Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 18, 2022

Last week I attended Kinaxis Kinexions ’22 in San Diego, CA. This came in the form of unexpected absenteeism at factories, warehouses, and on the road, as well as boats being stuck in ports which created container shortages. This was my first in-person event in over two years, and it did not disappoint.

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Unleashed

MARCH 19, 2024

To relax, I read Adam Gnade : he’s a modern day John Steinbeck out of San Diego and living on a farm in Kansas. His work is poetic, beautiful, harsh, and sometimes crass. Always full of perspective.” ” On the lighter side… Who’s hiring?

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Ware2Go

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It is also much more cost-effective to leverage an outsourced partner than to invest in your own warehouse. With Ware2Go’s warehousing options and scalable network, they were able to place inventory much closer to their customer bases and meet 2-day shipping guarantees.

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DAT Solutions

JUNE 26, 2016

Warehouses and industrial parks continue to grow in and around Greenville and Spartanburg, according to the Wall Street Journal , and more goods are expected to arrive from the Port of Charleston, some 200 miles away. Last week's load-to-truck ratio in Greenville rose to 7.4, well above the national average of 2.7 loads per truck.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 1, 2014

This week, as the east coast of the United States was deluged with rain, I basked in beautiful San Diego sun while attending the Logimed USA event. Yet, the attendees wanted to discuss Lean warehousing. This was WBR’s first event in the United States targeted for the Medical Device Supply Chain Leader.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 8, 2016

Manhattan Associates Empowers Warehouse Managers With New E-Commerce Capabilities. Descartes Showcases Logistics Technology Platform Innovations at Global User and Partner Conference. MercuryGate Launches Global, Omni-modal Freight Procurement Solution. McLeod Software Unveils New Business Process Automation Solutions for Logistics Companies.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 4, 2017

Warehouses have hired tens of thousands of California workers over the last five years to help fuel the fast-rising industry of online retail. The warehouses represent a bright spot for cities that have been saddled by a lack of opportunities for less skilled workers. A typical Amazon warehouse job pays $13 or so an hour.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 4, 2017

Warehouses have hired tens of thousands of California workers over the last five years to help fuel the fast-rising industry of online retail. The warehouses represent a bright spot for cities that have been saddled by a lack of opportunities for less skilled workers. A typical Amazon warehouse job pays $13 or so an hour.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Warehouse demand undeterred by economic turbulence in third quarter. Founded in 2018, Pickle Robot tackled a number of warehouse challenges using industrial robots built on core AI software, computer vision, and advanced sensors. Target pivots to larger stores with new 150K-square-foot format. Rail strike could cost economy billions.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2015

Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Annual Global Conference , September 27-30, San Diego, CA. Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) Conference , May 3-6, Orlando, FL. The Logistics & Supply Chain Forum , May 31 – June 1 in Jacksonville, FL and November 1-3 in Scottsdale, AZ.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 24, 2022

Amazon announces its first fully autonomous mobile warehouse robot. Amazon has announced its “first fully autonomous mobile robot ,” meant to move large carts throughout its warehouses. One, called Cardinal, is a robotic arm that can lift and move packages weighing up to 50 pounds, which Amazon hopes to deploy in warehouses next year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 4, 2021

Amazon is installing “meditation booths” in warehouses. cities, including Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle. While software-as-a-service (SaaS) architecture has grown steadily, other models such as platform-as-a-service (Paas) and warehousing-as-a-service (WaaS) have been popping up.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The company did not cite specific pay rates, but those wages may be as high as they are because UPS in July dodged a strike by boosting pay, under the terms of a five-year Teamsters Union contract covering some 340,000 warehouse workers and package delivery truck drivers. California Gov.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 15, 2018

has long used robots to help humans move merchandise around its warehouses. This is why Amazon is the 800-pound gorilla,” says Joel Sutherland, a supply-chain management professor at the University of San Diego. Amazon.com Inc. Now automation is transforming Amazon’s white-collar workforce, too. . and Target Corp.,

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Ace has 3 distribution warehouses (Tampa, FL; Chicago, IL; and Atlanta, GA.). Current inventory for the Le Fancy t-shirts at the warehouses are 31,000 in Tampa, 10,000 in Chicago, and 15,000 in Atlanta. Ace has a contract with Floyd Transportation to move goods from its distribution warehouses to retailers.

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BlueYonder

JULY 13, 2017

This year, we conducted back-to-back workshops at FOCUS 2017, JDA’s annual conference, and then at the annual GMA conference, which was hosted this year in sunny San Diego. Retailers are connecting to manufacturers, and manufacturers are connecting to suppliers, sharing information on transportation, warehousing, demand and more.

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ShipBob

MAY 21, 2020

I had a customer ask if he could drive to my house in San Diego to get product. Ecommerce brands that offer food and beverage items can store food products in a temperature-controlled warehouse to keep items safe before shipping to customers. .

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West Coast and California Logistics

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Mexico logistics is often fraught with hurdles such as border uncertainties, inadequate warehouse capacity, and security concerns. What has often been less than ideal, however, is the distribution of those finished goods after they leave the plant. logistics facility for distribution.

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BlueYonder

JULY 13, 2017

This year, we conducted back-to-back workshops at FOCUS 2017, JDA’s annual conference, and then at the annual GMA conference, which was hosted this year in sunny San Diego. Retailers are connecting to manufacturers, and manufacturers are connecting to suppliers, sharing information on transportation, warehousing, demand and more.

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West Coast and California Logistics

OCTOBER 25, 2018

In this article, we’ll take a closer look at choosing the right California warehouse space for your company and the impact it has on your port-to-market speed. Looking a bit closer, however, we can see that West Coast distribution isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution.

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EMERGE App

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Each small batch is lovingly made in her San Diego factory before being shipped out to restaurants and supermarkets throughout California. And $1,000 owed to the warehouse for storage costs. Example: Maria’s Mexican Munchies LLP. Maria is a manufacturer and wholesale distributor of fresh Mexican tamales and tortillas.

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ShipBob

APRIL 17, 2020

They have seven warehouses across the country, and their goal is to make sure they are all stocked and have enough product. I had a customer ask if he could drive to my house in San Diego to get product. We had inventory in 4 ShipBob warehouses, and we just added 3 more.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In the early nineties, the user experience was given a theoretical basis by Don Norman, a professor of cognitive psychology at the University of San Diego, who instilled it in Apple’s DNA when he worked for the firm in Cupertino. Until then, users were either experts, engineers or IT specialists.

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