Cerasis

JUNE 23, 2015

Many off-shore manufacturers have returned to the U.S., Those changes, along with high costs of transporting materials and finished goods to and from overseas locations, make the value of reshoring likely to become a compelling financial reality for many manufacturers. manufacturers hurried to produce off-shore, believing significant cost reductions and huge profits would follow. 70% of manufacturers indicate that volatile energy costs are a major concern.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Headquartered in Germany, Ocean Insights is a leading ocean supply chain visibility and market intelligence provider that supplies real-time tracking data and market analysis to large shippers from a broad range of industries, including automotive, manufacturing, food & beverage, commodity trading, chemical and freight forwarding. Ocean Freight Visibility Spells new Opportunities for Supply Chains – LogiSYM September 2020. Ocean Insights.

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Germany Chemicals Beverage Automotive 141

QAD

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

While consumer products manufacturers previously led the way for sustainable manufacturing practices, a growing number of manufacturers in other sectors are treating sustainability as an important operational objective to increase global competitiveness. The Sustainability Movement in Business and Manufacturing. Many manufacturers now publish separate sustainability reports or incorporate the information in their annual report including Nexteer, Tesla, Ball Corp.,

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Sustainability Manufacturing Continuous Improvement Beverage 87

BluJay Solutions

JUNE 24, 2020

National wholesale food distributor will leverage TMS to scale for growth. Holland, MI – June 24, 2020 – BluJay Solutions , a leading provider of supply chain software and services, announces that National Food Group has deployed BluJay’s Transportation Management platform for improved execution and customer service. National Food Group is excited to upgrade our transportation and logistics execution with BluJay’s platform,” says Heather Adam, VP of Operations at NFG.

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Halo

AUGUST 4, 2020

Drilling down, you’ll learn that demand planning, inventory, replenishment, manufacturing and S&OP capabilities are the building blocks of supply chain planning excellence. Inventory and freight optimization.

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Beverage Supply Chain Disruption Exercises Food 65

USC Consulting Group

MARCH 23, 2020

For starters, trucking is essentially the lifeblood of manufacturing logistics. In fact, about 71% of American freight is moved via truck , equating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue on an annual basis. Due to the national truck driver shortage, freight prices have jumped considerably in recent years. And the trend is expected to continue, to the detriment of food suppliers and restaurants alike. How Trucking Impacts Food Manufacturing Supply Chains.

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Zipline Logistics

APRIL 7, 2020

Though it may sound far off, companies in the food and beverage supply chain are rapidly adopting blockchain platforms as a means of creating visibility, traceability, and efficiency. There are many other uses for blockchain, including improving the cooperative efforts of the different parties in the food and beverage supply chain. IBM Food Trust. A significant driver of the blockchain in the food and beverage supply chain is IBM. Other Food Blockchain Applications.

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Material Handling and Logistics

MAY 2, 2018

According to the United Nations, one in nine people today—or 815 million globally—lack access to the food necessary to lead a healthy lifestyle. Every year, one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption—or 1.3 What’s more, net food losses in developed countries (222 million metric tons) equate to nearly all of the food produced in Sub-Saharan Africa yearly (223 million metric tons).

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Zipline Logistics

DECEMBER 22, 2020

But with freight conditions like those we have seen throughout most of 2020, building in additional lead time is an even more essential piece of your logistics operational puzzle. Building-in additional lead time in a tight freight market is crucial.

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Cerasis

JANUARY 7, 2015

However, with most of our customer base in the manufacturing field, with the remaining in distribution and other industries, we thought it was vital that we featured some of the other manufacturing blog posts that were also popular in 2014. We featured out of our 200 plus blog posts in 2014, over 50 blog posts in the manufacturing category. You might ask yourself, “Why does a third party logistics company create Manufacturing content?

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Manufacturing North America Third Party Logistics Food 240

Supply Chain Collaborator

JUNE 25, 2020

Will the trend toward a return to “regional manufacturing” boost volumes in over the road transportation in North America as manufacturers move away from Asian overseas operations? American manufacturers are adapting to significant modulation in the nature of their supply chains as market forces and current global events promote operating “closer to home”. As a result, a new focus on network resilience and the idea of more regional manufacturing emerged.”.

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Vietnam Mexico North America America 66

BluJay Solutions

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Holland, MI – December 31, 2018 – Food Logistics , the only publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of product through the global food supply chain, has named BluJay Solutions to its 2018 FL100+ Top Software and Technology Providers list. The annual FL100+ Top Software and Technology Providers serves as a resource guide of software and technology providers whose products and services are critical for companies in the global food and beverage supply chain.

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Beverage Software Food Security 81

Zipline Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2020

Despite a pandemic that has disrupted many parts of the global supply chain, the freight market has been on a recent tear. Simply put, there is more freight than available trucks, which has severely tightened capacity and driven up rates. What’s Causing Upward Freight Market Trends?

North America 52

North America Capacity Comparison Beverage 52

DAT Solutions

DECEMBER 16, 2020

A recent analysis dispelled one of the pandemic-related freight myths that food manufacturing should be higher because Americans are cooking more. .

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Food Analysis Manufacturing Freight 91

Zipline Logistics

APRIL 20, 2020

Controlling costs in the supply chain is an excellent way for businesses in any sector to find increased profitability, but it is especially true for food ingredient shippers. An effective supply chain strategy that controls costs is crucial because margins for ingredient manufacturers are typically thin. How Food Ingredient Shippers Can Make Logistics Improvements . There are a few things that most food ingredient suppliers can do to increase supply chain performance.

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Warehousing Food Supply Chain Visibility Supply Chain Performance 40

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This week: Amazon brings select cities free 2-hour Prime deliveries from Whole Foods; Elon Musk expects a Tesla to drive coast-to-coast in 2018; CVS Health ups its starting hourly minimum wage; freight brokers are seeing a surge in profits; and companies are working to find ways to ensure AI technology helps their business instead of hurting it. Amazon Launches Free 2-Hour Delivery From Whole Foods. Freight Brokers See Profits Surge on Shipping Rush.

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Austin Virginia Dallas Journal 54

Supply Chain Collaborator

OCTOBER 27, 2016

a key supplier of components to Apple, and Flextronics International are among a recent spate of electronics manufacturers entering the supply chain software business. After all, electronics manufacturers are well-acquainted with managing complex supply chains in their operations. Nor do we expect them to understand the specific pains experienced by retail shippers managing inbound freight from thousands of vendors and the influence of seasonality.

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Electronics Manufacturing 3PL Journal 60

DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 13, 2015

One of the strategies manufacturers and online stores will take is to price their products uniformly across the participating economies. If manufactures and e-stores across any TPPA economy offer similar prices, then the growth will predominantly occur in the ground segment, leaving the airlines wanting. Even as both economic blocs continue to recover at a decent pace, more and more of the demand for air freight will shift to sea and rail.

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 10, 2018

With more than 100 co-packers specializing in food and beverage products in California alone, how do you find the right partner? Working with a co-packer means you will lose control to a certain degree over your products and how they are manufactured.

Beverage 52

Beverage San Francisco Food California 52

BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This week: Amazon brings select cities free 2-hour Prime deliveries from Whole Foods; Elon Musk expects a Tesla to drive coast-to-coast in 2018; CVS Health ups its starting hourly minimum wage; freight brokers are seeing a surge in profits; and companies are working to find ways to ensure AI technology helps their business instead of hurting it. Amazon Launches Free 2-Hour Delivery From Whole Foods. Freight Brokers See Profits Surge on Shipping Rush.

Austin 40

Austin Virginia Dallas Journal 40

Roambee

AUGUST 15, 2019

While rail freight plays an integral and growing role as a high-volume low-cost transport option, there’s a glaring lack of business intelligence based on logistics visibility that’s hampering a greater adoption of rail as a preferred medium of transport. Globalization, containerization, and a surge in logistics connectivity have been a boon to the intermodal, multimodal, and global shipping industry.

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System Cargo Global Freight 40

ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

ThroughPut spent most of Q4 working with production, logistics, and manufacturing operations. Everything from distribution centers to food processing plants. Hitting your targets is everything in operations, manufacturing, drilling, production, logistics, and hands-on blue-collar work. Blog Artificial Intelligence Inventory logistics Manufacturing Supply ChainThrough our data analysis engagements, we have found patterns across all real-time operations.

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America Government Manufacturing Sustainability 40

Logichain Solutions

JULY 10, 2018

With more than 100 co-packers specializing in food and beverage products in California alone, how do you find the right partner? Working with a co-packer means you will lose control to a certain degree over your products and how they are manufactured. If you import / export products by air or sea freight, consider a co-packer close to an airport or sea port.

Beverage 40

Beverage San Francisco Food California 40

Logichain Solutions

JULY 10, 2018

With more than 100 co-packers specializing in food and beverage products in California alone, how do you find the right partner? Working with a co-packer means you will lose control to a certain degree over your products and how they are manufactured. If you import / export products by air or sea freight, consider a co-packer close to an airport or sea port.

Beverage 40

Beverage San Francisco Food California 40

Logichain Solutions

JULY 10, 2018

With more than 100 co-packers specializing in food and beverage products in California alone, how do you find the right partner? Working with a co-packer means you will lose control to a certain degree over your products and how they are manufactured. If you import / export products by air or sea freight, consider a co-packer close to an airport or sea port.

Beverage 40

Beverage San Francisco Food California 40

Logichain Solutions

JULY 10, 2018

With more than 100 co-packers specializing in food and beverage products in California alone, how do you find the right partner? Working with a co-packer means you will lose control to a certain degree over your products and how they are manufactured. If you import / export products by air or sea freight, consider a co-packer close to an airport or sea port.

Beverage 40

Beverage San Francisco Food California 40

Roambee

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Multiple modes of transportation, several freight forwarders, and a complete loss of visibility and control after the first mile — these are some of the multimodal shipment tracking challenges that customers can now tackle head-on thanks to revolutionary solutions in the IoT-enabled supply chain tracking space. The balance of power is shifting in the shipping industry — customers are no longer at the mercy of the shipper.

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Logistics Trends and Insights

JANUARY 4, 2020

manufacturing activity does not bode well for the logistics market. A reading below 50 indicates the manufacturing sector is contracting. As manufacturing activity falters, the impact on trade tensions with China and other countries can be seen in U.S. A number of freight forwarders have enjoyed positive revenues from the U.S. Manufacturing slowdowns in Europe and other regions around the world will also have a negative impact on forwarders. The latest U.S.

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North America America Freight Europe 60

Cerasis

APRIL 2, 2015

Kids also learn the value of farming and cultivating food as you lose hunger and in order to stay alive and survive you must hoe dirt, plant wheat seads, then harvest the wheat to make into bread or milk cows to use in cakes (Stampy’s most favorite food!). Combine kids who are spending their youth making things in Minecraft, additive manufacturing, big data, and the internet of things, wowsa, does manufacturing have a bright future. Manufacturing STEM

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Cerasis

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Editor’s Note: Today we are featuring this guest post from Find Accounting Software as it covers a subject we are also interested in, Manufacturing Technology which makes businesses more efficient. To better understand how your organization can benefit, we’ve collected comments from 20 manufacturers detailing the results they were able to achieve via their investments in ERP software. Earlier identification of product manufacturing issues.

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Software Manufacturing Food Chemicals 263

Cerasis

JANUARY 28, 2019

Improper consideration of backhauls, deadhead, dwell time and spot freight will result in excess freight and unused space. The Popularity of Discount Retailers Will Increase According to Lauren Thomas of CNBC , and increased global economy effectively brings more product to the market, and since costs for raw materials and manufacturing vary widely, depending on the location of the manufacturers, it is expected that the popularity of discount retailers will increase.

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Logistics Trends Industrial Industry 169

QAD

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Manufacturing in Turkey. Primary manufacturing industries include textiles, food, automobiles, electronics, mining, steel, petroleum, construction, lumber and paper. Supply Chain Infrastructure for Manufacturing. How would you describe the state of Manufacturing in Turkey?

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Turkey Syria Bulgaria Italy 66

CargoBarn

JANUARY 10, 2019

2019 Shipping Freight Trends. Know the 2019 shipping freight trends and be prepared this year. Tesla and other manufacturers are working on producing semi-autonomous trucks. Definitely, food or fuel for thought. This fuels trucking and freight with increasing efficiency. The market is on high demand for freight and the supply is very tight. Despite these challenging trends, it is possible to have worry-free transportation of freight. Freight

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IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Reducing freight costs, improving supplier delivery performance, and minimizing supplier risk are three of the many benefits machine learning is providing in collaborative supply chain networks. The manufacturing industry leads all others in the volume of data it produces on a yearly basis. Also, machine learning is leading to more accurate measures of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), a key metric many manufacturers and supply chain operations rely on.

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Journal Analytics Aerospace Forecasting 66

Freightos

OCTOBER 25, 2020

As a disclaimer, WebCargo , a Freightos Group company, does offers digital services to global forwarders and carriers, including online sales portals, digital eBooking, multimodal rate management and the Freightos.com freight marketplace. . The Freight Game of Thrones.

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