Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

As reported by The Guardian : The items included lithium-ion batteries and flammable aerosols, which were flown in and out of the UK between January 2014 and June 2015. In my keynote presentation at the conference, I made the case that DG professionals need to adopt a broader and more strategic answer to “What business are you in?”

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GlobalTranz

JULY 9, 2015

Further, as JOC.com wrote in a recent article about the Wall Street Journal an alysis: At the moment, shippers at the NASSTRAC conference said capacity is more balanced than a year ago, in the aftermath of the disruptive polar vortex cycle of winter storms. told the conference. billion manufacturer TriMas Corp.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

Examples of these solutions include the E-Series, an innovative and future-proof electric refrigeration unit designed for sustainable operations in urban and inner-city areas. In 2014, the company set its first science-based 2020 Climate Commitments – accelerating innovation to achieve them two years ahead of schedule.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

Customization is provided for 5 different supply chains (for example, make-to-order, make-to-stock, etc.) They built them between 2012 and 2014, and then enhanced them when better supply chain risk management solutions became available. This year’s Kinaxis user conference, Kinexions, is May 9-12, 2022 in San Diego. .

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GlobalTranz

MAY 6, 2015

Distribution center utilization of 5S, Kaizen/Continuous Improvement, and Lean Six Sigma and transportation cost reduction: example: use your or your Third Party Logistics (3PL) provider partner’s Transportation Management System (TMS) to optimize your freight so you add value and reduce costs by using the most effective lanes and routes.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 23, 2015

For example, if the organization needs to improve customer service, should the KPI be set for training existing service consultants or hiring new consultants with a different job profile or preventing the best consultants from leaving by better engaging them and setting up a career plan.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 15, 2017

The French automaker Renault, for example, was forced to shut down factories across Europe. FedEx, which was the hypothetical example I used in my post (based on an excerpt from the novel CyberStorm ), was also affected by the cyberattack, although it didn’t affect operations.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

For example, this year, Chinese New Year occurred later in the season than usual, so we started planning with customers in mid-January, not mid-December, as we do in some years. In 2014, a port strike at Los Angeles-Long Beach caused severe congestion and freight delays. This is a week-long celebration in China. Union labor contracts.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

A real world example of Vendor Managed Inventory in play is electrical products company Leviton Manufacturing. Example: A once/twice Weekly purchase order cycle. VMI is an opportunity for suppliers to refine inventory control for their distribution channels, and ultimately, lower costs to the end user.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a bonus, at the Imagine 2014 Magento e-commerce Conference, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Malcolm McLean (just as he did in this Inc. Early examples of intermodal containers include railroads from 1830s (various sized containers), and Pennsylvania Railroad regular container service (1929). Readers' choice! Did You Know That ….

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 8, 2016

An Example of Matching Systems with People for Sustained Manufacturing Operations Excellence. The state-of-the-art in manufacturing changes by the minute today. The various skillsets have to change with the change of new technology. Education and training must be continuous to keep up with the times.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

For example, if a there is no substitute for a material used, then that supplier should automatically be considered riskier despite its levels of performance. The second risk variable, impact, greatly depends on the supplier’s criticality to production and the final product.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 27, 2015

For example, saying you want to improve relationships with your key stakeholders might be a worthy objective. The effect of any communications effort with this may be difficult to measure unless specific measurement tools are put in place upfront. Evidence may be just as useful in situations like this. However, without the why?

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 31, 2015

The thing that’s fun about meeting folks in a bar is, they will normally be a lot more open and frank than in a conference room with 500 other people. Fast forward to this past December, 2014. That’s where all the business deals get made, usually over a drink. (I I wish I’d figured that out a long time ago).

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 7, 2016

Envisioning What is Manufacturing as a Triangle.And Match them Up To Real American Manufacturer Examples. Question number four : Manufactured or Purchased components or parts to complete the finished goods. Obviously accuracy of the BOM and Inventory are critical, and the goal should be 100% daily.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 4, 2015

Quality metrics is one example of information that can be provided to FDA in advance of an inspection. Inspection criteria include the establishment’s compliance history and the inherent risk of the drug being manufactured. Section 706 allows FDA to obtain certain records from a drug manufacturer in lieu of, or in advance of an inspection.

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Trinity Logistics

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This can include efforts such as building relationships with local schools and assisting in their needs, sponsoring camps, offering scholarships, or hosting leadership conferences. Big Pink Volleyball is an annual fundraising event that we began in 2014 to raise funds for breast cancer charities. Community Necessities.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MAY 11, 2019

I’ve been to a lot of concerts, conferences, festivals… But nothing as big as the World Cup. There are a lot of controversy in those events as they involve a high amount of work in extremely dangerous conditions, especially during the organisation of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, where a lot of riots occurred.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 23, 2019

Long distance rail connections are central to this trade and, at the Automotive Logistics Global Shanghai conference last week, speakers from China Railway International and Beijing Changjiu Logistics talked about the latest developments for vehicle and parts shipments on the China Railway Express (CR Express) between China and Europe.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 8, 2015

All we’re doing here, in the kitchen example, is making sure those things we use the most frequently are the most easily accessible in the warehouse or DC. In many warehouses, you actually have a combination of the previous examples, so you need to take all this into consideration when ranking your locations.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Let us take an initiative such as Inventory Optimization as an example. While it is perfectly understandable to be itching for the actual implementation to begin after months of meetings and conferences, it may be equally worthwhile to use the right lens early in the process to validate that supply chain roadmaps remain multi-disciplinary.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 14, 2018

At a press conference in early January, Jorg Shreiberg, AEB chairman and director of MazdaMotor Rus, said there was no clarity about levels of taxation in the industry, including proposed increases to the utilisation fee and excise rates. . For example, on the route between Moscow and St.

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247 Customs Broker

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Chad Buch , JLL Research Manager, explained in an interview that this JLL paper served as a “refresh” of a 2014 intermodal publication, entitled “ The re-emergence of the iron horse.”. Read: Walter Kemmsies Talks Economics, Supply Chain, NAFTA before Jump Start 2019 Conference.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2018

In a further example of Android-based ‘micro-applications’, another customer’s requirement for vehicle data capture had outgrown the capabilities of a simple yard scanner, and so was supplemented by paper-based data capture, recorded on a batch basis. The Volkswagen Group has become a prime example. Not so monolithic any more.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 4, 2015

COP21, the Paris Climate change conference taking place this week got us thinking what the carbon cost was for shipping the TV. For example, only 1% of China’s 560 million city residents breathe air that is considered safe by the EU. The following are just a few examples. kg of carbon emissions. This is a big deal.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 11, 2019

billion in 2014. It was strongly hinted at, during the joint press conference, that this would take place in Ford’s Kocaeli plant complex, starting in 2023, which would surely mean capacity increases for the plant. The big question is whether the country’s financial difficulties are going to deter automotive investment.

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Automotive Logistics

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Eduardo Solis, executive president of the Asociación Mexicana de la Industria Automotriz (AMIA), told delegates at the Automotive Logistics Mexico conference last week that the industry there had been “growing significantly” and now represented 20.2% of GDP, second only to the food industry at 20.7%. Crime on the rise.

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Logistics in War

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

For example, Napoleon’s ability to organise his Army on the basis of administrative necessity by dividing it to support local subsistence shows cognisance of logistics concerns in designing the French Army – at least until he seemingly ignored it all and nearly led his armies to their end. while we’ve got the opportunity to do so. 4] Roth, J.,

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Logistics in War

JULY 23, 2019

For example, Napoleon’s ability to organise his Army on the basis of administrative necessity by dividing it to support local subsistence shows cognisance of logistics concerns in designing the French Army – at least until he seemingly ignored it all and nearly led his armies to their end. while we’ve got the opportunity to do so. 4] Roth, J.,

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

However, members of the shippers and providers panel at the CSCMP press conference stressed that the tradeoff is a welcome improvement to safety now that drivers cannot cheat on their logbooks. A 2014 study by The Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte projected that employment in manufacturing and warehousing would fall a 2 to 3.5

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 31, 2017

A press conference is scheduled for 3:00 pm ET this afternoon in New York City where the leaders of all three companies will share more details about the alliance. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos was asked about the alliance at the Q Conference in London, where he had just delivered a keynote address on Blue Origin and the future of space travel.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 18, 2022

I started going to events in conferences because I didn’t work anywhere. For example, instead of the entire backing thing, a lot of them moved directly to wallets. China is the other example. I will give you an example. Are you guys attending some conferences? Gartner Supply Chain Conference.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 16, 2018

This JV is fundamentally different from anything we’ve done at Maersk before,” said Mike White, head of global trade digitalisation for AP Moller-Maersk, during an ocean shipper’s panel at the Georgia Foreign Trade Conference (GFTC) in early February. The cloud-based platform will create visibility among all partners in a transaction.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I was wrong, for example, about obstructive sleep apnea becoming the new debate in trucking; the debate ended before it really started after the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and Federal Railroad Administration withdrew their proposed rule to have rail workers and commercial motor vehicle drivers tested for obstructive sleep apnea.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2021

President Biden said at a White House press conference on January 21st that the Trump administration’s distribution of COVID-19 vaccines has been a “dismal failure.” For example, states whose emergency rooms are overwhelmed would be prioritized. Last week marked one year since COVID-19 was confirmed in the United States.

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