Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

In Belcorp’s case they have four factories located in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador. For example, go to the Walmart, turn right, and it is the third house on the left. This was not only an ambitious Innovation shift, but also a severe supply chain challenge. Logistics can be a challenge. Rather, directions are used.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Retailer Wal-Mart de Mexico to invest $1.3 billion in Logistics in Mexico (Reuters). Announces Cloud-Based Marketplace Services and Platform Innovations. Last week, for example, Nikola Motor Company unveiled The Nikola One, a Class 8 zero-emission hydrogen-electric truck that will be in production by 2020.

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QAD

MARCH 7, 2023

The average American drives 14,000 miles per year, and the cost of gas in Texas is $2.97, so using the Camry as an example, any Tesla would cost $365 a year in energy costs vs the Camry at $1,264. They are able to do this by using excess wind energy production during the evening. How Can Tesla Do This?

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MIT Supply Chain

DECEMBER 11, 2014

A humanitarian logistics model developed by the Center for Latin American Logistics Innovation (CLI) improves the efficiency of response efforts by taking a holistic view of these operations. This is especially important in floods where low points in a city, for example, are more prone to flooding than locations on higher ground.

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MIT Supply Chain

MARCH 2, 2021

Let me give you an example,” says Mendonça. The TTPI rates countries based on five main categories: driver labor market and training, procurement practices and market structure, transportation cost structure (variable vs. fixed), innovation in trucking practices, and public policy toward developing national transportation systems.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2015

Conferences are a great example of peer-to-peer learning in action, but with so many supply chain and logistics conferences available, how do you decide which ones to attend? The title of my presentation is Past Performance is No Guarantee of Future Results: Why Innovation Matters in a Fast-Changing World.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 7, 2019

I am from Monterrey, Mexico, I have been working in IT for 12 years. As an example of this recently, I helped in contacting a big bottling customer in Mexico recently to help continue our relationship with them. Tell us a little about yourself. What was your first job (ever)? It felt like a natural fit for me.

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QAD

JULY 9, 2020

Instead, companies and organizations look for innovative technologies and methodologies to build on their existing frameworks to help them adapt as necessary. One example is the electric car. Rather than help them survive, such a strategy would doom the organization to failure.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 24, 2019

For example, people often think about Apple as a global brand… but not in China or India, the two biggest markets in the world! In North America, we are likely going to move towards a Canada/US/Mexico triad, and much of the labor will likely be moving to Mexico.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A great example would be today’s prominence of climate change. These innovations represent a strong commitment from through strategic environmental plans towards sustainable Supply Chain Management. Nowadays, a lot of different factors are increasing the urgency for emerging economies to become sustainable. Why go green?

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

That said, implementing Lean concepts would undoubtedly be part of that strategy, for example, - Lean Warehousing : Many firms (both retailers and manufacturers) are now aggressively rolling out Lean in their warehouse operations. This will make the supplier sluggish to respond to changes and slow moving on innovation. What can you do?

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 31, 2023

In a series of blog articles, the Product/Solutions Marketing team explores new business challenges and innovation solutions to change the game and manage disruptions. In this Part 2 blog post, we will continue to explore how automotive manufacturers are carrying out effective supply chain initiatives and their innovative solutions.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 25, 2016

Last May, for example, Pitney Bowes acquired Borderfree for $381 million. freight by value with North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners Canada and Mexico in January 2016 than in January 2015,” according to U.S. percent of the value of freight to and from Mexico. percent from 2015 to $82.4 billion in current dollars.

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MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Adapting existing stores to function as warehouses is another example. In one configuration, modeled in Mexico City, trucks are loaded at mini-warehouses strategically located near population centers throughout the city. sales, supply chain, and finance, for example?—?can

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 7, 2019

I am from Monterrey, Mexico, I have been working in IT for 12 years. As an example of this recently, I helped in contacting a big bottling customer in Mexico recently to help continue our relationship with them. Tell us a little about yourself. What was your first job (ever)? It felt like a natural fit for me.

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4WL Consulting

MAY 4, 2020

So for example, if you look at Apple, they have manufacturing people, but they don’t actually manufacture things. I also know even when I’m in, say, China, for example, and I’m talking to a leader there, I can tell immediately where they’ve been educated, if they were educated in the US or not.

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4WL Consulting

MAY 4, 2020

So for example, if you look at Apple, they have manufacturing people, but they don’t actually manufacture things. I also know even when I’m in, say, China, for example, and I’m talking to a leader there, I can tell immediately where they’ve been educated, if they were educated in the US or not.

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QAD

JULY 9, 2020

Instead, companies and organizations look for innovative technologies and methodologies to build on their existing frameworks to help them adapt as necessary. One example is the electric car. Rather than help them survive, such a strategy would doom the organization to failure.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 28, 2022

” Wofford concludes, “The effort, World Central’s supporters say, wasn’t just a feel-good achievement but a genuine innovation. As a result, Wofford reports, “Capitol Hill is now considering legislation that would instruct FEMA to follow World Central’s example.” FEMA itself subsidized a few weeks’ worth.”

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 12, 2018

Cloud Logistics Announces Record Revenue, Growth and Innovation for 2017. From Mexico to the U.S., In other cases, where more sophisticated and expensive 3D printing capabilities are required, third-parties will manufacture the products on demand and deliver them to us (or we can pick them up at the local UPS Store, for example).

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 19, 2015

Innovation and Automation. Before a company selects a location for a new production facility, the initial innovation and automation work should be completed. This work will identify what new and innovative products will be produced in the new facility and how that production will be automated. An Example.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 12, 2015

How do these behemoth entities make such significant changes so easily and what can we learn from their example? ” Take for example the fascinating early-stage innovation taking place in the agriculture industry. Those unable to adapt, just as in nature, will most certainly perish.”

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BlueYonder

MARCH 5, 2018

For example, Grainger, the largest industrial distributor in the United States and number 3 in the world with revenue exceeding $10 billion, has seen online sales continuously become the larger contribution to the company’s total sales. Everything in logistics is accelerating though, which is a challenge providers face. Infused Technology.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

So whether it is Viet Nam or India or Mexico, the cost differences in labor are going to narrow between high cost countries—United States, Europe—and low cost countries—Viet Nam, India, China, or Mexico. or at least Mexico. If I am going to produce for the American market, it makes a lot of sense to be in the U.S.,

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 19, 2016

Before joining the marketing team, the logistics of how car parts crossed the border from Mexico to the United States, or how avocados for my guacamole got from the field to my table, had never crossed my mind. The need for innovation. In order to sustain a competitive advantage, innovation is key. During my first month at C.H.

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 17, 2016

Many people have heard about their partnership with Flex to build mass-customized shoes in Mexico, which is a big shift for the company from it’s largely Asia Pacific supplier network. I had the opportunity to speak with a Nike executive about how the company has moved into the world of mass-customization.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

For example, in India, where there have been poor driver standards, carmakers are investing in driver training. Mexico was a hugely important issue; there’s excitement about the development of Mexico as a region. Carmakers are beginning to take other areas more seriously as well.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 5, 2018

For example, Grainger, the largest industrial distributor in the United States and number 3 in the world with revenue exceeding $10 billion, has seen online sales continuously become the larger contribution to the company’s total sales. Everything in logistics is accelerating though, which is a challenge providers face. Infused Technology.

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Requis

MAY 22, 2020

For example, if we’re manufacturing something in China there are labour costs, the costs to ship, plus tariffs. In the post-COVID world, suppliers in the US, Mexico, and Canada will become much more integrated. For example, forced labour is at a peak, especially in the apparel sector. It’s not about nationalizing everything.

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RFgen

APRIL 15, 2016

Businesses must take advantage of innovations to provide visibility of inventory management to prepare for the worst and consistently deliver the best. For example, RFgen works with a variety of military contractors that must guard against fraudulent parts and supplies – especially sent from particular regions in Asia.

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RFgen

APRIL 15, 2016

Businesses must take advantage of innovations to provide visibility of inventory management to prepare for the worst and consistently deliver the best. For example, RFgen works with a variety of military contractors that must guard against fraudulent parts and supplies – especially sent from particular regions in Asia.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

On Monday, I would speak in Orlando Florida at the Terra Technology event; and on Wednesday, present the keynote at the Logistic Summit & Expo in Mexico City. For example, should customer sentiment data feed into quality systems? For example, in the recession of 2007, DuPont missed the downturn in the market.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 22, 2015

Back in 2012, for example, Walmart highlighted in its 2012 Global Responsibility Report how it improved the efficiency of its private fleet by almost 69 percent in 2011 compared to its 2005 baseline. Over the past five years, our transportation department in Mexico has demonstrated continued improvement in the area of efficiency.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 7, 2018

For example, the editorial staff at Material Handling & Logistics note, “When it comes to digital maturity, the supply chain and logistics industry are lagging.”[1] ” Innovation Enterprise , 18 July 2017. [10] The global economy was built on the shoulders of trade and the legs of supply chains. ”[16].

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 24, 2015

Notwithstanding many sound reasons for reshoring , an Information Technology and Innovation Foundation report indicates that U.S. in the past 3 years, (about 60% from China), per research by BCG and others, there’s no indication that a great number of additional jobs will soon return from Mexico and China. manufacturing.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 12, 2014

However, there is no evidence that America’s manufacturing woes have magically worked themselves out, or that a significant number of jobs that left for China and Mexico are being shipped back. The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation will soon have a special report on their website next month for download on Reshoring.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 21, 2015

For example, employing pick to light or pick to voice systems may improve labor productivity by reducing throughput times and reducing errors, thereby reducing the labor required to fulfill orders. Alternative Solutions : An innovative solution is leveraging our neighbors to the South in Mexico. can actually be treated as U.S.

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