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 figure includes Panasonic’s purchase of the remaining 80 percent of shares in Blue Yonder for $5.6 Apple’s Advanced Manufacturing Fund is financing the project. billion, plus debt repayment.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels will likely be permanently out of reach in nine years, the study found.”[1] 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.” And in the U.S.,

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

to the region of Texas that was affected by Hurricane Harvey, and 300 of them are in the Houston vicinity. Second, Texas’ chemical industry is a foundational block of the interconnected global supply chain. Every product used or manufactured today relies in some way on these chemicals and chemical intermediates.

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 30, 2019

But what does that mean for industry employment? To gain some insight into how today’s industry professionals view the potential impact of warehouse robots on industry employment, we reached out to a panel of warehouse and automation experts and asked them to answer this question: “What’s your take on warehouse robots?

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EazyStock

JANUARY 18, 2019

Are you interested in expanding your knowledge on the latest trends and technologies within the supply chain industry? You will also gain insight on new innovations and technological applications within the industry. ProMat is where manufacturing and supply chain professionals come to find their supply chain WOW. Houston, Texas.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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. A resins expert in Houston shared with me the following insights last week: We are through the impact of the freeze – and the LS Force Majeure clauses finally ended, but not until September!

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

After, I explained this, I granted Peter permission for the council to use the Index (the use of the Supply Chain Insights content follows the principles of open source), I then said to Peter, “I am glad that you called. The supply chain has two buffers: inventory and manufacturing excess capacity. Need for the design of buffers.

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Freightos

APRIL 24, 2016

One visionary, Malcom McLean , features prominently in the industry’s development. But the modern shipping container has changed much more than one industry. McLean purchases a steamship and a railroad terminal company. to Houston, where the shipping containers are loaded onto trucks. 0 TEUs 0 meters long. Significance.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

Editor's Note: This is a guest blog from Freightos , is a SaaS-enabled marketplace for the logistics industry. Magazine article) as a goliath looking to take on the entrenched "David" shipping industry. One visionary, Malcom McLean , is featured prominently in the industry’s development. Significance. Rapid Expansion: The 1970s.

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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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USC Consulting Group

MARCH 3, 2020

By just about every measure, natural resources such as these are significantly more efficient than legacy sources like coal, natural gas and oil. “Which energy source gets you the most power delivery for your investment dollar? As is so often the case, the answer is somewhat muddy.” Fossil fuels weak in efficiency.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 2, 2018

companies also ratcheted up manufacturing of petroleum byproducts, including plastic resins, which typically move in vans. New tax rules go into effect in less than a week, so plenty of businesses will do whatever they can to accelerate tax-deductible activities, including purchases. We'll know more in a few days.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 23, 2013

I went to Home Depot earlier this week to return a purchase, and the customer in front of me wanted to exchange a defective power tool with the same model, but he couldn’t find any on the shelf even though the store’s inventory system said 5 units were in stock. Ryder Announces New Transportation Solutions for Oil and Gas Industry.

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6 River Systems

APRIL 4, 2019

RFID tags and robotic warehouse systems generate and transmit data that, when combined with other data sources, allow companies to optimize the supply chain and make better predictions and forecasts to improve efficiency and boost the bottom line. They can also be used to track the provenance of adulterated products to identify the source.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The wine industry has been hit hard in the US over the last couple of years. For 2021, there has been another hiccup, which the wine industry may refer to as the great supply chain kerfuffle. 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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Operations and Supply Chain Management

APRIL 30, 2014

is starting a multiyear overhaul of its North American operations, consolidating several units at new headquarters in Plano, Texas, that will house 4,000 employees now spread across separate marketing, manufacturing and finance locations. where Toyota’s North American manufacturing operations are now based, was too small, he said.

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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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DAT Solutions

MAY 2, 2017

Natural gas and oil by-products also feed into plastics production, which has led to a building boom for the petrochemical industry along the Gulf Coast. Fossil fuels aren’t the only energy source fueling flatbed demand. The map below shows where the largest parts of wind turbines are manufactured. Wind Energy.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 31, 2015

Are manufacturers and retailers “joint employers” of the contract workers hired by their third-party logistics (3PL) partners? The Houston-based company hired Leadpoint Business Services to staff a recycling facility in California. There’s already a joint employer precedent in the logistics industry.

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6 River Systems

JULY 3, 2020

Mike Kasperski @enVistaCommerce Mike Kasperski, Managing Partner, leads enVista’s Facility Design practice and brings more than 30 years of experience in the material handling industry, including system design and implementation. Tony Baumer @njmovingguy Tony has 30 years’ experience in the moving industry.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The goal is to create redundant sources based on supplier-specific and country-of-origin, to ensure that each product category has redundancy as a form of insurance on the supply chain. Andrew Partis shared his views from ThermoFisher, a global contrat manufacturer for the pharmaceutical industry. They said “Let’s do it!”,

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 11, 2018

Congested ports, complicated regulations, less than optimal modal capacity, undesirable taxation regimes, dilapidated roads, and overall operational inefficiencies are constant sources of anxiety within the business community. The only reliable mechanism to create lots of jobs is large scale manufacturing, which is driven by exports.

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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. Self-driving truck startup Kodiak Robotics said that it has begun a pilot program with IKEA in Texas. percent higher than the average for the region.

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