Talking Logistics

APRIL 7, 2016

One of my supply chain and logistics predictions for this year was that the transportation management system (TMS) market will become more barbell-shaped ( mirroring what is happening in the third-party logistics industry ). Users have the ability to provide rich lane metrics to carriers as well as their standing in the current bid process.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

The people on the ground–my contacts in the 3PL, freight forwarding and transportation industry–know that the labor strife is only a part of the larger story. In 2018, the Journal of Commerce reports that a container will have 22,000 to 24,000 twenty-foot containers in 2018. The ships are getting larger.

Long Beach

Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

Note to the reader: we selected these metrics for the balanced scorecard for the analysis after work with Arizona State University to understand which metrics, in combination, most closely correlated with market capitalization. Consider the role of functional metrics and the lack of alignment with the corporate scorecard.)

Supply Chain Design Software

Talking Logistics

MAY 13, 2015

Like the multi-billion dollar chemical manufacturer that had been paying market rates for ocean transportation for eight years because nobody realized that their contract, filed away in a drawer by a transportation manager who had left the company, had expired. From the article: Columbia Sportswear added $415.6

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GlobalTranz

JULY 19, 2016

According to the following graphic, created by the Ivey Business Journal , prioritizing can be broken down by type: 3. In this space, the role of using a dedicated transportation management system (TMS), which includes a WMS, has become vital to success. Use Metrics to Track Progress and Order Fulfillment Processes.

Warehousing

GlobalTranz

JUNE 8, 2017

More findings on the cloud cargo transportation and warehouse management systems you may discover on the web. The cloud-based supply chain software can be customized to suit your industry, your transportation , freight-forwarding and warehousing specialty, import-export regulations. The cloud-based logistics has lots of metric tools.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 21, 2023

And now for this week’s logistics news: Walmart Adds Truck Powered by Compressed Natural Gas to its Transportation Fleet CMA CGM offers $5.5 The vehicle will make its inaugural trip from Indiana to California, where it will be featured at the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo. CMA CGM is offering 5 billion euros ($5.48

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Wall Street Journal ). Wall Street Journal ). Wall Street Journal ). Wall Street Journal ). Wall Street Journal ). Wall Street Journal ). How the War in Ukraine is Impacting the Supply Chain and Raw Material Prices. Deloitte Global).

Material Savings

Talking Logistics

JUNE 22, 2015

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) jointly proposed standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles that would improve fuel efficiency and cut carbon emissions. billion barrels over the lifetime of the vehicles sold under the program.

Vendor Strategies

Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 21, 2016

For most companies, greater economy of scale is possible through the global management of procurement and transportation and local management of sales, manufacturing and customer service. Check out the new Shaman’s Journal. However, this varies by company and the degree of cross-border and inter-plant shipments.)

S&OP

Talking Logistics

AUGUST 13, 2018

Companies across all industries are dealing with rising transportation costs and a key question many CEOs, CFOs, and supply chain executives are asking is, “What can we do to better manage and control our freight spend in today’s market?” The second question we get is what strategies can we implement to lower our transportation costs.

Negotiating Skills

Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2022

Daily, we see business continuity case studies as headline news in the Wall Street Journal. Looming transportation shortages in the United States with the adoption of AB5 and the redefinition of the owner-operator are risks. The focus needs to move from functional metrics to balanced scorecard outcomes. The future is uncertain.

Supply and Demand

SCMDOJO

AUGUST 10, 2024

While internet-based transport exchanges offer potential, their effectiveness is still debated due to uncertainties in carrier and shipper participation. Postponement: Strategies like Just-in-Time and postponement can reduce inventory and transportation costs. Their strategic decisions now influence overall business performance.

Sourcing Strategies

Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 29, 2016

I struggle to find a good supply chain academic journal, and often speak to my academic network about the need for one. As I study research methods, and the market, I realize the lies I’ve spun for prior employers (Gartner and AMR Research) are untrue: The AMR Research Hierarchy of Supply Chain Metrics.

Supply Chain Planning Software

Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

The combination of technology along with the advancements in transportation made it possible. The winners drive improvement while posting financial results in the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter ahead of the peer group. A Supply Chain Leader will make progress on both of these key metrics with a very tight and controlled pattern.

Supply Chain Design Software

Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2016

I find most companies are good at pockets of planning–demand planning, supply planning, transportation planning, material planning or plant scheduling, but the flows are not connected. Few implementations of planning connect to procurement and transportation. In June we published our new Shaman’s Journal.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 8, 2018

According to Michael Hu of Ivey Business Journal , following such best practices will help to achieve strategic value in multichannel fulfillment and shipping. Align metrics and incentives with unique e-commerce goals. These include: Define shipping solutions and customer strategy simultaneously.

Shipping

Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 14, 2016

These Supply Chain Operating Network Strategies enable multi-tier many-to-many enablement of first and second/third tiers of suppliers of services, materials and transportation. Check out the new Shaman’s Journal. Buffer Design. Network Design to Reduce the Bullwhip Effect. Like the Shaman blog?

Material Savings

Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2016

GT Nexus evolved as a Software as a Service (SaaS) application for transportation while GXS/OpenText evolved from the EDI VAN technologies. Last month we published our new Shaman’s Journal. The journal is a collection of best read posts organized in more readable format. The solutions evolved from different funding models.

Supply Chain Network Software

Talking Logistics

JANUARY 9, 2019

per square foot—the highest level since it began tracking the metric in 1989. In the Wall Street Journal article, Phillips points to a leading transportation equipment lessor that recent launched a “mobile warehousing and storage” business as one example of how companies are finding new uses for their trailers.

Inventory Reduction

Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. EU Energy Chief Sees Hurdles to Carbon Overhaul ( Wall Street Journal ). FedEx Helps Small Businesses Streamline Shipping with fedex.com Integration Manager.

Logistics Network Optimization Software

IQMS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Key factors influencing inventory levels, supplier quality, demand forecasting, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, production planning, transportation management and more are becoming known for the first time. Journal Of Business Logistics , 37 (1), 6-17. Journal Of Management Information Systems , 32 (4), 4-39. 15th, 2017 (PDF.,

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 23, 2017

transportation assets) to the equation. Consumer Convenience” will become a new supply chain metric (more on that idea in a future post). According to the Wall Street Journal : Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The competitive assets of Brick-and-Mortar are not just stores, but distribution and fulfillment centers too.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides our latest update regarding the Red Sea Transport disruption impacting transport movements to and from European and Asian ports. Scenario and simulation based planning methods that quantify and weight various short and longer term impacts of global events toward key business metrics.

Transportation

Supply Chain Opz

JANUARY 3, 2022

Then, we use these criteria to rank the books, - Practicality: we look closely at how each book can provide basic concepts and strategies of the "Integrated Logistics Functions", namely, customer service, purchasing, production planning, warehousing, and transportation in a clear and concise manner. Our Rating: 5/5 2. Our Rating: 4.9/5

Logistics Network Optimization Software

Supply Chain Collaborator

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

“High freight, fuel and labor costs are forcing food distributors to streamline their businesses,” begins the recent article in the Wall Street Journal. Surging demand is also pushing up the cost of for-hire transportation.”. — Food Shippers Lag in Terms of Automation Levels in their Supply Chains.

Food

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 20, 2020

With relying on his expertise, he advises on and provides executive training and consultancy in the fields of forecasting, demand and supply planning, S&OP, CPFR, key performance metrics, inventory optimisation, warehouse & logistics management, information systems, and B2B/B2C – project management.

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Accelogix

AUGUST 12, 2020

This recent article from The Wall Street Journal says Gartner expects a double-digit increase in demand for robotic goods-to-person systems over the next three years alone and that half of the world’s global leading enterprises will have invested in real-time transportation visibility software by 2023.

Supply Chain Software

BlueYonder

JANUARY 21, 2021

This blog is based on an article that recently ran in the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics & Procurement, “ Supply chain agility: An imperative in an unpredictable world.”. Please stay tune for part 3 on more about networks, new definition of collaboration, and on-demand transportation, labor and warehousing. [1]

Agile and Lean Supply Chain

Talking Logistics

MARCH 8, 2019

The latest example is Walmart “raising its delivery goal posts for suppliers, asking them to deliver more goods on time,” as reported by Jennifer Smith and Sarah Nassauer in the Wall Street Journal. More stringent customer delivery requirements is certainly one factor, with On-Time In-Full (OTIF) becoming a more critical metric.

Rail Software

Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Increased labor activism continues to impact Canada’s transport sector as grain terminal workers within the country’s major west coast port have walked off the job. It will reportedly impact upwards of 100,000 metric tons of commodities arriving daily from Canadian farms destined as exports to other countries.

Negotiating Skills

Enterra Insights

APRIL 22, 2019

” Logistics – “To control one of a business’s largest costs after wages, why not use Transport as a Percentage of Sales with OTIF to ensure service levels remain while costs are driven down?” ”[5] It would be easier for everyone involved if universal delivery standards were adopted by the retail sector. Footnotes. [1]

Procurement Analytics

Supply Chain Collaborator

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Trucking and overall transportation capacity in the US is at or near all-time highs at the exact moment that supply chains have grown increasingly complex. Time is running out to adopt the technology your organization will need to remain competitive. Here’s the evidence.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 29, 2021

According to the Journal of Commerce , the New York and New Jersey port backlog is increasing and leading to more instability in terms of product replenishment and inventory management in the weeks after Christmas. The Wall Street Journal noted that rail rates are up an average of 23% compared to 2020. Rail Rates Are Increasing.

Los Angeles

RFgen

MAY 8, 2016

A few things prompting this growth are a global demand for pharmaceutical products in new countries, an aging population and large molecules created through biotechnology that depends on very cold transport. Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization, demand companies provide temperature data during transport.

Inventory

RFgen

MAY 8, 2016

A few things prompting this growth are a global demand for pharmaceutical products in new countries, an aging population and large molecules created through biotechnology that depends on very cold transport. Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization, demand companies provide temperature data during transport.

Inventory

Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The online retail platform and last-mile fulfillment services provider specifically made mention of the benefits that were provided by an ongoing relook and restructuring of the provider’s customer fulfillment operations and transportation network. after an order was placed. Watch this industry space.

Supply Chain Network Software