Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Chery, along with brands its own like Exeed and Omoda, almost quadrupled its new car sales to just over 200,000 vehicles in Russia in 2023. Chery plans to make some models in Russia received approval for safety standard compliance, Russian documents dated from February to August and reviewed by Reuters show.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 7, 2025

Compared to peer group performance for 2013-2023, 59% of the Gartner Top 25 score below their peer group on average revenue growth, 41% below inventory turns, and 41% below their sector on invested capital. Conceptual Model of an Outside-in Planning Process Driving Value Which leads me to a discussion on what drives value?

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

In 2023 alone, over $100 billion was invested in EV and battery supply chain M&A deals. For example, the global logistics automation market is expected to grow from $50 billion in 2023 to $120 billion by 2030, according to Allied Market Research. According to Kearney s 2023 Reshoring Index, U.S.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 6, 2025

It’s the first month since April 2023 when truck transportation figures from the BLS have surpassed those of the prior year. It may be hard to believe given bankruptcies and layoffs , but the number of truck transportation jobs reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for May is now higher than it was a year ago.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2025

magazines Best Workplaces 2023, was listed on Forbes 2024 and 2023 lists of Americas Best Startup Employers, was named to the Inc. OneRail was named to the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 twice in a row, was ranked 19th in the FreightTech 25, named for the fourth year in a row to the FreightTech 100, was honored as one of Inc.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 30, 2025

When I returned from ProMat in 2023, I wrote that based on the number of automation solutions I saw at the conference focused on this application, “loading and unloading trailers/containers is apparently a killer app for warehouse robots.”

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Figure A: Beverage Industry Aggregate Industry Trend 2014-2023 Figure B. Chemical Industry Aggregate Trend for the Period of 2014-2023 Figure C. The average company in the pandemic took eight months to align its organization to shifts in demand and rethink supply strategies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

ecommerce spending in November and December will increase 8%-9% over 2023, translating to $295.1-$297.9 With the chaos of the 2024 holiday season descending, the National Retail Federation predicts U.S. billion in sales.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The group turnover for Amul in 2023-24 is Rs 80,000 crores ($10 billion), which is an increase from Rs 72,000 crores ($9 billion) in 2022-23. In collaboration with IBM, Amul has set up an ERP base system to integrate its upstream and downstream partners to improve efficiency, reduce wastage and balance the supply and demand.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 25, 2024

We have archived corporate reporting from Y charts for 1982-2023. Year-over-Year Performance of Lenovo Compared to the B2B Technologist Peer Group The first part of the story is Lenovo drove considerable improvement in margin in a tough period of 2020-2023, but the company is underperforming the market on margin. but declining.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

billion Euros in revenues in fiscal 2023. Building automation is similar to industrial automation, except that instead of controlling a factory, the systems control a building’s entry, power consumption, and lighting. The company has a complex global supply chain. Schneider Electric employs 150,000 people and generated 35.9

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Logility

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

million for the same period last year, as anticipated, partially due to the divestiture of the Transportation group in November, 2023 and client conversions to the cloud. million or 85% and 84% of total revenues for the six-month periods ended October 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. million for the six months ended October 31, 2023.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This is nearly double the amount from a decade ago and it seems to be in line with the trend of Halloween gaining popularity in the last few years with the help of social media. This increase in spending is not due to candy prices rising, the results from the survey show an overall candy prices only increased 0.9%

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 10, 2025

In 2023, Blue Yonder acquired Doddle, an application for returns and reverse logistics. That’s something that’s changed the complete DNA of our company. And imagine going forward, when we take some of that network thinking to other aspects of the business, whether it’s warehouse management or enterprise planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 30, 2025

Ketteq, launched on the Salesforce.com platform in 2023, promises adaptive supply chain management. The shares closed the day down 24.5% from previous close. This is a market blip. Manhattan will rise above this short-term impact. New Players. Will this change the market? I don’t think so. Company revenues were $9.2B

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Looking Back to 2023 Performance in 2023 was not as positive as we might have hoped, and it was a harder year than many had anticipated. A majority of organizations (62 percent) missed their 2023 business goals, and four in five organizations reported falling short of their competitors’ or peers’ performance (Figure 1).

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Talking Logistics

MAY 6, 2024

As reported by Paul Wiseman on February 7th, “For the first time in more than two decades, Mexico [in 2023] surpassed China as the leading source of goods imported by the United States.” This news prompted us to ask members of our Indago supply chain research community — who are all supply chain and logistics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 2, 2024

My last post was December 7th, 2023. January 2023 started my journey fighting the healthcare system to understand my symptoms which lead to surgery in June. In the 2023 analysis, Apple and L’Oreal are the only companies that meet the requirements for these two very different techniques to assess supply chain excellence.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2024

The pace appears to have picked up since spring 2023 with investments in Veo Robotics, computer vision company Flymingo, industrial wireless automation startup CoreTigo, Rightbot and Instock. Cargo theft incidents were up more than 57 percent in 2023 compared with the year prior, according to CargoNet, a Verisk company.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Last year, the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) published a report entitled The State of Supply Chain Sustainability 2023. ” [2] Staff, “ Supply Chain Sustainability Pressure Continues ,” Material Handling & Logistics, 18 October 2023. [3]

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Freightos

DECEMBER 19, 2023

18th, 2023, Source: Marinetraffic Since mid-November multiple ships have been attacked in the Red Sea by Houthi forces in Yemen. Blog " * " indicates required fields Email * Comments This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Live map of Suez Canal and Red Sea, Dec.

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Freightos

JANUARY 15, 2024

And the answer lies in how their 2023 went too. Navigating 2023’s Challenges and Looking Ahead While 2023 saw a general decrease in demand, with 60% witnessing a downturn, most attributed this to high inflation and a shift in consumer preferences.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 6, 2024

As reported by Sky News in September 2023, “The Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) said that analysis of data from over 900 companies employing 6.5 million staff found an average 7.8 absence days per employee over the past year…The report said 76% of respondents had been off work due to stress over the.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 23, 2024

by the end of 2023. The EU was China’s second-largest source of dairy products with at least 36% of the total value of imports in 2023, behind only New Zealand, according to Chinese customs data. My eyes widened when I read “zero emissions” and “100% electric” pasted in red on the side of the delivery truck.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

In March 2023, the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index fell to the lowest level since November 2008. In March 2023, the level of disruption fell to a level seen in November 1998. Unrest in Sudan. While many might clap their hands and exclaim the end of three-years of unprecedented supply chain disruption, I say, “Not so fast.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The Implementation of Autonomous Mobile Robots The company went live with autonomous mobile robots from Locus Robotics in October of 2023. They moved into the distribution center in August 2023 and went live with the warehouse robots in October. The company had not had any automation in its distribution operations before this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

In 2023, Amazon experimented with new logistics strategies and technologies to quickly fulfill and deliver orders, and these changes paid off big. Amazon shipped last-minute Christmas gifts faster in 2023 than in 2022, according to data from analyst firm Momentum Commerce. went out of business in 2023. percent of U.S.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 25, 2025

In October 2023, Estes Express Lines was the target of a cyberattack that caused an outage in its IT infrastructure. Protecting your information and maintaining your trust remain our highest priorities.” EFW said it is investigating the cyberattack and will enhance its security measures.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

billion in 2023 to $13.3 It is not surprising that the TMS market will nearly double in size between 2024 and 2029, increasing from $11.75 billion to $23.07 Similarly, the WMS market is expected to grow from $3.9 billion by 2030, more than tripling in size.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

A 2023 McKinsey study found that companies relying on reactive supply chain management lose up to 10% of annual revenue due to inefficiencies and missed opportunities. When unexpected disruptions occura factory shutdown, a shipping delay, or a supply shortagethese models provide little flexibility.

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