Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

When companies want to digitally transform their supply chain capabilities, moving to an integrated business planning process (IBP) is often at the heart of the transformation. GEON Embarks on a Digital Transformation GEON Performance Solutions is embarking on a supply chain transformation.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 2, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. The Fireworks Supply Chain! Shipping container shortage article and permission to publish here provided by Sam White at Argentus. The latest major disruption that has the entire supply chain world buzzing? The massive global shipping squeeze.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

When asked what peak season is, it’s easy to assume the holidays are the only peak shipping season. However, four shipping seasons occur throughout the year and are often regular and expected. That was the case until the ongoing disruptions of the past few years changed the shipping game. Q2: The Produce Shipping Season.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Amazon achieved its fastest-ever global shipping times last year but isn’t resting on its laurels. Multiple members of the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) were the recipients of the funds. Congress established the program in 2021 through the BIL and dedicated $5 billion to the program over a five-year period.

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Ware2Go

JUNE 20, 2023

In this article: Ocean Freight: Key Stats & Industry News Ocean Freight Shipping: What to Watch For In 2023 Freight Shipping From China & Alternatives What Are The Current Ocean Freight Rates? The World Trade Organization estimates 43 billion tons of goods are shipped each year—due in part to the rising trend of eCommerce.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

The US GDP in 2021 grew at an unexpected rate of 5.7% Traditional risk management policy assumes a contraction in growth: the conventional focus is the shutdown and reallocation of supply. A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. Source E2open Shipping Index).

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 7, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Amazon Supply Chain strategies article and permission to publish here provided by Jae Jun. With newer technologies being founded, Amazon continually offers new services and breaks the rules of supply chain management to improve their service, margins, and for sellers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The US GDP in 2021 grew at an unexpected rate of 5.7% Traditional risk management policy assumes a contraction in growth: the conventional focus is the shutdown and reallocation of supply. A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. Source E2open Shipping Index).

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters March 23 rd edition of our COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict News Capsule, we provide updates to ongoing industry supply chain developments and disruptions of concern to our reading audience. American Shipper reported last week that the number of container ships calling on major U.S.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

While we’re happy to leave 2021 in the rearview mirror, many of the same trends will impact the truckload market in 2022. In our white paper, 2022 Logistics and Supply Chain Trends and Outlook , we cover many of the lingering effects of the past two years, and the newest challenges truckload shippers can expect to face in the year ahead.

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AB&R

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Pressure on the global supply chain isn’t likely to let up anytime soon. Labor shortages, port congestion and manufacturing delays are throwing off the supply chain’s delicate balance. Higher demand for products is exacerbating supply chain challenges. What is causing continued supply chain disruption?

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SCMDOJO

MAY 13, 2022

Each year around 700 million TEUs are shipped across the world keeping global trade and businesses running and more than eighty percent of global goods trade volumes are carried by sea, with about a sixth of that volume in shipping containers. Supply Chain KPI Dashboard. Source: project44 Monthly report.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2023

store operations by 9 percent over the past year, slashing hundreds of millions of dollars of goods from their balance sheets and suggesting space is opening up in their jammed supply chains. Target’s inventories at the end of the last quarter were 16 percent lower than the same period a year ago and Walmart cut inventories in its U.S.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2021

However, freight shipping is the one activity that presents significant barriers to overseas-market entry, as you may have discovered if your business is starting to look across international borders for its next step in expansion. Container Shipping Can be Tough for SMEs. Challenge #1: High Costs and Confusing Pricing.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

Since 2021 as the Green Corridor contributor, I’ve focused my roundup on the same basic categories. The number of alternative and dual-fuel propelled container ship orders out numbers the traditional ICE only engines for new ship orders. My 2024 predictions for these modes is that ocean shipping transformation will continue.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Exploring the Automotive Chip Shortage Supply Chain! But with the impacts of the pandemic , and environmental concerns as to sustainability, its time to explore the true condition of the Christmas tree Supply Chain? Supply Issues in the Christmas Tree Supply Chain.

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Turvo

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Automation within the shipping and trucking industry helps empower leadership further and allows for better communication, sharing, networking, and collaboration with trucking influencers and managers throughout the supply chain. Marieke Hemmes | Account Manager and Editor North America for FreshPlaza.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Planes, Cranes, and Barges: How America Is Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos. The former wartime airbase handled a record 1,655 international cargo arrivals in 2021, a 73% jump from 2019, and overall tonnage rose 18%. Share of Global Shipping Vessels Arriving on Time. Share of Global Shipping Vessels Arriving on Time.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Our Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Technology column reflects a number of significant recent announcements that depict an ongoing active cycle of tech developments. Supply Chain Matters will feature more in-depth commentary on this development at in a subsequent update.

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AB&R

APRIL 29, 2022

Pressure on the global supply chain isn’t likely to let up anytime soon. Labor shortages, port congestion and manufacturing delays are throwing off the supply chain’s delicate balance. Higher demand for products is exacerbating supply chain challenges. What is causing continued supply chain disruption?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2023

We have certainly seen more focus on women in supply chain over the last few years, and nearly every conference that I attend has tracks dedicated to women in supply chain. In contrast, the larger Amazon warehouses typically rely on delivery stations closer to customers for the final stage of shipping.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 24, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. CaliBaja is a North American manufacturing powerhouse. Located in Mexico but close to the California border, it serves as a vast hub of industrial jobs, making significant contributions to the production of products that ship all over the world. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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BlueYonder

MAY 14, 2021

The temporary logjam created a domino effect of disruptions, battering an already strained supply chain. Rising demand in North America and Europe led to increased freight moving on the Suez and Pacific routes, which meant more full containers inbound versus outbound, leading to global container shortages.

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Locus

JUNE 3, 2022

What is also real is the impact it has on supply chains. In fact, it will not be a stretch to say that climate change is currently the biggest threat that global supply chains are facing today and is responsible for shortages and disruptions in several industries. First things first: Climate change is real.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 14, 2022

In this regular edition of our featured column, Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , we provide highlights of two noteworthy supply chain management focused technology development efforts which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based multi-industry supply chain readership.

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Locus

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Retailers across North America were looking forward to this year’s back-to-school season with eager anticipation. share of chain retail sales by 2023, up from 30% in 2021. Fuelled by e-commerce, leading carriers are expecting a massive crunch in capacity to meet the overwhelming demand expected in 2021.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

Dave Elias, vice president of supply chain management, and Josh Stauffer, senior director of IT, spoke at ARC Advisory Group’s Supply Chain Forum. They have implemented a broad suite of enterprise and supply chain applications and are still implementing more. HWI Has a Complex Supply Chain.

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Locus

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The year 2021 has proved it once again that Tom McCarthy was right. Rewind to 2021! 2021 may not be a year for the logistics industry to cherish, but it was a year filled with a lot of takeaways. 2021 pushed businesses to take giant strides in their logistics processes and operations. More Focus on Last-Mile Delivery.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 13, 2022

In this special edition of Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech we highlight two significant developments involving supply chain management focused technology involving providers Shopify and Panasonic Corporation. Major Acquisition by Shopify. wide fulfillment centers. billion.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

billion in 2021, up from $90.8 In North America, according to an IHL research report sponsored by Blue Yonder , retail loss due to out-of-stocks increased by a huge 17.7% How Missing Merchandise Hurts Retailers appeared first on Supply Chain Nation. billion from 2020. The group said retailers on average saw a 26.5%

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 3, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights February global manufacturing and supply chain indices and challenges relative to product demand and supply network imbalance levels in the first quarter of 2022. Global Supply Chain Pressures Index. value reported at the end of December 2021.

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Zipline Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2021

According to a Logistics Management survey of industry professionals, “there is a strong sentiment that the 2021 Peak Season will be more active than it was a year ago, with 79% of respondents indicating that will be the case, with 16% contending it will be similar to 2020, and 5% expecting it to be less active.”.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 26, 2022

This week, in conjunction with General Motors reporting of Q2-2022 financial performance, the auto maker disclosed that it had secured strategic supply agreements to support one million electric powered vehicles in North America by 2025. or North America presence. Some Broader Context.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In the race to fill distribution centers and store shelves with inventory for the holidays, some of the world’s largest retailers and ecommerce sellers are jumping ahead of smaller competitors by chartering ships, shifting freight to air, re-rerouting inland shipments, and hiring more staff for distribution centers and other supply chain nodes.

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Turvo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What’s in this article : A crisis that is affecting the world economy – record-high shipping rates. A problem also linked to shipping companies. Record-high shipping rates are affecting the world economy. The global transportation system in 2021 is experiencing a unique and unexpected crisis.

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Freightera

MARCH 1, 2022

Freightera CEO wins award for elegant marketplace solution for businesses, reducing shipping cost and CO2 emissions from freight transportation. The Globe and Mail solicited nominations for the Changemakers award in the fall of 2021. ” About The Globe and Mail . million readers in print and digital every issue. About Freightera.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights an added dimension to our monthly summary of global supply chain activity trending and implications. Global Shipping. The World Container Index , assessed by Drewy Consultants, is a compilation of eight major shipping routes to and from the United States , Europe and Asia.

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