The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 30, 2022

Having the right transportation technology can improve everything from route efficiency to supply chain sustainability. You will want to consider your potential transportation technology provider’s track record. Then he made a career change to shipping. The supply chain technology provider’s record.

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 25, 2022

Logistics was first applied and recognised in military operations, its most significant impact is felt through the functions of production, distribution and consumption (Rodrigue and Slack, 2002). The First: The Transportation Era (1950s). The Fourth: Transportation, Deregulation, Physical Distribution and Business Logistics (1980s).

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QAD

MARCH 12, 2020

Although the country is a UN member, and became a member of NATO in 2002, it retains its commitment to neutrality. Transportation and communication are strong in Switzerland, and its central European location makes it ideal for both imports and exports. Switzerland produces grain, fruit, vegetables, meat and dairy products.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 28, 2017

In other words, M&As among 3PLs globally will give smaller, regional shippers access to more resources, including technology and modes of transportation, which is essential to meeting growing demand as traditional sales channels move toward an omnichannel approach. The IT Gap Has Reached a Record-Low.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Background Global wide transportation and logistics costs increased at unprecedented rates during 2021 and 2022. During 2022, as consumers shifted their physical goods buying patterns away from products and into travel and services, global shipping volumes steadily declined and so did spot rates.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 14, 2023

Government regulations like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) put additional strain on companies to maintain stringent data and financial controls, and often include provisions on how data is maintained by outside vendors and service providers. As a result, data governance has become an essential part of the logistics industry.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 20, 2014

Or, will we see a repeat of 2002, when a 10-day lockout left dozens of ships lined up outside the West Coast docks, unable to unload? Still, although nothing is certain at this time, if you ship goods to the West Coast ports, you can consider your options: 1. When the current contract expires on June 30, will they have a deal?

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Supply Chain Collaborator

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The third party logistics (3PL) model, while critical to smaller, low-volume shippers, has never been the best option for organizations shipping moderate-to-high volumes of freight. The first study of shipper satisfaction in 2002 revealed only 27% of shippers was satisfied with the IT capabilities offered by their 3PL provider.

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

percent, the lowest level since at least 2002. Vacancy rates in key transportation hubs and seaport cities were even lower,” according to a report from JOC.com. Less than one in ten DCs handle only full pallets for outbound shipping. Less than 30% of commercial transportation companies leverage advanced digitization.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 26, 2014

Free Shipping For Customers: When “Crazy” Makes Sense. It’s because of one simple tweak to their fulfilment strategy: offering free express shipping through December 31st. It’s because of one simple tweak to their fulfilment strategy: offering free express shipping through December 31st. Here’s why…. The answer is in margins.

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AFFLINK

MARCH 29, 2017

Making your supply chain green requires integrating multifaceted environmental concerns relating to product design, materials sourcing, manufacturing, transportation, and end-of-life product and resource management. Transportation. Implementing green procurement practices can seem overwhelming.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2024

As 2024 begins, two of the world’s most critical ocean transit corridors, the Suez Canal , and the Panama Canal are facing threats of shipping disruption as global geopolitical tensions and terrorist threats escalate. Truck and rail transportation movements across the Mexico and U.S. This level represents a contraction of $1.5

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

Founded in 2002 with over 100 consultants and based in Boulder, Colorado , Spinnaker SCA designs and builds agile supply chains for leading brands across Consumer Staples, High Tech, Industrial Manufacturing, Retail & Apparel, Medical Devices, and Distribution Industries.

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Abivin

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Global Maritime Routes and Chokepoints Maritime routes are a few kilometers wide corridors that connect economic regions and cross land transportation gaps. Passages, capes, and straits are defined as geographical areas through which international shipping routes must transit. They form a continuum.

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MIT Supply Chain

MARCH 5, 2015

But the implications of this standoff between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association go beyond idle ships and stranded freight containers. First, over the next several years, new shipping options will become available to US companies.

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Freight Plus

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

New England Motor Freight, a 40-year staple of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, stunned the shipping world Monday by filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy liquidation. went out of business in the fall of 2002, according to FreightWaves. With about $400 million in annual revenue, NEMF and its companies will represent the. largest U.S.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Dr. Yossi Sheffi is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he serves as Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL). Professor Yossi Sheffi was on a sabbatical in the UK in 2002, when the world was still reeling from the 9/11 attacks. Looking to the Holidays.

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Requis

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Dave’s career started in the 1970s with putting his PhD in Econometrics to work predicting freight volumes across shipping modes. By the early 1990s, the number of freight carriers and 3PLs expanded as companies realized that they could go beyond their own walls and use outside suppliers for transportation and warehousing.

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Requis

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Dave’s career started in the 1970s with putting his PhD in Econometrics to work predicting freight volumes across shipping modes. By the early 1990s, the number of freight carriers and 3PLs expanded as companies realized that they could go beyond their own walls and use outside suppliers for transportation and warehousing.

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The Network Effect

APRIL 29, 2016

The MV Tricolor is perhaps the unluckiest cargo ship in recent memory. About 20 miles north of the French coast near Dunkirk, on a foggy night on December 14 2002, The Tricolor was cruising westward on its way to Southampton England from Zeebrugge Belgium. The post How Do You Saw a Ship in Half… Underwater?

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Techgistics

JUNE 4, 2017

Amazon has had such a major impact on eCommerce, that I thought it would make sense to look back on some of their innovations that are directly or indirectly impacting logistics: Super Saver Shipping Super Saver Shipping was introduced in 2002 offering free shipping for orders over $25.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Your ability to track stock levels, keeps tabs on shipping dates and monitor costs are essential to any smooth running manufacturing plant. Although it was published in 2002, the case study highlighted the data collection struggles of a particular manufacturing company that probably rings true for many SMEs and large corporations alike.

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6 River Systems

JULY 29, 2020

A behemoth in the logistics industry, UPS has operations in shipping, air freight, trucking, last-mile delivery and drone delivery. Deutsche Post started acquiring shares of the company in 1998 and completed its acquisition of DHL by 2002, expanding the brand ‘DHL’ to its other services. Nippon Express owns more than 31.7

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 4, 2016

This may include research and development, product manufacturing, product packaging, and shipping processes. Since one of the key benefits of reshoring and nearshoring focuses on lower shipping costs and increased quality, those companies who keep chasing the lower labor cost will hurt. In contrast, there were 47 recall notices of U.S.-made

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 15, 2014

As the WSJ article reports, “In one example of that surge in demand, a container terminal operator at Port Metro Vancouver in August told its customers it didn’t have enough railcars to ship Asian goods to the U.S. Midwest and suspended service for a week.”. The bottom line: History keeps repeating itself at the U.S. West Coast ports.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2021

While New Coke would linger for quite some time, it was discontinued in 2002, with a limited re-release in 2019. Supply chain disruptions such as the US – China trade war, increased demand during the pandemic, and most recently, the Suez Canal lockage, has caused an international shortage of shipping containers.

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QAD

APRIL 11, 2019

Both transportation and communication infrastructures are strong in Brazil. As you would expect of a country whose coastline stretches for more than 7,000 km, Brazil excels at ocean shipping, but most inland waterways are remote from populated and industrialized areas. Supply Chain Infrastructure for Manufacturing.

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Tompkins Blog

JULY 14, 2014

Shippers still bear the scars from the disastrous 2002 work stoppage and have countermeasures in-place to avoid major disruption. Article: Inland Port Development: What is the Impact on Shipping Patterns, and How Can 3PLs Take Advantage? Blog Post Asia Global Ports Shipping Transportation' More Resources.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The strike will reportedly not impact passenger cruise ship vessels at various U.S. Increased Costs Container shipping lines have already indicated their intent to impose increased surcharges related to this magnitude of disruption. The last full strike by the union was in 1977, before the era of globalization when the U.S.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

From early trade to battling America’s enemies during World War II, maritime transportation has played a crucial role. Today, no other mode of transportation can carry the tonnage between the U.S. and its trading partners that ships can carry. million during the period 2002 through 2017. ports doubled from 17.9

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Freight Center

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

trucking company shutdown since Consolidated Freightways in 2002. The NEMF bankruptcy rocked the freight-shipping industry, but it turned out to be just the first (and largest so far) in a rash of carrier bankruptcies in 2019. We want to be your shipping partner and our staff of in-house shipping experts are ready to help.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 3, 2017

Those same words were also said when the ports were shut down for 10 days in 2002 , and again in December 2012 when 600 clerks went on strike , shutting down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for 8 days. “We cannot let this happen again,” is what the American Apparel & Footwear Association said in 2015. Guess what?

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