Dwell: How Intermodal Terminal Congestion Impacts Capacity and Service

The railroad industry is experiencing a congestion issue called "dwell" that when combined with recent and forecast increases in rail volume impacts capacity, service and growth. "Dwell" is the period of time starting when a container is unloaded from the train and ending when the container has departed from the rail facility. This white paper takes a look at the problem with dwell and offers solutions.

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Optilogic Inc.

Optilogic offers cloud-native supply chain design solutions that enable businesses to evaluate trade-offs across financial performance, service levels, and systemic risk to design resilient supply chains even in the most dynamic, challenging environments. Cosmic Frog is the only supply chain design platform to combine optimization, simulation, and risk engines, and include a risk rating on every model. Use cases include network design, intelligent greenfield analysis and site selection, M&A analysis, near-shoring/reshoring, CAPEX planning, cost-to-serve, product flow-path, and many more.

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The Covid-19 pandemic, plant shutdowns, delays at borders and transportation bottlenecks have all come together in a perfect storm to create an unprecedented level of disruption in global supply chains. Torpedoed delivery schedules and material shortages have become the norm rather than the exception. All these factors have highlighted the importance of effective supply chain management to keep global commerce moving. Importantly, they have also accelerated the widespread adoption of best practices that are integral to a sustainable supply chain.

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whitePaper | November 11, 2022

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whitePaper | April 23, 2022

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Decarbonising Healthcare Supply Chains

whitePaper | November 17, 2022

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whitePaper | April 14, 2022

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whitePaper | December 13, 2022

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Optilogic Inc.

Optilogic offers cloud-native supply chain design solutions that enable businesses to evaluate trade-offs across financial performance, service levels, and systemic risk to design resilient supply chains even in the most dynamic, challenging environments. Cosmic Frog is the only supply chain design platform to combine optimization, simulation, and risk engines, and include a risk rating on every model. Use cases include network design, intelligent greenfield analysis and site selection, M&A analysis, near-shoring/reshoring, CAPEX planning, cost-to-serve, product flow-path, and many more.

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