Enterra Insights

MAY 20, 2022

The Financial Times reporters observe, “[Supply chain woes] are likely to intensify if China digs its heels in and continues to pursue a zero-Covid policy that has left millions of workers across the country confined to their homes. Supply chain concerns, however, don’t focus solely on the movement of consumer goods.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The state of the trucking market in 2021 is uncertain, filled with risk, and continues to evolve, making logistics management challenging.? Let’s consider these top factors affecting the trucking market, their implications on supply chains and how they are driving change within the industry. . As highlighted by? are liable?network

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 7, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and added perspectives on the release of the U.S. Logistics Managers Index (LMI) that again dropped to an all-time low for June 2023. Similar trends were highlighted in our Supply Chain Matters summary of the May 2023 LMI report. The June value of 45.6 declined 1.7

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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. Each of these areas has impacted business in ways that are both good and bad.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 20, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group via its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog shares a mid-year assessment of previously published 2022 predictions for industry supply chains published at the beginning of 2022. Economic Outlook Significantly Changed. percent of GDP to 6.2

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 18, 2019

Discussions about blockchain technology generally fall into one of two categories: cryptocurrency or supply chain. Because the technology remains in its infancy, most discussions about blockchain in the supply chain are filled with hype and hope. One of the first things it looks to disrupt is supply chain management.”[1]

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

After reports last week indicating that Seattle based digital freight start-up services provider Convoy was preparing for a possible sale or winding down of business operations there are indications that freight logistics platform provider Flexport will be the acquirer of Convoy’s underlying technology. All rights reserved.

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AFFLINK

MAY 10, 2019

For the past few years, blockchain technology has been hitting the news regularly, being implemented in everything from real estate transactions to the financial sector. Blockchain is well on its way to be the next big thing in supply chain innovation. How can blockchain revolutionize the supply chain?

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In this regular edition of our featured column, Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , we provide highlights of two noteworthy supply chain management focused technology development efforts which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based multi-industry supply chain readership.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 16, 2022

Increased e-commerce sales during the pandemic brought last mile logistics into the limelight. The staff at GlobalTranz notes, “Last mile logistics is among the most misunderstood parts of transportation networks. In addition, growth in e-commerce is radicalizing how shippers view last mile logistics.”[1]

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 16, 2022

Increased e-commerce sales during the pandemic brought last mile logistics into the limelight. The staff at GlobalTranz notes, “Last mile logistics is among the most misunderstood parts of transportation networks. In addition, growth in e-commerce is radicalizing how shippers view last mile logistics.”[1]

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 24, 2022

Supply Chain Matters highlights that companies that sublease excess warehouse or office space is a normal occurrence in business settings, but when Amazon moves in that direction, it can send a shock wave to the industrial real estate ecosystem. double that of two years earlier. All rights reserved.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Author’s Note: Below is an excerpt from Keeping Up with the Retail Consumer: 6 Supply Chain Disciplines Retailers Must Master , an ebook published earlier this year by Adelante SCM and LEGACY Supply Chain Services (see previous post for additional details). percent in 2006 to 3.4 percent in 2014. percent in 2014.

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Locus

DECEMBER 22, 2021

“All great enterprises are about logistics. Not genius or inspiration or flights of imagination, skill or cunning, but logistics.” — Tom McCarthy. This was majorly due to their inability to understand and adapt to the changing logistics trends. A decade back these developments in logistics might have seemed impossible.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 18, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. And given that nothing can happen without a leading and supportive Supply Chain, by extension what is a “Nature Positive Supply Chain”? Clearly these are breakdowns in end to end Supply Chain Management which impact on nature and our environment.

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crisp

JULY 12, 2023

Crisp’s resident supply chain expert Barry Bradley shares an update on the state of the consumer goods supply chain, offering insight on how companies can stay ahead of the trends and gain a competitive advantage. But this doesn’t mean our logistical problems are solved.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

We salute the year’s top advancements in supply chain technology and processes. 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. Warehouse Automation. Media Type.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 6, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters capsule update commentary, we highlight published reports this week indicating that retailer Walmart is initiating added salaried staff reductions. At the time, Bloomberg cited sources indicating that U.S. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

This also introduces a whole new issue to supply chain and the manufacturing process–protection of intellectual property (IP), in the form of the digital files being sent to 3D printers. Printers can be a vast source of digital information based on the memory they possess.

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Elementum

APRIL 26, 2018

From creating an experience that feels more authentic, to developing products that have a region-specific appeal, what role does localization play in supply chains? Store formats, marketing schemas, and entire supply chains were expected to offer the same consistency in how they operated. Localization in the Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Network

APRIL 9, 2012

According to various news sources, including the Wall Street Journal and Reuters, Microsoft Corp. Nasdaq: MSFT) is moving its European logistics activities from Germany to the Netherlands as a risk-avoidance measure related to its ongoing legal battle with Motorola Mobility Inc.

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Arkieva

JULY 25, 2016

This and more, in your Monday supply chain briefing from Arkieva. . Supply Chain News. According to commercial real estate firm CBRE, there was 220 million square feet of net absorption of industrial/logistics real estate space in the U.S. Source: Multichannel Merchant.

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Elementum

APRIL 26, 2018

From creating an experience that feels more authentic, to developing products that have a region-specific appeal, what role does localization play in supply chains? Store formats, marketing schemas, and entire supply chains were expected to offer the same consistency in how they operated. Localization in the Supply Chain.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 23, 2017

Call it a cop-out if you like, but seriously, predicting which logistics and supply chain trends will make a difference to businesses in any given year has become notoriously difficult, given the speed at which technology in particular can suddenly disrupt the way things are done.

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Supply Chains Rock

JUNE 28, 2011

Who said supply chains are boring? Whenever I tell a friend, colleague or family member about my job as soon as the words "supply chain" are muttered I immediately see glassy eyes followed by a yawn or two. Oscars of Supply Chain. Chinas Supply Chain Executive or Team of the Year NEW!

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2021

And now to this week’s logistics news. US drug distributors urge govt to boost COVID-19 vaccine supply network. Pandemic has ‘forever altered’ need for logistics space. 3PL Coyote Logistics and partner analytics firm Emsi have released a new research report that takes a data-driven view of the current landscape.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and added insights on reported September and Q3 2023 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. In May of this year, Supply Chain Matters highlighted that the German economy had entered both economic and manufacturing recession.

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Supply Chain Network

JUNE 30, 2011

If the mantra of the real estate industry is “Location, Location, Location”, the new mantra of supply chain executives is fast becoming “Collaboration, Collaboration, Collaboration”. The company sources the majority of its products from contract manufacturers in the Far East. Let’s look at some examples….

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RFgen

JANUARY 6, 2016

The practice of consolidating resources is not just used by startups, major retailers Best Buy and Macy’s plan to share real estate in an effort to sell products with less overhead , according to Forbes. There’s no need to waste money on real estate or extra pallets, if a better solution is available.

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RFgen

JANUARY 6, 2016

The practice of consolidating resources is not just used by startups, major retailers Best Buy and Macy’s plan to share real estate in an effort to sell products with less overhead , according to Forbes. There’s no need to waste money on real estate or extra pallets, if a better solution is available.

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FLEXE

JANUARY 25, 2018

However, shipping times were longer, giving retailers more time to source and transport products. Today, increasing demands for faster, more affordable delivery means decentralized inventory, real-time information, and shorter distances from distribution center to end consumer. Physical retail isn’t going anywhere.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 21, 2017

At the next Logistics Bureau Free Executive Breakfast (which will take place in August), I’ll be discussing the alignment of supply chain and business strategy along with eight other important levers for supply chain performance improvement. A Long History of Supply Chain Strategy Misalignment.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 19, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. As such we have introduced our “Seasoned Leadership in Action ” Interview series at Supply Chain Game Changer. Subscribe Here!

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 19, 2015

The overall exit and the logistics process in moving a factory must be carefully managed. Otis representatives say the company failed to consider the consequences of the new location and tried to do too much at once, including a supply chain software implementation. So what went wrong? Avoiding Failure.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. In March 2020, Real Estate Investor/Tax Analyst Carlos Colon (a Philadelphia native, raised in Puerto Rico) decided to bring an idea of his to life; one which was building in his heart for a long period of time. The Creator (God) is the greatest source of energy that there is.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Amazon opens supply hub for Ukrainian refugees. China-Europe Rail Lines Become Supply Chain’s Latest Problem. The ongoing Russian assault on Ukraine continues to make supply chain waves. That’s all for this week.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 5, 2023

I asked if he would share some insights with Logistics Viewpoints readers. A supply chain team was also just hired to build out global sourcing and customs CM and MFG. Kiva put supply chain and design together. And I believe Logistics Viewpoints readers will as well. They were incredibly efficient.

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