Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

LL4T1DCure Team Jersey 2017. In response to Hurricane Harvey, for example, JDRF and other organizations shipped more than 3,750 pounds of donated diabetes supplies to Houston (including 200,000 syringes, 50,000 pen needles and 20,000 alcohol pads) to help people with diabetes affected by the hurricane. How far is 100 miles?

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Today we will talk about how supply chain mobility will aid in this pursuit, but first let's take a look at what it means to manufacturers. Each of these definitions applies to a manufacturer’s ability to produce a surplus of a product. Imagine if the typical definitions of productive were applied to manufacturing.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 15, 2018

Sometimes I just like to live on the edge, which is definitely a qualifying status for anyone bold enough to make predictions about the future of supply chain operations and management—but I just can’t help myself. The supply chain talent gap will not be a concern in the supply chain of 2028.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2022

An example of such initiatives is the work Planet Mark undertake with Prologis UK to engage the full construction supply chain, including all contractors, to ensure end-to-end visibility of carbon emissions, thereby identifying opportunities for reductions.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 6, 2018

billion in the 2017 financial year. In 2017 we took another major step on the road to achieving our strategic and financial goals for 2020. The increase in revenue and earnings in 2017 is also reflected in improved net profit for the year. Deutsche Post DHL Group invested heavily in all four divisions once again in 2017.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

APRIL 24, 2023

For example according to the approved NATO definition, military logistics is the science of planning and carrying out the movement and maintenance of forces. The development of military logistics involves finding the most optimal, fastest and most qualitative ways of delivering supplies.

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Morai Logistics

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

President of Morai Logistics, Kelli Saunders, is Awarded 2017 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 in the Entrepreneurship category by Women’s Executive Network (WXN). On November 23rd, 2017, president of Morai Logistics, Kelli Saunders, was honoured with the 2017 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award.

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AIMMS

JANUARY 20, 2020

We are really excited to get multiple mentions in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Planning Technologies , which was released in October 2019. We feel like we’ve come a long way with our supply chain focus in recent years and Supply Chain Planning seems like ‘home sweet home,’ with all of our capabilities covered.

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Now, That's Logistics

MARCH 12, 2018

The tech that will forever transform logistics and the supply chain as we know it. Global logistics and supply chains are not immune. In 2017, 11 million new items per second were added, and by 2020, some 50 billion pieces of equipment are expected to be connected to the internet. 3D Printing.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Supply chains are ‘strangling strategy’, with the movement of commodities so significant an issue that logistics is securitising. [1] Logistics and the strangling of strategy, 2017, Logistics and the strangling of strategy – Logistics In War. [2] 1] Beaumont, D., 2] Beaumont, D., 3] Marles, R., 1] Beaumont, D., 2] Beaumont, D.,

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Bringg

DECEMBER 27, 2017

2017 was an important year for delivery logistics. But this evolution in the supply chain, and for last mile fulfillment in particular, doesn’t end with retail. From restaurant chains to supermarkets to pharmacies to service providers, the world of logistics is experiencing unprecedented change. Real-time Visibility.

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Forto

JULY 25, 2018

Every customer interaction, movement in the supply chain, and activity becomes an invaluable data asset that freight forwarders can use to refine transport cost-effectiveness and improve their customers’ supply chains. Big Data and its symbiote, analytics, are transforming supply chain management.

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247 Customs Broker

JUNE 12, 2018

The latter data point is pretty telling, especially when factoring in that unemployment is below 4% and many potential truck drive candidates prefer other options like construction, for example, which tends to pay better than driver jobs and comes with the benefit of being home every day after work, something which is not a given behind the wheel.

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PINC

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Personal consumption expenditures rose 4.3%, the best performance since the fourth quarter of 2017. For example, the latest round of tariffs that went into effect over Labor Day weekend placed additional import taxes on smartwatches, fitness trackers, desktop computers, digital cameras, and lithium batteries.

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Freightos

APRIL 24, 2018

For example, the Mei Moses Art Indices is an index for fine art, Rapaport has offered a private diamond index since 1978 and the number of real estate indexes has taken off. A definitive international container freight index is one way to provide transparency. A New Freight Index.

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Logistics in War

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

This point was recently raised in a 2017 paper by the Australian National University’s Dr Stephan Fruhling who, in his ‘Sovereign Defence Industry Capabilities, Independent Operations and the Future of Australian Defence Strategy’ , wrote of three key issues with the current paradigm of strategic thinking about industry. New Scenarios.

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Logistics Manager

MAY 1, 2018

Carriers have understandably then been keenly focused on managing costs, but the results of the second half of 2017 showed that some of them have recovered enough to a point where they can begin thinking about other investments. For example, in high risk environments like automated terminals, things break down and someone needs to fix it.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 6, 2018

The average salary inched up from $113,175 to $114,250 this past year, with the median salary also moving a bit higher, from $90,000 in 2017 to $93,000 in 2018. says that he’s now charged with anticipating and mitigating risk at every juncture of the supply chain. “We There’s never a dull moment.”. On-line education advantage.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 21, 2019

In 2017, Poland produced 689,700 finished vehicles, 1.2% In 2017, finished vehicle sales in the EU increased by only 3% over the previous year, compared with growth of 7% in 2016 and more than 9% in 2015, Opala points out. up on the previous year, according to the Polish Automotive Industry Association. to 514,700 units. .

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247 Customs Broker

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

retail stores closed in 2017, roughly double the average annual store closures in the previous decade, according to data from the International Council of Shopping Centers. The disappearance of Toys ‘R’ Us leaves a void for hundreds of toy makers that relied on the chain as a top customer alongside Walmart and Target. Download Now!

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 26, 2018

To meet with storage demand in the future, it is imperative that all stakeholders in the supply chain work together to smooth the nautical chain and enhance the terminal efficiency to create more flexibility and space.”. in 2017 to a total of 14.9m According to the port of Zeebrugge, Scandinavian ro-ro freight grew 4.3%

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 10, 2018

Gantt: We are busy across the entire market, whether it is the industrial economy, the retail economy, and everything else we, like our medical business, for example. How much is somewhat hard to say, but there is definitely some to be sure. It really applies to all aspects of our industry relating to our customers’ business lines.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2022

The 2030 roadmap is targeting a reduction in CO2 emissions of 33% for scopes 1 and 2, and of 16% for scope 3, versus 2017 ( definition for scopes 1, 2, and 3 ). New acquisitions, for example, won’t lead to a prorated calculation that factors out emissions from the acquired company from the carbon target. and Data Science.

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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Using localised engines or transmissions will score 40 points, for example, while electronic systems or aluminium of Russian origin will score 20 points. . The legislative changes being proposed will clearly have a complex impact on supply chains in Russia, with different consequences for different carmakers. . Complex impact.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 16, 2018

In November 2017, ICDP’s data suggests that inventories of landed stock for volume brands in Europe stood at over 80 days, up from 55 days in the early 2000s. If the usual measures used to stimulate demand don’t work and dealers aren’t moving their stock quickly enough, he adds, “the whole process just backs up through the supply chain.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In late 2017 I published a post of anecdotes, observations and lessons given by senior officers contacted through the course of academic research. The disclaimer provided in 2017 applies: This post is a collation of pertinent points imparted through these conversations. By David Beaumont.

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Logistics in War

DECEMBER 7, 2019

In late 2017 I published a post of anecdotes, observations and lessons given by senior officers contacted through the course of academic research. The disclaimer provided in 2017 applies: This post is a collation of pertinent points imparted through these conversations. By David Beaumont.

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Automotive Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

In late August 2017, Hurricane Harvey – the storm that devastated the Caribbean, flattening Puerto Rico – made landfall on the Texas coast. Supply chain disruption was felt worldwide, with plants in Asia, North America and Europe hit by parts shortages – and in many cases, production took months to restart. Claims on the rise.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2018

In a further example of Android-based ‘micro-applications’, another customer’s requirement for vehicle data capture had outgrown the capabilities of a simple yard scanner, and so was supplemented by paper-based data capture, recorded on a batch basis. The Volkswagen Group has become a prime example. Not so monolithic any more.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 3, 2019

They operate with less infrastructure than other technologies, for example–stocktaking without forklifts and personnel.”. BMW, for example, has started to use dronesat its factory in Leipzig to count external storage bins for parts – work that was previously done by personnel. Philipp Wrycza, research fellow, Fraunhofer IML.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 18, 2018

With a gross domestic product (GDP) of about US$136bn in 2017, the city is already acclaimed to have the seventh-largest GDP in Africa. So did Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichal in July 2017. Although the Dubai example is perhaps a long shot, the promoters of Smart City Lagos are right to aim that high.

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247 Customs Broker

DECEMBER 5, 2018

billion net loss, which was steeper than the FY 2017 $2.7 And between fiscal years 2017 and 2019, total USPS net losses came in at $69 billion and is expected to lose tens of billions over the next decade. Jeff Berman is Group News Editor for Logistics Management , Modern Materials Handling , and Supply Chain Management Review.

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

He said port customers and stakeholders were looking for better visibility of their cargo – when it was going to arrive and where it was at any point in the supply chain – and meeting those needs was another way of highlighting the importance of the ports. We saw longer lead times that definitely impacted our customers.”.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 2, 2019

Adaptable trailers – for example, those that can be turned from car-carriers into flatbeds suitable for more general cargo – provide the flexibility to find non-automotive backloads, reducing the longstanding problem of empty running (see interview with Bill Pawluk below). says Amico. “We What if it’s just other [wheeled] freight?”

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

MH&L’s Editorial Advisory Board tackles some of the toughest topics facing the supply chain today. That’s why we went to the experts—the members of the MH&L Editorial Advisory Board—and asked them to weigh in on that subject, and on several other of the most pressing concerns to supply chain professionals.

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