3rdwave

MARCH 20, 2020

Without inbound international transportation, product level visibility organizations are flying blind – or, they are at a minimum, severely visually impaired. The vast majority of these supply-side shipments come in through the port of Long Beach/LA. carriers ability to transport goods, .

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 12, 2022

The company outsources its manufacturing to third party Staxxon certified manufacturing partners and parts suppliers. In the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, up 78% of the containers leaving the ports for Asia are empty. Up to 5 Staxxon containers can be transported in the space required for one traditional container.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

The people on the ground–my contacts in the 3PL, freight forwarding and transportation industry–know that the labor strife is only a part of the larger story. Unloading at the western ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been an issue for many months. This is not going to be pretty.

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QAD

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Manufacturers know all the issues: U.S. The Port of Los Angeles is joining the Port of Long Beach in doubling operational hours to 24/7. Recommendations for Manufacturers. Communicate closely with transportation providers, supplying inbound and outbound forecasts and issuing delivery orders in advance of vessel arrival.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. Especially grievous are the gaps between finance and operations, manufacturing and procurement, and the operations and commercial teams. In parallel, inflation, currently at 6%, is climbing. We are to blame.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Four industries–B2B Technology, Aerospace and Defense, Retail Apparel, and Food Manufacturing–grew inventory during the pandemic. In contrast, other sectors reached unprecedented shortages, including Semiconductors, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Contract Manufacturing, and Retail Home Improvement.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Four industries–B2B Technology, Aerospace and Defense, Retail Apparel, and Food Manufacturing–grew inventory during the pandemic. In contrast, other sectors reached unprecedented shortages, including Semiconductors, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Contract Manufacturing, and Retail Home Improvement.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 4, 2021

The theory is that as more and more devices throughout the supply chain and manufacturing process become part of the ‘Internet of Things,’ they will produce an incredibly rich data stream that will send signals in real-time to trigger a wide variety of events. Hyped technologies are getting a lot of publicity but have little proven value.

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MIT Supply Chain

MARCH 14, 2022

have predicted owing to the accumulation of inventory in manufacturing. Other drivers of shortages and price hikes that appear to be moderating include the cost of freight transportation. After a period of further price increases due to the rising cost of oil, I expect transportation costs to trend downwards in the next few weeks.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. Especially grievous are the gaps between finance and operations, manufacturing and procurement, and the operations and commercial teams. In parallel, inflation, currently at 6%, is climbing. We are to blame.”

Supply Chain Design Software 195

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. Especially grievous are the gaps between finance and operations, manufacturing and procurement, and the operations and commercial teams. In parallel, inflation, currently at 6%, is climbing. We are to blame.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Background on Ocean Transport. When the ball drops on Times Square to welcome in 2022, the employees at the Port of Long Beach will celebrate moving 9 M TEUs in imports: a 26% increase in year-over-year volume. Actively manage cycle stock in manufacturing and shift the focus from asset efficiency to schedule adherence.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In our Supply Chain Matters news capsule of September 27, we pointed out that business, supply chain and transportation media had reported this that the cost of shipping a container of goods from China to the U.S. The real story is how accurate and responsive such adjustments turn out to be in quarterly and annual business performance.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. 49% of respondents were from the manufacturing industry, 16% from the mechanical engineering sector, and 11% from the automotive market. Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Department of Transportation ). Consultancy UK).

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2022

For AGCO, a public company with over $11 billion in revenues, a supply chain risk management application helped the agricultural equipment manufacturer stay agile during COVID. For example, a manufacturer might have a supplier in Hanoi they purchase key components from. AGCO Stayed Nimble during the Pandemic.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 21, 2017

Now, moving on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Amazon won a patent for an on-demand clothing manufacturing warehouse (Recode). MacroPoint Announces Platform Integration with JDA Transportation Management Solution. Long Beach ports emits only water from tailpipe (OCR). Source: Amazon patent.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The year featured continual component shortfalls, explosive inbound materials cost increases and continuous global transportation disruptions. West Coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach with the average wait time for ships to be unloaded reaching 20.8 Global manufacturing activity as depicted by the J.P.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. Manufacturing equipment lead times were 19 months. Instead, most companies manage based on functional metrics—lowest manufacturing, procurement, or transportation costs. A Zealous Focus on Cost.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 4, 2021

The theory is that as more and more devices throughout the supply chain and manufacturing process become part of the ‘Internet of Things,’ they will produce an incredibly rich data stream that will send signals in real-time to trigger a wide variety of events. Hyped technologies are getting a lot of publicity but have little proven value.

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Turvo

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Currently, Long Beach California is dealing with a record number of ships loitering outside the port, and that’s not the only place that’s getting increased traffic. In one example of deploying Turvo’s unified solution, a shipper and manufacturer in Germany became a system tenant user for Turvo through Port X.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MARCH 28, 2018

How Generac Power Systems Cut Millions from Its Global Transportation Spend | Transportfolio. Generac Power Systems, the number one manufacturer of home backup generators, became an international company in a few short years and developed a global supply chain that is now prepared for the next stage of growth. Here’s how they did it.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. Manufacturing equipment lead times were 19 months. Instead, most companies manage based on functional metrics—lowest manufacturing, procurement, or transportation costs. A Zealous Focus on Cost.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 15, 2022

By now our Supply Chain Matters readers have already viewed headlines of yet another COVID-19 variant induced lockdown of certain manufacturing and port facilities in China. Impacted are manufacturing clusters located in Shenzhen and Changchun city areas which have been placed on minimum one-week lockdowns as of this past weekend.

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Kanban Logistics

MARCH 11, 2021

and Long Beach, are experiencing severe congestion due to record volumes as US businesses replenish inventories that were depleted after COVID-related manufacturing shutdowns. This expansion will further bolster the increasing use of rail and intermodal transportation within the regional supply chain.

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o9 Solutions

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Many industrial manufacturers are in the process of making demand and supply plans that will determine how they will thrive (or falter) in the next few years. . So when you see those pictures of boats at anchor outside of Long Beach, they’re no longer working as boats, but as floating warehouses.

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Intelligent Audit

MARCH 5, 2020

This implies that if Chinese plants stopped manufacturing prior to the beginning of the Chinese holiday on January 25, the last of their shipments will be arriving in the last week of February. All this suggests that there will be a spike in the temporary closures of assembly and manufacturing facilities in mid-March.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 17, 2021

Even during the epidemic, the shipping industry’s significance in the value chain and the transportation of resources and goods worldwide was emphasized, probably most prominently. It has already wreaked havoc on supply chains, transport networks, and ports, resulting in a sharp drop in cargo volumes.

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Ware2Go

JANUARY 10, 2022

Supply chain procurement strategies had long been favoring Just in Time procurement. However, after a year and a half of increased consumer demand and manufacturing shutdowns that significantly stressed the supply chain, many merchants began planning early for the 2021 holiday season. This generally results in more competitive pricing.

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ShipBob

APRIL 26, 2023

It involves all the activities related to the sourcing and transportation of raw materials needed in the manufacturing process. Meanwhile, the downstream supply chain involves activities post the manufacturing process, which would mean getting the finished goods to the end consumer.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 3, 2021

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the ports of LA and Long Beach has “well over 100 shipments on hold pending determination of admissibility“ due to suspicion of forced labor. Forced labor is when a product is mined, produced, or manufactured, in a municipality that has unlawful labor practices such as slave labor or child labor.

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Freightos

APRIL 24, 2016

US Army uses the “Transporter” container, developed four years earlier for removals, for Korean War supply movements. First intermodal cargo transportation (containers are stacked on deck). Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports. 0 TEUs 0 meters long. 0 TEUs 0 meters long. Significance.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 2, 2021

Ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach, as well as in Europe and other global locations. West Coast have gone up 228% compared to the same period last year, and these rates are expected to stay high for most of the rest of the year. Ships are stacked up at major U.S. Shipping companies themselves are reaping major profits.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Did You Know That …. Significance.

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Savi

MARCH 14, 2019

Last week, the Savi Team once again attended the Trans-Pacific Maritime (TPM) conference in Long Beach, California, but this year the team detected a noticeable shift in the conversation. When companies and manufacturers share more information, it can lead to an efficient global supply chain.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 22, 2022

The shipping industry contributes to 25% of America’s total GDP with the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach being the busiest, handling more than 40% of all inbound cargo shipped to the U.S. This in turn makes it challenging to accurately estimate lead times, and schedule onward manufacturing and distribution.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Over 100 ships waited to unload containers in December at Los Angeles and Long Beach, the U.S. Higher fuel surcharges were added to all modes of transportation to recoup higher prices. Delays were resulting in not only higher costs to retailers and other shippers but also resulting in empty shelves for various goods.

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Elementum

JULY 28, 2015

On July 21, truckers working for the Pacific 9 Transportation company went on indefinite strike, causing further congestion problems and delays at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Strikes and Wage Hikes.

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