Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 12, 2024

And a golfer unlike any other is looking to make history this weekend at the annual golf tournament played at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia: Tiger Woods. With 12 miles of conveyor belts and thousands of robots to automate goods processed in the facility, it is Amazon’s first highly automated warehouse in the state.

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Locus Robotics

JANUARY 31, 2024

Patrick’s Day and Easter (yes, it’s in March this year) as the top celebrations, but in the manufacturing and supply chain world, the biggest celebration in March is MODEX in Atlanta, GA at the Georgia World Congress Center. AI in the Warehouse: What You Really Need to Know (March 11th at 1:30 p.m.)

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Locus Robotics

JANUARY 31, 2024

Patrick’s Day and Easter (yes, it’s in March this year) as the top celebrations, but in the manufacturing and supply chain world, the biggest celebration in March is MODEX in Atlanta, GA at the Georgia World Congress Center. AI in the Warehouse: What You Really Need to Know (March 11th at 1:30 p.m.)

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 25, 2022

in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, all from Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA. Dr. Williams’ professional experience includes warehouse operations, project management and leadership training. Department of Supply Chain Management at the Sam M. Walton College of Business.

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American Global Logistics

JANUARY 30, 2024

Key Economic Indicator #1: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported that the annual US GDP rate increased in December 2023. December’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) The BEA reported the CPI increased 0.3 Based on a survey of economists, the WSJ reported expectations of recession had dropped markedly.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 8, 2017

More findings on the cloud cargo transportation and warehouse management systems you may discover on the web. The cloud-based supply chain software can be customized to suit your industry, your transportation , freight-forwarding and warehousing specialty, import-export regulations. Helen works and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2023

According to a report from The Information , the company is imposing this fee on returns when return options at Whole Foods, Kohl’s, or Amazon Fresh locations are closer or at the same distance as a UPS Store return location. But, per the report, Amazon has now initiated a charge of $1.50

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RFgen

MAY 3, 2018

A Supply Chain Management Review report that incorporated expertise from Benoit Montreuil, a department chair at the Georgia Tech Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, explained that there are a variety of strategic options available to businesses when it comes to getting goods to customers.

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RFgen

MAY 3, 2018

A Supply Chain Management Review report that incorporated expertise from Benoit Montreuil, a department chair at the Georgia Tech Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, explained that there are a variety of strategic options available to businesses when it comes to getting goods to customers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 5, 2024

A rule regulating emissions at Southern California warehouses , which the state’s trucking industry viewed as akin to a zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate, has been upheld by a federal district court. Women’s clothing brand Spanx is using a humanoid robot to work in its Georgia warehouse.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Slync to Wind Down Operations According to two published reports from supply chain focused media, freightech and Cloud based logistics visibility platform provider Slync is winding down operations and seeking an alternative form to bankruptcy. The action is termed an assignment for the benefit of the company’s creditors.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The partnership is focused on the middle mile, which is the transport of goods within the supply chain most often from a warehouse to a fulfillment center or a warehouse to a retailer.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This particular update includes reports of additional production worker wage hikes among certain global automakers along with reinforcement data that this year’s holiday seasonal hiring levels are at a ten year low. based Alabama and Georgia production facilities. This report cites data from the U.S.

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Visit our Emergency Freight page for resources regarding FEMA loads, emergency services and reports on supply chain disruptions. They're already posting a list of needs, which usually includes trucks, other heavy equipment, and warehouse space. Want to help? Make personal safety a priority. Stay informed about road closures.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 5, 2022

In fact, our research shows that 64% of supply chain executives report the pace of digital transformation for their organization is accelerating. Journalist Tim Robinson reports, “The logistics industry which was valued at $7,641.2 ” Micro Warehouses and Last Mile Logistics. billion by 2027. .” Footnotes. [1]

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

West Coast Dockworkers Ratify New Labor Contract Members of The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) have completed the voting process and have ratified a new six-year labor contract covering 29 U.S. West Coast ports. The organization indicated that 75 percent of members voted for contract ratification.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Warehousing. Of course, the difference between KPIs and metrics will vary at different levels of your organisation, so for example, while a metric recording “receiving accuracy” in a warehouse would certainly be a KPI for a warehouse manager, it would be completely extraneous as an executive-level KPI.

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RFgen

AUGUST 31, 2015

The Guardian recently reported Google is testing solar-powered delivery drones in rural California. An experiment conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology found electric trucks cut down on emissions and are more energy-efficient and cost less to maintain than diesel trucks when utilized in the right way.

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RFgen

AUGUST 31, 2015

The Guardian recently reported Google is testing solar-powered delivery drones in rural California. An experiment conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology found electric trucks cut down on emissions and are more energy-efficient and cost less to maintain than diesel trucks when utilized in the right way.

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BlueYonder

JULY 7, 2017

This week: how the growth of e-commerce is shifting the retail job market; an autonomous and unstaffed mobile retail space is in the prototype phase in Shanghai; and why warehouses may make a good testing ground for autonomous driving experiments. First the warehouses, then the roads. The outsized effect of e-commerce on retail.

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands. Shippers report that an average of 36% of their total logistics expenditure is related to outsourcing compared to an average of 44% reported last year. Globally, warehousing is outsourced by 67%. Falkland Islands (Malvinas). Faroe Islands. French Guiana. French Polynesia.

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BlueYonder

JULY 7, 2017

This week: how the growth of e-commerce is shifting the retail job market; an autonomous and unstaffed mobile retail space is in the prototype phase in Shanghai; and why warehouses may make a good testing ground for autonomous driving experiments. First the warehouses, then the roads. The outsized effect of e-commerce on retail.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 2, 2015

Outside of the times that I am being ignored when the games are on, our dinner conversations have involved the following topics of conversation: “Hey mom, did you see Hunter fall off his chair when Georgia State won with a buzzer beater?” Warehouse Management – a warehouse is a location of constant movement! ENJOY THE MADNESS!!

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2023

That was primarily due to retailers working on emptying warehouses of older inventory and shippers continuing to move more freight to East Coast ports because of concerns over the slow pace of labor talks between the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. million U.S. Generating the full 185.6

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The World’s Oldest Supply Chain Analyst Report (Elemica Executive Lunch). Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) Conference , April 30 – May 3, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 Georgia Logistics Summit , May 16-17, Atlanta, GA. TMS for SMB: A Case Study with Carhartt (CSCMP 2016). Amazon: Disruptor or Distraction?

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 22, 2020

Chris Dolce ( @chrisdolcewx ) reports, “The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is off to a fast start with three named storms by early June.”[1] Construction material suppliers, warehouses, and grocery stores come immediately to mind. Still entangled in the throes of the pandemic, U.S. ” Concluding thoughts.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 4, 2018

supply chains, and reports indicate that northeastern U.S. Southern states, such as Georgia and Florida, will seek additional capacity to transport and distribute their perishable produce throughout the country during the annual produce season. To make matters worse, uncharacteristic winter weather impacted U.S.

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Stord

AUGUST 6, 2019

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

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 10, 2018

When I became a warehouse leader at Clorox to manage bleach and salad dressing in the same warehouse facility, I struggled with the marked difference of the rhythms and cycles of the products being managed in and out of the same warehouse facility. My struggle was that I reported to two COOs competing for the CEO’s job.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2022

Market fulfillment centers are a compact, modular warehouse built inside or added to a store, which, in addition to fresh and frozen items, can store thousands of the items. The pace of inventory accumulation reported by the Commerce Department on Monday was, however, slower than in recent months. The new pool, to be known as SACP 3.0,

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Zipline Logistics

JUNE 9, 2020

According to a report published by FTR , we should continue to see rates down from their 2018 highs, even through year’s end. Southeast Logistics—Outbound Volume from Florida, Georgia, Texas. Finding outbound South Texas, Georgia, and Florida to the Northeast is challenging, as capacity out of these markets is tighter.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2020

But McKinsey reports that only 33% of organizations are effectively using internal and external data to take advantage of AI capabilities. In the grand scheme of things, 3D printing’s effect on the supply chain can be summarized as the following: warehouses no longer need to keep as many parts in stock.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2013

T’was the month before the Christmas season, when all through the warehouse. On, Analytics and Reporting ! Peter has a BBA in Marketing and Information Technology from Georgia Southern University. The forklifts were stirring, the trailers here and about. Now, Rate ! Now, Tender ! Now, Audit and Settle ! On, Documents !

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