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This Week in Logistics News (May 30 – June 3, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Now, on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Wal-Mart says it is 6-9 months from using drones to check warehouse inventory (Reuters). And this week, Reuters reported that Walmart is “six to nine months from beginning to use drones to check warehouse inventories in the United States.”

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Supply Chain Risk Management: Could You Face a Category 4 Supply Chain Disaster?

Kinaxis

Many of the states affected contained key ports and supply destinations, as well as transportation and logistics hubs. Starting with Miami, this port primarily handles containerized cargo with small amounts of breakbulk, vehicles and industrial equipment. Up to date inventory status. These ports accounted for 18.3%

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This Week in Logistics News (April 4-8, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Marten Transport Ltd. Shippers are under enormous pressure to cut transportation costs and seem not to be satisfied with the massive fuel surcharge reductions racked up over the past year and a half.”. WTO: Trade growth to remain subdued in 2016 as uncertainties weigh on global demand. Analysts at Stifel Inc. Hub Group Inc.,

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Get Your Supply Chain Back on Track in the Wake of the Hurricanes

Material Handling & Logistics

The 2017 hurricane season wreaked unprecedented damage and destruction on the southern United States and Caribbean, with three catastrophic category 4 and 5 storms occurring within a single month. Beyond that, assessing the state of inventory and machinery (What’s unusable? What can be salvaged?),

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Beyond The Data with William Sandoval

The Logistics of Logistics

Like most people from Latin America, I ended up in Miami. The majority of my childhood was in Miami. I have decided to leave Miami, travel the world and join some good companies throughout my career. What were your first impressions of the United States and Miami? You can reduce your inventory costs.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Deutsche Post: DHL Group DHL , though founded in the United States, is a German company today. Today, the company manages more than 75 million square feet of warehouse and logistics space worldwide, spanning more than 65 countries, including 14 million square feet in the United States. Nippon Express owns more than 31.7