Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The ”end” they refer to – whether it’s forwarding, fulfillment, or platforms for B2B or B2C sales – remains fairly ambiguous, spanning an acquisition of fashion logistics company HUUB in September 2021 to an investment in rapid fashion production company Unmade. Accelerating the shift. Image via StarAir.dk). of the U.S.

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QAD

JULY 7, 2022

The concept of ethical sourcing has risen in popularity during the past four years.” . In Bangladesh in July 2021, a fire at a food factory claimed the lives of at least 52 people, some of whom were children. as a tornado struck a town in Kentucky in December 2021, workers at. In the U.S., Consumer Buying Trends.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 15, 2021

In 2016 PWC introduced an Online Self-Assessment tool for supply chain digital maturity. Source: Schumacher et al. LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – August 2021. Supply chain digital readiness and maturity models. It consists of four stages and seven dimensions. Deploys AWS IOT for Supply Chain Tracking.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In 2016, the McKinsey Global Institute touted ML’s power. By 2021, the Gartner Group could lay out 23 use cases for AI in retail. The Source : This company is Canada’s largest tech retailer. The Source embraced AI to refine inventory and order forecasting. The results?

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The volume of ocean shipments grew two-fold in the past decade, and the price of an ocean shipment increased 9-10X from 2020-2021. Ocean carriers, struggling to make a profit for the past ten years, collectively will post 200 billion in profitability in 2021. Freight Rates 2019-2021. jump in apparel costs and 5.5%

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

As 2021’s holiday shopping statistics proved, pandemic or not, consumers are willing to spend. (My When looking at global online sales, Salesforce reports 57% digital growth in 2020, and 16% growth in 2021, with eMarketer data predicting a continued increase through 2025. Data source: eMarketer. in 2021, compared to 42,000 sq.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 30, 2023

goods and services trade deficit increased to $679 billion in 2020, compared to $481 billion in 2016. Next came, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, was signed into law by President Joe Biden in December of 2021 and then went into effect in June of 2022. But the combined U.S. This legislation was the U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A car is necessary for the suburbs, so I plopped 5K on the used car lot desk and rode off in a 2016 Lincoln Mercury. ” In August 2021, after a long road trip, this happened. There is no true end-to-end solution that enables bi-directional orchestration across deliver, make, and source processes. Labor Shortages.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Back in 2016, Joseph E. If you don’t have a first-tier supplier who’s sourcing from China, then your supplier’s supplier is.”[7] But in 2021 we will acknowledge that the benefits of global trade are still not felt where they are needed most. Here’s how we can make it work for all ,” Wired, 10 February 2021. [7]

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Enterra Insights

JULY 11, 2022

It also involves weaponizing supply chains — various legislative loopholes in the US still allow states and companies to source supplies such as personal protective equipment from China.” 10] They agree “western nations and organizations need to diversify their manufacturing and sourcing portfolios outside of China.”

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SCMDOJO

JULY 29, 2022

Author : Emad Atef – CSCA, MBA (Candidate), Procurement and Sourcing Manager. Emad Atef Ezzat, “Supply Chain Post COVID-19: ‘VUCA’, ‘Black Swan’, and ‘Perfect Storm’:,” Supply Chain for Beginners (blog), July 10, 2021, Accessed on 14-1-2022, [link]. Please follow Emad on LinkedIn to appreciate his contribution. References.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2024

Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Chicago , Sphera is a portfolio company of Blackstone , a U.S.-based In 2021, this column highlighted Blackstone’s acquisition of the company for $1.4 The company is backed by a number of investors and has undergone funding rounds in 2018 and 2021.

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ivalua

MARCH 17, 2021

The Grants Oversight and New Efficiency (GONE) Act of 2016 – The goal of this law is to provide visibility into aged grants and enable efficient closeout of expired grants. Earlier this month, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 was signed into law. Reason No. 3 – It’s Timely.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

The price of an ocean shipment increased 9-10X from 2020-2021. Ocean carriers, struggling to make a profit for the past ten years, collectively will post 200 billion in profitability in 2021. Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In 2021 we find governments and organizations now grappling with these predictions and how best to deal with the outcomes of these predictions. For example: Japan earthquake 2016. Suez Canal blockage 2021. One source reports disruptions increased over 60% between 2019 and 2020. Source: McKinsey.

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Supply Chain Trend

OCTOBER 11, 2022

share of 57% in 2021. Since 2016 there is even an agreed FAIR (findable, accessibility, interoperability and reusability) data code. Citizen sensing ” crowd sources–from digital sensors of urban climates – allow individuals to collect data for the purpose of fact-finding and policymaking. What do these businesses have in common?

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 26, 2022

Our previously published commentary authored by The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group provided a mid-year assessment of our specific 2022 prediction that restoring more direct control of tactical and strategic materials sourcing would be a driving force for businesses and their supply management teams during 2022. All rights reserved. .

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

3] Seth Borenstein, “ Hot again: 2020 sets yet another global temperature record ,” AP, 14 January 2021. [4] 6] PepsiCo, “ PepsiCo Announces Bold New Climate Ambition ,” Press Release, 14 January 2021. [7] 6] PepsiCo, “ PepsiCo Announces Bold New Climate Ambition ,” Press Release, 14 January 2021. [7]

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 31, 2023

Decision Quality A decision quality framework is proposed in detail in the book Decision Quality (Spetzler and colleagues, 2016). Based on their combined experience, decision quality experts Spetzler and colleagues (2016) identified five mega biases that are threats to good organizational decision making.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 16, 2021

.” The White House summary concludes, “To secure a reliable, sustainable supply of critical minerals and materials, the United States must work with allies and partners to diversify supply chains away from adversarial nations and sources with unacceptable environmental and labor standards. Footnotes. [1] Mohib, Ryan M.

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IQMS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

With the advanced analytics spending predicted to grow from $136B in 2016 to $232B in 2021 , attaining an 11.3% Due to all of these factors advanced robotics spending is predicted to grow from $92B in 2016 to $225B in 2021, attaining a 19.7% In 2019, blockchain’s greatest potential will emerge in manufacturing.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

As many as 828 million people were affected by hunger in 2021, including 46 million people more than a year earlier and 150 million more than 2019. This is a new and very important platform for the global dialogue in the search for effective solutions to ensure global food security.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal , that level of worker labor activism was nearly eight times the number of workers involved in 2021. With government trade policies favoring more domestic sourcing of deemed strategic supply networks such as semiconductor devices, there are already indications across the U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 10, 2023

Both the COP 26 and COP 27 Global Change Summits held in 2021 and 2022 respectfully, sounded the alarm that businesses and governments face a more compelling timeline for mitigating ongoing warming of the planet. degrees Celsius that occurred in August 2016. Renewed Urgency Last week provided yet another stark warning.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 6, 2022

They want a single source of truth that maps the steps of every process, assigns ownership, and defines due dates. Blockchain was all the craze circa 2015-2016, but supply chain operators realized earlier than most (~2018) that blockchain use cases weren’t yet ready for prime time. Instead, leaders want visibility and accountability.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 6, 2022

They want a single source of truth that maps the steps of every process, assigns ownership, and defines due dates. Blockchain was all the craze circa 2015-2016, but supply chain operators realized earlier than most (~2018) that blockchain use cases weren’t yet ready for prime time. Instead, leaders want visibility and accountability.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 12, 2019

4] He’s so convinced of his position, he makes three predictions about the future of AI in manufacturing: Prediction #1 : “50% of all manufacturing companies will be using AI in some form by the end of 2021. big data comes from many and diverse sources.” challenge [is] extracting value from manufacturing big data.”[5]

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Technology advancements were among the most exciting topics to watch through 2016. So, let’s take a look at how our predictions for the first four manufacturing technology trends (Predictive analytics, 3D Printing, and VR) to watch for in 2016 stacked up. billion by 2021. Yet, 3D printing is not simply for repairs.

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Locus

JUNE 21, 2022

In 2021, retail e-commerce sales amounted to approximately $4.9 In 2021 alone, over 2.14 billion global digital buyers in 2016. In 2021 alone, over 2.14 billion global digital buyers in 2016. trillion worldwide. This figure is expected to grow by 50 percent over the next four years, reaching about $7.4

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2016

On September 3, 2016 China and the US agreed to ratify the Paris Agreement on climate change. For example, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is phasing in fuel efficiency standards starting with trailers in 2018, truck standards in 2021, which are estimated to provide 2-4 year payback periods.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 9, 2023

According to business and industry media reports, the engine recall will affect upwards of 1,200 engines produced between 2015 and 2021. Since its introduction in 2016, the innovative Pratt GTF has been dogged by a series of reliability and manufacturing quality issues.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 22, 2021

more than the total cost of eCommerce returns in 2016. With this, if one supplier runs out of stock, you can source from another supplier to fulfill your orders. Order fulfillment challenges articles originally written for Supply Chain Game Changer and published on December 22, 2021. This is 75.2%

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Supply Chain Trend

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Complementary Decision Strenghts IBP decisions can be differentiated between machine centric S&OE decisions in the short-term horizon, and human-centric IBP decisions in the longer-term horizon ( Regeer, van Hove, 2021 ). Many of them impact individual and group decision making.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2024

Source Amazon Product Range One of the key drivers of Amazon’s success in logistics is the sheer breadth of its product range. 2021: 1,608,000 Amazon Employees New hires: However, in 2022, they employed over 1.5 Sales by Region/Country: North America is likely the biggest contributor (395.64

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SCMDOJO

MARCH 28, 2023

They collaborated to trace a bundle of sliced mangoes back to its source, with traditional paper documents taking nearly seven days to complete the task. In comparison, a blockchain search only took 2.2 seconds, demonstrating the effectiveness of blockchain in tracing and verifying product origins. Thank you for subscribing to SCMDOJO!

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DocShipper Sourcing

AUGUST 3, 2022

In 2021, online shopping skyrocketed. trillion US dollars was earned through online purchases in 2016. Sourcing services. More than $3.53 By the end of 2023, it is expected to have risen to a whopping $6,54 trillion. The exponential expansion of worldwide e-commerce may be seen in these figures.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

A new report from the industry association E-commerce Europe found that there was a 15% growth in 2016 and the industry is predicted to be worth €602 billion by the end of 2017. According to Ecommerce Europe, “Western Europe is, by far, the strongest region in terms of B2C e-commerce turnover, holding 63% of the total turnover for 2021.

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