Talking Logistics

JANUARY 29, 2018

The 2018 supply chain conference season kicked off for me last week. at the SMC3 Jump Start 2018 conference in Atlanta, GA. Stronger Economic Growth in 2018. The post Takeaways from SMC3 Jump Start 2018 Conference appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. Emerging Technologies: What’s Real, What’s Hype?

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The fall ritual precedes the dropping of the ball on Times Square to ring in 2020. Average Inventory Levels by Industry over the Period of 2010-2018. Note in Figure 5, that over the period of 2010-2018, while the industry chased lower labor costs, the industry lost margin, and decreased inventory turns. It is all consuming.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 20, 2020

In 2018, SDS acquired a global leader in electronic product distribution, increasing market share in Scandinavia. The path to recovery from COVID-19 – LogiSYM August 2020. 10 Huge Benefits of eCommerce Businesses for Retailers & Buyers – LogiSYM August 2020.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The type and capabilities of supply chain technology is expanding, and technology will only grow more important in effective supply chain management in 2018. WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. Download white paper. The IIoT Will Be Standardized.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

As of 2018, according to Gartner, “66% of analyzed brands have adopted a social commerce feature within the past year.” Scott Thompson ( @ScottThomps74 ), founder and editor of the Retail Technology Innovation Hub, predicts, “Automation will be huge in 2020.”[8] Social shopping. Retail predictions. Prediction 1. Automation.

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Stord

JANUARY 9, 2020

Friday, January 10, 2020 Warehouse Automation Startups Gaining Traction High consumer expectations for fast deliveries are prompting retailers to turn toward automation to help speed up distribution. Almost 28% of warehouses globally are expected to be using commercial robots by 2025, up from just 3% in 2018. Since 2015, $1.2

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

trillion by 2020. As a result, shippers across the globe are looking for ways to keep up with the Amazon’s unrelenting approach, and these trends in trucking and freight reflect a few of the key ways shippers, third-party logistics providers and truckers will respond 2018. The e-commerce market is expanding. What about Amazon Air?

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AIMMS

JUNE 11, 2018

million positions may go unfilled by 2020. Optimizing the food industry: a conversation with UniSoma’s Luis Pinto – Our partners UniSoma and CAT Squared are showcasing a new optimization solution for food companies at VIV Europe (taking place June 20-22, 2018 in Utrecht). CSCMP estimates that as many as 3.5

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 27, 2020

Mark Sullivan ( @thesullivan ) predicts, “In 2020, technologies will move toward the mainstream and begin impacting daily life. … In 2020, emotion recognition and computer vision will scale and AI will have a breakout moment in manufacturing.” Uzzaman writes, “We expect 2020 to begin the quantum computing era.”

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 1, 2022

Reliance Partners has been featured in Inc.com each year from 2016-2020 as one of the fastest growing privately-held companies in the US. In addition, Inc.com recognized Reliance Partners in 2018-2020 as one of the Top 50 Workplaces while Fortune also recognized Reliance Partners in 2017-2020 as a Top Workplace in America.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

In 2018 the study showed that, on average, 37% of the responding organizations had a separate data governance organization. Clearly this is not the last word on Data governance but 2020 does needs to be the year for a quantum shift if we are to see the benefit of the innovations which are on every CPOs to do list. . .

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SCM Research

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Set in early 2020, it provides a detailed description of the company’s supply chain network and capabilities. This case nicely complements the 2020 award winner Apple and Conflict Materials: Ethical Sourcing for Sustainability. See also the 2017 and 2018 SCM-related winners. Fraser Johnson.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

This is the sixth blog in our ICON 2020: What’s New series. Olympic alpine ski racer, will be taking the stage as our keynote speaker at ICON 2020, joining the ranks with executives from Albertsons, Armada, Pactiv, Lenzing and Microsoft! American rock band Weezer will be headlining the ICON 2020 Customer Celebration in Denver!

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Bristlecone

JANUARY 27, 2020

The Bristlecone family is deeply saddened by the sudden and unexpected passing of Deepak Ghodke on Saturday, January 25, 2020. Deepak was a valued member of the Bristlecone executive leadership team, heading the Supply Chain Applications Business Unit, Bristlecone Labs, since joining the company in November 2018.

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Freightos

JANUARY 8, 2019

As we enter a new year, it’s a great time to look back at how far we’ve come as an industry, set our next goalposts, and map out where we should be as an industry by 2020. At our FreighTech 2018 conference, I spoke to 50 top-tier logistics executives about the major themes – four of them – that should guide our evolution.

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Bristlecone

JULY 31, 2020

In 2018, we asked Bristlecone Pulse at MIT guests to describe supply chain antifragility. The post Bristlecone Flash – July 2020 appeared first on Bristlecone. ANTIFRAGILIY AND INNOVATION. Here’s What They Said …. BRISTLECONE LIVE! Join us on August 6th for a Bristlecone Live! Sign up to receive Bristlecone news!

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As 2020 stutters and stumbles to the end we all need to think about how our Supply Chains will operate in 2021 and beyond. Just like those old school photographs, your steady-state, stable 2018 set-up has gone and will never return. Well, what a year it has been.

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USC Consulting Group

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

What are the major food and beverage manufacturing trends on tap for 2020? One thing the food and beverage industry is fairly certain about is 2020 ending in the black, with earnings expected to top 2019. billion , up 11% from 2018 and 18% from 2017 at $3.4 Healthy and nutritious. Health and nutrition never goes out of style.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 22, 2018

Here are some excerpts from the press release: The custom-designed distribution center, scheduled for completion in 2020, will feature advanced sorting systems and robotics alongside state-of-the-art automation co-developed with Swisslog Logistics Automation. And with that, have a happy weekend!

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LevaData

JANUARY 23, 2020

The world promises to be increasingly volatile and uncertain in 2020. Some key events that supply chain professionals will need to keep an eye on: Brexit: Boris Johnson’s government has a clear mandate to execute Brexit in 2020 – an impossibly short time frame in which to negotiate a comprehensive trade deal.

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ModusLink Corporation

MARCH 9, 2022

It enables companies to track and trace their products which are equipped with sensors devices (Cheung, 2018). The technology is optimal to track products that are in transit (Fedex, 2020). & (2018). The main IoT tools are elaborated upon below. Figure 1Vasi?, ?. & NFC Technology and Augmented Reality in Smart Packaging.

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Jaggaer

MARCH 18, 2020

His insights are numerous, and can all be heard in his full podcast episode, but among them is his main focus in 2020, the opportunity presented by agile procurement. A 2018 study by Innosight backs this assertion, predicting that the average tenure of companies on the Fortune 500 list will be just 12 years by 2027.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Prior to 2020, every supply chain in the world was challenged by increasing levels of demand unpredictability and market volatility. In fact, IT spend as a percent of business capex crossed over the prior ~10 year average in 2019 and we see that trend extending in early 2020.”. Natural disasters. Geopolitical events.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2023

homes in 2022 than UPS, after eclipsing FedEx in 2020, and it is on track to widen the gap this year, according to internal Amazon data and people familiar with the matter. That compared with just 2 percent in 2018. Speaking of the massive amounts of online orders, Amazon has grabbed the crown of biggest delivery business in the U.S.,

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 13, 2020

IBP requires cross functional alignment to eliminate silos, to achieve accountability for delivering strategic, financial and operational outcomes, and to enable scenario planning that provides forward visibility into the consequences and risks of decisions (Sorensen, 2020). Augmentation of decision making doesn’t necessarily require AI.

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ModusLink Corporation

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Latest developments such as thin-film electronic and antimicrobial packing are being analyzed to increase their capabilities and become even more accurate and safer (Cheung, 2018). These sensors result in simple access to absolute quality products from the manufacturer and longer-lasting solutions (impacx, 2020). & (2018).

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

Including Bomi, UPS Healthcare has doubled its global footprint since 2020. The deal is expected to allow 7-Eleven to compete more directly with third-party delivery services, even as 7-Eleven became Instacart’s first c-store partner in 2020 and added Uber Eats and Grubhub to its delivery roster in 2020. 7-Eleven Inc.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As an example, from data taken from the ATRI report, in 2020 a small fleet of fewer than 20 trucks would have paid about three times as much as a large fleet with more than 1,000 trucks. By 2018, the average grew to $22.3 The amount your company pays for insurance will largely depend on the size of your fleet.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 30, 2020

The freight transportation market in 2019 turned out to be very different than the 2018 market. As we begin 2020: Where are we in the truckload market cycle? Read more Freight Transportation in 2020: Key Factors Impacting Supply and Demand. Read more Freight Transportation in 2020: Key Factors Impacting Supply and Demand.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 10, 2020

The average rate of holiday returns rose 26% compared to the returns timeframe following 2018’s holiday shopping season, says CBRE.US. The post 2020 Trends in Reverse Logistics: The Year Returns Become as Critical as Outbound appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 16, 2020

Right now, we are seeing a few emerging beverage trends and food trends in 2020 coming down the pike. As we head into 2020, it is now Gen Z who is poised to be the largest consumer group in the globe accounting for “$29 to $143 billion” in direct spending, according to an article in Forbes. Plant-Based Protein More in Demand.

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Bulk Connection

DECEMBER 16, 2021

But the biggest challenge for bulk shippers in 2021 was also the biggest challenge in 2020, 2019, and 2018. Supply chain disruptions were headline news in 2021, and the world of bulk freight had its share. We’re talking, of course, about the bulk truck driver shortage.

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EcoVadis

MARCH 7, 2018

Sustain 2018 takes place exactly 20 months and 20 days before 2020. It will gather the community of sustainability and procurement professionals who see the urgency and share the vision that “ Now Is the Time” to take action and seize the advantages of a sustainable supply chain.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

… Regulations like GDPR and, more recently, the California Consumer Privacy Act — which [became] effective in 2020 — have made privacy violations very expensive.” 2] Priya Dialani, “ Top 6 Machine Learning Trends of 2021 ,” Analytics Insight, 25 November 2020. [3] Footnotes. [1] 1] Eric Siegel, “ Why A.I.

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ModusLink Corporation

MARCH 2, 2022

So far, the result of implementing drones into Supply Chains has been great and drones are becoming quite popular due to their capability of flying around, avoid obstacles, navigate indoors, and operate in fleets (Dronevideos.com, 2018). 2020, November 18). 2018, September 4). 2020, April 8). 2018, March 23).

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ModusLink Corporation

MARCH 1, 2022

So far, the result of implementing drones into Supply Chains has been great and drones are becoming quite popular due to their capability of flying around, avoid obstacles, navigate indoors, and operate in fleets (Dronevideos.com, 2018). 2020, November 18). 2018, September 4). 2020, April 8). 2018, March 23).

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BlueYonder

MARCH 6, 2018

The 2018 RILA Retail Supply Chain Conference was a great opportunity to hear what retail leaders are focused on, and excited about, as we chart the future of our evolving industry. Challenges Ahead in 2018. Low unemployment and an aging population are likely to remain issues in 2018. As we gathered in Phoenix, Ariz.

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