The Lean Thinker

AUGUST 28, 2023

It was Tuesday afternoon of a traditional five-day kaizen event. It was easy to demonstrate that the oven actually had plenty of capacity, and could easily meet the need by operating it as it was designed. ” This was not a function of machine capacity. Math was on our side. I was still new at this.

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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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MTS Logistics

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

” In a recent video message to union members, shared during the September meeting, Dennis Daggett, executive vice president of the ILA and son of Harold Daggett, described automation as a “cancer” in the port industry. He also called semi-automation a “back-avenue into automation.”

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2018

More than a year into a freight capacity crisis that shows little sign of weakening, it’s time for all parties involved in logistics and freight transportation to meet this issue head on. Freight Capacity Crisis: How Did We Get Here So Quickly? The seeds for this current market were sown in the aftermath of the Great Recession.

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FreightWaves SONAR

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The retail holiday season is when time sensitivity tends to ramp up, demand is at or near the highest level of the year, and capacity comes off the road for the holidays. For shippers and carriers alike, this translates into tighter capacity, higher rates and an urgent need for precision in delivery timing.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

However, even as retailers scramble to meet e-commerce consumer demands, and providers lean into the latest trends to get those packages to front doors, there is plenty going on behind the scenes. She noted that the company works to ensure its franchisees have the right business model that will be profitable and meet the needs of shippers.

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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

MAY 23, 2024

Situation Companies are increasingly confronted with complex planning scenarios due to predictable events such as mergers and acquisitions, category expansions, supplier changes, and distribution evolution, as well as disruptive events including demand volatility, material shortages, capacity constraints, and logistical surprises.

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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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MTS Logistics

AUGUST 9, 2023

Last Friday, a major milestone was reached in the Port of Houston’s bid to expand its capacity. ” The new project is critical for future port growth and black-swan events. After many issues with capacity at major ports on the U.S. West Coast in 2021, U.S.

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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. Most often , these events force demand and resource usage to fluctuate. Ready to equip your team for resilience? .

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 26, 2023

Logistics has become a crucial factor in ensuring the success of massive events such as the Carnival, which attracts thousands of national and international tourists and requires a huge amount of work, coordination and planning. Police overview: to ensure the safety of the people who enjoy the festivities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 10, 2024

Agility can also reflect a company’s ability to effectively deal with unexpected constraints caused by strikes, earthquakes, political strife, and a variety of other events. Fulfillment constraints can include how long it will take to deliver goods to a destination, warehouse capacity, and warehouse labor requirements.

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The Lean Thinker

JULY 2, 2024

They realized then that Boeing had to transform itself from an engineering company focused solely on meeting engineering challenges to one focused on meeting the needs of the customers. But the key to meeting the needs of the customers was more than just understanding those needs better. It was a triumph moment for everyone.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 13, 2022

Some changes are environmental—greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other factors contribute to climate change and an increase in severe weather events that impact the supply chain. Here’s how many companies are turning to their supply chains to meet their ESG goals. Others are societal. REDUCING EMISSIONS FROM TRANSPORATION.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

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. In our experience, by embracing digitalization of sourcing operations, organizations are able to uncover double digit percentage savings from sourcing events. Digitalizing sourcing (i.e.,

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Capacity Constraints Continue to Arise. Capacity constraints continue to come under microscope as shippers look for a better understanding to the state of the market. Top causes of capacity constraints include: . Fewer labor resources are available to meet the rising demand in both the warehouse and in transit. ?

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Trinity Logistics

JUNE 3, 2021

Addresses the need for maintaining drugs under stable conditions and meeting manufacturer’s specifications. 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.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

With Apple’s big event last week, the company claimed that the new Apple Watch will be carbon neutral. Not surprisingly, the company’s largest competitors announced that they too will be kicking off the holiday season with a fall sales event. At full capacity, the company said, the factory will employ 500 human workers in Salem.

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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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Shipchain

OCTOBER 20, 2020

That last few years have been nothing short of eventful for the trucking industry. This, of course, left some large shoes to fill, and unfortunately, 2019 could not meet the mark, with freight rates falling by 27 percent as per Camino Financial. A Brief Recap on The Trucking Industry’s Recent History.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2024

Today’s supply chains are fraught with uncertainties across demand and supply yet are tasked with adding incremental value to their organizations while also meeting commercial, working capital and sustainability goals. service, profit, capacity) of a small number of demand scenarios (e.g. base, opportunities, and risks).

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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. Forward-thinking Supply Chain leaders can become more resilient if they try to anticipate future events, and have a contingency plan ready for when the event occurs. Let’s consider some examples.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Planning for "what if" scenarios and identifying options in advance can be especially important when capacity is tight and transportation is harder to secure. Since consumers couldn't spend on experiences like vacations, sporting events and concerts, they put that money to work buying goods. Could you shift to an East Coast port?

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Shoppers stock up on everything from costumes to cranberry sauce to candy canes, and suppliers need to be prepared to meet the peaks and valleys of consumer demand. To meet this increased demand, businesses employ a number of tactics. year over year according to analysts at Deloitte. in September 2018 according to the U.S.

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CH Robinson Logistics

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

event of 2022, my colleagues, Christina Carroll, vice president of LTL, Alan Rowlett, director of global operations and strategy, and I set out to offer exactly that. There were several popular questions that we didn’t have time to address during the live event. In our first Market Insights Live!

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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. 2] Commanders and logisticians at all levels will arbitrarily increase their demands, and others will do their best to meet the new requirement. Hoarding will occur.

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MTS Logistics

JULY 15, 2024

A significant portion of the capacity for container transportation has been sucked in by severe port congestion worldwide, driving up demand for oceangoing box carriers to all-time highs. Companies like Amazon, Alibaba, and other online retailers are importing vast quantities of goods to meet consumer demand.

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Envase Technologies

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Thank you to everyone who came by to get a sneak peek into our newest solutions, as well those who attended our post-event Drayage, Dining & Drinks receptions! Tired of calling and emailing to find capacity? DrayMaster’s Capacity Calendar can show a trucker’s current capacity when a rate is returned.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 9, 2021

As a result, transportation fleets must leverage truck utilization data daily as well as load percent capacity, driver wellness and other KPIs to monitor the efficiency and optimization of each unit. However, the additional benefits of actual tender trucking data via EDI or API are much more significant than meets the eye.

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Trinity Logistics

JUNE 13, 2024

Food and beverage companies need to meet the rising pressure to provide quicker turnarounds and deliver their products at optimal freshness to stay competitive. It also can limit access to capacity, something that is truly needed for those requiring temperature control during peak produce season !

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 18, 2022

This was my first in-person event in over two years, and it did not disappoint. You could feel the energy in the air as 450+ people seemed to really enjoy being back at an in-person event. This includes weather events, port strikes, capacity shortages, and unexpected demand spikes.

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Stord

APRIL 2, 2020

April 3, 2020 Supply chains are scrambling to adapt to COVID-19, an unprecedented event that couldn’t be forecasted in demand planning. Know how many of what SKUs you have in each of your facilities, which ones are selling quickly, and which ones are just sitting in storage taking up much-needed capacity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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. And then decisions on these questions will in turn affect other customers in your rattled supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 10, 2024

While the supply chain pressures that have built up over the last two years continue to abate as transportation capacity problems ease and consumption shifts from goods to services, newer challenges and opportunities lie ahead. 2021 was the trough with in-person events severely limited.

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Parade

JANUARY 12, 2022

With so many options out there, how do you know which capacity management solution is the right one for you? Here are the things that make Parade the foremost capacity management software on the market. Carrier events. A really exciting feature? We also allow our customers to build a private carrier network. Conversions.

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Parade

JANUARY 12, 2022

With so many options out there, how do you know which capacity management solution is the right one for you? Here are the things that make Parade the foremost capacity management software on the market. Carrier events. A really exciting feature? We also allow our customers to build a private carrier network. Conversions.

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