The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 14, 2021

According to the State of the Global Islamic Economy Report 2020-2021 a USD 2.4 This trend is supported by a new international halal supply chain management system standard: OIC/SMIIC 17:2020, which was launched in November 2020 by SMIIC: The Standards and Metrology Institute for Islamic Countries based in Turkey. Developments.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2023

They provide capabilities to coordinate supply chain procurement, planning, fulfillment, or other network wide decision-making capabilities among various supply networks and order fulfillment segments. The ultimate costs in warehousing, inventory carrying costs and other dimensions are still being assessed.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

By integrating AI technology, new platforms are enabling companies to streamline their transportation systems and cut the costs of freight. Warehouse Management Systems. In the same way that it is enhancing TMS systems, AI is also injecting new proficiency into the Warehouse Management System (WMS). Procurement Communications.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A new study by the Center for Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chains (CSLS) at Kühne Logistics University, in cooperation with the European Freight & Logistics Leaders’ Forum, clearly shows that environmental and economic objectives are not in conflict and often well aligned. 2020 has been a pivotal year in many respects.

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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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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

More on Maersk’s transition to an end-to-end provider can be found in this 2020 report. Late 2021 saw Maersk continue to shift towards vertical integrations, with acquisition of Senator, a German freight forwarder for $644 million dollars. While Facebook is looking at virtual reality, Alibaba and Amazon are looking more at freight.

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6 River Systems

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The best 3PLs enable businesses to easily expand into global markets by providing regional expertise (such as applicable laws and regulations in other countries), infrastructure (such as distribution centers) and established global shipping resources (such as air freight and sea freight). Leverage the right tools and technology.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

Above-average holiday shipping seasons in 2020 and 2021 led to an above-average returns rate in the usual Quiet Season. Shippers that do not yet have a plan in place are more likely to find most of their freight moving through the spot market in Q3 and Q4. Q2: The Produce Shipping Season. Q3: The Peak Shipping Season.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Focus on warehouse automation has come full circle since the last big automation movement of the ‘90s, but today with a significantly better set of tools and technological improvements enabling more robust digital transformation and warehouse automation. Brief highlights of logistics investments over the last three decades.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 4, 2023

McKinsey has recently released a report on shippers’ and LSPs’ investments in transportation, warehousing, and planning technologies. 87% of shippers reported maintaining or growing their technology investments since 2020. In transportation, digital freight procurement and asset tracking & data mining are in broad use.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 29, 2021

The detection of the UK variant in September 2020 was a big alert to be in guard, but our system was slow in detecting the mutant variants of concern. Between 27 th December 2020 and March 11 , 2021, Covid cases were around 20,000 per day and it was believed the pattern would continue.

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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%. Toward the second half of 2020, demand for imports began to grow. This, along with container shortages, drove up ocean freight spot rates and caused sporadic export delays.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 21, 2022

Last year’s annual report reflecting on 2020 business logistics costs indicated a level of 7.4 retail sales, but below a 14 percent growth rate reported for 2020. In 2020, this segment’s costs were reported as $118.6 Rising Costs of Warehousing. Warehouse vacancy rates reportedly fell from 5.1 percent in 2020 to 3.7

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Intelligent Audit

JULY 5, 2022

While focusing on revenue quality and minimizing operational costs, an article by Supply Chain Dive noted that the parcel giant may even allow further collaboration between FedEx Express and FedEx Ground which have been historically separate until 2020. German-Based Transportation Company DB Schenker Announces the Acquisition of USA Truck.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Robinson’s own technology and data from the largest network in the freight industry, help our customers stay on top of the trends that influence their supply chains. With these caveats in mind, plotted below are the CES data for employment at general freight, long-distance truckload and LTL firms.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 7, 2023

Noted was that one of the busiest times in freight logistics, the seasonal back-to-school retail stocking period, likely did not materialize. Further reported was that volumes of U.S. seaport activity are down double-digits from 2022 levels, but several percentage points from the volumes experienced in the pre- Covid 2019 period.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 30, 2020

Continuing in our tradition of years past we present here our Top 10 articles for the first half of 2020. Here’s our list of our Top 10 articles of 2020, so far: 10. Featuring Our 10 Best Warehouse Order Fulfillment Articles! Featuring Our 10 Best Warehouse Order Fulfillment Articles! The post Our 2020 Top 10 List!

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 13, 2021

Need for digitization and digital transformation had the mandate and the “BUY IN” long before the pandemic hit us in early 2020 and many organizations were already on this path of transformation. According to IDC’s 2020 Supply Chain Survey – 72.8%

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Jaggaer

APRIL 14, 2020

Define your procurement response strategy. Yet with the autobahns, motorways and highways largely free of traffic apart from freight, goods are generally getting through and we are yet to see long-term shortages of food and other essential items. JAGGAER (@JaggaerPro) April 9, 2020. Georgi Gotev (@GeorgiGotev) March 26, 2020.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 3, 2021

If 2020 was the year of B2C, 2021 could likely be the year of B2B. “The MRO customer is an important pro customer for The Home Depot,” the CEO told analysts in 2020. Maersk is one to keep an eye on as it builds its logistics capabilities beyond its ocean freight transportation services.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

That event was the global COVID-19 pandemic, which erupted during the first half of 2020. It touches many departments, from production, procurement, shipping, accounting, and finance to marketing, warehousing, research and development, and sales. Streamline standards , including in procurement, packaging, and delivery.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 7, 2021

With this latest Gartner Transportation Management System Magic Quadrant, Blue Yonder is the only company recognized a Leader in three Gartner Magic Quadrant reports 3 covering supply chain planning, transportation management and warehouse management. Blue Yonder’s Differentiator: Innovative Strategy and Solutions.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 3, 2018

warehouses) being built across the U.S. … E-commerce users typically need two to three times the amount of warehouse and distribution space that traditional users do.” ” Burnson goes to note that e-commerce is having an impact on air freight hubs, maritime cargo, middlemen, and intermodal operations.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In March 2020, Real Estate Investor/Tax Analyst Carlos Colon (a Philadelphia native, raised in Puerto Rico) decided to bring an idea of his to life; one which was building in his heart for a long period of time. While this is primarily a delivery (via procurement) service , ThankX does not buy products unrelated to its express deliveries.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Blog post originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Argentus a boutique recruitment firm focused on Supply Chain and Procurement. billion by 2020. According to a recent report in Procurement trade publication Spend Matters , these are some of the most booming categories in the burgeoning industry.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 3, 2022

in March, and the lowest level recorded since August 2020. That level of activity is equated to that of February 2020, at the start of the global wide Covid-19 spread that originated from China. For the first time since 2020, survey data related to Germany indicated that new orders and output slipped into contraction values.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 2, 2022

Global consumer product goods provider Nestle in its latest report of quarterly financial performance indicated that despite being able to raise prices for a wide variety of marketed products, higher costs for commodities, freight and energy continue eroding profit margins. Higher costs reportedly have resulted in a 2.8 Total revenues rose 1.9

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

billion in October 2020. Founded in 2000, Germany based Transporeon provides a digital freight platform the supports more than 1,200 shippers, 100 large retailers, and over 120,000 logistics services providers and carriers. Coupa’s stock trended down 7 percent on the news of this acquisition.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 4, 2022

Regarding ocean container freight rates, spot rates are noted as dropping across the board on both Asia-Europe and Asia-US The implication is that if spot rates drop way below contract rates, shippers will likely seek to renegotiate contract rates recently consummated earlier this year. and Europe.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 22, 2022

There is little doubt that retail industry sales and operations teams have been continually challenged these past two plus years, not to mention supply chain management and procurement teams. Products that don’t entice shoppers sit unsold in stores and warehouses, taking up valuable space.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2023

The separate S&P Global PMI® Commodity Price and Supply Indicators index noted that the Global Supply Shortages Index dipped to a 30-month low while The Global Price Pressures Index dropped further in March and at the slowest pace since June 2020. Some transportation services executives now open describe a freight rate recession.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

In Fortune 500 earnings calls for Q3 of 2021, “supply chain” mentions were up 412% from Q3 in 2020. Thanks to container prices rising as much as 600%, money that could be used for advertising went to freight companies instead. higher than 2020. As of 2020, only 12% of semiconductor chips were made in the United States. (

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 29, 2020

The IMO’s (International Maritime Organization) new Sulphur regulations, IMO 2020, will have far-reaching consequences for the global trade community. IMO 2020: The basics, the challenges, and how to lessen its impact on you. What is IMO 2020? Sulphur cap). m/m of Sulphur cap. The decision to make it 0.5% So, this is not sudden.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 4, 2016

When someone selects an item, the display calculates the most efficient path through the warehouse, guides that person to the package, scans it as ‘picked’ into the Warehouse Management System, and immediately directs the picker to the next closest package. But what does Artificial Intelligence mean in the supply chain?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 21, 2020

A significant paradigm shift in procurement and inventory control is an emerging area of focus. The short-term strategy to build resilience, is to focus on three major elements, essential to keep freight moving. . Boost agility in logistics: multimodal solutions to combat increased freight costs and limited capacity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 31, 2022

For logistics teams seeking to manage volatility and deliver more predictable, profitable results, five advanced technologies should be in their toolkits: digital control towers, warehouse task automation, warehouse robotics, dynamic price discovery and digital freight bidding. Warehouse Task Automation.

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Requis

JULY 24, 2020

Since the coronavirus pandemic took hold earlier in 2020, supply chain has become a household word. Insiders joke (quite fairly, as it turns out) about billion-dollar procurement-management-disposition cycles that are managed in spreadsheets. In the procurement space, what I want to be able to assess is risk management.

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