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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. Linkedin Comment Donald Cavin Data Warehousing Consultant at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute. The list goes on and on.

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Supply Chain Basics with Jason Miller

The Logistics of Logistics

Jason Miller (PhD The Ohio State University) is a tenured Associate Professor of Logistics and the John D. The department educates students to succeed in careers such as procurement, manufacturing, inventory management, warehousing, transportation, and customer service. Transportation. Warehousing. and Dortha J.

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Blockchain is Coming to Transportation – Here’s How

Talking Logistics

The transportation industry has long discussed blockchain with a healthy dose of skepticism or has taken a wait-and-see approach to its adoption. A modern, multi-modal Tier 1 TMS can now take data from all sources, cleanse it and use it. Small but mighty. There are more than 500,000 TL carriers in the U.S. with eight trucks or less.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 3-7, 2017)

Talking Logistics

LLamasoft Offers Customers Access to FLEXE Marketplace for On-Demand Warehousing Services. Fuel-Cell Maker to Help Amazon Improve Warehouse Efficiency (WSJ – sub. Meanwhile, Cleveland.com reports that Peloton will roll out platooning on the Ohio Turnpike this year.

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Plan your Supply Chain with Uncertainty

Adexa

Assumptions are made about supplier delivery lead-times, resource availability or transportation times that may have been valid years ago. For example, if a supplier delivery is needed from Ohio, the plan may allow a little more extra time in winter than other times of the year based on the likelihood of snowstorms.

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Understanding the Need for Supply Chain Visibility in Industry 4.0

Bristlecone

Here’s a scenario: You, the Chief Supply Chain Officer, just received a call from your flagship store in Ohio saying they are running short of inventory. If your company had supply chain visibility, you would be able to track and trace your shipment from the source of production to each of its destinations. Sound like a utopian dream?

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. 28% of global retailers have tried to find alternative sourcing options due to supply chain issues (RetailNext, 2020). Source: Consultancy.UK. Image source: Fortune. Intel is investing over $20 billion to build two new chip factories in Ohio. McKinsey ).