Supply Chain Matters

MAY 8, 2024

Introduces Centralized Warehouse Orchestration Warehouse orchestration and WMS accelerator platform provider AutoScheduler.ai recently announced Centralized Warehouse Orchestration , a capability that provides companies a centralized view of multi-site warehouse management data. All rights reserved.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 28, 2024

Over the past several years, my company, Enterra Solutions ®, has focused on advancing Autonomous Decision Science ( ADS ®) because we believe companies, in increasing numbers, will transform themselves into Autonomous Intelligence Enterprises. The post Will 2024 be the Year of Automation and AI in the Supply Chain?

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides readers a further installment in our global supply chain assessment series in providing highlights on reported March 2024, and Q1-2024 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. This index closed Q1-2024 at 1.8 Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® ended March on an optimistic footing.

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Unleashed

APRIL 2, 2024

million new jobs last year, while the use of AI in restaurants shot up by 31.61% according to data from the 2024 StartUs Food & Beverage Report. Omnichannel retail success takes brand strategy, data-driven thinking, and collaboration according to speakers from the Omnichannel Futures 2024 Conference, says Glynn Davis.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

The number of alternative and dual-fuel propelled container ship orders out numbers the traditional ICE only engines for new ship orders. Aeronautics engineering innovation is sadly only paddling forward in comparison to the ship building industry. This is big money and infrastructure is working to accompany the change.

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Unleashed

APRIL 11, 2024

Consider offering volume discounts and free shipping incentives to lift AOV. Sustainable seaweed – Meet Hayley Fraser-Mackenzie We recently chatted with Hayley Fraser-Mackenzie, Managing Director at Pacific Harvest Seaweeds , to discuss how she’s manifested success with an edible seaweed brand in 2024. Here’s what she had to say.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 6, 2024

retailer Target’s recent reporting of Q4 and Fiscal 2024 financial and operational performance. They should be indications of what retailers and their supply network fulfillment teams can anticipate in 2024. Performance headlines for the full 2024 fiscal year were highlighted with: Consolidated revenue growth of 5.5

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

She also said the company planned to ask workers to return to the office five days a week in 2024. percent drop in annual sales, UPS forecast a 2024 upswing of as little as 1.1 Higher labor costs and lower package demand resulted in fourth-quarter sales and 2024 guidance that missed analysts expectations.

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Proxima

DECEMBER 14, 2023

For example, whilst the price of many items has risen, shipping container rates have been hit with deflation and are now hovering below pre-covid levels. The world economy has been hammered by one shock to another, and 2024 is set to be the biggest election year in history. The post Is cost redundant as a measure for CPOs in 2024?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

As a New England Patriots fan, this season was certainly disappointing, as everything seemed to go wrong, except for landing a top-3 draft pick in 2024. Amazon shipped last-minute Christmas gifts faster in 2023 than in 2022, according to data from analyst firm Momentum Commerce. And now on to this week’s logistics news. percent of U.S.

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Multichannel Merchant

APRIL 7, 2022

The call for sustainable shipping is getting real. Pressure is coming from all sides for companies to adopt more sustainable shipping practices. Likewise, 66% of consumers say they’re more likely to support a company if they provide proof of their socially and environmentally responsible behavior.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 3, 2024

Amazon in the news: Amazon’s Prime orders are getting delivered faster and faster Hawaiian Airlines slowly adds freighters for Amazon business Walmart in-store AI is giving employees advice on how to sell products USPS delivery unit proposal sparks service, cost concerns for shipping partners White House earmarks $1.5B

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EMERGE App

APRIL 5, 2024

The picture of wholesale distribution industry in 2024 The report from Research and Markets forecasts that the wholesale market size will reach $68,092.65 On one side you are navigating industry challenges, on another, you are fixing the entire operation of your company. You make it cheap, I will make it cheaper”.

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Unleashed

MAY 12, 2024

“Brianne West started a shampoo bar company called Ethique , and she’s got a real cool [podcast] called Business, but Better. And another I quite like is Simon Pound; [he] does one called Business is Boring [where] he interviews New Zealand companies – sometimes ones no one’s heard of – that are doing well.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 16, 2024

The article introduced the concept of self-service planning and challenged companies to rethink the concepts of supply chain planning. Supply Chain Insights Training, 2024 The Opportunity Based on my research, I believe there is an opportunity to reduce the number of planning roles by 80-85%. And, why should a business leader care?”

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Stord

APRIL 5, 2024

With over 30 years of experience, ProPack has established itself as a trusted partner for world-class multichannel fulfillment, last-mile shipping, and value-added and reverse logistics services. In total, Stord now operates 1.6MM square feet of fulfillment centers across ten markets, shipping over 25MM DTC and B2B orders annually. "We

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 17, 2023

Manifest will provide a focused look at what’s to come across the spectrum of LogisticsTech and which companies and technologies are transforming the way goods circumnavigate the globe. Courtney also shared plans for Manifest 2024, which is going to be even more epic that Manifest 2023.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In addition, the Council will conduct a supply chain review by December 31, 2024, to evaluate the impact of the supply chain on National Security Lora’s Take I think that we need to be skeptical without getting political. Of the twenty companies interviewed, only one can answer the question, “Do you have a good inventory plan?”

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 9, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and added perspectives of Amazon’s recently reported Q1-2024 financial performance. Q1-2024 Quarterly Financial Performance Once again, Amazon exceeded Wall Street and investor expectations in delivering stellar financial performance for the recent Q1 reporting period. million in Q1-2023.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 4, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides readers and clients with a further installment in our global supply chain assessment series in providing highlights on reported May 2024 global PMI activity levels. At the same time, global wide ocean container shipping costs have increased significantly. import tariffs on certain goods produced in China.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 2, 2023

That prospect became more conceivable, they said, after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine prompted companies to sever ties with Russia, sometimes taking huge write-downs. companies were further rattled after Chinese authorities recently questioned workers at Boston-based consulting firm Bain & Co.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

With Apple’s big event last week, the company claimed that the new Apple Watch will be carbon neutral. the company said Tuesday. At full capacity, the company said, the factory will employ 500 human workers in Salem. David Ho, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaii, wasn’t buying it.

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Supply Chain Brain

JANUARY 1, 2024

Physical operations will present the biggest challenge to companies at the beginning of 2024 with the ongoing conflict in the Middle East coupled with climate issues disrupting shipping networks.

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American Global Logistics

MARCH 5, 2024

Volatility and uncertainty in the logistics industry have dominated the news in 2024. Persistent Red Sea Risks Continue to Disrupt Critical Trade Route The ongoing conflict in Yemen has created several shipping risks in the Red Sea. In particular, there is a risk of Houthi rebels laying mines in the shipping lanes.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of the realities of higher number of vessels among global ocean container shipping lines meeting contracting shipping demand levels that are now leading to headcount and schedule reductions. Background Ocean container shipping and logistics are the lifeblood of global supply chain movements.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2024

As the beginning of 2024 Target announced a ten year investment in upwards of 300 larger stores, along with continuing to invest in select existing stores, which can stock added food and grocery items along with supporting online customer fulfillment and pick-up from store locations.

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Synovos

JANUARY 24, 2024

RS Integrated Supply Joins Minority Supplier Development UK WARRINGTON, UK / RADNOR, PA 23 JANUARY 2024 – RS Integrated Supply, a global MRO supply chain management services company, announced it has joined Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK) as a corporate member as part of its commitment to growing a diverse supplier base.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 18, 2024

Going forward, companies will need to continue to navigate supply chain disruptions, China risk, and concerns about capital outlays in a rising interest-rate environment.”[2] Businesses must weigh the costs of shipping, customs, tariffs, and taxes when expanding internationally. have decided to glocalize). .”

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Rivian Automotive is now free to sell its EV parcel vans to other parcel carriers, and added reinforcement from multiple ocean container shipping carriers that the existing industry volume declines could extend for two to three years. production worker hourly wages starting in January 2024. This report cites data from the U.S.

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Resilinc

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Learn how implementing an Enterprise Risk Management framework can help your company on the journey to operational resilience. Businesses have started to see risk management as a necessary facet of running a successful company. Then, we lay a framework for enhancing your ERM program with actionable steps your company can take.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 12, 2024

In a prior Supply Chain Matters posting we called attention to a published CNBC report in mid-December indicating that Tesla informed production workers at the company’s gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada that certain set-rate hourly workers will be granted upwards of 10 percent wage increases in early January 2024. up to $34.50

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 6, 2024

Electric vehicle company Fisker recently issued a going concern warning amid continued production and supply chain challenges. The company reported a cash balance of slightly over $325 million at the end of 2023. In 2020, Fisker went public as an asset-light company under a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC).

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 13, 2024

In this industry specific Supply Chain Matters commentary , we provide perspectives on aerospace and commercial aircraft producer Boeing ’s added challenge in 2024, that being on the labor relations front. As noted in our prediction, the lens in 2024 further turns toward labor negotiations involving U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 8, 2024

Commenting on the outlook for 2024, Chris Williamson, Chief Business Economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence noted in part: “ Given current order book trends, the overall picture from the survey is one of supply exceeding demand for many goods, which points to downside risks to production, employment and prices as we head into 2024.”

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The company was additionally compelled to cut its full fiscal year revenue outlook. Subramaniam indicated in the earnings briefing that the carrier remains on-track with its corporate restructuring plans, with an initial phase planned to go into effect in 2024. That number was also below analyst consensus expectations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

This year, nearly 40,000 attendees comprising 6,200 brands from all over the world headed to the Javits Center to see what new solutions and innovations software and hardware suppliers had in store for 2024 and beyond. The company has a chat bot for tracking and managing an order that is natively built in the OMS.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2024

From the very beginning, Amazon’s mission has been to be the earth’s most customer-centric company. Prime Membership: Amazon Prime – Subscription service offering benefits such as free two-day shipping, access to Prime Video, Prime Music, and exclusive deals.

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