Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

FourKites is a private company headquartered in Chicago in the US. But, if a company wants to work with a new supplier, and that supplier is in the network, metrics on that carrier also exist. project44 is a private company headquartered in Chicago. Over 12 billion transactions per year occurred on the network.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Metrics are critical as well. He lives in Chicago. Similarly, creating a cross-functional governance structure is key, with representatives from every impacted department playing an active role in the rollout of new initiatives. But be wary of setting “moonshot goals” that may take years to achieve.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 29, 2022

Starting this week, customers across the US will begin to see custom electric delivery vehicles from Rivian delivering their Amazon packages , with the electric vehicles hitting the road in Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, San Diego, Seattle, and St. two in the Greater Chicago area and one near Denver ?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

So why are so many still falling short of OTIF targets (and other key metrics)? He lives in Chicago. We are well into the era of real-time transportation visibility, where shippers and their partners can track freight in real-time across every mode of transport. The post How Can CIOs Accelerate Supply Chain Transformation?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

Tonight, I am stranded in a hotel in Chicago. The Chicago airport is closed for the night. I think about this discussion with Keith often as I work on the Supply Chain Index and edit the chapters of Metrics That Matter. It is 3:00 AM. It is quiet and a good time to think. I believe that value is what you create.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2014

One of my favorite interviews on this topic, that I recently completed for my upcoming book Metrics That Matter , was with Amway’s Chief Supply Chain Officer George Calvert. Service level is our most important metric. Reliability in both of these metrics is critical. Our activities are broad.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 4, 2022

Algorithm aversion is the term coined by a trio of researchers from the University of Chicago and Wharton, whose studies observe that humans are more forgiving of what they perceive to be mistakes when made by humans than when made by an algorithm. If people think the model is wrong, they lose confidence in “the box” but not in the human.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 28, 2024

The company said that it used 85,916 metric tons of single-use plastic that year, an 11.6 According to the company, Chicago-based Coyote Logistics manages around 10,000 loads per day with a network of over 10,000 carriers. “As percent decrease from 2021.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

While Chicago and New York/New Jersey hubs are no strangers to inclement winter weather, severe and widespread cold brought snowstorms to Atlanta and other southern U.S. While Chicago and New York/New Jersey hubs are no strangers to inclement winter weather, severe and widespread cold brought snowstorms to Atlanta and other southern U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 7, 2019

In Figure 1, we show the aggregate trend of the chemical industry in an orbit chart format showing year-over-year results at the intersection of two metrics operating margin and inventory turns. Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , September 3rd-6th, 2019, at UI Labs, Chicago, IL. Let’s take an example. What is different?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

No metric should be measured in isolation, and functional metrics should be replaced with the balanced scorecard metrics shown in Figure 2. To maximize value—price to tangible book, functional metrics need to be reset to focus on reliability. 5 A Focus on Functional Metrics Throws the Supply Chain Out of Balance.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Do you have the right metrics? Metrics show how your supply chain is performing – providing they are the right ones to do the job. Inappropriate metrics can give a false or incomplete picture of supply chain performance. Second, what metrics are the best indicators of performance in terms of these goals?

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2015

For instance, rather than bid on two separate lanes from Chicago to New York City and Chicago to Boston, a carrier might suggest bidding on a consolidated lane from Chicago to an intermediate pooling point in and split the shipments to the final destinations. Adopt performance metrics for carriers.

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Kinaxis

MAY 24, 2018

During her keynote speech, Dana Stiffler, research VP at Gartner shared statistics highlighting how hard it is to find professionals who have the supply chain domain competence and strong knowledge of AI/ML technologies in the greater Chicago area. Population of greater Chicago ~ 3,600,000. of these, those with AI/ML skills ~ 35.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Content Summary: Chicago ranks number 1 among the seven metro areas in projected supply chain management and technology employment growth; in net job creation for supply chain-related industries; in freight flow; and in inventory holding. Printer-friendly version. Media Type. Media Caption. Privacy Settings. anonymous user. Media Image.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

I was hoping for 70F+ weather, but even Florida fell victim to the Polar Vortex, with temperatures only in the 50s (which felt tropical, nonetheless, compared to Chicago and Boston). I was in Orlando, Florida this week moderating workshops for a logistics service provider client.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 7, 2012

My schedule had me on a plane to Chicago at the time of the presentation. Q: What is the best metric to begin analyzing when starting to evaluate Supply Chain agility? As I picked it up , I saw a twitter alert welcoming people to the APICS webinar with @lcecere on Agility that afternoon. The APICS event was not there.

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ShipBob

OCTOBER 24, 2022

examining demand for a natural deodorant for millennial customers in Chicago, IL). Keeping our inventory in Chicago and Los Angeles has brought cost savings since we ship from the locations that are closest to the customer.” Short-term. Short-term demand forecasting is usually done for a time period of less than 12 months.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Within a week of Russian troops crossing into Ukraine, the benchmark for thermal coal prices reached a record high of $446 per metric ton. Because Russia and Ukraine are leading exporters of grain, wheat futures in Chicago rose by almost 6% to $9.26 Deloitte ). Wall Street Journal ). Automotive News Europe ). Wall Street Journal ).

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BlueYonder

APRIL 19, 2012

The Aberdeen Supply Chain Summit in Chicago earlier this month was a productive event for supply chain executives and practitioners. It is critical to align the whole organization on the right metrics, otherwise the segmentation will fall apart. S&OP should be the process used to align the organization.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

by Trevor Miles I was at the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit in Chicago earlier this week. It immediately brings home the need for trade-off across competing metrics and objectives. The general theme of the conference was about transformational change. The second is by Ian Goldin.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 31, 2013

We are preparing for the Chief Analytics Officer meeting coming up in Chicago in June. I’ve been leading a few calls for the International Institute of Analytics, as a faculty lead for the manufacturing group. One of the issues that comes up is where the analytics function should reside – in IT or in the business function?

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MARCH 13, 2015

Looking at vegetable oils, with a global population of 7B people, each consuming the recommended 40g of dietary fat per day, 365 days per year, would require just over 100M metric tons of oil. We are currently according to the USDA producing over 160M metric tons of refined vegetable oil alone. Or six months or a year from now.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 17, 2018

Shuttered Sam’s Club in Matteson to find new life as e-commerce fulfillment center (Chicago Tribune). With parcel becoming a growing part of virtually every company’s transportation operations, gaining more real-time visibility to delivery status and other metrics is critically important. Nikola Raises $100 Million in August.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 27, 2022

And this is something that is especially prevalent in most high-pressure corporate settings, where performance metrics are everything and survival often comes down to how well you perform and how consistently you do what is expected of you. Angie Gaffney, Executive Director, IFA Chicago / Professional Life and Leadership Coach.

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Precoro

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

For instance, a car manufacturer might need to consider the total cost of running their Chicago plant — and everything included in that would be the location cost center. Together with the cost center managers, they establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess the performance of each cost center against predefined metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

This week, I spoke at the Chicago CSCMP round table event. Lora has written the books Supply Chain Metrics That Matter and Bricks Matter , and is currently working on her third book, Leadership Matters. I love to hear the thoughts from different speakers. I, like many of you, read this book when it was published.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

APRIL 8, 2021

We helped one of the largest outdoor retailers reduce their carbon output through mode conversion and purchase order aggregation, which eliminated 1,270 metric tons of emissions from their supply chain in one year – the equivalent of 3,000 barrels of oil. For example, because C.H.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

What are the metrics used to measure performance is part of the contract terms, especially around on-time service commitments. Particularly on new product introductions, we needed to be very careful on being able to deploy a product roll-out simultaneously across the entire country, in California, New York Chicago, etc.

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Jim : My first involvement with S&OP started in the late 1990’s, while working for a large commercial US bakery, a division of a large multi-brand consumer goods company in Chicago. Also, building in S&OP process metrics, not just business operating metrics is critical to success.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 29, 2021

FedEx delays have been most prevalent in Miami (13.8%), Chicago (13.6%), and Houston (13.5%). Intelligent Audit provides actionable insights, aggregate, normalized data, and meaningful metrics, helping shippers to finally make sense of all the noise and focus on what really matters, moving freight strategically.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

As a result, nearly every industry has created on-demand metrics to gauge market performance, hedge risks, and to power intelligent decisions. And though the market index long predates digital computing, computing power combined with huge, aggregated data sets have proved fertile ground to improve visibility.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 10, 2023

I moved to Chicago to work for the world’s largest 3PL and quickly fell in love with the constant opportunity to solve problems. Forward-thinking brands are tracking crucial metrics to illuminate their supply chains and find control. I graduated from Miami University and fell completely backward into logistics.

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ShipBob

MAY 11, 2021

Keeping our inventory in Chicago and Los Angeles has brought cost savings since we ship from the locations that are closest to the customer.”. The results can be compiled to deliver a quantifiable metric, which is known as a ‘supply chain resilience index.’ ShipBob having multiple locations was also huge for us.

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Ware2Go

APRIL 20, 2022

Their community partners include: Social Works Chicago , which empowers youth through arts and education and provides free lunches for students in need. Ultimately, their ultra low-pressure drop systems have helped to reduce over 1,000 metric tonnes of carbon. Final Mile: The Last Frontier in Sustainable eCommerce.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

These solutions provide managers with immediate access to the most crucial metrics, such as pick rates, order accuracy, and equipment utilization, and send alerts when performance deviates from expected norms. With immediate access to productivity metrics, managers can identify potential issues before they impact overall performance.

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Ware2Go

APRIL 11, 2023

Their community partners include: Social Works Chicago , which empowers youth through arts and education and provides free lunches for students in need. Ultimately, their ultra low-pressure drop systems have helped to reduce over 1,000 metric tonnes of carbon.

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