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Worker Shortages and More Pose a Challenge to Freight Companies

Elementum

According to Plunkett Research, transportation revenues in 2017 reached over $1 billion in the U.S. Today, trucking, shipping, air shipping, and other logistics services are all experiencing disruption: As consumer expectations evolve, businesses are constantly pressured to deliver high-quality goods in the shortest amount of time.

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Worker Shortages and More Pose a Challenge to Freight Companies

Elementum

According to Plunkett Research, transportation revenues in 2017 reached over $1 billion in the U.S. Today, trucking, shipping, air shipping, and other logistics services are all experiencing disruption: As consumer expectations evolve, businesses are constantly pressured to deliver high-quality goods in the shortest amount of time.

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Why the Great Driver Shortage Is Now Top of Mind for Shippers & a Driver of a Capacity Crunch

GlobalTranz

In fact, the truck driver shortage is expected to double to 100,000 in the next five years, but other industry experts, reports Iris Kuo of Trucks.com , suggest actual worsening could be as high as 200,000 unfilled positions by 2026. percent by the end of the third-quarter in 2017.

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Energy Crisis in Asia and Europe: The Supply Chain Impact

Resilinc

Pakistan also relies on a long-term contract with Italy’s natural gas company, Eni. Per the contract, Eni will deliver one LNG cargo per month between 2017 and 2032. As companies wait to receive fuel, this could lead to force majeure and delayed production. Consider this: in January 2022, globally Qatar exported 7.2M

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Decisions from an IBP meeting need to be made in the light of the company’s vision and strategy. IBP can support a company’s vision by positively influencing its values and behaviors, thus actively shaping the company’s culture (Van Hove, 2017).

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This Week in Logistics News (December 31 – January 6)

Logistics Viewpoints

The company announced last year that Amazon Prime customers in Lockeford, CA, will start receiving package deliveries by drone by the end of 2022. This creates a higher shipping cost and is not as environmentally friendly as shipping the one item back in a smaller package or as part of a consolidated return.”

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Addressing Labor Shortages in Warehouse and DC Operations

NC State SCRC

Companies represented included Advanced Auto Parts, John Deere, Hanes Brands, UPS, FHI, Lenovo, GSK, Altria, and UNC Healthcare. The shortage of workers is causing companies to look at non-traditional sources, including individual with a criminal record. Those skills led him to a part-time job at a FedEx Corp.

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