Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

According to the April report commentary , the industry remains hopeful in new signs indicating that retailers and manufacturers are getting closer to working off the overall glut of inventories that resulted in 2022. Spot rates for the Shanghai to Los Angeles shipping lane segment reportedly averaged $1823. The LMI has now declined 6.7

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Elementum

MAY 13, 2015

Over the last several months, Walmart— the world's largest retailer— has slowly been increasing the share of products it imports through Mexico, a move that many other retailers have been reluctant to make for decades. Before the mega-retailer started shipping goods through Lazaro Cardenas, the KCS had fallen on hard times.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 13, 2020

DHL Express, a global provider of international express shipping services, recently expanded its network of U.S. retail locations by opening a mobile pop-up store in Katy, TX.

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Freight Plus

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The amount of fuel used is dependent on the speed of the ship. The smaller Panamax ships (~5,000 TEU capacity) will consume ~63,000 gallons of marine fuel per day when operating between 20-25 knots. Fuel consumption can drop by almost a third when ship speeds are reduced by 10% (called slow-steaming). Chris Peckham.

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Freight Plus

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The amount of fuel used is dependent on the speed of the ship. The smaller Panamax ships (~5,000 TEU capacity) will consume ~63,000 gallons of marine fuel per day when operating between 20-25 knots. Fuel consumption can drop by almost a third when ship speeds are reduced by 10% (called slow-steaming). Chris Peckham.

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Multichannel Merchant

AUGUST 2, 2022

Digging out a few more shovelfuls to deepen the Prime moat, Amazon is now offering same-day delivery for subscribers in 10 metro areas, who can shop retailers including PacSun, GNC, SuperDry and Diesel and either have the order delivered or picked up in store. The service is free for orders of $25 or more, and $2.99

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Supply Chain Brain

JULY 18, 2018

And now this compression point is sending waves of pain through the supply chain from distributors and wholesalers to retailers and consumers in the form of fast-rising shipping costs. Even Amazon and its Prime members are feeling the pinch. This predicament was a long time coming. Trucks moved more than 70 percent of all U.S.

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DAT Solutions

JUNE 6, 2017

Higher prices out of Memphis and Columbus tell us that retail traffic is moving, and higher rates out of Dallas and Seattle show us that the improvement is far-reaching. Houston to Oklahoma City was down 8¢ to $1.97/mile. Beef and other meats shipping out of Dallas pushed rates up 20¢ on the lane to Columbus.

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ShipBob

MARCH 23, 2020

They will deliver free, fresh salads and bowls to hospitals in the cities they serve: DC Area, Philadelphia, Boston, NYC, SF, LA, Chicago, and Houston. to cover part of credit card processing, packing, and shipping costs). Free hand sanitizer and medical supplies: many retailers’ factories. Submit your hospital here.

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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.

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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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AFFLINK

MAY 17, 2018

Retail stores tend to kick into high gear starting the day after Thanksgiving (Black Friday) all the way up through Christmas - in fact; a lot of stores make the majority of their yearly revenue during just this short window. Many of the biggest shipping days of the year fall during this period.

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DAT Solutions

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Demand was soaring for retail freight, and the ELD mandate that had just taken effect led to a major capacity crunch. Amid all that uncertainly, shipping rates skyrocketed, and it got even crazier in the month to follow. Hot markets Houston volumes spiked two weeks ago, and pricing caught up last week. This time last year: $2.09/mile.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

China-US container shipping rates sail past $20,000 to record. With the new expansion, Amazon is rolling out same-day delivery to Prime members in Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Tampa, Charlotte and Houston, bringing the total markets served to 12. DoorDash delivery can now include products from multiple stores.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 4, 2017

Warehouses have hired tens of thousands of California workers over the last five years to help fuel the fast-rising industry of online retail. Inside cavernous halls known as fulfillment centers, workers retrieve coffee filters, diapers and other items that are then packaged and shipped to customers. Staples, Inc. Staples, Inc.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 4, 2017

Warehouses have hired tens of thousands of California workers over the last five years to help fuel the fast-rising industry of online retail. Inside cavernous halls known as fulfillment centers, workers retrieve coffee filters, diapers and other items that are then packaged and shipped to customers. Staples, Inc. Staples, Inc.

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Ware2Go

JANUARY 10, 2022

Legacy retailers may seem to have the upper hand when it comes to negotiating freight rates or securing space on a truck or container ship at all. There are alternative ports up and down the East and West Coasts, and even along the Gulf in cities like Houston.

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Stord

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Meanwhile, the Dallas facility is in a major logistics and consolidation hub near the Port of Houston. These facilities will primarily focus on pallet in/pallet out, retail distribution, kitting, labeling, consolidation, fulfillment, and other value added services.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Recent estimates suggest that Hurricane Harvey destroyed a minimum of 100,000 homes in the Houston-Beaumont, Texas, area. For example, demand-side tools give manufacturers access to real-time retail point-of-sale data so they can adjust production, replenishment and other supply chain requirements accordingly. .

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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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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 major food company gives discount pricing for data sharing by retailers. Shipping Standards. Current State of Retail Scorecards. Let me illustrate why with a story. They were competitors.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Last night, Ravens outside linebacker Justin Houston sacked Brady on back-to-back plays in the second quarter to make Brady the most-sacked quarterback in NFL history. UPS earnings rise as higher prices offset shipping slowdown. billion, as revenue per piece shipped rose 8.6%, offsetting a 2.1% United Parcel Service Inc.’s

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2022

When the Covid lockdown first hit, retail stores closed their doors, and consumers went online to order essential supplies. Walmart announced this week that it has become Canada’s first major retailer to offer carbon-neutral last-mile delivery for e-commerce purchases, including online grocery.

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DAT Solutions

JULY 12, 2017

But even though van volumes were down, rates went up in Northeast, spurred by retail trade and consumer goods moving into place for Amazon’s Prime Day sales. Lanes shipping into the Northeast were also up: Rates on the lane from Charlotte to Buffalo rose 21¢ to $2.92/mile. Houston to Chicago dropped 17¢ to $1.60/mile.

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Multichannel Merchant

JUNE 14, 2021

locations, up from six cities when the retailer started working with the FedEx-acquired service in October. During the past year, American Eagle and Aerie have offered free store and curbside pickup, as many retailers quickly stood up the touchless omnichannel tactics when shutdowns started in March of last year. in a release.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 25, 2017

There's more freight moving out of Houston this month. The holiday retail season is in the rearview, so rates in the Midwest, Northeast and much of the West Coast are coming back down to earth. California was also shipping more after a week of difficult weather, but there were enough trucks to accommodate the increase in demand.

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DAT Solutions

AUGUST 1, 2017

Columbus, OH, had spikes on a pair of lanes shipping into the Northeast, which is unusual for this time of year: Columbus to Buffalo was up 17¢ to $2.79/mile. Those lanes are closely tied to retail, and other retail lanes were down last week. RISING LANES. Columbus to Allentown, PA , added 17¢ at $2.88/mile.

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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. Some analysts have voiced concern that Prime Day has lost some of its appeal as other retailers have launched their own sales to coincide with Prime Day.

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

6, according to GasBuddy.com, a retail price-tracking service. We were long-hauling from Florida to Houston last week, and now we’re talking about going from Houston to Florida,” said Andy Milton, senior vice president of supply for Mansfield Oil in Gainesville, Georgia. But even those supplies aren’t guaranteed: On Sept.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 2, 2018

E-Commerce Changes Shipping Patterns. Back in the olden days, before 2013, the retail freight season hit its peak in October. Container ships docked in Los Angeles or Long Beach, the freight was unloaded, sorted and moved on rail intermodal or van trailers to regional distribution centers across the country.

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 30, 2019

What happened was that as more customers moved to online retail, those brick and mortar retail jobs were eliminated (such as cashiers) and they naturally gravitated to what was available, which was warehouse jobs filling orders. Or can they pick individual items, package and ship? Soon, robots will replace those jobs, too.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Some retailers are learning to love bulked-up inventories. We’ve seen lots of stories over the last few years of retail stores shifting to smaller format stores to focus on e-commerce fulfillment. The companies launched their pilot program about a year ago to autonomously transport goods between Dallas and Houston.

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Deliv

APRIL 6, 2016

Anyone with a ZIP code in an eligible market can select same-day delivery under “Expedited Shipping” when choosing a shipping option on BestBuy.com. We’ve since added Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, Seattle and Washington, D.C.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Wholesalers are now scrambling to get products from producers to retailers, which explains why our favorite wine from the early days of the pandemic is no longer available. Most of Estee Lauder’s holiday product has already been shipped to retailers. Uber will now bring you diapers, wipes and other baby essentials.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2022

The market for drone deliveries continues to heat up, as more and more drone operators, and more and more retailers, look to make deliveries from the sky. percent year on year in June, driven by double-digit surges in New York/New Jersey, Houston, and Savannah, Georgia. Demand drives 3PLs to the best growth and M&A year on record.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

First, Descartes unveiled new optimization technology at its user conference that “helps retailers and distributors make deliveries the same day an order is taken.” The service will begin in Los Angeles and New York on November 17, with plans to expand it to Dallas, New Orleans, Houston, Phoenix, and other cities next year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Retail imports expected to hit repeated monthly records after record year in 2020. The program could roll out as early as next week, with pilot programs in Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, and El Paso, TX. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the pandemic’s impact on shipping times for Peloton.

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