The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Jeff Tucker and Joe Lynch discuss the Breakbulk Americas conference. He is the former chairman of the board of directors for the Transportation Intermediaries Association (TIA). He is on the board of directors for the National Industrial Transportation League and chairs its Highway Transportation Committee.

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Kinaxis

MAY 24, 2018

Supply chain skills in high demand, digital twins, disruptive technologies, and other takeaways from the 2018 Gartner supply chain conference. I just returned from the highly engaging and inspiring Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Kinaxis (@Kinaxis) May 15, 2018. Digital process prototypes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 22, 2023

McCormick Place North Entering the grand concourse and riding the escalator up one floor, we will take a left hand turn into the North Hall, home to the North Manufacturing and Assembly Solution Center and the Robotics and Automation Solution Center. Automate was not co-located with ProMat as it has been in years past. First stop, Manhattan.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 17, 2016

You’ll have a different experience at the Quintiq World Tour 2016 in Frankfurt with best practice presentations from speakers from diverse backgrounds including manufacturing, metals, logistics and rail. You should always take a closer look at the agenda and figure out who is giving the presentations at the conference.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 7, 2016

Editor's Note: This is a two part series featuring Chuck Intrieri, who along with providing excellent insights over at his industry leading The Lean Supply Chain blog, is also a consultant who works with companies for Cost Reduction, Supply Chain Optimization, Logistics, Manufacturing, and 3PL Selection. What is Manufacturing?

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2024

But in the context of the Shippers Council, the shipper is the cargo owner (or BCO beneficial cargo owner), usually a manufacturer, who contracts with a logistics service provider (LSP), which, in the Councils definition, can be a transportation (land, sea, air) company, an express company, a forwarder, or a full-fledged 3PL.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

The proximity to main customers, a more resilient value chain and reduction of transportation costs favor decentralisation of production. As a result of shifting manufacturing networks across the world, distribution networks will change substantially in the next few years.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 13, 2014

Yesterday, I spoke at the Eye for Transport conference on the Big Data opportunity in supply chain. When I go to an analytics conference today, I feel like the dumbest person in the room. They are paving a way for manufacturers to rethink their processes. I cannot sleep. It is hard to quiet an unquiet mind. It is private.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I speak at many industry conferences throughout the year, where the majority of the audience are shippers — that is, supply chain and logistics executives from manufacturing and retail companies. How do you plan for the future of transportation? There’s a similar focus on the carrier side.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

I have been to other vendors’ procurement conferences and cannot recall seeing similar functionality. The most common trading partner collaborative processes covered in SCCN suites are purchase order/procurement collaboration, demand forecast collaboration, and the transportation shipper tender/carrier accept process.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The jobs reduction will save $1 billion this year, Tomé said on an earnings conference call with analysts on Tuesday. Department of Transportation, which has selected 37 projects to be given funds made available by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s (BIL) Mega Program and the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) Grant Program.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 8, 2024

Nicole is the Founder and CEO of Candor Expedite , a transportation leader known for making its customers heroes by delivering creative, fast, effective, and sustainable solutions for time-sensitive and white glove shipments backed by a trusted carrier network. Nicole built her own team to address the lack of transparency in the industry.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2013

At the conference, Kinexions, I heard many clients speaking freely about the deployment of Kinaxis and the turning off of Oracle and SAP APS solutions. Essentially, the team is removing the partitions between network design, sales and operations planning (S&OP), inventory optimization, fulfillment and transportation planning.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

An Update from Sharm El-Sheikh on Decarbonisation of Transport. Transportation accounts for 17 percent of global greenhouse gases (GHG) and 20 percent of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Transportation accounts for 17 percent of global greenhouse gases (GHG) and 20 percent of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Anthony’s clients varied from construction, trucking, industrial, software, manufacturing, and retail industries. FreightWaves.com, the company’s news site, is the leading provider of news and commentary for the transportation and logistics space. The show is hosted by Anthony and his co-host market expert Zach Strickland.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Barry is the Founder of Bear Ventures , a transportation advisory that helps shippers develop high-performance carrier networks. About Barry Aumiller Barry Aumiller ‘s 18-year transportation journey began as an intern at North America’s largest refrigerated trucking company.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

This is our 9th post in our strategic transportation management and logistics series. When selecting a transportation mangement 3PL to aid you in a robust and effective transportation management strategy , defining the rules of engagement is critical to success. Do you even first understand your own needs?

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 10, 2024

Charlie is Founder and CEO of CS Recruiting , a recruitment company that specializes in the logistics, transportation, and supply chain verticals. Charlie founded a third party recruiting firm in 2010 with the goal of connecting employers and professionals within the Transportation, Logistics, and Supply Chain industry.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 12, 2015

A global marketplace is emerging that represents a huge opportunity for manufacturing. But the market is segmented, demanding specialization that will be tough for traditional manufacturers to handle. Technology and Manufacturing: It is a Part of the Cerasis DNA & How we Empower our Manufacturing Shippers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 3, 2024

As an old gal attending multiple conferences (more than I would like at times), I have listened to speakers waft eloquently about the value of concepts like networks, big data, industry 4.0, similarly, over 95% of manufacturers invested and implemented supply chain planning, but their primary tool today is Excel.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 27, 2015

That’s how JDA Software’s CEO, Baljit Dail, summarized the feedback he was getting from customers and partners at FOCUS 2015 , the company’s user conference held last month in Orlando, FL, which had more than 2,000 attendees from 30 countries. “It feels like a new JDA.”.

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Oracle SCM

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The past few weeks have seen several different conferences in Supply Chain but the stand out last week was certainly the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference (GSCES) in London. And so there was no shortage of cloud vendors at the conference this year.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

The answers were revealed at the SummerCon 2017 conference a couple of weeks ago where LLamasoft introduced “Planning by Design” and SupplyChainPlanning.com, which the company describes as “building blocks to improve your current planning capabilities through design technology.”. What would this “next generation solution” be?

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 31, 2023

With 15 years of experience in software and 6 years in supply chain, logistics, and transportation, Luke has founded three separate companies and sold one of them in early 2022. The company’s delivery platform offers scheduled or same-day delivery to customers in industries like retail, building material supply, and manufacturing.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2014

At that time, the conference circuit was buzzing. Ironically, while it is connected to the outside world, it is not well-connected to the manufacturer’s enterprise systems. In the study, the average company reduced the costs of transportation by 3% and reduced the order cycle time by at least a day. A Head-Scratcher.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2013

Companies are the most satisfied with warehouse and transportation management and the least satisfied with demand planning. Previously, the focus was on a more siloed approach to improving manufacturing, procurement or logistics. The traditional technique is to forecast what manufacturing should make. 4) Data Model Design.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The latest edition of the LogiSYM conference catering to the Middle East/North Africa region, LogiSYM MENA, took place online on August 24. In the first conference segment in the afternoon, the theme shifted to Sustainability – a subject that was hardly discussed at LogiSYM just a few years ago. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 21, 2014

This week, I will speak at Llamasoft’s conference on improving supply chain network design. I also think that Quintiq’s leadership in concurrent planning to solve new problems is promising, especially in the design of transportation and inventory flows. Is it duties, or is it transportation? Go slow and be clear.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 16, 2014

In a similar vein, a major 3PL that I spoke to last week at Eye for Transport is considering discontinuing the traditional storage of spare parts and initiating a new service to do 3D printing of parts on demand. Next week I will be speaking at the Llamasoft Summercon conference (follow this link to see the slides). Is it coincidence?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Proudly, I had led my division to have the lowest manufacturing costs with the highest Return on Assets. I believed that we would find a company with the lowest distribution costs (warehousing and transportation), and the lowest manufacturing costs, and this would result in the best overall cost structure. I was wrong.

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Unleashed

MAY 24, 2021

Sustainable manufacturing is at the forefront of good manufacturers’ plans. This article will take a look at what is sustainable manufacturing, some examples across various industries, and how SMEs can plan for sustainable manufacturing. What is sustainable manufacturing?

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Canoo to build battery manufacturing facility in Oklahoma. The shortage projection, released on the final day of the ATA Management Conference & Exhibition at the San Diego Convention Center, is expected to grow over the next decade, Costello said. The transportation capacity index edged up 1.3 The Save Mart Cos.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This was certainly another strange year, but the in-person conferences I usually look forward to were a mixed bag this year. I attended my first in-person conferences and attended a number of virtual ones as well. Senior Isaiah Saunders-Brevner and his manufacturing and machining classmates are going to space, sort of.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 10, 2023

Jorge is Co-CEO of The Nearshore Company , where he helps North American, European, and Asian manufacturing companies to successfully establish reliable manufacturing operations in Mexico. About The Nearshore Company The Nearshore Company is a manufacturing services company that was founded in 1992. Jorge holds a B.A.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 24, 2015

If I ask you to guess who announced new transportation management software (TMS) functionality yesterday, who would you guess? and “What is a transportation management system?” Yes, a 3PL. don’t fit so neatly in a box any more. faster, more frequent deliveries), which is leading them to finally break down the silos.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

The Port of Shenzhen –a central manufacturing and export hub including the Yantian terminal that handles 25% of all U.S.-bound Still, the manufacturing plants and distribution centers are closed. Yet, transportation optimization products focus on managing price, not constraints. Taiwan manufacturers 60% of global semiconductors.

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Savi

MAY 28, 2019

Gartner 2019 SCC: A New Era: Convergence of the Digital and Physical Supply Chain Savi attended the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference again this year in Phoenix. Momentum I expect next year’s conference will see an acceleration of the convergence from physical to digital supply chains. But, this year was different. Industry 4.0

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