QAD

JUNE 23, 2022

With each podcast episode, we talk with automotive industry experts about a range of insightful topics, all focused squarely on the global automotive supply chain and its challenges. The whole idea of manufacturing – I got it, it was in my blood. From manufacturing, he moved into supply chain. And I just loved it.

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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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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

tracking demand and supplies indicate continuous growth within the trucking industry for at least the next year. The damage from the overly active storms damaged both freight containers and trucks, and in Houston, the trucking industry is barely back to life. becomes more of the fact.

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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. Apple’s Advanced Manufacturing Fund is financing the project. The ATA estimates the industry will need a million more drivers over the next decade and could use about 100,000 more right now.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Now, the shipping and transportation industry faces unprecedented capacity problems, and the upcoming ELD implementation deadline will exacerbate the issue. The industry is short by approximately 50,000 drivers, and projections estimate that shortage to double, if not quintuple, over the next decade.

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

The people on the ground–my contacts in the 3PL, freight forwarding and transportation industry–know that the labor strife is only a part of the larger story. There is a need to re-shore where possible, and relocate manufacturing and supplier relationships. This is not going to be pretty.

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Hurricane Harvey has struck a significant blow to the Houston, Texas metro area, home to the sixth largest import terminal in the world, as well as all of the shipping lanes in the Gulf Coast area. For manufacturing, those metrics are new orders, production, employment, supplier deliveries, and inventories of input materials.

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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., ” 5.

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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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Supply Chain Collaborator

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The enormous disruption to all manner of commodities production and deliveries has wide ranging ramifications for high volume-shipping industries across many verticals. These disruptions impact industries as diverse as food production to manufacturing to retail and many others.

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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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o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2021

By Vikram Murthi and Dr. Stijn-Pieter van Houten, both Vice President, Industry Strategy, o9 Solutions. For CPG manufacturers changing volumes from modern trade (hyper/supermarkets) to e.g. discounters, e-Commerce. Houston – We have a Supply Chain Problem.

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o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2021

By Vikram Murthi and Dr. Stijn-Pieter van Houten, both Vice President, Industry Strategy, o9 Solutions. For CPG manufacturers changing volumes from modern trade (hyper/supermarkets) to e.g. discounters, e-Commerce. Houston – We have a Supply Chain Problem.

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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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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 26, 2015

Editor's Note : In this guest blog post from Adams Nager, of ITIF (Information Technology & Innovation Foundation) , he stresses the importance of fostering innovation and spurring competitiveness of American Manufacturing by focusing on more R&D from both the public and private sectors. The rest is history.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

tracking demand and supplies indicate continuous growth within the trucking industry for at least the next year. The damage from the overly active storms damaged both freight containers and trucks, and in Houston, the trucking industry is barely back to life. becomes more of the fact. Check out Last Mile Delivery!

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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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Logility

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The global supply chain is a $25+ trillion per year industry. An industry that is quickly growing and becoming more complicated. As a crew member on ill-fated Apollo 13 moon mission said, “Houston, we have a problem here.” Instead, they will seek out the next opportunity often outside of their current employer.

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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. to Houston, where the shipping containers are loaded onto trucks. Once the concept was validated, the container shipping industry grew exponentially in the 70s and 80s.

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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. freight imports anytime soon.

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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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Ware2Go

JANUARY 10, 2022

However, after a year and a half of increased consumer demand and manufacturing shutdowns that significantly stressed the supply chain, many merchants began planning early for the 2021 holiday season. Not only are manufacturing costs still elevated, storage rates are historically high.

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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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Arkieva

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Oh what the heck, twist my arm, let’s raise a glass in Houston. “Steve’s visit to Houston. You deserve to retire and enjoy. I expect to see more postings of those adorable puppies and a few great adventures. Here’s to Steve. We will miss you.” ” - Tracy. “A man can’t retire his experience. Congrats! .”

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DAT Solutions

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

That’s been offset by a slump in volumes out of Houston , though. DAT has the largest digital freight marketplace in the trucking industry, with more loads posted daily than any other load board. John Deere, Olympic Steel, and other manufacturers have a strong footprint in that market.

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DAT Solutions

MARCH 28, 2018

DAT provides the largest and most trusted digital freight marketplace in the trucking industry, with more than 179 million loads and trucks posted annually, plus insights into current spot market and contract rates based on $45 billion in real transactions. HOT MARKETS : Houston keeps humming, and rates are up 9% on major outbound lanes.

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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. On this journey you will clearly see customer segments–industries you serve, the size of customers, regions/geographies–have different requirements and expectations. They were competitors.

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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. In one case, I have even seen our own pilfered slides up there on stage.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Weller says that “until the Industrial Revolution, 150 years ago, we have lived our entire evolutionary history outdoors all day, every day. Amazon launched the system this week at one of its warehouses in Houston. industrial supply chain but has been shut down for repairs 20 times in the last 10 years.

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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. Hurricane Harvey had the biggest impact on freight because Houston is a nexus for rail and sea traffic as well as trucking.

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Freightera

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Industry : Chemical Processing, Oil & Gas. Goal : Freightera was tasked to move 8 heavy, oversize refinery units from Houston, Texas to Toledo, Ohio, USA (over 1250 miles) and 10 flat-bed loads. Once 2 units were delivered, drivers would drive back to Houston and load the next 2 units and go back and forth.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 23, 2013

Ryder Announces New Transportation Solutions for Oil and Gas Industry. Con-way Manufacturing, SmartTruck Systems and Kevin Rutherford Unveil State-of-the-Art Trailer. According to the press release, Ryder already serves clients in the oil and gas industry. Kewill Announces Intention To Acquire Four Soft. in June from May.

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6 River Systems

APRIL 4, 2019

To learn more about the biggest trends shaping the logistics industry today, we reached out to a panel of logistics professionals and asked them to answer this question: “What are the biggest trends in logistics technology?” ” Meet Our Panel of Logistics Pros: Brian Jessup. Andrew Hagigeorgiou. Alexandra Zelenko.

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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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Bristlecone

DECEMBER 11, 2020

They have been able to enhance wallet share for software engineering capabilities across multiple verticals such as software and internet, BFSI, retail, CPG, and manufacturing. Founded in 2002, Zinnov is a global management and strategy consulting firm, with presence in Santa Clara, Houston, Bangalore and Gurgaon. ABOUT ZINNOV.

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USC Consulting Group

MARCH 3, 2020

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. “What is more affordable depends on where you are,” Webber explained.

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