The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 19, 2023

Major Trends: Volatile Production, Capacity Crisis & The Need for EV Automotive manufacturing is experiencing a huge global transformation compared to the past. million in 2022 to 39 million by 2030. As post-pandemic maritime export volumes soar, global ocean freight transportation is in a critical position.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 31, 2022

The energy crisis in China and the European conflict are bringing additional chaos in the form of production shutdowns, raw material shortages and blocked shipping lanes. billion by 2030 — an annual growth rate of 13.2%. The industry’s well-documented labor shortages are not ending anytime soon. Warehouse Robotics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2023

Amazon has been focusing on a so-called “regionalization” effort to ship products to customers from warehouses closest to them rather than from another part of the country. The drone was still hovering above as officers calmly drove up after the bikes were hidden to make arrests safely. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Rivian Automotive is now free to sell its EV parcel vans to other parcel carriers, and added reinforcement from multiple ocean container shipping carriers that the existing industry volume declines could extend for two to three years. All three reportedly represent one-third of global ocean container capacity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2022

Ford expedites freight to alleviate supplier disruptions in China. A few weeks ago, I wrote that UPS is entering the metaverse , having submitted several trademark filings for goods and services including “non-fungible tokens” (NFTs); “virtual goods, namely, packages, parcels, [and] shipping labels;” and “virtual retail shipping.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Earlier this week, Dave Clark, CEO of Amazon’s worldwide consumer business, said that the company is poised to become the largest US package delivery service by early 2022, overtaking longstanding shipping rivals UPS and FedEx. billion more tons of freight than they do currently. billion of Kansas City Southern’s debt.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Trillion by 2030. . West Coast Container Ship Backup Has Ended. In our Supply Chain Matters news capsule of September 27, we pointed out that business, supply chain and transportation media had reported this that the cost of shipping a container of goods from China to the U.S. Trillion by 2030.

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Intelligent Audit

JULY 28, 2022

billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 11.9% from 2021 to 2030.” While artificial intelligence progress will likely impact this value growth, much will occur from the widespread adoption of machine learning tools in shipping. For example, 34% of businesses have shipped an order late due to selling a product that wasn’t in stock.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 18, 2022

billion by 2030 as more companies seek a single supplier to provide turnkey management of all their supply chain and operational tasks. They’re taking care of the ocean freight, the air freight and the terrestrial freight — really managing product movements from the beginning of the journey to the end.”.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JULY 7, 2021

The European Union has recently legalised its commitment to have Europe become the first climate neutral continent by 2050 and has agreed between all member states and the EU Parliament, that the bloc will reduce carbon emissions by at least 55 percent by 2030. In other words, every single freight trip is fully optimised.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

AUGUST 14, 2019

Using the historic shipping data captured in a TMS, shippers can make data-driven, predictive plans. The top shippers are leveraging TMS data and some even use AI to arrive at effective planning to mitigate capacity shortages and other hurdles identified in the patterns within their data. Step 2 – Strengthen key relationships.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In the cloud, companies can deploy resources on an as-needed basis, rather than invest in additional servers and storage capacity that they may only need for a short time. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, AI’s potential contribution to the global economy by 2030 is USD15.7 Weighing and shipping technologies.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Transplace Acquires Yusen Logistics’ Intermodal & Freight Brokerage Group. Freight trucking startup Shipwell gets a $10 million boost (TechCrunch). Trucking costs to halve by 2030, study predicts (LLoyd’s Loading List). And this week ShippingEasy announced its integration “with Amazon Alexa to ship with your voice!”

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

President Joe Biden recently announced the country’s goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by up to 52% by 2030. According to the European Commission’s Mobility and Transport website, road transport alone is responsible for almost one-fifth of EU emissions and almost half of freight transport activities.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Planning for industry changes and shipping costs in 2022 remains critical as companies look ahead to the new year. According to GlobeNewswire , the global retail logistics market will surpass $465 billion by 2030, hitting a CAGR of 12.4% That need will take on even greater importance as the retail logistics market expands.

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Locus

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Logistics industry was experiencing capacity constraints, driver shortages, sudden upticks in e-commerce demand, new technologies, different fulfillment models , delays, port congestions, canal blockage etc. Demand for last-mile delivery is soaring and is expected to grow by 78% globally by 2030.- Rewind to 2021!

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Locus

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

However, challenges like delayed deliveries, volatility in freight volumes, and lack of flexibility to scale deliveries made it difficult for outsourcers to fulfill shipments on time. But managing hybrid fleets has its own share of challenges, like handling contingencies and managing capacity shortages during seasonal peaks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 4, 2023

The Teamsters union has already said it is “putting infrastructure in place to help affected members get the assistance they need to find good union jobs throughout freight and other industries.” The center, known as YXU1, will see employees work alongside robotics technology to pick, pack and ship up to 750,000 items a day.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The global shipping crisis and labor shortages have put the industry on edge over the last few months, especially as the holiday shopping season approaches. They will range from order fillers to freight handlers at the company’s more than 250 distribution centers, fulfillment centers, and transportation offices.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Amazon now ships more parcels than FedEx. In fact, Amazon has even begun shipping orders for outside customers. Restaurant Brands International , which owns Burger King, Popeyes, and Tim Hortons, announced this week that it will cut emissions in half by 2030, and will cut them entirely to become net-zero by the middle of the century.

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