3PL Insights

JULY 19, 2021

Evans Distribution Systems, headquartered in southeast Michigan, was founded in 1929 as the Central Detroit Warehouse Company. Evans currently employs more than 600 associates and operates over two million square feet of space in Michigan and across the U.S. Find more information on our website, www.evansdist.com.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 17, 2021

Matt earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Michigan. Food, beverages, plastics, paper, metals, and more – you name it, MoLo will ship it. While at U of M, Matt was a scholarship athlete who played on the basketball team and earned Academic All Big Ten Honors. About MoLo Solutions.

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3PL Insights

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

. # # # About Evans Distribution Systems Evans Distribution Systems, headquartered in southeast Michigan, was founded in 1929 as the Central Detroit Warehouse Company. Evans currently employs nearly 300 associates and operates more than 3 million square feet of warehouse space in Michigan.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 5, 2021

Mike earned a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations and Communications from Central Michigan University. Examples of consumer-packaged goods include food, beverages, cosmetics, and cleaning products. About Hook Logistics. Mike Neme’s niche is emerging package goods (CPG) companies with sales between $20 million and $500 million dollars.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Ben was raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Kellogg School of Management and a law degree from Northwestern University School of Law. Successful Bulk Food Transport with Chris Fish. He earned his undergraduate degree in computer engineering from Northwestern.

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QAD

DECEMBER 3, 2019

There is a developing trend that has been gaining steam in recent years that has the potential to seriously impact and “disrupt” food and beverage manufacturing. It means buying food that is sourced and/or grown within a geographical location that could be considered “local”. Improves overall food safety.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 31, 2022

After 2 infant deaths an FDA investigation of Abbott resulted in the closure of their Michigan production facility and recalls of product made in that building. So it should have been no surprise that this would happen in this highly sensitive market supplying babies with food and other essentials. In the long term the U.S.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

PAXAFE – a venture-backed C-Corp – is a graduate of gener8tor Accelerator, was a 2019 Accelerate Michigan startup competition finalist and a 2020 ACORD InsurTech Challenge finalist, and is a top 20 Wisconsin startup to watch in 2020 and 2021. PAXAFE’s platform decreases cargo loss while improving operational efficiencies.

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3PL Insights

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Evans Distribution Systems, headquartered in southeast Michigan, was founded in 1929 as the Central Detroit Warehouse Company. Evans currently employs more than 600 associates and operates over two million square feet of space in Michigan and across the U.S. Find more information on our website, www.evansdist.com.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 22, 2022

It is my pleasure to begin this series of joint blog posts with Jason Miller, Associate Professor of Logistics at Michigan State University. Our first blog explores grocery store food prices. This is shown in Figure 1 below, In contrast, the selling prices for food and beverage stores have risen 6.8%

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3PL Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Evans Distribution Systems, headquartered in southeast Michigan, was founded in 1929 as the Central Detroit Warehouse Company. Evans currently employs more than 600 associates and operates over two million square feet of space in Michigan and across the U.S. Find more information on our website, www.evansdist.com.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 6, 2018

However, Lineage, a mid-cap company based in Detroit, Michigan, is one of the world’s largest and most innovative temperature-controlled supply chain providers. The name Lineage Logistics may not be a household name, but that is something the leadership team is used to. The temperature-controlled […].

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Recurrent Food Safety Failures Threaten Supply Chains. Although the food supply chain issues related to COVID-19 are now primarily a terrible memory for the food industry, a new problem threatens to roil food and beverage supply chains.

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3PL Insights

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Frankenmuth, Michigan is celebrating its 30 th Oktoberfest this year. Besides beer, visitors enjoy carnival rides and games, live music, dancing, and traditional foods, such as sausages and pretzels. Cities around the world, like Frankenmuth, Michigan, also hold Oktoberfest celebrations that mimic the Munich event.

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3PL Insights

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Frankenmuth, Michigan is celebrating its 30 th Oktoberfest this year. Besides beer, visitors enjoy carnival rides and games, live music, dancing, and traditional foods, such as sausages and pretzels. Cities around the world, like Frankenmuth, Michigan, also hold Oktoberfest celebrations that mimic the Munich event.

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Elementum

JULY 25, 2017

Following Amazon’s announcement of buying Whole Foods, Amazon’s stock rose 3% while Whole Foods shares skyrocketed 28%. And with Whole Foods earning a good reputation in delivering quality food services, this vision might not be a far reality.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 25, 2023

This technology took a step further in 2002 when Michael Grieves publicly introduced the concept and model of the digital twin at a Society of Manufacturing Engineers conference in Troy, Michigan. ” Deloitte analysts agree that digital twin usage will continue to grow as the technology becomes more sophisticated.

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ITradeNetwork

OCTOBER 9, 2020

This week saw several recalls across multiple sources and food types. Additionally, cantaloupe from Eagle Produce sold at Meijer stores in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Wisconsin has been recalled for potential risk of Salmonella.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center – Another local manufacturing blog with strong content, MMTC works to protect the rights of Michigan manufacturers and keep those in the industry informed. ( @Proudtomfrinmi ).

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 14, 2022

Michael Baudendistel ( @FWavesRail ), an analyst and Market Expert at FreightWaves, reports, “There were some interesting, if perhaps intuitive, highlights from the latest University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. As lockdowns eased, they returned to buying more fresh foods and perishable items.

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QAD

AUGUST 4, 2022

And, as I live not too far from the self proclaimed town of “Beer City USA” (Grand Rapids, Michigan), I figured a discussion on the beer industry today and its supply chain might be appropriate. I am guessing one of Friar Tuck’s favorite days of the year is August 5, which is International Beer Day. Disruption in the Beer Industry .

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DynaSys

APRIL 20, 2022

Because here in Michigan, in the Northern United States, we had one more winter storm. Seasonality is a complex issue… … both from a consumer products and food products perspective. However, many consumer products and almost all food products are comprised of ingredients and materials that themselves are seasonal products.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Megan Gambino ( @megan_gambino ) explains the only foods historians are certain were served at the so-called ‘first Thanksgiving’ were wildfowl, corn, and venison.[1] Other states with significant turkey production include Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Dakota, Utah, and California.

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3PL Insights

MAY 3, 2021

Evans Distribution Systems, headquartered in southeast Michigan, was founded in 1929 as the Central Detroit Warehouse Company.

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3PL Insights

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The post Why Michigan is Important for Amazon Expansion appeared first on Evans Distribution. As one of the featured cities in Forbes’ “Top 10 Most Affordable Cities,” Detroit also offers a reasonably priced environment for arts, culture, housing, and work.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 5, 2022

Traverse City, Michigan based provider Starboard provides an innovative and interactive digital twin of a physical supply chain network leveraging gaming technology to allow users to explore what-if supply chain and business scenarios. Added Perspective.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2017

In most food-supply chains it might take weeks to figure out where it went from source to destination, and in some cases, the source may not be known, but on a blockchain, it takes just seconds. Michigan State University estimated fraud costs the global food industry as much as $40 billion a year. Nestle SA, Tyson Foods Inc.,

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

This is based on some recent collaborative work with Professor Jason Miller from Michigan State University, who developed a new supply chain pressures index, which was based on a post from the Cleveland Fed [1] , going back to Q1 2004. It also shows drops in 2016 (when output was weak) as well as in 2019 (which was soft relative to 2018).

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 22, 2020

The third named storm, Cristobal, soaked areas from southeast Louisiana to north Florida and south Georgia, then became only the fourth tropical storm to track into Wisconsin or its adjacent Lake Michigan waters in more than 100 years of records. The second named storm, Bertha, made landfall an hour after it formed.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2016

At LLamasoft since 2011, Chrzanowski has worked with customers from multiple industries including food and beverage, healthcare, military, manufacturing and petro-chemical to execute supply chain projects and identify new strategic designs. He holds a Master’s Degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan.

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DAT Solutions

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Strong potato harvests in southern Idaho, as well as apples from Washington and Michigan, add to a respectable volume of iceberg lettuce from the San Joaquin Valley and the Imperial Valley near Yuma, AZ. Add poultry, dairy products, and refrigerated packaged foods to the mix for Thanksgiving, and demand for reefers should keep.

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AB&R

JANUARY 10, 2019

In addition, several agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) require unique device identifiers (UDI) usually in the form of barcodes to contain information such as manufactured date and lot number to provide traceability. Connecticut. District of Columbia. Massachusetts. Mississippi. New Hampsire. New Jersey. New Mexico.

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AFFLINK

MAY 17, 2018

It's also important to point out that this data was obtained from a broad sampling of industries that included those in food, chemical, automotive, retail, OEM, packaged goods for consumers and more. The total annual freight volume per organization ranges anywhere from $1 million to $1 billion.

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Supply Chain Digest

OCTOBER 11, 2021

FDA Food Traceability System Winners. Michigan State Launches New RFID Testing Lab. KOAMTAC with New Smaller Wearable Bar Code Scanner

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 29, 2022

Traverse City, Michigan based provider Starboard provides an innovative and interactive digital twin of a physical supply chain network leveraging gaming technology to allow users to explore what-if supply chain and business scenarios. Supply chain planning technology provider Logility, Inc., Wonder Group Closes $350 Million Funding Round.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2023

including money for the construction of new assembly plants and battery-making facilities, according to the Center for Automotive Research, a nonprofit organization based in Michigan. Through November, about $33 billion in new auto-factory investment has been pledged in the U.S., Online pet retailer Chewy Inc. The Plantation, Fla.-based

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Supply Chain Management and Analytics

OCTOBER 11, 2018

I spent 30 years at P&G, straight out of The University of Michigan and Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Business. The first 6 years I sold Food Products before moving into regional and global supply chain roles of increasing responsibility for the balance of my career. More on that in a minute.

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