Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2024

Retailers are reviving an old playbook to manage their inventory levels after four years of struggling to find the sweet spot of holding enough merchandise but not too much. The Panama Canal has faded from the headlines amid all the focus on the Red Sea. But fallout to global supply chains from Panama’s drought is far from over.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 3, 2015

We’re more than halfway through 2015 and many companies are already planning for 2016. In case you missed them the first time around or want to read/view them again, check out the top posts and episodes below from Q2 2015 (see HERE for the top posts and episodes from Q1). As the saying goes, time flies when you’re having fun.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 8, 2015

Walmart Charging Vendors for Inventory, The Panama Canal is Filling Up, Apparel Companies See Africa as Next Source of Low Costs, China Stock Market Tumbling, Impacts to Follow

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 23, 2015

That liberal paraphrasing of a classic Prince song refers to particularly strong El Niño conditions predicted by the National Weather Service for winter 2015-2016—the likes of which haven’t been seen since 1998. Assess Inventory Positions. And it still isn’t, despite the headline of this post.

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Elementum

AUGUST 18, 2015

What’s Happening in Panama? On August 7th, Panama’s government declared a state of emergency due to an extreme drought. The Panama Canal is a hugely important passage for global trade routes. The restrictions are set to impact about 20 percent of all ships passing through the area—that’s a lot of inventory.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 19, 2018

Even a wider Panama Canal can’t accommodate the largest ships on the water, some with capacity exceeding 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs). What’s more, the global orderbook for new ships stands at half the level of 2012-2015. Carriers nevertheless have work to do. The bankruptcy of Hanjin Shipping Co.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 22, 2024

The Panama Canal is adding transit slots as restrictions in the corridor begin to ease. According to the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), a pair of slots are up for auction for transit dates starting on March 18, with an additional slot for dates beginning on March 25. 2015=100) compared with 111.3 Intel wins $19.5 in January.

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