Logility

JUNE 2, 2020

It’s time we asked the obvious question: does it seem like technology is missing from this story? Where are the modern tools that accommodate high-level merchandise decisions, store-level operational planning and customer-centric merchandise execution? Technology showed up and then ran home when things got tough.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 16, 2013

FedEx Corporation is based in Memphis TN and has $42.7B Domestic Package, International Package, and Supply Chain and Freight. The company has five primary product groups: OD-Domestic, OD-Expedited, OD-People, OD-Global and OD-Technology. in sales (estimated 2012). FedEx Freight has a market share of 14.9%. had $54.1B

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Logility

JULY 27, 2022

These studies have historically required complicated and hypersensitive software, the studies last for multiple months, and they can cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Even sophisticated design tools sometimes rely on a circuity factor to serve as a proxy for road distance. It’s time for a digital, sustainable supply chain.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The VP of Supply Chain and Logistics at our house (aka my wife) has been out of the country this week. So, while I count the days and hours and minutes until she gets back, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) Activates For Latest Major Hurricane Of 2018.

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BlueYonder

JULY 29, 2019

As the competition to satisfy customer demand for ever-faster deliveries has made supply chain automation a necessity, and as new technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and robotics have transformed supply chain best practices, data has become the new supply chain currency.

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Zipline Logistics

APRIL 11, 2023

Cargo Theft Increases in the United States Cities seeing a spike in freight theft include Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, Savannah, Newark, New Jersey, Memphis, and Chicago. According to CNBC, this is a “sign of the economic times” and adding further pressure to already inflated prices. It must be taken to a secured drop yard.

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Stord

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Consequently, the company is focusing its supply chain on moving product to this key market before potential tariffs go into effect and raise prices. Ocado, the British warehouse automation and online grocery company, is dealing with fallout from a recent warehouse fire. This facility had stored Verizon phones and products.

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Meantime, rates and volumes are starting to come back down to normal in the Southeast, but supply chains throughout the rest of the country are still feeling the ripple effects, as evidenced by all the dark red in the Hot States Map below. Columbus to Memphis climbed 37¢ to $2.28/mile. Chicago to Dallas rose 18¢ to $2.45/mile.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

Revenue: $69.217 billion (12 months ending May 31, 2020), $69.693 billion (2019) Headquarters: Memphis, Tennessee, USA CEO: Frederick W. It manages the supply chain for 69% of the Fortune 100 companies. Ryder is an American provider of transportation services and supply chain management products. Revenue: €5.66

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BlueYonder

JULY 29, 2019

As the competition to satisfy customer demand for ever-faster deliveries has made supply chain automation a necessity, and as new technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and robotics have transformed supply chain best practices, data has become the new supply chain currency.

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Freight Plus

MARCH 14, 2019

Lanes from Dallas to Los Angeles, Memphis to Atlanta, and Philly to Boston all gained ground. DERA effectively uses American-made technology to reduce air pollution that harms our lungs and our climate — creating American jobs and a healthier environment," said US Sen. Trucking rates stabilize after 8-week dive.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

To find the answer, Supply Chain Nation talked with Paula Rosenblum, managing director of Retail Systems Research (RSR) as part of our Expert Insights series. From a technology perspective, you have to be smart and allow for weather in your distributed order management system (DOM). Your supply chain has to be built for speed.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

I had the incredible opportunity to fly in a B-17 bomber this past weekend, a replica of the Memphis Belle that survived 25 tours of duty in Europe. What does this have to do with supply chains? I even got to sit in the front position of the bombardier, in the glass bubble at the front, and look down on the ground below.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 3, 2019

We do it throughout entire industries, enabling leaders to smooth-out their Supply Chains, lean-out their Logistics, optimize their Operations, and maximize their Manufacturing throughput, all with their existing teams and often disaggregated data sources.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 20, 2023

races to expand Michigan locks and secure the supply chain S.-bound Sequoia enables the company to put up items for sale on its website faster and be able to more easily predict delivery estimates, said David Guerin, the company’s director of robotic storage technology. Nine of the outages occurred in the last four years.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 1, 2019

So, while I plot my next move, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week. There are several startups, like Starship Technologies , that are working on similar delivery robots. Two weeks, I drove around with both headlights. Until last night. It burned out again. I should have known.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 25, 2025

Fred Smith was the founder of FedEx, Supply Chain Digest Says. Operations began in 1973 with 14 aircraft, and a package hub in Memphis. RIP Fred Smith, one of the most consequential figures in the history of supply chain. He founded a new freight company called “Federal Express,” to denote his national ambitions.

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