Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2022

e-commerce sales increased again in 2021, up 14% year-over-year (YoY), and by more than 50% compared to 2019. Business intelligence tools can use this visibility and other information to help shippers act more strategically by procuring the most efficient, cost-effective carrier services. According to Digital Commerce 360 , U.S.

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EazyStock

JANUARY 18, 2019

EazyStock has complied a new list of the top 2019 Supply Chain events that you can’t afford to miss. Live Americas 2019 by SCM World. Feb 3-7, 2019. 2019 IWLA Convention & Expo. Mar 10-12, 2019. The 2019 IWLA Convention & Expo promises to offer attendees a unique experience and valuable connections.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 10, 2022

in turn, is a boutique procurement consultancy. By the end of 2019, Autoliv realized that there were new technologies and supply chain risk management providers that could promote a competitive advantage in their risk management program. This intermediate step is more related to Procurement and supply chain transparency.

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ShipBob

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Fast fulfillment starts with proper warehouse management , which determines how efficiently you receive, track, and store inventory in a way that gets customers orders out the door faster. But how do you know if a warehouse is performing well? In this article, learn how to track warehouse performance by monitoring the right KPIs.

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Veridian Solutions

MARCH 20, 2019

ProMat 2019 is set to take place April 8-11, 2019 at McCormick Place, Chicago. Four Keynote Presentations at ProMat 2019. Prest and Scott Sopher will offer a preview of the MIH 2019 Annual Industry Report. Also, ProMat 2019 has published an online, searchable list of exhibitors too. On Wednesday, George W.

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Oracle SCM

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Starting today, leaders of finance, operations, supply chain, human resources, marketing, and IT from around the globe are coming together at Oracle OpenWorld 2019. Supply chain organizations have been on a long journey to improve customer fulfillment and collaboration, especially in logistics functions such as transportation and warehousing.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 15, 2021

Recently in 2019, the DBS Marina Regatta was held at the marina bay front. It is time to give serious consideration towards adopting “Sustainable Procurement” policies to prepare for eco-friendly legislation and, the demands of both society and customers. We must continue to inspire and promote sustainability.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The gap between logistics and procurement; and logistics and customer service increases process latency. A stuffed warehouse is inefficient, and most companies have the wrong inventories.). Consumer spending remains above 2019 levels. The gaps are large and growing as organizations become more reactive. The issue is not revenue.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 17, 2020

Macro events like the Coronavirus crisis trigger demand volatility that affects every link in your global supply chain—from the raw materials you procure to setting safety stock levels to planning logistics and promotions. 24 June 2019 – ID G00711287. Gartner: Winning in the Turns: Scenario Planning for Economic Uncertainty.

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AFFLINK

MAY 17, 2019

How will these supply chain trends shape 2019? Unless stores want to maintain a constant inventory of all of their available products, they need technology and better warehouse management. Intelligent inventory management is able to predict what customers want on demand to reduce the amount of unnecessary warehouse inventory.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 7, 2023

While 209,000 workers were added in June, 14,000 freight and parcel carriers were cut and 6,900 warehousing and storage jobs were lost. In the past we would expect to see transportation and warehousing ramping up hiring in late summer ahead of peak season. ” warehouse workers in June of 2022. There were 1.96

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2022

This past Monday marked the first normal Boston Marathon since 2019, as the 2020 marathon was canceled due to the Covid pandemic, and the 2021 marathon was shifted to October with a smaller field. Of these 37 projects, 23 are in the US, which brings Amazon’s total clean energy procurement in the US from 7.2 And what a race it was.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

When companies reward OEE in manufacturing and POV in procurement, companies will systemically make the wrong stuff. Ironically, the organization efficiently produces goods that will only sit in the warehouse. Figures 6 & 7: Organizational Alignment in 2013 and at the Start of the Pandemic in 2019.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 7, 2023

The February 2023 GSPI dropped to a negative value for the first time since August 2019, in essence signaling a return to normal pressures and now below pre-pandemic levels. A further significant change noted was Warehousing Capacity moving back into expansion levels by 10.2 The chairperson of the U.S.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

September 26, 2019) A new study by ToolsGroup, a global leader in supply chain planning software, and Spinnaker, a supply chain services company, has found that only 7% of companies are reaping the benefits of digital transformation of supply chain planning. BOSTON, Mass. and HOUSTON, Tex.

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Requis

MARCH 10, 2020

With an uptick in media reports on environmental crises like the Australian bush fires of 2019, there has been a renewed sense of urgency on climate change issues. – UN report: Global Resources Outlook 2019. Based on a number of sources, we estimate that the Global 2000 spends around $12T annually on procurement of new assets.

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EC Sourcing Group

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Agreed to build a small warehouse next to the producer’s facility to streamline the supply chain. The last point demonstrates the benefit of hiring people that understand procurement and what can be negotiated. Most people in procurement dislike change. Ask better questions, make changes, and 2019 will be your best year ever.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Four fundamental practices: Based on (Ali Esfahbodi, 2016) research, Chinese and Iranian governments have focused their fight for SSCM based on four fundamental practices: sustainable procurement, sustainable production along with sustainable distribution , and reverse logistics. Do you need help figuring out how to become more Sustainable?

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Stord

JULY 7, 2019

Monday, July 8, 2019 Meet Jamil, our first operations intern, and learn why he chose STORD and how his work here will leave a lasting impact. Helping to compile a database of warehouses to speed up the procurement process with Network Services. Why did you choose to intern at STORD?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

They looked at customer relationship management, finance, order quoting, warehouse management and planning applications before making their decision. They went live in early 2019. Order promising, based on an accurate bill of materials, allows procurement of the necessary raw materials to be kicked off automatically.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

It can help optimize transportation routes, warehousing, and stock management and handle other specialized but mundane tasks. Their opinion in 2019 was that 60% technology and 40% human expertise provided the optimum balance. In short, AI can increase speed and accuracy in number crunching, data handling, and supplier vetting.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 30, 2022

” (The use of the term “basics” is usually code for the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to improve order-to-cash and procure-to-pay.). The shifts in growth from 2019-2021 are dramatic. The problem is that warehouses are full. The technique defined by Taiichi Ohno is to ask “Why?”

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Jennifer Sweeney reports, “The number of Generation X shoppers buying groceries online has grown considerably from 29% in 2018 to 40% in 2019, according to FMI’s new U.S. 3] Jennifer Sweeney, “ Gen X shifts to grocery shopping online ,” Grocery Dive , 19 June 2019. [4] ” Barron’s , 5 February 2019.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 2, 2019

He was hired as a purchasing agent and was directed to obtain some procurement training at a local certificate mill.[1] ” He continues: “This would include the number of site locations, transportation and alternative modes, warehouse design, route optimization, and business processes. ” IndustryWeek , 31 May 2019. [5]

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 8, 2019

They need a general understanding of everything from procurement of raw materials to customer service. How can resources be procured at the best price? How are warehousing practices changing? 2] Martin Verwijmeren, “ Supply Chain Excellence Is a Journey, Not a Destination ,” Manufacturing.net , 13 February 2019. [3]

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech first cited Convoy in November 2019 when the company raised $400 million in a Series D funding round that valued the digital brokerage firm at $2.7 At the time, total capital raised was in excess of $669 million.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 9, 2022

Bloomberg had reported that the sudden departure had signaled that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is seeking changes in the consumer retail division, which was admittedly overbuilt with excess warehouse capacity in 2021. The company’s valuation was pegged at $8 billion. Flexport more than doubled total revenue from 2020 to 2021, to $3.2

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Bristlecone

OCTOBER 21, 2019

At LogiPharma 2019 in Philadelphia, Deepak Ghodke, Vice President, Bristlecone Labs, spoke about how it is, therefore, not at all surprising that the increase in AI adoption has also extended to enterprises in recent years. The scenario has shifted in 2019, with that number leaping up to 37% – a 270% increase. We use AI every day.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

My answer to this question for shippers procuring long-distance (outside of a given metropolitan area) dry van transportation, for both truckload and less than truckload (LTL), is that approximately 25,000 truck drivers are needed. How many more truck drivers are needed to balance demand for truck transportation with the supply of capacity?

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 7, 2023

seaport activity are down double-digits from 2022 levels, but several percentage points from the volumes experienced in the pre- Covid 2019 period. Further reported was that volumes of U.S.

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Veridian Solutions

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Meanwhile, the industry still suffers from a warehouse labor shortage. Due to the need to move warehouses further from urban areas, warehouse workers become even more scarce. Increased e-commerce growth will undoubtedly push activity levels for 2019 higher than in 2018. The warehouse is the virtual store.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 8, 2022

that we have not seen since April of 2019. Warehousing and Inventory metrics continue to buoy the logistics sector. GDP in the second quarter), and warehouses continue to struggle to hold and manage the volume.”. Inventory Levels remain high (and are responsible for dragging down U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 21, 2022

percent over 2019. Rising Costs of Warehousing. As a result of businesses rethinking of both their lean operations as well as their multi-echelon inventory management and supply chain resilience strategies, the report indicates that needs for warehouse space boomed in 2021. Warehouse vacancy rates reportedly fell from 5.1

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Shipsy

JANUARY 28, 2021

SCM is the management of the flow of goods or services from source to destination by following activities like demand planning, raw material procurement, production, inventory management, order management, movement and storage, and transportation and logistics. dollars in 2019. Improve inventory and warehouse management.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

As we see from Deloitte’s CPO Survey in 2018, AI is only fully deployed in 2% of procurement organizations and is far from making any real impact at scale within the digital ecosystems procurement teams are so eagerly trying to build. That’s a whole 25% higher than Donald Trump’s disapproval rate when it reached its peak.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 6, 2020

A New York Times article from August 2019 highlights how much artificial intelligence (AI) is indebted to humans. By using AI and ML, companies can better model and predict demand and fine tune their inventory from procurement to transport to warehouse to routing supplies to locations ahead of demand.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Kristie Syndikus, VP Procurement at Maple Leaf Foods! Logistics Managers, Manufacturing Directors and other Supply Chain leaders often rose from the shop floor, from front-line warehousing and transportation positions. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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