Enterra Insights

MARCH 2, 2022

According to tech journalist Antonio Regalado ( @antonioregalado ), “The term [‘cloud computing’ dates back] to late 1996, and to an office park outside Houston. Hybrid- and Multi-Cloud Strategies. Cloud computing is no longer a novel concept. ” How far has that new paradigm advanced?

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 12, 2022

GoBolt currently has locations in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary, and Vancouver, New York, Miami, Houston, and Los Angeles. The GoBolt team is building a fully electric fleet, offsetting their carbon footprint, and optimizing operations for a circular supply chain. GoBolt will soon open locations in Dallas, Austin, and Atlanta.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 13, 2023

to test autonomous truck runs from Houston to Oklahoma City with a safety driver aboard. Maersk and Kodiak are running trucks 24 hours a day for four days a week between Houston and Oklahoma City with a stopover in Dallas to swap out safety drivers, who must comply with the limit on driver hours. Kodiak, Aurora Innovation Inc.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 14, 2015

As an example, DHL is finding ways to drive up to 30% lower costs through route optimization, cube optimization, and other logistics improvement activities. However, a number of presentations identified significant opportunities to drive out cost through asset productivity and logistics improvements.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2022

The deliveries will take place in Texas, with Waymo’s Class 8 autonomous truck hauling goods along Interstate 45 between facilities in Houston and Dallas, which was the route used by Waymo and JB Hunt during the original pilot last year. The program is in partnership with the US Department of Transportation and the US Department of Labor.

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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. The multiple engines don’t align, and the optimization is functional–better output from multiple boxes. This is my life’s work.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

For the past month, I have been working alongside companies implementing digital strategies. There are many forms of decision support—price optimization, revenue management, transportation planning, spend management, network design. Houston, We Have a Problem. Houston, we have a problem. Time Is not optimized.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Rather, astronauts train for what they must do. They train to handle all the things that might go wrong and for making decisions with incomplete information. It was his level of preparation. As Hadfield said, “Astronauts are not adrenalin junkies. Adrenalin is an indication of lack of preparation and can have fatal results.”

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Elementum

AUGUST 29, 2017

Harvey is not the first lethal and damaging flood to hit Houston: Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 killed 41 and caused $9 billion in damage, as well as flooding in 2016 that shut down the city for days. Houston’s expansive sprawl lacks drainage systems and has ample bodies of water that are easily exacerbated by heavy rains.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JULY 3, 2018

Imagine you are at your desk in Houston and you need to determine whether a completed order left the warehouse in China. That’s why you need a global shipping strategy with a comprehensive global vendor management program. Why is Vendor Management Key to a Global Shipping Strategy? It’s difficult, right?

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ivalua

APRIL 2, 2019

The company has corporate offices in Houston, Texas, with offices in Brazil, Luxembourg and Nigeria. We look forward to contributing to their Procurement cost optimization initiative”. Consus and Ivalua implemented and went live with the solution for Pacific Drilling in just two weeks.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

” Weidong “Larry” Shi, an associate professor of computer science at the University of Houston, believes blockchain technology could also be used to reduce fraud because “you can add information, but you can’t change it.”[7] … It’s in the not-ready-for-primetime stage.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 26, 2016

I cleared my throat and told as story of two clients in Houston. One company defined the customer-centric strategy as, “Do whatever the customer wants.” On this fall day, at this strategy workshop, this was the case. Figure B shows the gaps in the execution of customer-centric policies and strategies.

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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. Selecting the strategy that is right for your business requires crystal clear organizational context. So, what can be done?

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Many times during those long training rides, which I have done mostly by myself, I thought about giving up or taking a shortcut back home. Trucking companies are charging more because making deliveries in Houston is slow going and potentially costly as the city rebounds from the storm. LL4T1DCure Team Jersey 2017.

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NC State SCRC

MARCH 19, 2023

“Houston, we have a problem” In 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the sheer extent and lack of preparedness across nations. Recommendation Four: Training of key individuals in conjunction with risk planning is an important component to planning.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Containers, ships, trucks, trains, ports, and cranes, all of which are necessary to transport goods internationally, had already existed for decades prior to 1956. Five days later, the Ideal-X sailed into Houston, Texas, where waiting trucks collected the containers for delivery to local factories and warehouses.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2019

req’d) Amazon adds in-garage delivery to in-home, in-car options (Good Morning America) Kroger’s autonomous delivery cars latest salvo in Houston grocery wars (Houston Chronicle) Walmart to Develop Its Own Supply Chain for Angus Beef (WSJ – sub. req’d) UPS’s $20 Billion Tech Bet Was Scorned by Wall Street.

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Bristlecone

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Founded in 2002, Zinnov is a global management and strategy consulting firm, with presence in Santa Clara, Houston, Bangalore and Gurgaon. Enabling companies to develop and optimize a global engineering partner strategy to achieve higher throughput, innovation, productivity and cost savings. ABOUT ZINNOV.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

I was in Houston yesterday evening, speaking to a large group of procurement executives at a roundtable held by KPMG’s Procurement Advisory Group, at the fabulous Brennan’s restaurant on Smith Street. It seems as if the infrastructure is continuing to grow, based on the strong oil prices we’ve seen in the last few years.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2022

Amazon , which has struggled to streamline its grocery strategy, is looking at grocery-picking gig workers in a new way. Kodiak Robotics has been delivering freight between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston since mid-2019. The plan, according to a letter to employees, is to bring gig workers on as Whole Foods employees.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 23, 2013

Manhattan Associates Launches 2013 Inventory Optimization Release. Meanwhile, Manhattan Associates announced the 2013 release of its Inventory Optimization solution, “which provides customized, automated inventory optimization strategies designed to address a customer’s specific business issues and objectives.”

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Kodiak delivers freight daily for its customers between Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston, operating autonomously on the highway portion of the route, and also provides service between Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth and San Antonio. Key Takeaways: The Kodiak Story. Learn More About The Kodiak Story.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

When leaders focus on functional metrics without alignment to an over-arching operating strategy and a well-defined metrics hierarchy, they will throw the supply chain out of balance reducing total supply chain performance. Optimization has increased faster than our ability to use it. Today, the number is the same.

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American Global Logistics

MAY 16, 2019

Atlanta, GA: American Global Logistics (AGL) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jon Slangerup will deliver the Day 2 keynote address for the Journal of Commerce Gulf Shipping Conference next week in Houston, Tex., On Wednesday, May 22, Slangerup will discuss “Supply Chain Optimization in the Age of Disruption” at 9 AM CT.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 21, 2019

This week’s guest post is from my MBA student, Nikhil Singh, who accompanied me to the recent Institute for Supply Management conference in Houston. The first was the CSCMP Edge Conference in Nashville last year, and more recently the ISM Conference in Houston. So here it is!

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Such factors will inevitably lead more shippers to consider air imports, but even such a strategy is subject to delays and higher costs as rates and volumes soar. UPS to Houston has experienced the most delays—8.9%, followed closely by New York and Los Angeles. UPS parcels heading to Texas had a 10.3%

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Talking Logistics

MAY 16, 2014

UTi Worldwide Opens New Houston Facility to Serve Oil and Gas Industry. trucks revved up amid train traffic jam, a capacity crisis revealed (Reuters). Load optimization, direct EWM integration and parcel management top off the major innovations. Echo Global Logistics, Inc. Acquires One Stop Logistics, Inc.

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The global supply chain impact of Hurricane Harvey could be unprecedented, widespread and realized, not only in the near term, but in weeks and months to come, according to Bindiya Vakil, CEO and founder, and Joe Carson, chief strategy officer, of Resilinc , a provider of supply chain risk and resiliency solutions.

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QAD

JUNE 23, 2022

In our introductory episode of the podcast, we shared our views about supply chain management issues and how getting supply chain right can generate revenue, but only when the foundational processes of material movement, sourcing, physical logistics and materials management are fully funded and optimized. .

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EazyStock

JANUARY 18, 2019

Houston, Texas. The American Supply Chain Summit is a leadership-focused meeting designed around improving supply chain and procurement strategy across the globe. Key themes for this year’s Summit are profitability & risk management, cost optimization, technology and workforce management. www.promatshow.com. Apr 7-10, 2019.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Descartes Unveils Same-Day Delivery Optimization Technology. First, Descartes unveiled new optimization technology at its user conference that “helps retailers and distributors make deliveries the same day an order is taken.” Lots of interesting news to discuss today, so let’s go straight to it. Freight Shipments Rose 0.8%

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 19, 2013

This past week, I hosted a meeting with a small group of oil and gas procurement executives in Houston to share thoughts on some of the major trends occurring in oil and gas, changes to the global oil and gas organization structure, as well as the impacts on procurement capability in the emerging ecosystem.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

freight and logistics industry continues to mitigate recessionary conditions including the April 2023 Logistics Manager Index reaching its lowest level lowest level in six years and one-half years. That stated, there are some new signs of optimism. West Coast ports in favor of other ports such as Houston and major U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 18, 2021

The program will use an MBTA commuter rail train to create a rolling vaccination site that will make stops at stations in disproportionately impacted communities with low vaccination rates. This seems like a smart use of the trains which have seen significantly lower ridership over the last year. That’s all for this week.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

This puts a strain on the existing transportation resources, and if mother nature wipes out the infrastructure in coastal areas, such as Houston, the Port of Miami or even shipments between Puerto Rico and the mainland, capacity tightens faster than anyone expects. Amazon May Cause a Ripple-Effect in the Capacity Crunch Pond.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

That move is intended to bring rapid relief from existing port congestion by optimizing rail deliveries between the two states. The United States will lift tariffs on some steel and aluminum imports coming from Europe beginning December 1 as part of an agreement to ease trade tensions between the two countries.

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