Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Simply put, give priority to events where you will walk away with knowledge and information that you can immediately apply at your company to get your job done better and faster. Never Living the Same Day Twice: The Art and Joy of Solving Supply Chain Puzzles (Takeaways from Quintiq World Tour Philadelphia Conference).

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Bristlecone

OCTOBER 21, 2019

At LogiPharma 2019 in Philadelphia, Deepak Ghodke, Vice President, Bristlecone Labs, spoke about how it is, therefore, not at all surprising that the increase in AI adoption has also extended to enterprises in recent years. Artificial Intelligence has become so deeply engrained in our lives that we don’t always realize it anymore.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

As the assemblers were working on the floor, they did not need a 20% overlay of additional information. Instead, they needed a tool to gather the information and to report back as needed. Automated real-time information sharing cut the processing time and reduced a multi-layer inspection process to one tool.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2015

Therefore, it’s critically important for supply chain executives to stay informed of these trends and make the time for learning because yesterday’s leading practices might no longer apply and they’ll need to develop and implement new ones to succeed moving forward. Elemica : Reveal 2015 , TBA (last year in Philadelphia and Frankfurt).

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

At the Quintiq World Tour Philadelphia conference in October, Southwest Airlines, which has more than 18,000 employees across 90+ airports, discussed how trying to do headcount planning, schedule development, and scenario evaluation manually, while taking into account regulations and labor agreements, was becoming a losing battle for them.

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DAT Solutions

JULY 12, 2017

The biggest rate increases last week were in Philadelphia, Buffalo, and Allentown, PA. That’s a strong sign for consumer goods, since those markets contain warehousing and distribution centers that serve the highest concentration of people in the country. Houston to Chicago dropped 17¢ to $1.60/mile.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

So when the warehouse team threatened to unionize, I transferred into a distribution, warehouse environment. Warehouse Management and Transportation Management were in their infancy. In this evolution, cash, information, and inventory flows grow in importance. The year was 1985. I know… I am showing my age.).

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

Fahrenheit temperature was recorded by Sicily’s agriculture-meteorological information service, SIAS, at the Syracuse station on the island’s southeast. Amazon has invested in what it calls “mini-fulfillment centers” closer to where customers lived in select US markets, initially in Philadelphia, Phoenix, Orlando, and Dallas.

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QAD

APRIL 27, 2021

In 1948, a Philadelphia supermarket manager contacted the dean at Drexel Institute of Technology looking for a way to move shoppers through the store and check-out lanes faster and make stock-taking more efficient. I remember working with a QAD customer automating its warehouse services. And the two are directly related.

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DAT Solutions

DECEMBER 27, 2018

No surprise – the Buffalo metro area is home to countless warehouses and distribution centers to support cross-border trade, and they've been busy this month. Westbound: The rate from Philadelphia to Buffalo shot up 31¢ to $2.80/mile, relationship with our biggest export market.

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DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

FEMA and other emergency responders will move freight to temporary warehouses just outside the storm zone, waiting until road conditions are stable. mile • Philadelphia to Charlotte also climbed 15¢ to $1.90/mile mile • Philadelphia to Charlotte also climbed 15¢ to $1.90/mile

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DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Another secondary effect from the storm was that outbound rates rose in Philadelphia and Buffalo. A lot of it gets warehoused in Buffalo, Philadelphia, and nearby Allentown before proceeding to the bigger population centers, including the New York metro area. That’s a common trend when the flow of freight shifts southward.

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DAT Solutions

JUNE 28, 2017

Atlanta was a super-hot market for reefers as well as vans, thanks to all the seasonal produce leaving refrigerated warehouses and food processing plants. Chicago and Philadelphia also got a boost last week. Find loads, trucks and lane-by-lane rate information in the DAT Power load board , including rates from DAT RateView.

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DAT Solutions

JULY 7, 2016

Reefer freight remains strong in the Southeast, too, but the Mid-Atlantic markets of Philadelphia and Elizabeth , NJ won the award for “most improved” last week. Fruit and vegetable harvests in New Jersey, combined with refrigerated food from warehouses, answered the July 4th weekend demand for grocery items.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 19, 2022

They’re looking at the thing and it’s sitting in a hangar or warehouse, or somebody is taking their lunch break and sitting on top of the cooler that the liver is in. The produce has a cooling process and then it’s in a number of cold chain facilities or warehouses, and then at some point, it’s in those trucks.

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