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Leading distributor taps Penske Logistics to analyze and optimize fleet
Challenge: Suspecting inefficiencies, a leading distributor wanted to model its fleet resource requirements consisting of trucks and drivers for approximately 50 distribution centers. They needed outside consulting expertise to perform the analysis.
International cosmetics brand streamlines Brazilian distribution with Penske Logistics
Challenge: A leading manufacturer of premium cosmetics and beauty products sought a new logistics model to meet its rapidly growing customer base in Brazil while reducing its carbon footprint.
Penske Logistics helps deliver freshness to growing convenience store chain
Challenge: A leading retail convenience store chain desired major improvements in replenishing its stores with fresh food items. The solution needed to facilitate daily collection, staging and delivery of fresh-baked goods and refrigerated foods by truck to every store across a wide geographic area.
Manufacturing's Dilemma: Baby Boomers Retiring; Students Finds the Industry Uninteresting
Many U.S. manufacturers are experiencing talent shortages in part because of an aging baby boomer generation that has begun its exodus from the U.S. workforce. The oldest baby boomers turned 65 on Jan. 1, 2011, and every day thereafter for about the next 19 years, some 10,000 more will reach the traditional retirement age, according to the Pew Research Center.
Domestic Use of Drones Might Have $82Bn Impact on U.S. Economy, Report Says
Last month the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, the unmanned systems industry's largest trade organization, released its first economic study detailing just how an expected $82bn in economic impacts resulting from the integration of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) into the national airspace will be spread across the 50 states.
Status, Perception of Women Changes in Chinese Manufacturing
In Guangdong province, where nearly 30 percent of China's exports are made, women usually far outnumber men on labour-intensive production lines. Rural women are hired for their supposed docility, nimble fingers and attention to mind-numbing detail. But in recent years Guangdong's workforce has changed.
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Wide Range of Analytics Tools Help Companies with Their Data Needs
Organizations of all sizes across an assortment of industries are using a growing set of cloud analytics solutions to address their Big Data, business intelligence and data integration challenges.
Cutting Through the Bureaucracy to Bring Innovative Ideas to Reality
What if you weren't just delivering meat to stores for sale but doing something more disruptive - like selling 40-pound packages of raw meat out of the back of refrigerated trucks? What kind of bureaucratic fat would you have to cut through then?
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CargoSphere Debuts Quote-Refresh Tool for Logistics Service Providers
CargoSphere, a vendor of cloud-based applications for ocean and air freight-rate management, has introduced Floodgate Quote Refresh.
Report: By 2020, More Than 30 Billion Wirelessly Connected Devices to Enable 'Internet of Everything'
ABI Research's latest data on the Internet of Everything (IoE) shows that there are more than 10 billion wirelessly connected devices in the market today; with over 30 billion devices expected by 2020.
Digital Coupon Users Spend 42% More Annually Than Average Shoppers, Survey Says
Digital coupon users spend 42 percent more per year at supermarkets than the average shopper - a differential of $1,029, according to a GfK report, based on more than 120 campaigns run by Coupons.com in 2012. This reflects a 7-percent increase compared to 2011.
Indonesia Is Very Attractive to Multinational Manufacturers and Investors
When Marcos Purty arrived here in 2011 as the chief of General Motors' Indonesian operations, he found a mothballed auto plant. Today, that plant is humming. About 700 people work in the facility, 16 miles east of Jakarta, compared with about 30 just 18 months ago. And next month, GM will start delivering its first Indonesian-built vehicle in years, the Chevrolet Spin.
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