The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 29, 2021

After his departure from Conrail, he worked at the Union Pacific Railroad where he held various positions in the Transportation Department including General Manager of UP’s Houston and Gulf Coast Service Units. A double-stacked train can move more freight than hundreds of trucks. . Great option for high-volume shippers. Reliability.

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Ware2Go

JANUARY 10, 2022

Should you change your supply chain procurement strategy in light of continuing supply chain disruptions? Supply chain procurement strategies had long been favoring Just in Time procurement. So, should merchants change their supply chain procurement strategies as they head into 2022? The answer to this question is complex.

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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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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2019

Swipe, click, this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Google Spinoff’s Drone Delivery Business First to Get FAA Approval (Bloomberg) Amazon to invest $800 million to make one-day free shipping the standard for Prime members (WSJ – sub. Amazon offers one-day and two-hour shipping to Prime members for some products for a fee.

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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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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Unbelievably, the capacity crunch is back the shipping headlines. Now, the shipping and transportation industry faces unprecedented capacity problems, and the upcoming ELD implementation deadline will exacerbate the issue. A shipping capacity crunch is not a once-in-a-lifetime event. In April 2017, William B. Gross of JOC.

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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. Stay safe.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The shipping capacity crunch is not a new topic, but the end of 2017 is shaping up to reveal an unprecedented crunch, reports Chris Brady of Logistics Viewpoints. To successfully mitigate the potential setbacks from the shipping capacity crunch, your organization must understand more about its current and projected driving forces.

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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. The firm’s Maersk Line container shipping business unit reported net profit of $2.3

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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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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

As a country, I think that we need to rethink supply chain flows for chassis, drayage and the unloading of larger ships. I don’t think that the ports are up to the challenge of moving the high-levels of freight with larger ships without rethinking unloading space, equipment and flows. It takes 2 to 3 days to unload a ship.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MARCH 2, 2015

The Houston, Texas based retailer operates 850 department stores across 40 states under the Bealls, Goody’s Palais Royal, Peebles and Stage brands. Stage Stores also engaged Ultra’s LoadFusion Optimizer to improve load optimization, identify optimal routing and improve dock scheduling, ensuring the most efficient dock door utilization.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Of course, all of this is easier said than done, but new challenges tend to require new strategies and new innovation. The recovery efforts in both areas sucked up a lot of capacity, just as many retailers and agriculture companies were headed into peak shipping season. Freight Capacity Crisis: How Did We Get Here So Quickly?

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RFgen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Beyond keeping revenues flowing, a disaster preparedness strategy can minimize the broad economic impact of a disaster, making it easier for commerce systems to recover after an emergency event. Hurricane Harvey has caused incredible damage in Houston and the surrounding area as heavy, sustained rainfall has led to flooding.

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RFgen

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Beyond keeping revenues flowing, a disaster preparedness strategy can minimize the broad economic impact of a disaster, making it easier for commerce systems to recover after an emergency event. Hurricane Harvey has caused incredible damage in Houston and the surrounding area as heavy, sustained rainfall has led to flooding.

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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. Robust optimization capabilities enabling quick adaptation to changes in routes, carriers and shipment sequences, helping keep delivery times low.

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TMC

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Four Risk Mitigation Actions for Weathering a Stormy Market.Connect. The recent decision by Japan’s three largest container companies to merge their shipping operations is yet another symptom of the volatility that is roiling the freight business. K” Line, MOL, and NYK are the three Japanese ship lines that are consolidating.

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Freight Center

JANUARY 30, 2020

Now, we’re counting down the remaining 3 important freight shipping issues you need to know as we move into the next decade. In recent years, the freight industry has seen an increase in shipping and the number of trucks on the road. This strategy includes re-opening closed parking facilities and building new parking facilities.

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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. A contract manufacturer shares discount pricing based on forecast accuracy of the customer. Forecast accuracy, and compliance to the projected order pulls is the basis for pricing.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 27, 2016

This mechanism must be driven not simply by external impacts, such as floods in Houston or explosions in Tianjin. Black Swan events don’t happen very often, and you don’t optimize your supply chain in the expectation of a Black Swan. The mechanism for screening data is therefore not just about tracking Black Swans.

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Locus Robotics

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

When you hear the word “bottleneck”, you probably think of the 109 container ships that were backed up off the Southern California coast. But that didn’t mean the end of the bottleneck when the ships left the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Houston, We Have a Storage Problem. How did warehouses become the bottleneck?

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DAT Solutions

APRIL 24, 2017

Now there is a push to capture a higher percentage of the gas, and changing it to a liquid form (LNG) reduces its volume 600 times, making it easier to transport by road, rail, or ship. The Houston Hub. Houston is in the middle of all of it. Three LNG export terminals in are operation along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

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SupplyOn

JULY 10, 2018

But generally speaking, not even the shipping agent transporting the production material to the nearest port has this information. Here’s an example: an adhesive arrives by ship at the port of Marseilles in the south of France. This significantly optimizes the procurement process.

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Multichannel Merchant

AUGUST 2, 2022

The last mile has become quite the battleground, with retailers and service providers striving to conquer its tricky, costly logistics through the use of algorithm-driven optimization tools, plugging into a growing army of gig workers as well as hundreds of larger and smaller carriers.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Anheuser-Busch Converts Houston Trucking Fleet to Compressed Natural Gas Vehicles from Ryder. Oil train regulation passes in California ( Reuters ). Finally, news this week that Anheuser-Busch (in partnership with Ryder) is replacing its 66 diesel tractor fleet in Houston with Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) powered engines.

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 30, 2019

“Warehouse robots are becoming more prevalent as service level demands get tighter… ” …and increase to meet these service levels, like same day shipping. From an employment perspective, there are definite positives for employers, such as cost saving and time spent training. A lot depends on what they can do.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Devastating hurricanes in Houston and Florida, and the ongoing recovery efforts that will tie up capacity. The faster-growing economy means more goods being shipped, further restraining capacity. Focus on load optimization, and more fully load your trucks, which means fewer loads that need coverage.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2022

The deliveries will take place as part of a pilot that’s being conducted by Waymo and JB Hunt Transport Services to test out self-driving trucks along certain shipping routes in Texas. The program is in partnership with the US Department of Transportation and the US Department of Labor.

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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. Now, it plans to separate its freight brokerage operation, which matches loads from shipping customers to available trucks, into a separate publicly traded company.

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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. The important rule is to ship so that products never go to the company’s facility. Merge in Transit.

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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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Freight Center

MAY 30, 2019

Hurricane Harvey by itself affected 10% of the nation’s trucking capacity after leaving Houston flooded. Shipping your freight by air is the quickest way to get your things where they need to be, but unexpected weather phenomena can put a damper on the supply chain. Clearing train routes of brush to prevent the spreading of wildfire.

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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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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. These technologies also contribute to a rise in big data and analytics in the logistics field.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Most of Estee Lauder’s holiday product has already been shipped to retailers. To prevent shipping logjams that have recently stymied the country’s supply chain, the Biden administration and California officials said Thursday that billions of dollars in infrastructure improvements are being fast-tracked for the state’s largest ports.

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TMC

DECEMBER 8, 2016

These enterprises are no longer reliant on the Suez Canal route for shipping freight on Post-Panamax container vessels to the United States. As described in my previous blog post , the enlarged Panama Canal can handle container ships up to 13,000 TEUs in size. Is your supply chain make-to-order, make-to-stock, or both? Wider lessons.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

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