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Supply Chain Matters Most Read Blogs in 2021- Part Two

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog continues with our annual listing of our most read blog commentaries that were published and of keen interest to our readers during the year 2021. For these reasons, we elected to expand our profile from ten to the top twenty-five blogs of most interest in the prior year. The Countdown of Most Read.

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Why Are Companies Turning to LSPs? Technology Leadership

BlueYonder

Increasingly, they’re turning their warehousing and transportation activities over to logistics services providers (LSPs) to optimize these activities and generate a fast return on their logistics investments. The global market for third-party logistics (3PL) is projected to increase from $974.6 billion in 2022 to $1.9

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Realities Impact the Global Ocean Container Industry

Supply Chain Matters

The invention of the ocean container as a means for inter-modal sea and surface transportation movements have orchestrated the march toward lowest cost global based sourcing of components and materials. The net result was that global wide transportation and logistics costs increased at unprecedented rates during 2021 and 2022.

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Why Automation Is the Food Industry’s Answer to Supply Chain Disruption

Logility

However, the rising costs for ingredients, materials, transportation services, and staff are creating concerns about whether products can be priced carefully enough to satisfy consumers and stay on the positive side of razor-thin margins. Revealing the True Potential of Supply Optimization.

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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-Up

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our latest news capsule edition follow-up relative to updating our readers to prior industry supply chain management developments that we have shared on this blog. seasonal workers recruited by fulfillment services businesses this year has fallen to its lowest level in a decade.

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How to Prevent the Next Semiconductor Shortage

QAD

In our blog last month, we discussed how the automotive industry must learn this time from yet another semiconductor shortage by improving management of essential supply chain processes or we will find ourselves in another shortage crisis. In addition, risk-triggered review of lead times is often not performed systematically.

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Amazon’s Decision to Up Holiday Season Worker Needs- The Why

Supply Chain Matters

Amazon Announcement According to the online retail platform provider’s announcement , added positions will be full-time, part-time, and seasonal within mostly fulfillment center and transportation roles in hundreds of cities and towns across the U.S.