Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Logistics Start-Up Loop Announces $35 Million Series B Funding Logistics industry audit and payment services platform provider Loop has announced that the start-up has raised $35 million in a Series B investment round co-led by J.P. OCEMA”) , an industry association consisting of 10 major international container shipping companies.

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Cathy Roberson

JANUARY 9, 2023

The biggest retail challenges from the NRF and Appriss survey include the following: Self-service returns Damaged returns or policy abuse Re-processing goods at a warehouse on digital returns Indeed, a lot of work still needs to be done in reverse logistics. Tompkins Robotics – Expanded its reverse logistics capabilities in 2018.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2023

And now on to this week’s logistics news. The manufacturer’s private fleet has deployed a fleet of Einride EVs to haul freight between GE Appliances’ inbound warehouses and manufacturing facilities in Kentucky, Georgia, and Tennessee. to smaller logistics operators scrambled to fill jobs at fulfillment centers. .”

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Ukraine in the news: War in Ukraine disrupts ships around the globe. The world’s biggest container ship operators, A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S and Mediterranean Shipping Co., Ukraine invasion and the semi-conductor chip impact. Walmart steps up automated store distribution.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 5, 2022

According to the Flat World Global Solutions staff, “Labor deficits, raw material shortages and e-commerce businesses driving up demand are all leading to increased shipping and transportation prices.” One of the inflationary trends driving up 2021 end-of-year prices was the cost of logistics. billion by 2027. .”[7]

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

JUNE 16, 2022

Depending on the type of product and the demand, cross-docking can reduce inventory, operating costs, and distribution costs while facilitating just-in-time delivery. Faster shipping & receiving times. Cost of goods sold (COGS) also accounts for a considerable portion of inventory expenses. Reduced costs & time savings.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 10, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Logistics hiring slowed in May amid shifts in retail sector. Gatik’s self-driving trucks to haul Georgia-Pacific goods to Sam’s Clubs. Target expects squeezed profits from aggressive plan to get rid of unwanted inventory. As a result, logistics hiring in May has slowed down.

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TMC

MARCH 9, 2017

Silk Road increases global logistics options. Many shippers are already taking advantage of the new global logistics options. suppliers of frozen chicken to Kazakhstan began shipping product via the Black Sea and onward through Georgia, Azerbaijan, and across the Caspian Sea, to bypass trade restrictions imposed by Russia.

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TMC

MARCH 9, 2017

Silk Road increases global logistics options. Many shippers are already taking advantage of the new global logistics options. suppliers of frozen chicken to Kazakhstan began shipping product via the Black Sea and onward through Georgia, Azerbaijan, and across the Caspian Sea, to bypass trade restrictions imposed by Russia.

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PINC

OCTOBER 14, 2019

expansion in the first quarter, which mostly was buoyed by lower imports and higher inventories< , JOC reports. Following on its heels was Georgia-based Ready Trucking, which had 108 power units and 91 drivers. economy expanded by 2.1% during the second quarter of the year, compared with 4.2% Starlite Trucking, and LME.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 17, 2020

Certainly disruption in Chinese manufacturing and transoceanic logistics could have caused some shortages. Georgia-Pacific, for instance is increasing short term production. But that’s not a lot relatively speaking given that domestic manufacturers have the ability to increase capacity, even if just for the short term.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 23, 2023

And now on to this week’s logistics news. The fulfillment center is the second of four next-generation facilities that aim to bring the powerful combination of people, technology and machine learning together to achieve faster shipping and delivery, while increasing Walmart.com order fulfillment capacity. population with its service.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Both industrial engineering and operations research have their roots in logistics. Operations Research began when scientists demonstrated the value of analytics in the study of military logistics problems in the 1940s as a result of the complex requirements of World War II. History of Supply Chain Management: Logistics Comes of Age.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2015

Natural gas and oil expenses contribute to extreme cost disparities in shipping from Asia to the U.S., for example, compared to shipping state-to-state. Errors in interpretation of product specifications, shipping documents, and other critical instructions, due to language barriers are reduced. energy costs have dropped.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 23, 2015

Both industrial engineering and operations research have their roots in logistics. Operations Research began when scientists demonstrated the value of analytics in the study of military logistics problems in the 1940s as a result of the complex requirements of World War II. History of Supply Chain Management: Logistics Comes of Age.

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Freight Plus

MARCH 20, 2019

We attribute the softer demand to factors such as late 2018 inventory growth in advance of the perceived impact of tariffs, the effects of the partial government shutdown on spending and extended periods of inclement weather that impacted the timing of shipping seasonal goods, as well as our ability to safely dispatch our equipment.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. percent year on year in June, driven by double-digit surges in New York/New Jersey, Houston, and Savannah, Georgia. The post This Week in Logistics News (July 16 – 22) appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints. In the next 40 years, the answer is (most likely) a definitive no.

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6 River Systems

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

It’s also very efficient, meaning it will allow your employees to process more orders on a hourly basis with virtually impossible odds of shipping the incorrect products to your customers. Define normal parameters and fine-tune the physical inventory system. Once the method is working, standardize it. Robin Schwartz, PHR.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

At CSCMP Edge 2017, Kenco hosted a roundtable of supply chain leaders from companies like Coca-Cola, ChervonTechnologies, Georgia-Pacific, Kids II, and Sealed Air to work through the challenging but critical road ahead. SCM #SupplyChain #Freight #Logistics #Future #Technology #Leadership.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Many of the states affected contained key ports and supply destinations, as well as transportation and logistics hubs. As if the situation wasn’t bad enough, Hanjin, the huge shipping company, was already in bankruptcy as of early September and putting a delay in the arrival of goods well before the hurricane. Use analytics.

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American Global Logistics

MARCH 10, 2023

These definitions come from InBound Logistics (Feb. 2023) INTERMODAL SHIPPING: “ Intermodal shipping means moving a product from one point to another while keeping the product in a single container. Increased availability of capacity (ships, planes, box cars, containers). Bloated, overstocked retailer inventories.

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QAD

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Fund the Georgia Port Authority pop-up container yards project by reallocating more than $8 million . QAD CMO Carter Lloyds recently wrote about three major industry disruptors , starting with shipping. He also described how central bankers believe the supply chain bottlenecks will continue, pushing inflation.

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Stord

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Whether it is a retailer ordering new stock from a supplier or a CPG brand replenishing raw materials, buyers want their products quicker and with lower shipping costs. Simultaneously, modern shippers require logistics expertise, strategy, and partnership to successfully navigate supply chains that are complex, brittle, and ever-changing.

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

There are several elements in an effective logistics strategy, with the ultimate goal of identifying the most cost-effective service levels and developing plans and processes that enable the company to operate as close to those optimal service levels as possible.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Logistics and Distribution. Thus, many retailers, both brick and mortar and online focused, had to dynamically link available inventory with in-store, online and channel related promotional initiatives. It reported that it last one-day shipping order was placed on 11:52 p.m. Communication Services. Consumer Packaged Goods.

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ShipBob

MARCH 12, 2023

Ecommerce businesses are on a constant quest to cut shipping costs without sacrificing speed and customer experience. Yet, it’s tempting to do so by finding the cheapest carrier to ship customer orders. One strategy that ecommerce businesses are taking advantage of is a shipping concept known as “zone skipping.”

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RFgen

APRIL 25, 2016

Companies should investigate data collection strategies to respond to new supply chain logistics management obstacles and security features to prevent businesses from looking like targets. FreightWatch, a shipping management company, reported U.S. is the method by which criminals steal inventory. The Modern Form of Cargo Theft.

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RFgen

APRIL 25, 2016

Companies should investigate data collection strategies to respond to new supply chain logistics management obstacles and security features to prevent businesses from looking like targets. FreightWatch, a shipping management company, reported U.S. is the method by which criminals steal inventory. The Modern Form of Cargo Theft.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

And now on to this week’s logistics news. When FedEx, UPS, US Postal Service packages should be shipped for upcoming holiday season. Next week, I will be releasing my annual holiday logistics guide , as I have done for 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , and 2014. ATA-led coalition sues to block federal vaccine mandate.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Given low inventories and dwindling spare capacity, the oil market cannot afford large supply disruptions,” said UBS analyst Giovanni Staunovo in a Reuters article. Those shipments need to go by Ocean or the more expensive Air mode if ship berths can’t be found.

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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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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

MARCH 10, 2023

However, manufacturers continued to produce goods and inventories began to rise dramatically toward the end of 2021 and beginning of 2022. Inventories were drawn down over the next several months and without increases in consumption which did not occur, this reduced demand for truckload capacity.

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Ware2Go

OCTOBER 14, 2021

One measure of this is the daily tally of container ships idling outside the congested ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach — the entry point for about 40 per cent of goods imported into the US. Nike has warned of inventory shortages and Costco is having trouble keeping enough toilet rolls in stock. The stakes are high.

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