Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 6, 2022

A couple of weeks ago, I attended Körber Supply Chain’s Elevate User conference. With the launch of its private label brand, SanMar began product development, sourcing, and working with global factories. SanMar has committed to third party audits for every factory they do business with.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 18, 2022

We were also joined by over 1,500 people from around the world who attended the conference virtually. The theme for the conference was “Ready. This came in the form of unexpected absenteeism at factories, warehouses, and on the road, as well as boats being stuck in ports which created container shortages. and Supply.AI.

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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Terrill Johnson was installing car trunks at Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California, when he heard the sound that would define his next few years, if not the rest of his life. “It Stenciled over the entrance to the company’s Fremont factory are these words: “Our mission: to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.”

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 4, 2023

Smart factory operations can help supply chain leaders achieve many of their highest priorities, but the challenges are too often underestimated, according to research from Gartner, Inc. Gartner research has identified the five top risks to avoid when launching new smart factory initiatives: 1.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 12, 2022

I was able to attend for a day due to my proximity to the Boston conference center in which it was held. ” Carl Doeksen noted that @3M has 240 factories worldwide, but they also have large distribution centers (DCs).

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2022

Further, under the provisions of the new legislation, companies’ responsibility extends beyond their own factories, warehouses, stores, and corporate offices to encompass their entire supply chain. Before going to the very well attended Coupa Inspire user conference, I was not exactly sure what a business spend management solution was.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 24, 2023

Raja Hammoud, EVP of Products at Coupa, speaking on the main stage at Coupa Inspire Coupa recently completed its Inspire conference. At this conference, I heard of a couple of companies using supply chain design in their planning processes in new ways. Building a new factory or warehouse takes time and is capital intensive.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2021

Here is what Mr. Toornman said at the conference. “We At AGCO when there is an allocation of supply decision to be taken, there is just one person communicating with a particular supplier and telling them how the tight supply will be allocated among the AGCO factories. We need people that are adaptable.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

In addition, some factories near the airport and conference will be closed August 20th to September 7th; exports from the area are likely to ramp up to account for the factory closures. Although factories don’t shut down in the same way as during Chinese New Year, carriers are likely to have limited staff. Golden Week.

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MTS Logistics

JUNE 21, 2021

Supply chains collapsed as factories shut down and ports closed due to health and safety concerns. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), global trade has already rebounded and surpassed pre-pandemic levels. The COVID-19 pandemic was a major disruptor for the global shipping industry.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 11, 2020

The trigger for this alarming state of affairs was the December outbreak of the COVID-19 Coronavirus epidemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan, which prompted authorities to lock down major cities, close factories, and severely limit the movement of individuals. Pinpointing the Industries Hit the Hardest.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 3, 2023

Orders can be cancelled, rush orders come in, factory machines go down, port congestion occurs, and so forth. If it is the same consumer goods company that I think it is, I saw their vice president of supply chain speak at a planning conference. It is the execution of this plan that will delight or disappoint customers.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2018

While a degree of uncertainty over the future of free trade between Mexico and its Nafta neighbours to the north once again hung over discussions at this year’s Automotive Logistics Mexico conference, it was more than matched by confidence in the future of the automotive sector. Digital from the start. Asset tracking. Inbound transparency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 24, 2022

At the conference, I was fortunate to see a presentation from Brent Wilson, Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain at Qualcomm. As Covid spread, so too did factory closures. In May, I attended the Kinaxis Kinexions event in San Diego, CA. One of the biggest issues was the labor shortage during Covid.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2024

Do they need to get right to a conference, or is the schedule looser? The throughput time on a factory line can also vary depending on the age of the equipment, what is being made, and even the order in which goods are being made. And at some airports, a Fast Pass really is not any faster. What is the situation at this airport?

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Women in Trucking

APRIL 27, 2020

You connect us from farm to factory to hospital to grocery store and beyond. Conference speaker, WIT guest blogger, and award-winning author. The medical folks, the caregivers, the first-responders, the people who sell food at the grocery store, and Y-O-U. You are superheroes. (No No cape required) May you travel safely.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The jobs reduction will save $1 billion this year, Tomé said on an earnings conference call with analysts on Tuesday. A factory in Suzhou was the company’s main manufacturing site for its semiconductor test equipment, which it subcontracted to Flextronics. The shares fell as much as 7.6 percent in early U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 30, 2021

“As the reopening continues, bottlenecks, hiring difficulties, and other constraints could continue to limit how quickly supply can adjust, raising the possibility that inflation could turn out to be higher and more persistent than we expect,” Powell said during a news conference. Will this begin to affect demand in retail and hospitality?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

Those materials flow into over 170 factories in over 40 nations. A supply chain is mapped, where components are source from, how they flow through a supply chain to factories and out to customers. Then key terms are identified, terms like “factory fire,” “bankruptcy” are married to the names of suppliers and ports and partners.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 15, 2017

The French automaker Renault, for example, was forced to shut down factories across Europe. Tanguy Deschamps, a 38-year-old who was working at the factory when the virus hit, said the alarms were failing to sound whenever workers tried to alert others to crooked or improperly welded parts.

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Now, That's Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2018

As attendees at this year’s SEMICON West conference learned last month, advanced technology is playing a major role in these new “connected” Industry 4.0 The ability of the smart factory to predict future outcomes based on historical and real-time data can improve uptime, yield, and quality, and prevent safety issues,” Deloitte continues.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Aniruddh Srivastava, Head of Demand and Supply Planning at Mahindra & Mahindra, said at Blue Yonder ’s Icon user conference that artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms are the cornerstone of their strategy. That is every machine, factory, DC, mode of transportation, supplier, product, material, etc.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 9, 2019

Following a successful trial, transportation via the New Silk Road will see 11% of Porsche’s factory-new models going on a new rail link to south-west China. T ransportation by sea from the factory to Porsche centres in China takes 50 days. From there, the new cars will be delivered to regional dealers.

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Logistics in War

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

This is an edited adaption of a presentation given at the Australian Defence Force conference ‘Rapid Force Projection’ in April 2019. Nonetheless, ‘how much logistics readiness is enough?’ has been a question not too far from the lips of capability managers and commanders since war began. 1] See Eccles, H.,

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Freightos

MARCH 10, 2016

For shippers, carriers and logistics providers, the JOC ’s TPM (Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference) is one of the must-attends on the annual events calendar. I caught up with one of Freightos’ delegates after the conference and scoured through the presentation material for insights. Five Key Takeaways From TPM 2016. No surprise.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

Here are some examples from the past few months: P&G : P&G is undertaking “a multibillion-dollar effort to remake an antiquated and inefficient network of factories, warehouses and offices into a new model that gets goods to stores more quickly,” reported Sharon Terlep in the Wall Street Journal this past February. “P&G

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 1, 2017

Smart factories are the wave of the future — they’ve already started to replace more traditional manufacturing facilities with automated assembly lines that need software engineers rather than traditionally skilled individuals. It’s been used everywhere from automotive factories to the International Space Station.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The shortage projection, released on the final day of the ATA Management Conference & Exhibition at the San Diego Convention Center, is expected to grow over the next decade, Costello said. The company’s new battery manufacturing facility will be in the same industrial park as its future “MegaMicro” factory, Canoo said.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 15, 2018

Buyers can invite several logistics providers and factories onto the neutral platform so that all order and shipment information is in one place. . Buyers can invite several logistics providers and factories onto the neutral platform so that all order and shipment information is in one place. We’ll send it to you!

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Automotive Logistics

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Feeding information from the containers at several junctions in the inbound process into the digital system, it allows the carmaker to optimise container rotation between supplier sites and its factories. “We Read more about some of the latest innovations in packaging and container management here.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2022

Seven technicians maintain and repair machinery at the company’s factory in Alfreton, Derbyshire – which recently took delivery of its tenth injection-moulding machine – while four employees in the toolroom produce and service tools to meet production requirements.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

Indeed, there is cause for concern about Chinese factories’ ability to fulfill orders, given the massive uptick in COVID cases since the harsh policy was lifted. Other reports say that people are sickening quickly and in enormous numbers, leaving factories short-staffed at the worst possible time—Chinese New Year.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 18, 2018

Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal reported that P&G is undertaking “a multibillion-dollar effort to remake an antiquated and inefficient network of factories, warehouses and offices into a new model that gets goods to stores more quickly.”.

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Logistics in War

JUNE 29, 2023

This is the first part of a presentation given at the Australian – New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference during June 2023. This conference convened to discuss supply chain resilience at a time of strategic competition. By David Beaumont. But there’s more to be concerned about.

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The Logistics Academy

JUNE 8, 2017

Winners Revealed at Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, AZ, Unilever Retains the Top Spot in Rankings as Amazon Joins the “Masters” Gartner, Inc. has released the findings from its annual Supply Chain Top 25, identifying supply chain leaders and highlighting their best practices.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Inventories are close to zero, volumes have fallen dramatically, factories are closing without notice, unbalanced flows are destroying efficiency and thus profitability. The Finished Vehicle Logistics (FVL) industry faces major new challenges. Our member companies are happy to deliver, but the industry must also let them.”

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The employee-owned business announced the challenge earlier this month when the team held a plastic packaging conference in the Midlands, at which they launched both the truck and their plastics white paper. We really are a packaging company who want you to use less packaging. Join us in saving 120 tonnes of packaging waste this year.”.

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