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CJ Logistics America leaders head to ProMat 2023 CJ Logistics America will join other industry-leading innovators at ProMat 2023, March 20-23 at McCormick Place, Chicago, to “Touch the Future” – a fitting theme for this year’s conference. CJ Logistics America leaders will be in Booth #S5144 to discuss the company’s expanded capabilities, including the latest automation and business intelligence solutions, with logistics professionals wanting to take their supply chain to the next level. CJ Logistics provides integrated supply chain services for customers worldwide, maximizing customer value through continuous improvement and innovation. CJ Logistics America is a strategic partner from solution design to execution, with over 80 warehousing, transportation and freight forwarding locations across North America and expertise in highly regulated industries.
In CJ Logistics’ warehouses across North America, where employee safety is the highest priority, the company continues to invest in technology to reduce the number of any type of incident. With the ongoing implementation of OneTrack.AI technology, the company is continuing to drive safety initiatives toward the goal of zero OSHA recordables. Since successfully piloting OneTrack.AI in 2019 and rolling out the technology across its North American warehouse network, CJ Logistics has seen a 50% reduction in non-injury-related incidents, with a decrease of 30% in 2022 alone. The steady improvement of the CJ Logistics network TIR is well ahead of the industry average. In addition to the reduction in non-injury-related incidents, operations leadership is seeing a continuing increase in self-report incidents resulting from full adoption of the system by the forklift operators. “Keeping everyone on the same page, coaching to improve, holding everyone accountable to the same standards helps morale,” said CJ Logistics America COO Ken Heller.
CJ Logistics America has again been included in the list of Top 20 North American Warehousing 3PLs compiled by Armstrong & Associates. The companies are ranked according to 2021 North American warehousing space. Aligned with CJ Logistics’ global vision to maximize customer value through innovation and continuous improvement, CJ Logistics America is responsible for the North America region with 80+ warehousing, transportation and freight forwarding operations across the United States, Canada and Mexico. As a lead logistics partner (LLP), third-party logistics provider (3PL) and supply chain consultant, CJ Logistics America helps customers leverage supply chain management as a competitive advantage, reducing total system costs, transforming business processes, improving service and facilitating growth and change.
CJ Logistics America is pleased to recognize and celebrate Black History Month, the annual February celebration of achievements and contributions by African Americans. The theme of Black History Month 2023 is "Black Resistance" chosen by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. US presidents have officially designated the month of February as Black History Month since 1976. Also known as African American History Month, the event began as the idea of Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans. The first celebration was during a week in February 1926 that included the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. At CJ Logistics America, we believe our world is better when diverse peoples and cultures come together to understand each other’s experiences and perspectives. Aligned with our principles of Integrity, Passion, Creativity and Respect, we stand with our team members and all those who share in the vision of global community and diversity.
CJ Logistics Transportation delivers donations from food customers Two of CJ Logistics America’s consumer food customers, Kikkoman and StarKist®, recently donated food products to local food pantries. CJ Logistics Transportation delivered over 30 pallets of Asian noodles and sauce from Kikkoman and 5,400+ pounds of tuna product from StarKist® to Northern Illinois Food Bank in Geneva and to Elk Grove Food Pantry, along with the additional 100 pounds of food donations from employees at the CJ Logistics America corporate office. CJ Logistics America’s Strategic Partnerships team worked with the customers on the donations and the Transportation team organized the pickup and delivery of the donations. This type of community outreach is part of CJ Logistics’ commitment to engaging in better practices for a better world. The company focuses on opportunities to make a positive impact economically, socially and environmentally, launching projects and participating in activities that serve communities in meaningful ways, often in partnership with customers.
Celebrating Korean Lunar New Year | Korean Lunar New Year, or Seollal, falls on Sunday, January 22, this year. Beginning on Korean New Year’s Eve, January 21, 2023, the three-day period of celebrations for Seollal is a time of celebrating with family and showing respect to ancestors. The start of this major holiday in the lives of Koreans, in January or February, is determined by the lunar calendar — the cycles of the moon’s phases — and takes place on the first new moon of the lunisolar calendar, or the second new moon after the winter solstice. CJ Logistics America, responsible for the North America region of CJ Logistics, a core business of CJ Group, a global conglomerate headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, will be celebrating the holiday this week. Aligned with CJ Logistics’ global vision to maximize customer value through innovation and continuous improvement, CJ Logistics America has 80+ warehousing, transportation and freight forwarding operations across the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Observing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’ “ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Montgomery, Alabama, 1957 Celebrating the life and legacy of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on this official day of service. Committed to engaging in better practices for a better world, CJ Logistics looks for opportunities to make a positive impact economically, socially and environmentally, launching projects and participating in activities that serve communities in meaningful ways, often in partnership with customers.
Three members of the CJ Logistics Transportation team recently attended the Women in Trucking 2022 conference for transportation and logistics professionals in Dallas, TX. Maira Gonzalez, Manager, Operations, Andrea Weaver Manager, Driving, and Joan Nabukeera, Manager, Central Region took in sessions covering industry topics including leadership, professional development, HR/talent management, operations, safety, technology, driver issues, sales and marketing, industry issues and trends, and D&I best practices. They saw innovative new equipment during the Truck & Technology Tour and had multiple opportunities for networking with other women leaders in transportation.
In collaboration with customer B&G Foods, a CJ Logistics Transportation truck, temporarily adorned with the Green Giant logo, recently delivered a donation of 90,000 cans of Green Giant vegetables. The donated vegetables traveled from a warehouse in Nazareth, PA, to New York’s first and largest food rescue organization, City Harvest in Brooklyn. The donation, including 50,000 cans of corn, is part of Green Giant’s Thanksgiving week partnership with seven-year-old internet sensation Tariq the “Corn Kid” who is from Brooklyn. Tariq and the Jolly Green Giant were on hand for the delivery at City Harvest. Prior to that delivery, Green Giant also donated 100 cans to the canned food drive at Tariq’s school in Brooklyn. “We are very excited to partner with Corn Kid this Thanksgiving as his enthusiasm for corn rivals that of the Green Giant himself,” said Kristen Thompson, Senior Vice President & President, Frozen & Vegetables, B&G Foods, in a news release.
Welcomed by General Manager Martin Shin and the Canada teams, CJ Logistics America CEO Kevin Coleman, Bernie Center, Managing Director, Freight Forwarding, and Joey Davidson, Senior Director, Business Development, recently toured operations in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Toronto, Ontario. Each site visit included an operations overview, warehouse tour and team member introduction, with lunches and dinners providing opportunities for becoming better acquainted with teams and managers. “It was exciting to get to know some of the members of the small but growing Canada team,” Davidson said. “We want to make sure everyone feels connected to our overall North American culture and strategy.”
