Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 17, 2020

The majority of toilet paper sold in North America is manufactured in North America. Given that there has not been a massive shutdown in America factories the lack of supply cannot be attributed to temporary factory closures. Georgia-Pacific, for instance is increasing short term production.

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o9 Solutions

MARCH 1, 2021

Chris Gaffney and Dirk Lembregts will be sharing experience and insights from their long careers in supply chain management and logistics. Chris Gaffney received his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech. o9 Solutions’ AIM10x Executive Council added two members to its roster.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 29, 2018

Unlike most industry conferences, which are crammed like sardines into the month of May, this one is always in January and it spotlights the trends and topics that are top of mind for supply chain and logistics executives heading into the new year. Michael Leaser (Director Global Logistics & Transportation at Moen) and Alan Loos (Sr.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Hurricane Michael made landfall on the Florida Panhandle yesterday as a Category 4 storm and continues to move across Georgia and into the Carolina’s. 900,000 homes and businesses are experiencing power outages in Florida and Georgia. The storm has directly impacted Florida, Georgia and both North and South Carolina.

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

JUNE 16, 2022

Seamless global trade to and from North America starts in Mobile because of the physical connections it has to rails, roads, rivers, and runways. As the only facility within almost 50 miles to even provide cross-docking services, we serve much of the state of Alabama out to the Georgia state line as the go-to cross-docking provider.

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Freightera

APRIL 28, 2020

Interview with Benoit Montreuil, Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Director, Physical Internet Center; Director, Supply Chain & Logistics Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Interviewed by Eric Beckwitt, Founder and CEO, Freightera. BM: Each region is approaching this differently.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 23, 2023

And now on to this week’s logistics news. The Teamsters represent about 340,000 UPS employees, more than half of the company’s workforce in the largest private-sector contract in North America. It opened the first one last month in Smyrna, Georgia, about 16 miles northwest of Atlanta, and may open them in other cities.

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Stord

AUGUST 6, 2019

The delivery company is “reducing its dependency” on Amazon as the fulfillment company builds out its own logistics network. Wayfair Adds Another Last-Mile Facility Wayfair announced its 39th facility in North America in Savannah, Georgia. FedEx flagged Amazon as a competitive risk in its annual report to U.S. regulators.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 26, 2022

Founded in 2009, with the vision of becoming the next iteration of producer Tesla in technologically innovative EV design, production and distribution logistics, the company spent its initial years in designing and developing what is today the Rivian RiT electrically powered pick-up truck, and the Rivian RiS sport utility vehicle.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 28, 2020

The largest impacts start in the South and move their way up the US latitudinally – think Florida to Georgia to North Carolina, and Texas to California to Washington to Oregon. Refrigerated transportation is particularly at a premium and can be difficult to secure if not working with a logistics provider with an expansive network.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 27, 2020

Craig Fuller is CEO and Founder of FreightWaves, the only freight-focused organization that delivers a complete and comprehensive view of the freight and logistics market. FreightWaves.com, the company’s news site, is the leading provider of news and commentary for the transportation and logistics space. About Craig Fuller.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I love knowing that some carriers are able to be home more often with their families because we offer the most loads of anyone in North America, allowing truck drivers to optimize lane selection and schedules. Dieselgrid, Savannah, Georgia. Freeport Logistics, Inc., Thomasville, North Carolina. Daily Express, Inc.,

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 14, 2018

The 2018 Manufacturing and Logistics Report Card , conducted by Conexus Indiana for the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research, rates U.S. The 2018 Manufacturing and Logistics Report Card , conducted by Conexus Indiana for the Ball State University Center for Business and Economic Research, rates U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Carriers, freight forwarders, and shippers that were dealing with the China to North America trade lanes were already operating in crisis mode. Russia is strongly believed to have used cyber weapons to attack Georgia during the military incursion into the country in 2008.

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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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Supply Chain Movement

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

At the same time, the supply chain specialists are expanding across Europe and even into North America. South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands. Secondly, in August 2015, it took over Total Logistics, based in the UK and the Netherlands and specialised in supply chain network design. Falkland Islands (Malvinas).

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