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Top Suppliers of Transportation Execution and Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

The supply ecosystem connects over 630,000 manufacturers and suppliers. Headquartered in Oakland, California, Infor Nexus , reportedly, is the developer and operator of the largest cloud supply chain platform of its kind, with over $100 billion in goods managed annually and over 25,000 active trading organizations across all major industries.

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Peet’s Coffee and the Roasted Bean Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

In DSD, instead of shipping truckload quantities of goods directly to a retailer’s regional distribution center every few weeks, a manufacturer has their own account representatives that sell to and service individual stores. Those reps go into stores and stock the store shelves.

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Warehousing News Roundup: March 4, 2019

Stord

Boeing does not expect Brexit to affect its manufacturing activity, since most materials it transports out of Britain go to the United States (rather than somewhere else in Europe). Ships are increasingly using electrical power at the Port of Oakland and reducing diesel emissions.

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Warehousing News Roundup: April 1, 2019

Stord

This Express Lane initiative – the company’s name for new tools and solutions – has placed materials closer to factories, reduced manufacturing delays, and predicted customer demand more accurately. A terminal operator at the Port of Oakland is implementing hybrid yard cranes to improve air quality, per a recent press release.

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Who said supply chains are boring?: Container Shipping's Post-9/11.

Supply Chains Rock

MarketWatchs Alexander Davis reports from Oakland, Calif. Manufacturing Central. and its trading partners around the world overhauled their screening and surveillance to safeguard containers without throwing off the sensitive supply-chain of the world economy. Christopher Sciacca. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post.

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Seeing Supply Chain Visibility through Different Lenses

Bristlecone

Ensuring my order would be included in the earliest shipment that the distributor was planning to make from Seattle to the Oakland warehouse. In a pre-COVID situation, the same distributors were keen to understand manufacturing status, expected shipment dates and short-order shipments so they could communicate ETAs to their customers.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

In 3PL news, XPO Logistics announced that it has acquired Optima Service Solutions, LLC, “a leading non-asset provider of last-mile logistics services for major retailers and manufacturers in the United States” for $26.6 We plan to leverage these synergies, and integrate Optima’s proprietary software with our last-mile technology.