Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

February 17, 2022, 12:01 AM EST. On the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, where the remains of a 200-year-old canal built to connect Cleveland with Cincinnati snake around new warehouse parks, a modern tributary of the global economy widens a little more with each planeload of goods that roars down its runways. Photographer: Ryan Dickinson/U.S.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 18, 2016

Additionally, overall maintenance costs have dropped by 30 percent, and predictive maintenance has reduced machine-specific failures by 70 percent, reports Louis Columbus of Forbes magazine. Previous applications of the IIoT in manufacturing have led to a savings of 12 percent across the industry. IIoT’s Greatest Impacts on Manufacturing.

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DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Hanjin Shipping recently filed for bankruptcy , and a number of its ships pulled into port last week, after a lot of delays and uncertainty. Hanjin is the world’s seventh-largest commercial shipping company, and it’s struggling to find the money to unload its ships. area, especially on eastbound lanes.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Pitt Ohio’s Ground service also specializes in shipping non-conveyable products (e.g., Lone Star Overnight primarily ships to Texas, Oklahoma, western Louisiana, and southern New Mexico, although it also ships to California and Mexico through its shipping partnerships.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Pitt Ohio’s Ground service also specializes in shipping non-conveyable products (e.g., Lone Star Overnight primarily ships to Texas, Oklahoma, western Louisiana, and southern New Mexico, although it also ships to California and Mexico through its shipping partnerships.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Pitt Ohio’s Ground service also specializes in shipping non-conveyable products (e.g., Lone Star Overnight primarily ships to Texas, Oklahoma, western Louisiana, and southern New Mexico, although it also ships to California and Mexico through its shipping partnerships.

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Zipline Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2022

“In the last 15 years of our business, we have focused solely on partnering with CPG brands and learning everything there is to know about their business and the big-box retailers they ship into.”. The Columbus, OH-based 3PL has witnessed firsthand how using logistics strategically can lead brands to category domination. Our stats: .

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 30, 2017

In addition, customers are continuing to demand lower prices and free shipping. Unfortunately, this means manufacturers face an even greater challenge, as more customers translate into greater use of customer service. Those who do achieve this feat can realize significant increases in revenue and high returns.

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DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Outbound volumes from Houston also fell 73%, but the rearrangement of supply chains, the difficulty of shipping in the flooded region, and increased seasonal demand in other parts of the country combined to create pockets of tight capacity that put extra pressure on truckload rates. Denver to Houston rose 59¢ to $1.63 FALLING LANES.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

With peak shipping season just around the corner, the logistics industry is looking forward to a smoother supply chain than previous years have provided. is working to overhaul its extensive network of trucks, planes, trains, and ships–beginning with its relationships with the freight brokers that supply their transportation channels.

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The bankruptcy of the world's 7th largest container carrier, Hanjin Shipping , has led to shippers re-adjusting inventories in the past couple of weeks in order to avoid stock-outs as we head into retail season. Columbus is a hub for retail distribution centers, and lane rates last week for L.A. mile on average for the past week.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Transportation management : Myers writes, “Supply chains depend on fixed lead time and uncertainty for factors such as ocean shipping, can be addressed by predicting future disruptions.” ” Predicting patterns in user behavior. … Predictive analytics gives businesses an avenue for predicting a visitor’s next move.

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DAT Solutions

MAY 1, 2018

Those declines could be a temporary blip, though, because volumes are showing signs that spring shipping season has sprung. Columbus, OH, to Buffalo, NY , fell 30¢ at $3.78/mile, For the month, the average van load paid $2.16/mile, mile, which was still 2¢ higher than the March average. mile on average.

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TMC

DECEMBER 8, 2016

These enterprises are no longer reliant on the Suez Canal route for shipping freight on Post-Panamax container vessels to the United States. As described in my previous blog post , the enlarged Panama Canal can handle container ships up to 13,000 TEUs in size. Is your supply chain make-to-order, make-to-stock, or both?

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MARCH 22, 2016

Shippers in Columbus, OH, will be in the battleground region of the United States, with ports on the East and West Coasts vying for their business. If costs were all that mattered, these shippers would route their products through the expanded Panama Canal to reach Columbus via rail from the New York-New Jersey port.

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 5, 2020

Columbus , Ohio has recently been a desirable market for carriers. Shipping in or out of Alabama should be close to normal. . As the state reopens retail facilities on May 4, shipping in and out of Arizona should not be substantially impacted. . Shipping to or from Colorado should not be restricted. .

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AFFLINK

MARCH 20, 2017

Writing for Forbes, big data expert Louis Columbus notes that more than 60% of supply chain executives view big data as “a disruptive and important technology, setting the foundation for long-term change management in their organizations.”

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Expect the seasonal pressure to continue through much of November, as a massive typhoon in Hong Kong caused scheduling delays on inbound ships at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the arrival point for 49% of Asian imports. Prices between Columbus, OH, and Buffalo, NY, fell in both directions.

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DAT Solutions

AUGUST 1, 2017

Columbus, OH, had spikes on a pair of lanes shipping into the Northeast, which is unusual for this time of year: Columbus to Buffalo was up 17¢ to $2.79/mile. Columbus to Allentown, PA , added 17¢ at $2.88/mile. RISING LANES. Those lanes are closely tied to retail, and other retail lanes were down last week.

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DAT Solutions

MARCH 7, 2018

Still, this is the second week in a row with rising volumes, so this could be a strong early start to the spring shipping season. Big increases on regional lanes: There was a major jump in rates on the Columbus, OH, to Buffalo, NY , lane, which rose 53¢ to an average of $3.90 /mile. Memphis to Charlotte was up 21¢ to $2.53/mile.

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DAT Solutions

JULY 5, 2017

One additional source of rate pressure looms, however: Amazon's Prime Day, with special deals on merchandise and shipping, is coming up on Tuesday. improvements out of Columbus caused rates on the Atlanta to Columbus lane to dip 17¢ to $2.23 Rates on the lane to Seattle rose 22¢ to an average of $2.85

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DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Fall shipping season will also add pressure, so prices may turn the corner soon. Pricing in the Midwest was also more stable than in other parts of the country, with outbound rates from Chicago and Columbus, OH , mostly holding steady for the month. Buffalo to Allentown, PA rose 24¢ to $3.64/mile.

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DAT Solutions

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

As many parts of the Southeast deal with flooding as a result of Hurricane Florence, the transportation industry is re-adjusting to recovery mode, as demand for emergency freight shipped to the area will increase in the coming days. DAT connects carriers with brokers and shippers who have urgent shipping needs, including FEMA loads.

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3PL Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Not only did they have availability in their FTZ space, but they were within a reasonable distance from Kenda’s Columbus, Ohio warehouse and yet, centralized in case Stotsenburg found new distribution points for the tires. Stage 2: Exit and Ship. “We needed to find a Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) warehouse, quickly.”.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 18, 2014

Headquartered in Woburn, MA, Eastern Connection has a large array of services ; in addition to same day and overnight delivery, it also offers international shipping through a partnership with TNT Express and offers customized logistics solutions through its logistics department.

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RELEX Solutions

JANUARY 15, 2017

You can set exceptions for items as you track them to ensure they’re ordered, shipped, landed, warehoused and shelved on time. Partner, Columbus Consulting. Author: Charlotte Kula-Przezwanski, Partner at Columbus Consulting. The Pareto principle informs a lot of our work at Columbus Consulting International (CCI).

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DAT Solutions

JULY 12, 2017

Lanes shipping into the Northeast were also up: Rates on the lane from Charlotte to Buffalo rose 21¢ to $2.92/mile. Columbus to Allentown also added 21¢ for an average of $2.94/mile. The rates below include fuel surcharges and are averages based on real transactions between brokers and carriers. RISING LANES.

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DAT Solutions

AUGUST 13, 2018

Prices are still well above last year’s pace, though, and that still suggests that the fall shipping season will be a busy one. There isn’t much urgency for long-haul freight at this time of year, so a lot of shipping has moved over to rail. Rates held up the best out of the Midwest.

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DAT Solutions

JUNE 20, 2017

In Florida, droughts and wildfires hampered the state's prime shipping season this year, which likely disappointed most carriers, brokers and shippers. The lane from Dallas to Columbus lost 57¢, to $2.17 Dallas to Denver was up 24¢ to $2.67 Chicago to Denver increased 19¢ to $2.20

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 2, 2015

If you’re closer to Columbus or Toledo, those are good options too. Columbus jumped to third in load availability after an end-of-quarter shipping surge boosted demand in the last few days of the September. Only Atlanta has more load posts than Cleveland. auto sales rose 16% in September.

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DAT Solutions

MARCH 6, 2019

The West Coast is starting to see the freight that shipped from China after the Chinese New Year celebrations ended. port for those ships, and that freight was already being loaded onto trucks last week. Over the past month we’ve seen rates fall from Chicago, Columbus and Dallas. Rising Rates. Seattle is the closest U.S.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 2, 2017

Instead, rates and volumes shot up in places like Memphis and Columbus, both associated with e-commerce fulfillment, and even Denver and Seattle exhibited unusually robust rates and shipping patterns. Granted, some big markets like Atlanta and Dallas remained quiet this December. per mile, as they were at the June peak of $1.98.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Children schooled in the middle of last century grew up reciting the phrase, “In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” Her poem begins with the famous stanza about Columbus setting sail, then adds historical facts as she knew them. Columbus sailed the ocean blue. No, not quite.

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3PL Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2017

shipping ports are included in the list of largest ocean ports in the world. million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent unit shipping containers) in 2015. Approximately 2,000 shipping vessels come and go from this port per year. Approximately the same 2,000 shipping vessels have calls to port there each year. million TUEs.

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DAT Solutions

AUGUST 31, 2017

We expect to see rates climb in the Southeast in the coming weeks as cargo ships will be diverted from Houston's deep water port to places like Miami, Savannah, and Charleston, and then transferred to other freight hubs in the region, including Memphis, Atlanta, and Greenville , SC. Chicago to Buffalo got a 14¢ boost, to $2.73

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 9, 2019

Denver is a big beer producing market, with both large production breweries and smaller craft brewers shipping beer in vans and reefers. Columbus to Buffalo was down 39¢ to $3.28/mile The three largest price increases last week came out of Denver. Denver to Albuquerque jumped 28¢ to $2.35/mile. REEFER TRENDS.

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Multichannel Merchant

JUNE 14, 2021

The initial rollout was in Chicago, Pittsburgh, Columbus, New Jersey, Los Angeles and Dallas. New metros added to the same-day program from American Eagle and ShopRunner include San Francisco, Boston, Miami, Atlanta, Houston, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. Deliveries are made within hours of order. in a release.

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