Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 27, 2023

The company announced that it is expanding its associate-to-driver program so that any Walmart worker at 439 store locations nationwide can become a truck driver after completing a 12-week course.

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Logistics Manager

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

However, some of these factories may already have locations in other countries and are in need of relocation. Factory relocation is a unique and major challenge compared to other logistics-related services. Once a business has decided that relocating a factory is the right move, a whole host of new decisions open up.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Companies have to pursue profits of course, (how else will they stay in business?) A recent survey by Deloitte reveals that business leaders overwhelmingly (93 percent) believe that companies are not merely employers, but are also stewards of society. A Reputation Institute survey found that 91.4% You get the idea.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Of course, reports Predictive Analytics Times , analytics also possess potential to change how companies obtain the raw materials for their products. In manufacturing, this means engineers, repair workers and factory employees will be able to use augmented reality to complete tasks faster than ever before.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Of course, it is helpful to have some statistics on hand to validate the statement above. 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.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 6, 2021

Of course, toilet paper and paper towels were in short supply as well. Throughout the pandemic, factories were shut down due to COVID-19 infected employees and truck drivers and warehouse workers were idled as well. Manufacturing and supply chains couldn’t ramp up fast enough.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

However, remember that products or subassemblies that never made it out of the factory may need to travel backwards one or more stages along the supply chain. Hidden Opportunities for Supply Chain Cost Reductions Of course hidden costs, if you can find them, mean hidden opportunities. This also qualifies as reverse logistics.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 28, 2016

Is the factory pumping tons of lethal gases into the atmosphere? Additionally, 81 percent of students who participated in Manufacturing Day 2015 who were surveyed showed an increased interest in pursuing a manufacturing career. Picture of traditional job in manufacturing. Is the dust flying; are the squeals of machinery mind-numbing?

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Highway and transportation closures, and mandatory 14-day quarantines for people returning home from strongly affected areas, mean that even in places no longer shut down, the return to normal at factories and ports will be slow. . The new trade dynamics mean that even more businesses are looking to diversify their supply chains. .

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

In 1994 Reza Raji described the concept in IEEE Spectrum as “[moving] small packets of data to a large set of nodes, so as to integrate and automate everything from home appliances to entire factories” However, only in 1999 did the field start gathering momentum. According to Gartner, Inc.,

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 18, 2015

In the supply chain articles category it is clear the top ten are all about trends, facts, technology, and of course optimization. Jabil sponsored a global Dimensional Research survey to capture hard data on current experiences, challenges and trends with the supply chains of electronics manufacturing companies.

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Logistics Manager

JUNE 27, 2018

The difference is that most of these other reports are based on surveys of hundreds of individuals from the industry. Because it’s all based on individual guesses, there’s of course going to be an air of bias as it’s feelings based. The difference in what we do is that we’re leveraging the latest technologies.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 28, 2016

These super-intelligent machines are already taking over factory workers, stock traders, data processors, even news reporters. Gelernter observes that the mind operates in different ways through the course of each day. We have adjusted to their presence very quickly, haven’t we? Will they make all of us obsolete someday?

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GlobalTranz

MAY 23, 2017

Or a video shot on the factory floor using a mobile phone or a produced training class about an innovative technology. Google 'percent of B2B purchases that start with a search' and you'll see many studies showing that the number is somewhere around 66% to 93%, and many of these surveys are a year or two old. Photo gallery.

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WorkWave

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

These efforts should be thought of as one machine with many levers, not separate factories. In fact, according to WorkWave’s 2021 pest control industry survey, when asked how most customers find out about their business, 85% of pest control business owners listed word of mouth among their top three.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

And of course most can’t. But later it was found they in fact were, as major suppliers and middlemen subcontracted to those factories without the buying company having any knowledge of it. Of course, consumer brand companies are especially at risk from being tarred with an anti-sustainability brush.

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Automotive Logistics

MAY 3, 2019

Whilst Brexit will bring many challenges and, of course, opportunities, the efficiency of European port transhipment routings defined by geographical and market proximity will remain – even where the political backdrop differs,” he says. project planned for land to the north of the Nissan factory in Washington. “It

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 19, 2018

A little more than 20 years ago, I was doing some consulting for a company called Indiana Glass, then a division of Lancaster Colony, at its Dunkirk, IN factory just outside of Muncie. Alas, it appears the factory was shuttered more than a decade ago. Of course we all need to up our game.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 4, 2016

For some manufacturers, having factories and operations in foreign countries is beneficial to foreign customers, but having factories in the US is also beneficial to US customers. Of course, there are other factors affecting the American push towards reshoring and nearshoring. Can Everything Go Through Reshoring or Nearshoring?

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2018

According to Dharmani the ‘nirvana’ for this technology uptake would be the establishment of an autonomous value chain that sensed change either from the demand side, when a customer changed an order, or on the supply side, when something like a fire stopped production at a supplier’s factory. Digital from the start. Asset tracking.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

According to the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) annual back-to-school shopping survey, consumers plan to spend record amounts for both school and college supplies as families and students plan to return to in-person classrooms this fall. billion last year and an all-time high in the survey’s history. billion, up from $33.9

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 2, 2020

Larger businesses may take longer to ‘turn the ship’ onto a different course. A total of 56 percent of 635 US small-business owners surveyed by Australia-based money transfer operator OFX said they are pondering moving supply out of China, or had already done so. A recent survey of 350 Japanese companies in China found that only 2.9

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Both American and foreign companies that use US technology are being required to cut off support for some of China‘s leading factories and chip designers. China, of course, is likely to react to these measures in ways that may be hard to predict. It is not just US tool manufacturers that are affected. The N-Tier Supply Chain.

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