Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

transportation, warehousing) or materials – direct, indirect, MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Operations), goods for resale. Listed below are some attributes you may be looking for in supplier responses: Total costs including unit cost, shipping cost, and any overhead costs. The key to this lies with sourcing. Order delivery lead time.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 6, 2021

Another shipping crisis strikes, threatens Black Friday shopping. Volansi completes first-ever autonomous ship-to-ship drone delivery. As a result, the 2021 holiday shopping season could be marred by out-of-stock goods and shipping delays. The cargo deliveries took place July 18 off the coast of Key West, Florida.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 14, 2018

From a simple place to stock goods, warehouses have developed in many ways—function and form included. Affected by changes in production, procurement and distribution methods, warehousing has continually been pushed and pulled in different directions. Where to Do Your Warehousing. Who Will Do Your Warehousing?

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

Walmart previously scaled back its drone deliveries in 2024, when it ended the service in Utah, Arizona and Florida, in favor of focusing on remaining operations in Dallas-Fort Worth, Arkansas and Virginia. SupplyChainBrain Container Ship Explodes, Catches Fire Off Coast of India More from this author Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter!

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

For example, we can have “Texas Small Volume” customers and “Florida Peak Season” customers, or “East Coast High Margin” customers and “Carolinas High Priority” customers. However, this model would aggregate the details of the ten thousand SKUs that are stocked and shipped. Can every customer get products from every warehouse?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Instead of shipping a new smartphone to someone’s house and having it left on the front steps, one of Enjoy’s delivery workers will personally deliver and set up the phone, and then sell additional services. FDA inks mutual reliance agreements with California, Florida, Utah, Wisconsin. Lead times for chips have surged.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The image below is an aerial photo taken and released by the showing the damage Hurricane Irma wrought on a shipping yard in the Dutch Caribbean island of St. What’s the financial hit on using more expensive alternate materials, suppliers and shipping routes? You could think of all these questions as “after thoughts.”

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Freight Center

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Winter freight shipping always tests the strength of the logistics industry and e-commerce. Below is a quick list of the top winter freight shipping tips to help guide you and keep your supply chain hot during the trickiest time for shipping. Unless you live in Florida, winter is synonymous with snowstorms. Warehousing.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 2, 2023

This is especially prevalent in organizations that have experienced growth through mergers and acquisitions and now need to reconcile multiple ERP, WMS, shipping, and transportation systems. In a world of heightened customer expectations, this damages customer loyalty and brand reputation and undercuts financial goals.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2022

At the beginning of June 2022, a 40-foot ocean container cost about $10,000 to ship from southeast Asia to Northern Europe This is compared to about $1,500 for the same route about 2 years ago. Customer spending patterns are changing with hyperinflation. There is only so much retailers can do to absorb higher costs. He received his Ph.D.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 28, 2021

Ryan was born and raised in Tampa Florida. Ryan earned a degree in History from the University of South Florida and then a Law degree from Michigan State University. The new podcast will be interviews with founders, key executives, and innovators in the transportation, logistics, warehousing, supply chain, and technology verticals.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The retailer can sell via a plethora of websites – their own website, AliExpress or they can use a platform like the Freightos Marketplace to arrange shipping to the US online. Amazon has spent 25 years evolving from from sales to warehousing and finally to in-house product brands. A Tale of Two Potential Logistics Giants.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Alexa Heads to the Warehouse (WSJ – sub. Warehouse Space Growing Tighter on Rising E-Commerce Demands (WSJ – sub. Hurricane season is upon us, and the latest one, Hurricane Michael, has caused serious damage and disruption in the Florida Panhandle region and beyond. Alexa in the Warehouse.

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Supply Chain Network

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

warehouse will be added to The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company’s operation in Lebanon, Conn. By installing a warehouse in this region, the Company expects to improve its environmental footprint by reducing the number of miles traveled within its distribution network while also reducing costs and improving its customer service levels.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Click the links below to compare this year's innovations to those from previous years: Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2017 : exoskeletons, autonomous forklifts, flying warehouses, last-mile delivery, and more. Warehouse Automation. Content Summary: Honeywell and Carnegie Mellon Partner to Bring AI to the Warehouse.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Hundreds of Cafe Bustelo cans washed ashore in Florida this week. Now, on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… CMA CGM to acquire NOL, reinforcing its position in global shipping. China Approves Merger of Cosco, China Shipping (WSJ- sub. Source: Laurie Cus. SMC³ Unveils New Version of BatchMark XL Analysis Tool.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 5, 2016

Logistics, the discipline that manages the shipping and distribution of goods to consumers, has made momentous strides in recent years with help from new technology. Today, robots can be found in sorting centers, warehouses and plants, as well as in the form of mail carriers such as drones. Robotics & Automated Machinery.

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ShipBob

MARCH 21, 2024

Warehousing is expensive. Setting up and maintaining a warehouse makes up a significant portion of your overall ecommerce operational costs and has a heavy impact on your bottom line. If you’re considering renting or buying a warehouse, you need to keep these expenses in mind. Let’s get started.

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

MARCH 24, 2021

You can’t afford a decrease in efficiency and longer delivery times in a world of fast-paced shipping and high customer expectations. It might be convenient to ship everything directly from your business’s in-house location. Maybe you need a more organized warehouse layout, or your shipping process has become clunky.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Shipping Vendor ABOL Software to Help Retail Customers Drive International Sales. Shipping startup Shyp comes to New York and soon Miami (VentureBeat). UPS, FedEx Want Retailers to Get Real on Holiday Shipping (WSJ – sub. The MetaPack Group Acquires U.S. enVista Launches 350West Through Joint Venture with Fredman Design.

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6 River Systems

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Every warehouse strives for efficient order fulfillment. There are many factors that can impact costs, from warehouse replenishment practices to the warehouse equipment deployed to support the fulfillment process. ” Meet Our Panel of Warehouse Pros: Nate Masterson. Dave Masterson. Nate Masterson. MapleHolistics.

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MIT Supply Chain

APRIL 29, 2013

Ocean Spray, CSX (the rail operator), and fruit shipping companies partnered in order to enable Ocean Spray to ship more products intermodally from its New Jersey distribution center to the company’s Florida facility. Prior to the collaboration, these boxcars were returning empty to the Florida region.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 19, 2025

Gregory is a renowned expert in personal finance and lending solutions, with a Master of Science in Finance from Florida State University and a Certificate in Accounting & Finance from the University of West Florida. Growing Need for Larger Chains E-commerce has grown over the decade and is not showing any signs of stopping.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights communication made by retailer Walmart regarding a significant bet on warehouse robotics having attractive operating profitability promise. million square foot distribution center in Brooksville, Florida serves as a model of this ongoing effort. The report indicates that the retailer’s 1.4

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BlueYonder

JUNE 25, 2024

Blue Yonder is honored by this recognition, which we share with the hundreds of logistics teams worldwide who rely on our Blue Yonder Transportation Management solutions, including Kimberly-Clark , Anheuser-Busch , Bayer Crop Science , Mitr Phol Sugar , and recent Blue Yonder ICONic Award winner Coca-Cola Beverages Florida, LLC / CONA Services LLC.

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ShipBob

MARCH 30, 2020

How do you put your brand in a spot to offer expedited shipping without putting in the time, resources, and investment of several warehouses? Warehousing and storage. Order fulfillment , or the picking, packing, and shipping orders. Shipping carriers handle the transportation of products to their destination.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Looking back on how we arrived at this point, many experts point to the 2017 hurricane season, specifically with Hurricane Harvey hitting the Houston area in late August 2017, followed by Hurricane Irma hitting Florida just a few weeks later. A 2017 study from the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) found that 19.5

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 4, 2018

economy in 2017 and so far in 2018, manufacturers have been producing more goods than usual and requiring more freight to be shipped. Southern states, such as Georgia and Florida, will seek additional capacity to transport and distribute their perishable produce throughout the country during the annual produce season.

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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. FBA items are eligible for Amazon Prime shipping and Amazon handles your angry customers (which Amazon considers its customers, not yours). Amazon FBA Inventory Woes.

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ShipBob

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The rest of this article provides general information on shipping CBD products. California, Florida, and New York are leaders in the CBD market within the United States. However, in Florida, hemp-derived CBD products are legal while cannabis-derived CBD is only legal medicinally. Products contain <0.3% What is CBD?

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BlueYonder

MAY 1, 2017

Dwight Klappich, Vice President of Research , Gartner spoke about the warehouse of the future. Kenco brought warehouse innovation to the Innovation Hub with the Microsoft HoloLens and drone. The drone scanned barcodes and recognized the existence or lack thereof of inventory, as well as other attributes to warehouse inventory.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They received goods into their warehouses/distribution centres. And then they shipped those goods in accordance with customer orders received into those facilities. I needed to talk to the employees on the warehouse floor directly. In Florida I met a team that was very high functioning. They stored those goods.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Hurricane Irma, the most severe storm from the Atlantic, has already left extreme damage to the Caribbean islands, and is expected to make landfall in Florida this weekend. It is clear that Hurricane Irma, and the hurricanes to follow, will impact the flow of cargo and the daily functions of stores, warehouses, and factories.

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Ware2Go

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It’s no secret that online shoppers expect fast delivery options such as 2-day or same-day shipping. It is also much more cost-effective to leverage an outsourced partner than to invest in your own warehouse. Here are five signs indicating it’s time to find a fulfillment partner. You can no longer keep up with your order volume.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 26, 2023

Dez is the President of Bear Down Logistics , an asset-based transportation company based in Orlando, Florida. He is the President of Bear Down Logistics, a transportation company based in Orlando, Florida. With over 100,000 sq ft of Class-A, bonded warehouse space, the company provides storage, transload, and dry van services.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 12, 2015

From ERP systems, to transportation management systems (TMS) , Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) to Yard Management Systems (YMS) to freight and route optimizers and network design systems, every inch of their supply chains is fully visible and controlled. Is such a shift truly imminent with respect to agricultural production?

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Dan served in the Army for three and a half years and earned his degree at the University of Central Florida before entering the supply chain industry. I want to get as many of us as possible to work at the warehouse or the toy shops at least for one day.” . How long do you plan to promote your efforts? 2, and some go through Dec.

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