Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2023

billion in 2020. million attempts in 2021 and 6 million in 2020, it said. A few weeks ago I wrote that Walmart and packaging specialist Packsize announced that they will collaborate on a right-sized, on-demand box machine using technology designed for Walmart’s deployment. billion in 2022 and the previous record high of $21.7

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In Malaysia, CEVA Logistics worked closely with L’Oréal , a major producer of luxury and consumer products, to develop a social initiative of providing jobs for the hearing impaired at our warehouse since June 2020. We also look to reduce or eliminate the use of plastic packaging. Photo Credit: United Airlines.

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Kinaxis

APRIL 26, 2017

The online retailer’s most recent patent focuses on drone technology, and would involve drones delivering packages with parachutes. It has leased 20 Boeing 767 aircraft to shuttle goods around the US, and helped ship at least 150 cargo containers from China since October 2016. They’ve been called a competitor in every space.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 4, 2021

million packages are delivered daily to people’s doorsteps — three times as many as in the beginning of the decade, according to the Center of Excellence for Sustainable Urban Freight Systems. The packages they are delivering are going to consumers who pay the taxes that maintain those public streets. They’re not.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 31, 2022

Many retailers were slow to invest in required technologies until 2020 when the COVID pandemic temporarily forced physical stores to close and/or limit hours of operation, e-commerce purchases jumped, and last-mile delivery providers struggled to deliver goods on time to consumers. Costco, for example, acquired Innovel Solutions in 2020.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 27, 2020

Let’s look at some of its real-world uses in 2020 across the public and private sectors to see which prominent players have embraced blockchain, to what end, and what kind of inroads it’s making into the supply chain environment. Shortened release times for cargo offloaded at Shanghai port.

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Cathy Roberson

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

We used to think that every package was the same. So for some shippers, we're no longer delivering their packages, and that's OK with us. UPS introduced its Dynamic ORION (On-Road Integrated Optimization and Navigation) in 2020 which reoptimizes routes in real-time and based on changing conditions. .”

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Cathy Roberson

JANUARY 2, 2023

of total retail sales in Q2 2020 but, as a percentage, has slowly fallen each quarter since to 14.8% domestic package business," FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam told analysts during the company's earnings call in December. UPS UPS Ground's annual daily volumes are also declining, while revenue management increased revenue per package. "In

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Cathy Roberson

OCTOBER 4, 2023

FedEx Dataworks, established in 2020, partnered with Microsoft Azure to build an enterprise data platform to serve as the foundation for FedEx’s decision science and machine learning practice and houses a standard set of models and insights that can be reused to create a flywheel of value for its business and customers.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 1, 2022

Consumers couldn’t get enough of buying goods since the pandemic occurred in 2020, and shippers struggled to keep enough inventory on hand once pre-pandemic inventories were depleted. However, since the 2020 holiday season, retailers have diversified their last-mile carrier mix beyond FedEx and UPS to ensure capacity availability.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 10, 2022

Supply chains have encountered delivery delays, capacity constraints, and volatile rates since the COVID pandemic began in 2020. While there has been some easement, retailers are taking control of parts of their supply chains to control costs and strengthen networks. I wear a number of hats these days.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 9, 2021

The kick-off to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan is just two weeks away, after being postponed last summer due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Roughly the size of a small cooler, Amazon Scout vehicles can transport small packages along sidewalks at walking pace. FedEx now has a mission to be carbon-neutral by 2040.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 23, 2020

I’ll be participating in three upcoming webcasts focused on emerging supply chain and logistics trends and technologies: “Control Tower Capabilities: How to Separate the Truth from the Hype,” E2open Webcast, October 27, 2020 at 2:00 pm ET “The Impact. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (October 23, 2020).

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Cathy Roberson

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Let’s not forget Costco Wholesale, which in 2020 acquired Innovel [renamed Costco Logistics] for big and bulky last-mile deliveries. This is not an alarming percentage, but it’s considerably lower than the 88% of shippers that said similar in 2020. I wear a number of hats these days.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 23, 2020

I’ll be participating in three upcoming webcasts focused on emerging supply chain and logistics trends and technologies: “Control Tower Capabilities: How to Separate the Truth from the Hype,” E2open Webcast, October 27, 2020 at 2:00 pm ET “The Impact. Read more Above the Fold: Supply Chain Logistics News (October 23, 2020).

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 21, 2022

Where's my package? But consumers also want the ability to track their packages in real-time. They also want to know when the package will be delivered at checkout time, not a day or so after the purchase, when the consumer receives an email from FedEx, UPS, or other last-mile providers. I wear a number of hats these days.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It also launched four “sortation centers” which build on the chain’s “stores-as-fulfillment-hub” model to sort and route packages by neighborhood, which streamlines loading and processing for carriers like FedEx and UPS. Dollar Tree, whose 2020 revenues of $12.8 The other retailers are leasing similarly sized vessels.

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 25, 2024

Much of the change in response to FedEx and UPS activities during the pandemic as noted in this Bloomberg story : “Since the pandemic hit in 2020, FedEx’s revenue per package soared 33% as retailers leaned on e-commerce to keep their businesses afloat. I wear a number of hats these days.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Recent years have seen a flourishing interest in the use of drone technology to deliver packages. million drones operating per day in US skies by the year 2020. Environmental Benefits The average truck delivery of a package creates about 1kg of greenhouse gas emissions. The Rise of The Delivery Drone.

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QAD

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The year 2020 was a big year of disruption for people around the world. Supply chains were pushed to their breaking points in 2020 for all manufacturing vertical segments, resulting in: Halted or slowed production by manufacturers in the auto industry. grew by 10 years in 90 days in 2020. Transportation and Distribution.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

… They can also work in conjunction with AI-based intelligent routing systems that coordinate between multiple logistics partners, such as road freight, cargo ships and air freight.” Intelligent automation layers AI on top of RPA and can help prepare a request for quotation package and allow access to a wider set of vendors.”

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Freightos

DECEMBER 16, 2016

While it seemed years away, this week the first “pilot” drone delivery took place, delivering a small package in the UK within 13 minutes of order time. mile for delivering a 5 lb package. to ship a 5 lb package the full distance from Shenzhen to Los Angeles. But drone delivery comes at a price – an estimated $0.22/mile

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Resilinc

JANUARY 3, 2022

Known as Scope 3 GHGs, this includes raw materials extraction and processing to packaging and shipping. Most corporations that seek to voluntarily reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions must dig deep into their supply chains to uncover and pursue opportunities to reduce the indirect GHGs emitted at every link.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Facing Lower-than-Expected Package Volumes, FedEx Raises Rates. Facing a falling net income after lower-than-expected package volumes, FedEx has announced plans to raise rates by 6.9%. Panelist Hannah Testani, Intelligent Audit CEO and freight-auditing technology expert, noted that COVID brought 2030 volumes to 2020.

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Locus

APRIL 7, 2022

According to a report, in 2020, nearly half the households with two or more people purchased goods or services online —the highest in the last ten years in Japan, with most consumer expenditure on travel, mobility and accommodation. This would mean that one-third of the cargo in Japan would go undelivered. trillion Japanese yen.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The state of GRIs has proved to be anything but usual since early 2020. per package for large packages or $250.00 for oversize UPS packages and $350 for oversize FedEx packages. per package based on February 2020 volume for FedEx. per package. GRIs for 2021 and Prospects for 2022.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 9, 2021

Startups are trying to make e-commerce packaging more sustainable. UPS has reinstated money-back delivery guarantees on packages moving under its three next-day air delivery products. UPS suspended its money-back guarantees in March 2020, citing unprecedented market conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. percent to $71.1

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

more for their services than in January 2020. In particular, pay attention to the red 2021 line – which is nowhere near where it was in the past for 2018-2020. For brick-and-mortar sectors, e-commerce as a percentage of each sector’s total sales fell in Q4 2021 from Q4 2020. Inventory is piling up in warehouses.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 11, 2020

.” On the subject of “the green agenda,” she writes, “The rise of the conscious consumer means retailers and manufacturers are in the spotlight when it comes to packaging and single-use plastics. Cargo bikes, drones, last mile robots, and autonomous delivery vans are all being trialed.” Footnotes. [1]

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Intelligent Audit

JULY 29, 2021

The second half of 2020 featured new growth and unprecedented demand in the world’s economy that has yet to slow and will continue to grow as peak season approaches in 2021. Additionally, there is cargo stuck in ports resulting in delays, impacting the ability of retailers to keep inventory in stock and fulfill orders from customers.

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AB&R

AUGUST 13, 2021

In fact, a reputable source told us that the cost of one freight container in 2021 is $10,000 – a 500% increase in price from 2020. Additionally, prices for adhesives, films, paper and packaging have each increased over 20% this year. Some prices have soared to $20,000 per container. Message From Zebra.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Wegmans launches sustainable egg packaging chain-wide. Now, however, Amazon is shipping cargo for outside customers in its latest move to compete with FedEx and UPS. The funding will focus on manufacturers of the inputs used in COVID-19 vaccine production as well as facilities that fill and package vaccine vials.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 17, 2023

According to reporting by Bloomberg , venture capitalists and private equity investors have been funding existing logistics technology providers and start-ups at the rate of $9 billion per quarter since late 2020. Parcel Segment.

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Locus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

. – US Holiday 2020 review and Holiday 2021 Preview, Emarketer Insider Intelligence, Feb 2021. Like the 2020 holiday sales, this year’s peak season sales are also expected to be longer. In 2020, direct-to-consumer (D2C) e-commerce sales in the United States reached 111.5 The Rise of D2C Business Model. billion U.S.

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Ware2Go

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Seventy-three cargo ships await unloading at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Saturday, a record. Shopping for the holidays has driven roughly one fifth of annual retail sales in recent years, according to the National Retail Federation , which said US retail sales totaled more than $787 billion in November and December of 2020.

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Aera Technology

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

It’s estimated that this will easily cost biopharmaceuticals somewhere in the ballpark of a cool $17 billion by 2020. Communication between the many stakeholders involved in the cold supply chain (manufacturers, distributors, retailers, cargo companies, etc.). active versus passive, 24/48/72 hour packaging, etc.).

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2023

Yum Brands – parent company of KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and The Habit Burger Grill – recently announced a new packaging policy prioritizing more sustainable options. In a blog post, Yum noted it is transitioning away from plastics and developing new packaging solutions as part of that policy. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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