Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The toilet paper shortage was one of the COVID era events that taught people what the term “supply chain management” meant. But the difficulty in finding workers has becoming a huge challenge at many factories and warehouses. But these events were not predictable – they might happen, they might not.

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Now, That's Logistics

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Unfortunately, there’s yet one more disruptive event to get through before that can happen: Chinese New Year. Festivities last until the following full moon and can impact supply chains for weeks or even months as factories are shuttered as workers return home for the annual celebration. At our intermodal yards, Chicago, Memphis, St.

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MTS Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2024

As the Chinese New Year approaches, businesses around the world brace themselves for the impact that this significant cultural event can have on logistics, particularly in ocean and air shipments. The heightened demand for shipments, combined with reduced production and factory closures, often leads to congestion at ports and airports.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 17, 2022

Courney is a Strategic Event Executive and the Chief Corporate Development Officer and President of Manifest at Connectiv, a live event studio based in NYC. Connectiv produces world-class industry leading events that focus on disruptive technology. We are a private live event studio. Anyway, it was a great event.

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Automotive Logistics

MARCH 12, 2019

After successful initial trials with converted factory vehicles, the company is now testing them in everyday operations. If the entire fleet of factory vehicles across the company’s 16 production sites worldwide were powered by second-use lithium-ion batteries, the OEM says it would “save millions.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

And the reasons spanned from a global chip shortage, to embargoes, to factory fires, to natural disasters. Buying organizations use this technology to monitor and analyze supplier risk events in real-time. I don’t need to know about Tier 2 events for my market suppliers. I have 1000s of them.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 7, 2024

The 500,000th forklift from the factory producing Hyster® lift trucks in Northern Ireland has been donated to a local branch of FareShare, the UK’s longest running food redistribution charity. Read more UK Food Sharing Charity Working with Logistics Partners The post 500,000th UK-made Forklift Donated appeared first on Logistics Business.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2024

Unexpected events occur. What One Network offers, and what Blue Yonder will get from this acquisition, is the ability to reoptimize plans when unexpected events occur. More than 150,000 organizations are connected to One Network’s network including over 49,000 suppliers and 20,000 carriers. More than 5.6

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 9, 2023

A multi-enterprise supply chain network provides visibility to upstream and downstream events that can affect a company’s supply chain. As the new events that have occurred are analyzed and a new plan is created, the financial implications can be seen. Visibility to Events. Event Intelligence.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 8, 2021

She is a sought after author and speaker having been published in various books, articles, and white papers and spoken at dozens of industry events. Factories do not have to be huge and polluting. Small factory trend or in-door farming. Cutting out the thousands of miles from shipping across the world. Decentralized lands.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2023

He is also an active entrepreneur, having founded five successful companies, all acquired by larger enterprises, and a sought-after speaker at corporate and professional events. Following the journey of the t-shirt from factory to retailer. and automation, in the future economy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

That processing event determines when the goods need to be delivered to the next stop. That factory also aims to rapidly process the raw materials into product. It was quickly determined that a procurement event was necessary just to set a baseline. Procurement ran a request for proposal event. We’d rather not do that.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 13, 2019

The event had a heavy focus on how digitizing factories, cities, and infrastructure will benefit technology end users and suppliers alike. As I wrote about a few weeks ago, I spent the first week of February in Orlando attending ARC Advisory Group’s Industry Forum.

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EazyStock

AUGUST 8, 2023

Smart inventory managers plan for Chinese New Year (aka Lunar New Year) many months before the event. Some factories might close at different times or for different periods. As movement between factory jobs is relatively easy in these countries, sometimes employees don’t return to their current positions.

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Dedola Global Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As Chinese factories roared back to life following the Covid lockdowns of 2020, coal consumption within the country skyrocketed. Energy shortages have led to factory closings, production delays and choked the flow of imports from Chinese ports. The Current Situation in the Asia Pacific Trade.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

APRIL 25, 2022

Since the arrival of the Internet, no event has shaken up this global market more than the pandemic. Building more factories was the most obvious solution. The bulk of these investments are for the construction of new factories. pumped billions of dollars into building factories on its own land. Why this subject?

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ShipLilly

DECEMBER 24, 2019

The fact that factories will shut down for several weeks is an essential consideration for all those that are involved in the shipping industry. Each region in China tends to have some variations as to how they celebrate the event. ” How long are factories shut down? Impact on shippers: 5 things to consider.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

Under this program, power plants and factories that emit carbon dioxide have to buy so-called allowances to account for the damage they cause. The instances of extreme weather events continue to grow on a yearly basis. Similarly, the EU has implemented a tax structure to cut emissions. It’s a way to make companies pay to pollute.

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MTS Logistics

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Chinese New Year is a one-week event, but most factories are closed for a month which means the interruption of new orders. Major Holidays, like the Chinese New Year It is very highly likely that ocean freight rates will increase before major holidays overseas, especially pre-Chinese New Year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2021

The MassRobotics AMR Interoperability Standard is designed to assist organizations in the deployment of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) from multiple vendors and have them work together in the same environment, better realizing the promise of warehouse and factory automation. Trail Blazing and Bushwhacking.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MAY 10, 2018

Every year they bustle more than 6 million people from around the world attending the event. It is a 16- to 18-day folk festival running from mid or late September to the first weekend in October. It’s full of people everywhere and every time.

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Trinity Logistics

JUNE 19, 2019

In this blog, we’ll go over the economic and supply chain impacts that result from these events and how you can best prepare your supply chain. When these natural events happen, numerous businesses find their supply chains shook. Impacts on the economy and supply chains. Severe weather has exponential impacts on our global economy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

Your organization’s ability to anticipate disruption, adapt to events, and build resiliency is rooted in how you maintain operational continuity. A wide range of events could prevent your supply chain from operating normally, but not all events have an equal impact.

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EazyStock

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Chinese New Year (aka Lunar New Year) might seem like a long way off, but smart inventory managers will be starting to plan for this event very soon. Different factories also tend to close at different times, for different periods of time. When the same workers don’t return to the factories, new employees need to be found and trained.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2022

Further, under the provisions of the new legislation, companies’ responsibility extends beyond their own factories, warehouses, stores, and corporate offices to encompass their entire supply chain. Unsafe working conditions. Discriminatory Employment. Environmental degradation.

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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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Dedola Global Logistics

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The Current Situation in the Asia Pacific Trade As Chinese factories roared back to life following the Covid lockdowns of 2020, coal consumption within the country skyrocketed. Energy shortages have led to factory closings, production delays and choked the flow of imports from Chinese ports.

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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 Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

To accomplish this, 10,000 supply chain associates worked with 450 global vendors who operate over 600 factories. A regional supply chain does not mean supply chain operations are not impacted by global events. VF is having conversations with fabric manufacturers to encourage them to produce more fabric in factories outside of Asia.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In 1952, Hyster created its first European plant in Nijmegen, with the first Hyster Big Trucks manufactured at the factory from January 1953. An official event was held to open the site in October 1953, attended by a number of dignitaries and more than 500 guests.

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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 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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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The work is also better because even for handpicked food, workers can work at a station, like in a factory, rather than doing stoop labor.To Generative AI is a major topic at all the enterprise events this year. Year round farming also means better job security for workers because farming is no longer seasonal.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

To determine this, start by knowing what is on your factory floor – digitalization starts from there. Another aspect of your factory investigation is to identify how people on the floor collect and use information. Another aspect of your factory investigation is to identify how people on the floor collect and use information.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 11, 2020

The trigger for this alarming state of affairs was the December outbreak of the COVID-19 Coronavirus epidemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan, which prompted authorities to lock down major cities, close factories, and severely limit the movement of individuals. Pinpointing the Industries Hit the Hardest.

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ShipLilly

JANUARY 4, 2021

When it comes to international production and shipping volumes, specific events tend to trigger an upsurge in demand including Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Hanukkah, and Christmas, which all occur in a small time frame and create a peak season for shipping and operations. When is the Lunar New Year 2021? The Impact on Your Supply Chain.

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