Posted on: April 14th, 2025 by Worley Warehousing
From fruits and veggies to frozen foods, properly managing the cold chain is vital to the transportation and storage of many types of food products and food ingredients. Shippers and their logistics providers must maintain these products within the right temperature ranges along multiple points in the supply chain. Temperature control and humidity management is […]
Posted on: February 19th, 2025 by Worley Warehousing
The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is already transforming supply chain operations, allowing products to be kept in stock on store shelves, optimizing delivery routes and doing even grander things like identifying risk in a global supply chain to avoid disruptions. The global market for AI in the supply chain — incorporating such technologies as […]
Posted on: December 2nd, 2024 by Worley Warehousing
From the business and trade perspectives, there is always much at stake during a U.S. presidential election year. Tariff policies on goods imported into the U.S. can have a direct effect on the cost and flow of goods, affecting entire supply chains. Tariff increases may take effect with top trading partners as early as January […]
Posted on: August 7th, 2024 by Worley Warehousing
Efforts to digitize the supply chain are well underway by many companies in response to the pandemic-triggered supply chain disruptions. Before adopting any new technologies and greater levels of automation, many organizations have taken to heart the lessons learned from the disruptions and put stronger planning and risk management practices in place. Think enabling greater […]
Posted on: July 31st, 2024 by Worley Warehousing
Everyone is having to make smarter use of automation and technology today given labor shortages, high inflation rates that cut into margins, and competitive pressure. In warehousing and fulfillment, the rush is on to further automate and digitize to optimize operations and gain efficiencies with labor and space resources. Demand for fast and accurate order […]
Posted on: July 16th, 2024 by Worley Warehousing
Methods for automating in the warehouse through software and material handling equipment—from tools such as predictive analytics to autonomous vehicles—are evolving fast with the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and its subset machine learning. The integration of AI into warehouse management systems (WMS), labor management systems and other planning software bring efficiencies, allowing warehouse managers […]
Posted on: May 3rd, 2023 by Clifford F. Lynch
For several years, seven Class I railroads have operated in North America*. This changed in April when the Canadian Pacific (CP) purchased the Kansas City Southern (KCS) for $31 billion. On April 23, 2023 the two carriers merged into one entity called Canadian Pacific Kansas City. (CPKC). The merger was approved after a stiff competition […]
Posted on: April 12th, 2023 by Clifford F. Lynch
During the past 12 to 14 years, millions of words have been written about “big data” and how to manage it. The fact of the matter is that big data is simply a new term for an old condition. Almost from the first day that technology became widely used in managing the supply chain, we […]
Posted on: March 28th, 2023 by Clifford F. Lynch
Ask a dozen supply chain managers to define “3PL”, “4PL,” and “LLP” and you are likely to get a dozen different answers. We desperately need some standard definitions. Some time ago, as part of a supply chain course I was teaching I decided to introduce the class to the wonderful world of outsourcing. Almost immediately, […]
Posted on: March 14th, 2023 by Clifford F. Lynch
This week, President Biden approved the proposed huge oil drilling project in Alaska known as Willow. This was done over the protests surrounding its climate and environmental impacts, as well as the objections of those who view it as a broken promise by Biden . Quite probably as an offset to this approval, he has […]