The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 20, 2014

It has also partnered with Sunline Express for extended service in New York City. The company tries to minimize package damage by facilitating more direct routes for package delivery. The company also offers a loyalty program called Package Points.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 5, 2018

Shyp is a startup that “picks up, packages, and ships anything at the best price, through major international carriers like USPS, UPS and FedEx, for business and everyday use.”. We charge a $5 pickup fee, and that includes the packaging and coming to your home. Shyp and Uber: Pulling the Plug on Disruption. It doesn’t.”.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 14, 2022

Nancy is the Founder and CEO of MetroSpeedy , a fast-growing, last-mile delivery company based in New York City. Nancy Korayim is the Founder and CEO of MetroSpeedy, a fast-growing, last-mile delivery company based in New York City. The MetroSpeedy Story with Nancy Korayim. About Nancy Korayim.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 14, 2020

” The Parcel Pending staff adds, “Getting a package to a distribution center costs far less than getting that same item from a distribution center to a residential address. Package stealing has become a big problem. In New York City alone, 90,000 packages a day go missing.[4] ” Security.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As a quick recap, a crowd of nearly 37,000 people flocked to the Javits Center in New York City to see what new solutions and innovations software suppliers had in store for 2023 and beyond. Happy Returns was also the pioneer behind package-free returns. Last month I wrote about my return to the NRF Big Show.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 16, 2014

It previously served the San Francisco Bay Area and parts of New York City and Los Angeles. Its new service, called Pass my Parcel, will utilise the group’s considerable overnight distribution network. Staples Inc. and Walgreen Co. . Google said it is expanding the service to Washington, D.C., and Sports Authority Inc.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 7, 2022

Some cities, like New York City (NYC), have both tight enforcement – many citations – and higher fines. The fines in New York, for example, average $70. If a city feels a company is not paying their tickets in a timely manner, they will boot or tow the vehicle. In Miami it is closer to $40.

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Logility

DECEMBER 6, 2013

While the pilot program will only be in New York City and Los Angeles this year, this news highlights how companies are looking to push the limits of the supply chain. The two cities make sense—no one in either of these cities sleeps or takes days off. We work around the constraints.

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FLEXE

OCTOBER 6, 2017

And come home to a package waiting for you on the front doorstep. Even if you get a notification that the package has been delivered, it’s a great feeling—mini gifts and tidbits we send ourselves throughout the year (even when it’s toilet paper). Packages could travel farther distances because there was time.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 1, 2018

There is often no place to deliver packages at large apartment complexes and office buildings. ‘Porch pirates’ now follow delivery trucks to steal packages from porches after delivery. ”[5] The service is not cheap; costing nearly $250; but, it allows consumers to remotely control and monitor package deliveries.

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Elementum

JULY 21, 2015

There’s also the opportunity to use drones to ship packages faster, as distributors like Amazon hope to do. The biggest obstacle to our drone filled reality, though, is a good few years of regulatory preparation—don’t expect to see drones buzzing around New York City delivering lunch anytime soon.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2015

Managing bid packages, for instance, can be time consuming and complex. When conducting a bid package, carriers may suggest alternate options that could create efficiencies for both parties. As a strategic process, transportation procurement may still seem very tedious and challenging. Allow carriers some flexibility in bidding.

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AFFLINK

MAY 17, 2018

It's also important to point out that this data was obtained from a broad sampling of industries that included those in food, chemical, automotive, retail, OEM, packaged goods for consumers and more. The total annual freight volume per organization ranges anywhere from $1 million to $1 billion.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Since city fathers generally don’t have the luxury of planning from the ground up, they must deal with things as they have evolved.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 29, 2016

Coincidently, Pitney Bowes made a significant and related announcement this week at a press event in New York City. This often leads to pockets of manual work or gaps in automation, which creates labor-intensive clerical tasks, error-prone data entry and compromised customer service.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 31, 2014

It was a great costume, and we looked great — except we were living in Arizona at the time and nobody outside of New York City (the only place the Blue Man Group was performing at the time) had heard of them, so every time we showed up at a party that night, people would yell out, “Hey, look, Smurfs !”

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It’s everywhere – from food choices, to vacation packages, iPhone protection offers and more. An NBA store in New York City recently saw an increase of 370% in sales from shoppers engaged with a store associate during their shopping journey. Personalization is more than car colors and added features.

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Cathy Roberson

JUNE 1, 2021

Parcel is a last-mile delivery startup specializing in delivering perishable items and general merchandise to customers in New York City. As part of its upcoming increase in peak surcharges on June 21, a $30 per package fee will apply for oversize items. FedEx is certainly not alone in applying surcharges to large items.

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ivalua

JUNE 11, 2019

I’m talking about the organizations responsible for Procurement at the City, County or State level. I live in New York City with my family and have been here for a decade (apparently it takes 8 years to officially call yourself a New Yorker, not sure where I heard that).

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The panel examined two real-world case studies: The Los Angeles Department of Water (LADWP) and New York City. . The LADWP turned to Ivalua, who, in just one week , developed a digital bidding solution that streamlined the supplier account request process and enabled suppliers to upload secure, sealed bid packages remotely.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It’s everywhere – from food choices, to vacation packages, iPhone protection offers and more. An NBA store in New York City recently saw an increase of 370% in sales from shoppers engaged with a store associate during their shopping journey. Personalization is more than car colors and added features.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2022

Cold Chain Technologies committed to saving 50 million pounds of waste from going to landfills through reusable thermal packaging solutions. The BrightDrop Zevo 600, formerly known as the BrightDrop EV600, completed the nearly 260-mile trip from New York City to Washington, DC.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 5, 2016

At NRF Retail’s BIG Show in New York City on January 17-19, 2016, JDA will be offering test drives of another totally different and exciting technology designed to please retail’s new boss—the consumer. Have you ever thought it would be exciting to test drive a Ferrari or some other exotic car?

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

cities have launched Smart City Logistics innovations and protocols, following the lead of Europe and Asia. ? In markets with high land values, such as New York City, Seattle and the San Francisco Bay Area, multistory distribution centers are emerging. Several major U.S. Click here to read the full story.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

Last week I attended the annual National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show in New York City. This year, nearly 40,000 attendees comprising 6,200 brands from all over the world headed to the Javits Center to see what new solutions and innovations software and hardware suppliers had in store for 2024 and beyond.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

I was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. Today, the bottom-line value of using less water, less incoming materials, reduced packaging, less electricity, and producing less waste has clear bottom-line benefits. All of my grandparents emigrated from Europe in the 1900s before starting their families here.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

One of the reasons she was able to afford to pay so much is because her employer provided a generous relocation package to help with her move. One day, she wants to own a dog as well as live in New York City. This added up to over £34,000 (almost $44,000). Future goals. While Change is still settling into life in the U.K.,

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Amazon will oversee pickup of packages from warehouses of third-party merchants selling goods on Amazon.com and their delivery to customers’ homes, the people said — work that is now often handled by UPS and FedEx. Amazon declined to comment. Walmart has done pilots tests in the past with Uber, Lyft, and Deliv for grocery delivery.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Now replace “Uber taxi” by “generic service”, such as item packaging, pickup and delivery, errands, pizza, doctor house calls, and private jets, but keep all of the characteristics above. The company has launched Uber Cargo in Hong Kong using cargo vans and Uber Rush in New York City using bike messengers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2022

Store employees will fill customer orders, then use a tablet to summon the drone, and step outside to clip the package to the drone’s tether. Wing said that it will stage its drones at retail partners stores so they can deploy their own dedicated fleet from their parking lot, roof, or nearby spaces.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 17, 2022

However, the company announced earlier this week that Amazon Prime customers in Lockeford, CA, will start receiving package deliveries by drone later this year. UPS said a trial run is focused on New York City and in several cities in Europe.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 4, 2021

”[3] Back in 2019, Jasper Dekker ( @dekkerjasper ), an Associate Design Director at Smart Design, reported, “In New York City, 1.5 As the New York Times points out, the George Washington Bridge, the main thoroughfare for delivery trucks, has become the most congested route in the country.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 9, 2015

Next week is the National Retail Federation’s Big Show in New York City and you can bet that even the hot dog vendors outside the venue will have “omnichannel” posted on their carts. With PMA and ILWU turning to federal mediation, eventual outcome is far from certain (Logistics Management).

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Tailwind

JUNE 21, 2017

I don’t think I am quite up to a project like that one guy in New York City who has decided to conduct a rather innovative and whimsical ‘art project’. Today I am thinking about all the summer projects I could do – the magnificent gains that I could make in our business, around the house.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 20, 2022

Felix Rohatyn, the banker who rescued New York City from bankruptcy, wrote ‘Bold Endeavors,’ a book that shows how, over 150 years, federal investments created the American economic system — from the Erie Canal to the first transcontinental railroad to rural electrification to the interstate highways.”[2].

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 22, 2016

Customers receive a personal code to open a specific locker after a package has been dropped off. Is this the beginning of a quixotic quest or the birth of a new transportation mode ? Among the new solutions unveiled at the Big Show was JDA’s Retail.me Assortment solution.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 7, 2020

That’s like dumping one New York City garbage truck full of plastic into the ocean every minute of every day for an entire year!” How Eco-Friendly Packaging is Impacting Sustainability! “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch covers an estimated surface area of 1.6 Save our oceans and save our planet!

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