Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

Flexible warehouse systems support modular scaling, allowing warehouse operators to add capacity incrementally without significant downtime. Handle Peak Demand Demand spikes, such as those during holidays or major promotional events, can overwhelm unprepared warehouses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

An iGPU (integrated graphic processing unit) is a current example. As an example, if we have congested lanes, the system will automatically flag that we have a potential risk of delay based. For example, we’re working on telling the solution that it has a budget. During COVID constraints were popping up all over the place.

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Dedola Global Logistics

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Strong Carrier Relationships : Our long-standing relationships with ocean carriers ensure that we secure priority space for your shipments, even when capacity is tight due to hurricane-related rerouting or congestion. By building flexibility into our logistics strategies, we can redirect shipments to less-affected ports, minimizing delays.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 16, 2025

The resilience of your supply chain is determined by its structure and operations, whether we’re dealing with major immediate events like a pandemic or gradual systemic changes to your business environment over time. Typically it involves carrying extra inventory and hiring more workers than absolutely necessary.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Single people mark the occasion by spoiling and treating themselves to gifts and presents, but it wasn’t until Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba chose the date to offer heavily discounted merchandise on its platform for 24 hours, starting at midnight on the 11th November, 2009, that Singles’ Day became a major commercial event.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

They can ingest large volumes of functional data and leverage advanced intelligence to recognize broad trends and specific disruptive events. Teams are constrained by their physical resources, like trucks, inventory, and labor capacities, as they seek to resolve a disruption. billion to $23.07

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The Lean Thinker

JULY 2, 2024

.” In the background, also in the early 90s, Boeing was beginning to experiment with things like 5S and “Accelerated Improvement Workshops” (AIW) (aka kaizen events). The structural designs were far more tolerant of production variation, for example. Most of these were small-scale tactical affairs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Discover capability gaps and create sourcing events Seek and discover what capabilities the organization may be lacking, such as vulnerabilities or inefficiencies in transportation or supplier capacity. Supply chain design can help identify and flag such capacity and capability gaps.

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Now, That's Logistics

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Unfortunately, there’s yet one more disruptive event to get through before that can happen: Chinese New Year. For example, East-West came up with this rule to help account for CNY delays: For orders normally received in March, take 50% of the volume and receive it in January. Receive the other 50% of that volume in February.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

While this creates tremendous value , it also br ings the inevitable risk that certain event s can have far-reaching consequences that influence supply chain s more than ever before. Let’s explore some example s. . Most often , these events force demand and resource usage to fluctuate.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The original intent may have been for shippers to secure capacity at agreed-upon rates and for carriers to ensure they have enough volumes to keep their trucks loaded and moving. At the same time, a retailer whose product demand drops sharply has less need for transportation capacity and therefore tenders lower volumes to contracted carriers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2024

service, profit, capacity) of a small number of demand scenarios (e.g. Companies can also test-drive their supply chains by introducing the uncertainty of events that are difficult, if not impossible, to predict with accuracy. These events can range from minor supply disruption or canceled shipments to significant black swan events.

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Trinity Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2024

Severe weather events are the new normal. Severe weather events are becoming more intense and commonplace, causing supply chains to struggle. CASES OF SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTION FROM RECENT SEVERE WEATHER Climate change has led to an increase in severe weather events. Can the logistics industry handle more supply chain disruption?

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FreightWaves SONAR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

These major weather events affect transportation markets in the days leading up to the event and following the events in different ways. Major weather events hamper transportation markets from both the demand and supply sides of the market. The demand side of the market is an easier impact to understand.

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Turvo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The extraordinary cascade of events triggered by the pandemic led to a severe container shortage. For example, the transportation of high-value goods such as mechanical engineering products, electronics, and computer equipment was minimally affected. Record-high shipping rates are affecting the world economy.

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Trinity Logistics

AUGUST 23, 2024

I can answer some of those questions and share with you my thoughts, experiences, and observations of this impactful event in LTL history. Volumes increased drastically, and with such a rapid rise came decreased capacity. The LTL carriers have course-corrected their capacity concerns.

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Freightos

JUNE 4, 2024

With demand stable in those months though, carriers still had just enough capacity and equipment to keep the market balanced and rates elevated but level. But things started to change dramatically in May. Since the end of April, Asia – N.

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IoT World Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

IoT World is North America’s largest IoT event where strategists, technologists and implementers connect, putting IoT, AI, 5G and edge into action across industry verticals. ProRail uses algorithms to determine when and where a trespasser might decide to walk on the track, for example. Book your ticket now. ]. Making Data One’s Own.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

And agility is about reacting quickly and hopefully effectively to the actual disruptive event. But the event might not be disruptive at all if you had planned for it. That variability might be in the areas of manufacturing, distribution, or transportation capacity. What if we could get suppliers to share their capacity?”

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 7, 2019

Last year many shippers were caught flat-footed by rising transportation costs and capacity constraints. In 2018, transportation cost and capacity issues were front and center in the news, so I began my discussion with Matt by asking his thoughts on what transpired last year. Capacity utilization. How can shippers realize them?

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Let us take the example of direct materials, i.e., materials that are used as components in making a finished product, such as a hard drive or RAM in a personal computer. Only award up to a maximum of 80% of a supplier’s capacity so that they aren’t struggling to reach 100% throughput to meet the demand. Digitalizing sourcing (i.e.,

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AIMMS

MAY 22, 2018

New import tariffs being introduced across the globe, extreme weather events, Brexit… The list goes on and on. For example, we don’t know where the next tsunami or hurricane will hit. Let’s consider some examples. What happens if one of my manufacturing plants goes down due to an unforeseen weather event?

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Logistics in War

MARCH 7, 2020

Lessons can come from extrapolating what we witness every day; from events that capture tangible and intangible aspects of sustaining normal life. A normally stable balance of supply and demand is upset by events, with consumer behaviour in panic-buying magnifying the problem. Australian consumers are fearful.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2021

And my impression from discussions with users, and from the discussions at a 2021 Mass Robotics event , is that heterogeneous operating requirements are a reality, therefore making interoperability a top priority. The bots will communicate location, direction of movement, capacity, and battery load. Trail Blazing and Bushwhacking.

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Trinity Logistics

JUNE 3, 2021

Some examples of these are: U.S. 21 CFR 211.150 Provides guidance on the written procedures for managing expirations and a reliable system for identifying the distribution of drug samples in the event of a recall. TEMPERATURE-CONTROLLED SHIPPING CAPACITY. Another significant cold chain challenge is available capacity.

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Morai Logistics

JULY 8, 2020

Typically, a single area is impacted by some sort of event. For example, if a supply chain is temporarily stymied by some extreme weather event. Whether it’s a flooding or a hurricane or an ice storm, the reach of weather events tend to be contained to a city or country or region. That is not so for COVID-19.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This example illustrates why supply chain visibility isn’t enough. And the impact doesn’t stop there, since trade-off decisions will be required to answer questions like which customer is most important to satisfy with the limited bolts in inventory and if production capacity should be reallocated. Agility to act on transparency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Risk events that happen in one part of the supply chain can cause a disruptive effect that is amplified multi-fold given the complex connectivity of labor, raw materials, and capacity. The bullwhip effect is one example of this disruptive effect, when small changes in demand cause huge demand spikes downstream.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2021

Here are some examples of such use cases. Based on this intelligence, they can in turn collaborate with sourcing to create events in consideration of supply chain needs. Such sourcing events can be in the context of direct materials or logistics capacity.

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Logistics Bureau

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

For example, the longer it takes to complete specific process cycles in the supply chain, the more resources are required to execute those cycles. For example, ocean freight is often the only option for moving large shipments (container loads) of goods internationally. Why is lead time important?

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A notable example of greenwashing is when McDonald’s introduced paper straws to reduce plastic pollution. With Apple’s big event last week, the company claimed that the new Apple Watch will be carbon neutral. At full capacity, the company said, the factory will employ 500 human workers in Salem.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

These come from using gasoline for driving a car or coal for heating a building, for example. For example, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law a year ago this week. The instances of extreme weather events continue to grow on a yearly basis. Clearing land and cutting down forests can also release carbon dioxide.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes. The processing units in an oil refinery, for example, operate at high temperature and high pressure. One example of the value of machine learning in demand planning comes from Mahindra & Mahindra. These constraints need to be understood.

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Dedola Global Logistics

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

General Average applies liability for the loss proportionally to all shippers according to the percentage of the overall ship’s capacity. Some examples of incidents that may cause loss of cargo include: Fire. Shippers have a lot on the line in the event of cargo loss. Mechanical engine failure. Ship running aground.

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Now, That's Logistics

JULY 13, 2021

Defined as the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties, resilience has become a core mission for companies across most industries right now. Even minor shifts in this area can help balance out capacity and help shippers get the best possible freight rates. Don’t Go it Alone.

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IoT World Today

MAY 21, 2020

Shortages for in-demand products abound, while shipment delays are common and production lines run at a fraction of capacity. But with a black-swan event, it just magnifies the risk.”. Sign up for virtual event updates here. ]. The COVID-19 crisis has hit the global supply chain from all sides.

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Freightos

JULY 30, 2024

Asia and Africa lanes, which may likewise indicate that more capacity is becoming available across networks as a result of easing conditions on the main trade lanes. But the biggest contributor to easing rates may be the early start to peak season for North America and Europe. Even as volumes have increased since May, destination ports in N.

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