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Will Trucking Challenges Transform JITS in North America?

QAD

Cost savings in warehousing and floor space along with associated reduction in personnel required. Decline in recruits : While the trucking industry estimates a shortage of roughly 50,000 drivers today, this number is expected to balloon to close to a million by the year 2025. Trucking Challenges in North America.

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Buying 2021 Holiday Gifts for the 2022 Holiday Season

Enterra Insights

.”[1] Here’s the rub: “All those excess retail inventories are starting to weigh on warehousing markets. ” To make room for new inventory, many of America’s largest retailers are steeply discounting excess goods this summer. If goods do arrive, then the warehousing shortage mentioned above comes into play.

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Boom Time for the Shared Economy within Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

In logistics and supply chain management, however, transport and warehousing are the most significant sharing processes thanks to a welter of economic benefits for all parties—and the trend is accelerating despite the dampening effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. Why Businesses, Large and Small, Think it’s Fair to Share.

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Six Ways Warehouse Inventory Management Software Optimizes Efficiency

IQMS

The Warehouse Inventory Management Software market grew to $1.4B between 2017 and 2025 with the global market reaching $4.6B by the end of 2025. . Warehouse Inventory Management Software is seeing increased adoption as manufacturers expand globally through mergers, acquisitions, and regionally-focused manufacturing strategies.

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Mexico sees solid manufacturing growth, courtesy of nearshoring

Resilinc

One CEO recently reported that merchandise that merchandise – which used to take 21 days to travel from China to the port of LA or port of Long Beach – now takes 159 days to get to the warehouse. And for those looking to expand in one of the five border states, vacancy rates for commercial and industrial real estate are very tight. “If

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This Week in Logistics News (July 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

As early as 2025, at least 50 percent of new Porsches sold will include an electric drive. After being limited to only offering takeout and delivery for months under some of the strictest lockdown rules in North America, food product shortages are just the latest headache for small business owners to contend with.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

The executive director of the Port of Los Angeles thinks a tentative agreement between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) on a new labor contract is imminent. “I Rainfall was less than 50 percent of normal from February to April near the canal and the lakes that feed it.