Talking Logistics

JULY 25, 2018

I haven’t attended an industry conference over the past year, or participated in a client meeting, where blockchain — along with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning — hasn’t been part of the conversation. Take EDI, for example. Identify the right people within your organization to lead the change.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Industry leaders discussed several topics at this year's CSCMP EDGE conference in Atlanta, and no subject was more important than how companies managed supply chain disruptions over the past year and the top priorities for the future. Here are several of my key takeaways from this year's meeting.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 21, 2020

Surging use of cloud-based video services such as Zoom and Cisco WebEx for business conference calls. However, with great disparities in the ability of various socio-economic groups to access high-speed broadband, governments and service providers are trying to ensure a reasonable level of connectivity for all.

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World Food Programme Logistics

MARCH 1, 2019

Spurring innovation, food safety and quality capacity strengthening and economic resilience This year’s Africa Day of School Feeding comes at the heels of the first ever Future of Food Safety Conference held at the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Kenya’s Government celebrates the handover of School Meals Programme.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 30, 2018

This year’s Supply Chain Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, was held alongside the inaugural automotiveIT International conference last week in an effort to promote the kind of communication and cross-fertilisation of ideas that could help to solve these issues. “We Speeding up response times. Turning to academia.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 7, 2017

The new Mobile Workforce Management platform allows Blackbay’s customers quickly, within hours rather than days, to configure changes to Delivery Connect’s T&L applications ensuring that they meet specific business processes. And when it comes to last-mile and home delivery operations, mobile technology has become indispensable.

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247 Customs Broker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Bilateral forums, conferences, meetings and seminars happen more often than one can count, and usually result in numerous announcements – ranging from memoranda of understanding (MoU) to billions of financial commitments. This makes Australia the largest international miner in Africa. Finally, Beijing.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Local Caption Defence’s Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG) together with BAE Systems Australia have delivered an essential ammunition capability to the Australian Defence Force three months ahead of schedule. For example, the US national security community uses the term ‘defense technology and industrial base’. [6]

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 31, 2015

It is incredibly gratifying to deliver real, bottom-line value to a big group like that. As much of a rise as I get out of getting to visit with a big group, the REAL fun is sometimes in the very small – dare I say intimate –meetings, usually no more than 2 or 4 people, that take place afterwards. published by Celebrity Press.

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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

At a meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in July, member states agreed that import duties on automotive components could only be increased by Russia after being officially signed off at the next EEU Council meeting on August 24, says Shavshina. . Complex impact.

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Automotive Logistics

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Europe’s finished vehicle sector faces several big challenges in coming months, as speakers at the recent ECG conference in Germany made clear. At last week’s annual conference of the Association of European Vehicle Logistics (ECG), held in Mainz, Germany, speakers discussed what they were doing to tackle these problems.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Each blog post written is distributed into groups that reach the supply chain community as well as professionals in manufacturing, transportation, distribution, and more. A real world example of Vendor Managed Inventory in play is electrical products company Leviton Manufacturing. Example: A once/twice Weekly purchase order cycle.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes. The processing units in an oil refinery, for example, operate at high temperature and high pressure. One example of the value of machine learning in demand planning comes from Mahindra & Mahindra. These constraints need to be understood.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 21, 2015

You may read my post on holding a supplier’s day conference at your facility so that you may increase collaboration. Creating Collaboration: Supplier Day Conference Details of The Day. These are obviously confidential meetings in a closed office by Supplier Conference Team Members. Complete one-on-one meetings.

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Logistics in War

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

This transcript is the final half of a speech given at the 2018 Australian and New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference. For example, abortive attempts to introduce logistics information systems technology and tracking in the past have resulted from choices made by logisticians based on our own comfort. What we need to be.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 10, 2018

Earlier this month, LM Group News Editor Jeff Berman caught up with Greg Gantt president and CEO of national less-than-truckload carrier Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL) at the National Shippers Strategic Transportation Council (NASSTRAC) conference in Orlando, Fla. Jeff Berman, Group News Editor. About the Author.

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Freightos

JANUARY 8, 2019

At our FreighTech 2018 conference, I spoke to 50 top-tier logistics executives about the major themes – four of them – that should guide our evolution. EasyJet, for example, uses dynamic pricing. Freightos, for example, manages a lot of private data. I’ll use the Express industry again as an example.

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The Logistics Academy

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Other ways we support experiential learning include hosting external student case competitions, touring logistics facilities, and attending industry conferences. For example, as online sales reach a record high, B2C service provider Jet.com uses some creative logistics concepts to bring value to customers.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 4, 2015

Rate: (CpK and PpK are ‘Short Term’ capability indicies using ‘Pooled’or ‘Within group’ Standard Deviation.). Conformance : Conformance is the precision with which the product or service meets the specified standards. Quality metrics is one example of information that can be provided to FDA in advance of an inspection.

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Logistics in War

JUNE 21, 2018

This transcript is the final half of a speech given at the 2018 Australian and New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference. For example, abortive attempts to introduce logistics information systems technology and tracking in the past have resulted from choices made by logisticians based on our own comfort. By David Beaumont.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In the fashion and fast-moving consumer goods sectors alone, these are more than 100 brands, including, for example, Marc O’Polo, Jack Wolfskin, KiK and Wenko. Many companies can become even more efficient – for example, by optimising the deployment of drivers with the help of trailer concepts or more decoupled loading times.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This was true more than a decade ago, when in a think tank I conducted with supply chain executives, a VP of Customs Compliance at a large pharmaceutical company expressed her frustration with the group: “You would never hire someone off the street to manage your finance operations. It’s just viewed as paperwork at our company.”.

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 16, 2018

The group collaboration has been fantastic and humbling because you go into meetings with five big egos – five large groups that have their own agendas – but they cooperate for the good of the industry,” comments Dana McBrien, associate chief advisor at Honda North America. ” – Dana McBrien, Honda North America.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 18, 2019

Bridget Grewal, director of packaging continuous improvement at Magna International, has had to utilise an advance shipping notice in addition to the traditional, globally used label recommended by the US Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), which in Magna’s case features a 2D barcode. Losses through labelling.

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CLX Logistics

JUNE 1, 2020

Groups such as production, customer service, sales, marketing, and executives often work in silos, so it’s essential to get them talking with both your 3PL and one another to help them understand how they’re connected. The 3PL should create a schedule and agenda for key meetings with you and your departments.

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Forto

MAY 17, 2021

That does not only include long travel from business meetings, from a country to another or from city to city, it also relies on the employees daily commuting. Promote digital conferences and home office. Switch to virtual conferences and business meetings. Purchase energy efficient goods only. Business Travel.

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Automotive Logistics

JUNE 19, 2018

That marriage of technology and talent was one of the central points of discussion at this year’s Automotive Logistics Europe conference, held in Bonn, Germany, last week. Digital acceleration. That control helps focus innovation, however, according to Lehmacher. He also said it was important to minimise the impact of the failure. “We

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 30, 2018

The aim is to test out a series of best practice procedures formulated by an ECG working group after an intensive analysis of the operations of six OEMs and six LSPs in an initiative called Project Caesar that started some 18 months ago. Doing better. In the best cases, that 67% figure falls to just 10% and the 700% score to 20%, he said.

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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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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

Yoon expressed his concern that cooperation only among groups, or blocks, of countries, is a risk and that such coalitions would do nothing to enhance resilience in the global supply chain, saying, “Building up walls and intensifying protectionism cannot be the right solution.”

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 8, 2015

All we’re doing here, in the kitchen example, is making sure those things we use the most frequently are the most easily accessible in the warehouse or DC. Turn the customer’s orders around in a timelier manner to meet the customer’s needs. 8 Warehouse Slotting Considerations to Create an Effective Warehouse Managment Practice.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 16, 2018

I know from Toyota and many other examples that it is crucial [to ensure] that our supply chain relations are flourishing by avoiding the introduction of new frictions,” he said. Around 85% of finished vehicles from Burnaston are exported, most of them to Europe. “I

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

Attendees at the Customized Logistics and Delivery Association (CLDA) annual meeting said the industry struggles to meet skyrocketing demand, especially in the face of the frontal assault on independent contractors, which adds to costs. That slashed trucking productivity by as much as 4.5%, according to some estimates.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 18, 2022

She works for Lean Solutions Group down in Columbia. All those meetings began in Spanish and they go, “Do you not understand that?” I will give you an example of predictive. You could put all your information that goes to our marketing group and sales group. Are you going to any conferences coming up here?

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Talking Logistics

MAY 4, 2018

Is this another example of us going after the “next new shiny thing” versus investing to improve what we currently have? That said, last October Richard Branson’s Virgin Group invested in Hyperloop One , a startup focused on developing this new transportation mode. The bigger question for me is, do we really need it?

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Automotive Logistics

MARCH 20, 2018

The finished vehicle logistics sector needs to find better ways to communicate and collaborate to meet the challenges of an uncertain future, delegates at this year’s Finished Vehicle Logistics North America conference in California were told in March. Marcus Williams reports. It has 930 sq.m

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Automotive Logistics

MARCH 20, 2018

The finished vehicle logistics sector needs to find better ways to communicate and collaborate to meet the challenges of an uncertain future, delegates at this year’s Finished Vehicle Logistics North America conference in California were told in March. Marcus Williams reports. It has 930 sq.m

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