Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Are they meeting consumers’ home delivery expectations, whether that’s affordable delivery, specific time windows, or sustainable options? The onus is on ecommerce retailers to control the controllables, and focusing on eliminating uncertainty from the consumer fulfillment process and optimizing the last mile is a smart approach.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 21, 2023

Before joining Coyote in 2006, Chris spent his early career in supply chain software development and network design – and studied at as many Eastern US tech schools as he could: earning a B.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech, an M.Eng. in Logistics from MIT, and an MBA from Georgia Tech.

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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. This is expected to enhance productivity and contribute to a boost in economic value added to the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

International Logistics must find a balance between more economical costs and higher efficiency to meet the needs of different countries. Case Study: Deep Application and Practice of RPA Technology As a global digital logistics service company, RPA technology plays a crucial role in YQN’s smart logistics solution.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 12, 2025

Many businesses are taking a balanced approachavoiding excessive stockpiling while ensuring they can meet potential surges in demand. Many businesses are taking a balanced approachavoiding excessive stockpiling while ensuring they can meet potential surges in demand, he said.

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The Lean Thinker

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

We had case studies, exercises, all in an effort to teach people to be better problem solvers. The process is an application of the principle of “Challenge” followed by support to enable the problem solver / learner to meet the challenge. Likely (if you are reading this) you already know that.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Additional context: Amazon failing the climate across its shipping and logistics network In September 2024, a joint study by Stand.earth, the Ship It Zero campaign, and Clean Mobility Collective showed Amazon has expanded emissions across its shipping and logistics network.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

He suggested that businesses are more likely to prosper if they focus on meeting the needs of customers, instead of selling products. The first thing for any 3PL to do is to understand the nature of its market and the need it meets. Like other valuable contributions to marketing or other fields, Levitts premise was simple.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Transportation executives are always looking for ways to reduce costs, improve service, satisfy customers, and help their businesses meet their financial and strategic objectives.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 14, 2023

Home delivery and sustainability are two topics that I have written about quite a bit in the last few years, and Descartes just released its home delivery sustainability consumer sentiment study, so the timing seemed perfect. By doing the study for multiple years, you can start to see trends emerging.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

ARC Advisory Group, the company that I work for, releases a number of market studies on a number of technologies. These studies utilize a comprehensive bottom-up process for evaluating markets. And over the last month+ of the year, that equates to over 3 billion packages in the US alone.

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The Lean Thinker

JULY 1, 2023

“Heaven help me,” he thought, as he studied the screen, “but this makes no sense at all. In the coming weeks, the CEO presided over all-hands meetings at each site in the company. Then, at one of the meetings, a forklift driver said, “But this makes no sense at all, It is just a bunch of management gibberish.”

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The Lean Thinker

MARCH 23, 2023

That is the purpose of these meetings. The Goal or Objective is for everyone to “do their part” for the performance of production – to meet the needs of the organization which is thought of as separate from the employees. Can we do something which will improve loyalty and cooperation? And all of this is totally true.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The aim of this study is to understand ho w well these companies are fulfilling the need for increased sustainability in the chemical industry. More than twenty companies were analyzed. Three are the leaders in the market as they cover most of the challenges facing chemical companies to achieve their decarbonization objectives.

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The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The study I am citing here was commissioned to determine why. Success of the three shift cycle depended on each shift meeting a rigid schedule, but that schedule did not account for the simple fact that coal seams are not uniform. Productivity plummeted. There are a few things we can do to reinforce this. Bring People Together.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2025

To do so is a mistake because a successful and future-proof distribution network design will typically need to meet several objectives. Naturally, you must identify and work with providers offering warehousing services in your chosen locations and the ability to scale their resources to meet your future operational needs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 17, 2024

To meet their needs, most suppliers need to provide an integrated solution of “MES+WMS+AGV+Stereo-Warehouse” (depending on the customer’s requirements, MES may be replaced by other digital software). On the one hand, “SaaS + WMS” to meet the actual needs of the enterprise data further interconnection.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 7, 2022

According to the results of a study published in Computers in Human Behavior, determining ideal transport routes in combination with a higher fill level of the trucks can lead to a significant mileage reduction. Real-time insights allow the operation to rapidly make informed decisions. Mix of measures opens up new era in transport logistics.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 27, 2024

According to the 2024 Third-Party Logistics Study , these partnerships are highly effective, with 95% of shippers and 99% of 3PL providers reporting successful relationships. Instead, a 3PL can identify the right partner and service to meet your needs.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Once a given KPI shows that performance consistently meets or exceeds the required level, you can raise the bar and set a higher target. Now let’s get a little more granular in this study of supply chain KPIs, and look at some examples like the perfect order rate, as well as other KPIs you can use to measure supply chain performance.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

Unlike some of the other trends articles we have covered at Logistics Viewpoints, which take a deeper dive into technology and application specific trends, this article looked at the top trends executives need to be paying attention to before their strategic planning meetings commence. Well, I am saying it.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

Mr. Sorenson has studied integrated business planning for many years. The executive meeting will generate lean six sigma projects where analysts are tasked with going out and discovering more granular costs. Dean Sorenson concurs. In one article , Mr. Sorenson points out that IBP works better for small manufacturers than large ones.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Robotics and automation in the warehouse continue to be a growing trend, with a recent study estimating that the warehouse robotics market is expected to reach USD 23. They dynamically travel to the most optimized pick and meet the AMR there. 09 billion by 2027 and grow at a rate of 15. 33% annually from 2022-2027.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 2, 2025

Whether that is the case or not, a brief study of the origins and progression of fleet route optimisation, covering the last three decades or so and looking forward to the near future, highlights in a spectacular way how technology, in particular, has revolutionised the business of logistics.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2025

Tactical Level: Where Strategy Meets Reality Demand Planning and Forecasting – This is your crystal ball, but now it’s powered by AI and machine learning. Transactional Level: The Daily Symphony Order Processing and Fulfillment – This is where the rubber meets the road.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Since then, virtually every supplier I talked to in the process of updating this year’s Supply Chain Planning Market Analysis Study has said they are investing in this area. There were only a few SCP suppliers with mature capabilities in this area a few years ago.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 1, 2025

Studying best practices provides the greatest opportunity for gaining a strategic, operational, and financial advantage. Category Management: The management of groups of products that are interchangeable, or substitutable, in meeting consumer needs as opposed to the traditional concentration on individual products and brands.

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