Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Elenjickal made the point that every year, there are 9 billion hours of wasted time for truck drivers due to planning inefficiencies, especially when it comes to loads not being ready, not being able to be unloaded, or congestion around ports and warehouses. As a result, FourKites has moved from a single product company to a platform company.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 19, 2022

Many businesses in the US, and elsewhere, were sourcing their componentry from China. This is to avoid more costly routes such as the Panama Canal or taking the long haul around the tip of Africa or South America. When China shut down operations in a bid to contain Covid-19, supply chains ran out of material. Shipping challenges.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

We view such an indicator as clear evidence that sourcing for lowest cost manufacturing is again apparent among multi-industry supply networks. For the first time in many months, report authors identified export order demands originating countries as being Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, Indonesia and the United States.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The West Coast only has so much port capacity, and the East Coast and Gulf are separated by the Panama Canal – another potential point of congestion. Source: Ports of LA, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle-Tacoma. Key indicators include the reduction of dwell times on docks, rail, or at warehouse and DCs.

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Elementum

AUGUST 2, 2022

Countries like Panama, trade US dollars domestically.) However, outside the emergence of a newly discovered technology or energy source, an economic boom seems unlikely at this time. Supply chain veterans know: intralogistics, the movement of inventory inside a company’s warehouse, has always been labor-intensive. Cash reserves.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 6, 2023

But shipping industry sources now indicate that negotiations deteriorated last week over the scope of expected dockworker wage increases. Dockworkers, truckers, rail and warehouse workers in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. The Wall Street Journal indicated in May an atmosphere of rising tensions between companies and workers.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

West Coast Dockworkers Ratify New Labor Contract Members of The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) have completed the voting process and have ratified a new six-year labor contract covering 29 U.S. West Coast ports. The organization indicated that 75 percent of members voted for contract ratification.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 15, 2024

7 Chemicals and Fertilizers Chemical fertilizer in a warehouse waiting for shipment, as a result of the Red Sea ship attacks. East Coast ports, even though most cargo from Asia to the East Coast typically travels across the Pacific and through the Panama Canal. Several chemical and fertilizer companies have rerouted shipments.

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Supply Chain Movement

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Sourcing from far-flung countries such as China is leading to growing uncertainty about the actual supply of purchase orders. Integration with warehouse mechanisation and production equipment guarantees that the optimal plan will be executed in practice. Netherlands Antilles. New Caledonia. New Zealand. Norfolk Island. Philippines.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 19, 2024

Walmart in the news: Walmart launches pilot program for customers to recycle reusable shopping bags Walmart Canada says robots are coming to 2 Ontario warehouses, but jobs not at risk Amazon has become the largest private EV charging operator Biden calls for steep hike to tariff on Chinese steel S. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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