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Supply Chain Crystal Ball Gazing: Let’s Look Ahead to 2028

Logistics Bureau

So I’ve decided to indulge my craving by daring to speculate about what the supply chain of 2028 might look like. The world may not quite be ready for the latter, but a lot can change physically, economically, scientifically, and politically between now and 2028. It’s Mostly About Automation. Robots Run the Warehouse.

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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-Up

Supply Chain Matters

The move will reportedly increase existing hourly wage rates 25 percent by 2028. Some carriers who invested prior windfall profits in other non-freight and global logistics related areas may have a buffer in costs and potential offsetting revenues. Hyundai Motor America announced this week that the automaker will raise certain U.S.

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FedEx’s Ongoing Business Restructuring Becoming Clearer as to Implications

Supply Chain Matters

Background In prior Supply Chain Matters postings, we have updated readers on global parcel transportation and logistics carrier FedEx’s ongoing business restructuring effort s. This effort is characterized as the largest collective bargaining agreement in the U.S. involving upwards of 330,000 unionized employees.

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Major Commercial Aircraft Industry Supplier Labor Disruption Avoided

Supply Chain Matters

Post Pandemic Labor Agreement Come Due This news related to SpiritAerosystems comes in the backdrop of global manufacturers, logistics and transportation services providers that called upon workers to work among extended hours and added health safety environments in order to meet essential services. In September of last year, a U.S.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech- June 14 2022

Supply Chain Matters

San Francisco -based Onera provides retail technology that connects inventory across siloed systems and transforms them into a single, real-time source of inventory status. Real-time inventory availability is reportedly provided by tracking inventory across the supply chain and intelligently exposing inventory to any fulfillment channel.