Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 12, 2022

But this best practice was followed with the complication of recent events, asking “have priorities and approaches changed now that supply chain disruptions and supply shortages are so heightened?” ” Carl Doeksen noted that @3M has 240 factories worldwide, but they also have large distribution centers (DCs).

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

When it comes to the constrain-based models, Mr. Gottemukkala continued, it’s not just about modeling the factories and the distribution centers. For example, for a yogurt company, decision of where to ship a short lifecycle product coming out of a factory is done daily because “demand can shift in very short time frames.”

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 11, 2022

Locator morphed into Locator Expert using PowerBuilder on the latest client server technology – and was utilised by Coca Cola in the 90s at its huge new distribution centre at Wakefield in West Yorkshire, the largest soft drinks factory in Europe.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 18, 2022

This was my first in-person event in over two years, and it did not disappoint. You could feel the energy in the air as 450+ people seemed to really enjoy being back at an in-person event. This includes weather events, port strikes, capacity shortages, and unexpected demand spikes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2020

According to Cyrus Hadavi, the CEO of Adexa, the key to concurrency (which Adexa calls “event driven planning”) is a unitary model of the extended supply chain, both horizontal and vertical. Thus, companies might deploy a higher-level model for IBP, but then would need a much more detailed model to optimize factory scheduling.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MAY 7, 2023

More than 50% of the clothes, particularly the high fashion items are made in Zara’s own factories in Spain, most of them close to the headquarters. Distribution 4. The design, the buying, the model creation, the samples and the commercial look are all handled in-house. Purchasing and production 3.

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3PL Links

MAY 9, 2024

Smart warehousing is a sophisticated inventory management approach that maximizes the transportation, storage, and distribution of goods and materials within the company by utilizing data analytics and state-of-the-art technologies. The system receives immediate notification of any movement without requiring a manual relay of the event.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

One survey found that 64% of businesses across materials handling, distribution, or fulfilment had forgone business worth more than 25% of their revenue in 2022 because of staffing issues. For the reasons mentioned, recruiting new employees to replace the logistics workforce has proven extremely difficult.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

In May, I attended the Kinaxis Kinexions event in San Diego, CA. As Covid spread, so too did factory closures. Customers need to understand that distribution could change, depending on material supplies. One of the biggest issues was the labor shortage during Covid. Dealing with disruption also takes agreements from customers.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The “man-up” vehicle expands the intralogistics specialist’s product range for wide and narrow aisle warehouses, thus offering distribution centre operators and manufacturing companies an even greater choice of customized solutions. The post New order picker for medium rack heights appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

FMCG goods from factory to consumer on time and in line with demand. Our cutting-edge software tools combined with experienced, knowledgeable analysts enables us to consider factors, like European and national events, and predict the impact on network-wide operations.

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Locus

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The first event that comes to mind when we speak of global shopping events is, easily, Black Friday. But few know that there is a shopping event even bigger than that. or Bachelor’s Day is currently the single largest event in the world—over double the size Black Friday and Cyber Monday put together.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2021

Their operations include bulk gas storage and delivery, cylinder filling and community distribution gas systems. When it comes to distribution, primary distribution involves getting big bulk deliveries by pipeline and truck to their manufacturing sites. The forecasting projects were focused on secondary distribution.

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Stord

MARCH 17, 2019

Adidas expects sales to recover in the second half of this year after it reallocates factory capacity to prioritize products for the United States. Since production slows in many Asian countries during the event, some shippers moved their inventory earlier than they did last year, which meant fewer shipments in February.

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FLS Transport

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The first priority after the storm is helping ensure the resident’s safety, then getting infrastructure back online, clearing debris, repairing damage… This recovery process is long, and these weather events have a devastating impact on the lives of residents, industries, economies, and supply chains across North America.

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Now, That's Logistics

JANUARY 4, 2022

“Global supply-chain woes are beginning to recede, but shipping, manufacturing and retail executives say they don’t expect a return to more-normal operations until [2022],” the Wall Street Journal reports, “and that cargo will continue to be delayed if COVID-19 outbreaks disrupt key distribution hubs.”. In the U.S.,

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 18, 2023

By looking at data through the lens of each ‘entity’ it relates to – the goods being shipped, the transportation vehicle, the ferry ports involved and so on – Entopy’s technology is able to uncover multidimensional insights in real time and capture events hidden in complex datasets.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 15, 2019

GEFCO Group has appointed experienced Director, Valérie Floridia, to support in the management of the GEFCO Innovation Factory. As Director of the GEFCO Innovation Factory, Valérie will be responsible for encouraging new ideas and helping convert them into fully operational projects that will strengthen the group’s expertise.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Used with a Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) system, manufacturers can digitize the factory to gain insights that will allow processes and workloads to be optimized. This can help to detect possible dangers like temperature fluctuations, power loss, water intrusion, and other potentially damaging events. Supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 2, 2022

TORC and Daimler Truck held an event for journalists last week at a TORC facility in Albuquerque. The event provided their perspective on these questions. First mile is a trip to a local or regional transportation or distribution hub. What kind of trucks will they be? When will we see autonomous trucks on the road?

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MTS Logistics

MARCH 30, 2020

While life is slowly returning to normal in China, the rest of the world is now experiencing a significant distribution due to COVID-19. Still, one can already predict a series of events which will impact global trade, both directly and indirectly. The decline in trade is expected until the big dilemma is over.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Manufacturing would not have been able to respond to that kind of event for two months. “We In a pinch, if a factory worked overtime, they could get the lead time down to three weeks. Further, previously Ipsen had done distribution in-house. We could not manage our business with that tool,” Mr. Stephens realized. The results?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Change can creep imperceptibly, so sometimes it takes a major event to wake us up. Concurrent means to “happen at the same time,” so applying this principle to the supply chain, any change, to any input across the supply chain can be considered and evaluated by demand, supply, distribution, capacity, and purchasing; in real-time.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

An ERP system has the capability to process the data produced from sensor devices on the factory floor and in products. For moving and distributing goods to customers, the pandemic has shown how important it is to have digital technologies to support planning, managing and executing distribution operations.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 26, 2017

In 2016, supply chain terrorism attacks were more widely distributed than in any previous year, with 38% more countries suffering attacks. They must include actions such as diverse footprint, secondary suppliers for the same components, emergency changes on factories set up. So How Can You Prepare Yourselves For Supply Chain Terrorism?

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 29, 2020

Seen as a key strategic development for the company, its aim is to align the operating efficiency goals of its customers in automated factory, process and logistics with enterprise-wide business improvement systems. The SICK AssetHub digital-twin asset management system. •

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Trinity Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In-person gatherings and events have returned, remote and flexible workstyles have become the new norm, kids are back in school, and online shopping and inflation have rapidly risen. In the standard supply chain, raw materials get sent to factories to manufacture goods. A “new normal” as many now call it. Current Conditions.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 27, 2020

The index looks at the constantly changing state of growth in the manufacturing, distribution, and retail industries along with what trends impact the bottom line. It’s no secret that recent global events have disrupted the normal order of operations,” continued Coussins. The survey did not knowingly poll customers of Epicor.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 14, 2018

The logistics and training centres are part of a €13.5m ($16.1m) multi-functional competence centre, which also includes a testing and quality centre, storage areas for pre-series vehicles and an event hall. Škoda said it had invested seven billion Czech crowns ($328m) in modernising production processes at Kvasiny.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Distribution and fulfilment operations are under increasing pressure to perform – but labour availability is tighter than ever. But it is all too true, and nowhere more so than across the logistics and distribution sector. A ‘pick’ in a distribution centre may have 30 or more time-study elements. The demands of ecommerce.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 8, 2017

This includes billing, generation of bills of lading, compliance reports and even movements throughout a factory or warehouse floor. Additive manufacturing includes all actions in the supply chain that can enhance existing factory production, if not replace it entirely. Additive Manufacturing –. What Is It?

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 30, 2020

Until the Coronavirus began wreaking its havoc, global companies could run their supply chains on the assumption that disruptions would be rare and short-lived, and that products should be sourced, produced, and distributed at the cheapest locations to be found, wherever in the world that may be. 3) Shorten Your Supply Chain—Source Locally.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 8, 2020

Dr Peter Holmes of the UK Trade Policy Observatory (UKTPO) is warning firms may need to pay to have EU-approved inspectors visit their factories to certify their exports meet EU regulations – even in the event of a Free Trade Agreement between the UK and EU.

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10xLogistics

MARCH 6, 2013

I have been talking a lot at various events recently on the value of Sales and Operations Planning to the logistician and specifically to those managing transportation.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 27, 2020

With all movements of produce recorded immutably in a distributed ledger, tracing quality-compromised food or commodities back to the source can be achieved in hours, rather than the days, or even weeks, otherwise required for such an exercise. Faster delivery times to the factory. Other Food Industry Blockchain Initiatives.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 14, 2023

billion Denbury deal boosts energy transition plans On the lighter side… Truck stuck in Smugglers’ Notch, again, and Vermont plans to take action The Amazon Prime Day event, stretching across July 11 and 12, was Amazon’s largest ever Prime Day, according to Amazon. port strike Exxon’s $4.9 million people employed in the industry.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 15, 2018

In theory, the money could be put to work building new factories, increasing output and hiring more American workers. He acknowledges that executives will be under intense pressure from shareholders to distribute any additional profits in the form of higher dividends. Under the new tax reform bill , however, that number drops to 15.5

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