Operations and Supply Chain Management

OCTOBER 18, 2021

A growing number of logistics operators and industry observers see the snarls bottling up supply chains this year extending deep into 2022. Freight heavyweight J.B. Hunt’s third-quarter earnings signal a strong market for freight operators, but increasingly restrained economic forecasts suggest clouds on the horizon. E-Commerce.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2023

And now on to this week’s logistics news. US homes 8 retailers keeping Earth Day alive through a commitment to sustainability Ground parcel delivery costs reached a record high in Q1, although pricing discounts from carriers softened the blow, according to the TD Cowen/AFS Freight Index. percent for Q4. into an electric vehicle hub.

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NC State SCRC

MARCH 4, 2019

The shortage of workers is causing companies to look at non-traditional sources, including individual with a criminal record. The shortage of workers has hit the trucking and logistics industry particularly hard. Freight rates are on the rise, and there are signs that the shortage are unlikely to abate.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

And last month, we witnessed the havoc that winter storm Jonas unleashed along the east coast , dumping more than two feet of snow in Washington, DC, New York City, and other major cities, leading to thousands of flight cancellations and gridlock on the roads. That was the central question Matt Castle, Director of Air Freight Services at C.H.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Your stakeholders can: Align sourcing, purchasing, logistics, and I.T. management and related logistics objectives. Discrepancies decrease between planned and actual logistics activity. Buyers, planners, and logistics staff spend less time and money tracking order status. Sourcing uses P.O.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

If you are a product manufacturer, you know all too well the perils of shipping products from your factory or warehouse to a DC or retailer. Many shipping companies will stack pallets on top of one another to maximize their load, so you need to know this important piece of logistical information as well. . Trucking Logistics.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 23, 2017

Call it a cop-out if you like, but seriously, predicting which logistics and supply chain trends will make a difference to businesses in any given year has become notoriously difficult, given the speed at which technology in particular can suddenly disrupt the way things are done. Key Logistics Trend #2: Autonomous Road Transportation.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The Tesla Semi Truck Will Change Freight. Freight innovation frequently focuses on moving data better – like visibility, eBookings , and the new generation of forwarders and brokers. The Tesla Semi in the Wild (Source: reddit). What The Tesla Semi Means For Domestic and International 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 Opz

JUNE 1, 2014

There are two things Boeing and Airbus have in common, utilization of lean manufacturing system and strategic sourcing concept. However, the overall implementation of strategic sourcing is a bit different between the two companies. In order to compensate a long waiting time, Adidas uses air freight or courier service.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But what do these terms mean for the logistics industry? At Blue Yonder, we believe every logistics stakeholder should be excited about advanced technologies like AI. So, let’s take a few minutes to define some of the most common terms related to managing logistics via advanced technology. What exactly is a data cloud?

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

APRIL 30, 2019

It begins by recognizing that you do not have to be a logistics authority to optimize your supply chain. . Orders of varying quantities can be consolidated automatically to optimize freight, timelines, and cost. How do you optimize your supply chains to be efficient and responsive when you lack unified visibility to them?

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

APRIL 30, 2019

It begins by recognizing that you don’t have to be a logistics authority to optimize your supply chain. . Orders of varying quantities can be consolidated automatically to optimize freight, timelines, and cost. How do you optimize your supply chains to be efficient and responsive when you lack unified visibility to them?

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 15, 2018

But I believe that by the late 2020s, fully automated warehouses will be the norm rather than the exception, especially in larger logistics operations. A combination of automated trucks, conveyor systems, and picking robots will enable inventory to pass through the DC with very little direct human intervention. In the Air.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

JULY 22, 2020

The company’s initiative means that it will work to transition its manufacturing suppliers to renewable sources of electricity to power their operations. Logistics Management). Freight forwarder Kuehne + Nagel International’s second-quarter operating earnings fell 28.5% DC Velocity). Patriot-News). Lloyd’s List).

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Pivot88

JULY 9, 2019

Logistics costs & air freight. Pivot88’s quality software offers the possibility to do easier and faster inspections in all stages of manufacturing from lab tests, T1-T2, incoming, inline, final and DC, in order to have true 360º visibility on your products’ quality. • Legal fees. Forecasting errors. Complaint handling.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 29, 2015

We conclude our ongoing series in talking about effective KPI management by giving you a real live Logistics KPIs management case study from Whirlpool's engagement with a logistics service level provider. The Reiterated Importance of Understanding and Managing KPIs in Business and Logistics Management.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 29, 2015

Now, for this week’s supply chain and logistics news… HighJump Acquires Nexternal. March 2015 North American Freight Numbers. NAFTA freight totaled $96.1 NAFTA freight flows by all modes decreased by 5.3 Mexico freight totaled $45.2 Mexico freight totaled $45.2 Mexico freight than in March 2014.

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Turvo

JULY 31, 2020

The pressure to better manage and evolve peak season logistics before the holidays has never been higher in this era of uncertainty. Meanwhile, uncertainty remains the name of the game in peak season logistics planning. Furthermore, unifying supply chain data within a single source of truth and applying big data analytics go together.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The world of supply chain and logistics is changing every day. Each one is featured as having done something unique to reinvent their supply chain and logistics. Coyote Logistics @CoyoteLogistics Coyote Logistics prides itself on its innovative logistics and supply chain philosophy.

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Intelligent Audit

MAY 2, 2022

Actionable analytics and insights are meaningful findings resulting from data collection, interpretation, and logistics intelligence. As highlighted by Transport Topics in a January 2022 article discussing freight shipping analytics, “ Data shows total truckload rates year-over-year are holding around 12% higher.

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Gravity Supply Chain

OCTOBER 24, 2022

We are now in a period of global economic uncertainty, and from a supply chain perspective, rapidly reducing freight rates, blank sailings, significant new capacity entering the market from 2023, and no specific timelines to prepare for a global recovery. . The supply chain is the backbone of any business.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 30, 2015

China is not only an attractive market in terms of sourcing and manufacturing but also for the sale of goods due to the rapid growth of its middle class. For example, no single logistics service provider has a distribution network resembling anything close to nationwide coverage. Regional DC. Bugaboo opted for that solution.

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Gravity Supply Chain

APRIL 14, 2020

6 ways supply chain health checks ensure streamlined operations, mitigate risk, minimize disruption, meet customer needs and protect the bottom line.

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Supply Chain Network

MAY 4, 2014

Millions of pallets are built and used in the supply chains of Canada every year and so any innovation around these pallets can have a significantly positive and far reaching impact on overall logistics and supply chain performance. The preferred method to manufacture FRP is compression molding.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

So how can Brick And Mortar Retailers turn their stores into a competitive advantage plus a source of greater profitability? They can either markdown the goods or they can return the items back to the DC. Additionally fulfilling E-Commerce orders from your DC is likely to be slower, and more expensive. All Rights Reserved.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 15, 2020

Sure there were hundreds of thousands of different books but from a logistics standpoint there was a well understood way of handling them. Much of the product was sourced from vendors all over the world, most significantly from Asia, where the company had absolutely zero experience in sourcing, supplier management, or logistics.

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Logility

DECEMBER 14, 2012

This year’s 2012 Sailing to New Heights with Logility Award was presented to KGP Logistics, one of the country's largest single-source value-added suppliers of supply chain services, communications equipment and integrated solutions to the telecommunications industry.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 23, 2019

Sure there were hundreds of thousands of different books but from a logistics standpoint there was a well understood way of handling them. Much of the product was sourced from vendors all over the world, most significantly from Asia, where the company had absolutely zero experience in sourcing, supplier management, or logistics.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Whether that is the case or not, a brief study of the origins and progression of fleet route optimisation, covering the last three decades or so and looking forward to the near future, highlights in a spectacular way how technology, in particular, has revolutionised the business of logistics. Could Drones Ease Road Congestion?

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 7, 2015

Major transformational change in supply chain and logistics is not a frequent occurrence, but it has happened with regularity throughout history: The advent of the steam engine and the related rise of railway and steamship lines. The post Next-Gen Supply Chain Management appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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