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2024: Planning for Success Amid the Uncertainty

Logistics Viewpoints

However, it’s only early February 2024, and we already have several major disruptions impacting supply chains. As Alan Amling at the University of Tennessee put it, “2024 is riddled with uncertainty.” Logistics and inventory management rounds out the top four focus areas at 82 percent.

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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Update- March 28 2024

Supply Chain Matters

The company’s forecasted outlook for production levels in 2024 was upwards of 9,000 vehicles, and industry watchers indicated that added financing would be needed in order for the luxury auto maker to be able to grow sales and global wide production needs. Workers After securing new ratified labor agreements among three major U.S.

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KAI Media Selects Stord One Commerce (OMS) to Power Order and Inventory Management Across Its International Fulfillment Network

Stord

Stord’s OMS software allows KAI Media to view and manage orders and inventory across its entire international network in one place, enabling the team to automate its entire order routing process faster and more intelligently. About KAI Media KAI Media, dba.

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Top 15 Logistics Stories of 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

Just last week, my colleague Clint Reiser wrote an article about the top logistics and supply chain conferences to attend in 2024. The February reading in the New York Fed’s Global Supply Chain Pressure Index was -0.26, reaching negative territory for the first time since August 2019. in December 2021.

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Initial Estimates of U.S. Holiday Spending- A Mixed Bag

Supply Chain Matters

percent increase this year aligns with the 2019 pre-pandemic retail sales growth of 3.4 Consumers were expecting that there would be adequate inventory of goods even up to two days before Christmas. If anything, what retailer’s may report as inventory overhang after accounting for holiday sales will be an area to take note of.

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The IoT Reality Check

C3 Solutions

While the tech is "clearly past the early innovator phase…now we need to find out how to get it more mainstream," said Bill Hoffman, president of Object Management Group, a not-for-profit technology standards consortium, speaking at an IoT conference in October 2019. Where's the ROI? Retail has the lowest margins of any sector, at.5

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Megatrends Reshaping Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

Companies are beginning to explore on-demand manufacturing rather than traditional manufacturing models, meaning they can keep less physical inventory on-hand. In 2019, it became the first fully unmanned truck to drive on a live highway. But even in 2024, these trucks will not be running across all lanes nationwide.