Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Throughout 2020, disruption took center-stage, leaving companies and shippers scrambling to find resources and strategies that will enable the survival of the coming peak season shipping capacity crunch. Rates are driven by demand and available capacity. Add Capacity to Low-Volume Lanes and Markets.

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20Cube Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Additionally, when the ports are facing capacity crunch or the tariffs of ocean freight and container skyrockets, it iis airfreight that comes as the savior. This article tries to gauge the issues that are working in favor of airfreight, making it the most sought after mode of shipment in the modern supply chain.

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QAD

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The number of container ships anchored off Shanghai and Ningbo in China surged in late September, with some 242 container ships waiting for berths, according to an article from FreightWaves. In an article in Financial Times , the chair of the U.S. Energy Crunch. Time will tell. In late September, many UK gas stations ran dry.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Such constraints include things like lead times, supplier capacity, and minimum order quantities. This article outlines five key challenges faced by buyers that can be addressed by a new type of procurement planning software, which we call a “buyer’s workbench.”

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 29, 2015

We continue our series on the most read articles from the Cerasis blog for 2015 today by featuring any of the blogs in the transportation management or transportation categories. . We've already listed the top 10 manufacturing articles, the top 10 supply chain articles, and yesterday, the top 10 logistics articles.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 2, 2021

However, with the ongoing pandemic, and the resulting capacity crunch, TMS is trending more towards cost mitigation rather than savings. Customers can also add capacity easier and faster with connections to more carriers and load boards. Users have improved information flow through connections to real-time visibility partners.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

Feature Article by Sembcorp Industries (Sembcorp). Singapore has also embraced solar energy, having multiplied its solar capacity by more than seven times since 2015. The country also plans to boost its solar capacity to at least 2GWp by 2030, which is enough energy to power some 350,000 households.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 21, 2023

Shipping operations have become enormously more complex and difficult to manage as carriers continue to have tight capacity due to high demand and an ongoing labour shortage. There’s a lot of buzz around the carrier capacity crunch, and the solution verdict is in – a multi-carrier parcel shipping strategy is the secret sauce.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

There just isn’t always enough processing and transportation capacity to meet rising demand as the economy revs up. In a tongue-in-cheek article, Sarah Sicard ( @smsicard ), a Senior Editor with Military Times, edited quotes from Carl von Clausewitz’s “On War” so they could be applied to grocery shopping.[2] ”[1].

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Like yesterday, however, I encourage you to view all the posts in the category to see some great articles on best practices and trends that will help you learn more and more efficient in your job as a transportation or logistics professional. Read the Full Blog Post. Read the Full Blog Post. Read the Full Blog Post.

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DELMIA Quintiq

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

While the demand for more speed, more capability, more capacity, more flexibility, and better performance is a given for enterprise, mission-critical systems, the fact that these and many more companies are forced to replace obsolete planning systems is obviously a cause of concern and great cost for businesses.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

According to Maritime Executive , Costco announced in late September that it had chartered three ocean vessels with capacity to hold 800 to 1,000 containers—and leased several thousand containers. But the extra capacity gives the retailers flexibility to use less congested ports and prioritize delivery of the items that are most in demand.

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Kanban Logistics

JUNE 24, 2021

Companies that ship over the road are dealing with a similar capacity crunch and rising rates. In this article, we’ll explore why companies that wish to take advantage of rail would do well to partner with a 3PL provider that has a rail transload facility. Rail freight volumes are rising. million carloads and intermodal units.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Declining volumes forced difficult decisions, and persistent capacity issues left shippers unable to meet high customer expectations. But that’s not all: congressional intervention has logistics professionals breathing a sigh of relief, and a lettuce crunch is sandwiching quick-service restaurants between a rock and a hard place.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2021

Three years ago, my colleague Steve Banker wrote an article about the Amazon supply chain , asking if it was the most innovative in the world. In the article, he wrote about Amazon Relay, the acquisition of Whole Foods, Amazon the carrier, and the expansion of its warehousing capabilities.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Here I am doing my standard Talking Logistics intro through one of my favorite filters: How awesome would it be to discuss blockchain or the capacity crunch in transportation using this filter for an entire episode? However, if you’re not careful, you can easily kill an hour playing around with all the filters.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 18, 2019

Here are more details from the article: In an email sent to shareholders last week and seen by The Loadstar, founder and chief executive Max Ward said the Hong Kong-based company had failed to raise enough capital to continue trading. Debates Lifting China Tariffs to Hasten Trade Deal, Calm Markets (WSJ – sub.

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Turvo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What’s in this article : A crisis that is affecting the world economy – record-high shipping rates. Labor crunch has meant drivers have been in short supply to transport containers to the country’s interior areas, creating more delays and increasing costs. A problem also linked to shipping companies.

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Shipchain

APRIL 17, 2019

Although some retailers like Walmart are taking concrete steps to combat the shortage , the capacity crunch is expected to continue. If you are interested in exploring the supply chain and logistics industry a bit further, be sure to check out the other articles on the ShipChain blog !

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Zipline Logistics

JULY 13, 2021

Challenges brought on by COVID-related disruption are forcing shippers to adjust supply chain strategies to accommodate fervent demand, rising logistics costs, and scarcer trucking capacity. It is further exacerbating issues that shippers have faced for quite some time—rising rates and shrinking capacity.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 26, 2015

With economic growth increasing demand for trucking capacity and an aging population of drivers not being replaced by the younger generation disinterested in trucking as a career option, something is going to have to give. The post 3 Strategies for Locking In Trucking Capacity appeared first on UltraShipTMS.

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Bulk Connection

AUGUST 12, 2021

As we’ve passed the halfway mark of 2021, we know a few things about the freight capacity crunch: it’s bad and only appears to be getting worse. As a shipper, you are having great difficulty moving freight, while carriers are being offered more loads than they can possibly handle.

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Zipline Logistics

MARCH 24, 2020

If current trends are any indication, consumption patterns could substantially stretch capacity. According to an article? According to an article published in Supply Chain Dive , goods that would typically travel via cargo ships are currently being transported via airfreight providers. . According to an article?

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 25, 2022

A growing global warehouse capacity crunch. Moreover, with this year’s harvest imminent, there will be no silo capacity to store the fresh grain if diplomatic efforts to clear the backlog fail. Warehouse Capacity Under Pressure. The grain blockaded in Ukraine. Fruit and vegetable shortages in Australia.

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20Cube Logistics

JANUARY 22, 2022

The whole discussion of this article points towards the fact that data analysis and predictive analysis in particular can result in massive yields for the supply chain industry. Companies get to know of the effects that ensue due to capacity crunch and work towards mitigating them. Benefits that May be Yielded.

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Bulk Connection

AUGUST 20, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, dry bulk carrier capacity concerns centered on the driver shortage. While those concerns were still very real heading into this year, the current pandemic brought a new set of capacity challenges to the industry.

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20Cube Logistics

JANUARY 27, 2022

This article is an attempt at summing up the major economic events that are slated/expected to take place across Asia which is likely to shape up the economical picture of the continent. Not only are they conducive to the aviation industry, they also significantly impact the economy of many smaller countries through their buying capacities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 2, 2021

However, with the ongoing pandemic, and the resulting capacity crunch, TMS is trending more towards cost mitigation rather than savings. Customers can also add capacity easier and faster with connections to more carriers and load boards. Users have improved information flow through connections to real-time visibility partners.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 2, 2019

It takes longer to build them, and they’re more expensive to rent, driving up the rates and adding pressure to the capacity crunch.” ” In another article, Robinson notes some analysts believe technology will eventually lead to dark warehouses. Today’s warehouses are 143% larger than they were in 2007.

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

The capacity crunch and technology are reshaping ?the Kearney and sponsored by Penske Logistics for CSCMP, vividly depicts a supply chain struggling under the twin demands of constrained capacity and the need for significant technological investment to help service providers and their customers keep up with soaring growth.

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Aera Technology

OCTOBER 12, 2018

As it is, these professionals spend untold hours collecting data and crunching numbers. not a person’s full intellectual capacity. In our AI-driven future, machines will take over data collection and number-crunching chores traditionally handled by planners. This article originally appeared in Enterprise Times.

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Freight Plus

JULY 29, 2020

Borderlands: Truck Capacity Tight Near Mexican Border. This week in logistics we are taking a look at an article published in. Noi Mahoney. , “Borderlands: Truck capacity tight near Mexican border; millions in drugs found in shipments of ketchup and onions”. Freight Waves. so there are not as many goods being exported.

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Freight Plus

JULY 29, 2020

Borderlands: Truck Capacity Tight Near Mexican Border. This week in logistics we are taking a look at an article published in. Noi Mahoney. , “Borderlands: Truck capacity tight near Mexican border; millions in drugs found in shipments of ketchup and onions”. Freight Waves. so there are not as many goods being exported.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 8, 2019

A recent Financial Times article stresses that now is the time for manufacturers to diversify their product portfolios to reduce risk.”[3] ”[1]. Trends affecting supply chain operations. And the ongoing trade disputes between China and the U.S. ”[4].

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Perhaps you’ve read a little about the digital twin concept in one of our past articles on supply chain technology, but we would have touched on it only briefly. So it’s quite literally a match between David and Goliath in the US warehouse capacity battle, and currently, Goliath is crushing David. So what’s it all about, then?

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Freight Plus

JULY 13, 2018

Plenty of ink has been spilled over the truckload capacity crisis but what about less than truckload (LTL) freight? Unfortunately, the reach of the national truck driver shortage and capacity crunch is now at the point where it's touching the entire inland transportation market. Jill Clifford, Vice President of Aborn & Co.,

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Aera Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Supply chain practitioners can spend 60 to 80 percent of their time collecting and crunching numbers from disparate global systems in efforts to make decisions to meet OTIF goals and to pinpoint the root cause of supply chain weakness that’s causing downstream disruption. This article originally appeared in Manufacturing and Logistics IT.

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