Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Of course, benchmarks and benchmarking can cover all kinds of different things, at work or elsewhere. Suppose you wanted to be the fastest runner in the world, for example. Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in May 2012, and has now been revamped and updated with more comprehensive information.

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10xLogistics

AUGUST 30, 2016

Back in April I was sending a warning sign in my post " Inventories Continue to Grow " and I even signaled this all the way back in 2012 in a post titled " Inventory to Sales Ratio Tells A Grim Story ". If the consumer slows (or moves from apparel to electronics for example), Demand Sensing Supply Chains adjust almost in real time.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Of course, it is helpful to have some statistics on hand to validate the statement above. 2) According to a 2012 report into corporate insolvencies by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, 44% of businesses in Australia failed because of poor strategic management. If you want business success (and who doesn’t?),

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 25, 2016

In another example, Hong Kong began switching conventional traffic lighting to more energy efficient LED traffic lighting. In fact, this simple reporting resulted in a 7 percent decrease in the use of water resources by Bayer in 2012. Of course, other obstacles will continue to exist.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 9, 2019

Of course, it is helpful to have some statistics on hand to validate the statement above. 2) According to a 2012 report into corporate insolvencies by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, 44% of businesses in Australia failed because of poor strategic management. If you want business success (and who doesn’t?),

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Of course, the modern supply chain ties into all of this, as well. A hurricane, for example, can be responsible for downed trees and debris, malfunctioning power equipment, fallen wires, broken public property and even severe environmental damage. Transporting hazardous chemicals in the wake of a disaster is also a concern.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 8, 2013

have characteristics which are associated to its length and may differ throughout its course. In the next part on this blog, through relevant examples, we will see how IBM Maximo deals with linear assets and in particular cater to concept of dynamic segmentation. December 2012. November 2012. October 2012.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

For example, one risk could be a sudden increase in demand for a product. In addition, respondents in a 2012 report found three leading risk concerns among the modern supply chain are: social contract disintegration, inflexible and uncoordinated regulation, and cyber security risk. Focus on Resilience.

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Freightos

AUGUST 6, 2016

According to Silicon Valley legend Peter Thiel, Hewlett Packard is a prime example. By 2012, the company was worth just $23 billion. Risks should of course, be contingent on opportunity and ability to execute. DB Schenker’s cooperation with uShip, announced in June 2016, is a good example of such a team. Risk Aversion.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 6, 2015

Rethink Robotics introduced Sawyer in 2015 and pioneered the “friendly” robot game with the introduction of Baxter in 2012, which will make the integration of human workers and robots seamless. For example, humans must create build an item from the inside out, as our tools only allow us to perform certain actions.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 14, 2018

This in turn allowed Wal-Mart to replicate sales successes between outlets; creating and managing peaks in demand via its systems for buying, shipping, and of course, warehousing. Premium orange juice for example has a storage life of about 65 days. Amazon 2012: Taking Orders out of Chaos. Tropicana Products, Inc.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 30, 2019

The company also has six regional service centres across the UK and Ireland and has been a Hyundai forklift distributor since 2012. For example, wood pulp requires bale clamps, paper reels need reel clamps in addition to some specialised tissue clamps. For other cargos, such as palletised goods, we would use the standard forks.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 13, 2019

In 2012 Kimberly-Clark switched to Yale from a German truck manufacturer. For example, the exhaust after-treatment systems on the diesel trucks have been fitted with a heat protection foil to avert fire hazards and hydraulics and water cooling systems have extra coolers to cope with the heavy-duty operation.

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World Food Programme Logistics

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

“It was a good example of contexts where ‘It’s difficult, not many resources, but it’s stable, on the way of democracy, people live together well, no conflict’.” The stability which set countries on course for development ended with conflicts spreading, first in Mali, in 2012, and since 2018 in Burkina Faso?

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The Logistics Academy

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Of course, capturing the data and then using it to make good decisions are two entirely different things. For example, the organization that wants to leverage Big Data for track and trace of its products can do so by combining the purchase order (PO) details, shipment information and the carrier’s tracking information.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 23, 2018

Walmart, for example, has been testing bots that roam the sales floor scanning shelves in 50 of its stores. It turned to Locus after Amazon purchased Kiva in 2012 and took those robots off the market. But even when they’re not faster, robots often get more done over the course of a shift.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

Meanwhile, freight capacity rose by 3% in 2017, marking the slowest annual capacity growth seen since 2012. Of course, given that most cargo managed by forwarders moves on. Take Rickenbacker Airport in Columbus for example. Is this just all buzz, or are there specific examples that signal a change?

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 16, 2018

With no way to unlock the infected computers, Maersk had to rebuild its IT infrastructure almost from scratch, installing 4,000 new servers, 45,000 new PCs and 2,500 applications over the course of ten days. And the annual cost of responding to cyberattacks is rising steeply, up more than 27% in 2017.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 3, 2018

Meanwhile, Geely’s stake in Malaysian carmaker Proton may lead to further production and distribution of Volvo models in South-East Asia, for example. In Belgium, for example, we have had cases where truck drivers couldn’t take their rest period in truck cabs, only in rest areas – of which few are available.

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Forto

AUGUST 1, 2019

1,000 million tonnes annually between 2007 and 2012 (corresponding to 3.1% IMO stays the course. For example, although the intensity of general cargo ships (measured as emissions per unit of transport supply) decreased by 5%, emissions increased by 9%. The report also explained that, shipping emitted an average of approx.

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Dedola Global Logistics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The data proves it too: Since 2012, global supply chain management disruptions from extreme weather events have risen 29%, according to the Zurich Insurance Group and the Business Continuity Institute. The Atlantic twitter posted a gif of cargo ships diverting course to avoid Hurricane Irma on its way toward Florida.

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247 Customs Broker

MARCH 30, 2018

There is a significant gender disparity – for example, in 2015, 84% of trips were made by men. And of course, it doesn’t take into account the number of defectors, most of whom leave North Korea over the Chinese border. There are caveats around these figures.

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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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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 18, 2018

Although the Dubai example is perhaps a long shot, the promoters of Smart City Lagos are right to aim that high. This is an exaggeration, of course. The Lagos Development Plan (2012-2025) embodies what the authorities hope to achieve over the next decade. That is the ideal case, of course. An example is Lara.ng

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Automotive Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

One example is the port of Los Angeles, which has worked with GE Transportation and last year introduced a cloud-based port optimiser that provides real-time information on cargo through a single portal that is made available to all the partners involved in the processing of it. Take service parts as an example. Trade wars.

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 17, 2018

on the year and 19% since 2012. To take one example, GM started shipping vehicles that were previously taken by rail into the US port of Grays Harbor by short-sea last year, and also to Aransas in Texas. In the US, vehicle sales hit 17.2m According to analyst PwC Autofacts, US vehicle imports increased again in 2017, reaching nearly 8.3m

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