Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

As the supply chain becomes increasingly digital and collaborative , new partnerships may be formed by retailers, distributors and manufacturers to collectively source services and capitalize on economies of scale. Terence holds an MBA from the University of Texas, Austin and an Electrical Engineering degree at MIT.

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Supply Chain Insights

APRIL 8, 2015

I made a list and wrote Seattle, San Francisco, and Austin. This is more than just birds of a feather flocking together in a few places on the planet (Silicon Valley, Boston’s Route 128, The Triangle in North Carolina, Austin, Seattle, Bangalore, Dublin and Sweden to name a few) and having an impact. Then I thought, dang!

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QAD

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Strained energy infrastructure and the transition to renewable energy: Stationary storage plays a critical role in stabilizing the grid and aligning demand and supply with intermittent renewable sources such as wind and solar. annual graphite requirements are sourced in China. The credit is contingent on the source of materials.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 24, 2015

According to multiple sources, Google is trying to curb these by outsourcing its delivery to other on-demand startups and has held initial talks with multiple companies, including Postmates and Flywheel. Source: Adelante SCM. Source: Adelante SCM. Source: Adelante SCM. What is Delivery Demand Shaping?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 18, 2021

Strategic product segmentation, sourcing and inventory management. This creates accurate real-time forecasts, senses disruptions at earliest stage, makes intelligent materials and logistics sourcing decisions, optimizes supply chain execution and minimizes delivery time and costs. Effective pricing and promotions management.

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Arena Solutions

OCTOBER 11, 2022

We call it the single source of truth. And when you go to the single source of truth, you get the recipe—the BOM and associated product information. Second, providing a central single source of truth for all your information. Inside Arena: Get to Know High-Tech Customer Success Coach Lori Austin. Read our other.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 21, 2022

The Texas based Austin American Statesman reported yesterday that Samsung is considering the construction of upwards of 11 new semiconductor fabrication production facilities in the Austin, Texas area over the next two decades. Supply Chain Matters Perspectives. Increased tensions among China and the U.S., has to do so as well.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 30, 2022

”[5] Austin Becker, a maritime infrastructure resilience scholar at the University of Rhode Island, told Leslie, the pandemic is “a temporary problem,” while climate change is “long-term dire” problem. . ” • Think beyond your own sites. ” • Build the business case for proactive mitigation. ” Concluding Thoughts. .

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Talking Logistics

JULY 1, 2016

Here are more details from the article: [DB Schenker] said it’s paying “tens of millions of dollars” for exclusive rights in Europe to a digital freight-booking platform developed by Austin-based uShip. According to the press release: Since 2014, project44 has maintained critical mass in the $37B Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) sector with 99.9%

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 12, 2022

Based in Austin, Texas , she provides over 20 years of technology marketing experience, focused primarily on helping customers efficiently design, build, and service innovative products for the right markets at the right time.

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Elementum

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Since 1980 the company has grown from 19 employees in its small Austin location to almost 500 sites across North America and the UK. Under Amazon, Whole Foods is moving from a regional to a national sourcing strategy to save on costs and streamline its supply chain.

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Freightos

JULY 23, 2015

So I spoke to everyone I knew in the field and looked through some other sources (Crunchbase, Jonathan Wichmann’s great list of logistics startups site, CB Insights and more) to come up with the ULTIMATE LIST of disruptive logistics startups. The email subject? “Is Is disruption ahead for the future of logistics?”. bellhopnation.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 11, 2022

Grand Opening of New Austin Texas Assembly Facility. Last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk delivered the first vehicle produced at the EV maker’s new final assembly facility located just outside Austin, Texas. The opening of the Austin facility follows the grand opening of the Tesla Berlin, Germany facility that occurred in late March.

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o9 Solutions

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

o9’s Co-Founder and CEO Chakri Gottemukkala will be joined onstage in Austin by Dr. Josué C. Yet, large supply chains continue to be the source of the majority of the environmental and social impact globally,” said Gottemukkala. The panel will be moderated by Stanton Thomas, o9’s Senior Vice President of Sustainability. “The

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Parade

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Today we’re shining our spotlight light on aifleet, a tech-savvy trucking company and Parade capacity partner based in Austin, Texas. That certainly means addressing the most recognized sources of inefficiencies like DHD and empty miles, but also eliminating sneakier inefficiencies like scheduling issues.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Citing sources familiar with plans, The Wall Street Journal report ( Paid subscription or metered view ) indicates that the semiconductor producer plans to announce in the coming months the building of a second cutting-edge plant north of Phoenix, Arizona , a presence that the chip maker originally committed to in 2020. In June, U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 21, 2022

Our sources across supply chain technology software providers have reinforced that it is increasingly becoming very challenging to schedule software and Cloud IT infrastructure resources among a growing listing of customer projects. Further noted is that such trending is occurring in other regions such as Europe. Reader Takeaway.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 8, 2024

Paid subscription ) Citing informed sources, the report indicates that Samsung now plans to invest upwards of $44 billion in an advanced logic microprocessor fabrication complex just outside of Austin, Texas. Related Samsung Electronics Report The Wall Street Journal reported that Samsung Electronics is Doubling its Planned U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 16, 2024

chip production presence in Texas, in a complex just outside of Austin. As noted in a prior Supply Chain Matters semiconductor supply chain commentary, The Wall Street Journal had previously reported that Samsung Electronics would be doubling its planned U.S. According to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 26, 2023

Of the four existing volume production sites, Fremont California , Austin Texas , Shanghai, China and Berlin, Germany , Austin and Berlin are not currently optimized for available capacity at the present time. Hence, there is some upside capacity to take advantage of.

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Exiger Perspectives

AUGUST 7, 2024

Carrie Wibben PRESIDENT, EXIGER XSB’s product suite is used by thousands of engineers, item managers and catalogers to prevent supply chain interruptions and mitigate risks from diminishing supply sources, obsolescence and nonconforming parts. This acquisition follows Exiger’s acquisitions of Versed AI and aDolus last month.

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Precoro

DECEMBER 28, 2023

With headquarters in Austin, Texas , Redbud Brands is a fast-growing company that now has a team of 100 members who work remotely from all over the USA and offers the expertise of 30 executives across all areas of consumer business. It supports these companies during their growth stages and in the steps beyond to ensure their viability.

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E2open

OCTOBER 1, 2018

AUSTIN, TX – October 1, 2018 – E2open , the one place in the cloud to run your supply chain, today announced the acquisition of Cloud Logistics, a leading innovator of transportation management systems (TMS) for the global supply chain market. MONDAY 01 OCTOBER 2018.

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E2open

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

AUSTIN, Texas, November 15, 2018 – E2open, the one place in the cloud to run your supply chain, today released its quarterly technology updates bringing customers significant enhancements to mobile experience, user experience, and performance. Demand Planning. An estimated scenario run time is provided after users set up a scenario.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

JULY 30, 2015

In Q1 2015 there were reports saying that Amazon had opened Prime Now warehouses in Austin and New York City.   Sources (all accessed on July 8, 2015): [link]. Assuming that each of these new Prime Now warehouses has about 350K square feet, then the additional annual operation cost would be $70M (350K * 2 * 100 = $70M).

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 6, 2022

There is the ongoing simultaneous ramp-up of new production facilities in Austin, Texas and Berlin, Germany, and reportedly, a considerable amount of staff level personnel remains in Silicon Valley , adjacent to the former Mountain View corporate headquarters. Tesla reportedly did not respond to press requests for added comments.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2023

Investor Event and Master Plan 3 Tesla conducted is annual investor event this week at its Austin, Texas facilities and unveiled “ Master Plan Part 3 ” which aims toward becoming the largest automaker by volume by 2030. That equates to the ability to produce and sell 20 million vehicles globally.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 14, 2022

Tesla itself continues plans to ramp-up the newly opened Austin, Texas EV assembly facility, and plans to include different battery technology than that produced at the Nevada Gigafactory facility. Toyota has further announced plans to source an EV battery production facility in the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 8, 2022

An added challenge has been the ramp-up of new manufacturing facilities in Austin, Texas and Berlin Germany. A challenge related to the vehicle was reportedly the design of a new vehicle platform and the sourcing of battery cells. Regarding these two new facilities, CEO Elon Musk recently described them as “ gigantic money furnaces.”

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 20, 2023

Further clarified was that this week’s appearance of the Tesla Cybertruck on a final assembly line in Austin, Texas was actually production of “ release candidate ” builds. Autonomy will make all of these numbers look silly. This vehicle was described as having “ lots of new technology with 10,000 unique parts and processes.”

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SupplyShift

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

And headlines touting new milestones in disclosure and socially responsible investment are often just fanciful “greenwishing” (in the coinage of Duncan Austin, a former ESG investment manager). Use supplier data in your procurement processes to help normalize responsible sourcing.

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SupplyShift

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

And headlines touting new milestones in disclosure and socially responsible investment are often just fanciful “greenwishing” (in the coinage of Duncan Austin, a former ESG investment manager). Use supplier data in your procurement processes to help normalize responsible sourcing.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Adam attended the University of Texas at Austin where he earned a Bachelor of Science in government and business with a minor in marketing. At Ceresis, Adam established himself as one of the top marketers in the logistics space. In addition to his corporate success, Adam built a social media start-up into a multi-million dollar agency.

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FLEXE

OCTOBER 30, 2018

From new data sources for planning to forward-stocked inventory to better issue resolution, adapting your last-mile supply chain to be customer-centric requires that you: Anticipate demand: know your customer and her expectations. Learn more about Convey at: www.getconvey.com. you might also be interested in: .

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The narrative was that raw material cost inflation indeed impacted the bottom line, along with some delays in the ramping up of the two newer factories, one being Austin, Texas and the other Berlin Germany. Profitability also did not meet expectations.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Musk himself had previously stated that the newest Austin and Berlin facilities were money pits for cash burn and for day to day challenges. Each added plant investment seemed to include significant executive and employee turnover and with a lot of pain and learning along the way.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Some parts were manufactured internally and most others were sourced around the world. Moving on, I joined a privately held printing company in Austin, Texas. This drove our decision to enter into sourcing services, vendor management and supplier owned inventories.

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