Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Department of Transportation, which has selected 37 projects to be given funds made available by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s (BIL) Mega Program and the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) Grant Program. Multiple members of the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) were the recipients of the funds.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Moreover, the proliferation of e-commerce is reshaping how aftermarket products are purchased. Consumers increasingly turn to online platforms to buy replacement parts and accessories due to the convenience of browsing a wide range of products, comparing prices, and making purchases from home.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

ToolsGroup’s service-driven multi-echelon inventory optimization (MEIO) provides a single view of demand and supply to help manage uncertainty and increase product availability. . “We Recent supply disruptions have made supply chain agility even more crucial,” said David Barton, ToolsGroup’s general manager of North America.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

More specifically, it took 83 days for container transport from Europe to Asia, and 88 days from North America to Asia. Brand loyalty is no longer the driver for consumer purchasing decisions. This is 15 days longer than the same quarter last year and an additional five days than the previous quarter.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Supply chain leaders were slow to adopt advances in Big Data Analytics. In parallel, PE/venture capitalists purchased/consolidated network solutions, slashing R&D and delaying investment, reducing industry capabilities. Expect greater variability in lead times and an increase in in-transit inventory. Inventory Management.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 11, 2025

Reported April 24 Over 60% of our business is from products that are manufactured, bagged, assembled or grown in the United States and only 12% of our business is direct imports. Recall, we purchased targeted additional inventory in late fiscal '25 and early fiscal '26, ahead of tariffs. billion to $1.6 Christopher J.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 9, 2021

Restaurants, bars find suppliers’ inventories are running dry. New aircraft purchases are focused around twinjets such as the Boeing 767 and 777. We reported a 94 percent year-over-year increase in sales in Q2, but revenues would have been much higher if in fact we had a normalized supply chain and logistics situation.”.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Gartner analyst Paul Lord has developed a framework to better understand inventory trade-offs by categorizing those decisions according to the objectives they are meant to achieve: structural, operational and situational. Many companies struggle with decisions such as “How many days of sales or inventory turns per year should we target?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Mr. Govindarajan is the Senior Director, Supply Chain (Systems, Processes & Analytics) at KeHE. Our mission to SERVE and feed America is fueled by an obsession with natural & organic, specialty, and fresh products. Through Demand Forecasting and Inventory Optimization (DFIO), the tool provided all the capabilities in one spot.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 25, 2025

The topic/report will be on the logistics M&A so far this year. The report will be available free for paid Substack subscribers but I’ll provide a summary and a link to the report in case you’re interested in either purchasing it separately or paying for an anuual subscribtion to my Substack articles.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

GEON Performance Solutions purchases plastic pellets and add plastic compounders to make products of different strength, resilience, and flexibility. The simplified assumptions allow companies “to manage margins, supply chain costs, and inventories”, but “it does not enable them to manage enterprise costs, profit, and working capital.”

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

but when demand slowed, the pressure to reduce inventory becomes a lot higher. Looking at the share of total weekly sailings being blanked on the Asia-North America West Coast trade, blank sailings clearly improved during 2023 and dropped below 10% in June with a slight uptick in early July.,

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

In an uncertain environment, affordability and predictability are at a premium, and a supply-chain organization can deliver these through effective management and oversight of its suppliers. Reducing lead times from suppliers can help turn inventory faster, freeing up cash and ultimately satisfying customers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

The current company is stronger in North America than Europe. Barloworld, a South African software provider, was attempting to enter the North American market. Historically, LLamasoft, a Michigan-based North American company, has lacked a presence on the European continent. I mpact #2. Growth: Eye on Global Expansion.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Such measures include communicating with suppliers and customers , using demand shaping to overcome inventory shortages, seeking additional suppliers, and building more onshore facilities. 82% of people have concerns that the supply chain will ruin life plans, such as birthdays, vacations, holidays, and the purchasing of necessary items.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 15, 2024

One such behavior was a notable increase in online grocery purchases. They reported, “The rapid migration of consumers to e-commerce channels during the pandemic has plateaued. ” Unfortunately, inflation hit the grocery sector hard and it affected online grocery purchases. In May 2023, e-commerce stood at 7.2

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The potential supply chain impacts of this conflict dwarf any other supply chain news that might be reported. Given low inventories and dwindling spare capacity, the oil market cannot afford large supply disruptions,” said UBS analyst Giovanni Staunovo in a Reuters article. This week’s news will all center on this war.

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ShipBob

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Amazon offers Fulfilled by Amazon (FBA) services where Amazon will store your inventory in its warehouses and fulfill orders for you. It ranks as the fifth most popular retail marketplace for cross-border purchases, making it an excellent marketplace to support global expansion. Etsy fees: Etsy charges a flat rate listing fee of $0.20

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Zipline Logistics

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Know exactly what retail buyers expect from you and how to avoid damaging your relationships by reading our Retail Buyer Report. In order to offer savings to their customers, Aldi uses strategy and innovation to control costs. On February 1 st , 2024, these requirements changed to 90% for on-time and 95% for in-full metrics.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The McKinsey report “How COVID-19 is changing consumer behaviour – now and forever”, bluntly illustrates how this change occurred more quickly and seismically than anyone predicted – so fast that it’s apparent the capacity to adapt had always been there. . Mark Lau – Chief Commercial Officer.

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QAD

MARCH 5, 2020

The assumption is that for given functions in a company, there is an optimal level of cost vs productivity that is achieved simply by the assignment of a percentage budget cut. They needed to vet the ERP vendor’s purchasing process in the system and prepare the formerly separate companies on how to now execute that single best practice.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Last month, Lennox Residential was runner-up in the 2015 Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Supply Chain Innovation competition, arguably the top supply chain award in North America. Instead they adopted advanced analytical techniques to accurately model and forecast complex and unpredictable demand.

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 25, 2021

Everything from food and beverage products to home improvement items saw a significant consumption bump as buyers, sidelined by pandemic restrictions, diverted their purchasing habits from experiences to consumer goods. Since the first quarter of 2020, CPG logistics costs have risen by 37% to an average of $1.71 cost per case.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 9, 2016

The need to transport parts also drives inventory up, creates a need for space to store those parts, and uses energy for more forklift time and warehouse heating. Rather, going beyond customer expectations needs to be fully understood, and transportation strategies then developed to meet those expectations with optimal inventory levels.

Waste Reduction 120

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 25, 2024

This system ushers in a new era of AI-enabled management science by merging cutting-edge analytical techniques with a business’ data and knowledge to Sense, Think, Act, and Learn ® on enterprise data to meet the changing needs of the market.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 4, 2023

Freelance writers Michael Keenan and Kaleigh Moore report, “Data from the University of Texas–Austin suggests a simple improvement in ‘data usability’ can give some companies a 10% increase in revenue. Whether they realize it or not, consumers will be purchasing more recycled and refurbished goods in the coming years.”

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 7, 2021

Robots are the future of automation and Amazon is on top of it with their purchase of Kiva. They’ve built Amazon Robotics from this purchase and have since grown their robots in 2020 to 45,000 and counting. Amazon has 175 fulfillment centers all over the world, 75 fulfillment centers, and 25 sortation centers in North America.

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ShipBob

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Think about your most recent purchase. This sequence of events involves many moving parts, including purchasing, packaging, shipping, and transporting materials to distributors to sell to the end customer. Inventory management. Warehousing and storage. Freight forwarding. Handling raw materials. Order fulfillment.

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Logility

APRIL 27, 2015

Here is where having a data model reflective of your market and business model can set the organization on an upward trajectory. Information on merchandise, customer attributes, detail sales history, as well as other market intelligence about trends and the ability to integrate all of them into an analytic framework is essential.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Followed by focus on big data analytics where companies began leveraging BI (business intelligence) tools for data-driven decision making. As we adhered to shelter-in-place orders from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control), each of us were purchasing more products and services online at a faster adoption rate than ever before.

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ShipBob

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

And two days ago a few units were reported stolen. These physically unaccounted-for units of inventory called ghost inventory, or phantom inventory , are a more common challenge faced by retailers than you think. Often, the items accounted for in the asset register do not reconcile with what is in the inventory.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

For example, US-based companies may be quite fortunate if they have access to manufacturers right on their doorstep in Mexico, a country with far lower labour costs than the rest of North America. Improve Inventory Management Will your logistics outsourcing strategy include contract warehousing?

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JDA software

MAY 10, 2019

That’s why she’s leading a transformative workforce management initiative to empower Starbucks’ 300,000 partners around the world through mobile-friendly and dynamic shift scheduling, partner “borrowing,” real-time visibility, live reporting, compliance and more. Ensuring a differentiated, positive experience for every customer.

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Vinculum

APRIL 29, 2022

To avoid competition, the local market has tied up with the giant e-commerce platform for easy flow of the cash in the market and the demand and supply of the stock to manage the inventory and warehouse diversely. The report has made a forecast analysis to handle the market from a broader perspective. Internet of Things (IoT) .

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Stord

APRIL 16, 2024

ATLANTA, April 16, 2024— Earth Breeze —the leader in the rapidly-growing, revolutionary laundry detergent sheet category—selects Stord One Commerce —the order and inventory management software (OMS) that helps brands orchestrate, connect, and optimize their supply chains—to power operations at scale.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 3, 2016

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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Bristlecone

OCTOBER 29, 2020

For one manufacturing client, a recent diagnostics assessment identified key opportunities in supply chain planning process improvements, logistics optimization and reporting enhancements. Recent highlights include: Go-lives across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. PURCHASE ORDER ACCRUALS. Read Case Study.

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