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. We Assumed that Transportation Would Always Be Available And That We Just Needed to Negotiate Price. Build Strong Supply Chain Sourcing Development Practices. In parallel, inflation, currently at 6%, is climbing.

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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. Source E2open Shipping Index). We started the conversation with sourcing. Lucas had a team that dictated sourcing based on excel spreadsheet analysis to reduce cost and improve tax efficiency. So, we began the discussion.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Look at the 72 ships off the coast of Long Beach (up 65% from a year ago). Bi-directional orchestration is the constant redesign of the supply chain across make, source, and deliver to improve outcomes and reliability.) Could Outside-in Thinking Help? (Bi-directional

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Look at the 72 ships off the coast of Long Beach (up 65% from a year ago). Bi-directional orchestration is the constant redesign of the supply chain across make, source, and deliver to improve outcomes and reliability.) Could Outside-in Thinking Help? (Bi-directional

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. 28% of global retailers have tried to find alternative sourcing options due to supply chain issues (RetailNext, 2020). Source: Consultancy.UK. Image source: Fortune. Image source: Financial Times. Image source: Bloomberg. Consultancy UK).

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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. Source E2open Shipping Index). We started the conversation with sourcing. Lucas had a team that dictated sourcing based on excel spreadsheet analysis to reduce cost and improve tax efficiency. So, we began the discussion.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 29, 2022

One of the players in this market, Resilinc, is monitoring 105 million data sources. Those components get trucked by the Vietnamese Railways, loaded, and then transported to the Haiphong port, where a freight forwarder ensures the container is loaded on an Ocean carrier. This data needs to be curated.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2016

While the solutions are sourced from the same provider, each has a different data definition. Rule sets –like ATP, VMI, Transportation Routing, Allocation and Assortment logic– are simple rule sets. Unloading a container in Long Beach varies by the season; yet the planning systems have a fixed value.

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Exiger Perspectives

JANUARY 13, 2025

Californias role as a vital nexus for transportation, technology, and industrial machinery places manufacturing supply chains at significant risk from the ongoing wildfires. Power outages, evacuations, and closures of key transportation routes have disrupted production and distribution networks in the Southern California region and beyond.

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QAD

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The Port of Los Angeles is joining the Port of Long Beach in doubling operational hours to 24/7. Communicate closely with transportation providers, supplying inbound and outbound forecasts and issuing delivery orders in advance of vessel arrival. Global Trade and Transportation Execution. In October, the U.S.

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3rdwave

MARCH 20, 2020

Without inbound international transportation, product level visibility organizations are flying blind – or, they are at a minimum, severely visually impaired. I just got off a call from the Director of Supply Chain with a retailer who is experiencing major angst because many of their products are directly or indirectly sourced overseas.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 21, 2017

MacroPoint Announces Platform Integration with JDA Transportation Management Solution. Long Beach ports emits only water from tailpipe (OCR). Source: Amazon patent. On the software front, just when you thought “Does the market need another transportation management system (TMS)?” along comes Haven TMS.

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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. I find no agency or entity trying to find a holistic solution to global logistics. Leaders are flying blind.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. Labor and management work out deal at Port of LA/Long Beach ( Logistics Management ). Con-way Truckload and Con-way Multimodal Join Forces to Launch New Intermodal Service for North America.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 22, 2024

While multi-industry logistics, transportation and customer fulfilment teams might have languished with a sigh of relief, they are likely to be aware that this new contract is not a done deal yet. Yet, there is still a reported lag times related to movement of containers to intermodal inland rail or surface trucking transportation.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

JULY 21, 2014

  The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are vital to the LA economy, not only because they provide a significant number of jobs in the shipping and logistics industries, but also because they give the city itself a competitive edge with regard to shipping times and transportation costs when it comes to operating a global businesses here.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

December 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Transportation Department pushes tough oil train standards – sources (Reuters). Rand McNally Releases Game-Changing “TND™ Tablet” for Professional Drivers. Chainalytics Introduces FMIQ Monthly Benchmarking Index.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 6, 2015

Guest Blogger, Rich Chrzanowski — Container volume at US ports hit an all-time high in 2014 and a DOT transportation study projects volume to more than triple in coming years. Compounding the problem is the emergence of megaships which are taxing the aging infrastructure of US ports leading to long back-ups for trucking.

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Stord

APRIL 7, 2019

Ports across the country are updating their progress on clean air goals for both rail and truck transportation. In California, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach released a clean trucks assessment, the next step in their public plan to establish zero-emissions trucking at their facilities by 2035.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 18, 2021

While some of these events are hard to predict and plan, there are things that you can do, such as diversifying distribution center locations, sourcing, etc. This is due to the magnitude of the trade lanes and exports the port touches. We need to build resiliency around supply chain and continue to have options to navigate. Final thoughts.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 13, 2022

Nearly all goods, bulk, and liquid as well as more obvious commodities, are capable of being transported by this method, whilst specialized containers and new fittings are frequently introduced to an already sophisticated market. ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach which saw their busiest March on record, handling a combined 898,287 TEU’s.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 15, 2022

West Coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Andrade goes on to make the case for CEO ’s to seriously consider assessments for moving manufacturing to domestic or near-shored sourcing locations. Reports further indicate that parts of the city of Shanghai have experienced targeted lockdowns as a result of variant spread.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 29, 2024

Other specific data cited was a reported 15 percent increase in June, over May, of 20 foot equivalent container imports processed by the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. While that value is noted as three times higher than this index stood at the end of 2023, it has reportedly snapped a 12-week long advance.

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Intelligent Audit

MARCH 5, 2020

In the first quarter of 2020, containership operators have already canceled 60+ trans-pacific sailings to the ports of LA and Long Beach. In addition, we’re seeing an increase in transportation costs for US exporters in China due to congestion at Chinese ports. Looking at Past Outbreaks. Looking Forward. Looking Forward.

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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 Current Year 2022. seen as a likely alternative.

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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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Zipline Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2021

to 22.7%, breaking a four-month-long trend of steady decline (excluding holiday impact).”. Source FreightWaves’ Market Update. As many as 30 container ships were waiting to be unloaded at the Port of Long Beach at one point. Source FreightWaves’ Monthly Market Update. from beginning to end of the month.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In addition to boosting night-time operations at the backed-up port of LA/Long Beach, Target is seeking to hire 30,000 new permanent staff for supply chains. The smaller ships currently transport only a small percentage of the retailers’ goods—less than 20% in the case of Costco. 12 statement.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2023

tractor fleet and sourcing 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, according to the press release. British supermarkets source peppers exclusively from Spain during the winter months. The adjacent Port of Long Beach also saw a significant decline in container volume in March. percent by 2030.

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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. Starting with the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in nationwide lockdowns that put a temporary stop to raw materials transport.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

While China’s domestic transport infrastructure is ranked high on global indices (e.g. The “Economic Belt” shortens rail transport time from China and Europe, with the prospect of spurring Central Asian and Eastern Europe economies, with better trade connections to Western Europe and North East Asia.

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Freightos

MARCH 5, 2017

Report from TPM Long Beach. It’s the freshly appointed CEO of CMA CGM, Rodolphe Saadé, speaking about the new opportunities that lie online during a session at Journal of Commerce’s TPM 2017 in Long Beach. Lessons from CMA CGM, Maersk and K+N on Transparency and Digitalization. By Zvi Schreiber, CEO, Freightos.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Port closures resulted in ocean containers being re-routed to other east coast ports, causing transportation and fulfillment delays. Sourcing,Procurement,Contract & Spend Management (38). Customer Service.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Strategies include sourcing more items directly from manufacturers to improve margins, SKU rationalization and space reduction, “show more carry less” and assisted-store ordering. About 40% of VF Corp’s production is sourced from the Americas, more than double the industry average. million items each day.

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3rdwave

MARCH 28, 2019

Sitting at the airport awaiting my flight back home provides an opportunity to reflect back on my experience at the TPM 2019 conference in Long Beach, California. For those that are not familiar with the TPM conference, or Trans-Pacific Maritime, it is the premier conference for the container shipping industry.

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3rdwave

MARCH 28, 2019

Sitting at the airport awaiting my flight back home provides an opportunity to reflect back on my experience at the TPM 2019 conference in Long Beach, California. For those that are not familiar with the TPM conference, or Trans-Pacific Maritime, it is the premier conference for the container shipping industry.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Whether you''re a manufacturing company in China, a sourcing agent in London or a world''s leading company in Silicon Valley, we''re all in a global supply chain networks. That might mean diverting from Los Angeles/Long Beach to Canada or Mexico. Hold your imports as long as possible before committing to final delivery.

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