The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

According to an economic impact study conducted by the Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mary, 390,000 Virginia jobs – nearly ten percent of the state’s resident workforce – are linked to port activity across our six terminals. Between 2015 and 2025, the port will have invested $1.5

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2014

There’s been a lot of progress made in the steel industry in general and here are some of the tips and tricks to expect from the steel fabrication industry for 2015: Buying Equipment. Inform yourself on these trends by downloading the Capgemini/Penn State/Panalpnia 2013 18th Annual 3PL Study. Manufacturing manufacturing tips'

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AIMMS

MAY 28, 2015

Gartner (@Gartner_inc) May 13, 2015. Drawing on several case studies, Gartner’s Research Vice President, Noha Tohamy, offered a simple but convincing argument : analytics supports both business growth and “smart automation.” A compelling case for Supply Chain Analytics. Why should we invest in analytics?”

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

In fact, recent studies have shown that only about 35 percent of shippers are using TMS to manage their operations. A study by ARC Advisory Group has found that the use of transport management system results in a saving of approximately 6 percent. A Transport Management System brings Needed ROI & Efficiency.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 21, 2023

Before joining Coyote in 2006, Chris spent his early career in supply chain software development and network design – and studied at as many Eastern US tech schools as he could: earning a B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, an M.Eng. in Logistics from MIT, and an MBA from Georgia Tech.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 2, 2020

Betsy attended Western Kentucky University where she studied Journalism, Public Relations, and Business Administration. After realizing she was an entrepreneur at heart, Betsy started a legal company which she sold in 2015 before starting The Congruity Group. About The Congruity Group.

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The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 18, 2017

ever since I came across and read it in the fall of 2015. That is the benefit of studying companies like Menlo. Copyright © 2015, Mark Rosenthal. I have been telling everyone who will listen to read Rich Sheridan’s book Joy, Inc. I wrote to Mike Rother and asked him “Do you think we could get Rich Sheridan?”.

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The Lean Thinker

MARCH 6, 2019

When we study “culture” we are looking at the groups’ default patterns of interaction. Actually the message of “adaptive leadership” has been present since at least the first KataCon back in 2015. In the end, I think they all come down to various ways of saying “how people talk to each other.”

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 29, 2015

We continue our series on the most read articles from the Cerasis blog for 2015 today by featuring any of the blogs in the transportation management or transportation categories. . We will then conclude the 5 main categories by featuring the top 10 freight articles of 2015. We list them in order of the tenth most read to the most read.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 13, 2015

DECEMBER 2015. This insight is much more instructive than studying changes in ships and related systems. The post Freight Rates News December 2015 appeared first on Freightos. Freight Rates News. Freight and logistics trends that rate in the news. We summarize key monthly trends in six sections. Prefer to find news yourself?

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Freightos

MARCH 4, 2020

This year’s Freightos mystery shopper study looked to answer these questions. . For previous years’ reports: 2015 , 2017 , 2018. In the study we looked to online spot quoting as a proxy for the overall digitization of the industry as it’s often a shipper’s first encounter with forwarders. Keep reading for the highlights OR.

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Mazars Ledger

AUGUST 3, 2016

Food & Beverage Industry Study offers benchmarks against which to assess 2015 performance, insights into… The post 2016 U.S. Food & Beverage Industry Study Results appeared first on Insights Center - Mazars - United States. Mazars’ results from the 2016 U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In September 2015 I began the update of ARC Advisory Group’s global supply chain planning (SCP) market study. I am now concluding this SCP market study update. In a Logistics Viewpoints article published at that time, I discussed some of the major changes in SCP over the previous decade.

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The Lean Thinker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

And one final case study – an organization where the site leader berates people, directly calls them incompetent, diminishes their value… “I don’t know what you do all day”, one-ups any hint of expert opinion with some version of “I already know all of that better than you possibly could.”. Five Characteristics of Fear Based Leaders.

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Carter Logistics

JUNE 12, 2019

The Met Office, a national weather service in the United Kingdom, conducted research** in 2015 to understand how the weather impacts supply chain companies. According to the study, 47 percent of the surveyed supply chain professionals cited weather as “one of the top three factors external to their business that drives consumer demand.”

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 18, 2018

A 2015 study concluded that the ocean contains an estimated 150 million tons of plastic, with 8 million tons added annually, which is roughly equivalent to a garbage truckload dumped in it every minute. One of the big issues currently is that of ocean waste.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Come 2015, it was time to take that vision and make some quantitative observations. Enter The Future of Procurement , an Oxford Economics study.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 16, 2015

The FMCSA is accepting comments about the proposed carrier insurance increase until February 26th, 2015 through the Regulations.gov website. What’s important is that the Trucker Alliance (TA), a lobbying group comprised of larger companies in the industry, is already making its opinions known on the subject by releasing an extensive study.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 17, 2018

As far as back 2015 a study estimated that 8 million tons of plastics are swept into waterways annually — equivalent to a garbage truckload every minute. Mondelez International committed to making all of its packaging recyclable by 2025. By now most people are aware of that a lot of plastic is floating in our waterways.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 5, 2017

What is happening to BMW today is another case study in supply chain risk management. 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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Material Handling and Logistics

DECEMBER 14, 2018

That same study showed that only 30% were willing to pay more for them. A study done in 2015 by Moneycrashers.com found that consumers preferred made in America for other reasons including: Jobs -- The most common reason shoppers give for buying American is to help save or create jobs in the United States. How much more?

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 29, 2017

As I wrote two years ago in my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2015 : Historically, Supply Chain Design was an exercise companies undertook at most once a year, or when a significant change occurred in their supply chain, such as an acquisition. Overall, the sessions were all very insightful and informative.

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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, Tata Consultancy Services describes a case study of a $2 billion manufacturing company that creates most of its revenue by making products to order.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

In short, this survey is saying, among many other studies and reports, that those shippers who partner/outsource to a 3PL are staying competitive because the shipper is able to bring on immediate expertise through the use of a 3PL and the shipper then is able to compete and stay on top of all the latest changes in logistics capability.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

APRIL 15, 2023

According to a study by Barth et al. Utilizing smart parking solutions to optimize space utilization and reduce unnecessary driving in search of parking spots (Morganti & Gonzalez-Feliu, 2015). Sustainable procurement in the public sector: an international comparative study. Recycling behavior in Kuwait: a case study.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 11, 2018

Those are some of the key takeaways of the global UPS Pulse of the Online Shopper Global Study issued this week by UPS and comScore Inc. UPS said this study evaluated consumer shopping habits from pre-purchase to post-delivery, with respondents having made a minimum of two online purchases over a three-month timeframe. . “To

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

How can I summarize the many sessions and customer case studies I attended in a short blog post? presented a great case study on the company’s journey and success with real-time freight visibility. Wes Burt, Production Control-SCM-Assistant Manager at Toyota Manufacturing Canada, also gave an informative case study presentation.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2019

Vectra Eurolift Service has been the exclusive dealer of Yale® solutions in Romania since 2015 and is the sole service provider of Yale products in the region. The post Case Study: Materials Handling to Maximize Heavy-Duty Application appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Material Handling and Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2015 : solar-powered vessel, robot dispatcher, 3-D printed flight parts, and more. Click the links below to compare this year's innovations to those from previous years: Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2017 : exoskeletons, autonomous forklifts, flying warehouses, last-mile delivery, and more.

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Carter Logistics

JUNE 12, 2019

The Met Office, a national weather service in the United Kingdom, conducted research** in 2015 to understand how the weather impacts supply chain companies. According to the study, 47 percent of the surveyed supply chain professionals cited weather as “one of the top three factors external to their business that drives consumer demand.”

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 4, 2018

In 2015, SSI Schaefer undertook an analysis of Toolstream’s operation and devised a solution to satisfy the increasing demand for both storage space and faster order processing. The post Case Study: Tooling Up with Storage and Picking System appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In July 2015, it was agreed that the company would produce its sixth generation of cookers. “It The post Case Study: New Forklift Generation For Poland Appliance Maker appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine. New generation of cookers, new logistics solution.

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World Food Programme Logistics

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Since 2015, this producers’ association has brought together around 30 women who share one thing: the realization of their right to dream. She hopes to study mathematics and chemistry at university. Until a couple of years ago, I couldn’t even leave my house or speak to my neighbours,” says Jeanette, another member of Bahoneza. “I

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

million truck drivers in the country (as of 2015), but a new report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the number of long-haul truck drivers somewhere between 1.87 Simple question, but it turns out that answering it is not so simple. Number of Truck Drivers: The ATA vs. Bureau of Labor Statistics. million and 2.125 million.

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Logistics in War

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

The problem is that in a highly constrained discussion about logistics, our study of war is patently ‘incomplete at best, false at worst’. [5] Think again – supplying war: reappraising military logistics and its centrality to strategy and war’ from Journal of Strategic Studies, 2015, Routledge, p 6, [link]. & Coakley, R.,

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Material Handling and Logistics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

That plan was announced in 2012 and in 2015, the company pledged 1 billion kr., In Brazil, which is the largest sugarcane-ethanol producer ( 8 billion gallons in 2015/16 ), soil erosion and poor working conditions are major drawbacks. or more than $155 million, to make it happen.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2022

78% of 18–25-year-olds stated they wanted a refund to gift card option in its Retail Returns Study, paving the way for its development. ZigZag has claimed an award every year since its conception back in 2015 but picking up two awards at the European eCommerce awards in Spain was a special achievement.

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