Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2023

I attend this conference every year, but this time, strolling the exhibition floor and surveying the 110+ technology providers’ latest wares, I was struck by a dichotomy. This is much easier than it used to be, provided companies take an API-first approach to their data strategies and insist that their technology partners do the same.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

According to a survey by Deloitte from 2014, 79 % of companies with high-performing supply chains achieve revenue growth superior to the average within their industries. Supply Chain Strategy. In 2014, a survey by Tompkins Consortium delivered a shocking revelation. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 9, 2019

According to a survey by Deloitte from 2014, 79 % of companies with high-performing supply chains achieve revenue growth superior to the average within their industries. Supply Chain Strategy. In 2014, a survey by Tompkins Consortium delivered a shocking revelation. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A year before, in 2014, a Harvard Business Review article pointed out that supply chains were becoming increasingly global and complex and consequently more at risk than before. Unfortunately, the state of disruption to the current landscape has never been contemplated and very few strategies exist to navigate it.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2022

My company, FourKites , recently partnered with Reuters to survey over 450 supply chain leaders across the continent to learn about the concerns and challenges surrounding European supply chains, sustainability and the role of real-time visibility in streamlining operations.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JULY 24, 2018

However, their ability to collect from customers and manage inventory actually both deteriorated, masked by a significant increase in the time companies take to pay suppliers, according to the latest Working Capital Survey results from The Hackett Group. Overall, the survey found the companies had a Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC) of 33.8

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2023

Every year, the National Retail Federation conducts a survey on St. Patrick’s Day, up from 54 percent in 2022 and the highest in the history of the survey. Amazon Air’s CVG hub is a critical component in that strategy. It’s a day to wear green, and apparently, spend some green as well. Patrick’s Day spending.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2023

And a FourKites survey of 350+ supply chain leaders tells us that the past few years of supply chain disruptions — including COVID-19, market volatility, global political conflict, material shortages and extreme weather events — drove 73% of respondents to begin investing in supply chain visibility, with 46% planning to invest more in 2023.

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Logistics in War

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Too few commanders have realised that logistics readiness underpins their strategies, or defines capabilities or the way their forces will fight. Some get it right, and base strategies on the capacity given to forces by their sustaining echelons, bases or auxiliary vessels.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 10, 2015

Jabil sponsored a global Dimensional Research survey to capture hard data on current experiences, challenges and trends with the supply chains of electronics manufacturing companies. INFOGRAPHIC] Top 10 Logistics and Supply Chain Facts of 2014. Top Supply Chain Blog Posts from 2014. Top Supply Chain Blog Posts from 2013.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

As a leading flood alleviation solutions provider, Adler and Allan offer a variety of services designed to establish flood risk and then mitigate from flooding; including professional surveys, flood risk assessment, flood defences and civil engineering measures. Businesses must become much more proactive in their flood mitigation strategy.

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Logistics in War

JULY 23, 2019

Too few commanders have realised that logistics readiness underpins their strategies, or defines capabilities or the way their forces will fight. Some get it right, and base strategies on the capacity given to forces by their sustaining echelons, bases or auxiliary vessels.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2020

1] In the US, the number of women-owned businesses increased by 21% between 2014 and 2019, outpacing the overall growth of businesses by 11% [2]. As this stands almost half of those surveyed would not have a programme in operation by 2022 of which some may take many years to start having a tangible impact. Supply chain diversity today.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 14, 2015

It is surprising then that despite the hundreds of millions of RFID tags sold this year alone that, according to results from the 2014 GS1 US Standards Usage Survey, finally saw the technology living up to the hype in the logistics industry in the last few years.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2020

1] In the US, the number of women-owned businesses increased by 21% between 2014 and 2019, outpacing the overall growth of businesses by 11% [2]. As this stands almost half of those surveyed would not have a programme in operation by 2022 of which some may take many years to start having a tangible impact. Supply chain diversity today.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 7, 2015

Yesterday we had said we concluded our most popular blog posts by category for the blog posts written from our major categories for 2014. We featured out of our 200 plus blog posts in 2014, over 50 blog posts in the manufacturing category. Top 11 thru 20 Most Popular Manufacturing Blog Posts of 2014. Read the Full Blog Post.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Warehouse management rests at the heart of an effective transportation management strategy, and an inefficient, error-laden system results in poor shipping procedures, poor customer satisfaction, and deviations from best practices. INFOGRAPHIC] Top 10 Logistics and Supply Chain Facts of 2014. Read the full article here. .

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 20, 2015

This estimate is according to responses provided by 83 percent of the manufacturing executives who participated in a survey conducted as part of an industry study by the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte Consulting LLP. Skills Shortages. skilled production workers. researchers. machinists. scientists.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 28, 2015

This strategy became famous in 1995 when Jack Welch implemented it at GE. 2014 to Today and beyond: The Rise of Industry 4.0. This adds more efficiency to the workplace and more manufacturing competition. 1981: Six Sigma Developed by Motorola. The quality system seeks to remove defects and minimize errors. Click for Bigger Graphic.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 9, 2015

After a lackluster 2014, optimism is back in the market. A recent survey conducted by ETF has revealed that 3PL service providers are quite optimistic regarding their company’s business prospects in the next 12 months. Cautious Optimism Abound in the Logistics Outsourcing Outlook.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 14, 2018

Those are some of the takeaways from the recently-released “ Home-Delivery Shopping Survey ” issued this week by global consulting firm AlixPartners. days based on the survey’s findings, continuing a downward trend over the past few years, with 2016 at 4.8 days, 2014 at 5.0 days, and 2012 at 5.5

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 28, 2016

Additionally, 81 percent of students who participated in Manufacturing Day 2015 who were surveyed showed an increased interest in pursuing a manufacturing career. On September 29th, 2014, $450 million were appropriated in grants to community colleges and trade schools for students to further this cause.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 6, 2015

million manufacturing jobs would have been created through the third quarter of 2014. This report uses a unique data set from the American Community Survey (ACS) to estimate the distribution of employment in each state and congressional district. In 2013, the U.S. manufacturing sector directly employed 12 million workers, or about 8.8

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 16, 2017

The freight capacity crunch has dominated supply chain and logistics since 2014, and many shippers fear it will arrive sooner than many experts believe. In the 2017 State of the North American Supply Chain Survey , only 11 percent, one in nine respondents, expressed issues with capacity over the past year. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In 2014, Deere & Company was listed 80th in the Fortune 500 America’s ranking and in 2013 was 307th in the Fortune Global 500 ranking. The Path to Cost Reduction: Intel decided to try what was considered an unlikely supply chain strategy for the semiconductor industry: a true make-to-order scenario.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 27, 2016

The primary consumer and investor of robots in North America, the automotive industry, decreased robot ordering from 41 percent in 2005 to 21 percent in 2014. The trend for better, smarter robotics is spreading to new industries as well. So, how does this affect the workforce.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 11, 2018

The survey is based on feedback from a comScore survey of more than 18,000 global online shoppers and was issued over the first three quarters of 2017. That is slightly ahead of 2016’s 51%, as well as the 47% and 48% recorded in 2014 and 2015, respectively. And with the exception of Asia at 64%, the 5-9 p.m. for next day).

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 16, 2018

According to a recent survey on challenges in the maritime shipping industry which was jointly conducted by technology firm Navis LLC and Business Performance Innovation Network, 82% of the 200 shippers, intermediaries, carriers, operators, and handlers which were surveyed agreed that supply chain visibility needs to improve.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2019

In 2014, Deere & Company was listed 80th in the Fortune 500 America’s ranking and was 307th in the 2013 Fortune Global 500 ranking. The Path to Cost Reduction: Intel decided to try what was considered an unlikely supply chain strategy for the semiconductor industry: make to order.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 7, 2018

When I was recruited to be the CEO at the Port of Long Beach in 2014, the biggest concern was to get the dockside labor and management issues put aside,” Slangerup recalls. Port terminal survey reveals more on automation trends. This is important because rail is playing a key role in our responsible growth strategy. says Gupta.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 7, 2018

When I was recruited to be the CEO at the Port of Long Beach in 2014, the biggest concern was to get the dockside labor and management issues put aside,” Slangerup recalls. Port terminal survey reveals more on automation trends. This is important because rail is playing a key role in our responsible growth strategy. says Gupta.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 27, 2015

You may want to introduce some checks or surveys throughout the year rather than waiting till the end of the year to find out if you’ve achieved your objective. Join us in the next post in the series as we show you practical techniques to carry through the strategies around effective KPI management within logistics.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 28, 2016

Google’s 2014 purchase of the British firm Deep Mind for something more than $ 400 million produced a bonanza of publicity earlier this year, when its game playing program whipped a human master of the ancient strategy game Go.

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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Zvi Schreiber, CEO of Freightos , an online freight marketplace founded in Tel Aviv, says carriers may be hurting themselves by employing this strategy, especially if carriers try to “signal” rate information to keep them artificially high. His career with NOL/APL spanned more than 30 years. “So,

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 4, 2016

These recall counts point to sizeable growth over the past decade in the recall notices of Chinese-made consumer goods from 58 in 2002 to 153 in 2014. The CPSC publishes online a listing of recalls by country or administrative area of manufacture and year. This is not surprising given the sharp rise in goods imported from China.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Instance Consolidation Strategy. January 2014. Copyright © 2014 Infosys Limited. Overall,retailers performed a decent job in forecasting holiday demand,managing promotions and overall inventory in the 2010 season. What therefore should retailers expect in the upcoming 2011 season? Categories. Generic SCM (130). Trademarks.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

According to a National Retail Federation survey conducted by BIGresearch over this weekend, traffic and spending were up both online and in stores, reaching historic highs. Instance Consolidation Strategy. January 2014. Copyright © 2014 Infosys Limited. Categories. Generic SCM (130). December 2013. November 2013.

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