IoT World Today

MAY 21, 2020

Increasing supply chain data visibility is a priority for logistics organizations looking to improve resilience. Supply chain recovery hinges on incorporating robust data analytics and other data-driven tools into business operations to increase efficiency, reduce costs and proactively manage risk.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Here’s how you can improve manufacturing floor data collection, long-term. A key component of any manufacturing process is data collection. However, are you starting to outgrow your manufacturing floor data collection system ? At one point, every program used to record data was being used by no fewer than 21 managers!

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 28, 2017

Of course, there are still hold-outs that foresee possible problems with these relationships. In 2002, the third party logistics study first began surveying respondents on satisfaction with the level of information technology (IT) services available through 3PLs. Mergers and Acquisitions Give Rise to Nervousness Among Some Shippers.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 21, 2017

The two companies switched positions in 1991, an event which heralded the start of a decade-long decline for Kmart, which ended in bankruptcy in 2002 and led to a subsequent merger with Sears in 2004. Of course the birth of the information age has made it easier to develop an aligned supply chain strategy involving suppliers and partners.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 4, 2016

Of course, there are other factors affecting the American push towards reshoring and nearshoring. Data from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), however, do allow us to take a partial look at recalls by country. Additionally, most of these respondents claimed to be willing to pay up to 10-percent more for a US-made product.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Of course, it’s not that easy. I decided to review the container throughput data on the four largest West Coast ports to get a better sense of changes in volumes and the degree to which each port supported the West Coast container volumes. The next question is “why don’t they go to another port?”

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 3, 2017

Those same words were also said when the ports were shut down for 10 days in 2002 , and again in December 2012 when 600 clerks went on strike , shutting down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for 8 days. Of course, there are a lot of skeptics out there who don’t believe we’ll see driverless trucks anytime soon on our roads — if ever. “If

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