Material Handling and Logistics

JULY 24, 2018

However, their ability to collect from customers and manage inventory actually both deteriorated, masked by a significant increase in the time companies take to pay suppliers, according to the latest Working Capital Survey results from The Hackett Group. Overall, the survey found the companies had a Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC) of 33.8

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Trinity Logistics

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Nearly 60 percent of those surveyed reported waiting for longer than two hours on each load. This is in line with data collected by a DAT solutions survey showing that 63 percent of drivers say they spend more than three hours waiting when loading and unloading. Freightwaves also collected data on driver wait times.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 1, 2016

As of January 2015, 48 percent of manufacturers said they were ready for these revolutionary changes, according to McKinsey & Company. For instance, a Canvas survey found that 33 percent of manufacturing companies are now using mobile customer relationship management (CRM) apps.

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UL EHS- Sustainability

DECEMBER 4, 2018

According to a 2015 survey by Nielsen, globally, 66% of consumers are willing to spend more on a product if it comes from a sustainable brand. FACT organic flavoured water is the first product to make use of the app and Almond plans to partner with many packaging companies to streamline the implementation of its unique coded system.

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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. Over one-third of the survey respondents said that their supervisors are unaware of exactly what they do. Even so, there appears to have been a weak link somewhere.).

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

There’s certainly no shortage of demand for better quality in sourcing: 8 out of 10 British consumers check the origin of their food, while a survey from 2015 found that 72% of Millennials would be willing to pay more for products or services offered by companies committed to positive social and environmental impact.

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Turvo

JUNE 10, 2020

According to Supply & Demand Chain Executive , supply chain disruptions resulted in costs of more than $56 billion in 2015, and five years later, that average is on track to more than double following the coronavirus crisis. Consider this example. Take another example. And, they want “contactless” paperwork.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Recently, our company has generated some reports of internal data and surveyed a collection of companies to better get an idea of trends in the manufacturing industry. In fact, we saw that from 2015 to 2017, in all industries besides manufacturing, the willingness to review cloud systems went from 76% to 84%. In manufacturing?

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 28, 2016

Ironically, manufacturing represents one of the most stable, growing sectors of the economy and boasts a low unemployment rate of 4 percent in December 2015, explains the US Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics. On Manufacturing Day 2015 , the results of a decade's experience in this project came to ahead.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

In its special report called: ‘Shortfall in UK Labour Supply to Persist’ it detects a ‘curious movement in the UK work demographic’, with a significant proportion of over 50s having left the workforce, and estimates that had the UK’s labour force continued to grow at its 2015-2019 trend rate, it would be around 2.5% bigger than it is today.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 5, 2017

In countless surveys over the past decade, manufacturers and retailers rank “improving supply chain visibility” as one of their top priorities. Take BMW as the latest example. For related commentary, see my June 2015 post, Time to Survive and Nexus Supplier Index: New Measures of Supply Chain Risk Management.].

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 20, 2015

This estimate is according to responses provided by 83 percent of the manufacturing executives who participated in a survey conducted as part of an industry study by the Manufacturing Institute and Deloitte Consulting LLP. Skills Shortages. skilled production workers. researchers. machinists. scientists.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In a 2015 TED talk, Bill Gates warned about the spread of a potential virus and that organizations and governments were not prepared for it. For example: Japan earthquake 2016. As an example, the same grade of steel produced in Japan and China responded differently even though the specification is standard.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

According to a survey by Deloitte from 2014, 79 % of companies with high-performing supply chains achieve revenue growth superior to the average within their industries. In 2014, a survey by Tompkins Consortium delivered a shocking revelation. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers. Now for those statistics I mentioned.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 9, 2019

According to a survey by Deloitte from 2014, 79 % of companies with high-performing supply chains achieve revenue growth superior to the average within their industries. In 2014, a survey by Tompkins Consortium delivered a shocking revelation. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers. Now for those statistics I mentioned.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 9, 2015

A recent survey conducted by ETF has revealed that 3PL service providers are quite optimistic regarding their company’s business prospects in the next 12 months. In 2015, the US economy has been projected to grow by 3.5%. And this is exactly why it is so exciting to be in this business in 2015.

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Airfreight Logistics

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

According to a 2016 survey by comScore and UPS , consumers purchase half of their goods online. The survey shows a growing number of online shoppers of 3% and 4%, comparing to 2015 and 2014 respectively. In July 2015, Panasonic began to sell a robotic exoskeleton called the ‘Assist Suit AWN-03.59.’

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Freightos

JUNE 9, 2018

Electronic airway bills (eAWB) are a familiar example. million in 2000 to over 68 million in 2015 each paying a unique price for their seat (well not quite unique but you know what I mean). For example, our live pricing and routing APIs let me build this fun example of Amazon Alexa getting a quote in just a minute.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Data from the National Science Foundation’s 2015 Survey of Doctorate Recipients reveals an unemployment rate for science, engineering and health (SEH) Doctorates is 1.78%, compared to the national average of around 4% at the time. trained SEH doctorate holders, by residence location and field of doctorate: 2015.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Real-world examples that show the potential of Industry 4.0 Often, these so-called “lighthouse” examples have been developed by the companies that produce those technologies. Siemens, for example, has upgraded its 80-year-old electric motor manufacturing plant in Bad Neustadt an der Saale, Germany. technologies. approaches.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

In our recent blog post on the future of procurement , we discussed how the majority of respondents in a given survey reported procurement as a long-term career in manufacturing. In December 2015, the Federal Reserve slightly raised US interest rate for the first time in nearly 10 years. How Much Will Procurement Grow in 2016?

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Freightos

MARCH 5, 2017

CMA CGM and Maersk’s decision to sell online, Kuehne+Nagel’s notable online sales – showcased in our annual online freight sales survey – show two things quite clearly: The industry already made a conscious decision to offer online services in a transparent fashion. This decision isn’t driven by fear.

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247 Customs Broker

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Following the 2015 announcement that support for CE would sunset, users were also told that those devices running a legacy Windows mobile OS cannot be upgraded to Microsoft’s new mobile version, called Windows 10 IoT Enterprise. But, importantly, they don’t need to tinker with the foundational software that drives processes. Download Now!

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

In March 2017, for example, Walmart pulled the plug on building a 1.2-million-square-foot percent in 2016 compared to 2015, while e-commerce sales grew over 15.1 million-square-foot distribution center in Merced, CA. Department of Commerce , e-commerce sales totaled $91.4 billion and represented just 2.5 billion and accounted for 8.1

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 16, 2017

In fact, up to 70 percent of companies surveyed in Europe have already implemented cloud-based solutions to enable rapid scalability and flexibility. Back-to-school sales were expected to be slightly more than in 2015, and the 2016 holiday shopping season broke all-time records.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 27, 2016

For example, the robot-based processes of milling, grinding, surface smoothing, and polishing seem unrelated. According to a PwC and Zpryme Survey , the use of robots is impacting workers by creating new job opportunities in the field of robot repair and Engineering of advanced robotics and systems.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 5, 2016

For example, the Cerasis Rater enables rapid reporting, tracking of KPIs, and review of asset-allocation quickly and easily. In the 2015 3PL perspectives guide from Inbound Logistics, the following graphs show us the state of 3PL Logistics Companies giving us perspective on both the greatest challenges facings shippers and 3PLs.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 4, 2016

Consider that 46 percent of respondents to a 2010 Accenture survey of North American manufacturing companies had "experienced product quality concerns as a result of offshored manufacturing and supply operations," and that 11 percent had product safety concerns. There is anecdotal evidence of the role of product quality in U.S.

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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Over the first ten months of 2018, Brazil’s GDP rose by around 1.3%, after one of its longest recessions in history, and according to a Central Bank survey of economists, this should edge up to around 2.5% Tegma experienced a sharp fall in volumes as car sales dropped in 2015-2016 but says it is now well positioned for further growth.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The study last looked at the topic in 2015. Only 4 percent of shippers rated themselves as high-performing in omnichannel retailing in the current study, up from 2 percent in 2015. In the food industry, for example, Walmart requires lettuce and spinach suppliers to join blockchain for traceability, she said.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

Gilmore Says… In a great example of the balance in this book, Sheffi notes the actual evidence of consumer preference for Green products is tenuous at best. In fact, after reading Sheffi’s examples, I’m surprised more companies haven’t been forced to be zealous advocates.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 19, 2018

An off-cited analysis from McKinsey in late 2017, for example, found automation could destroy as many as 73 million US jobs by 2030, about one third of all jobs in the country. For example, in a story I remembered that we ran in 2014, a company called Parkdale Mills had recently re-opened a factory near Gaffney, SC that now produces 2.5

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In the case of the San Diego sporting goods manufacturer, for example, the logistics provider routed shipments headed for western Canada through its Vancouver-based processing center and eastern Canada-bound shipments through its Ontario processing center. And research by the NPD Group Inc. And research by the NPD Group Inc.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

According to the annual National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Insights & Analytics Super Bowl survey, 184.5 Relativity Space , a rocket startup founded in 2015, plans to build fairly small rockets that can blast satellites into orbit cheaply and quickly. million US adults said they planned to tune into the big game.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 26, 2018

Some of the main concerns expressed by ports surveyed by Automotive Logistics include finding more storage and handling capacity, especially given the growth that some of the bigger car handling ports are seeing, and at times when there are sudden spikes in volumes. . Where to put it all . Now, the port authority has almost 1m sq.m

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

In 2015 it was a dark story if you were a carrier. An example of the impact technology can have was cited by a CLDA speaker from a major CPG manufacturer (unidentified because of restrictions imposed by conference organizers). The high demand for logistics services took some by surprise, including the researchers.

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