Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

ecommerce spending in November and December will increase 8%-9% over 2023, translating to $295.1-$297.9 This option maximizes delivery density, cutting transportation costs through reduced mileage and minimizing fuel usage and emissions to reinforce ESG goals. billion in sales.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Three months into 2025, we have seen a barrage of on-again, off-again tariffs that have supply chain and logistics teams reeling, as they must rethink everything from next weeks shipping route to their foundational network models. billion in 2023 to $13.3 The Ukraine-Russia conflict is ongoing. billion to $23.07

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 30, 2025

Ketteq, launched on the Salesforce.com platform in 2023, promises adaptive supply chain management. Unless changes occur, the Company will miss the market for the inflection point for building holistic modeling of ship through (the channel) modeling. The shares closed the day down 24.5% from previous close. This is a market blip.

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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.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 13, 2025

Route planning and optimization One of the main aspects of cargo transportation management is route planning and optimization. They take into account factors such as distance, transportation cost, delivery time, and others. Accounting and control of expenses Companies must carefully control their shipping costs.

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Freight Waves

JUNE 24, 2025

New York-based Interwoven Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in technologies such as robotics and AI to transform the healthcare, manufacturing, logistics and transportation sectors. is experiencing expanding growth, projected to increase from $3 billion in 2023 to $36 billion by 2028, according to MarketsandMarkets.

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TransAudit

MARCH 25, 2025

Industries such as semiconductors, electric vehicle (EV) batteries, and transportation equipment are at the forefront of reshoring efforts , leading to a fundamental shift in freight demand patterns. Aerospace and transportation equipment companies are investing in Arizona and New Mexico. Midwest U.S. Southwest U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This latest disruption comes after a July 2023 13-day labor strike that impacted these same facilities. That resulted in a backup of key materials that impacted transport and logistics networks for several subsequent months.

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 17, 2025

Consumers have embraced e-commerce for price comparisons, ease of purchase anytime and anywhere, and for those participating in subscription services such as Amazon Prime, free shipping, and other benefits. However, transportation and logistics costs can be prohibitive. All cargo must be shipped from Yantian, Shanghai, or Ningbo ports.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 28, 2025

What Is Supply Chain Management The goal of supply chain management (SCM) is to streamline the process through which raw materials are acquired, processed, stored, transported, and ultimately supplied to consumers. Logistics companies use blockchain to monitor the whereabouts of items as they are transported.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 17, 2025

He sees a near future in which there are multiple agents, each with their own realm of responsibility, such as shipping, pricing and forecasting. Koganti said this is the fastest-growing use of AI in supply chain, especially when it comes to forecasting, procurement and fulfillment.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

As supply chains become more complex and globalized, many companies find it beneficial to rely on third-party logistics (3PL) providers to handle some or all of their transportation, warehousing, distribution, and fulfillment needs. This expertise is invaluable for businesses that need their goods transported efficiently and safely.

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BlueYonder

MARCH 11, 2025

The pandemic showed vulnerabilities in the supply chain, which were amplified by subsequent eventssuch as the Red Sea tensions, which caused cargo traffic to fall from around 5000 containers per day in November to 2000 in December 2023. The result was a shift and acceleration towards nearshoring, reshoring, and source diversification.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 16, 2024

billion for this same period during the 2023 period. As Supply Chain Matters highlighted in January 2024 , the initial 2023 holiday sales number was reported as $964.4 percent growth in dollar sales would normally translate to increased shipping volumes, the rate of U.S. Noted was that spending is expected to increase between 2.5

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Freight Waves

JUNE 11, 2025

SONAR: Outbound Domestic Rail Container Volume Index for 2025 (blue shaded area), 2024 (green line) and 2023 (pink line). Hunt Transport Services ( NASDAQ: JBHT ) said the headlines have been exaggerated and that intermodal demand has been relatively stable. Intermodal trailers (trailer-on-flatcar, or TOFC) are excluded.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Background The prior boom in online retail fulfilment was financially beneficial to parcel logistics and transportation services providers including FedEx and UPS. This graph peaks in Q1-2023 with over 30 percent in cumulative per package rate hikes. While a benefit for smaller businesses, a broader implication will continue to unfold.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Shippers need more labor to keep their transportation and distribution activities moving, but employees are becoming harder to find and more expensive to retain. It’s no surprise that the global market for logistics outsourcing is expected to increase from $1.043 trillion in 2023 to $1.642 trillion by 2032.

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Exiger Perspectives

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Transportation of Persian Gulf oil could be interrupted: It is well known that the Strait of Hormuz is a vital sea lane for oil produced in the Persian Gulf — a commodity that continues to power much of the global economy. the transfer of goods between ships). Roughly 17,000 of these shipments were headed to the U.S.,

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 21, 2025

In 2023 , a worker strike among delivery and logistics workers at parcel carrier UPS was characterized by The Wall Street Journal as being “ the largest collective bargaining agreement involving a private employer in North America.” The labor strike involving production workers at Boeings production facilities across U.S.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 10, 2025

In fact, the 2023 study found that the majority (39%) of consumers felt that convenience and environmental impact were on equal footing with respect to influencing their delivery decisions. And the customer benefits by decreasing their environmental footprint and keeping their shipping costs in check.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 9, 2025

Wing and Walmart first launched drone deliveries in Dallas-Fort Worth in fall 2023, with an average fulfillment time under 19 minutes, according to a June 5 release from Wing. SupplyChainBrain Container Ship Explodes, Catches Fire Off Coast of India More from this author Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 9, 2025

This post is an introduction to the basics of the industry that covers a range of subjects including what packaging materials are made from, what containers they can be packaged into, and how to avoid damaging your product during shipping. This includes preventing any damage from being done to the product or to the box that it is shipped in.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Heading into this year, the global shipping disruptions that impacted transit times related to having to avoid the Suez Canal because of Red Sea terrorist attacks, or reduced water levels in the Panama Canal requiring reduced transit slots were generally mitigated. percentage points above the average of Q4-2023.

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 31, 2025

The cost includes, but is not necessarily limited to, paying the vendors/manufacturers for the inventory and transportation and warehousing costs prior to selling the goods. DHL, FedEx and UPS Parcel carriers play a major role in handling and transporting returns.

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Supply Chain Digest

JUNE 19, 2025

That was the decline in Scope 1 CO2 emissions by FedEx in its fiscal year 2024 versus 2023. With a forecast that prices, as measured by the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) index are expected to rise to an annual increase of 3.0%, compared to 2.7% prediction made in March. That overall drop includes a 4.9%

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IT Supply Chain

JULY 8, 2025

In 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reported that 62% of organisations experienced a supply chain-related cyber incident. Attackers can tamper with hardware or firmware during manufacturing or shipping. That means vendors, software providers, cloud platforms, even IT contractors.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 21, 2025

This article explores the numerous advantages and benefits of such agreements and why they’ve become a popular option for maritime transport. Understanding Voyage Charter Agreements Imagine you’ve manufactured a large batch of products that need to be shipped to a different continent.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In August of 2023, after these multiple delays, the U.S. Consider that drugs can be shipped either in a carton, a specific case level or pallet level movement. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) called for a stabilization phase that was deemed to end at the end of November of this year, literally in a month’s timeframe.

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SCMDOJO

JANUARY 19, 2025

trillion in 2023* , and we could see a growth rate of 18.9% Renting new facilities, enhancing warehouse automation, and implementing the latest e-commerce supply chain solutions can be capital-intensive Transportation. Transportation Networks Long-distance delivery is highly expensive. in CAGR by 2030.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 10, 2025

billion) worth of notes as of May 2023, the last time that BYD disclosed such information. BYD took an average of 275 days to pay suppliers in 2023, Bloomberg compiled data show. Trade Deficit Narrows by Most on Record as Imports Plunge Global Trade & Economics Ship Traffic Through Red Sea Remains Sparse, Despite Houthi-U.S.

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Cathy Roberson

MARCH 23, 2025

population, but it began scaling back its coverage in 2022 before eventually whittling down its coverage scope further in 2023. This process enables a simpler shipping process with more visibility, allowing shipment recipients to staff more appropriately and efficiently.” ” Why the change? Back in the day it was reversed.

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 16, 2025

As an example, Gartner cites the 94% of supply chain logistics leaders that either currently have a supply chain management transportation system or plan to deploy one in the next one or two years. ( link] Robert Transportation Manager, N/A Posted on: Aug, 30 2016 Good article! I am sending this to my colleagues who work with me.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 30, 2025

Logistics managers needed to arrange alternative shipping plans with carriers from the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. Audio translators bridged communication divides, facilitating rapid onboarding of new vendors and transport partners in non-English-speaking countries. In 2023, Typhoon Doksuri hit major Vietnamese and Philippine ports.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 22, 2025

Online shopping is a game-changer for those who live in areas where access to transportation is limited. Moreover, some online retailers are embracing sustainable packaging and shipping practices. Originally written for Supply Chain Game Changer and published on November 4, 2023. appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 23, 2025

As demand for low-cost, efficient, and flexible shipping options rises amidst an extended freight recession and trade war, Flock Freights Shared Truckload service reportedly stands out as a long-term solution. No financial details regarding the MOU were publicly shared.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 28, 2025

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Supply Chain Digest

JULY 9, 2025

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