Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 6, 2023

They have pushed through annual general rate increases of more than 30% from 2019 to 2024, and are often nearly lock step on pricing. To fill the rising gaps in shopping malls, many mall owners are converting the empty spaces into fulfillment centers for shipping out orders. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 4, 2024

of the overall returned goods retailers received last year, more than twice the level of bogus returns in 2020.”[2] All kinds of retailers have begun to tweak their policies: Kohl’s, the suburban mecca of affordably priced clothes and housewares, now charges for return shipping, as does REI, the yuppie mecca of camping and hiking gear.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Dealing with the Shipping Container Crisis. Such measures include communicating with suppliers and customers , using demand shaping to overcome inventory shortages, seeking additional suppliers, and building more onshore facilities. higher than 2020.

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Unleashed

JUNE 23, 2021

2021 has been a tumultuous year, marking a transition period from the chaos of 2020 through to the beginning of the post-Covid-19 recovery. Best practice inventory management – and the wider world of supply chain management – has played a big part in business survival through 2021. 10 inventory management for 2022: 1.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 19, 2022

For merchants using FBA, Amazon handles the process of picking, packing, and shipping items. billion in inventory that “if we could just wave a magic wand, we’d make it go away today,” said chief financial officer John David Rainey. Walmart estimates that inventory is still 15 percent above optimal levels. Walmart has about $1.5

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 6, 2024

In 2020, Fisker went public as an asset-light company under a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Shipping new vehicles from Austria to the U.S. Reportedly, only 4,900 vehicles have been delivered to customers, the remaining in finished vehicle inventory and valued at half a billion dollars in tied-up capital.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In a final piece of holiday news, USPS has said will not levy an extra delivery surcharge during the winter peak season, saying the decision makes USPS “the most affordable way to mail and ship this holiday season.” Although port volumes increased in August, demand remains lower as shippers continue to face excess inventory levels.

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 1, 2022

Returns come with plenty of challenges around logistics, inventory, and predicting volatile sales trends. Department of Commerce International Trade Commission , the percentage of retail sales sourced from ecommerce is predicted to increase into 2024–well beyond the lockdowns that caused the initial rise in ecommerce spend.

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RFgen

MAY 5, 2020

Many companies in the industry rely on unsustainable, manual data collection processes, creating a gap in inventory visibility. While commonplace in their use, keeping track of these high value, small electrical components can be an inventory management nightmare. The Problem: Lack of Inventory Visibility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2023

That assessment comes as a result of 10 months of subdued demand, inventory de-stocking, and high interest rates, the New Jersey-based company said in its “The GEP Global Supply Chain Volatility Index.” But a key focus right now for Amazon is using AI to figure out where to place its inventory. billion between 2022 and 2024.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 27, 2024

A day has passed after a container ship lost power and crashed into a support pylon of Baltimore, Maryland’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early morning hours of March 26. Coast Guard authorities are assured that the bridge debris and/or underwater obstacles are sufficiently cleared for cargo ship navigation.

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RFgen

MAY 5, 2020

Many companies in the industry rely on unsustainable, manual data collection processes, creating a gap in inventory visibility. While commonplace in their use, keeping track of these high value, small electrical components can be an inventory management nightmare. The Problem: Lack of Inventory Visibility.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

in 2020 to 25.6 % in 2021, reaching a market size of $553 billion. In the sector, the bullwhip impact is high, the inflationary pressures of crude oil prices immense, the variability from energy outages painful, and inventories relatively low. Focus on right-sizing inventories. This was the biggest escalation since the 31.8%

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 18, 2021

” Inventory Management. Inventory embedded with the proper sensors can be tracked in real-time via the IoT. Supply chain journalist Catherine Metcalf explains, “Businesses can now place IoT sensors with a variety of components to help manage inventory more efficiently. Now, the cobot brings everything to the picker.”

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Stord

MAY 2, 2022

While the rest of the world adopts cloud technologies to help them break down silos and integrate communication, companies continue to use disparate applications and tools for managing orders, evaluating inventory, and shipping goods. In February of 2020, we saw the beginning of a really bad game of global musical chairs.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

more for their services than in January 2020. Inventory is piling up in warehouses. Retail ex auto inventories are an interesting situation. Seasonally adjusted, deflated inventories for retail (excluding automotive inventory) exploded upward in December. since January 2020 based on BLS data released Wednesday.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

When looking at global online sales, Salesforce reports 57% digital growth in 2020, and 16% growth in 2021, with eMarketer data predicting a continued increase through 2025. or the ability to order groceries while waiting at the doctor’s office, MCommerce sales are expected to exceed 400 billion US dollars in 2024. Social Selling.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 12, 2022

For the 12 months ending March 2020 (the beginning of the pandemic), CPI was 1.5%, and PPI’s final demand index was 0.7%. As shippers drew down existing inventories, replenishment became necessary to quickly satisfy consumers’ spending habits. Toward the second half of 2020, demand for imports began to grow.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 22, 2020

between 2019 to 2024, more than doubling in size. These include demand forecasting, predictive pricing strategies, inventory management, logistics and predictive maintenance.” Twenty billion units are expected to be deployed by 2020. That’s why spending on supply chain advanced analytics is on the rise.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 28, 2013

It provides the key warehouse management features needed to quickly deliver ROI, including the tracking and visibility of inbound orders, directed put-away, variety of picking methods, shipping, directed replenishment and inventory control. . percent annually through 2024. The WMS can be deployed in the cloud or on-premise.

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

MARCH 10, 2023

Kiplinger is predicting that “the economy is going to struggle with growth coming in at the weakest in many years outside the sharp downturns of 2020 and 2008-09. at the beginning of 2020 to 60% by the end of 2020, only recovering to 62% as of the most recent measure in November of 2022. Some missed by a mile.

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Locus

AUGUST 2, 2022

Managing delays and delivery exceptions successfully Minimizing risks in shipping and saving money on every delivery Reducing operational shipping expenses and maintaining high profits Maintaining consistency in delivering products on time Cutting down extra costs incurred due to high volume of returns. Benefits of curbside pickups.

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Vinculum

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Statista revealed that from 2014 until 2020, the eCommerce sector had shown an exponential growth rate of 220%. By the time we hit 2024, the eCommerce market on the global level is estimated to touch $6.4 Shipping from the warehouse to customers is another effective way to impact the supply chain with omnichannel experiences.

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Unleashed

JANUARY 28, 2021

billion in revenue in the past year, with an annual growth (2015-2020) of -1.0%. However, in 2020 alone revenues dropped 15.8% – a sign of the times, unfortunately. Sources: IBIS World Coffee Bean Distributors in Australia July 2020. IBIS World Tea and Coffee Manufacturing in Australia November 2020. Revenue: AU$2.3

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 30, 2023

In any typical year, companies around the globe must factor the New Year shutdown into their inventory management plans. That means companies in the industry, like seafood importers, must maintain higher inventory levels inside expensive cold storage facilities for lengthier periods than ever before.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Intelligent Audit CEO Hannah Testani, in a LinkedIn post congratulating her company on its performance, wrote “ I’ve never been more excited about the potential in our industry to truly empower shippers to ship smarter by leveraging clean, normalized, transformative actionable intelligence. ”. UPS Sets High Bar for Peak Season Hiring Goals.

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Unleashed

MAY 19, 2020

billion by 2024, according to Business Wire. Knocked back just 7% in sales volumes during the height of 2020 lockdowns, according to Unleashed Software’s own data, the beer industry overall has shown remarkable resilience – for somewhat obvious reasons – and appears likely to continue its expansion. Stock & Inventory Control.

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Unleashed

JULY 5, 2022

trillion by 2024. Total beverage alcohol volume in the US rose through 2020 – the first year of the pandemic – by 2%, which clocked in as the largest gain for the country for nearly two decades. market will increase threefold from 2020 to 2025. trillion in 2018 to $US1.75 Statista is now forecasting online revenue in the U.S.

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Freightos

MARCH 23, 2023

As volumes and congestion have eased though, Sea Intelligence data shows that reliability is improving (though with about 50% of ships arriving on time, things are still not great compared the 80% pre-pandemic norm) and utilization levels are back to pre-pandemic levels which in turn are driving the decrease in rates.

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Locus Robotics

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In 2020, grocery and retail stores had to rethink how they fulfilled increasing online orders and handled the reduction of in-store shoppers. billion from 2020-2024. . Inventory management. There are lots of benefits of a dark store, but let’s begin with a definition of the term “dark store,” if it’s a new one to you.

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Proxima

AUGUST 3, 2020

2020 has introduced new logistical blueprints to follow and the push to get work done with fewer employees has grown exponentially as social distancing directives continue to influence the nation’s manufacturing. billion by 2024. Growth of automation. However, anything that touches automation comes with a large price tag.

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Vinculum

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

from 2020-2024, as per the global data survey by eMarketer and Statista, resulting in a projected market volume of 6,481 million US dollars by 2024. Check the market for its demand, shipment, cost, inventory storage, and level of competition. So, check for the shipping restrictions for your goods. The Overview.

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Unleashed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

billion in 2020, the industry has a profit margin of 17.7%. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has put a damper on the industry since March 2020, with government-imposed restrictions limiting on-trade sales. from 2015 to 2020 largely due to increasing consumer demand for higher value, premium drinks. from 2020 to 2023.

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