DAT Solutions

JANUARY 11, 2018

Expect Hurricane Harvey to Have a Long-Term Impact on Trucking - With Houston being a major force in all modes of freight, DAT predicted that Hurricane Harvey would impact freight transportation for weeks and months to come. If you missed out on reading any of these posts during the past year, now is your chance.

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Proxima

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

As a result, there are going to be difficult conversations taking place in offices across the United States, whether it’s the 30 th floor of a New York high rise or the board room of a manufacturer in Houston. How does each purchase order or contract contribute to the overall objectives of the firm? So, what can be done?

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DAT Solutions

AUGUST 29, 2017

So a lot of owner-operators are looking for an opportunity to haul emergency supplies to Houston and other areas hit by Hurricane Harvey. There are a lot of loads on the DAT load board that list Houston as the destination. It's still raining there, however, and it will be a while before highways and arterial roads re-open.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

we’d watch places like Houston, San Francisco, and New York City — not to mention the entire state of Florida — slowly disappear into the sea.” Millions of people in Asia, in cities like Mumbai, Beijing, and Tokyo, would be uprooted and have to move inland. And in the U.S.,

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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. Here are a few ideas on how to manage through the current capacity crisis: 1.

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DAT Solutions

MAY 10, 2017

Houston and Atlanta are pumping out freight like crazy. We'll see how this plays out in the next few weeks, but I expect an increase in freight volume and rates from now through the end of June. How to make more money in this environment. Meanwhile, loads from southern California are climbing after a couple soft years.

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American Global Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Hence, we’ll look at the practical aspects of the impending energy crisis and how to prevent and/or mitigate its adverse effects. According to Ed Hirs, a University of Houston energy economics professor, the 25 days of supply would only be an issue if consumers panic. We know how to prepare for, avoid, and mitigate disruptions.

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TMC

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

A key battleground region that stretches from Detroit in the north to Houston in south is especially sensitive to such trade-offs. For more information on how to minimize the impact of supply chain disruptions, download our white paper, “ Add Resilience to Supply Chains.”. Vessel size is a further consideration.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JUNE 24, 2015

This was at the request of my good friend, Tom Nash, who I have known since 2000, when he was an IT Sourcing executive at Shell Oil in Houston. This is why it’s so useful to learn how to influence others without using authority.

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DAT Solutions

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Four of those bottlenecks were in Houston. The truck-specific section included material from the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) and featured this list of the ten worst bottlenecks in the U.S. for big trucks, in particular: The worst of the worst was in Atlanta, followed by Chicago.

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TrackVia

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

I recently had the opportunity to attend the Operational Excellence in Oil and Gas Summit held in Houston. The attendees were shocked that KSI’s mission-critical applications didn’t require high IT manpower and wanted to know how KSI was only using two people to manage their entire TrackVia workflow platform.

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Requis

JANUARY 22, 2021

People would like to hear how you got started and how did you get to where you are today?”. When I moved to Houston I did work with a company that was trying to create digital twins before the concept formally existed. This was back in 2001 when I started in Houston. I’m a chemical engineer.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

A month after completing this strategy session I was doing a series of strategy days with two chemical companies in Houston. The dilemma is how to manage through the issue. How to get around the issue? A supply chain that cannot fulfill promises will never get high marks for customer service. Let me illustrate why with a story.

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Elementum

AUGUST 30, 2017

Hurricane Harvey has been wreaking havoc in the state of Texas since Friday, August 25th, crippling most of the state, and specifically devastating Houston. Houston shipping channels and ports at Corpus Christi and Galveston have been shut down. 33 counties in Texas are under federal disaster declaration.

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DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

For example, there are a couple of section of interstate highways that are still closed due to high water in Houston, and many other roads are closed or partially closed for repairs, usually at night. Look at a map of road closures in Houston or Florida , sign up for alerts in the states you expect to drive through, or call 511 before you go.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 27, 2016

Companies like Flex are looking for ways to integrate vertically, not just on product manufacturing, but also in terms of how to collaborate better to drive more efficiency. The responsive piece is all about how to align teams within the organization, not just internally, but across the organization. Data Crosses Functional Silos.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 2, 2019

We’re gearing up for the Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) Annual Conference, ISM 2019, in Houston, Texas, at the George R. Remember, the team of representatives a company sends spend a lot of time planning and preparing how to ensure they put their best foot forward, so a conference facilitates an ideal “shopping” experience.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The companies launched their pilot program about a year ago to autonomously transport goods between Dallas and Houston. Autonomous goods hauling has been seen as the future of logistics as it could increase truck utilization and boost transportation frequency between terminals.

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Deliv

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

From its recent accomplishment of 7 million pets adopted out of its stores since 1994 to using Deliv to improve the customer experience and streamline online order fulfillment, this is a company that not only has a clear vision, but knows how to execute on that vision at every level,” said Deliv founder and CEO, Daphne Carmeli.

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USC Consulting Group

MARCH 3, 2020

The question is how to go about that. Michael Webber, deputy director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas, told the Houston Chronicle the answer is largely dependent on what resources you’re using and from where you’re operating. The desire for a cleaner planet is an impulse that virtually everyone shares.

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Kinaxis

JUNE 29, 2016

Now, I had to figure out how to still make that possible. Within my eight minutes on my phone evaluating alternatives, I found an alternative flight from XNA to DCA that connected through Houston. My original plan had been to leave XNA in the afternoon, connect in Chicago, and arrive back at DCA in the late evening.

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Xeeva

MAY 14, 2018

Whether we’re at ISM or working in the office, we’re always down to chat about AI and how it fits into the future of procurement. Either way, stay in touch because we hope to see lots of familiar faces next year in Houston! We were awed, amazed, and honored at how much you all loved them! Don’t get left behind.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2017

For brands that were able to plan for the hurricanes before they hit, it’s likely that they had a deal in place to source inventory from an unaffected market, so determining how to transport that inventory to where it needs to be in time for the holiday rush will be top priority.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

APRIL 30, 2014

positions to Houston and $5,800 for each of 3,600 Apple Inc. “We’ve got a few problems, we have lots of little burdens and regulations and taxes, but smart people figure out how to make it” in the state, he said at an event in Lancaster, Calif., Last year, Texas spent about $6,800 to lure each of 1,700 Chevron Corp.

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6 River Systems

APRIL 4, 2019

Complex indoor spaces, such as industrial and manufacturing facilities, are looking at how to integrate existing business data with location awareness to create real-time location intelligence. David Armendariz is the general manager of the Information Technology practice group for Lucas Group.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 26, 2022

In contrast, I am always questioning what makes a good decision, how to make better decisions faster, and how new technologies can transform work. 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.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 11, 2018

How to Take Advantage of Increased Shipping in India. The post How to Expand Your Global Shipping to Meet Growing Indian Markets appeared first on Transportfolio. A growing market in India means new business opportunities. Learn more about planning your international shipping strategy to fit India’s growing markets.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Bill H: “We have two trade zones in Oklahoma and Houston, and are under construction to produce one in Corpus Christi. This requires a great deal of planning, to understand first what will we construct, where do we import it from, and how do we get it here?

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Dallas; Denver; Houston; Miami; Sacramento, Calif.; and China] to justify extending Washington’s regulatory reach down to telling local governments how to do zoning for antenna siting (this from the ‘deregulatory’ administration).” Bernardsville, N.J.; Brockton, Mass.; Seattle; and Washington, D.C.).

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