I wanted to take a moment to highlight the significant impact Francisco Reyes has had on (our) team in supporting our growing International volume and relentless schedules we’ve had recently – specifically GE’s Thanksgiving/November push that was critical to our year-end closure targets.
While Francisco is always one to go beyond his work-scope, helping anyone in need of his expertise and eager to assist whether his responsibility or not, this November push was a highly significant achievement.
It was imperative for us to sail the remainder of our International customer material by November end, however due to internal shop delays, we only had a limited window of 2-3 weeks to receive/crate/load/truck 60+ containers worth of volume though our local warehouse…a volume throughput in 3 weeks equivalent to what we typically handle in 3 months. Francisco led this immense outbound effort with our warehouse and carriers and together we achieved this goal. I firmly believe it would not have been possible without Francisco’s relentless drive, creative problem solving, endless hours and dedication to the team.
I felt the need to pass along this recognition for Francisco and kindly recommend you consider him for recognition within LP.
Please see the attached Disposition bulletin from the recent meeting of the Commodity Classification Standards Board. All subject items were approved as docketed or modified as reviewed by the CCSB with the exception to Subjects 5 and 6 which were deferred until the February 2019 meeting. The supplement with the changes to the NMFC will be published on November 29th, 2018 with an effective date of December 29th, 2018. Please review the entire disposition bulletin as many commodities have changed classification.
Among all of the changes, please make note the following changes for more common commodities that may impact many shipments/customers:
Subject 1: NMFC Item 28160; Boots, NOI, Footwear, NOI, other than hosiery, Shoes, NOI. Will change from a straight class 150 to a two-tier density break. Less than 6 pcf is class 200, 6 pcf or greater is class 125.
Subject 2: NMFC Item 123550; Machines, ice making. Will change from a straight class 92.5 to a three-tier density break. Less than 6 pcf is class 250, 6 but less than 10 pcf is class 150, 10 pcf or greater is class 92.5.
Subject 8: NMFC Items 61900; Fans, exhaust or ventilating and 61920; Fans, NOI are cancelled. New NMFC Item 61910 is created to encompass exhaust/ventilating fans and fans, NOI. This item will have a two-tier density break, less than 6 pcf is class 200, 6 pcf or greater is class 110.
The United States will hold off on raising China tariffs to 25 percent as President Trump and President Xi of China have agreed to a 90-day truce. The White House announced that “President Trump has agreed that on January 1, 2019, he will leave the tariffs on $200 billion worth of product at the 10 percent rate, and not raise it to 25 percent at this time.”
This Global Trade Alert is for the third tranche of China tariffs only. Tranches 1 and 2 will remain at 25 percent.
I just wanted to send you a note to let you know that EVERYONE on your team has totally pulled together to help me with this Westin USVI nightmare order. There were a lot of issues with this from the customer side and unfortunately, I sent your group through hoops – both domestic and international. We finally got it all settled and Madia helped to get this thing scheduled to be picked up today. Just want to say a big THANK YOU to everyone involved – you have a great team!
“Today started out like most days, but with a little more stress than usual. Folks were a bit on edge and I was trying to find a way to get everyone back on pace. We pulled out the burgers in the freezer and then John Allen said, ‘Just give me a few minutes and I will get everything back on track.’ As you can see, John has one arm, but is forklift certified and a tremendous people person. He loads and offloads trucks. He pulls freight and the customers love him, and he has one heck of a golf game. John has been a huge asset to our Dallas warehouse. All it took was a few minutes of John playing the guitar and the entire staff was back at it in full force- all thanks to him. John displays the true spirit of Logistics Plus and our employees’ shared Passion for Excellence.” – Sabrina Ragland
Thanks to Sabrina (our Dallas/Fort Worth Warehouse Manager) for sharing this amazing story.
