Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 2, 2025

Global supply chains have been tested repeatedly by a series of disruptive events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S.-China However, recent disruptions including health crises, trade disputes, logistics bottlenecks, and climate-related events have exposed significant vulnerabilities in this model.

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The Lean Thinker

MARCH 5, 2021

to Rick from the factory where I had spent a week working with Mr. Shimura of Shingijutsu and Reiko, his interpreter. I knew that Rick would be wrapping up a class teaching the basics of kaizen events to a group of suppliers and if I were lucky, he would see the pager message and use it as a reinforcement to the participants.

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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. Festivities last until the following full moon and can impact supply chains for weeks or even months as factories are shuttered as workers return home for the annual celebration. At our intermodal yards, Chicago, Memphis, St.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 17, 2022

Courney is a Strategic Event Executive and the Chief Corporate Development Officer and President of Manifest at Connectiv, a live event studio based in NYC. Connectiv produces world-class industry leading events that focus on disruptive technology. We are a private live event studio. Anyway, it was a great event.

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

At the same time, Apple tried to steal the show by showcasing its new products at the Hey Siri event. And how much would it cost you or me if we could order one phone direct from the factory? To estimate the first month’s sales we took last year’s first month sales after the September Event. cost Apple?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 25, 2024

By integrating Nauto’s AI-powered Video Event Data Recorder (VEDR) solution with Beans.ai’s precision location data and micro-routing technology, the collaboration offers a comprehensive solution tailored to meet the needs of last-mile deliveries, including VEDR compliance. Nauto and Beans.ai

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 8, 2021

She is a sought after author and speaker having been published in various books, articles, and white papers and spoken at dozens of industry events. Factories do not have to be huge and polluting. Small factory trend or in-door farming. Cutting out the thousands of miles from shipping across the world. Decentralized lands.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The toilet paper shortage was one of the COVID era events that taught people what the term “supply chain management” meant. But the difficulty in finding workers has becoming a huge challenge at many factories and warehouses. But these events were not predictable – they might happen, they might not.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2025

It should be easy to connect to new data sources as the need arises, such as ESG or SNEW (social, news, events, weather) data. Manufacturing : A smart factory relies on IT-OT integration. With a data gateway, you have the flexibility to support open data access and enable seamless integration with other systems and applications.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Factories serve local markets. We have all our factories, both in-house and outsourced, all of our distribution centers, and our transportation network on the Blue Yonder foundational system. The sales team can go have those conversations, with real-time lead times and even the factory the product will ship from, with customers.

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The Lean Thinker

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

Imagine a factory with a large monument machine. Now… substitute “kaizen event” for “improvement machine” and see if it makes any sense. It takes several days to set up. When it does run, it runs very fast, much faster than you can actually use its output. Therefore, you take the excess output and store it to use later.

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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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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. A planner could ask the SCP engine to achieve 95% service, with CO2 emissions under a million metric tons at a given factory in the coming month.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2024

These solutions use natural language processing, for example, to read online publications and other data sources, make sense of what they read, contextualize the data into information, and report supply chain disruptions caused by weather, geopolitical events and other hazards in near real-time.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

JUNE 1, 2023

In this captivating article, we delve into the annals of history to explore the most important events that paved the way for the extraordinary development of logistics as we know it today. The invention of steam-powered engines and the mechanization of factories revolutionized production and transportation.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 15, 2019

Logistics provider Gefco has appointed Valérie Floridia (pictured) as director of the company’s Innovation Factory. The innovation factory is open all year, enabling candidates to submit projects any time to a screening committee of internal experts who select the most promising concepts.

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MTS Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2024

As the Chinese New Year approaches, businesses around the world brace themselves for the impact that this significant cultural event can have on logistics, particularly in ocean and air shipments. The heightened demand for shipments, combined with reduced production and factory closures, often leads to congestion at ports and airports.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

When unexpected disruptions occura factory shutdown, a shipping delay, or a supply shortagethese models provide little flexibility. AI integrates external data sources such as weather forecasts, geopolitical events, and social media trends to refine demand projections. This reduces excess inventory while maintaining service levels.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Enhanced Planner Experience Supply chain planners are under immense pressure at work, not only do they need to navigate existing complex business environments, but they are also inundated with daily market events and disruptions that require immediate resolution.

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Trinity Logistics

JUNE 19, 2019

In this blog, we’ll go over the economic and supply chain impacts that result from these events and how you can best prepare your supply chain. When these natural events happen, numerous businesses find their supply chains shook. Impacts on the economy and supply chains. Severe weather has exponential impacts on our global economy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2025

One of the key approaches to simulating warehouse operations is based on employing discrete event simulation (DES) techniques and tools. Locus is one of the largest providers in the market in a press release last year, they announced that their bots had completed over 4 billion picks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

Maximizing factory throughput is critical. The occurrence of any of these events disrupts the global supply chain and can deeply impact profitability. One event could create so much churn, Mr. Al Syed explained. The company has 55 manufacturing sites across the world. The chemical industry has a complex supply chain.

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MTS Logistics

JANUARY 30, 2020

The Chinese New Year period is one of the slowest periods for ocean shipping as many factories close for up to four weeks and many people travel back to their home cities to visit their families. Manufacturing delays: Traditionally, factories in China took an average of 3-4 weeks to open after the Chinese New Year period.

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MTS Logistics

MAY 3, 2024

Women worked in factories with the most famous one being Rosie the Riveter. Although aspirational, Rosie the Riveter was reflected by thousands of women in factories during the war. Hosting professional development workshops and networking events provides additional growth opportunities and vital industry connections.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2021

The MassRobotics AMR Interoperability Standard is designed to assist organizations in the deployment of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) from multiple vendors and have them work together in the same environment, better realizing the promise of warehouse and factory automation. Trail Blazing and Bushwhacking.

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Material Handling and Logistics

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Production uncertainties are caused by unexpected occurrances, such as yields that are different from forecasts, or factory machines that break down. These are also information gaps between what you expect to happen in a factory and what actually happens. What can go wrong on the factory floor will go wrong.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

Your organization’s ability to anticipate disruption, adapt to events, and build resiliency is rooted in how you maintain operational continuity. A wide range of events could prevent your supply chain from operating normally, but not all events have an equal impact.

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MTS Logistics

MAY 13, 2024

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was the main guest at the event and had a different threat in mind. It’s worth even checking where/how companies’ main factories are doing sourcing from and de-risking sourcing by switching (if possible) to areas where threat levels are much lower.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 14, 2023

billion Denbury deal boosts energy transition plans On the lighter side… Truck stuck in Smugglers’ Notch, again, and Vermont plans to take action The Amazon Prime Day event, stretching across July 11 and 12, was Amazon’s largest ever Prime Day, according to Amazon. port strike Exxon’s $4.9

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Shipping industry stakeholders have faced many of these events, and they have changed the shipping industry irrevocably, for good. Shipping industry stakeholders have faced many of these events, and they have changed the shipping industry irrevocably, for good. One event after another pushed the overall supply chain to its limits.

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MTS Logistics

MAY 28, 2024

As global connectivity has greatly improved, companies can rely on fast and reliable shipping connections to ensure the timely delivery of raw materials and finished products to their factories and warehouses.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Mars uses it to oversee production processes, preventing overfilling in factories, while Michelin leveraged 80,000 simulations for strategic sourcing, saving €10 million annually in logistics and boosting profit margins by 5%. Leading companies like Mars and Michelin have successfully integrated digital twin technology.

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ShipLilly

DECEMBER 24, 2019

The fact that factories will shut down for several weeks is an essential consideration for all those that are involved in the shipping industry. Each region in China tends to have some variations as to how they celebrate the event. ” How long are factories shut down? Impact on shippers: 5 things to consider.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2024

For example, in a trip to the airport, there is a chain of events that determines whether a person will arrive on time. Each event is a “state.” As the likelihood of different factors changes—such as through an adverse event—Atlas re-optimizes based on this “new view” of risks. I slept in late, or I didn’t.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

That processing event determines when the goods need to be delivered to the next stop. That factory also aims to rapidly process the raw materials into product. It was quickly determined that a procurement event was necessary just to set a baseline. Procurement ran a request for proposal event. We’d rather not do that.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 5, 2017

A lot of data/information is communicated in batch and serial mode, sometimes hours or days after a transaction or event occurs. Within X hours of the event, we contacted all of these suppliers and determined that X supplier has shop floor damage. Inbound deliveries to factories/warehouses. Take BMW as the latest example.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

And the reasons spanned from a global chip shortage, to embargoes, to factory fires, to natural disasters. Buying organizations use this technology to monitor and analyze supplier risk events in real-time. I don’t need to know about Tier 2 events for my market suppliers. I have 1000s of them.

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