The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

A McKinsey’s report published in 2022 indicates that 32 per cent of people from industries like automotive, consumer goods, and pharmaceutical find demand variability and forecasting responsible for value chain disruptions. An Update from Sharm El-Sheikh on Decarbonisation of Transport. billion by 2026.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Background For some time now, Supply Chain Matters has published viewpoints on the disruptive threat that online platform provider Amazon will and has had on both online and physical retail, but also package logistics, transport and last mile product fulfillment strategies surrounding many industry sectors.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of reported February 2024 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Overall, global activity reportedly showed signs of increased production output for consumer goods production levels but continued muted growth for intermediate supply network and investment goods production levels.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

logistics industry, the freight railroads and three of the nation’s largest transportation labor unions managed to reach a tentative agreement the the early hours of Thursday, September 15th. According to reporting from SupplyChainDive, “ The deal includes a 24% wage increase over the five-year period from 2020 through 2024 with a 14.1%

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2022

As part of the journey, the Zevo 600 transported a shipment of Full Circle sustainable cleaning products from its headquarters in New York City to a MOM’s Organic Market location in Washington, DC, a Mid-Atlantic chain of family-owned and operated organic grocery stores. 1 of the year following the end of the vehicle’s minimum useful life.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Intel’s CEO says he expects the chip shortage to last into 2024 due to constrained availability of key manufacturing tools. Lead times continue to lengthen for manufacturers as ports in China and elsewhere remain clogged up, demand continues to be high, and transportation companies struggle to find drivers. Do you have whiplash yet?

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QAD

APRIL 6, 2021

The packaging industry has to stay on the forefront of change because what they produce affects so many other markets, like food and beverage, consumer goods and healthcare packaging. E-commerce in the US is forecasted to reach 24% by 2024. Here’s how packaging manufacturing has evolved during the pandemic.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 8, 2024

Manufacturing and Supply Chain; Dinesh Vyas, Director of Supply Chain Solutions at Dole; and Felice Miller, Business Strategy Leader of Retail and Consumer Goods at Microsoft. Other sources of disruption include demand volatility (named by 41%), transportation and delivery delays (39%), and a lack of supplier reliability (26%).

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

That board reportedly made recommendations that included 24 percent wage increases during the period from 2020 thru 2024 with a 14.1 Various industry associations that include agriculture, consumer goods and bulk materials are collectively warning of the economic blow of a rail stoppage. economy upwards of $2 billion per day.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides a monthly highlights of reported January 2024 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® began 2024 with output levels rising for the first time in eight months. The January 2024 reading of 50.0 increased 1.1 percentage points from the 48.9

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The company plans to resume opening new Fresh stores in 2024, after a pause of more than a year. Beginning in 2024, Uber will begin accepting SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits as payment, as well as FSA (Flexible Spending Account), Managed Medicaid and Medicare Advantage benefits. billion as U.S. Imports rose 2.7

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

MARCH 10, 2023

Companies like Morgan Stanley, FTR Transportation Intelligence and others do a very good job of forecasting. The depth and length of this slowdown will most certainly impact 2024. However, demand began waning as inflation drew down savings and disposable income of consumers. The one unknown will be how long and how deep.

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Resilinc

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Hapag-Lloyd: Shipping and container transportation company. Rerouted to the Cape of Good Hope (Dec 15). Shipping and container transportation company. Will stop transporting cargo to and from Israel (Dec 17). Nippon Yusen : Transportation and logistics. Rerouted ships away from the Red Sea (Dec 16).

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Failure to reach an accord by October 31 would mean that levies on $10 billion of exports between the EU and US would automatically come back into force at the start of 2024. billion of goods stuck waiting in Mexico. based UP.Labs to develop six startups over three years that focus on the future of transportation.

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