Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 19, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Walmart’s supply chain woes. Uber Eats teams up with Office Depot for on-demand school supplies. The company was aiming for a 2023 rollout, but CEO and co-founder Chris Urmson said that “supply chain constraints” have hindered the company’s ability to scale production.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 2, 2024

This fact drives us to innovate when it comes to our Supply Chain Execution solutions. Blue Yonder recently was named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems (TMS) report 1 for the 13 th year 2 in a row.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This shows hope that one day, we won’t need an award like this because men and women in the supply chain will be equal,” says Marina Mayer, Editor-in-Chief of Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive. Recipients will be honored at this year’s Women in Supply Chain Forum, set to take place Nov.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Background For some time now, Supply Chain Matters has published viewpoints on the disruptive threat that online platform provider Amazon will and has had on both online and physical retail, but also package logistics, transport and last mile product fulfillment strategies surrounding many industry sectors.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Further, Japan based shipping line Mitsui OSK Lines indicated a belief that this disruption could extend thru the balance of 2024. Moeller Maersk , operators of Maersk Line plummeted a reported 18 percent as the carrier and logistics services provider reported full year 2023 financial performance that disappointed investment markets.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 30, 2024

Supply Chain Matters highlights added reports of headcount reductions occurring across various supply chain industry services sectors. UPS guidance for 2024 revenues of between $92 billion and $94.5 The company’s share price declined over 8 percent on the news of financial performance and 2024 guidance.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights yet another senior leadership transition involving a logistics focused B2B Cloud platform provider. Accordingly, the E2open board has retained an executive search firm to initiate an external search process to identify a permanent new CEO. percent year-over-year basis.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 3, 2024

In this special Supply Chain Matters supply network risk advisory, we highlight the initial implications of today’s major earthquake that has impacted the island of Taiwan. Today’s tragic event is yet another reminder of the importance for businesses fostering a cohesive supply network resiliency strategy for key materials.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights continued evidence that the U.S. freight and logistics industry continues to mitigate recessionary conditions including the April 2023 Logistics Manager Index reaching its lowest level lowest level in six years and one-half years. freight, logistics and parcel movement industry.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 29, 2024

The closing of this transaction is reportedly subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions precedent in transactions of this type, including necessary regulatory approvals, and according to the parties, expected to occur in either Q2 or Q3 of 2024. Today’s announcement marks the third acquisition announced by Blue Yonder since Q4-2023.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

Accenture Acquires Global Logistics Consulting Firm Flo Group Global based consulting and other services firm Accenture has reportedly acquired European based global logistics consulting services firm Flo Group. The deal reportedly will further enhance Oracle’s logistics software deployment capabilities across Europe.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights and added perspectives to retailer Walmart’s report of Q4 and Fiscal 2024 financial and operational performance. Full Fiscal Year Performance headlines for the full 2024 fiscal year were highlighted with: Consolidated revenue growth of 5.5 percent to $173.4 percent to $648.1

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BlueYonder

JUNE 5, 2023

Here’s a recap of the conversation host Bryant Miller had with Shannon Wu-Lebron , Corporate Vice President, Global Retail Industry Strategy; Hong Mo Yang , Senior Vice President, Global Manufacturing Industry Strategy; and Chirag Modi , Corporate Vice President, Supply Chain Execution Industry Strategy.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In our prior Supply Chain Matters commentaries specifically related to the 2023 holiday fulfillment period, we cited online retail providers A mazon , Target , and Walmart as the three bellwethers to focus on regarding the actual revenues, profitability and fulfillment strategies that will shape future industry moves. Stay tuned.

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BlueYonder

MAY 7, 2024

Companies across the manufacturing, retail, and logistics service provider industries are facing several major chronic challenges that impact their supply chains. Many customers are maximizing sustainability by investing in technology to improve operations and adding automation that realizes a greener supply chain.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Supply Chain Matters once again highlights some positive news for global supply chain management teams, specifically transportation and logistics related teams. This will be good news in stemming supply chain driven inflation trending. A container shipment from China to Europe is down 42 percent.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Amazon ’s aim in 2024 is to expand same-day delivery services globally to service more geographies with the goal of continuing to reduce the cost-to-serve metric. The added implications for more localized inventory management, service levels and needs for reduced overall logistics and transportation services will be impactful.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 5, 2023

National labor contract renewal talks among parcel transportation and logistics services provider UPS and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters labor union have reportedly stalled after indications that a settlement was in reach several days ago. The existing contract between these two parties expires at midnight on July 31.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 17, 2023

After this supply chain platform provider reported its Fiscal Q2 2024 financial performance in conjunction with the CEO change announcement, the stock of the tech provider plummeted by a reported 50 percent to an all-time low. Deliberations are at an early stage and Elliot could still decide against pursuing a buyout.”

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 19, 2021

Transportation management systems (TMS) have evolved over the years and as supply chains become more intricately woven, the need for such systems are needed more than ever. billion in 2024, a 60% growth from 2019. Research firm, Gartner forecast the global TMS , market to grow to $2.11

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ivalua

MAY 21, 2014

Yesterday was the first day of Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Summit. The conference theme is “supply chain will lead in the next decade.” Because of supply chain’s far reaching effects, Gartner is challenging supply chain leaders to drive transformation throughout their organizations.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Industry vertical concentration includes Automotive, Manufacturing and Logistics industry sectors. The flexis acquisition follows the announced closing of the acquisition of Doodle in November 2023, a provider of first and last mile logistics support for customer returns processes. while securing a $5.4

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 18, 2023

The reduction in component level dependency for Dell was, according to Nikkei reporting, expected to take until the end of 2024 to complete. HP Specific Moves This latest report goes on to indicate that a portion of production sourcing, estimated to be upwards of 5 million units, will shift toward Mexico to support U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 16, 2023

Executives indicated that production this year would again be impacted by supply chain issues but in a more controlled fashion. Plans established for 2024 were to increase production capacity to 85,000 vehicles.

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BlueYonder

MAY 13, 2024

Each year, Blue Yonder releases the findings of its annual Supply Chain Executives Survey* in conjunction with ICON, the premier conference for supply chain leaders in manufacturing, logistics and retail. And this is the focus of what Blue Yonder ICON 2024 attendees will learn about this week.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 18, 2024

Global retailer Walmart aims to provide supply chain focused technology to help other retailers and businesses to broaden their customer fulfilment and logistics support capabilities. Amazon is a retailer that Supply Chain Matters has also highlighted. All rights reserved.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 24, 2022

According to Gartner, supply chain organizations expect the level of machine automation in their supply chain processes to double in the next five years. Gaining Supply Chain Momentum with Artificial Intelligenc e(AI) in Supply Chains & Logistics.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

How the Supply Chain Crisis is Impacting Businesses and Consumers. 66% of consumers are concerned that supply chain issues will never end ( Chain Store Age ). 82% of people have concerns that the supply chain will ruin life plans, such as birthdays, vacations, holidays, and the purchasing of necessary items.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2023

One Year Later- Added Functionality In conjunction with this year’s annual 2023 Amazon AWS re:Invent conference held in Las Vegas , additional strategic announcements came forth including added capabilities being planned for the Amazon AWS Supply Chain platform.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 25, 2022

By limiting expedited shipping to fill in inventory holes and avoiding a glut of left-over seasonal goods, you’re not reducing storage and logistics costs and freeing up capital. More than half of supply chain executives don’t expect supply chain to return to normal until at least 2024. last year).

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

In essence, Target ’s strategy is to make the best of an expected muted holiday quarter, and be better prepared to position 2024 business efforts to a changed retail sales environment, one with lower levels of revenue growth with reduced and more efficient inventory and customer fulfillment costs.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The agreement reportedly includes a 24 percent wage increase to be spread over five years from 2020 to 2024, including 14.1 After a marathon 20-hour bargaining session that lasted into the overnight, The White House announced early this morning that a tentative agreement among railroads and three labor unions had been reached.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

That board reportedly made recommendations that included 24 percent wage increases during the period from 2020 thru 2024 with a 14.1 percent increase effective immediately, and provisions for specific lump sum payments paid upon labor union ratification of a labor contract. With rail accounting for an estimated 28 percent of total U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 19, 2024

Carriers have an agenda for needed revenue and profitability growth amid a growing glut of shipping capacity in 2024. Logistics teams assessing options and related costs in shipping from Asia to Europe or from Europe to U.S. Bob Ferrari © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This restriction for Panama Canal transit had already motivated logistics and transportation management teams to begin to re-route Asia to U.S. With global shipping volumes expected to contract throughout 2024, this disruption provides ample motivation for keeping rates high and service levels low. Reportedly, forty percent of all U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The first fab will start producing 4-nanometer chips in 2024. Supply chain executives can only hope that these plants are finished on schedule and that a confrontation does not occur before these plants come online. The post The World’s Most Vulnerable Supply Chain appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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