Supply Chain Nation

JUNE 29, 2018

Hundreds of industry leaders gathered in the Emerald City of Seattle for Future Stores 2018. And in line with the event’s theme, “Retail. Reimagined.” – a topic where JDA has plenty of expertise – the attendees we heard from are eager to create engaging customer experiences that are differentiated from the competition. The challenge, as always, is moving from idea to execution – and those are the areas where we heard retailers’ voices the loudest. Make Retail More Experiential.

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Seattle Retail Internet of things Survey 46

FLEXE

OCTOBER 18, 2018

At this year’s Seattle Startup Week, our CEO and co-founder, Karl Siebrecht, was joined on a panel with BevyUp’s co-founder and CEO, Mauricio Cuevas, and FitCode’s co-founder and CEO, Rian Buckley.

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FLEXE

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Last week, we attended Seattle Startup Week in Pioneer Square. You can’t ship from Florida to Seattle and get it there fast and cheap. Best practice Blog e-commerce eCommerce Retail Retail Supply chain Video customer satisfaction eCommerce Fulfillment Seattle Startup Week

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 10, 2018

No Clear Answers after Author Makes Allegations, as Seattle Times Reporter Also Takes a Look

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Seattle Report Supply Chain 32

Supply Chains Rock

JUNE 23, 2008

While it contains a love story as well, " Outsourced ", is about a Seattle-based US company that sends its customer fulfillment center to India leaving the manager of the center to go to India to train his replacements. Who said supply chains are boring?

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Seattle SCM India Examples 130

Supply Chain Digest

JULY 25, 2016

Seattle Based Flexe Raises 14 Million Dollars to Build Out Its Warehouse Space Marketplace

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Seattle Supply Chain Warehousing 39

The 21st Century Supply Chain

JANUARY 14, 2015

We are down to the final four teams: Seattle Seahawks, New England Patriots, Indianapolis Colts and the Green Bay Packers. Seattle Seahawks. Seattle Seahawks. Seattle Seahawks. Seattle Seahawks. Seattle Seahawks. Seattle Seahawks. Seattle Seahawks.

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Metrics Dallas Detroit Indianapolis 265

DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Seattle to Salt Lake City lost 18¢ at $2.18, with fewer imports hitting the Seattle port. Once again, the supply chains were dealt a major disruption last week from Mother Nature.

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Oklahoma City Florida Jacksonville Oklahoma 140

DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 10, 2017

For van freight, we’re starting to see hot markets shift westward, with big rate increases out of Seattle, Los Angeles, Denver and Stockton, CA. Outbound van rates have soared more than 40% in Seattle in the past month. Stockton to Seattle added 33¢ to $2.79.

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Seattle Columbus Portland Los Angeles 91

Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 28, 2014

There was an incident where Alaska Airlines (flight 261) flying from Mexico to Seattle airport plunged into the Pacific Ocean. About Us. Contact Us. Newsroom Investors Careers. Infosys Labs. Industries. Industries. Aerospace and Defense. Airlines. Automotive. Communication Services. Consumer Packaged Goods. Education. Energy. Financial Services. Healthcare. High-Tech. Hospitality and Leisure. Industrial Manufacturing. Insurance. Logistics and Distribution. Media and Entertainment.

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Asset Management SCM Biotech Procurement 21

Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 29, 2017

A Week of Supply Chain Cyber Attacks, New Study Seattle Minimum Wage Hike Reducing Total Worker Pay, Fracking Driving Petrochemical Factory Boom in US, Tax on Freigth Bills to Fund Infrastructure

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Seattle Study Supply Chain 41

DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 4, 2017

One exception was out West: Rates on the lane from Seattle to Salt Lake City gained 36¢ at $2.25/mile. For carriers, van loads coming out of Seattle often pay backhaul rates, but rates have been on the rise on a few lanes in recent weeks.

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Seattle Columbus Charlotte Chicago 91

Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 30, 2015

What has prompted us to this candid conclusion was last week’s published Seattle Times article, Low Wages for Aerospace Workers Despite Tax Breaks for Employers. After analysis of Washington state data, the Seattle Times reports: “In 2013, outside of Boeing, a third of production workers at local aerospace parts manufacturers- companies that get tax breaks intended to preserve good jobs in the state- earned between $10 and $15 per hour.”

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Aerospace Seattle Washington Report 146

DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Rates are rising from Seattle to California, but otherwise the picture is weak for pricing. Traditional backhaul markets like Denver and Seattle held up, and Los Angeles continued to see price increases over the past month.

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Oklahoma City Denver Los Angeles Oklahoma 91

Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 11, 2016

The Seattle Times has shed additional light on Amazon’s plans to compete directly with global parcel and logistics carriers. In its article published yesterday, the publication indicates that within a few weeks, Amazon.com will begin competing directly with longtime partners United Parcel Service, FedEx and DHL in Europe, with pieces falling into place to make […].

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Seattle Europe Strategy Global 106

Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 18, 2015

The Seattle Times reported that Amazon.com is negotiating to lease 20 Boeing 767 air cargo jets for its own air-delivery service, citing cargo industry executives. The report cites an equity analyst as indicating that the highly influential online retailer is fed-up with third-party carriers being a bottleneck to growth. According to the report, a […].

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Seattle Cargo Report Industrial 100

Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 18, 2018

And in July 2018, Seattle imposed the first U.S. Seattle-based Starbucks, recognizing the mood of its customers, announced (shortly before the Seattle ban became public) that they will eliminate all plastic straws by 2020.

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San Francisco Seattle New York City Portland 91

Supply Chain Insights

APRIL 8, 2015

I made a list and wrote Seattle, San Francisco, and Austin. There’s an old song lyric “ wherever I lay my hat that’s my home” (…attribution to Marvin Gaye). Aside from a short stint living in Europe, I’ve always lived in Boston, MA. First it was because my friends and family all lived here.

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Florida Austin Boston San Francisco 198

Talking Logistics

AUGUST 5, 2016

First branded ‘Prime Air’ jet in Amazon’s fleet to fly at Seafair (Seattle Times). I celebrated my 46th birthday this week, and commemorated the 8 year anniversary of my father’s passing, by going to the beach.

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Seattle Ohio Logistics Washington 139

The Network Effect

AUGUST 5, 2016

Amazon unveiled its first branded cargo plane today, and will showcase its fleet of 20 branded 767-300 planes in Seattle WA on Friday.

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Seattle Capacity Meeting Cargo 141

Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

If you’re looking at alternative ocean ports, such as Seattle, make sure you understand what carriers visit that port, and maybe take it a step further and file your rates for Seattle with the FMC [Federal Maritime Commission] so that if you need to make a shift very quickly, you’re not going to lose time taking extra steps that could have been done ahead of time.

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Poland Seattle New York City Washington 119

Cerasis

APRIL 6, 2018

According to Angel Gonzalez of the Seattle Times , systems alignment is essential to leveraging gross and fine movements from robotics to human workers. Spurred by the record-breaking growth of e-commerce and rising labor costs, robots can have a very positive impact in distribution centers when implemented correctly. E-commerce defines the state of global supply chains today.

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Distribution Seattle New York Case Study 193

Supply Chain 24/7

JANUARY 22, 2018

The much-anticipated Amazon Go check-out free grocery store will open its doors to the public today, having weathered challenges that delayed its launch by almost a year the enhanced AI-driven technology appears ready for the Seattle masses

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Seattle 59

Supply Chain 24/7

APRIL 18, 2017

The Seattle e-commerce juggernaut just won a patent for “on-demand apparel manufacturing,” in which machines only start snipping and stitching once an order has been placed, Amazon could wade deeper into developing its own apparel

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Seattle Apparel Manufacturing Warehousing 72

Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Europe investigates Amazon’s use of merchant data that could give it anti-competitive edge (Seattle Times). Another Friday, another flight home from a conference.

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Logistics Singapore Oklahoma Seattle 148

Freightos

JULY 26, 2018

About half of these jobs are in the US, and half of them based out of their Seattle headquarters. In his 2017 annual shareholder letter , Bezos lauded “divinely discontent” customers as innovation drivers.

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DAT Solutions

AUGUST 28, 2018

In the past month, Buffalo and Seattle have been gaining strength, too. Seattle to Spokane added 15¢ to $3.67/mile. Seattle to Eugene pulled back 14¢, to $2.96/mile.

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Seattle Denver Columbus Ohio 91

Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

The situation has further spread to other ports including Seattle and Tacoma, with a report indicating that truck queues at Tacoma stretching several miles long. Supply Chain Matters provides a further update for our global supply chain community of readers regarding the building crisis of congestion that now surrounds U.S. west coast ports.

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Seattle Consumer Goods Report Manufacturing 143

Quintiq

JULY 16, 2015

alone, the latest being Seattle-based Elysian in February. Craft beer’s popularity is certainly no novelty: European artisans have been concocting their characteristic brew for centuries, while today’s microbrewing community has been gaining strong momentum since the 1970s.

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Supply Chain Seattle Beverage Demand Planning 244

Cerasis

JANUARY 26, 2017

Now, consumers can return products to Amazon stores, and recently, Amazon launched a no-employee grocery store, Amazon Go , in Seattle. How technology in logistics grew throughout 2016 is not limited to the technology that delivers products or enables better, faster picking processes.

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Omnichannel Logistics Supply Chain Seattle 266

DAT Solutions

JUNE 6, 2017

Higher prices out of Memphis and Columbus tell us that retail traffic is moving, and higher rates out of Dallas and Seattle show us that the improvement is far-reaching. Seattle to Spokane was up 20¢ to $2.70/mile.

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Sacramento Oklahoma City Cleveland Columbus 145

Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Seattle. Seattle. Content Summary: Seattle ranks number 1 among the seven metro areas in supply chain management and technology occupational employment share. A look at the supply chain readiness of several major U.S. cities, and their adoption of smart-city technologies.

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San Francisco Los Angeles New York City Atlanta 89

Talking Logistics

MARCH 19, 2015

Starbucks to debut delivery in Manhattan, Seattle this year (Reuters). As you read this, I’ll be flying back home from Mexico City where I presented at the Logistic Summit & Expo 2015 , arguably the largest supply chain and logistics event in Mexico.

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Baltimore Video Mexico Miami 198

DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Other West Coast markets with rising rates include Seattle and Stockton. Spot market activity often ramps up in the West during the fall season, but there's added pressure this month.

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California Los Angeles Oakland Long Beach 138

Talking Logistics

JANUARY 15, 2016

So let’s go straight to the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Amazon poised to take on UPS, FedEx in delivery business (Seattle Times). I didn’t win the $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot. And if you’re reading this, neither did you.

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Logistics Seattle System Washington 148