Jacksonville key link in CEVA Logistics' supply chain - The Business Review (Albany):

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’s office in Jacksonville contains the innovative and technological engin of its North American dedicatedsupply chains, or supply chains wher e CEVA handles all the shippinfg links for its The company expects to be moving goods for customers in Northeast Florida by next year, said Keith senior vice president of businessd development for CEVA. But he declinee to give specifics. Typically, such a move woulde involve the leasing of trucks and warehouse distribution With customerssuch , and CEVA’s footprint in Northeast Florid would signify that the regionj has reached the major leagues of the suppl y chain industry, which is the systemm of moving goods from the manufacturer to the The strategies that come out of the Jacksonvillew office have helped the Netherlands-basec company retain more than 90 percent of its customeras and expand the services it offer to many of them.
The Jacksonville office off Deerwoof Park Boulevard gained nine new customers in acompany record, and has added seven since the beginnint of the year. Most of thesed customers rely onthe office’s technology that managexs the movement of its goods. “Every singls part of a GM automobilr that moves across the ocean is managed on the secondd floor ofthis building,” Goldsmitbh said. Few in Jacksonville are aware of the officew despite its integral role in keeping and expandinygthe company’s North American customer base and housinvg the technology that helpx run its Asian, some Europea and nearly all of its Northg American supply chains, he said.
Part of that is becauswe the Jacksonville office has changeds hands so many times since its formationin 1983. The Jacksonvillre office beganas , then became , which was a part of CSX, before being acquired by . The company was boughgt in 2007 by private equityinvestor , and merged with to form The company, which employs about 280 in has been hurt by the declinse in auto manufacturing, said Dick Armstrong, a logistics analyst. which had $2.8 billion in North Americaj sales in fiscal 2008and $9.3 billion worldwide, has been able to weather the slump due to good supply-chain management and by adding services for its customers.
He said the company’zs profits have been stifled because of the amount of interest it has to pay on its Goldsmith said the company is paying off its debt andCEVA doesn’g have any significant principal repayments untiol 2012.