Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 4, 2025

Sutera described a $60 million project to build an automated fulfillment center in Adairsville, Georgia, launched in September 2023. According to Sutera, the facility has improved operational metrics related to order accuracy, fulfillment speed, and labor efficiency.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Based on the work with Georgia Tech, we are getting clear on which metrics matter by industry. As companies adopt a balanced scorecard, the functional metrics shift to a focus on reliability. Shown in Figure 1 is the definition of the layers of outside-in planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

(Note to the reader: we selected these metrics for the balanced scorecard for the analysis after work with Arizona State University to understand which metrics, in combination, most closely correlated with market capitalization. Consider the role of functional metrics and the lack of alignment with the corporate scorecard.)

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 8, 2017

The cloud-based logistics has lots of metric tools. Helen works and lives in Atlanta, Georgia. This gives a chance to test the challenging ideas at reasonable expense and to either introduce them immediately or to leave them as unworkable. A Better Communication Model. Expert Bloggers Inc."

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Descartes

JUNE 4, 2025

Descartes Announces Fiscal 2026 First Quarter Financial Results WATERLOO, Ontario and ATLANTA, Georgia, June 4, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – The Descartes Systems Group Inc. TSX:DSG) (Nasdaq:DSGX) announced its financial results for its fiscal 2026 first quarter ( Q1FY26 ).

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Logility

APRIL 7, 2020

The Coca-Cola Company and Georgia Institute of Technology are working together to turn plastic sheeting into more than 50,000 plastic surgical shields. At the same time, start a frank discussion about which metrics matter right now. These are just a few of the countless and amazing innovations we hear about on a daily basis.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2022

The selection of metrics is based on prior work with Arizona State University to understand which metrics, in combination, correlate to market capitalization and price to book value. They used the work built together in 2004-2009 to build a course with Georgia Tech for executive training.) Why do we spend four months doing this?

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Alejandra Dorronsoro, Senior International Logistics Manager at Georgia Pacific Cellulose noted at the conference: “We spend so much time gathering data. It’s a tedious and expensive process that has, to date, been required to deploy analytics strategies and get a clear picture of what’s really happening. Cleaning it takes days.

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 10, 2025

Before invading Georgia in 2008, Russia used cyberattacks to paralyze daily life — disabling ATMs, cutting power, interrupting communications. But as someone with a long history in national security , I can tell you our government remains blind to many of these threats. We’ve seen this play out before.

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Supply Chain Digest

MAY 15, 2017

Top New Karl Manrodt of Georgia College and Colleagues Talk about New Top Metric, Strategic HR and more

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 6, 2025

Background Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia , ketteQ describes itself as redefining how businesses approach supply chain planning and execution with fundamentally different technology approach. Changes in a forecasting performance metric can be attributed to a specific step or action in the forecasting process.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 14, 2015

consider Atlanta, Georgia, which had a surge in the sale of electric cars due to a price rebate offered to the buyers. Measurements can be user login time, use of analysis, metrics improvement (inventory, service, manufacturing releases). Consider an incentive plan. Drawing inspiration from our climate change analogy. Lead by example.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 20, 2016

Karl Manrodt of Georgia College Leads Discussion on Three Key Issues from the 2016 Report

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Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 3, 2022

Author Credentials: Dr. Ed Frazelle was an award-winning professor at Georgia Tech Institute of Technology and he is now a consultant. Chapter 2 will introduce you to the on-time, in full metric. Cons: It contains some basic math, but not that hard. However, a chapter about warehouse activity profiling is quite challenging.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 29, 2025

Based in Georgia, Brent is passionate about helping logistics companies scale smarter by leveraging better tools, data, and processesand he’s always up for a conversation about the future of freight, carrier relationships, or a good pickleball match.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 4, 2015

I am speaking at the Zycus Horizons conference this week, being held at the Reynolds Plantation in Georgia. Other indicators included data pulled from the Federal Reserve economic database, the Producer Price Index, the Purchasing Managers Index, as well as internal metrics such as the size of the company’s own sales force.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

Many metrics can be used to determine the top 3PL warehousing companies, such as company revenue, the number of warehouses, total warehouse square footage , etc. This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric.

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Freight Waves

JULY 6, 2025

Real example: A carrier in Georgia ran reefer out of Atlanta. The Real Metrics of the Profit Test Let’s be clear. It exposes every strength—and every hole. If you can’t squeeze margin from one truck, what makes you think adding two more will solve that? Added two trucks within six months, thinking more volume meant more money.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 2, 2020

Joe received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. Procurement teams will have to advance their skill base and leverage these tools so as to develop new metrics that drive supply base characterization and improvements.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 15, 2022

Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. Technology can assist in such efforts in providing the ability to generate different planning scenarios weighted for different levels of service or cost risk, as well as impact to business financial metrics. Pascal Van Hentenryck , A.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 5, 2025

Table: Company reports The Johns Creek, Georgia-based carrier was very aggressive after Yellow’s ( OTC: YELLQ ) exit, acquiring 28 of the defunct company’s terminals and quickly onboarding its customers. (A Saia doesn’t provide any revenue-based metrics in its intraquarter updates. year over year in May following a 4.4%

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2023

It is expected to generate 62,000 megawatt hours annually – reducing approximately 22,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions per year. 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.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 21, 2020

The State of Georgia Shares Pricing Advantages with Public Entities, Creating Further Purchasing Leverage for the State. Allowed Georgia’s public entities (such as city/county governments, public universities, and hospitals) to leverage the state’s buying power and contracts. State of Georgia Captures Savings and Efficiencies. “Our

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American Global Logistics

JANUARY 30, 2024

Rajeev Dhawan, an economist at Georgia State University, described the current environment as “… less (of) a recession and more of a growth stop”. This flash metric registered at 50.3 In line with that, the WSJ projected that the 2024 supply chain would likely maintain last year’s expansion but at a slower rate. up slightly from 48.1

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2023

terawatt-hours of solar electricity annually — with the greatest potential in California, Florida, Illinois, Texas and Georgia, per the report. terawatt-hours of solar power would eliminate more than 112 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually, the report found. Generating the full 185.6

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Justin Honaman @jhonaman Justin is the President and Chief Commercial Officer of Contender Brands, LLC based in Atlanta, Georgia. ‘You can’t improve what you don’t measure’ also applies within logistics systems, so if your goal is to cut down on a metric, offer incentives for that metric diminishing.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Track your shipments, communicate with your carriers, confirm deliveries and continuously monitor important metrics. Peter has a BBA in Marketing and Information Technology from Georgia Southern University. Your TMS is accessible by mobile devices so you can stay in touch when you’re away from the office. Be Sociable, Share!

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Companies speak about moving from a functional metric focus to managing corporate metrics, but this does not happen. Of the 114 balance sheet metrics tested in work with the statisticians at Georgia Tech, operating margin improvement has the highest correlation to market capitalization. Hence the Facebook analogy.)

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2024

Over the last year, I worked with Georgia Tech to build predictive models by industry using market capitalization by employee as the definition of value. Market capitalization/employee is the value metric used as an objective function for the regression. The study is based on data sourced from Y charts for the period of 1982-2023.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Clorox Performance Compared to Competitors (Supply Chain Index is a relative metric of growth.). At the end of the day, the supply chain metrics do not change, however, the goals vary by value chain segment for cost, inventory, and growth. We needed to get better at forecasting and using postponement logic for late-stage packaging.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 30, 2017

A KPI is a metric… but not just any metric. A KPI is a metric focused on a KEY element of business, departmental, or team performance. There is really nothing wrong with capturing a lot of metrics, especially with today’s powerful analytics software solutions to help. Let me try to clarify.

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American Global Logistics

JANUARY 30, 2025

JURISDICTION: The courts of Georgia shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from the carriage evidenced by this Bill of Lading. Except as otherwise provided in this Bill of Lading, the laws of the State of Georgia shall apply. Percent ' Foot (Feet) " Inch(es) & And $.

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Stord

AUGUST 26, 2024

drop off in spot loads, a metric displaying the heat of the produce season leading up to the 4th of July holiday, aka the “peak of summer peak season”. Find the brokers who need freight moved into Florida, South Carolina and Southern Georgia. Reefer : Back to normal. From June to July, we experienced a significant 11.5%

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