RFgen

MARCH 19, 2015

The re-routing trend has accelerated in recent months as many ships have lined up along the West Coast waiting for ports to resume operations. Oakland’s container port lost 32 percent of imports year over year , and Seattle and Tacoma’s import volume also declined more than 10 percent last year. Roughly half of all U.S.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 20, 2015

president and CEO of PPI, who is also a Professor of Marketing at Oakland University, Rochester, MI, and a Research Fellow at the Center for Supply Chain Management at Rutgers University. The study is based on a survey of 435 automotive suppliers, and the financial impact was derived using an economic model developed by John W.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 21, 2015

Oakland port terminals plan PierPass-style program (JOC). Stay tuned for an article I wrote for CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly on this trend, which will be published in the coming days. New Target COO’s headache: Too few goods to keep shelves filled (Reuters). Google Express Plans to Shut Down Its Two Delivery Hubs (Re/Code).

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 2, 2020

Although the situation on the ground is changing day by day, some trends can be identified which are likely to continue, or in some cases be exacerbated, for as long as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to take its toll. Measuring the Imbalances*. percent dip in goods from China and a 6.5 percent slump in exports from Europe.

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 30, 2018

This trend repeats every year, as consumer goods from Asia arrive at the ports and begin the eastward journey to regional distribution centers throughout the country. Bucking the trend, volume declined last week on the number-one outbound lane from L.A. The additional pressure gave rates a lift on four of those lanes: L.A.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 13, 2023

Your sourcing logic goes as follows: Minimize number of shipments, then Ship closest to the customer, then Pick location with the highest inventory As a result of this logic, your fulfillment system sourced and fulfilled the order from a store in Oakland, CA – on the other side of the country. The reason? The repercussions are obvious.

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Elementum

AUGUST 25, 2015

The Port of Oakland, on the other hand, posted an increase of 8.7 percent in import volume, part of an upwards trend. To get back on track, the Port of Oakland announced that they are hiring 400 more workers to ensure the speed and efficiency to customers. Put the two together, though, and you’ve got a 5.4

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Beane is the Executive VP of Baseball Operations for the Oakland A’s, but he’s best known for Moneyball, the. That was my favorite quote from Billy Beane’s keynote presentation at the 65th Annual Food Shippers of America Conference earlier this week in Orlando, Florida. Read more Takeaways from 65th Annual Food Shippers of America Conference.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 21, 2015

Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland and Chicago have already moved to raise their wages and there are proposals for minimum wage increases across the country including in New York City, Washington, D.C. Increasing minimum wages in Southern California and across the state are a reality and there’s clearly a national trend. Don’t Wait.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Source: Ports of LA, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle-Tacoma. LA and Long Beach account for the majority of west coast port volumes, approximately 75 percent of the volume (LA, Long Beach, Oakland, and Seattle-Tacoma) in September 2021 – the most recent month on record. Yup, LA and Long Beach are Critical.

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QAD

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The book and movie, Moneyball tells the story of how Billy Beane , the General Manager for the Oakland Athletics, utilized a rogue statistical strategy to get the maximum value out of his minuscule baseball team budget.

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