Talking Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2015

Last January, I shared 5 New Year’s Resolutions for supply chain and logistics executives to improve as leaders. In my opinion, the best source of practical knowledge and advice are your peers — that is, executives just like you who have already met and overcome the same challenges and opportunities you face today.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 17, 2019

Jesper Bennike, CEO of GateHouse Logistics Company, notes, “A gamut of new Industry 4.0 Joanne Phoenix ( @drjoannephoenix ) explains, “It is widely accepted that the Internet of Things market is growing at an exponential rate and becoming the norm for many, with 3.6bn connected devices used for daily tasks [in 2018].

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Given that the study was funded by an Atlanta-based group, the results are hardly authoritative (for instance, a number of major cities, such as Boston, Charlotte, Denver, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, are not included in the study), but they do offer an interesting view on the supply chain capabilities of seven major regions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

When my flight canceled, I was en route to the annual AMR conference in Phoenix. Notice how the water turns from blue to brown in Figure 3 with the lack of demand translation capabilities within the enterprise for manufacturing and logistics. We source this data from Y charts. The process mistakes include: Mistake #1.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 6, 2022

They want a single source of truth that maps the steps of every process, assigns ownership, and defines due dates. Next Year in AZ After several years in Chicago, the conference is moving to Phoenix for 2023. Instead, leaders want visibility and accountability. Comprehensive and comprehensible are where it’s at.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 6, 2022

They want a single source of truth that maps the steps of every process, assigns ownership, and defines due dates. Next Year in AZ After several years in Chicago, the conference is moving to Phoenix for 2023. Instead, leaders want visibility and accountability. Comprehensive and comprehensible are where it’s at.

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DynaSys

JUNE 27, 2019

Chief Supply Chain Officers and their teams learn how to recognize the impacts of disruptions, create transformational strategies that empower the organization and get the latest best practices in supply chain management and logistics. Inditex also came second in the global list of Supply Chains of the year in Phoenix last month.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

I knew nothing about the world of logistics, inventory management and order optimization. Much to my chagrin, when I entered into the world of supply chain, the processes of source, make and deliver were usually not designed. Instead, I think that it needs to be holistic to balance the trade-offs of source, make and deliver together.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Of course, COVID-19 has accelerated this trend, with more consumers working from home and ordering online, while it’s also become easier for sellers to source on Alibaba, import, and then sell on Shopify or Amazon.com. In other words, while demand and sourcing was able to keep up, last-mile distribution became a key bottleneck for SMBs.

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SupplyOn

JULY 24, 2019

Here, I have compiled the important trends and findings from the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference 2019 in Phoenix, Arizona. The decisive factor here is not the possibility of tapping into all possible external data sources via APIs, from weather information to social media events.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The theme of the conference was ACT (Aspire, Challenge, Transform), same as the Gartner supply chain summit in Phoenix during May of this year. Sourcing leader becomes Innovation coordinator. Logistics manager becomes Customer satisfaction director. I covered my observations from the May event in a previous blog.

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Elementum

JULY 29, 2022

These aren’t cities like Las Vegas or Phoenix, prepared-for and accustomed to three digit temperatures, but now they’re experiencing them nonetheless: London reached 104.5 In this blog we’ll talk about the climate emergency and the steps supply chain leaders can take to prepare for a continuation of unprecedented disruption.

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Requis

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Dr. David Closs runs the program now, but when I was a student he was teaching logistics. In the end-to-end supply chain there’s procurement, logistics, operations, and warehousing. I like the story or use-case style that you see in books like “The Goal” or “The Phoenix Project”. I use finance to show the value.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 18, 2022

The company sources goods from 34,000 suppliers out of 30 nations. Process is a very big topic, but two sets of processes are worth mentioning in more detail are Ferguson’s sourcing and global trade compliance processes. Lead times expanded even for domestic manufacturers because they sourced raw materials from overseas.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 31, 2015

Are manufacturers and retailers “joint employers” of the contract workers hired by their third-party logistics (3PL) partners? The labor board determined Browning-Ferris should be considered a “joint employer” with the Phoenix-based staffing agency. There’s already a joint employer precedent in the logistics industry.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

SUMMARY: Because 4PL providers handle a company’s entire chain, including challenges that are thrown up by advances in technology, they are increasingly being favoured over third-party logistics (3PL) providers, especially by big companies with complex supply chains. the digitisation of manufacturing. What is 4PL? What is 3PL?

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 31, 2017

This is the most significant example of how commerce, logistics, and social networking are converging ,” said Adrian Gonzalez, industry analyst at Adelante SCM and host of Talking Logistics. Walmart and Uber have been working together since last June, with Uber delivering groceries for the retailer in Phoenix, Arizona.

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