Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2022

Shipping companies added capacity, but now containers are stuck in port. The Port of Oakland reported cargo in April dropped 7 percent compared to the same period a year ago due to factory and port shutdowns in China. During the peak of port congestion in 2021, as many as 30 ships were waiting to enter an Oakland berth.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 2, 2017

Meanwhile, failure to notify consumers about out-of-stock items during purchase could result in the permanent loss of a customer. Nothing is more frustrating than ordering an item only to discover that it will not ship for weeks afterward. Cloud-Based Inventory Management Systems Give Customers Access to Your Company’s Whole Stock.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The free report is available in PDF with supporting spreadsheets and high-resolution infographics here. Demand for ocean freight was lower than anticipated, and Hanjin Shipping, another top ten ocean liner, was already teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. The Post-2016 Strategy: End-to-end Shipping. Driving the Maersk Shift.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Amazon’s purchase of Kiva Robots changed the landscape of robotics in the supply chain. Furthermore, the speed of operation of robots will increase more than 30 percent by the end of 2017. Clearly, robotics will become more important in 2017 than during any previous year. Technology Will Reshape Procurement Practices.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2017

UPS Forecasts Another Record-Breaking Holiday Shipping Season. Manhattan Associates Reports Solid Third Quarter Performance. Ryder Reports Third Quarter 2017 Results. DCLI to Purchase TRAC Intermodal’s Domestic Chassis Fleet. Alphabet looks to snowy Michigan to test self-driving cars (Reuters).

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Trucking Companies Boost Big-Rig Orders on Rising Shipping Demand (WSJ – sub. As reported by the Wall Street Journal : United Parcel Service Inc. Apparently, the new surcharges UPS implemented to help smooth out shipping volume this holiday season haven’t worked too well. Just ask UPS and Walmart.

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2018

In his 2017 annual shareholder letter , Bezos lauded “divinely discontent” customers as innovation drivers. According to their 2017 annual report, over a quarter of Amazon’s third-party sales (which represent half of Amazon’s sales) are cross-border. In other words, if your shipping your own goods, you’re competition.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Not surprisingly, companies that employ advanced analytics to improve decision making and execution have the results to show for it.”. One of the new tools available to decision makers is predictive analytics. Leveraging predictive analytics is as close as business leaders will come to having a crystal ball.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 10, 2017

Descartes Reports Fiscal 2017 Fourth Quarter and Annual Financial Results. January 2017 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). While the containers themselves can be loaded on a ship in a matter of minutes, a container can be held up in port for days because a piece of paper goes missing, while the goods inside spoil.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The rise of e-commerce and the consumer digital path to purchase has been a nightmare for some retailers from which they can’t awake. Daphne Howland ( @daphnehowland ) reports one new business model that has flourished in this new retail environment is direct-to-consumer (D2C) marketing. ” Model 2.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Much of the finger-pointing involved the movement of shipping containers into and out of port facilities. For the supply chain to work smoothly, a complex and highly choreographed dance, involving both full and empty shipping containers, must be performed. More than 80 ships stretched to the distance — a new record. ”[1].

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Techgistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Amazon has been stockpiling data on customer preferences and buying habits for years and using predictive analytics makes sense to put that data to good use. Customers would essentially be outsourcing some of the more mundane recurring purchases to Amazon’s algorithm and free up their time to do other things.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 3, 2022

But it’s important to remember that while customers want their purchases fast, sometimes even the next day, many care about the environmental impact of that delivery as well. In response to these rising complexities, late last year, Körber commissioned its first ever Supply Chain Benchmarking report. Rethink Partnerships.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 26, 2017

Cloud Logistics’ Second Zero Downtime Release of 2017 Marks Continued Rapid Pace of Innovation. WSS to launch pilot scheme for drone deliveries to ships at anchor (The Loadstar). Software vendors and those involved in the purchasing decision have always viewed “function” as more important than “form.” I also wrote….

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Conversely, just 8% of businesses with less capable supply chains report above-average growth. 2) According to a 2012 report into corporate insolvencies by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, 44% of businesses in Australia failed because of poor strategic management.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Walmart brings extreme fulfillment expertise to the table, and Google has the technologies for language processing, artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics. An agile way of dealing with flexible fulfillment, shipping and return options is required. You download the app and can start shopping. What does this mean for supply chains?

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 26, 2017

However, their use felt some restraint, and most companies used them to track large-scale shipments, such as cargo containers, reports Claire Swedbery of the RFID Journal. AIDC communications reduced workload , making tracking items and using analytics easier than ever. of the WIOMAX SmartIoT Blog.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 25, 2025

The topic/report will be on the logistics M&A so far this year. The report will be available free for paid Substack subscribers but I’ll provide a summary and a link to the report in case you’re interested in either purchasing it separately or paying for an anuual subscribtion to my Substack articles.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 6, 2021

That’s where forecasting and predictive analytics come into play. Predictive analytics involve techniques like data mining and machine learning to predict future trends from past and current data. You might be asking yourself: What is the difference between traditional forecasting and predictive analytics?

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GlobalTranz

JULY 22, 2016

By 2017, e-commerce will generate $370 billion in the U.S., and the compounded annual growth rate is expected to stay at or above 10 percent over the next half-decade, reports William B. Globalization Promotes International Shipping and Logistics. Consumers are also looking to business for benefits in every purchase.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Top View Cargo containers ship logistics transportation Container Ship Vessel Cargo Carrier. Managing cloud-based e-commerce platforms and global shipping logistics is a vital part of the process of overcoming cross-border challenges for online retailers. The Importance of E-Commerce Shipping and Logistics in EU Transportation.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

We normally do our Talking Logistics episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but we have one today at 12 ET with Alaster Love from Transplace, where we are going to discuss “ Big Data and Analytics in Oil and Gas Transportation.” Cass Freight Index Report – October 2014. September 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI).

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Shipping approximately 400 million selling units consisting of 700 million manufactured units per year, Carter’s employs about 4,000 employees at its peak. The company leverages globally sourcing strategies to buy products at a lower cost and then deploys some unique process logic to drive mass customization for retailers.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 31, 2022

The winning companies are those that correctly identify the problem to solve — the performance metric to improve. The data model will put a spotlight on the missing data. They report, “We know from extensive research that decisions matter — a lot. He explains, “Too often companies think that more data is better.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Machine learning is providing the needed algorithms, applications, and frameworks to bring greater predictive accuracy and value to enterprises’ data sets and contributing to diverse strategies succeeding.”[1] Machine learning can prove useful all along the supply chain from procurement to production to marketing to after sales support.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The potential supply chain impacts of this conflict dwarf any other supply chain news that might be reported. Those shipments need to go by Ocean or the more expensive Air mode if ship berths can’t be found. Because of this, they are predicting rates will skyrocket for Ocean and Air. This week’s news will all center on this war.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 17, 2018

If consumers ever think about supply chains and how the items they desire manage to find their way into their homes, they likely picture fleets of trucks, trains, airplanes, and cargo ships — the logistics part of supply chains. Two-day shipping is rapidly becoming a standard and that may be replaced by same day shipping.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

More on Maersk’s transition to an end-to-end provider can be found in this 2020 report. On the horizontal carrier integration front, Maersk has doubled down on its extension from ocean consolidation (Hamburg Sud, 2017) to air cargo, increasing Maersk Air by 33% with three leased cargo planes and two new Boeing purchases.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 1, 2021

Vaibhavi Tamizhkumaran, a Digital Marketing Executive at Indium Software, writes, “The retail industry is constantly changing and will continue to evolve, from concentrating efforts on website growth and online retail to needing faster shipping speeds. Some of the momentum was created by the rising importance of social media.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Khadeeja Safdar ( @khadeeja_safdar ) and Imani Moise ( @MoiseNoise ) report, “Retailers had their best holiday sales since 2011, according to Mastercard SpendingPulse, which tracks payments in stores and online.”[1] The growth in mobile purchasing continues. Adopt a Ship-to-Store Policy. These mobile moments matter.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 22, 2019

Reporting on this development, Jennifer Smith ( @jensmithWSJ ) and Sarah Nassauer ( @SarahNassauer ) write, “Looking to cut inventory while meeting e-commerce demands, the retailer wants more of the goods it orders delivered on time and in full. ” Purchasing – “The KPI most used in Purchasing Departments is Stock Turn.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 18, 2019

The blockchain has the potential to transform the supply chain and disrupt the way we produce, market, purchase and consume our goods. Cheng-Shorland explains, “Supply chain is driven in large part by the procurement process. Everything moves through the process based on the procurement contract.”

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 23, 2017

From ditching age-old tactics of shipping products now, to advancing the capabilities of augmented reality in logistics, our logistics trends highlighted expected improvements in the supply chain, many of which came true. While our initial predictions were somewhat concise, this update shows how incredibly far these entities have come.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 11, 2017

Luxottica recently strengthened its position in the industry by vertically integrating with the world’s largest lenses manufacturer, Essilor, in January 2017 [2]. With expected sales of $250 million in 2017, Warby Parker sales are projected to be split 50/50 between online and brick-and-mortar [5].

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Enterra Insights

JULY 31, 2019

Multinational enterprises deal with a dizzying array of paperwork involving procurement deals, purchase orders, shipping data, etc. ”[3] They go on to note, “A traditional ERP simply cannot keep pace with the rate of change and the need to innovate and optimize quickly, accurately, and cost-effectively.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Seldom do people wonder how those tokens of affection made it to store shelves for purchase. ”[2] All the sparkling wine Fronetics analysts report being purchased for the holiday seems to have been overlooked by the NRF. ” But when it comes to candy, Loria reports chocolate is king. The Flower Supply Chain.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

And the reality is that Supply Chain must be cost-effective. Whatever your Industry you should be able to make comparisons to competitors, do benchmarking, and even compare yourself on key metrics across industries. From the inbound perspective he Supply Chain team typically procures raw materials, expedites their delivery.

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