GlobalTranz
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
The concept of warehouse management originated in ancient Egypt as people sought ways to manage grain gathered from crops. As the world moved forward, the basic concept of managing warehouse inventory did not change much. The 19 th Century: The Railroad Becomes a Major Player in Transporting Goods.
Talking Logistics
NOVEMBER 8, 2013
In North America, average truckload rate per mile charged to customers increased about two percent while truckload transportation costs increased about four percent, excluding the estimated impacts of the change in fuel. Truckload net revenues, however, decreased 1.3 percent in the quarter compared to Q3 2012. NAFTA trade reached $96.5
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Supply Chain Shaman
AUGUST 21, 2015
In addition, 85% of the vendors in the multi-tier inventory optimization market that I wrote about in 1995, are now part of larger platforms. The problems are tough: issues like alternate bill of materials, floating bottlenecks, constraints, customer segmentation strategies and multi-tier inventory optimization requires robust technology.
Supply Chain Shaman
AUGUST 5, 2015
These giants drove slight improvements in operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) despite a slowing economy. Over the past two years, P&G made impressive gains in operating margin and inventory turns, but the company failed to equal the ROIC test for asset utilization. Good Times Ahead.
Gravity Supply Chain
MAY 20, 2022
Spire’s granular AIS data about transport vessels is now seamlessly incorporated into the cloud-based software system used by Gravity’s clients. Clients can get precise evidence about maritime traffic, including the exact location of a ship carrying what they need and when it will get to where they need it to be.
Requis
OCTOBER 30, 2020
They were saying that their inventory is through the roof, demand is up, but that they were not tracking inventory properly, and production runs were running out of room— but it’s all exacerbated by the current situation. Visibility of product, of inventory, of demand—and real demand, that’s the key.
CH Robinson Transportfolio
APRIL 27, 2021
This may delay shipments, cause inventory shortages, and create logistical difficulties at various offloading points. Even worse, imagine you were the managing company of the Ever Given, now being asked to pay up to $1 billion by the government of Egypt for the affair.
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