The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

As of January 1, 2022, it was taking a company an average of 73 days to deliver goods to truck or rail carriers after booking with an ocean carrier and completing the cross-ocean journey, according to E2open’s Ocean Shipping Index. And companies at every stage of the supply chain have inflated their prices as demand exceeds supply.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

You’ve likely experienced some of that strain at your company. between this year and 2030), it becomes clear that proactive visibility is essential for a crowded logistics marketplace. As a result, companies are able to increase their efficiency, reduce waste, and improve their bottom line.

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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. This report cites data from the U.S. Delivery of these innovative vans began in July 2022.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 19, 2023

Let’s take a look at today’s vehicle production and distribution market and how companies are overcoming these challenges. 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

JUNE 6, 2022

Oracle has set a target to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, and to halve their greenhouse gas emissions across their value chain by 2030. But Oracle may not know whether there were delays causing a product to be shipped to them by air rather than by ocean or in a container that is not 100% full. “We

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Trillion by 2030. . These demand and supply adjustments are very typical for companies with responsive sales and operations planning processes, including Apple. West Coast Container Ship Backup Has Ended. Whereas the spot rate to ship a container from China to the U.S. Instead, import volumes to the U.S.

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Intelligent Audit

JULY 12, 2022

On June 29, FedEx revealed “Network 2.0”, a new long-term strategy focused on collaborating with FedEx’s three previously separate entities: FedEx Express, FedEx Freight, and FedEx Ground. billion annually by 2030 and is expected to register 15.4% CAGR during the forecast period (2022–2030).

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

One company, Exotec, has already deployed over 2,000 such units around the globe. Starship Technologies is a company that uses small, six-wheeled drones to move goods within a small radius , and has completed 2 million deliveries as of 2021. What does this mean for the logistics industry? 2022 will be a year of choice.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 20, 2022

There’s been a huge increase in demand, and supply is at an all-time low , said Testani, “ We saw a lot of companies that used to be able to ship items via ocean, which is longer, cheaper, but for the most part was always reliable […] Now those [ocean shipping] costs are 3, 4, 5 times what they used to be.”

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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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Locus

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Demand for last-mile delivery is soaring and is expected to grow by 78% globally by 2030.- With last-mile delivery costs contributing to more than 50% of total shipping costs, the rising expectations in home delivery increases the risk of encountering inefficiencies. More Focus on Last-Mile Delivery. But things have changed today.

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AFFLINK

AUGUST 17, 2022

Upstream Supply Issues Manufacturers are struggling with the same product and shipping delays as consumers. On the road, the American Trucker Association estimates needing more than 160,000 drivers to meet current demand increases by 2030. Over the last 12 months, 58% reported additional demand increases.

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AFFLINK

APRIL 25, 2018

We’ve automated ourselves out of shopping and shipping. Among other things, the article reports that remotely-operated vessels will be common by 2030, semi-autonomous trucks will probably be common on American roads in five to 10 years, and the number of commercial drones will be 10 times higher in 2021 than 2017. Reducing errors.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 14, 2023

. “Around 0600 Pacific Time Tuesday morning, multiple Waymo vehicles in San Francisco encountered very dense fog and determined they should pull over temporarily,” a company spokesperson said. And now, as the company continues to look at ways to cut costs, it has instituted a new fee for some returns when using a UPS Store.

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Freight Plus

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Amazon promises 50% net-zero carbon shipments by 2030. The new initiative, called “Shipment Zero,” signifies Amazon’s first serious look at presenting a sustainable shipping model to the public. Amazon is also the largest publicly traded company to not participate in the Carbon Disclosure Project. Spotify. ,

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 4, 2023

Linking him as a fan of Pepsi, the company has highlighted an old freestyle track that was discovered in 2020 but recorded in 1997. Earlier this month, Yellow averted a strike by 22,000 Teamsters-represented workers and last week it said it was exploring opportunities to divest its third-party logistics company.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

Increased Shipping Costs, Delays, and Transportation Issues. Dealing with the Shipping Container Crisis. 75% of companies felt negative or strongly negative impacts on their business due to supply chain disruption ( Accenture ). 94% of Fortune 1000 companies saw supply chain disruptions as a result of Covid-19.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Responding to the 2023 IMO GHG Strategy by Wolfgang Lehmacher, Mikael Lind and Robert Ward Illustration: Sandra Haraldson, RISE 7 July 2023 marked a historic day for the shipping sector when the International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted its 2023 IMO Strategy on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships (2023 Strategy).

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2016 : robot pickers, bridge-inspecting drones, autonomous freight shuttles, and more. It will allow for the automation of more complex warehousing tasks, such as unloading shipping containers and picking packets or individual e-commerce orders. Click here to read the full story. Media Type.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 27, 2023

The company launched its own online pharmacy in 2020, a service that was born out of its acquisition of PillPack in 2018. On the heels of last week’s announcement of the launch of Prime Lite in India, the company is continuing to focus its attention in the region. India is the third market where Amazon has launched its freight service.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2022

It is not uncommon for companies to tout their commitment to sustainability, but on closer examination the company’s commitment is far less than advertised. Here are a few questions that can be asked to really get at a company’s commitment to sustainability: Are the goals significant? Who is Saint-Gobain?

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Freightera

APRIL 28, 2020

BM: For society, the Physical Internet (PI) enables order-of-magnitude improvements in the efficiency, sustainability, security, trustability and resilience of supply chains, logistics, and freight transportation, all around the world, within each company and across industries. China is moving very quickly now.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 15, 2021

He asked a simple question, “Where will companies be spending money post-pandemic?” Few companies are good shippers. containers are received rom China for every container shipped. Labor shortages abound for road freight. In Africa, where 38% of food is imported, the issues in global shipping will compound the unrest.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

JULY 22, 2020

The company says its mostly overseas supply chain will be part of an effort to slash its world-wide carbon footprint, the WSJ’s Sarah E. Needleman reports, in a plan aimed at having every Apple device by 2030 to be produced with no net release of carbon into the atmosphere. The parent company of Men’s Wearhouse and Jos.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Nevertheless, hosts of companies are experimenting with them to understand their potential and how their business can change for the better when these technologies are successfully adopted. It is estimated that 5 billion people will live in urban areas by 2030. Refer back to our March 8th blog post for a quick review.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 1, 2022

US port backups are extending into freight rail supply chains. The deliveries will take place as part of a pilot that’s being conducted by Waymo and JB Hunt Transport Services to test out self-driving trucks along certain shipping routes in Texas. Waymo’s self-driving trucks will deliver home goods for Wayfair.

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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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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. In a study commissioned by Blue Yonder, it is estimated that a typical $10 billion company can save $14.1 billion by 2030 — an annual growth rate of 13.2%.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Matt Higginson, a partner at McKinsey & Company, explains blockchain is simply “a database which is [securely] shared across a number of participants.”[1] Freight Tracking. “Cargo Volume often defines the cost of shipping freight. The blockchain concept is simple enough. Increased Efficiency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 19, 2023

That assessment comes as a result of 10 months of subdued demand, inventory de-stocking, and high interest rates, the New Jersey-based company said in its “The GEP Global Supply Chain Volatility Index.” That index fell below zero in April to -0.04, from 0.32 Utilizing the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure package, the U.S. has pledged $3.4

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

According to research from McKinsey & Company, the supply chain dimension has the lowest level of digitization (43%) compared to other dimensions, including products and services, marketing and distribution channels, business processes, and new entrants at the ecosystem level. That’s an increase from 17% in 2017.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In many cases, driven by necessity, companies used this period to increase overall investment in digital supply chain technologies, and replace legacy platforms to gain end-to-end visibility and bring risks under control.” . Planning for industry changes and shipping costs in 2022 remains critical as companies look ahead to the new year.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2022

The reality is that the Smiley Company, which is celebrating its 50 th birthday this year, created smiley as a symbol for good news in the newspaper France Soir in 1972. Staten Island workers could challenge the company’s current labor model, which is the backbone of its Prime two-day shipping promise.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Logistics companies are reversing their hiring binge. Retailers turning to specific-day delivery over speediest shipping. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic followed by supply chain disruptions around the world has sparked a resurgence of companies bringing sourcing and manufacturing back to the United States or closer to U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2022

Ford expedites freight to alleviate supplier disruptions in China. As e-commerce continues to grow, companies are looking at new and innovative ways to ensure they get orders delivered on time to their customers. Kraft created “digital twins” in the metaverse that allow the company to problem-solve virtually.

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Resilinc

AUGUST 24, 2021

Like logistics and shipping automation , this trend is still in its early days, but it’s worthwhile taking a look at what’s coming down the pike, so to speak. The rulemaking is expected to take three years and wouldn’t affect truck sales until 2029 or 2030. of domestic freight tonnage in 2019. MPG gains won’t be enough.

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