Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

And now on to this week’s logistics news. In addition, a select group of Flex drivers is being given Amazon-branded merchandise to display on their cars, such as magnets and lights. The industry added jobs at a time when logistics companies have been coping with a faltering freight market for the past 20 months.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With its AFR Systems (Alternative Fuels and Raw Materials) business unit, BEUMER Group supports cement producers in feeding calciners and main burners with alternative fuels and raw materials. These include waste tyres, rubber chips, plastic or other oleaginous mineral materials as well as processed industry/household waste.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 6, 2023

And now on to this week’s logistics news. This summer, Kroger started giving out free sample boxes, which include products from brands like Oreo, Snack Factory and Ghirardelli, along with its online delivery and curbside pickup orders. million sq ft of industrial space.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2023

Welcome back to the Friday news roundup, where we are excited to bring you all the logistics news you’ve been craving. Shift to EVs triggers auto-factory building boom. Through November, about $33 billion in new auto-factory investment has been pledged in the U.S., The market now sees almost $400 million in annual sales.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 5, 2023

At the SPS manufacturing event in Parma, Italy, Bonfiglioli presented technologies including its mechatronic solutions for industrial automation, packaging and intralogistics, robotics and IoT. As a technological partner, the Bologna-based group offers condition monitoring and predictive maintenance services, as well as post-sales assistance.

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Logistics Manager

AUGUST 21, 2019

All the students are Juniors (3rd year) at their university and are a mix of studying to either be a seaman or they are studying marine logistics. The group of university students used the opportunity to learn more about the Thai marine and logistics industry as well as how Japanese businesses operate within the country.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 17, 2022

And now on this week’s logistics news: Amazon says it will launch drone deliveries this year. The ongoing chip shortages continue to be the hot button topic when it comes to supply shortages in the automotive industry, but traditional components are also in short supply. UPS tests tiny battery-powered cycles in congested cities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Logistics industry growth slowed in October. The industry must recruit nearly 1.2 The company’s new battery manufacturing facility will be in the same industrial park as its future “MegaMicro” factory, Canoo said. Tone sours on Q3 trucking calls.

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 3, 2020

The pace of reported coronavirus cases has slowed in the most seriously affected regions of China, allowing factories to reopen and people to return to work. However, automakers and a plethora of other industries will only resume full production by mid-April due to a shortage of components. How China’s Manufacturing is Recovering.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Airline group says global cargo volume grew 6.9 Earlier this week, FedEx announced a partnership with eight historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to build a pipeline of logistics and supply chain professionals. So after nearly forty years, I say thanks for the memories.

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Automotive Logistics

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Magna Steyr’s vehicle assembly plant in the Austrian city of Graz is not a typical automotive factory; the site, which in 2018 brought its cumulative total production tally to 3.5m So perhaps it is no surprise to discover that the plant was an early adopter of industry 4.0, has been rebadged as ‘Smart Factory by Magna Steyr’.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 30, 2021

Will that make it harder for companies to hire warehouse and factory workers? square feet of industrial space was under construction across the nation. Over 282,000 additional workers could be needed to support activities within these industrial facilities. Will this begin to affect demand in retail and hospitality?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 2, 2023

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Executives are plotting alternate supply chains or devising products that can be made elsewhere should China’s hundreds of thousands of factories become inaccessible. and raided the Beijing offices of Mintz Group, a due-diligence firm based in New York.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

A new year is underway, and what better way to begin our 2023 blog activity than with a summary of the freshest news from the supply chain and logistics theatre? Indeed, there is cause for concern about Chinese factories’ ability to fulfill orders, given the massive uptick in COVID cases since the harsh policy was lifted.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Lödige Industries is providing automated storage and buffer systems for BMW Group’s new automobile manufacturing plant in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The storage and buffer systems support the automation solutions that the BMW Group facility uses to set new standards in vehicle manufacturing.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2023

NOKERA, a German green-tech firm for serial production using timber, has placed an order with 4PL Central Station AG (4PLCS) to centrally manage its road transport logistics operations. As an independent, neutral fourth-party logistics provider, we’re raising transport logistics in the construction industry to a new level.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 25, 2018

Schoeller Allibert Group has inaugurated its 14th worldwide production plant in Beringen, Belgium. The company says it will be a model factory for all future plants of the group. The Schoeller Allibert Beringen factory is one of the most important projects of the group, it says.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Walgreens is opening the automated, centralized hubs to keep up in the fast-changing pharmacy industry. The aforementioned deal to partially lift tariffs on steel and aluminum also affects other industries. FedEx is testing electric carts for last-mile delivery. That’s all for this week.

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Automotive Logistics

MARCH 6, 2019

Swedish truckmaker Scania has moved production closer to sales in Southeast Asia with the opening of a factory in Thailand to assemble truck and bus chassis from complete knockdown (CKD) kits shipped in from Europe, as well as manufacturing truck cabs locally.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 18, 2023

And now on to this week’s logistics news. The high stock levels are the result of retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers stockpiling everything from beer to DIY tools, chemicals and clothes as COVID-19 lockdowns snarled supply chains and shut factories. Active’ jobs denote positions open for application. That’s all for this week.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 31, 2022

at the ZF Group, about their digital supply chain transformation journey. ZF is a Tier 1 supplier to the automotive industry. This information includes a supplier profile that sets out the criteria for which suppliers are used to support the manufacture of designated products, and which factories those vendors supply.

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Blue Grace Logistics

APRIL 28, 2023

billion in 2022, according to data from the Association for Private Capital Investment in Latin America, a trade group now part of the Global Private Capital Association. companies opening factories in Mexico, for example, nor investment in private real estate. That was down from a record $5.6 billion volume of 2019. Raker said. “We

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Conveyor specialist Interroll is building a new factory at Kronau, in the greater Karlsruhe area of Germany. The company is investing a total of around €40 million in stages, and completion of the factory is planned by the end of 2020. “With the new factory, we are not only creating new capacities. .”

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

When it comes to manufacturing high-quality fashion, Walbusch Group relies on Polymax Group, among others. Three stories, large windows, white facade: From the outside, the Polymax Group factory in the Chinese coastal city of Ningbo could also be located somewhere in Germany. He feels at home in China.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MAY 7, 2023

Nowadays, the fashion industry demands more and more creativity, versatility, and especially agility to compete in the market. This response by retailers to constant market changes takes place within a few weeks, as opposed to the industry average of six months. These subcontractors work exclusively for Zara. Distribution 4.

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MTS Logistics

MARCH 27, 2023

Shipping giant Maersk is out with a new warning: despite the Chinese economy staying resilient in the wake of the Covid pandemic, other factors such as a Chinese real estate market crash and repeating factory shutdowns in 2021 and 2022 have slowed down the Chinese economic recovery.

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Airfreight Logistics

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

CLIVE’s first-to-market analysis each month consolidates data shared by a representative group of international airlines operating to all corners of the globe. The impact of the coronavirus on cargo volumes out of China will become clearer in the weeks to come when the factories reopen and their supply chains are brought up to speed again.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

These high-quality systems have been meticulously designed to meet the requirements of global and regional customers from all industries and to ensure swift and easy installation. These include logistics, automotive, e-commerce, grocery and retail, which will all be strongly represented at LogiMAT.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 22, 2023

I’ve said it before (right here in Logistics Viewpoints), but it’s worth repeating: the digital transformation of our complex global supply chains is an ongoing journey. The entire supply chain industry was caught flat-footed by the seismic disruptions wrought by the pandemic. Why is this shift such a big deal?

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MTS Logistics

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Disease Disease, known in the form of the Covid lockdowns, hit Chinese factories hard. Additionally, due to market share loss to other countries, some industries will never recover. Also, the auto industry accounts for 25 percent of the economic activity between these two countries. and China where the U.S.

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Logistics in War

JUNE 29, 2023

This is the first part of a presentation given at the Australian – New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference during June 2023. There is little doubt that the topics of logistics and supply-chain resilience court conversations beyond that of military logistics communities. By David Beaumont.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 13, 2024

At the ARC Industry Leadership Forum in February, I had the opportunity to sit down with Rick Rys, Director of Consulting at ARC Advisory Group, to discuss the electric power supply chain. The grid cannot add power fast enough to keep up with new demands from electric vehicles, heat pumps, and industrial electrification.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

Focus topics and products In 2022, the focus was mainly on innovative, energy-saving drive solutions to significantly reduce the energy consumption in industrial applications and to appropriately respond to the increasing energy costs – for example by using the patented DuoDrive and the high-efficiency IE5+ motors.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2024

But more commonly, there are downside surprises—customers lower the volume they want on an order, delay their order, or ask to rush the order; there are manufacturing problems, logistics problems, and staffing issues, to name the most obvious downside risks. Everstream offers an advanced supplier risk management solution.

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Transporeon

MARCH 16, 2015

BSH Group, manufacturer of domestic equipment, has strongly improved its transportation tendering and planning processes. Logistics contracts, freight rates and transport data were saved on several locations, which obviously didn’t provide the right overview. The number of errors, as a result of human handling, is reduced as well.

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ShipLilly

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Impact on industry and international trade. The logistics industry is dealing with yet another challenging obstacle from the new Covid-19 infections that recently hit China. Despite this, Chinese factories are expected to shut down two weeks earlier than usual for the Chinese Lunar New Year — Chinese New Year’s Eve falls on Jan.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

And now on this week’s logistics news. Coke announces industry-leading target for reusable packaging. The bridge carries 25 percent of trade between the US and Canada, and there were growing fears that a lengthy impasse would be likely to send layoffs rippling through factories in both countries. By 2030, the Coca-Cola Co.

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