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With New Year Underway, Key Players Look Back On 2022

Intelligent Audit

With 2022 now in the past, key players in the transportation industry are reflecting on the wins, losses, and toss-ups of 2022. For UPS , the end-of-year peak season shipping boom gave them a chance to strut their stuff, while for FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam, 2022 held challenge after challenge. 24, UPS delivered 97.5%

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This Year’s Shifts in Retail Consumer Demand May Not Have Been That Sudden

Supply Chain Matters

Thus, at the height of the prior supplier and global transport disruptions that impacted Asian based and other home goods suppliers, HomeGoods inventory buying orders were constantly late, resulting in little on-shelf or online channel availability when demand levels were high. Bob Ferrari. All rights reserved. .

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New Year, New Horizons: Transportation Industry Gets Ready to Take On 2023

Intelligent Audit

As the transportation industry waves goodbye (and good riddance) to 2022, innovative logistics professionals are already working hard to make 2023 a banner year for the global transportation industry. Cloud-Based Business Intelligence and Analytics. Streamlined Finance and Accounting Tools.

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Retail Sales and Operations Teams Need to Up Their Game in Inventory Management Agility and Responsiveness

Supply Chain Matters

Regarding outlook for the remainder of 2022, the Walmart forecasted operating income to decease in a range of 11 percent to 13 percent for the full year. That was in addition to supplier production or inland inter-modal transportation delays. percent due to higher discounting and the selling of more grocery items at lower margins.

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Supply Chain Matters Most Read Blogs in 2021- Part Two

Supply Chain Matters

Highlights included highlights of the project44 acquisition of Ocean Insights , the planned IPO of autonomous trucking tech firm TuSimple , the $150 million added funding round of Locus Robotics , and the coming together of two supply chain risk assessment firms Resilience360 and Risk Pulse under the rebranded name of Everstream Analytics.

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Supply Chain Resilience: What is it and how do you boost it?

Unleashed

Other recent changes the company has made include early ordering for key ingredients to circumvent disruptions in the global transport system. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and supply chain disruptions The crisis has been exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

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Logistics Imperatives to Manage Uncertainty and Disruptions in 2022: Part 2

BlueYonder

This is Part 2 of a multi-part series addressing logistics imperatives necessary to manage uncertainly and disruptions heading into 2022. This dramatically cuts down on the physical and analytical demands placed on supply chain professionals every day. . You can find Part 1 here.