Supply Chain Brain

JULY 22, 2024

The program is designed to give women- and minority-owned small businesses the chance to learn the skills needed to work and grow within the maritime industry.

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Multichannel Merchant

MAY 11, 2023

Drone delivery provider Zipline is adding three new clients including health and wellness retailer GNC, pharmaceutical logistics firm Associated Couriers and Seattle-based eatery Pagliacci Pizza, expanding its footprint and building on its success delivering vaccines in Africa during the pandemic and working with retail giant Walmart.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Added Development A published report this week penned by noted and respected Seattle Times Aerospace Reporter Domenic Gates adds a new and previously undisclosed development up until now. Boeing reportedly declined to specify how many total positions in the Seattle area would be impacted by cuts.

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Multichannel Merchant

OCTOBER 14, 2022

from Seattle to Austin to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Mountain View, CA and Washington, D.C. Based on the listing titles, Seattle, Los Angeles and Mountain View seem to be where facilities will be located here initially, as well as in London, Bangkok, Madrid and São Paulo.

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 10, 2017

For van freight, we’re starting to see hot markets shift westward, with big rate increases out of Seattle, Los Angeles, Denver and Stockton, CA. Outbound van rates have soared more than 40% in Seattle in the past month. Seattle to Eugene, OR surged 70¢ to an average of $3.14/mile. RISING LANES. mile average.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 5, 2023

Shiv Agarwal, former Staples exec and co-founder of Fabric is now leading Foundation, a Seattle startup that just announced a $3 million seed round to fuel growth of its wholesale e-commerce platform.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 22, 2024

The renovated building will house 15,000 square feet of new work spaces, as well as areas that can be reserved for meetings, seminars, and classes.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights a breaking news development related to Seattle based trucking based Cloud platform provider Convoy. Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal and other industry specific media are reporting that Seattle based digital freight start-up services provider Convoy is preparing for a possible sale or other action.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 6, 2022

We then opened a distribution center in Seattle to use their ports up there instead of the ports in Long Beach and Los Angeles, which are extremely backed up. Although the ports in Seattle are busy too, it allowed us a bit more leeway when scheduling our shipments from overseas.” – Frank Roemisch, Easyflex.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 24, 2022

Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, FlavorCloud makes international shipping and returns easy, affordable, and friction-free, enabling brands and 3PLs (Third Party Logistics Providers) to go global in any part of the world. About FlavorCloud.

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Kinaxis

JANUARY 14, 2015

We are down to the final four teams: Seattle Seahawks, New England Patriots, Indianapolis Colts and the Green Bay Packers. Seattle Seahawks. Seattle Seahawks. Seattle Seahawks. Seattle Seahawks. Seattle Seahawks. Seattle Seahawks. I grew up in Pittsburgh, and it is Steelers all day. Merchandise.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

New York, Chicago, Detroit, Dallas, Los Angeles, Seattle, and San Francisco. To promote inclusivity, CABI and the Subu Kota Foundation put together a U.S. tour for the reigning World Champion Indian Men’s Cricket Team for the Blind across nine cities: Boston, Washington D.C.,

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DAT Solutions

OCTOBER 4, 2017

One exception was out West: Rates on the lane from Seattle to Salt Lake City gained 36¢ at $2.25/mile. For carriers, van loads coming out of Seattle often pay backhaul rates, but rates have been on the rise on a few lanes in recent weeks. One lane that still doesn’t pay well, though, is the one from Seattle to Stockton, CA.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

JUNE 5, 2023

Dockworkers have throttled cargo operations from Southern California to Seattle in a series of walkouts and slowdowns, the WSJ Logistics Report’s Paul Berger writes, in a blunt sign of deep divisions between the union and port employers after more than a year of contract negotiations. West Coast ports.

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Supply Chain Brain

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Seattle-based Basel Action Network sounded the alarm that more than 800 tons of electric arc furnace dust were being illegally transported after the group received a tipoff.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 1, 2023

Reporting by The Seattle Times, business broadcasting network CNBC , and statements from Amazon differ on the overall number of workers that participated. According to reporting from The Seattle Times , workers provided images of walkouts involving Brussels, Chicago, London, Miami , as well as offices in Virginia and Idaho.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 13, 2024

The Stakes for Boeing An editorial commentary published by the Seattle Times in mid-March ( Paid subscription or metered view ), began with the following sentence: “ You know a company is in deep trouble when comedians and stock analysts take similar jabs.”

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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The trade gateways in the U.S. Pacific Northwest are standing out for their calm relative to the congestion bedeviling ports from Los Angeles to Savannah, Georgia.

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DAT Solutions

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Stockton volumes were also up sharply, but Seattle volumes rose most, 34%, and are expected to rise for the next several weeks as they work through the bottleneck of vessels in Puget Sound. Both the Seattle and Los Angeles markets saw some double digit rate increases: Seattle to Eugene, OR moved up 26¢ to $2.88/mile.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 29, 2015

Both teams (the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks) sport a 14-4 … Continued The post What the Super Bowl Can Teach Us about Supply Chain Risk Management appeared first on Enterra Solutions. This year’s Super Bowl looks pretty evenly matched. Best Practices Big Data Risk Management Supply Chain Business'

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 19, 2022

The specific quote by O’Leary that caught our attention was: “ Boeing needs a management reboot in Seattle, and either the existing management needs to up its game or they need to change the existing management.” Seattle was an apparent reference to the company’s commercial aircraft business unit management.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

After reports last week indicating that Seattle based digital freight start-up services provider Convoy was preparing for a possible sale or winding down of business operations there are indications that freight logistics platform provider Flexport will be the acquirer of Convoy’s underlying technology.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 6, 2022

SanMar was founded by Marty Lott from the basement of a Seattle office building in 1971. Noonan revealed the emphasis the company places on sustainability, revealed the lessons learned along its journey, and highlighted a roadmap that others can follow.

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 18, 2018

And in July 2018, Seattle imposed the first U.S. Seattle-based Starbucks, recognizing the mood of its customers, announced (shortly before the Seattle ban became public) that they will eliminate all plastic straws by 2020. ban on straws, following the lead of Vancouver a few months earlier. Portland, Ore., and San Francisco.

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Supply Chain Brain

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Roughly 33,000 Boeing workers have been on strike since September 13, idling the planemaker’s main jetliner factories near Seattle.

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DAT Solutions

MARCH 18, 2019

That led to an increase on the lane from Seattle to Salt Lake City , as an alternative to bringing in supplies from Denver. Seattle to Salt Lake City moved up to $1.90/mi. An abundance of capacity has caused van rates to move lower, even though freight volumes in 2019 are actually above previous years' levels. Rising Rates.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The offering was unveiled this week at Amazon Accelerate, a conference that drew about 2,000 online merchants to Seattle. Amazon on Tuesday announced that the service, which is currently in a pilot test, will be more broadly available later this year.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In March Supply Chain Matters highlighted a published an editorial from The Seattle Times that observed: “ For Boeing, there is more at stake than what it pays for in salaries and benefits. However, we would add that the notion of garnering a higher wage rate could possibly be an added motivation for these workers.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

If further commits Boeing to building the existing 737 aircraft family within the Puget Sound production facilities, and reportedly includes new provisions that any announced future aircraft developed during the new contract period would also be produced in the Seattle area.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 5, 2016

First branded ‘Prime Air’ jet in Amazon’s fleet to fly at Seafair (Seattle Times). It’s also nice to take a break from usual stories and commentary, if only for a day. Now, on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news…. Wal-Mart in talks to buy online retailer Jet.com (Reuters). Heavy-Duty Truck Order Slump Deepens (WSJ – sub.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 7, 2024

One positive related to operational challenges is that Ortberg has reportedly elected to establish the CEO office at the company’s Seattle based production complex, rather than the existing corporate headquarters in the Washington DC area of Arlington, Virginia. That has been a recommendation from regulators. This week, the U.S.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Content Summary: Seattle ranks number 1 among the seven metro areas in supply chain management and technology occupational employment share. Content Summary: Los Angeles does not rank number 1 in any of the categories Deloitte studied, but it does rank number 2 in net job creation for supply chain-related industries. Media Type. Media Image.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 24, 2023

Prior to co-founding Flexe, Karl was CEO of AdReady, a Seattle-based advertising technology company. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, Flexe brings deep logistics expertise and enterprise-grade technology to deliver innovative eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution and network capacity programs to the Fortune 500.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

If you’re predominantly an ocean shipper, for example, make sure you [also develop relationships with] airfreight providers…make sure you keep your pricing up to date, make sure you understand the routing and transit times involved if you were to use different modes and carriers.

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Supply Chain Brain

MAY 3, 2022

The pandemic forced Plant Shop to transition quickly to a delivery model. A software application was the solution to optimizing the daily routing plan. .

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Multichannel Merchant

MARCH 17, 2020

The Seattle Times reported that surges in demand for online deliveries appeared to threw Amazon’s grocery system into disarray over this past weekend, hampering its ability to deliver grocery orders from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market. Toilet paper is the obvious, often cited example. top 10 list for ecommerce sales.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

According to published reports by The Wall Street Journal and the Seattle Times , last week the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued two rulings regarding DSP drivers. Amazon announced a similar pay bump for DSP drivers in September of last year , which we highlighted on Supply Chain Matters.

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