Operations and Supply Chain Management

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Forecasting Shipping Delays; Cargo Swamps Airports; Alibaba’s Challenge. The supply-chain problems are helping drive stronger inflation, the WSJ’s Gwynn Guilford and Anthony DeBarros report , as rising transport and other logistics costs flow through to the cost of consumer goods. Transportation. Sourcing Journal).

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DAT Solutions

JULY 30, 2015

Jeff Tucker 's guest column in yesterday's Wall Street Journal pointed to the pivotal role of technology, including DAT Load Boards , in freight logistics today. Jeff has been a leader in freight logistics since 1992; he is president and CEO of Tucker Company Worldwide and Chairman of the Transportation Intermediaries Association.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The announcement stems from a memo sent from Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen sent yesterday, and subsequently reported by The Wall Street Journal , TechCrunch , GeekWire and other outlets. Earlier this month the tech company announced the layoff of 20 percent of the company’s global workforce.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 20, 2021

I’ve worked in the supply chain for 30+ years, working for major retailers including Kmart, Michaels and Five Below, as well as on the 3PL and logistics side with companies including FedEx, where I was Vice President of Global Transportation, and UPS, where I worked as Vice President of Supply Chain Design. Image source: Bloomberg.

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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.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 6, 2022

Both Business Network CNBC and The Wall Street Journal , cited data from Cox Automotive indicating that sales of new vehicles in the U.S. Elevated transportation and logistics costs and longer transit times have impacted profitability, despite ongoing price increases imposed on products. billion to $1.9

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 25, 2022

The Wall Street Journal Logistics Report recently published a published report that was titled: Retailers Scrambling to Stow Inventories Are Turning to Transport Equipment ( Paid subscription or metered view ). However, the implication of that transport asset now being unavailable has other consequences. Background.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 24, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides our readers added perspectives on this week’s reports indicating that Apple has initiated plans for production of the upcoming new model iPhone14 to be sourced from both China and India. Apple declined to comment on either the Bloomberg or Wall Street Journal published reports.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Supply Chain Matters once again highlights some positive news for global supply chain management teams, specifically transportation and logistics related teams. As supply chain logistics and transportation teams are keenly aware, rates peaked to more than $20,000 per container for both routes at this time last year.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 11, 2022

In our Part Two look back commentary , we observed efforts and activities by businesses directed at restoring more direct control of supply network materials sourcing. Mid-Year Global Transportation Assessment. The goal seems one of creating a fill-services door-to-door transportation and logistics services provider.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Here I am doing my standard Talking Logistics intro through one of my favorite filters: How awesome would it be to discuss blockchain or the capacity crunch in transportation using this filter for an entire episode? Lanehub Adds Backhaul Assist to Collaborative Transportation Network. Anybody want to join me as a guest?

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Rogers pointed out three sources of food supply chain woes: war, COVID-19, and climate change. ” • Transportation woes. However, even in areas unaffected by conflict, getting agricultural products to market has become more difficult thanks to rising transportation costs and port congestion. Packaging constraints.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 15, 2022

This has been especially the case over the last two plus years with the onset of the global-wide Covid-19 pandemic and with consequent and unprecedented supply and transportation network disruptions. Sourcing was both a cost as well as landed cost decision factor. Timing was a further crucial factor.

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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

So I went straight to the source and asked consultants, trade reporters, Wall Street Journal reporters and others, what their go-to logistics and supply chain sources were. Transport Intelligence, the well-respected U.K. Journal of Commerce (U.S) is one of the industry’s most respected logistics sources.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A Wall Street Journal published report on this situation (Paid subscription) indicates that in previous Covid vaccine rollouts, vaccine makers such as Pfizer and Moderna shipped needed doses directly to designated vaccination centers. Moderna reportedly has shipped millions of doses to support vaccine administration needs as wel l.

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Turvo

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Regardless of what markets do and what happens overall in the country, trucking and transportation collaboration remain an essential service. The top trucking influencers will remain a valuable source of information. of all freight transported in the United States in 2019, equating to 11.84 billion tons.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks. This new infrastructure will allow the retailer to expand ecommerce assortment while reducing both shipping time and cost. Walmart is also investing pickup and delivery capacity.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 16, 2022

The staff at GlobalTranz notes, “Last mile logistics is among the most misunderstood parts of transportation networks. He writes, “[To help last mile operations, innovators have developed] concepts such as dark stores, gray stores, or drop shipping to make the delivery process more dynamic. As Robert J. Footnotes. [1]

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 16, 2022

The staff at GlobalTranz notes, “Last mile logistics is among the most misunderstood parts of transportation networks. He writes, “[To help last mile operations, innovators have developed] concepts such as dark stores, gray stores, or drop shipping to make the delivery process more dynamic. As Robert J. Footnotes. [1]

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 12, 2023

As retailers with overstock and “a range of measures of shipping demand across the U.S. are sliding, freight rates are falling as a result,” according to an article in The Wall Street Journal and various other sources. Challenges with Implementing Transportation Analytics.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 6, 2015

In case you missed it, the Wall Street Journal and others reported last week that Sealed Air Corp., rarely sends Bubble Wrap to customers more than 150 miles from its factories because its bulky size makes it prohibitively expensive to ship long distances.” which highlights how IKEA is designing its packaging with shipping in mind).

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

Transportation prices reportedly contracted for the tenth consecutive month, but authors pointed to a lessened rate in the April data. Spot rates for the Shanghai to Los Angeles shipping lane segment reportedly averaged $1823. The firm’s Maersk Line container shipping business unit reported net profit of $2.3 The two U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

West Coast Container Ship Backup Has Ended. In our Supply Chain Matters news capsule of September 27, we pointed out that business, supply chain and transportation media had reported this that the cost of shipping a container of goods from China to the U.S. Whereas the spot rate to ship a container from China to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

lawmakers had expressed concerns that with supply chains already highly constrained, the CP Rail stoppage would create an added transportation crisis for import as well as export flows. Surface Transportation Board on the merger with Kansas City Southern. . A separate report from The Wall Street Journal indicates that U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Rivian Automotive is now free to sell its EV parcel vans to other parcel carriers, and added reinforcement from multiple ocean container shipping carriers that the existing industry volume declines could extend for two to three years. This report cites data from the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

In reporting of the latest investment, The Wall Street Journal observed that the total investment represents Amazon’s largest investment in another company since its founding 30 years ago. With this latest investment, Amazon ’s total investment in this AI start-up amounts to $4 billion, and reportedly has a minority ownership.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2019

Swipe, click, this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Google Spinoff’s Drone Delivery Business First to Get FAA Approval (Bloomberg) Amazon to invest $800 million to make one-day free shipping the standard for Prime members (WSJ – sub. Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Transportation.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Ikea is a good example as it has sourced close to 50 percent of its wood from sustainable foresters and hundred percent of its cotton from farms that meet better cotton standards (Ikea, n.d.). International journal of production economics (Vol. The IUP Journal of Operation Management , 12 (2), 6-24. 1995, April 12). 181 part B).

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 9, 2022

Leading up to and during the prior labor talks, port operations were impacted by various slowdowns in the processing of inbound and outbound ships. As The Wall Street Journal noted in its reporting: “ The risks have seldom been as high as they are this year.”. Fortunately. West Coast ports during the time of ongoing negotiations.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 20, 2017

And here’s a flowchart that provides an example: Source: Amazon patent filing. The big hurdle, as is often the case, is not coming up with the technology (a lot of the pieces already exist), but cutting through the bureaucratic red tape and getting the funding to upgrade our highway and transportation infrastructure. Here in the U.S.,

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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. Source: Machine Learning – A Giant Leap for Supply Chain Forecasting, Material Handling and Logistics Conference (PDF, 28 pp.,

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides another update on ongoing strategic sourcing and operational developments occurring among electric vehicle focused supply and production networks. According to reporting from The Wall Street Journal , a Texas site could begin pilot refining operations as early as the fourth quarter of this year.,

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In the race to fill distribution centers and store shelves with inventory for the holidays, some of the world’s largest retailers and ecommerce sellers are jumping ahead of smaller competitors by chartering ships, shifting freight to air, re-rerouting inland shipments, and hiring more staff for distribution centers and other supply chain nodes.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 2, 2019

Two-day or same-day shipping is becoming the norm. “The logistics function has evolved to what it is today,” he writes, “because most current sourcing practices do not result in optimizing supply and demand.” What products are sourced? Consumers are no longer willing to wait weeks. Where are they located?

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2016

INTTRA Collaborates with JDA Software for Streamlined Transportation Management. In technology news, INTTRA announced a partnership with JDA Software, which will give JDA customers access to INTTRA’s full suite of ocean shipping software, data and services. LoJack SCI and TransVoyant Partner to Deliver Supply Chain Risk Alerting.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 13, 2023

We therefore wanted to highlight another published survey that provides data reflecting on the beginning of the traditional peak shipping season, whether shippers are anticipating a classic peak season, along with their expectations of container shipping rates as industries prepare for second-half activity levels.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2016

It was back in January 2015, after reading an article in the Wall Street Journal about bitcoin, that my eyes were opened to the potential for blockchain technology to transform supply chain management. Source: “Blockchain Technology: Possibilities for the U.S. Overview of Fluent Applications (source: Fluent website).

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