The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 24, 2023

Mike Newman and Joe Lynch discuss sustainability and reusable packaging. Mike is the CEO of Returnity Innovations, a triple bottom line company dedicated to supporting its investors, the community, and the planet. About Mike Newman Mike Newman , the CEO of Returnity Innovations, is a recognized authority in the field of transformational logistics platforms, specializing in shifting from single-use to circularity through reusable packaging solutions for companies and organizations.

Packaging 249

Packaging Logistics Supply Chain Design Supply Chains 249

Cyzerg

MAY 24, 2023

If your organization has been exploring ways to gain a competitive edge and increase its productivity, warehouse workflow automation tools are the answer. Investing in the right set of warehouse automation technologies will enable you to revolutionize every key warehouse process , from receiving to shipping and everything in between.

Automation 195

Automation Tools Production 195

Food Logistics

MAY 24, 2023

This year, we revamped our awards and the awards process, so that companies and their industry executives could better hone in on the home runs and focus on the stats that matter.

Logistics 147

Logistics Industry 147

Talking Logistics

MAY 24, 2023

​​Every Friday on Talking Logistics I share news headlines related to supply chain and logistics. What if I fed those news headlines into a generative AI engine to create images? What would they look like? For the past two weeks, SAP (a Talking Logistics sponsor) has been using AI and a human artist “to turn. Read more The post Generative AI + Business Networks: A Smarter Way To Map Your Supply Chain appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

Supply Chains 146

Supply Chains Networks SAP Logistics 146

Advertiser: GEP

Supply Chains have 3 key priorities: building resiliency, reducing costs and driving ESG performance. Read the new GEP-sponsored report by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services for strategies and digital solutions to achieve these goals.

Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 24, 2023

Raymour & Flanigan, the Northeast’s largest mattress and furniture retailer, is a family-run company with a strong corporate culture. A core tenet of its culture is a focus on providing a positive customer experience and ensuring everyone’s furniture and home décor needs are met. Part of this positive experience is supported by high product availability and rapid white-glove delivery.

Efficiency 111

Efficiency ERP Supply Chains Inventory 111

Overdrive Online

MAY 24, 2023

The House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee advanced Tuesday a bundle of bills focused on supply chain challenges, including $755 million for truck parking projects, CDL testing flexibility, weight limit flexibility for certain haulers and more.

Trucking 79

Trucking Supply Chains Transportation 79

Supply Chain Brain

MAY 24, 2023

Boeing CEO David Calhoun made the comments about supply chain constraints May 23 during a Qatar Economic Forum panel held in Doha.

Supply Chains 98

Supply Chains 98

MTS Logistics

MAY 24, 2023

The U.S. government has become increasingly concerned for the safety of commercial ships in Iranian waters, after a series of incidents where oil tankers were seized. In a series of interviews, U.S. military officials have made clear that they are taking action to protect shipping activity in Iran’s Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway for container ships and oil tankers in the Middle East region.

Supply Chains 76

Supply Chains Military Exercises Transportation 76

Shipping and Freight Resource

MAY 24, 2023

The WSC Containers Lost at Sea Report – 2023 Update has highlighted positive developments in container safety in international liner shipping with only 661 containers lost at sea in 2022 out of 250 million transported which is the lowest losses in % (0.00026%) since 2008. The World Shipping Council (WSC) conducts an annual survey among […] The post Positive developments in container safety in liner shipping – World Shipping Council appeared first on Shipping and Freight Resource.

Freight 75

Freight Transportation Survey Maritime 75

Advertiser: FourKites

The 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Real-Time Transportation Visibility Platforms (RTTVP) is here. Are you evaluating supply chain visibility for your business but not sure where to start? Get the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant to learn: How the 9 real-time transportation visibility platform vendors are positioned The features every supply chain leader should care about Why FourKites was recognized as a Leader for Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision Get the report now!

Gartner

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 24, 2023

Implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is a great place to start digitization of your manufacturing or distribution business to centralize all your data and streamline your operations for greater efficiency. However, various studies indicate that 70-90% of digital transformation initiatives fail. A major reason for this is that organizations jump straight into selecting and implementing systems without being strategic and creating a business case.

ERP 52

ERP Inventory Study Efficiency 52

Camelot 3PL Software

MAY 24, 2023

We love that you want to help following a disaster. We all want to help in our own ways. But please don’t overthink this… You do not have to be MacGyver and make things up along the way. We’ve all heard stories about food, bottled water and other donations (PPE / hand sanitizer) not making it to the people who needed it most during other crises. There’s no need for you to reinvent the wheel and start a food drive because food may not always end up making it through the proper channels as origina

3PL 52

3PL Supply Chains Humanitarian aid Logistics 52

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MAY 24, 2023

I ask for food delivery services everyday back in my country due to its fast speed and relatively cheap delivery fee. One strong competitor in this industry is Meituan. It’s a technical company using AI, machine learning etc to develop its delivery app. Though the technology is so developed, it still can’t expect the real issues the deliverymen meet.

Logistics 52

Logistics Distribution Ordering Optimization 52

Trux

MAY 24, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of the dump trucking industry, material producers and contractors who rely on independent, third-party dump truck operators are grappling with a wave of changes brought about by California Assembly Bill 5 (CA AB5).

Trucking 52

Trucking Industry Operations 52

Speaker: Lisa Anderson, MBA, CSCP, CLTD - President of LMA Consulting Group, S&OP Expert, and Speaker

The world of supply chain and logistics has been plagued with volatility, disruptions, and increased regulations. Several issues are converging simultaneously, creating a precarious path forward. In this webinar, we will talk about the current status of the supply chain and what the successful and unsuccessful paths forward will look like. Join demand planning and SIOP expert Lisa Anderson for a riveting discussion evaluating the geopolitical landscape and looking at the bigger picture to create

Supply Chains

FreightWaves SONAR

MAY 24, 2023

Freight markets feel stuck in unseasonable doldrums with volumes low, capacity loose and rates in a trough after supply chain activity cooled post-COVID. But as we know, the relationship of supply and demand is not static, but dynamic and ever-shifting. A pendulum moves slowest and briefly pauses just before it starts falling in the other direction.

Freight 52

Freight Trucking Supply Chains Inbound 52

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MAY 24, 2023

You may never have heard of dry ports, however, they are very important for logistics and the supply chain in international trade. Moreover, Spain is one of the gateways to Europe for all types of goods, so the country’s logistics ecosystem must be efficient, and this is achieved, among other things, through dry ports. Dry ports, also know as inland ports play a key role in connecting maritime ports with inland destinations.

Supply Chains 52

Supply Chains Maritime Transportation Logistics 52

Supply Chain Brain

MAY 24, 2023

The American Chemistry Council initiated a program to urge the public to recycle plastic bags — one of the top sources of plastic pollution worldwide. But it's not working.

Sourcing 52

Sourcing 52

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MAY 24, 2023

One of the best practical sessions I took part in during my bachelor’s degree was a course called Logística de Distribución Directa e Inversa (Direct and Inverse Logistics). We had to download a software called Implexa ( software developed by a professor at the UPV ), with little knowledge of what was going on, the professor explained that it was a simulation programme and that each of us was a different company with different set ups and that during the 10 minute simulation we had to adap

Supply Chains 52

Supply Chains Inventory Networks Sourcing 52

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

We’ve all heard the buzzwords to describe new supply chain trends: resiliency, sustainability, AI, machine learning. But what do these really mean today? Over the past few years, manufacturing has had to adapt to and overcome a wide variety of supply chain trends and disruptions to stay as stable as possible. Stability has become key in this post-COVID world, and will remain key moving forward.

Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

MAY 24, 2023

Getting the warehouse "closer" to the end user is important in supply chains today, says Brian Keiger, director of business development and marketing with Stow Robotics.

Supply Chains 52

Supply Chains 52

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MAY 24, 2023

Last weekend I went to dinner at one of the restaurants of the famous Valencian group “Saona” This time I went to a new place opened by the group and I was astonished when I saw the bill: 18€. I was surprised by the quality-price of the menu (which included starter, main course, dessert and drink) as well as the good service of the staff.

Logistics 52

Logistics Optimization Modeling Inventory Supplier management 52

Supply Chain Brain

MAY 24, 2023

The trend comes in part from the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which took effect in July 2020 as a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Trends 52

Trends 52

Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

Manhattan Associates Inc. has announced its re-imagined Manhattan Active Yard Management solution to expand the company’s vision of a unified supply chain. By redesigning yard management to work seamlessly with its industry leading warehouse and transportation management solutions on a single cloud native platform, Manhattan is completing the digital unification of distribution and logistics where they come together in the physical world.

Supply Chains 52

Supply Chains Logistics Outbound Transportation 52

Advertisement

In these challenging times, climate change must inevitably be a top-of-mind priority. We need to act now by making the right decisions. 2022 was the year of corporate commitments to sustainability, and 2023 is the year where promises become proposals, mission statements become metrics, and aims become actions. New regulations have been set regarding the corporates, and they must comply.

Transportation

Supply Chain Brain

MAY 24, 2023

In total, the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved a package of 12 bills as well as five additional supply chain-focused measures.

Supply Chains 52

Supply Chains Transportation Packaging 52

Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

APL Logistics is returning to the Multimodal Exhibition in Birmingham, taking place between the 13th and 15th of June 2023 at Birmingham’s NEC. In today’s fast-moving supply chains, the only thing you can expect is the unexpected. To meet customer demand and reach decarbonisation goals while achieving scale during these times of economic uncertainty, companies need advanced order planning, predictive lifecycle visibility, and responsive execution across all geographies.

Ordering 51

Ordering Presentation Supply Chains Logistics 51

Supply Chain Brain

MAY 24, 2023

This is Arkansas’s first market fulfillment center, and the second to be opened in the United States, after Store #2142 in Salem, New Hampshire.

52

52

Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

ORBCOMM Inc., a leading global provider of supply chain IoT technology , is leveraging its market leadership and expertise in cold chain telematics to provide a higher level of visibility, compliance and cargo integrity for all types of refrigerated vehicles moving across the cold chain in Europe. ORBCOMM’s new RT 8000 solution, which is expected to be commercially available this summer, will automate customers’ operations with enhanced connectivity, faster access to more data and wireless senso

Refrigeration 49

Refrigeration Cargo Supply Chain Design Temperature 49

Speaker: Cathy Morrow Roberson, Research Manager for the Reverse Logistics Association

In today's competitive business landscape, providing a seamless return experience and maintaining an efficient supply chain are critical to customer satisfaction and loyalty. Businesses need to leverage advanced tracking systems and data analytics to identify bottlenecks and improve supply chain visibility. Efficient return management stands as a crucial strategy for optimizing the supply chain.

Supply Chains