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Success in Retail Logistics with Mike Jarrett

The Logistics of Logistics

Mike is the Founder of Jarrett , a leading 3PL providing transportation and logistics solutions. Prior to starting the company, Mike spent several years in the supply chain industry where he was Vice President of Carrier Operations for Hudson, Ohio–based Caliber Logistics (now known as FedEx Supply Chain Services).

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, more than 1% of the world’s container ships are stuck off major ports. Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. We are making slow progress on transportation visibility, but not supplier visibility.

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Overcoming Last Mile Hurdles with Luke Denny

The Logistics of Logistics

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. FRAYT’s vehicle options range from cars to box trucks, making it easy to transport smaller items or multiple pallet deliveries.

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A Truth About Global Transportation: It Happens Locally

Talking Logistics

As shippers of all sizes expand their global sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution operations, they have to navigate the complexities involved with global transportation management. But there’s a truth about global transportation that applies to all companies, regardless of how they became global: transportation happens locally.

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Understand the Pitfalls of IBP Before Embarking on a Supply Chain Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

GEON, headquartered in Westlake Ohio, has about 1000 employees. The company ships directly to customers and also to distributors. For example, while GEON has over 2000 customers, initially they are manually building forecasts for 600 customers and 1200 ship-to locations. These plants, in turn, produce roughly 2000 products.

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Warehouse Labor Woes Are Worse than Ever

Logistics Viewpoints

The warehouse and transportation industry had a record 490,000 openings in July. And Sleep Number is offering sign-on bonuses of as much as $1,000 at distribution centers in Ohio and California, plus free mattresses for all new hires.”. Many sectors that pay low wages have struggled to find workers. The Warehouse Labor Shortage.

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Integrating ERP and TMS: Why Your Business Needs Both Systems

GlobalTranz

While ERP systems provide excellent tools to manage accounting, human resources, customer relationships and more, they considerably lack the tools needed to properly manage transportation. This information feeds into a TMS solution’s transportation intelligence which then produces reports regarding your supply chain.