nations. The goods flow through 2 import centers, 14 strategically located distribution centers in North America, 66 final mile shipping hubs, and nearly 1,700 branch locations. Products, of course, can be picked up at the branches. Across the US, Ferguson has 6.5

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JULY 26, 2013

Logistics and Distribution. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Supply Chain Planners were involved to correct this situation & issue of Purchase Requisitions missing Source of Supply got addressed. Communication Services. Financial Services.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 30, 2022

The experience stems from the ground up as an operator, then assuming global roles spanning Asia, Europe, and North America and the journey has been incredibly exciting and fulfilling. Thereafter I played an integral role in the integration of EGL and TNT Logistics to form Ceva. People make the difference!

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Of course, there is no quick and easy way to curb increases in the cost of energy and labour, but now is an excellent time to start thinking about practical ways to reduce energy usage and increase labour productivity and efficiency. It also offers benefits regardless of whether you are already using energy-efficient light sources.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2021

A lot of this effort comes down to more sustainable sourcing, which tends to make environmental-conscious consumers happy. And now on to this week’s logistics news. Starbucks to improve sustainable coffee sourcing. Port congestion has caused a lot of shipping delays over the course of the last year.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 28, 2020

Refrigerated transportation is particularly at a premium and can be difficult to secure if not working with a logistics provider with an expansive network. Of course, annual floods and frosts can alter crop outputs. If you ship in or out of Connecticut, don’t expect produce to affect your logistics operation much.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Why NASCES Gets our Nod Elementum has always made it a point to attend the North America Supply Chain Executive Summit (NASCES). It’s a well-attended event with several hundred supply chain leaders, consultants, and partners all converging at the Westin event center in North Shore Chicago.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Why NASCES Gets our Nod Elementum has always made it a point to attend the North America Supply Chain Executive Summit (NASCES). It’s a well-attended event with several hundred supply chain leaders, consultants, and partners all converging at the Westin event center in North Shore Chicago.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 24, 2020

And with less manufacturing output there were fewer container ships leaving Asia full of goods meaning activity in ports in North America and Europe would slow down rather quickly. A natural starting point is the level of single, or sole sourcing, that is put in place. Italy locked down the country.

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Intelligent Audit

APRIL 1, 2021

Dealing with the details and complexities of logistics invoices for the supply chain is a full-time job. While each shipping mode presents more complexity for managing the freight audit , having a single validated source of truth across your supply chain opens up endless possibilities for shipment and cost optimization.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 9, 2016

The are the 8 Rights of Lean Transportation thinking: Right Materials, Right Quantity, Right time, Right Place, Right Source, Right Price, Right Quantity, and. It is surprising how far people walk in the course of a year in many processes. Of course idling cannot be completely eliminated, but it can certainly be reduced.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

The company was replenishing dealers’ inventory weekly, using direct shipment and cross-docking operations from source warehouses located near Deere & Company’s manufacturing facilities. The company grew substantially over the course of two decades, achieving a considerable portion of that growth by way of acquisitions.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

I’m speaking, of course, of the growing number of companies who are either making a choice to manufacture in America by never offshoring in the first place or moving manufacturing back to America from overseas. There are many names for it: localization, near-shoring, reshoring, and onshoring. An article written by Willy C.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 20, 2019

When I talk to worldwide businesses in Asia, Oceania, North America, or anywhere else, their chief concern is always the same: how do we meet our customers where they are to get them the products and services they want, all while keeping our own business strategy central? It’s a tricky tightrope to navigate.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Now of course, companies must map out the potential impacts of the Russia Ukraine war. Carriers, freight forwarders, and shippers that were dealing with the China to North America trade lanes were already operating in crisis mode. In terms of trade, these are not critical, single-sourced Tier 1 inputs needed in manufacturing.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 28, 2017

Third-party logistics providers are evolving in the wake of changing politics, increased public scrutiny and demand for more value-based, not asset-based, services. While up to 75 percent of shippers have seen overall logistics cost reductions through such partnerships, more or looking for better ways to take advantage of the partnership.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Meanwhile, supply chain risk management solutions can be used to monitor the financial health of upstream vendors so that alternative sources of supply can be secured promptly if key vendors are in trouble. China, of course, is likely to react to these measures in ways that may be hard to predict. That did not happen.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 30, 2023

There are of course the challenges from a potential recession and the increasing severity and frequency of climate change disruptions. What happened instead was massive theft of intellectual property, huge trade deficits, the hollowing out of the middle class in Europe and North America, and the rise of nativist politics.

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