Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 21, 2023
And now for this week’s logistics news: Walmart Adds Truck Powered by Compressed Natural Gas to its Transportation Fleet CMA CGM offers $5.5 The vehicle will make its inaugural trip from Indiana to California, where it will be featured at the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo. CMA CGM is offering 5 billion euros ($5.48
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 21, 2014
I also think that Quintiq’s leadership in concurrent planning to solve new problems is promising, especially in the design of transportation and inventory flows. For example, we discovered that transportation and duties are 5x the expense of labor and overhead. For example, we produce in Vietnam and China. Is it labor?
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Unleashed
MARCH 31, 2021
The life of coffee begins with growers in the likes of Brazil or Vietnam. A lean business looking to build efficiencies would do well to try and improve this metric. A metric to determine how many days it would take to run out of supply if you did not replenish your stock. Transportation costs. E.g. 35 DOI + 31 DOR = 66.
Gravity Supply Chain
MAY 20, 2022
Spire’s granular AIS data about transport vessels is now seamlessly incorporated into the cloud-based software system used by Gravity’s clients. The quantity of goods carried by containers soared from 102 million metric tons in 1980 to about 1.83 billion metric tons as of 2017.
NC State SCRC
APRIL 27, 2016
Will digitization change the way we measure things and monitor metrics? How will real-time intelligence help me any more than what I’m doing today? What impact does digitization (the internet of things, or IoT) have on my organization and my employees?
Requis
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Sourcing is now predominantly overseas: China is one of the big sourcing countries of course, along with India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Vietnam and Thailand. We’ve got to show them that the steps involved in transportation, refurbishment, reusing parts, whatever they may be, are worthwhile. That’s been a massive trend.
Supply Chain View from the Field
FEBRUARY 26, 2015
To give you an idea of what this is doing, the classic retail metrics, “same store sales” and “sales per square foot”, are no longer being reported by Macy’s department stores. For example, one may say machine washable, the other hand wash, one says made in USA, the other Made in Vietnam – for the same product!
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