Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 17, 2023

As rates continue to fall, industry metrics are beginning to reflect a new reality for the transportation market. The Logistics Managers Index (LMI) showed a reading of 36.9% for December, marking the metric’s fastest decline ever recorded. DoorDash Announces Return Service to Meet Post-Holiday Demand For Reverse Logistics.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Fulfillment by Amazon or Amazon FBA lets sellers in the Amazon marketplace take advantage of Amazon’s giant logistics operation to ship their orders. Amazon FBA sometimes falls short in this crucial metric. Amazon runs an enormous fulfillment and logistics business. To explain it, let’s go back to Bob in Florida.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 22, 2017

With the recent hurricanes that have hit Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico, we’ve seen another practical example where assumptions on carrier capacity are challenged at inopportune times. JDA’s TMS also audits tender compliance from carriers based on metrics, such as carrier acceptance rates. Modeling Suggestions.

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Unleashed

MAY 22, 2022

“The US is a massive market, and as a business, they’re going to want to separate out so that we’ve got more localised supply perhaps in the north-east of the US, perhaps on the west coast in California, perhaps down towards Florida. And making sure that we’ve got the ability to scale – both in terms of the materials, and in systems.”

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BlueYonder

MAY 23, 2023

Earlier this month, at the 2023 Gartner® Supply Chain Symposium in Orlando, Florida, there were many key supply chain themes that emerged. This blog highlights these themes, as well as how the Gartner Magic Quadrants are evolving. Key Supply Chain Themes There is a path to supply chain reinvention!

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 22, 2017

With the recent hurricanes that have hit Florida, Texas and Puerto Rico, we’ve seen another practical example where assumptions on carrier capacity are challenged at inopportune times. JDA’s TMS also audits tender compliance from carriers based on metrics, such as carrier acceptance rates. Modeling Suggestions.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 19, 2020

One of the activities within supply chain operations is logistics. The Interlake Mecalux staff explains, “Logistics forms part of the supply chain. … Supply chains are shifting towards a logistics environment that’s faster and more flexible, personalized, accurate, and efficient.” Logistic 4.0

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

I was in Orlando, Florida this week moderating workshops for a logistics service provider client. I was hoping for 70F+ weather, but even Florida fell victim to the Polar Vortex, with temperatures only in the 50s (which felt tropical, nonetheless, compared to Chicago and Boston). Descartes Acquires Visual Compliance.

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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. Build systems to track inbound logistics and use telematics to better predict and sense estimated time for arrival. What are the most important signals?

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6 River Systems

APRIL 4, 2019

Logistics can be traced all the way back to the Greek and Roman empires , but it’s undergone several major transformations as new technologies provide opportunities to more efficiently manage the movement and storage of goods. In the digital transformation age, logistics is once again undergoing a major shift. Marc Tuinier.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

The pending effect of fuel on logistics costs is an overlay for all companies struggling to manage the bottom line. Transportation constraints are increasing with the risk of many drivers moving from logistics jobs delivering products to construction as the impact of the Infrastructure Deal becomes a reality. ” I laughed. .”

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 9, 2023

From Tropical Storm Hilary, which dumped over a foot of rain on California in August, to Hurricane Idalia, which came aground in Florida 10 days later with windspeeds of 125 miles per hour, these disasters wreaked havoc with ports, transportation routes and carefully laid logistics plans. But that’s just the beginning.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 8, 2019

My first Monday in, I asked for a full report of all our supply chain metrics, and my analyst told me he could get it to me by Friday. Buying becomes actions of an offer, acceptance, logistics involves weight, volume, time and cost, and inventory becomes everything we don’t need, so the logal is to minimize it.

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Supply Chain Network

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Last year in Florida at RILA Logistics 2013, the topic of multi-channel was discussed with 5 related presentations delivered where the challenges of the coming omni-channel revolution were laid down. So why am I suggesting that Omni-channel is now emerging to be the top retail logistics challenge being faced today by retailers?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

On the surface it sounded like a typical manufacturing, logistics, or distribution operation. And a cursory look at benchmark comparisons to competitors showed the company lagging behind in virtually every metric. In Florida I met a team that was very high functioning. Clearly this operation needed a top to bottom overhaul.

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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. The founders of each company came together to discuss the overlap of technology and logistics and how it can be used to solve every day problems.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

Third-party logistics companies ( 3PLs ) specialize in distribution, warehousing and fulfillment services. The core competency of these companies is logistics , and they do it well. Even Amazon used third-party logistics companies when the company first started, until reaching sufficient scale to have a logistics arm of its own.

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