Stord

MARCH 24, 2019

For months, shippers had been moving inventory from China to the United States earlier than usual, trying to get ahead of a new round of tariffs scheduled to hit in March. Last year, the company’s total inventory grew by 10.9%, increasing by 1.3% Inbound volume at the Port of Los Angeles, for example, was down 18.2%

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EMERGE App

DECEMBER 18, 2018

But I’m sure many of you in the wholesale and distribution business are thinking: “ What does 2019 hold for the wholesale and distribution industry? Unfortunately, much of the changes are factors caused by the escalating trade wars between the two largest nations in the world: the United States and China.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 28, 2023

”[3] In 2019, Logistics Plus Inc., ”[4] In the press release announcing the 2019 event, Scott G. Frederick , Chief Marketing Officer at Logistics Plus, noted, “Logistics accounts for nearly 8% of everything we make and sell in the United States. ” Cision PR Newswire, 28 June 2019. [5]

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Stord

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

With the threat of more trade tensions on the horizon in 2019, shippers should optimize their supply chains now to minimize disruption. Read on for a brief overview of how trade tensions affected supply chains last year and a list of ways that you can use to prepare for potential disruption in 2019.

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Stord

MARCH 3, 2019

Walmart’s new, high-tech consolidation center will improve inventory flow. Boeing does not expect Brexit to affect its manufacturing activity, since most materials it transports out of Britain go to the United States (rather than somewhere else in Europe).

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Stord

MARCH 17, 2019

Supply chain problems have hurt Adidas’ sales growth in the first half of 2019, especially in North America. Adidas expects sales to recover in the second half of this year after it reallocates factory capacity to prioritize products for the United States. However, port volume for 2019 is still elevated, up by 1.6%

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

billion in 2019. Fast forward 5 years, and ARC’s 2019 base-year study estimated the market at $11.9 Inventory Management in a High Inflation Environment ; Clint Reiser. Instead, they are likely to carry higher levels of inventory as a lower cost alternative to minimizing disruptions. Well, I am saying it. Clint Reiser.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Between September 2019 and September 2021, the cost of shipping a 40’ container from China to the US West Coast had increased from $1,500 to $20,586. While two-thirds of importers said that sales volumes were equal or higher to those in 2019, a full 46% reported spending over 10% of their operating budget on logistics.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

During this period of changing consumer behavior, retailers experienced an inventory mismatch and inflation reared its ugly head. Consider that there are 70 million more credit card accounts open now than there were in 2019, before the pandemic.” Fortunately, the deep recession that many economists predicted didn’t emerge.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

billion yen, supported by robust shipments to the United States as well as a weaker yen, according to the data released by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Both marine products were supported by growing demand from Japanese restaurants in the United States. percent to 38.7 percent to 20.9 billion yen.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 17, 2023

She explains, “Since there’s not much supply chain managers can do about these circumstances, there is another way to address the uncertainty besides more inventory: Shorten our supply chains.” China’s total investment in the country last year approached $500 million, up from $300 million in 2020 and $200 million in 2019.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2020

What was behind Amazon’s falling profits in 2019, and how did other big online retail players perform? The Highs and Lows of Online Retail in 2019. For example, the seemingly unstoppable Amazon surprised pundits by reporting lower year-on-year profits in the third quarter of 2019. . The necessity to increase inventory levels.

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Stord

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Ocado is currently working on warehouse projects in Europe and the United States (including a contract with Kroger). The monthly volume of retail imports at ports is over 4% higher than at this time last year, as companies try to move inventory into the United States before potential tariff increases in March.

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Stord

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Walmart, for example, has moved some shipments to the United States earlier than normal. California warehouses are struggling to handle increased import volume ( as retailers ship inventory early to avoid added costs from looming tariffs ). Amazon announced long-term plans for net zero carbon shipments in a blog post.

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Logility

OCTOBER 18, 2022

COVID-19 didn’t start it all, but it certainly exacerbated serious supply chain disruptions that emerged during the trade wars in 2018 and 2019. Rethink just-in-time inventory policies: There could be another pandemic or another war. Make over your supply chain to get visibility into potential future disruptions.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 8, 2022

Last year consumers in the United States spent an estimated three billion U.S. From 2019 to 2020, there was an almost 15% increase.”[4] When you boil it down, a product’s shelf life is very short and if you don’t sell it, that inventory will be discounted shrinking already razor thin margins.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2021

AI and machine learning provides more accurate information during the transportation planning process; using IoT to monitor shipments, cargo conditions, and yard management have allowed companies to make quick adjustments when disruptions occur; and mobile digital assistants provide feedback and instant visibility into shipments and inventory.

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C3 Solutions

JULY 30, 2020

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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Jaggaer

JANUARY 28, 2019

As we’ve explored in our last two blog posts, economists are predicting a decline in global economic growth due to policy and trade issues both in the United States and the European Union , bringing an increased risk to supply chains and procurement organizations.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 8, 2019

While demand is likely to continue to increase, we expect the pace of the increase to be slower in 2019. Nothing in the Purchasing Managers’ Index®, Inventory-Sales ratio, or consumer confidence trends would indicate an impending surge in demand. Preparing for air freight in 2019. Trade protectionism remains unknown.

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ShipBob

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

THC and is legal in the United States.* With that being said, a plethora of laws have been put in place that you need to be aware of, both federally and at the state level. Federal CBD laws There are no federal laws in the United States that prohibit the sale of CBD (as long as you make sure your products contain less than 0.3%

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 10, 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. A week after severe winter weather wreaked havoc on holiday air travel across the United States, other major carriers were back up and running. in December 2021.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 2, 2020

The first major polio epidemic in the United States occurred in Vermont in the summer of 1894. The last case of polio in the United States was 1979. The thought of a pandemic killing over 350,000 people globally and over 100,000 in the United States in just three months is mind-numbing. Let’s face it.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 8, 2019

While demand is likely to continue to increase, we expect the pace of the increase to be slower in 2019. Nothing in the Purchasing Managers’ Index®, Inventory-Sales ratio, or consumer confidence trends would indicate an impending surge in demand. Preparing for air freight in 2019. Trade protectionism remains unknown.

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Freightos

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

trillion dollars in 2021 , up 13% from 2019. The cost of importing a 40’ container from China to the United States West Coast grew 1,000% from $1,800 in 2019 to over $20,000 in September 2021 according to our Freightos Baltic Index (FBX). This did not come without its own major COVID-driven supply chain challenges.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 9, 2019

Stuck, the company struggled with customer service levels and high inventory write-offs. The process helped World Kitchen manage inventories through bankruptcy filing in 2002. The financial team calculated the EVA by each stock keeping unit (SKU). (A Welcome to 2019! the organizational dynamics were tough. The result?

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 29, 2022

Just shy of three years ago, athletic and leisure footwear manufacturer New Balance announced plans to build the company’s sixth footwear factory within the United States. This manufacturer had boasted that it is the only major company to make or assemble more millions of pairs of athletic footwear per year in the United States.

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ShipBob

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The Chinese New Year (abbreviated as CNY) in the United States is often nothing more than a blip on the radar. Even if you’ve been through this before, it’s important to note that CNY in 2020 is 11 days earlier than it was in 2019, so you’ll need to get even more ahead of the game. Increase inventory.

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RFgen

JANUARY 16, 2020

The ISM index of manufacturing activity hit its lowest level since the Great Recession in December 2019, indicating industry contraction. 2019 began with a strong promise of growth throughout the manufacturing industry. In the United States, manufacturing accounted for only 11% of the national GDP, its smallest share since 1947.

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EMERGE App

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Inventory costing or valuation is an accounting concept that has a direct impact on your gross profit and thus taxable income. Methods of valuing inventory are simply different cost-flow assumptions about how to allocate your cost of goods available for sale. We’ll start by explaining why inventory costing is important.

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RFgen

JANUARY 16, 2020

The ISM index of manufacturing activity hit its lowest level since the Great Recession in December 2019, indicating industry contraction. 2019 began with a strong promise of growth throughout the manufacturing industry. In the United States, manufacturing accounted for only 11% of the national GDP, its smallest share since 1947.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 9, 2019

Alex Behrens reports, “ DHL Resilience360 recently released Stormy Weather Ahead: A Global Outlook on the 2019 Season to compile information about the impacts that even small storms can have and discuss the short- and long-term implications of these systems on existing supply chains. Seasons are annual events. Footnotes. [1]

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

” He explains, “Like archaeologists digging on a remote hillside, business researchers have unearthed an important segment of the United States economy all but hidden from traditional innovation policy, yet accounting for tens of millions of jobs crucial to America’s ability to produce goods and services.

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Resilinc

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

If there were any doubts about how thoroughly dependent the United States and Canada are on their trucking fleets and cross-border trade, the truckers’ protests of the past three weeks have made it clear: trucks are the lifeblood of North American commerce. and Canada.

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BlueYonder

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Though there has been some change in recent years, most imported goods to the United States originate in China. The total impact so far has affected $250 billion in imported goods, (just under half of the products that come to the United States) affecting individual households by approximately $167 annually.

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Resilinc

JUNE 29, 2021

In the Western United States, drought conditions have made 2021 more fire prone than any year in history—with 28,200 wildfires reported as of June 17, a 30% increase over the same period in 2020, according to the Insurance Information Institute. Wildfire risks are increasing across much of the planet, often linked to droughts.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

in 2019) are expected to produce over $300 per square foot on a gross square foot basis. And based on Placer Lab’s data , the investment looks promising, with monthly 2021 monthly in-store visits up across the board in comparison to 2019: Image source: Placer.ai. Make the Most of What You Have with Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization.

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