Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 17, 2023

provides enterprise resource planning and other business applications for manufacturers. For example, it can look like imports from China are cheaper than the same goods imported from Mexico if a company is not relying on analysis produced by an advanced good global trade compliance (GTC) system. Adhering to trade law can be difficult.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 15, 2025

The regulation is designed to provide European consumers with extensive data about the provenance of the items they purchase, all the way back to the sourcing of raw materials. Beyond the promotion of ethical sourcing, it’s also about “how we can extend the life of products,” Balaam says.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 17, 2025

Companies importing and exporting goods, be it finished retail products, manufacturing components or materials, now face substantial cost and price pressures that squeeze margins and force difficult pricing, sourcing, operations and distribution decisions. The result?

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks. It is safe to say that if a warehouse operation is not implementing Lean, it is falling behind its competition. But, it can be overdone.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 26, 2024

based carrier’s role in Mexico as nearshoring manufacturing trends drive more cross-border trade. Based in Mexico City, Estafeta handles both packages and larger freight shipments and delivers domestically in Mexico and across the border with the U.S.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Before FreightWaves, Anthony received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Economics from New Mexico State University. Anthony’s clients varied from construction, trucking, industrial, software, manufacturing, and retail industries. pageviews a month and over 1.5B monthly impressions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2022

Employees at an Amazon warehouse on New York’s Staten Island voted late last week to join a union, which is a painful defeat for the e-commerce giant that has aggressively fought unionization efforts in recent years. At the same time, the number of suppliers in China that received procurement bids declined by 9 percent in 2021.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Procurement has never played such an important role in the increasingly globalised economy. Has procurement fundamentally changed itself in the past 10 years? Strategic Procurement can mean totally different things in different industries and sectors. The time when Procurement was almost a synonym to Purchasing has long gone.

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TransAudit

MARCH 25, 2025

The logistics landscape is evolving rapidly as more manufacturers relocate production closer to domestic markets. China trade tensions driving businesses to reconsider offshore manufacturing. States like Texas, Georgia, and the Carolinas are attracting EV battery and semiconductor manufacturers. Midwest U.S. Midwest U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Costco has reintroduced purchase limits. Over 80% of oil output in Gulf of Mexico still offline a week after Ida. The jets have primarily been used to move goods between Amazon warehouses across the country. ” Costco members have been complaining on Twitter about product shortages and purchase limits for several weeks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

HarbisonWalker International Manufactures and Distributes Refractory Products. But refractories are used in a wide variety of industries, particularly manufacturing industries with high temperature or corrosive production processes. The sourcing centers are key to just-in-time, same-day, next-day deliveries.

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Cathy Roberson

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Even today when one reads the numerous articles about the benefits of manufacturing or assembling in Mexico, most of them highlight Mexico's low-cost labor and, of course, its proximity to the US market. But what does it all mean for those shippers and manufacturers that rely on cross-border trade between the two countries?

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

A manufacturer in China doesn’t read the specs on an order. A supplier in Mexico mixes up two similar parts. An ecommerce fulfillment warehouse in the USA sends the wrong packages to customers. Supply chains are messy. Blockchain in Supply Chain Can Help. Download white paper. Maybe Ethereum could provide a long-needed solution.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 12, 2025

Featured Product Popular Stories Ship Traffic Through Red Sea Remains Sparse, Despite Houthi-U.S. Truce Ocean Transportation J.B.

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ThroughPut

APRIL 17, 2025

As companies across North America and Europe reconfigure their supply chains to reduce dependency on overseas operations in the wake of recently announced tariffs, there is a growing need for fully transparent, granular, and holistic visibility into manufacturing and supply chain operations as a whole. ThroughPut.AI

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 13, 2025

Hunt, BNSF and GMXT Launch Intermodal Freight Delivery Service in Mexico Freight Forwarding/Customs Brokerage The Top 8 EDI Myths - Debunked! Gives Permission for Drones to Patrol Railways U.K. Issues Food Alert on Jolly Ranchers Candy More from this author Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter! Featured Product Popular Stories J.B.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 14, 2025

This in the second half of 2024, businesses front-ended added inventory purchases to mitigate higher costs of goods. That has generally driving up safety stock inventory levels and warehousing costs. Of noteworthy significance was the indication that Mexico overtook China as the largest trading partner for the U.S.

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RFgen

APRIL 18, 2025

Tariffs are reshaping sourcing strategies, forcing tech upgrades, and making inventory planning a lot more complicated. Imagine a mid-market fitness equipment company sourcing metal frames from Taiwan. based cosmetics brand sources glass jars from Europe. This would lock up cash and drive-up warehousing costs.

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BlueYonder

MAY 30, 2024

As vehicles become more connected, autonomous, electric, and customizable, automotive manufacturers are increasingly evolving into technology companies. Unlike traditional manufacturers, technology companies operate with greater agility and responsiveness. This necessitates manual rescheduling and expedited procurement of parts.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 11, 2021

The department educates students to succeed in careers such as procurement, manufacturing, inventory management, warehousing, transportation, and customer service. In 1940, the iron skillet was manufactured in Wisconsin from iron ore mined from Michigan and Minnesota. The manufacturing process will be highly automated.

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QAD

JULY 18, 2024

For example, it is common to incentivize procurement organizations to lower a product’s purchase price variance. While this lowers the actual product cost, it may result in increasing transportation, inventory, warehousing and Customs costs. It can affect your purchasing and shipping expenses. The duty is 2%, or $.20

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Cathy Roberson

JUNE 1, 2025

The report will be available free for paid Substack subscribers but I’ll provide a summary and a link to the report in case you’re interested in either purchasing it separately or paying for an anuual subscribtion to my Substack articles. The topic/report will finally be on the logistics M&A through the end of May.

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ToolsGroup

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In France, the new centralized supply chain planning approach encompasses 500 SKUs within 10 product groups, two warehouses, suppliers from Europe and various sales channels such as the company’s online shop, external marketplaces, and external retailers. In 2020, the company achieved a turnover of EUR 405 million (USD 494.7

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 28, 2021

According to the survey, “Organizations have struggled to respond rapidly to disruptions and to restore operations to a steady state (for instance, restoring inventory levels and the availability of manufacturing and logistics capacity), which further highlights the lack of resilience in supply chains today.” ” 2. .”

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2023

To date, most of our content has covered topics related either to logistics or manufacturing outsourcing. Meanwhile, countries in Southeast Asia, such as Vietnam and Cambodia, are enjoying growth as offshore manufacturing centres.

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6 River Systems

JULY 25, 2019

Our supply chain involves a contract manufacturer, a third-party testing facility, warehouses to store inventory and a freighting company. For example, if my contract manufacturer is late with an order it can cause me to incur excess costs with the freighting and warehousing companies, respectively.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 20, 2022

Our annual predictions advisory began with a summary of prevailing global economic, financial and manufacturing outlooks. The effect has been cash and working capital headwinds and growing demands for warehouse space. . Global Supply Chain and Manufacturing Activity. Economic Outlook Significantly Changed. percent of GDP to 6.2

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Resilinc

APRIL 30, 2024

Outlook for hurricane season 2024 This year, hurricane season starts June 1, 2024, and ends November 30, 2024, and will primarily affect the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea. Discover why experts predict robust storms and how to safeguard your supply chain. What sets this year’s hurricane season apart?

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

On Monday, I would speak in Orlando Florida at the Terra Technology event; and on Wednesday, present the keynote at the Logistic Summit & Expo in Mexico City. I am a manufacturing gal by training. Include the supplier’s warehouse and manufacturing locations. This work is important to me. What drives my passion?

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 25, 2022

A growing global warehouse capacity crunch. Increased near-shoring in Mexico and elsewhere as companies seek shorter supply chains. Some sources close to the talks are less than convinced that Russia will adhere to the agreement, which should remain in effect for 120 days. Warehouse Capacity Under Pressure.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 29, 2015

A distributor or manufacturer’s strength is in making product—its focus is procurement and streamlining production, but without the capability to fulfill orders, it is doomed. Warehouse management demand is also strong, accounting for 19 percent of all demand. percent of all 3pl demand.

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Resilinc has mapped almost 800 factories, warehouses, distribution centers etc. Every product used or manufactured today relies in some way on these chemicals and chemical intermediates. Second sources may also be overwhelmed with business and shifting customer priorities.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 8, 2020

It’s not only physical commodities that are in need, it could also be transportation, distribution, or even warehousing related space or activities to move vital supplies and equipment around. These have led to manufacturing, transportation, and other related strikes and protests. Practice responsible and ethical sourcing.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 3, 2021

The survey results highlight the growing importance of sustainability, with 59% of logistics executives (and within that group 71% of those in consumer manufacturing industry) planning to offer flexible delivery windows for online orders to maximize sustainability. Canada, or Mexico. Additional Points of View on Drivers for Investment.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 1, 2023

Walmart will pay more for domestic sources, but will not be burdened with the inventory and purchasing FOB. One reason for this is that the COVID crisis in China is escalating to incredible levels, and that is shutting down a lot of manufacturing hubs. But that doesn’t mean we will stop having shortages of critical materials.

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SCMDOJO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Expertise: Sourcing, Supply Chain Analysis, Logistics & Transportation, Logistics Management Consulting, Freight (Maritime, Land, or Air), Logistics Technology Solutions. They come from a variety of backgrounds. Hire any of them as your supply chain consultant and see the difference! You can Hire Matias or start a conversation from here

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

I’m in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico this morning. The world’s first humanless warehouse is run only by robots and is a model for the future (CNBC). Firm linked to Alibaba opens China’s biggest robot warehouse (CNBC). Kroger set to place warehouse order with partner Ocado (Reuters). Robots and AI in the Warehouse. “A

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