Tag Archives: transport

Will Amazon’s delivery trucks permit competitive same day delivery?

Posted on April 24, 2014 by aviyer2010

An article in the Wall Street Journal (April 24,2014) titled “Amazon, in a Threat to UPS, tries its own deliveries”, describes a plan by Amazon in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, to operate its own Amazon logo delivery … Continue reading →

Posted in Ecommerce, Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues | Tagged Capacity, competition, Cost, Demand Surge, disruption, Ecommerce, Risk, Service, Supply Chain, transport | 1 Comment

The “click and collect” grocery model in the UK

Posted on April 22, 2014 by aviyer2010

An article in the Financial Times (April 21, 2014) titled “WalMart’s English Experiment”, describes “click and collect”, an approach where WalMart owned Asda’s customers in the UK order their grocery online, it is delivered to temperature controlled lockers close to … Continue reading →

Posted in Ecommerce, Global Contexts, Service Operations, Supply Chain Issues | Tagged Asda, click and collect, Coordination, Cost, customer, Ecommerce, grocery, Service, transport, WalMart | 2 Comments

Testing alternate modes to get California Salmon to the ocean and back

Posted on April 19, 2014 by aviyer2010

An article in the New York Times (April 19, 2014) titled “Swim to Sea ? These Salmon Are Catching a Lift”, describes two alternate paths to move salmon from drought stricken areas to the ocean. With priority being for California … Continue reading →

Posted in Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues, Sustainability | Tagged boat, California, Coordination, Cost, emb2020, life cycle, salmon, Survival, Sustainable, transport, truck | 25 Comments

Ullmart’s three tier ecommerce distribution in Russia

Posted on March 30, 2014 by aviyer2010

An article in Bloombergbusinessweek (March 10,2014) titled “In Russia, call it You-Commerce”, describes the company Ullmart, that sells 55,000 fast moving items through a three tier distribution system. The company buys from manufacturers to three warehouses that supply 30 urban … Continue reading →

Posted in Ecommerce, Global Contexts, mgmt5612018, Supply Chain Issues | Tagged Consumers, Cost, distribution, Ecommerce, mgmt5612018, regulation, Russia, Service, Suppliers, Supply Chain, transport | 41 Comments

The Jones Act and its impact of shipping between US ports

Posted on January 18, 2014 by aviyer2010

An article in Bloombergbusinessweek titled “Lots of Oil, Not Enough Ships ” (December 16, 2013) describes the Jones Act, a 1920 US law that restricts ships that ply between US ports to be US carriers with a US crew. Given … Continue reading →

Posted in Global Contexts, Supply Chain Issues | Tagged Cost, Global, regulation, ships, Supply Chain, transport, Water | 19 Comments

High Speed trains and productivity impact in China

Posted on September 24, 2013 by aviyer2010

An article in the New York Times, on September 23,2013, titled “Speedy Trains Transform China”, (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/business/global/high-speed-train-system-is-huge-success-for-china.html?_r=0) describes the impact of the trains that travel 186 miles/hour and connect 100 cities. For individual textile manufacturers, the fast access to customers enables … Continue reading →

Posted in Global Contexts, Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues | Tagged Capacity, Consumers, Cost, Efficiency, Global, Growth, manufacturing, rail, Supply Chain, transport | 5 Comments

“Disruption clauses” by Mississippi barge operators in contracts with shippers

Posted on August 26, 2013 by aviyer2010

An article in the Wall Street Journal (August 27, 2013) describes the worries of barge operators on the Mississippi river who have been hurt by floods and the drought. The new disruption clauses shift the cost of delays and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Global Contexts, Service Operations, Supply Chain Issues | Tagged barges, Coordination, Cost, exports, Risk, Suppliers, Supply Chain, transport, Water | Leave a comment

A deeper Jacksonville port to accommodate larger ships through the Panama Canal

Posted on July 27, 2013 by aviyer2010

An article in the New York Times (July 27, 2013) describes a move to increase the depth of the Jacksonville port from 40 to 47 inches, through dredging, to accommodate the larger ships that will be passing through the Panama … Continue reading →

Posted in Global Contexts, Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues, Sustainability | Tagged Capacity, competition, Consumers, Costs, Jacksonville port, Panama Canal, rail, Retailers, shippers, ships, Supply Chain, transport | Leave a comment

Can electric-assisted tricycles use for local deliveries become economical ?

Posted on July 7, 2013 by aviyer2010

An article in the New York Times (July 7,2013) describes a company, B-Line Sustainable Urban Delivery, that uses electric-assisted tricycles to make local deliveries hauled in a 60 cubic foot cargo box. The company coordinates deliveries in a local area … Continue reading →

Posted in Operations Management, Service Operations, Sustainability | Tagged Cost, customer, electric-assisted, local, Supply Chain, Sustainable, transport | Leave a comment

Will any of the two proposed rail options or the new proposed canal option compete with the Panama Canal ?

Posted on July 4, 2013 by aviyer2010

An article in Bloombergbusinessweek (July 1,2013) described a proposed Chinese-led plan to build a $40 billion canal in Nicaragua, linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. But two other rail options have been proposed too. A $10 billion Taiwanese proposal to … Continue reading →

Posted in Global Contexts, Operations Management, Supply Chain Issues | Tagged Capacity, China, competition, Cost, Global, Guatemala, Honduras, interoceanic, Nicaragua, Panama Canal, rail, ship, Supply Chain, Taiwan, transport | Leave a comment