The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 10, 2021

Starting out as a Marketing Intern in Adelaide, Australia for a Fielders Steel Roofing, my international studies lead to an opportunity to work in Singapore in 2005. I packed my (one) bag to start a considerable journey into becoming a Supply Chain Professional from the manufacturing floor up, with Detmold (Detpak) Packaging. .

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2018

Not even B2B is spared from these changing expectations (which is why we at Freightos launched an online freight marketplace ). While freight industry executives likely sighed with relief when an update of Amazon’s logistics.amazon.com page on June 28th turned out to be nothing more than a franchise model for courier delivery services.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 23, 2020

As the fabric suppliers require the longest lead times, ZARA approves designs & initiates manufacturing after it gets feedback from its stores. When Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the United States in 2005, Cisco executives created a business continuity-planning dashboard to mitigate risks. Case Study Resilience: CISCO.

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Freightos

MAY 10, 2015

I threw in a healthy dose of interesting (globalization, shipping trends and the business of logistics), a dash of history (the evolution of longitude), a sprinkle of next generation manufacturing (lean manufacturing) and some great company success stories (FedEx, Walmart. Ever hear of Lean Manufacturing? Got some suggestions?

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2018

While I thaw out a bit, here are the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Tight Trucking Market Has Retailers, Manufacturers Paying Steep Prices (WSJ – sub. Happy New Year, everyone! Amazon shipped over 5 billion items with Prime in 2017 (TechCrunch). 30, a 3½-year high, DAT said.”.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 30, 2015

For our readers, who are in the supply chain and manufacturing space, we want to share information that helps you stay strategic. We will also include a bonus portion of the post to include what is the outlook for the freight marketplace in 2016 and what to consider as you start to plan for better transportation management in 2016. .

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MIT Supply Chain

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In my 2005 book The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage (MIT Press, 2005) I wrote that continuous security, resilience and risk mitigation efforts can be hampered by their own success. I gave the example of Sun Microsystems, which suffered a spate of freight thefts in Europe.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JULY 11, 2017

Recent less than truckload (LTL) rates and capacity levels have been below the historical levels we saw from 2005-2010. Manufacturing is growing too. According to the ISM index , the manufacturing sector shows nine consecutive months of expansion. But that’s about to change—and it’s already started.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 23, 2015

By the 1960s, a clear trend had developed in shifting more time-dependent freight transportation to truck rather than rail. This led to the need for joint consideration of warehousing, material handling, and freight transportation, which emerged under the label of “Physical Distribution.”

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 9, 2015

The phrase “Made in China” embodies cheap labor, the outsourcing of American manufacturing jobs, and China’s transformation into one of the world’s economic superpowers. However, it seems the end of the Made in China manufacturing era may be in sight. shale gas began in 2005. states the BCG report.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 27, 2021

Due to lean inventory strategies, many manufacturers only keep 15-30 days of inventory on hand. By March consumers and manufacturers alike could not obtain critical supply. However, we saw similar supply chain outages associated with the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Japan’s earthquake and Tsunami in 2011.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

By the 1960s, a clear trend had developed in shifting more time-dependent freight transportation to truck rather than rail. This led to the need for joint consideration of warehousing, material handling, and freight transportation, which emerged under the label of “Physical Distribution.”.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 8, 2013

Back in 2008, FedEx set a goal to improve the overall fuel efficiency of the FedEx Express global vehicle fleet 20 percent by 2020, as compared with its 2005 performance. which ultimately ended up at RedPrairie, now part of JDA Software).

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MIT Supply Chain

AUGUST 17, 2021

For example, the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption in Iceland caused a primary loss of freight transportation capacity, but that loss also robbed many companies of supply capacity. Global fallout not the rule Hurricane Katrina in 2005 did not have a high, global impact. In the matrix, this is referred to as a secondary impact.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2021

In April of 2005, just a month after completing my first half marathon (and vowing I would never run a full marathon in my life), I went to the finish line at the Boston Marathon and saw Team Hoyt for the first time. When I saw Team Hoyt cross the finish line in 2005, I turned to my now-wife and said “I want to run next year.”

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“You’ve got to tread carefully if you try to ratchet back ease of returns, so that you don’t drive your customer to your competitor,” said Chuck Johnston, who served as Walmart’s senior director of returns between 2005 and 2012 and is now the chief strategy officer at goTRG, a returns management company.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 27, 2015

How Can USMTO Reports Help Drive Manufacturing Sales and your Bottom Line? The United States Manufacturing Technology Orders (USMTO) data report is compiled monthly by the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT). Who is Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT)? What is the USMTO Data Report?

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Supply Chain Network

JUNE 15, 2011

Further analysis shows that 2010 was about on par with 2005, and still well below the pre-recession years. Manufacturing and business spending were the bright spots during much of 2010, while consumer goods production was almost flat. The report reveals that business logistics costs rose to 8.3 percent of U.S. supply chain since 1988.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In addition to cutting the need for outsourced manufacturing, this move could give the company a leg up on the competition by making it possible to get products in the hands of consumers faster. Additionally, the company’s manufacturing expertise will enable the reduction of production costs.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 19, 2022

David is the Executive Vice President of Roadrunner Freight , a leading less-than-truckload carrier offering high quality and reliable LTL services. Before joining Stifel in 2005, he was an analyst with Legg Mason Capital Markets, worked briefly in the industry at RailWorks Corp., About Roadrunner Freight. About David Ross .

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 23, 2021

David is the Executive Vice President of Roadrunner Freight , a leading less-than-truckload carrier offering high quality and reliable LTL services. Before joining Stifel in 2005, he was an analyst with Legg Mason Capital Markets, worked briefly in the industry at RailWorks Corp., About Roadrunner Freight. About David Ross .

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A recent study revealed that 63% of manufacturers and retailers, and 60% of logistics providers, believe their efforts to create end-to-end visibility are yielding the single greatest return on investment of all their execution strategies today. More Than Ever, Acting Sustainably Makes Good Business Sense. And with good reason.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 25, 2015

For example, one study found that from 1995 to 2005, over 52 percent of startup companies in Silicon Valley had at least one immigrant founder. Welcoming STEM Workers appeared first on Freight Logistics Company | Cerasis. Manufacturing STEM STEM workers' Louis, where he earned an M.A. in Economics and Political Economy.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 2, 2018

2017 was a wild year, as freight transportation faced one disruption after another. Those four factors added up to extraordinary pressure on spot market truck capacity, driving rates up as high as we’ve seen them since at least 2010, when we established the freight rates database that forms the foundation of DAT RateView.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 15, 2015

In 2005, 73% of distributors were family owned. This builds on the trend of developing larger manufacturers who focus more expansion and less specialization. This is a direct relation to the growing construction and stable manufacturing markets. 37% of operations report a Midwest base, and 21% headquarter in the Northeast.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In their 2021 State of Supply Chain Execution Report, as mentioned in part 1, Blue Yonder and Reuters Events found that 63% of retailers and manufacturers have been affected by the availability of labor over the past year. Continued labor shortage and lack of legislation are leading to overworked labor and high turnover. According to the U.S.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Carbon Emissions in Logistics: The Road To Green International Freight. Two major emitting industries, international freight and aviation, had been exempted from COP21 on a technicality. And that situation might have suited some of the industry’s old brigade, who see green freight as a distraction. Well, not completely alone.

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QAD

MARCH 21, 2019

Manufacturing in the U.S. Manufacturing averaged about $1.98 trillion from 2005 to 2018 but reached an all-time high of about $2.13 Supply Chain Infrastructure for Manufacturing. Annual freight traffic equaled about 37.22 About 17 percent of the workforce is involved directly in manufacturing.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 20, 2016

In order for our freight economy to stay healthy, it requires a stable infrastructure, specifically in the transportation sector. That’s equal to half of productivity acceleration in the US Economy between 1999-2005, one of the most prosperous periods in American history. Freight (Private). 3% annually. Unfunded Gap.

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