Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 30, 2021

As I wrote about two weeks ago, Domino’s is now partnering with Nuro in Houston to make robocar deliveries. The 100+ Accelerator was launched in 2018 as a global incubator program to help solve supply chain challenges across water stewardship, circular economy, sustainable agriculture, and climate action.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

At the current rate of global emissions, the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global temperatures to 1.5 ”[2] Some of the consequences scientists expect, if average global temperatures exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels will likely be permanently out of reach in nine years, the study found.”[1]

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Interconnected global supply chains, heavy dependence on chemical products and the lack of sub-tier visibility are key factors affecting recovery timelines. to the region of Texas that was affected by Hurricane Harvey, and 300 of them are in the Houston vicinity. needed to operate is not going to be there for weeks.”.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

There is a need to re-shore where possible, and relocate manufacturing and supplier relationships. With the rise of the global multi-national, Asian flows are essential to today’s manufacturing operations. Today, this is not a valid assumption, and most manufacturers lack the inventory buffers for inconsistent flows.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 26, 2021

For example, prices for polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, have more than doubled since last summer, according to S&P Global Platts. The shortages in PVC and other materials are even shutting down automotive production lines, as well as other manufacturers that I’ve been speaking with. However, worse was to come.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

The supply chain has two buffers: inventory and manufacturing excess capacity. Today, most companies do not have excess manufacturing capacity: they have either outsourced manufacturing or increased the asset utilization of their manufacturing assets. Need for the design of buffers. The environments are strained.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Looking back on how we arrived at this point, many experts point to the 2017 hurricane season, specifically with Hurricane Harvey hitting the Houston area in late August 2017, followed by Hurricane Irma hitting Florida just a few weeks later. That all changed with the summer of 2017. That’s assuming there are no major economic events.

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o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2021

For CPG manufacturers changing volumes from modern trade (hyper/supermarkets) to e.g. discounters, e-Commerce. CPG manufacturers are scrambling to strengthen the connect with consumers and in some cases to bypass retailers altogether. Houston – We have a Supply Chain Problem.

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o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2021

For CPG manufacturers changing volumes from modern trade (hyper/supermarkets) to e.g. discounters, e-Commerce. CPG manufacturers are scrambling to strengthen the connect with consumers and in some cases to bypass retailers altogether. Houston – We have a Supply Chain Problem.

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EazyStock

JANUARY 18, 2019

ProMat is where manufacturing and supply chain professionals come to find their supply chain WOW. Houston, Texas. At this event, you will get the opportunity to be part of a huge network of more than 2,500 global supply chain and procurement professionals. You also get access to global audience and industry technologies.

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Freightos

APRIL 24, 2016

26 April 2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the Ideal X and the birth of modern container shipping, a development that played a critical role in spurring the global economy. to Houston, where the shipping containers are loaded onto trucks. Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports. Significance.

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Logility

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The global supply chain is a $25+ trillion per year industry. First supply chains have become more global and complex requiring a more in-depth blend of business experience and analytic skills to be effective. As a crew member on ill-fated Apollo 13 moon mission said, “Houston, we have a problem here.”

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

April 26, 2016 (today) marks the 60th anniversary of the maiden voyage of the Ideal X and the birth of modern container shipping, a development that played a critical role in spurring the global economy. to Houston, where the shipping containers are loaded onto trucks. Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Behind the scenes during the tumultuous disaster season of 2017, building materials manufacturers leaned heavily on dynamic digital tools to supply recovery efforts. The urgent phone call to the building materials manufacturer came as yet another hurricane was churning its way toward landfall during the record storm season of 2017.

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Elementum

MAY 13, 2015

As recently as Fall of 2014, the Lorenzo Cardenas-Houston route handled an average of only 10-20 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) a week. The ultimate goal of the project is to create a more attractive, comprehensive, and integrated supply and value chain for foreign manufacturers and importers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

In the fall of 2008 I attended a major consumer packaged goods company’s global customer team meeting. Few companies have global customer councils. A month after completing this strategy session I was doing a series of strategy days with two chemical companies in Houston. My insights on the topic are now a decade old.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Last night, Ravens outside linebacker Justin Houston sacked Brady on back-to-back plays in the second quarter to make Brady the most-sacked quarterback in NFL history. Apple calls on global supply chain to decarbonize by 2030. UPS Chief Executive Carol Tomé said the global economy outside the U.S. United Parcel Service Inc.’s

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Amazon launched the system this week at one of its warehouses in Houston. The Biden administration is refining rules aimed at keeping advanced chips and manufacturing gear out of China, seeking to close loopholes that might help its geopolitical rival gain cutting-edge technologies. September imports, at 2.54 million TEU tally.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2022

The Danish manufacturer saw sales begin to surge as consumers gravitated towards their building sets, which come in a variety of shapes, sizes, difficulties, and characters. Kodiak Robotics has been delivering freight between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston since mid-2019. That’s all for this week.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 3, 2019

We do it throughout entire industries, enabling leaders to smooth-out their Supply Chains, lean-out their Logistics, optimize their Operations, and maximize their Manufacturing throughput, all with their existing teams and often disaggregated data sources.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 30, 2017

Hurricane Harvey hit the Gulf Coast and Houston with driving rains that left many businesses struggling with flooding, with little advance warning. Entire warehouses full of products, as well as significant links in the global supply chain could be affected, as well as transport and other nodes.

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Bristlecone

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The annual study analyzes the global Engineering R&D (ER&D) space and assesses service providers’ expertise and capabilities. This year’s report assesses 60 global service providers. Founded in 2002, Zinnov is a global management and strategy consulting firm, with presence in Santa Clara, Houston, Bangalore and Gurgaon.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The issue has become supply chain and manufacturing constraints, which have delayed the deliveries of such essential items as bottles, corks, and even the wine itself for brokers. This is simply another example of how the combination of capacity, manufacturing, and port delays impacts every aspect of our lives.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JULY 3, 2018

Consider this: global sourcing, manufacturing, and sales are advancing rapidly, leaving technology providers in the tough position of playing catch up. Imagine you are at your desk in Houston and you need to determine whether a completed order left the warehouse in China. What is Global Vendor Management? Vendor Assembly.

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6 River Systems

APRIL 4, 2019

“Data science can bring great gains for…” Logistics efforts of retailers and manufacturers. Christoph Seitz is the Co-Owner of CFR Rinkens , a global leader in the shipping of commercial cargo, specializing in the containerized shipping of motor vehicles. @ScienceSoft. Christoph Seitz. SupplyPike.

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TMC

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The trade-offs are especially critical for destinations in a “battleground” region that stretches from Detroit in the north to Houston in the south. Click here to learn more about how a TMS paired with supply chain experts can bring customized solutions, operational excellence, and sustained savings to your global supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 16, 2021

Domino’s pizzas now delivered with autonomous cars in Houston. The company is now partnering with Nuro in Houston to make robocar deliveries. For now, the robocar delivery option is only available in the vicinity of a single pizza shop in the Houston area. Beta Technologies to supply UPS with electric vertical aircraft.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 26, 2022

Recently, I presented at the Informs Analytics Conference in Houston and challenged companies to “ think out of the box” and define outside-in processes in Supply Chain Planning. As a recent college graduate, he was chartered with running manufacturing discrete event simulation for an automotive company. He was frustrated.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 11, 2019

On December 5, 2019, we held a panel discussion that focused on different perspectives related to global trade. Even if AAP or other auto part companies wanted to move production, there is no manufacturing capacity in the US or anywhere else, so creating redundancy in this case is very difficult.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 18, 2021

Port congestion has made the headlines as delays in unloading goods have strained global supply chains. The pilot program has already started in Houston and will use Nuro’s bots to travel on streets delivering packages. Waymo will transport goods along Interstate 45 between Houston and Fort Worth, Texas.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 11, 2018

How is Global Shipping Growing in India? The answer lies not in a herculean dream of global domination, but simply in mathematics. The only reliable mechanism to create lots of jobs is large scale manufacturing, which is driven by exports. By 2020, India will be the youngest country in the world —over 65% of its 1.3

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

manufacturing of essential items from milk jugs to mattresses. trillion global chemical industry, with factories pumping out 146 million tons last year, Kothari said Thursday. It helps combat global warming with polystyrene foam insulation and lighter, fuel-saving plastic auto parts. But it also lies at the heart of the $3.5

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The answer lies not in a herculean dream of global domination, but simply in mathematics. The only reliable mechanism to create lots of jobs is large scale manufacturing, which is driven by exports. By 2020, India will be the youngest country in the world —over 65% of its 1.3 billion population is under the age of 35.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2022

A semitruck equipped with Kodiak’s autonomous driving system is making daily delivery runs from an IKEA warehouse near Houston to a store close to Dallas, roughly 300 miles away. Speaking of container ships, global brands pledge to eliminate maritime emissions by 2040.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The provisional political agreement on the so-called Global Steel and Aluminum Arrangement is expected to be announced at an October 20 summit in Washington, according to people familiar with the plans. to test autonomous truck runs from Houston to Oklahoma City with a safety driver aboard. Maersk joins FedEx Corp.,

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