Freightos

AUGUST 6, 2016

The Cultural Obstacles to Better Logistics. A version of this article originally appeared in The Journal of Commerce (August 6, 2016). Technology has never been more critical for logistics than now. DHL seeded its empire by moving ocean documentation faster than cargo ships. Logistics isn’t doomed to outdated technology.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 19, 2015

It’s the last Friday of school and my kids are showing off their work this morning, so as I fill my coffee mug and get ready for the walk to school, let’s go straight to the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Amazon’s Next Delivery Drone: You (WSJ – sub. The $50 Billion Question: Can Uber Deliver?

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Driverless vehicles and package delivery dominated the supply chain and logistics news this week, so let’s go straight to it: Google wants to deliver packages from self-driving trucks ( Quartz ). Amazon expands logistics reach in China ( Reuters ). USPS reports Q1 revenue gains ( Logistics Management ). Will it succeed?

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 21, 2017

Now, moving on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Amazon won a patent for an on-demand clothing manufacturing warehouse (Recode). Oracle Warehouse Management Cloud Update Helps Businesses Scale Logistics to Meet Multi-Channel Demand. Logistics Platform Haven Sets Sights on SAP with Launch of Haven TMS.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 18, 2014

DHL launches new logistics service for life sciences products handled at extremely low temperatures. Penske Logistics Joins CargoNet to Enhance Supply Chain Security. Atlas B2B integration tools provide transformation and translation of critical business documents on-premise or in the cloud. drug enforcement officials.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2014

Ratings for President Obama’s “State of the Union” address were the lowest since 2000 , but if you tuned in, he raised a couple of points related to supply chain and logistics. This process requires the collection, organization, filing and retention of well over one million documents annually [emphasis mine],” Wal-mart said.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 12, 2024

The development, initially reported by The Wall Street Journal citing informed sources, involves the interviewing of passengers and crew members who were on-board the aircraft at the time of the incident. This report accounts for the notions of unconforming quality repair needs that are termed traveled work.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MARCH 7, 2013

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal shows pictures of logistics couriers in China riding scooters, with stacks of deliveries teetering six feet up in the air, parked outside of office buildings in downtown Shanghai. Development of the logistics industry is imperative in China.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Google did not acquire a third-party logistics (3PL) company or a logistics software vendor. Making supply chain and logistics predictions is like throwing darts at a moving target. The Case for Competing on Logistics Talent. Well, my big audacious prediction for 2015 did not come true. What will happen in 2016?

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2016

In the meantime, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: EU Approves FedEx Acquisition of TNT Express ( WSJ – sub. Another example of how transportation technology and managed services are merging: Transervice Logistics Inc. Note: GT Nexus and JDA Software are Talking Logistics sponsors.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 5, 2015

I’m on limited time this morning, so let’s go straight to the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: enVista Launches New Business Entity, Enspire Commerce®. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal featured another solution provider, Grand Junction , in an article this week.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 25, 2016

With today being a holiday for many, let’s go straight to the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: FedEx Introduces Global E-Commerce Solutions Under FedEx CrossBorder. One of my predictions for 2016 was that cross-border e-commerce would become the next frontier for shipping and logistics growth.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This week, multiple reports indicate that aircraft deliveries for the 787 Dreamliner have been temporarily halted reportedly because of a documentation issue related to analysis of a fuselage component. The Wall Street Journal noted at the time that this rate was above the pre-pandemic rate of 2.9

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

EU Energy Chief Sees Hurdles to Carbon Overhaul ( Wall Street Journal ). Labor and management work out deal at Port of LA/Long Beach ( Logistics Management ). In addition, users are able to view events of a shipment, imaged documents, and can email their account representative with questions on a particular move.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2014

See the Wall Street Journal article about its (don’t be) ‘evil’ plan. Google Docs is a nifty, web-based documents tool that could easily be reimagined as a tool to produce, catalog, and store such things as bills of lading, shipping manifests, and other relevant TMS documentation. The post The Google TMS?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 9, 2021

According to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, we can blame Covid and curbside pick-up for the shortage. And now on to this week’s logistics news. The solution integrates advanced document management capabilities, robust collaboration features and support for bookings, with superior end-to-end real-time tracking.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Instead of exchanging contracts or sending out a tender document, the entire operation is computerized, and therefore it helps reduce human errors, increase operational speed and allow staff to focus on other tasks (digital, n.d.). International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences, 7 (2), 164-176.

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Intelligent Audit

JULY 26, 2022

The logistics of food distribution are already complicated, yet US Foods is going the extra mile to collaborate with suppliers to track their Scope 3 emissions. All documents, live stream access, and future audio playback will be available at [link]. US Foods Prioritizes Reducing Scope 3 Emissions. from Last Year; Up 9.3%

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SCM Research

JULY 1, 2013

Quite similar, the Journal of Business Logistics has now published a compendium of multi-item scales utilized in logistics research – a good complement to my collection. 2013) , found that not less than 980 scales were used in four journals related to logistics (IJLM, IJPDLM, JBL, TJ) between 2001 and 2010.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 8, 2013

And as I highlighted last week, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal , “Wal-Mart Stores Inc., appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. Companies are also starting to take action — albeit, reactively in many cases. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet The post How Many Slaves Are in Your Supply Chain?

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 16, 2016

As I wrote a couple of years ago in Where to Find Supply Chain Innovation : The next phase of Supply Chain Operating Networks is about facilitating communication and collaboration between supply chain and logistics professionals — the people side of supply chain management. appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

” The staff at Supply Chain Link notes, “The terms ‘visibility’ and ‘transparency’ are often used interchangeably in the logistics world. Logistics providers market benefits of visibility and transparency, but it has many customers wondering what exactly the difference is between the two terms.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 23, 2015

For example, according to an October 2011 Wall Street Journal article , “When Virginia’s magnitude 5.8 appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. Business Intelligence Social Media BI business intelligence Facebook Facebook at Work IBM LinkedIn logistics Salesforce.com social networking supply chain Twitter'

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

In an earlier paper we wrote in the Millbank Journal that was built upon our experiences working on the front lines of the healthcare PPE response, we developed the concept of the “tragedy of the commons”, which occurred due to a lack of advance planning. The new administration has an opportunity to really make a difference here.

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Jaggaer

JUNE 23, 2020

The Journal of Translational Medicine indicates that the portfolio size of large pharmaceutical companies is also expanding, with top companies holding 150 to 200 drugs in development in 2016. For many, the increase of generics on the market has created a short-term strategy defined by high volumes, low cost products and low margins.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal , that level of worker labor activism was nearly eight times the number of workers involved in 2021. The latest reinforcement of this comes from today’s published report from The Wall Street Journal , AI Is Starting to Threaten White Collar Jobs. Few Industries Are Immune.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

AUGUST 28, 2013

Plus it saves us all of the headaches associated with logistics and that other messy stuff… ” The concept of Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI) is defined as a supply initiative where the supplier assumes responsibility of tracking and replenishing a customer’s inventory. Material expediting increased. R eferences. Blackhurst, J.,

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2015

But I read an article in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal – The Revolutionary Power of Digital Currency by Michael J. As Casey and Vigna put it, “we imagine bitcoin as some sort of digitally rendered equivalent [to a paper dollar bill], much as a Word document is a digital stand-in for a physical page of text.”

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AFFLINK

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Indeed, 2017 was plagued by problems within international supply chains, ranging from logistical to unethical. As the Wall Street Journal reported in September 2017, Apple's supply chain planning hit a major roadblock with its iPhone X. So, it's time to contemplate our less-than-shining moments. Puerto Rico Aid.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 13, 2015

This “invisible” part of Walmart’s business is a logistical and supply chain management and the practices they employ should give supply chain managers pause to take a bit out of their day and inspect what Walmart is doing in order to mimic into the supply chain manager’s own practice. ” Walmart states early on.

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Supply Chain Network

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

An article in RFID Journal discusses a GS1 study done last year (with results published this year) involving wine being shipped from Italy to Hong Kong. Grocery Logistics RFID GS1 supply chain wine' Often, when they wanted to buy wine they’d ask how it well it ships. Can it get too hot? Does it spoil? RFID complements wine nicely!

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Arkieva

AUGUST 22, 2016

Source: Wall Street Journal. The report revealed that respondents had widespread outsourcing in many areas of their supply chain including sectors such as manufacturing, finishing, packaging/packing, and distribution/logistics. I urged him to take his corporate strategy document and set up a meeting with each profit center manager.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 22, 2015

Regardless of your point of view on truck fuel efficiency standards, the reality is that it only addresses part of the opportunity available to shippers, carriers, and third-party logistics providers (3PLs) to reduce transportation costs and carbon emissions. appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Bristlecone

JULY 20, 2020

It’s based on information already available in the logistic modules, such as sales orders, purchase orders and production orders, among others. Reuse of Predictive Accounting Data – All CDS-based financial accounting reports can make use of predictive journal entries in their KPI reporting. How it Works. Process Flow.

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Intelligent Audit

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

According to Eric Johnson of the Journal of Commerce , “Using a common industry estimate of freight spend representing 5 to 10 percent of total revenue for a shipper, that would equate to $50 million to $100 million in freight spend. Both parties can maintain high-capacity levels and pull from a vast pool of available brokers and carriers.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 27, 2022

As Tom Derry, CEO of the Institute for Supply Management, shared in PBS , “It’s been the hardest year for logistics and supply chain managers,” Pafford said. In addition to physical exercise, the stress-relieving advantages of contemplative exercises like yoga, meditation, and Tai Chi are well documented.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Moving on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Rising Freight Costs Are Weighing on Companies’ Profits (WSJ – sub. A couple of articles in the Wall Street Journal this week highlight the challenges shippers are facing as trucking capacity continues to tighten and customer expectations continue to get more demanding. “A

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