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National Logistics Day 2023

Enterra Insights

He writes, “If you are a part of a very large, multinational corporation, there is great likelihood that there is a logistics department, a distribution center, a freight management function, a warehouse team, an inventory management organization, and a planning team. ” Supply Chain Game Changer, 4 June 2021. [7]

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Back to Logistics Tech School, 2022: the Lost Peak Season, the lingering COVID impact and more

Freightos

The low rates that triggered Hanjin’s bankruptcy in 2017 quickly became a thing of the past, as surging demand, congestion, and a litany of global shipping catastrophes pushed ocean freight rates into the stratosphere. While high, the shipping costs typically paled in comparison to the lost sales due to inventory shortages. Signup Now.

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Emerging Supply Chain Trends – A Look at Evolving Finished Vehicle Logistics Amid Market Shifts and Trends

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Apart from rapid technological advances and automakers succumbing to the EV competition by 2023, paying attention to the current market shifts is vital for navigating one of the most interesting and challenging environments of the last century. million cars and by 2023, it has almost reached 26.4 million cars.

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FedEx Benefits from Efficiency Improvements & Surcharge Increases as Volumes Fall

Intelligent Audit

For fiscal Q2 2023 ended Nov. All three divisions—Express, Ground, and Freight—reported year-over-year volume declines. FedEx Freight reported an 8% increase in revenue to $2.4 But for Ground, the upgrades will improve efficiencies and cost savings and further link it to FedEx Freight. “We YoY decline in revenue to $10.86

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The Green Corridor: Catching the Sun Light! – How Logistics is Harnessing the Power of the Sun

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In a NASA comparison , if a large power plant generated 1 billion watts of power in a year, it would take 44 million of these power plants to equal the power that our Earth receives from the sun. He crafted delivery solutions for e-commerce clients and managed supply chains for several chemical and freight forwarding companies.

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Capitalising on Supply Chain Digitisation with Robotic Process Automation – 10 Areas of Opportunities – LogiSYM August 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Gartner estimates that by the end of 2022, 85% of enterprises will have some form of RPA implemented in their business and Forrester calculates the RPA market will exceed a 50% CAGR by 2023, going from roughly $500 million to $2.8 Freight Management. Freight management is driven by time-critical, manual tasks.

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When Will Freight Rates Stop Their Ascent?

Turvo

Reason for the drastic increase in freight prices . Probable events that will lead to a downfall in freight prices. In recent months, businesses and shippers have been plagued with abnormally high freight rates. For comparison, the prices stood at just under $11,000 for a similar container in the last week of July 2021.

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