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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

The US GDP in 2021 grew at an unexpected rate of 5.7% A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. Source E2open Shipping Index). Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. in the second year of the pandemic.

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Selecting a Supply Chain Technology Provider is Harder than it Seems

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Tracking your shipment’s status via GPS or Internet of Things (IoT) devices and viewing route duration data throughout the entire shipping process in real-time will allow you to quickly make informed business decisions to optimize productivity and streamline your supply chain. Then he made a career change to shipping.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

The US GDP in 2021 grew at an unexpected rate of 5.7% A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. Source E2open Shipping Index). Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. in the second year of the pandemic.

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An Entrepreneur Explains The 10 Things Needed to Build A Business that Investors Can’t Say ‘NO’ To

Logistics Viewpoints

In 2021, more than $25 billion was invested in supply chain companies in just the first three quarters of the year. He sold the company in 2001 when the company had achieved revenues of about $10 million. Bruce Welty, Founder of the Unicorn Locus Robotics. Supply chain management is hot. Bruce Welty was one of the founders.

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USPS Sees Revenue Gain, Net Loss, Parcel Drop

Multichannel Merchant

Postal Service reported a revenue gain for the year but an income loss, while parcel volume continued to drop relative to the 2021 pandemic surge, as the USPS like other shippers has experienced a slowdown in ecommerce-related business due to challenging economic conditions. from 2021, despite a drop in total volume of 1.6

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50 warehouse automation stats you should know

6 River Systems

This marked the 34th consecutive quarter of positive net absorption, the longest streak since 2001. Less than one in ten DCs handle only full pallets for outbound shipping. “ Tractica forecasts that worldwide warehousing and logistics robot unit shipments will increase from 40,000 in 2016 to 620,000 units annually by 2021.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

Spire provides real-time information and analytics based on global maritime automatic identification system (AIS) technology—Spire’s constellation of small satellites captures the courses and current status of container ships across the globe. In 1956, manually loading a ship cost $5.86 ” An expected global surprise.