Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2023

According to analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), supply chain disruptions are likely to outpace resilience.”[1] Jeremy Kay , Managing Director and Partner at the Boston Consulting Group, insists many organizations “struggle to get a handle on how resilient they need to be.”

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 17, 2022

When it comes to food waste, the environment takes a double whammy — water, packaging, transportation, and agricultural resources get used up for naught, and that leftover sandwich or container of expired spinach you bought in hopes of healthy eating releases greenhouse gases as it decomposes in a landfill.”[2] ”[5].

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 17, 2022

When it comes to food waste, the environment takes a double whammy — water, packaging, transportation, and agricultural resources get used up for naught, and that leftover sandwich or container of expired spinach you bought in hopes of healthy eating releases greenhouse gases as it decomposes in a landfill.”[2] ”[5].

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As explained by the Boston Consulting Group , supply chain leaders should gather all stakeholders from an organization. Alternatively, managers may want to implement big data in areas that would not necessarily require much change management, such as the actual transportation of goods and products after leaving the facility.

Resource Reduction 120

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Kinaxis

MAY 6, 2019

by Leah McGuire Leah McGuire, Kerry Currier and Francini Ortiz at the 2019 MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics Women in Supply Chain Summit, where the gender gap in supply chain was the topic of focus. Converse shoe display, Converse headquarter's lobby, Boston, MA. « ‹ 1 of 3 › ».

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 18, 2024

Journalist Patrick Thomas explains, “Keeping prices down has become harder across the grocery sector as costs for labor, transportation and commodities have risen.”[3] Jerry Sheldon , Vice President of Technology at IHL Group, notes, “Retailers respond when consumer sentiment seems to hit a tipping point.”[12] 13] Ibid. [14]

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The invention of the ocean container as a means for inter-modal sea and surface transportation movements have orchestrated the march toward lowest cost global based sourcing of components and materials. The net result was that global wide transportation and logistics costs increased at unprecedented rates during 2021 and 2022.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 11, 2024

Coast Guard in Boston logged a problem with the vessel’s steering gear alarm. Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have now launched a formal investigation into this incident. first appeared on The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group / Supply Chain Management. In February, U.S.

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Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

2) Current and Future Demand : once determining the location, you need to group the demand / supply points so you can determine the current and future demand. Anyway, how to group the demand points effectively? 4) Trucking Costs : suppose you''re dealing mainly with trucking, you need to find the appropriate cost data.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 27, 2021

The varied goods in the containers illustrate the far-flung nature of modern supply chains and show how transportation problems on one side of the world can affect the production of goods and store inventories thousands of miles away.”[5] The post Global Supply Chains — A Source of Strength first appeared on Enterra Solutions.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 27, 2017

Depending on the industry and size of the company, a business can spend more than 40% of its annual freight budget on inbound shipping, according to the Aberdeen Group, a research firm in Boston. A more efficient inbound freight program can minimize delays, save money and even reduce confusion.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In 2004, I joined AMR Research, a Boston Analyst firm. My thought was to combine my experience working on visibility solutions with Descartes Systems Group and Manugistics with recent research data. We are making slow progress on transportation visibility, but not supplier visibility. I thought it would be easy.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The founding team is led by seasoned serial entrepreneurs with real-world AI, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Transportation and Operational experience, from the shop-floor to the top-floor, at leading Fortune 500 Industrial Companies & pioneering Enterprise Technology companies. Key Takeaways: Supply Chain: Cash or Trash.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 26, 2016

Boston Consulting Group talks about how the “endless aisles” of the internet and omni-channel sales increase product assortment. Add in capacity constraints, transportation bottlenecks, and promotional uplift and there is a need for better inventory planning and optimization across the supply chain network.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 6, 2016

It’s a story that made the headlines in The Boston Globe this week, but about 10 percent of the newspaper’s subscribers weren’t able to read about it because, well, they were the victims of this story. It is extremely difficult to do something like this without a transition period,” Boston Globe CEO Sheehan said in today’s article. “To

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 8, 2023

One of its most valuable platforms, electronics payment provider Ant Group , had its planned IPO halted in 2020 because of government restrictions. He further joked that Temu is actually headquartered in Boston. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2023, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

Retail 59

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Thoma Bravo has other noted investments in supply chain tech providers, including end-to-end transportation and logistics provider project 44 and aerospace industry Cloud platform provider Exostar. Trimble to Acquire Transporeon in the Logistics and Transportation Technology Segment. Locus Robotics Raises an Additional $117 Million.

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Freight Plus

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Consider this, a business can spend more than 40% of its annual freight budget on inbound shipping, according to the Aberdeen Group, a research firm in Boston. If you're buying on prepaid or delivered terms you're essentially allowing your suppliers to manage your freight and profit off the transportation costs.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 17, 2015

Now, this week’s supply chain and logistics news, which was dominated by transportation-related items: Are Imports Moving to the East Coast? When it comes to transportation infrastructure funding, it’s the same old story. For related commentary, see my February 2014 post Enough Talk: Time to Fix Transportation Infrastructure Funding.

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Supply Chain Opz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

2) Current and Future Demand : once determining the location, you need to group the demand / supply points so you can determine the current and future demand. Anyway, how to group the demand points effectively? 4) Trucking Costs : suppose you''re dealing mainly with trucking, you need to find the appropriate cost data.

Network Design Software 100

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Supply Chain Insights

APRIL 8, 2015

Aside from a short stint living in Europe, I’ve always lived in Boston, MA. As I got older, and progressed in my career, I stayed in Boston because of different reasons. It’s a subsection of knowledge workers within the workforce broken down into two groups: the Creative Professionals and the Super Creative Core.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 15, 2022

Labor shortages and the escalating cost of transporting materials exacerbated needs for filling customer orders, leading to a significant backlog of orders. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts , this electronics distributor operates 22 locations across four continents. All rights reserved. .

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 23, 2022

Last week, Boston based home goods and furniture online platform provider Wayfair announced it will shed nearly 5 percent of its global workforce and upwards of 10 percent of this provider’s corporate level staffing, amounting to upwards of 900 people. This has resulted in increased initiatives to now scale-back operations and trim staffing.

Inventory Reduction 52

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 7, 2017

Rapid temperature cycling due to crazy Boston weather. It didn’t take long for the recently rebranded BluJay Solutions to make its first acquisition: Blackbay , “a leading provider of mobility-enabled solutions for the transport and logistics industry.” My garage door is crumpled. How did it happen?

Logistics Network Optimization Software 101

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IQMS

JUNE 25, 2019

By 2020, Discrete Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics and Utilities industries are projected to spend $40B each on IoT platforms, systems, and services. The multiplicative effects of combining IoT and blockchain to improve track-and-traceability are shown in the context of the following table from the Boston Consulting Group.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2022

Lee Partners , an investor in automation and supply chain; and SoftBank Vision Fund 2 , which is part of the SoftBank Group. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Previous rounds have been led by Menlo Ventures and Playground Global. All rights reserved. .

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Talking Logistics

MAY 20, 2016

I’m at Heathrow airport waiting to board my flight back to Boston, which is delayed by over an hour so far. You get on the M25 and before long you have a front seat view of the biggest transportation challenge facing companies in England and many other countries around the world: traffic congestion.

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Logility

APRIL 8, 2014

Supply chain practitioners from a wide spectrum of companies gave insightful presentations on achieving success in all aspects of SCM, including demand planning, inventory optimization, sales and operations planning, vendor collaboration, supply and replenishment planning, transportation optimization and others.

Supply Chain Planning Software 100

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Savi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The pivot point has moved from production to customer delivery, and the primary constraint has moved from manufacturing to transportation. This shift is hard to handle because the CPG industry spends at least 5% of revenue on transportation. Given that most freight is transported over the road, this is a serious concern.

Packaging 45

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The book is authored by- Christian Schuh, Wolfgang Schnellbacher, Alenka Triplat, Daniel Weise, each of whom are Boston Consulting Group Partners , Managing Directors and thought leaders. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. Book Content. Bob Ferrari.

Manufacturing Procurement 59

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Elementum

JUNE 6, 2016

In addition, per the Boston Consulting Group, manufacturing in Mexico is about 4 percent cheaper now than in China — compared to being 6 percent more expensive over a decade ago. Meanwhile, Fisher & Paykel’s healthcare group will grow its molding operations in Tijuana. Looking Deeper. Branching Out.

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 25, 2021

A new report from the Food Marketing Institute and Boston Consulting Group highlights the effects increased demand had on organizations in the CPG marketplace. This performance decrease also came as shippers were forced to pay more in transportation costs across the board. Why Does CPG Logistics Performance Matter?

Procurement Analytics 69

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 19, 2015

And one of those, e-commerce company Gilt Groupe Inc., Moving on to technology news, Cloud Logistics announced new enhancements to its transportation management system (TMS), including: Advanced third party logistics (3PL) capabilities to support complex hierarchical relationships and shipping rules.

Logistics Network Optimization Software 100

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

SOLAS requirements and processes remain unclear to many carriers in various discussion groups. You can read more on the topic in our recent white paper, Wide Open: How the Panama Canal Expansion Is Redrawing the Logistics Map [DK1] , which was written collaboratively with Boston Consulting Group. Free Time and Chassis.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 17, 2016

from overseas, says Boston Consulting Group. The post 4 Infographics Showing How Technology Is Transforming Global Manufacturing & Supply Chain appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis. The increasing efficiency and falling costs of robots are attracting manufacturing production back to the U.S.

Manufacturing Procurement 120

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ToolsGroup

JULY 21, 2020

MILAN and BOSTON, July 21, 2020 – ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, and COPAN Group, the world leader in the production of pre-analytics and bacteriology swabs, viral transport media, and systems for molecular biology, announced today a joint initiative to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. “In

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Given that the study was funded by an Atlanta-based group, the results are hardly authoritative (for instance, a number of major cities, such as Boston, Charlotte, Denver, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, are not included in the study), but they do offer an interesting view on the supply chain capabilities of seven major regions.

San Francisco 82

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