BlueYonder

JANUARY 3, 2023

Luciano Sieber, Vice President of End-to-End Supply Chain for North America at Colgate-Palmolive, sums up the need to recognize and master volatility: “Resilience has a clear definition at Colgate: thriving in a world of uncertainty.” We have to consider the logistics carriers and the networks, brokers and internal distribution.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Con-way Truckload and Con-way Multimodal Join Forces to Launch New Intermodal Service for North America. CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. Labor and management work out deal at Port of LA/Long Beach ( Logistics Management ).

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Locus

JUNE 3, 2022

billion metric tons—the emissions have rebounded in 2021 and 2022. It is worth noting that North America has a much higher emission intensity than sub-Saharan Africa, despite Africa being significantly larger and housing more countries. Source: Statista.com. Fighting climate change with green logistics.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Thanks to omni-channel distribution, 3-D printing, self-service logistics and other avenues of disintermediation, traditional supply chain roles are rapidly being transformed into all-new opportunities. cities have launched Smart City Logistics innovations and protocols, following the lead of Europe and Asia. ? Warehouse Automation.

Supply Chain Design Software 110

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IQMS

JULY 2, 2018

Manufacturers in the high-performance cohort captured in our latest survey are using real-time monitoring to aggregate metrics and gain a 360-degree view of manufacturing operations accessible from any mobile or handheld device. Source: Capgemini Internet of Things (IoT) study, Unlocking the business value of IoT in operations.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Brief highlights of logistics investments over the last three decades. Those logistics professionals who went through the ‘90s remember the period that warehouse automation was trending at the forefront of capital investment in supply chains. Globally, logistics professionals are navigating their companies through the challenges.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 22, 2018

It’s the reason why On Time In Full (OTIF) is a critical supply chain metric today. It’s the reason why a growing number of companies are starting to view logistics as a competitive weapon instead of just a cost center. As I wrote about recently, disrupting logistics ain’t easy. Transplace TMS Screenshots (source: Transplace).

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Hurricane Ida struck the Gulf coast, and knocked out more than 60% of America’s PVC production offline. Gulf Coast export PVC prices were assessed at $1,900 a metric tonne for the week of Sept. For one of the high grade ethylene required, there is only one manufacturer in North America, who is in Texas (Eastman Chemical).

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Unleashed

MAY 22, 2022

Now all of a sudden we have grown from where we were to where we are now, and we can see that if we triple the size of our business again in the next 2–3 years, we’re going to need to have a far easier supply chain, and a far easier source of supply of those ingredients to ensure that we can actually deliver that growth.”

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Shipsy

JUNE 20, 2017

Key Trends in Gartner Top 25 Supply Chain Rankings 2017 (Source?—?Gartner) In the last five years there has been a triple-digit growth in the implementation of industrial robots in manufacturing and warehousing especially in North America, Europe and Asia. Net income/total assets Inventory turns?—?Cost

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

” Corporations serve international markets, and the source of rare minerals (so critical for the evolution of the green supply chain) is primarily Asia. Others argue the demise of global sourcing; might I add caution? My response is “Hogwash.” By definition, this requires a global supply chain. A Need to Rethink Work.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Material Handling & Logistics ). Material Handling & Logistics ). 28% of global retailers have tried to find alternative sourcing options due to supply chain issues (RetailNext, 2020). Source: Consultancy.UK. Image source: Fortune. How the Supply Chain Crisis is Impacting Businesses and Consumers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

The company sources goods from 34,000 suppliers out of 30 nations. The goods flow through 2 import centers, 14 strategically located distribution centers in North America, 66 final mile shipping hubs, and nearly 1,700 branch locations. The company has shown sustained improvement on this metric. The company recorded 1.9

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 26, 2021

Dual sourcing has also helped with partner responsiveness. This gives Pure real-time visibility to core performance metrics. But achieving supply chain resilience can’t be accomplished just by relying on people or the ability to remotely monitor metrics; the design of the supply chain matters.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 3, 2021

Our recently launched 2021 Logistics Executive Survey aims to seek out the “New Normal of Logistics.” The survey tracks the pulse of the market as logistics operations are emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic to periods of adjustments, redefinition, and eventually a new equilibrium. This in turn effects how companies behave.

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6 River Systems

APRIL 4, 2019

Logistics can be traced all the way back to the Greek and Roman empires , but it’s undergone several major transformations as new technologies provide opportunities to more efficiently manage the movement and storage of goods. In the digital transformation age, logistics is once again undergoing a major shift. Marc Tuinier.

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The Lean Supply Chain

JULY 7, 2015

RTLS also enables management to monitor yard operations’ key performance indicators (KPIs) based on quantifiable productivity metrics measured by the actions of the yard trucks. Logistics Providers, like Third Party Logistics (3PL) companies, use YMS, after a truck leaves the Warehouse. YMS vendors : High Jump.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Shell’s current shift to the global supply chain is impacting North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Russia, and China. Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. North America Simulation Output. The reason?

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Intelligent Audit

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The world of shipping management and logistics continues to evolve as market conditions change. Maersk , a global leader in transportation, supply chain and logistics management, and general freight, announced February 9, 2022, “The intended acquisition of Pilot Freight Services (Pilot), a leading U.S.-based

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Freightera

JANUARY 31, 2017

Please share this infographic on you site by copying and pasting the code below: Source: The Green Future of Freight – An infographic by the team at Freightera. Heavy-duty trucks account for the dominant share of all logistics-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissons: Road freight: 57%. FREIGHT SHIPPING EMISSIONS TODAY. Trucks: 47.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 9, 2016

The are the 8 Rights of Lean Transportation thinking: Right Materials, Right Quantity, Right time, Right Place, Right Source, Right Price, Right Quantity, and. Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) measure how well the shipper-transportation provider does in daily continuous improvement. Right Service. Problem-solving methods.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Some of the materials were sourced and managed by the customers. Still the sourcing and supplier management of other materials was delegated to our facilities. Each facility leader reported into a Regional Vice President of Operations, one for each of Asia, Europe and North America.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

Third-party logistics companies ( 3PLs ) specialize in distribution, warehousing and fulfillment services. The core competency of these companies is logistics , and they do it well. Even Amazon used third-party logistics companies when the company first started, until reaching sufficient scale to have a logistics arm of its own.

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