Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 24, 2022

It’s been three months already since we published our first regular roundup of supply chain and logistics news—doesn’t time fly? How retailers are reevaluating post-pandemic inventory strategies. Digital Twins for Inventory and Supply Planning. Renault’s plans for network redesign and S&OP improvement.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 10, 2024

Often times at Logistics Viewpoints, we like to look to the future and highlight the key trends that we see in a given market, or make predictions about what technologies will emerge as game changers in the new year. As we turn the page on 2022 , I’d like to make five supply chain predictions about what to expect for 2023.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Unexpectedly, he finds himself trapped in a time loop that forces him to relive February 2nd repeatedly. ”[1] However, like weatherman Phil Connors, supply chain professionals aren’t simply living through the loop they are taking the opportunity to improve operations each time old obstacles and challenges arise.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 11, 2022

This year’s hurricane season couldn’t come at a worse time. NOAA’s outlook for the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season, which extends from June 1 to November 30, predicts a 65% chance of an above-normal season, a 25% chance of a near-normal season and a 10% chance of a below-normal season. ” You’ve been warned.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 17, 2023

”[3] They note that a survey conducted last year by Proxima found, “Just over a quarter (26%) of CEOs [indicated] that they had actively looked at onshoring and nearshoring some or all of their supply chains. [In And as supply chains get longer, so do lead times. In many respects, they only have themselves to blame.

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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 Flexport Ocean Timeliness Indicator tracks average ocean container shipping transit times.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

In April of 2022, British American Tobacco, headquartered in the UK, agreed to pay $508 million in fines for selling their products to North Korea. Thomson Reuters purchased the global trade compliance vendor Integration Point in 2018. They offer a solution for corporate tax departments called ONESOURCE.

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ShipBob

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

THC and is legal in the United States.* This form of CBD might be best suited for people who are using CBD for the first time or would like to try CBD without ingesting THC. Despite its prevalence, if you choose to sell CBD products online you’ll face a complicated industry with complex legal and marketing challenges.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Just-in-time Supply Chains have long been the envy of companies and industries of all kinds. The concept of only bringing in inventory on demand is very compelling when inventories are considered costly, wasteful and cash drains. The vaunted Just-in-time operating model had broken. How could this be?

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 22, 2023

Vigen has shown, for example, that there is an annual correlation between the number of people who have drowned by falling into a swimming pool and the number of films in which Nicolas Cage has appeared and that the divorce rate in Maine correlates to the per capita consumption of margarine in the United States.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The state of the trucking market in 2021 is uncertain, filled with risk, and continues to evolve, making logistics management challenging.? Capacity constraints continue to come under microscope as shippers look for a better understanding to the state of the market. Capacity Constraints Continue to Arise. That’s an astonishing $933.30

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 10, 2023

A clear opportunity ripe to be addressed is the shifting of the prior focus of just-in-time driven, end-to-end efficiency flow of materials and resources, to an outside-in flow of physical and digital based information focused on customer or channel focused fulfillment material, resource and support needs. Background.

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QAD

JANUARY 24, 2023

For importers to the United States, the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) trade compliance program has undergone frequent, recent changes. Prioritized review must be requested at the same time that supporting documentation to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is submitted.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Implied is that these vehicles will remain as factory inventory until needed components arrive and customer or dealer orders can then be fulfilled. The company expects to be able to complete these vehicles in the fourth quarter and has indicated ongoing confidence in its overall 2022 adjusted EBIT forecast in the range of $11.5

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 6, 2023

percent in 2022 and 9.7 percent in 2022 and 9.7 The three largest global economies ( Europe , United States , China ) expected to stall. To begin this series will share a excerpts from our first prediction that sets the overall context and perspectives for the coming year. Background. percent on 2021. percent on 2021.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 29, 2022

Just shy of three years ago, athletic and leisure footwear manufacturer New Balance announced plans to build the company’s sixth footwear factory within the United States. In a published Supply Chain Matters at the time , we pointed out that despite knowledge that manufacturing shoes in the U.S. Background.

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Unleashed

MARCH 21, 2023

New research suggests that manufacturers will be able to significantly improve cash flow as they recover from the inventory crisis of 2022. Last year, data from 4,500 manufacturers using Unleashed inventory management software revealed firms were typically spending twice as much on stock as they were before the pandemic.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 19, 2022

The long-term effects could be devastating, including global food shortages and record levels of inflation, both in Europe and the United States. Two top European shippers — Maersk and DSV — have warned that freight costs will likely remain high well into 2022, adding to the global supply chain chaos.

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QAD

JULY 5, 2022

So what are the trends and issues that might just give the supply chain (and Santa) more headaches than the usual winter problems? Like many of the supply chain issues that took time to explode since the pandemic, the economy is now following suit. I always chuckle on the day after the solstice as I think of a fond childhood memory.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 11, 2021

If you love the thrill of last-minute shopping, you might just find empty shelves or products that can’t be delivered till spring. Let’s start with inventory issues. The holidays are a make-or-break for retailers large and small, but this year it will be fraught with product delays, low inventory and higher prices.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The company said it has invested more in inventory planning and partnerships with suppliers so it has enough goods on hand while making sure it can route items to where they’re urgently needed. Customers also have additional time to change orders once they’ve been placed. Who doesn’t remember their first phone?

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ModusLink Corporation

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The value of shipments moving through free trade zones was over $835 billion compared to just $625 billion in 2020. Still, there are significant initial investments from a time and resources perspective that shippers should consider. Various compliance requirements, security protocols, and inventory systems need to remain compliant.

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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 year-over-year. As ports become more congested, lead time variability increases. As I rolled holiday cookies in my hands, I watched TV. As I watched, I shook my head.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Such measures include communicating with suppliers and customers , using demand shaping to overcome inventory shortages, seeking additional suppliers, and building more onshore facilities. Statistics covered in the article include: How the Supply Chain Crisis is Impacting Businesses and Consumers. Covid-19’s Impact on the Supply Chain Crisis.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 7, 2023

Furthermore, the company aims to establish an exclusive charging network across the United States and Canada by the end of 2023. Despite ambitious goals, the company struggled to meet its initial production targets, forcing it to slash deliveries from the planned 50,000 vehicles to just 25,000. billion in financing.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I have been in Intel for a very long time, more than thirty years. Intel’s just a tremendous company — one of the best to work for, and it’s also been fascinating for me to work in the area of trade. So it’d be great for folks just to hear: as you oversee trade, what is the scope of that organization?

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Elementum

AUGUST 31, 2022

I have been in Intel for a very long time, more than thirty years. Intel’s just a tremendous company — one of the best to work for, and it’s also been fascinating for me to work in the area of trade. So it’d be great for folks just to hear: as you oversee trade, what is the scope of that organization?

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ToolsGroup

AUGUST 12, 2022

Using shop-by-store features to check inventory availability before going to make purchases in-store. 2022’s Top Omnichannel Retail Trends. 2022’s Top Omnichannel Retail Trends. Omnichannel is king in 2022. . Your digital and brick-and-mortar sales channels aren’t operating in separate vacuums. .

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

By this stage in the pandemic, most of us have felt the effects of a globally disrupted supply chain and inventory shortages in some way or another. Some beef cuts cost 25% more than they did this time last year, and poultry prices are on the rise as well. We all have that one item that keeps disappearing from our local market.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s not just about the change or the expansion of services any longer, but about how fast and flexible their services can be delivered as the manufacturing and retail industries are reinventing themselves, too. The future of logistics isn’t just about next day/same day delivery, it’s about personalization, options and on-demand.

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Gravity Supply Chain

MAY 20, 2022

Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods by giving customers more visibility and greater confidence to accurately predict delivery times. Within a matter of months, a finely-tuned global system met its match in a virus that quickly spread around the world via now-routine international travel.

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NC State SCRC

JULY 9, 2021

The first half of 2021 brought with it a wave of massive changes, as well as new disruptions that augmented the chaos surrounding the mass vaccinations in the United States. In this blog, I reflect on just a few of the issues we are seeing today, and what they might mean for the remainder of 2021… and beyond.

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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. As ports become more congested, lead time variability increases. As I rolled holiday cookies in my hands, I watched TV. I am worried.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s not just about the change or the expansion of services any longer, but about how fast and flexible their services can be delivered as the manufacturing and retail industries are reinventing themselves, too. The future of logistics isn’t just about next day/same day delivery, it’s about personalization, options and on-demand.

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Logility

APRIL 19, 2022

These shortages have continued into 2022, and recent global developments added another layer of uncertainty to planning for business continuity. . These shortages have continued into 2022, and recent global developments added another layer of uncertainty to planning for business continuity. . The Products in Tight Supply in 2022.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 20, 2023

For the first time since 2020, I was back in New York City for the NRF Big Show. According to a company blog post, Amazon will also now provide sellers with an estimated capacity limit “for the following two months to help sellers plan over a longer time horizon.” I will cover this in an article next week.

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Unleashed

MAY 9, 2023

However, this only served to increase the ambiguity surrounding the soon-to-be-exterminated inventory module as inconsistent answers surfaced. Key takeaways from the 2023 QuickBooks Commerce Sunset In 2022, Intuit discontinued QuickBooks Commerce (formerly TradeGecko) for users outside the US. But wait, what happened to TradeGecko?

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