Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 2, 2023

manufacturers re-evaluating their reliance on China. manufacturers re-evaluating their reliance on China. That prospect became more conceivable, they said, after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine prompted companies to sever ties with Russia, sometimes taking huge write-downs. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 28, 2024

The company disclosed the total of single-use plastic across global operations for the first time in 2022 after investors sought more details on plans to reduce waste. The company is selling Coyote for $775 million less than the purchase price. By the end of September, FedEx will no longer be the primary air cargo provider for the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 26, 2024

-based carrier’s role in Mexico as nearshoring manufacturing trends drive more cross-border trade. Global supply chains are shifting, Mexico’s role in global trade is growing, and Mexican small and medium enterprises and manufacturing sectors are looking for reliable access to the U.S.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Breakbulk Americas , is the region’s largest trade event for the project cargo and breakbulk industry. Ratzenberger has become Hollywood’s most outspoken advocate for manufacturing, skilled labor and the companies that are the foundation of our great country. Breakbulk Americas 2022 Event Profile. About Breakbulk Americas.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

The Importance of Supply Chain Sustainability for 2022 and Beyond. While it’s undeniably important to source products responsibly and produce recyclable or reusable products, companies also need to focus on making the transportation and distribution of products more sustainable. Ensure Your Materials Are Ethically Sourced.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The countdown is officially on for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic followed by supply chain disruptions around the world has sparked a resurgence of companies bringing sourcing and manufacturing back to the United States or closer to U.S. shift to electric heavy-duty vehicles.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Costco has reintroduced purchase limits. US ports see shipping logjams extending through mid-2022. Now, however, Amazon is shipping cargo for outside customers in its latest move to compete with FedEx and UPS. ” Costco members have been complaining on Twitter about product shortages and purchase limits for several weeks.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

DECEMBER 21, 2021

came from trucks carrying cargo. Subnational governments like Québec in Canada and Telengana in India as well as manufacturers and fleets like DHL, Heineken and Scania are endorsing the MOU and declared that they will align with the decarbonization effort. Most of this, 45.1 Amazon, A.P.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Image source: Bloomberg. Labor shortages , impeding the ability to get cargo unloaded, loaded, or moved. Image source: American Journal of Transportation. Take the automotive industry as a classic example : silicon chips for the onboard computers of virtually all global manufacturers come from a handful of suppliers.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 21, 2025

The top five disruptions for 2024 included: Factory Fires (for the sixth consecutive year) Labor Disruptions Business Sale Leadership Transition Mergers & Acquisitions Some good news shared was that factory fires are reportedly down 20 percent from the previous year and have declined 36 percent from the record high that occurred in 2022.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

When the ball drops on Times Square to welcome in 2022, the employees at the Port of Long Beach will celebrate moving 9 M TEUs in imports: a 26% increase in year-over-year volume. Returning containers is an ongoing issue resulting in some manufacturers investigating a return to break-bulk shipping (container free).

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Exiger Perspectives

JANUARY 13, 2025

Californias role as a vital nexus for transportation, technology, and industrial machinery places manufacturing supply chains at significant risk from the ongoing wildfires. Source: Cal Fire) A Red Flag Warning zone, represented in pink, highlights areas where critical fire weather conditions are expected.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MAY 19, 2022

With supply chain disruptions, low capacity, and skyrocketing fuel costs, manufacturers and shippers are facing monumental hurdles. Fortunately, strategic planning can help you deliver your land cargo on-time , despite the abundant labor shortages. million in March 2022. Low Land Cargo Capacity. Optimize Routes.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 22, 2022

Today about 90% of non-bulk cargo worldwide is transported by a container. Flagship, a European innovation project, will deploy the world’s first commercial cargo transport ship fitted with hydrogen fuel cells. LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – March 2022. Bunker fuel: CO2, black carbon and sulphur.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2023

billion in 2022 and the previous record high of $21.7 Spending is growing across several categories, and the top Easter items consumers say they are planning to purchase include candy ($3.3 billion in 2020. billion), gifts ($3.8 billion) and food ($7.3 New drivers will have the chance to sit behind the wheel of a driving simulator.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Take Conner, the manufacturer of FORT, a magnetic pillow fort. The cost to ship a similar container from key manufacturing centers in China to Amazon FBA centers in the US reached nearly $26,000. By the time they peaked in June 2022, they were over 30% higher than pre-COVID. What Goes Up, Must Come Down.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In this 2022 guide to freeports: What is a freeport? They especially encourage manufacturing and design enterprises that import, process and then re-export goods. For clarity, here’s a quick definition of each term: A free trade zone – or free zone as it is also known – can refer to specific-purpose manufacturing facilities.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 16, 2022

To address this challenge, Switzerland is developing an autonomous underground cargo system. Blain notes, “[The] first 10-stop, 70-km (43-mile) series of underground tunnels [are] scheduled to begin taking cargo in 2031.” ” SupplyChainBrain, 6 July 2022. [6] ” Executives at Walmart agree. What’s Next?

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 16, 2022

To address this challenge, Switzerland is developing an autonomous underground cargo system. Blain notes, “[The] first 10-stop, 70-km (43-mile) series of underground tunnels [are] scheduled to begin taking cargo in 2031.” ” SupplyChainBrain, 6 July 2022. [6] ” Executives at Walmart agree. What’s Next?

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 25, 2022

Supply challenges arising from the war will hit many industries, with electronics being a prime example, since Russia and Ukraine are both sources of materials such as palladium and neon , vital for the manufacture of semiconductors. Grain From Ukraine: Will it Start Moving at Last? Agreement Signed, But Can it Hold?

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Resilinc

APRIL 30, 2024

From 2022 to 2023, extreme weather events grew 4.5%—a a sharp decline in growth compared to 36% from 2021 to 2022. Learn more about the most significant extreme weather and climate-related risks procurement professionals should pay attention to in 2024: How Will Climate Change Impact Supply Chains in 2024?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 16, 2023

Halal risk management practices of most companies are passive, meaning it is limited to the compliance of suppliers and their own (manufacturing) operations based on the requirements of the halal certification body and their halal standard(s). On the other hand, halal risks in the entire supply chain are not on their radar screens.

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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. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P. Global Wide Production Activity. in January.

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American Global Logistics

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The new model being developed in 2022 is customer-centric and strategic in outlook and planning. We’ll look back to events in 2022 that show this transition and transformation in the making. We’ll examine the remaining five next week in our final post of 2022. #1 Cargo planes could not fly out of or into Russia or Ukraine.

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Gravity Supply Chain

JANUARY 28, 2022

Gravity’s platform delivers capabilities across its three key verticals: Source, Order and Deliver. This product suite encompasses the end-to-end process from sourcing products and manufacturers; to placing orders through to delivery into your destination. Keep a lookout for the first reveal (set for early Feb 2022)!

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 17, 2023

It’s no secret that many consumers now consider the sustainability of a product before purchasing, much like they consider price or quality. When you think of sustainability, you might think of CPG brands practicing ethical sourcing or using recyclable packaging. At the end of 2022, Tesla delivered its first semis to PepsiCo.

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Locus

JUNE 3, 2022

billion metric tons—the emissions have rebounded in 2021 and 2022. Source: Statista.com. The latter was so severe that cargo ships had to run at half their usual capacity. Planning : Processes are designed to reduce emissions and meet demand with ethical sourcing. Ethical sourcing of goods. A slow-moving crisis.

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Freightos

MAY 31, 2022

I can walk into a local shop and purchase products from all around the globe. This isn’t just about consumerism; it’s inspiring to think that in purchasing an imported product, we are, in a tiny way, helping provide employment for people across our planet, often in developing countries. I started Freightos a decade ago, in 2012.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 12, 2022

These incidents will curtail production in a manufacturing facility or impede delivery through your logistics channels. And manufacturing managers may be angry because their lines are stopped. Dual sourcing can split demand amongst multiple suppliers resulting in higher unit pricing and higher logistics costs.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

When buying a pallet, you also want to make sure that the pallet is certified and has a manufacturer’s seal. If the pallet has been treated for woodworm, you can use a marker to check for the manufacturer’s seal. A pallet is a large flat wooden box that is used to stack and transport cargo. Pallet is Certified.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

In a prior published commentary, we provided highlights of March and Q1-2022 global production indices along with their implications. We now add highlights of March and Q1-2022 key global transportation and logistics indices. The average LMI index over the first quarter of 2022 was reported as 74.5, US Logistics Index.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 14, 2022

Included in this June 14, 2022 edition are updates featuring the following providers: ToolsGroup and Onera. San Francisco -based Onera provides retail technology that connects inventory across siloed systems and transforms them into a single, real-time source of inventory status. GreyOrange. Freightos Limited. Oracle and Cerner.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 21, 2022

A global chemical manufacturer recently had to replace ships that transported bulk materials to ports. This chemical manufacturer is converting its entire distribution system to containers. Whether you’re a direct-to-consumer manufacturer or a direct-to-consumer brand, logistics plays a crucial role in a company’s supply chain.

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AB&R

JANUARY 25, 2022

As we enter 2022, supply chain constraints continue to drive up prices of goods everywhere. Most recently, cargo rates and raw materials prices are climbing, forcing barcode and RFID manufacturers to increase prices on their products. 28, 2022, prices on most of Zebra’s hardware and parts will increase 4% to 7%.

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New Horizon Supply Chain Blog

AUGUST 1, 2022

Supply planners routinely plan purchasing, manufacturing, and outbound shipments based on detailed parameters relating to inventory levels, purchasing lead times, and manufacturing capacity. Source: Data from the Federal Reserve Board of St. Costs have increased about 60% since before the pandemic.

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Intelligent Audit

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Despite carrier hopes of volume normalization as the market contracts in 2023, FreightWaves warns, “ 2023 is likely to be another year of sub-replacement level builds due to parts and components shortages as well as Europe’s struggles with sourcing energy to power vendor manufacturing site. ”.

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Intelligent Audit

JUNE 30, 2022

But in the timeframe between 2020 to 2022, a volatile supply chain market showed the weakness in outdated, legacy supply chain execution built on rigid technology or lacking any accurate data that can improve overall decision-making. Between 1990 and 2020, the volume of cargo transported by ships more than doubled, from four to nearly 10.7

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