Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2021

Building optionality in the supply chain through collaborative sourcing: Supply chain teams can proactively identify choke points within the existing network by leveraging emerging technologies such as digital twins and advanced analytics, and modeling their end-to-end supply chains. This can in turn benefit Tier 2 suppliers and beyond.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

At the same time, the Chief Purchasing Officer (CPO) has taken on a pivotal role by securing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to protect the workforce and direct materials when primary sources fail. As disruptions become the norm, Supply Chain Planning and Source-to-Pay (S2P) cycles need to be increasingly dynamic and intertwined.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 14, 2022

All Mars’ products in Europe to be sourced with 100% sustainable cocoa. Mars Wrigley has declared that from 2023, 100 percent of the cocoa purchased for its direct factory operations in Europe will be verified as “responsibly sourced cocoa.” And now, on to this week’s logistics news. Amazon abandons autonomous home-delivery robot.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

It is the largest container port in the state of Florida and ninth in the United States. Home Depot devoted a whole distribution center in Florida to hurricane relief supplies such as tools, generators, tarps, flashlights, batteries and chainsaws, to support more efficient distribution across the southeast.

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ivalua

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Here are a couple of Sourcing Customer Stories, to bring you up to speed with Ivalua’s expertise: Ivalua will be represented at the event by our North American Marketing Director, Ty Levine! The post ProcureCon Indirect – East, 25th – 27th March 2019, Florida appeared first on Ivalua.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Everything from contrast dye, to tubing, to medical devices with embedded semiconductor chips would suddenly become difficult to source. Last summer a hurricane was coming up through the Gulf and across the Panhandle of Florida.” But in 2021, “all of a sudden there were just completely random shortages that occurred with no warning.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2021

As product flows rapidly shifted and hard baked assumptions about lead times and sourcing locations were put to test, users across many organizations bypassed their planning systems and turned to excel sheets, internal data science teams or non-traditional supply chain vendors who could deliver AI based solutions at a faster turn.

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NC State SCRC

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The situation could become even more dire now that Hurricane Milton is hitting Florida. These types of supply chain risks are part of a well thought-out sourcing strategy, t hat every hospital should address. This can lead to advance business continuity sourcing plans to avoid these types of dilemmas. On Tuesday, workers at B.

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DAT Solutions

MAY 15, 2018

Florida led the way again last week, with outbound rates in Lakeland and Miami up 15% and 8% respectively. It wasn’t just Florida though: Asparagus crops helped boost volumes in Michigan, and the lane from Grand Rapids to Madison, WI , rose 43 cents to $3.15/mile. HOT MARKETS. Lakeland to Atlanta surged 58¢ to $2.96/mile.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 16, 2023

Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo 2023 has wrapped up its 3-day event in Orlando, Florida. This AI-driven forecasting method incorporates data from a broader range of sources to generate a range of probable forecast outcomes and calculate the likelihood of each.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

The purpose of data aggregation is, on one hand, to minimize the number of records you’ll be working with and, on the other hand, to reflect critical business patterns: order prioritization, customer segmentation, sourcing logic. If we have 1,000 customers in reality, we might use only ten customers in the model when we aggregate data.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Innovating to Uncover New Sources of Revenue in the Public Sector. Step 1: Use eProcurement Systems as a Potential Source of Revenue. Thinking of procurement as a new source of revenue is certainly counterintuitive, but it fits the bill of thinking differently. 11 state central procurement offices have other sources of funding.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 5, 2024

Southeast As we pen this posting Hurricane Debby , classified as a Category One hurricane has made landfall in the area of Big Bend, Florida in southeast panhandle of this state. Southeast as a result of Hurricane Debby. Hurricane Debby Meanders Across U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

” Corporations serve international markets, and the source of rare minerals (so critical for the evolution of the green supply chain) is primarily Asia. Others argue the demise of global sourcing; might I add caution? My response is “Hogwash.” By definition, this requires a global supply chain. ” I laughed.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 2, 2024

Humble at Deerfield Beach, Florida-based company CheckRobot Inc., This trend has represented significant financial loss for retailers, with average annual loss from this source alone exceeding $102,000 for a typical grocery store with 12 self-checkout lanes.”[3] with NCR Corporation having the largest market share.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2022

Retailers have been used to long lead times over the last two decades, especially for the categories they source from Asia. in chemical engineering from the University of Florida and his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras. He received his Ph.D.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Currently, Hurricane Irma is monitored north of Cuba, where mandatory evacuations were ordered, and is forecast to hit Florida. Fuel shortages were already reported in Florida and analysts estimate that the Irma’s cost could hit $125 billion should it make landfall in Miami. Several businesses in Florida, including banks , were closed.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

”[6] One source of continuing tension between manufacturers and farmers is: Who owns the data? For example, journalists Tasmiha Khan and Iman Adem report, “Researchers at the University of Florida are using artificial intelligence to determine which chemical compounds produce the best fruit flavors based on consumer preferences.”[8]

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Adexa

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

An example would be a tornado in Florida. Using Uncertainty to Have Superior Plans and Faster Response Every time a system performs the planning function, there are many sources of information that can be used to evaluate the risk of the plan, depending on the objectives of the management.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 11, 2017

Besides Texas—Toyota’s new North American headquarters—other states on the companies’ shortlist are Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina, WSJ reported, citing unnamed sources familiar with the potential investment.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For example, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently declared, “At the end of the day, we are not going to let this state be overrun by woke ideology. Florida is the state where woke goes to die.”[4]. .”[3] As a result, politicians on the right have decried the woke movement. We will fight the woke in the businesses.

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BlueYonder

JUNE 25, 2024

Blue Yonder is honored by this recognition, which we share with the hundreds of logistics teams worldwide who rely on our Blue Yonder Transportation Management solutions, including Kimberly-Clark , Anheuser-Busch , Bayer Crop Science , Mitr Phol Sugar , and recent Blue Yonder ICONic Award winner Coca-Cola Beverages Florida, LLC / CONA Services LLC.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Decisions such as what should be the order minimums and multiples, what should be the replenishment frequency to my downstream locations, what should be the splits between different sources available, and how they should be prioritized, are all the types of policies that need increasingly frequent revision. He received his Ph.D.

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Exiger Perspectives

MAY 6, 2024

Proactive Intelligence will officially launch at Gartner’s Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo 2024 in Orlando, Florida, on May 6 – 8, 2024. On May 7, Daniels will lead a session with Hope for Justice / Slave Free Alliance CEO Tim Nelson on “ Empowering Ethical Sourcing: Eliminating Modern Slavery with Supply Chain Intelligence.”

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Supply Chain Insights

APRIL 8, 2015

According to Dr. Richard Florida, one of our keynote speakers at the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit, my description fits about 30% of us in the workforce. According to Dr. Florida, thirty percent of the population is forecasted to be in a few cities. Dr. Florida will share insights on the future work systems.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

we’d watch places like Houston, San Francisco, and New York City — not to mention the entire state of Florida — slowly disappear into the sea.” East notes, “Sustainability analytics requires a lot of data from many different sources. South America would say goodbye to cities like Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

The electronic validation program made its debut at Port Everglades in Florida to exporters needing to ship used vehicles from South Florida to destinations throughout the Caribbean, Central America and beyond. Supply Chain Innovators of 2013 : paperless food chain, VLMs, cold chain fleet management, and more. Warehouse Automation.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

I was in Orlando, Florida this week moderating workshops for a logistics service provider client. 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).

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

by Andrew Dunbar Last week I attended the IBF Business Planning, Forecasting & S&OP: Best Practices Conference in Orlando, Florida. If you’re involved in your company’s sales & operations planning processes and you haven’t heard of the IBF, stop reading now and go check them out here !

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 23, 2021

The digitalized coinage was exceedingly accessible at the very first instance of its invention as the first-ever transaction utilizing bitcoin as a payment method was of 10000 bitcoin units as a guy from Florida purchased two pizzas. Connect Payment Method !

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In North America we certainly hear a lot about Florida oranges and as such I myself have certainly assumed that Florida was the Orange capital of the world. 70% of production comes from Florida, followed by California. For instance in 2017 Hurricane Irma destroyed 30-90% of Florida’s crop. Source: [link] ).

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

For example, Florida power companies began staging vehicles and equipment in strategic locations well in advance of the arrival of Irma. Supply chain thought leaders began thinking about Irma long before the pictures surfaced. This was a strong example to help convince customers and residents they should prepare, as well.

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 15, 2023

Check out the 4 Key Takeaways from this year’s Gartner Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo in Orlando, Florida → Kevin Young, ToolsGroup CMO introduces illycaffè session, “How to navigate market uncertainty and guarantee product availability.” We get bogged down with immediate tactical challenges, and that is not the best use of my time.”

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Resilinc

JUNE 7, 2022

Indeed, as this blog was being finalized, the National Hurricane Center gave a storm hitting South Florida a high chance of becoming tropical storm Alex. The World Meteorological Organization has queued up these and 16 other names to identify the tropical storms and hurricanes that are forecast to hit the U.S.

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CargoBarn

MAY 18, 2022

New AI technologies being developed by CargoBarn will expand the Customer Portal to provide enhanced pricing, visibility and tracking for customers, efficient load delivery for carriers, and frictionless sourcing for employees. Growth in Georgia, Florida, Texas, California.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Furthermore, analysis conducted by The Washington Post found that “ states west of the Rocky Mountains, plus Florida and Southern Texas are likely to be most affected. The Post found 70% of first-class mail sent to Nevada and 60% sent to Florida is likely to be delayed.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Some of the materials were sourced and managed by the customers. Still the sourcing and supplier management of other materials was delegated to our facilities. In Florida I met a team that was very high functioning. The VPs were also informed that on these visits we needed to drop all formalities.

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