Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

The solution can answer questions like where should new production or distribution capacity be located to optimally accommodate anticipated growth in demand? How will total landed costs be impacted by adding a new supplier? How do we best handle surging transportation costs? What factory should make a new product?

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Mazars Ledger

MARCH 31, 2015

Of those filings, approximately 47,000 (25%)… The post How to Avoid a Last Minute or Late Form 5500 Filing appeared first on Insights Center - Mazars - United States. Thus far, there have been approximately 191,000 2013 calendar year end Form 5500 filings.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In 2015, The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) carried out an opinion survey looking at the driver shortage crisis. The aim of this report is to establish a series of recommendations to fleet operators, industry and government, by examining the data and comparing it to the last report from 2015. Goods movement.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

We enable our clients to focus on their operations by taking care of their daily needs, that’s our core, going to remote or challenging areas and knowing how to mobilise for them.”. We’re in the support business. He is a huge admirer of the logistics mentality. Logistics is in our DNA.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

It helps to coordinate all of the available data points in a transport network, including rates, route options, warehouse supply, and distribution. In 2015, the state of transportation management systems is good, with the industry slated to see tremendous growth in the coming few years.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 6, 2015

Look out for great stuff in 2015! It’s a lot of work to effectively manage freight and that is evident as readers gobbled up posts around freight claims, freight shipment processing by understanding the documentation and how to class your freight so you can get a freight rate. Happy New Year and we hope you enjoy!

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Ottawa Logistics

MARCH 24, 2022

As a matter of fact, Microsoft has one of the best logistics structures in the world, with much of its fulfillment and distribution actually piggybacking on the resources of hardware developers. Here are five ways that your fulfillment and distribution is likely draining your wallet today.

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EazyStock

OCTOBER 20, 2020

There are hundreds of inventory control blog posts on how to organize warehouses, track goods and pick and pack efficiently. Inventory control is the process of managing and regulating the supply, storage and distribution of stock. Blog post originally published Aug 2015; updated Oct 2020. What is stock optimization?

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 21, 2018

In short, blockchain by itself does not solve the “garbage in, garbage out” data quality problem; you’ll still have garbage data, but in a distributed ledger that’s better encrypted and traceable. Don’t get me wrong, as I wrote back in December 2015, I believe blockchain has the potential to improve supply chain processes.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

As we close the year of 2015, we want to take a look at some manufacturing trends for 2016. Over the past decade, the application of e-commerce in manufacturing and industrial distribution, has evolved from basic communication and transaction channel between buyer and seller, to an end-to-end collaboration medium between all stakeholders.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 9, 2016

While the parodies are quite “terrifying,” the problem remains, but one piece of legislation, passed in December 2015, the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act ), offers a solution, and actionable steps are being laid out to define a way to dramatically reshape the infrastructure-landscape in several key ways.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Currently, it remains the case that as e-commerce continues to grow, most shippers, particularly multi-channel shippers, are still only just beginning to work out what this will entail for their distribution network infrastructures. Let us know in the comments below and look out for more great logistics content in 2015!

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GlobalTranz

JULY 14, 2015

The Internet of Things (IoT) seems to be popping up in more conversations throughout the entire supply chain , and more businesses have turned towards IoT experts for guidance on how to take advantage of its benefits. The Internet radically changed how the world communicates.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

At one point, the steamship lines owned the chassis and oversaw their distribution at the ports and inland container yards. Negotiations threaten to stretch well into 2015, but the ramifications of this could be felt much longer. Contact me so we can discuss how to bring over 100 years of success to work for you. Chassis Issues.

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EazyStock

MAY 20, 2020

The report investigated the adoption of key supply chain technologies by businesses of all sizes across the globe, between 2015-19: The lack of investment in digitalization is disappointing, but not surprising. In 2019 MHI and Deloitte published their report “Elevating Supply Chain Digital Consciousness”.

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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 26, 2018

East Coast trade between the September reporting periods in 2015 and 2016, which likely was fueled by the Panama Canal’s third set of locks opening in June 2016 , allowing the canal to handle vessels of over 14,000 TEUs. West Coast trade was 8,185 TEUs, up 10.1 percent and 1.9 Volumes have been surging at Inland Port Greer since it opened.

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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 26, 2018

East Coast trade between the September reporting periods in 2015 and 2016, which likely was fueled by the Panama Canal’s third set of locks opening in June 2016 , allowing the canal to handle vessels of over 14,000 TEUs. West Coast trade was 8,185 TEUs, up 10.1 percent and 1.9 Volumes have been surging at Inland Port Greer since it opened.

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Compactor Management Company

JUNE 2, 2023

Before you consider throwing them away, it’s important to explore how to recycle clothes. Otherwise, your outdated wardrobe could contribute to the staggering number of microfibers, expected to reach 22 million tons in the ocean between 2015 and 2050, due to the textile industry’s impact. How to Recycle Clothes?

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 13, 2016

Unfortunately, the capacity crunch is real, and shippers need to know how to face the prospects of a slower 2016 to stay competitive and meet the demands of their customers and partner businesses. Yet, contractual parties, such as third party logistics providers ( 3PLs ) are expecting increases in freight of between 2 and 3 percent from 2015.

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Bringg

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In the US alone, the B2C parcel delivery market is expected to be worth nearly $50 billion by 2019, up from $35 billion in 2015! With the recent explosion of Bitcoin value and blockchain technologies, there is a lot of speculation and ideas about how to leverage blockchain protocol to improve supply chains. Openness to the Unknown.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 29, 2018

The report, which was published in October, explained that Amazon first began work on this service, entitled Seller Flex, in India in 2015 and subsequently “slowly marketing” it to United States-based merchants with an eye on a national expansion. And it noted that its U.S. These tasks are currently handled for Amazon by UPS and FedEx.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

But, many warehouses and distribution centers remain challenged with moving pallets quickly, efficiently and accurately. In 2015, Trinchero began building a one-of-a-kind winery and temperature-controlled warehouse on a 500-acre plot of land in Lodi, Calif., Trinchero also produces a portfolio of spirits and distributes imported wines.

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Trinity Logistics

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

According to the data from the FMCSA , in 2015, 415,000 crashes occurred involving large trucks. HOW TO MINIMIZE DETENTION AND DOCK DELAYS. By distributing the responsibility among everyone, organizations will be able to proactively keep wait times at a minimum. It also affects safety.

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247 Customs Broker

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The area surrounding Patterson High School has become a mecca for distribution centers the last several years bringing in companies such as Amazon, Grainger, Kohls, CVS, and Restoration Hardware. Mr. Dein loves how the ATS lessons are self-paced and how the simulator provides immediate feedback and remediation.

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World Food Programme Logistics

APRIL 17, 2019

How to tackle climate change? The German Federal Foreign Office is supporting WFP’s forecast-based financing with EUR 7 million between 2015 and 2020 in Nepal, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The innovative feature is that these insurance policies are automatically distributed if?—?similar

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 14, 2022

But we believed, because we had studied TV script writing, that we knew how to pitch. You can write Breaking Bad, but if you don’t know how to pitch it, it doesn’t get made. We also had no idea how to raise capital. Couriers optimize routes by centralizing their demand and distributed over the course of the day.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Once the material is in the machine, the material itself records any deviations from the standard process, determines when it’s done, and knows how to get to its customer”. Between 2015 and 2016, the company claims that digitalisation helped it achieve $1bn in productivity gains, with a further $700m in savings forecast for 2017.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Editor’s Note: This is our second post in a two part series about how to get your logistics and transportation practices in order in time for holiday shipping or peak season crunches. The first post covered how you can get the DC or warehouse ready for the holidays or peak seasons. . Thursday, January 1, 2015 – Closed.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 6, 2018

Sure, every facility has plans, like min/max levels for SKUs, replenishment schedules and maybe even some local labor planning to assess if a distribution center can meet a peak season rush. The trick, of course, is how to make S&OP more effective, and thus more beneficial to managers in the trenches.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 12, 2018

If Modex 2018 , the biannual materials handling trade event in Atlanta, is anything like years past, some of the best-attended booths will be from companies exhibiting technologies that will power distribution centers in the next generation supply chain. The number of items needed for a slot are displayed on that location.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Editor's Note: This is our second post in a two part series about how to get your logistics and transportation practices in order in time for holiday shipping or peak season crunches. The first post covered how you can get the DC or warehouse ready for the holidays or peak seasons. . Thursday, January 1, 2015 – Closed.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

That said, the path to supply chain visibility is filled with questions – from how to achieve it; what tools are required; to – most significantly – what insight is the business looking for; what data do you need and have available; and how to connect disconnected data sources and convert those into automatic action.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

If profits start to decline afterwards, your CTS data can offer valuable information about what changed and how to get back on track. A product can be analysed in terms of overall costs to stock and distribute it. Alternative modes of service and distribution can be investigated before trying them out in practice.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 1, 2016

As of January 2015, 48 percent of manufacturers said they were ready for these revolutionary changes, according to McKinsey & Company. Mobile CRM apps support distributed order management, pricing and fulfillment by providing real-time data to manufacturing sales representatives.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In a 2015 TED talk, Bill Gates warned about the spread of a potential virus and that organizations and governments were not prepared for it. The pandemic has shown that companies struggle to have the correct distribution of parts in the inventory holding. Two predictions have come true during the pandemic.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 9, 2017

In a study conducted by Accenture in 2015 of chemical companies, results showed that 94 percent expect to boost their investment in digital capabilities in the next three years to embrace a competitive advantage. Adding digital functionality will increase customer satisfaction, streamline operations and improve efficiencies.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 6, 2015

One reason may be that they haven’t made the paradigm shift as to how to implement lean. Order accuracy from 61% to 66%; Inventory is reduced by 5 percent; Order fill rate from 60% to 66% (Capgemini Consulting: 2015 3PL Study). So how do you go about setting up a lean supply chain? Risk Management. Collaborate together.

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