Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

If you’re predominantly an ocean shipper, for example, make sure you [also develop relationships with] airfreight providers…make sure you keep your pricing up to date, make sure you understand the routing and transit times involved if you were to use different modes and carriers.

Supply Chain Strategy 100

Supply Chain Strategy Poland Supply Chain New York City 100

GlobalTranz

APRIL 4, 2017

Today, however, transportation quality essentially amounts to table stakes, with serviced levels converging to accepted norms. These can include: customer relationship management (CRM), transportation management (TMS), and self-service web platforms to name just a few.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 165

Logistics Network Optimization Software Logistics Seattle Just-in-Time 165

TMC

APRIL 13, 2017

Commonly called “smart mobility” projects, the work aims to improve both the safety and efficiency of transportation, balanced with improved environmental sustainability. Department of Transportation (DOT) projects that freight volumes in the United States will increase by more than 40% over the next 30 years.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 69

Logistics Network Optimization Software Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Network Software Analytics Software 69

TMC

APRIL 13, 2017

Commonly called “smart mobility” projects, the work aims to improve both the safety and efficiency of transportation, balanced with improved environmental sustainability. Department of Transportation (DOT) projects that freight volumes in the United States will increase by more than 40% over the next 30 years.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 62

Logistics Network Optimization Software Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Network Software Analytics Software 62

Cathy Roberson

MARCH 25, 2024

Another example and the biggest threat for FedEx and UPS is Amazon Business, launched in 2015 to address the SME business market. Including ninety-six Fortune 100 companies such as Intel and Citi, as well as organizations like Johns Hopkins University, Seattle Children’s Hospital, and the United Service Organizations, and U.S.

Supply Chain Design Software 51

Supply Chain Design Software Logistics Network Optimization Software Supply Chain Network Software Modeling Software 51

Enterra Insights

MARCH 4, 2021

For example, Kate Migon, Head of New Mobility Solutions, Americas, at Gemalto, asserts “it’s time for cities to reclaim their streets” and “close parts of our cities to cars and reverse decades of prioritizing drivability over mobility.”[1] ” Urban logistics is an area ripe for innovation. .

Logistics Network Optimization Software 100

Logistics Network Optimization Software Logistics Supply Chain Design Software Sourcing Strategies 100

Logistics Bureau

MARCH 19, 2020

Almost 75 percent of US companies are experiencing capacity shortfalls in their supply chains, due to Coronavirus-linked transport disruptions , a new study has shown. Examples are: Samsung Electronics , which is shifting part of its domestic phone production to Vietnam due to the rapid advance of COVID-19 in South Korea.

Pharmaceutical 52

Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Strategy Manufacturing Procurement Supply Chain 52

TMC

APRIL 13, 2017

Commonly called “smart mobility” projects, the work aims to improve both the safety and efficiency of transportation, balanced with improved environmental sustainability. Department of Transportation (DOT) projects that freight volumes in the United States will increase by more than 40% over the next 30 years.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 48

Logistics Network Optimization Software Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Network Software Analytics Software 48

Freightos

JANUARY 12, 2017

For example, according to this research , 2 tonnes shipped for 5,000 kilometers by ocean will lead to 150 kg of CO2 emissions, compared to 6,605 kg of CO2 emissions by air. Air freight usage is growing slowly, with less than 1% growth in 2015 among the world’s top freight forwarders, according to Transport Intelligence. Expeditors.

Purchasing Skills 120

Purchasing Skills Pricing Training Price Reduction Freight 120

MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Adapting existing stores to function as warehouses is another example. The trucks transport products to proximate areas, where lighter, more nimble vehicles such as cargo bikes complete the final deliveries. sales, supply chain, and finance, for example?—?can

Warehousing 52

Warehousing Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Modeling Software 52

Ware2Go

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For example, a package sent 2,000 miles through USPS from Seattle to Tulsa would be Zone 8. The enormous resources corporations have at their disposal allows them to easily reduce shipping costs and access the latest technology, transportation, and economies of scale to deliver on 2-day and even same-day delivery.

Cost Reduction Strategies 52

Cost Reduction Strategies Expense Reduction Inventory Reduction Resource Reduction 52

Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Food grown close to consumers reduces both transportation costs and food waste. For example, Ewing-Chow discusses an Israeli agricultural technology company called Seedo. Plenty itself had planned to open a farm near Seattle by this point, but decided to focus on building its tech platform.” Advances in urban agriculture.

Supply Chain Planning Software 160

Supply Chain Planning Software Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Design Software Optimization Software 160

Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Amazon Flex is available now in Seattle. Here are some details from the press release: Same Day TMS offers the same features that any shipper would expect from a transportation solution. You can choose any available 2, 4, and 8 hour blocks of time to work the same day, or set availability for up to 12 hours per day for the future.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 100

Logistics Network Optimization Software Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Network Software 100

Freightos

JULY 26, 2018

These examples are from retail, but I sense that the same customer empowerment phenomenon is happening broadly across everything we do at Amazon and most other industries as well. Amazon currently lists about 17,700 full-time vacancies on its website, about 920 in the logistics and transportation sector.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 134

Logistics Network Optimization Software Data Logistics Supply Chain Planning Software 134

ThroughPut

JANUARY 28, 2020

Commenting on the teams at Tesla and Walmart where Alla played key roles, Mr. Raza further explained, “Alla is also a natural leader who leads by example and is already drawing more top talent to the company. At Tesla, Alla spent nearly eight years navigating through supply chain nuances while scaling production over 100x.

Supply Chain Design Software 58

Supply Chain Design Software Analytics Software Supply Chain Software Logistics Network Optimization Software 58

NC State SCRC

JUNE 5, 2019

This is a perfect example of how the physics of supply chains, which are often overlooked, are fundamental to understanding and enabling the “digital transformation” that is discussed so often in the press. billion on the shift towards e-commerce. billion, according to Sunday’s statement.

Real Estate 40

Real Estate Warehousing Supply Chain Strategy Modeling 40

Freightera

APRIL 28, 2020

BM: For society, the Physical Internet (PI) enables order-of-magnitude improvements in the efficiency, sustainability, security, trustability and resilience of supply chains, logistics, and freight transportation, all around the world, within each company and across industries. For example, moving a semi-trailer from Montreal to LA.

Supply Chain Planning Software 27

Supply Chain Planning Software Supply Chain Design Software Security Sustainability 27

Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

States and cities like Seattle are severely restricting use of driver contractors in port drayage and car services like Uber and Grubhub. An example of the impact technology can have was cited by a CLDA speaker from a major CPG manufacturer (unidentified because of restrictions imposed by conference organizers).

Logistics Network Optimization Software 98

Logistics Network Optimization Software Supply Chain Planning Software Demand Planning Software Logistics 98

Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 19, 2021

In one example, I had a Logistics Manager at Tile that was one of the first employees in the company. As an example, I remember years ago when I began running the region for Kuehne + Nagel and I visited one of my new sites in LA. In all cases its been special to me.

Optimal Sourcing 90

Optimal Sourcing Supply Chain Design Software Warehousing Just-in-Time 90

Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Fortunately, Craig partnered with a fulfillment specialist in the eastern part of the country which complemented his location in Seattle, Washington. For example, your crowdfunding fulfillment center can handle the customs forms to allow you to ship internationally more easily. Check out Last Mile Delivery! What is your Strategy? .

Procurement Solutions 43

Procurement Solutions Manufacturing Procurement Supply Chain Design Software Purchasing Skills 43

Ware2Go

OCTOBER 14, 2021

John Porcari, a former transport official in the Obama administration, was appointed to work with the ports to clear the bottlenecks. To get cargo off ships even when trucks and trains were not available, for example, Long Beach initially designated a 17-acre plot as a staging area for containers. Fallon/Bloomberg.

Los Angeles 52

Los Angeles Long Beach Supply Chain Design Software Gartner 52

CH Robinson Transportfolio

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Incoterms® are used to allocate transport costs, show where risk passes from a seller to a buyer, as well as clearly define the responsibilities for export and customs clearance, not to mention identify who must purchase insurance if required (and at what level), from origin through destination. . For example: A manufacturer in the U.S.

Manufacturing Procurement 46

Manufacturing Procurement Brazil Buyer Training France 46

Enterra Insights

MAY 8, 2020

Transportation : It may take a while for people to return using public transportation because rush hour usage places them too close to others. Other forms of transportation, like private vehicles, e-scooters, bicycles, and walking may become more popular.

Predictive Analytics Software 100

Predictive Analytics Software South Korea New York City Singapore 100

FLEXE

AUGUST 21, 2017

Here are three examples. Seattle-based Nordstrom has spent years cultivating its brand as one shoppers can trust. Legacy retailers determined to maintain market share are figuring out that to compete it’s going to take more than a website makeover—digital initiatives have to be more strategic.

Cost Reduction Strategies 0

Cost Reduction Strategies Supply Chain Planning Software Logistics Network Optimization Software Demand Planning Software 0

GlobalTranz

AUGUST 26, 2015

We stand on the fact that manufacturers must continue to make smart investments more in technology to stay more efficient, such as the use of 3PLs for better transportation management to reduce costs which often make up 4 to 5% of total revenue. appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

United States 120

United States Innovation Manufacturing St. Louis 120

GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Headquartered in New York, Shapeways has factories and offices in Eindhoven, Queens, and Seattle. Instead of milling a work piece from solid block, for example, Additive Manufacturing builds up components layer by layer using materials which are available in fine powder form.

Manufacturing Procurement 120

Manufacturing Procurement Video Modeling Software Supply Chain Network Software 120

Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 26, 2022

For example, do they have the right equipment and qualified drivers? A freight bill includes a lot of information that requires the shipper to decide how transportation should be handled. For example: Does delivery take too long? The shipper saved money by zone-skipping the leg through Seattle for an additional 100+ pounds.

Negotiating Skills 52

Negotiating Skills Freight Negotiate Pricing Purchasing Skills 52

GlobalTranz

JULY 21, 2015

Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland and Chicago have already moved to raise their wages and there are proposals for minimum wage increases across the country including in New York City, Washington, D.C. and Kansas City, MO. .

Cost Reduction Strategies 120

Cost Reduction Strategies 3PL Los Angeles Purchasing Skills 120

MIT Supply Chain

AUGUST 29, 2013

Photo: Port of Seattle by Don Wilson. Imagine, for example, a small terminal with two berths and six cranes receiving an oversized vessel that occupies one-plus berths and employs four cranes. Going public. The move towards public terminals is making ports more resilient. This post was written by MIT CTL Deputy Director James B.

Journal 77

Journal Price Reduction Waste Reduction Cargo 77

FLEXE

AUGUST 22, 2017

Here are three examples.</p> </p> <h2>Nordstrom establishes itself as customer-centric … decades ago</h2> <p>Seattle-based Nordstrom has spent years cultivating its brand as one shoppers can trust.

Cost Reduction Strategies 45

Cost Reduction Strategies Supply Chain Planning Software Logistics Network Optimization Software Supply Chain Network Software 45

Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 4, 2018

And they have branched out into other areas such as dominating the cloud infrastructure market with their AWS cloud services, a broad array of logistics/transportation services and assets, and bricks-and-mortar retailing with their Whole Foods acquisition and Amazon Go. I visited the Amazon Go store while I was in Seattle recently.

Analysis 40

Analysis Modeling Software Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software 40

Enterra Insights

AUGUST 10, 2020

For example, more than 80 retailers in the U.S. We don’t just employ highly educated computer scientists and MBAs in Seattle and Silicon Valley. Amazon accounts for less than 1% of the $25 trillion global retail market and less than 4% of retail in the U.S. alone earn over $1 billion in annual revenue.

West Virginia 100

West Virginia Retail Real Estate Idaho 100

GlobalTranz

JANUARY 31, 2017

iconic places, such as the Route 128 tech corridor around Boston, Massachusetts; Research Triangle Park in Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Austin, Texas; Seattle, Washington; and, of course, California’s white-hot Silicon Valley. What the Data Reveal About the Technological Innovation Driven, High-Tech Economy.

Innovation 120

Innovation Demand Planning Software District of Columbia St. Louis 120

FLEXE

DECEMBER 11, 2016

FLEXE , Flexport and Convoy –three technology companies adding flexibility to the supply chain–,recently hosted the first Peak Logistics breakfast in Seattle, Washington. So Amazon Cloud Services, most of it is probably in Seattle. Nerijus: I’ll give you a simple example.

Modeling Software 31

Modeling Software Logistics Network Optimization Software Supply Chain Design Software Predictive Analytics Software 31