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Savvy Supply Chain Leaders Aren’t Letting a Good Downturn Go to Waste

Logistics Viewpoints

Freight rates have plummeted, brokerages are struggling, and the industry is still bloated with excess inventory. A famous 2010 HBR article, “Roaring Out of Recession,” studied how 4,700 public companies fared during the recessions of 1980, 1990, and 2000. 17% went bankrupt, went private, or were acquired.

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Using Digital Supply Chain Planning to Respond to Market-Changing Disruptions like COVID-19

ToolsGroup

Gartner research shows that companies that continued to increase earnings while others declined in 2009 and 2010 were those that were able to keep their foot on the gas through the downturn because they had planned responses in advance. The real world rarely follows the rules–the Coronavirus is more evidence of this reality.

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Supply Chain Scope: New Study Shows Rise in US Inventories; California Estimated to Improve Freight Efficiency by 25% in 2030

Arkieva

A new study by the SupplyChainDigest analyzing the main components of working capital: Days Sales Outstanding (DSO), Days Inventory Outstanding (DIO), and Days Payables Outstanding (DPO) revealed an uptick in DIO. Sustainable Freight Action Plan for California is estimated to Improve Freight Efficiency by 25% in 2030.

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Molex Prizes Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

Those shipments can move directly to customers or move to several regional distribution centers (DCs) that serve as forward inventory locations and consolidation hubs servicing customers and channel partners. The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruptions in Iceland, for example, caused enormous disruption to air shipments across Western Europe.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 29 – November 4)

Logistics Viewpoints

The improvement is expected to be temporary, given that an aging workforce and freight demand are both projected to grow. After racking up numerous quarters of record financial performances, truckload carriers are acknowledging the historic strength of the recent freight cycle has finally petered out. executive.

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Can You Predict Supply Chain Disruptions in an Unpredictable World?

Logility

This means supply chain leaders have had to shift from using trains back to using ocean freight and getting goods to market takes longer. Rethink just-in-time inventory policies: There could be another pandemic or another war. Agility means having the ability to respond quickly and think outside the box when necessary.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 4-8, 2016)

Talking Logistics

It was a relatively quiet week for supply chain and logistics news, with robots and weak freight demand dominating the headlines. Heavy-Duty Truck Orders Fall to Lowest Since 2010 (WSJ – sub. Air cargo firms feel the pressure from plunge in freight prices (Reuters). percent from 3 percent. According to the article: DS Co.,