Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

percent drop in annual sales, UPS forecast a 2024 upswing of as little as 1.1 Amazon achieved its fastest-ever global shipping times last year but isn’t resting on its laurels. Multiple members of the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) were the recipients of the funds. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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Vinculum

APRIL 29, 2022

The report has made a forecast analysis to handle the market from a broader perspective. IoT uses GPS sensors to track the stock and the shipping and delivery of the products to the shopper’s address. 869 million has been invested by North America to enhance such technologies and explore for future growth.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 2, 2021

Shipping container shortage article and permission to publish here provided by Sam White at Argentus. The massive global shipping squeeze. In their story about the shipping shortage, the CBC quoted shipping analyst Alan Murphy, who detailed how this changing demand has massively disrupted the global shipping market.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Planes, Cranes, and Barges: How America Is Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos. The shipping industry, which accounts for 80% of world merchandise trade, had a record year in 2021 , with volume totaling 179.1 Share of Global Shipping Vessels Arriving on Time. Share of Global Shipping Vessels Arriving on Time. Businessweek.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 5, 2024

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides readers with a further update on the ongoing Red Sea shipping disruption including added context and implications. Background Just before the Christmas holiday, Supply Chain Matters alerted our readers to rather troubling signs for another global-wide shipping disruption.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

This week I interviewed Robert Byrne, Founder of Terra Technology , on the results of their fourth benchmarking study on forecasting excellence. The work done by Terra Technology, in my opinion, is one of two accurate sources of benchmark data on forecasting in the industry. The other is Chainalytics demand benchmarking.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 5, 2022

” To make room for new inventory, many of America’s largest retailers are steeply discounting excess goods this summer. Journalist Lisa Baertlein ( @LisaBaertlein ) explains, “America’s largest warehouse market is full as major U.S. ” • Review holiday shipping surcharges and delivery windows.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Unreliable Forecasting. Getting the forecast right is still challenging for many supply chains. So, it’s time to level up your planning with digital tools that are designed to forecast intermittent demand, balance service levels with inventory costs, increase sales and market growth share. Do you have whiplash yet?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 8, 2021

Belcorp Corporation, headquartered in Peru, manufactures cosmetics and personal care products for women in 14 nations across South and Central America. Forecasting beauty products, which are susceptible to a broader sense of what is in or out of fashion, is difficult. But forecasting new product demand is even more difficult.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 18, 2022

The Risk of Outdated Forecasting Software. Outdated forecasting software only increases the risks surrounding a disrupted supply chain. There are Five Symptoms of Outdated Forecasting and Inventory Planning Software: Have you diagnosed your problem– and solution–to improved demand planning? They are reaching out.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2022

The world’s fleet consists of approximately 6,000 ships. These ships carried nearly 150 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containers last year. Last October, over 100 ships, including 70 container ships, were waiting at anchor or in drift zones to unload at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 6, 2023

The company has 11 production facilities across North America and China. The company ships directly to customers and also to distributors. For example, while GEON has over 2000 customers, initially they are manually building forecasts for 600 customers and 1200 ship-to locations.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 26, 2015

Are you up-to-date with the latest events in freight shipping and logistics? Staying current in the world of shipping and freight also takes strong networking and communication. 7 of the Best Freight Shipping Events to Attend in 2015. As you know, the atmosphere for freight brokers is only getting more competitive.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The National Retail Federation (NRF) has issued its annual forecast, anticipating that retail sales will grow between 4 percent and 6 percent in 2023, meaning sales will reach between $5.13 Finally, it wouldn’t be the holiday season if people didn’t stress out about holiday shipping deadlines. trillion and $5.23 trillion this year.

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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. Hyundai Motor America announced this week that the automaker will raise certain U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. Source E2open Shipping Index). Beating the growth forecast and improving margins drove lucrative bonus programs. The regional teams would always sandbag—or under forecast—to make their budget incentives.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 19, 2023

According to the IHS Markit 2022 Automotive Market Outlook, the European car production forecast for 2022 decreased by 2 million in comparison with the forecast predicted only eleven months prior. The main destinations of vehicle exports were Europe, Middle East and Africa and South America. million cars.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. Source E2open Shipping Index). Beating the growth forecast and improving margins drove lucrative bonus programs. The regional teams would always sandbag—or under forecast—to make their budget incentives.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 2, 2022

Imagine you’re a high-end boat manufacturer in North America preparing for the warm weather. Your demand planning and forecasting strategy are in tip top shape. Suppliers shipping to manufacturing locations in highly affected regions. Simply put, communication is the engine that powers organizations. Single-source suppliers.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2013

UCLA Anderson Forecast. Ship Mate App Finds Smooth Sailing. Mike Jirout (MBA ’10) thought his brother Jan was on to something when he created an app for their “big, Italian family” to use on their biennial reunion cruise, so they teamed up to launch Ship Mate. “He For more on Ship Mate, head to their website. Reblog (0).

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

That means maritime shipping lies at the very heart of the global logistical system. At the time, Ron Widdows , former chairman of the World Shipping Council, reported that piracy was costing “the global shipping industry anywhere from $3.5 Nearly 90 per cent of global trade is carried by sea-going vessels.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

Demand sensing involves the use of the external data sources – particularly the latest sales and market data – to improve short-term forecasting and then be able to use that improved understanding of consumer behavior to improve their supply planning. For the largest retailers, short shipping results in fines and penalties. “I’ll

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SCMDOJO

MAY 13, 2022

Each year around 700 million TEUs are shipped across the world keeping global trade and businesses running and more than eighty percent of global goods trade volumes are carried by sea, with about a sixth of that volume in shipping containers. Transshipment rollovers in South America declined by 3% from 46% to 43% year-on-year.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

M&Ms, for example, opened a new 24,000 square foot experiential store in the Mall of America, with experiences including “M&M’s Sweet Moves,” where people can “express their personality through color, sound, and movement.” Road trip, anyone?). Image source: Bring Me the News. It’s also important to assess the ROI of retail technology.

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

MARCH 10, 2023

Conventional freight market forecasts center around the confluence of 2 primary factors: supply of seated trucks vs demand for truck capacity. Companies like Morgan Stanley, FTR Transportation Intelligence and others do a very good job of forecasting. Manufacturing forecasts show some light contraction in Q1 and Q2 of 2023.

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RFgen

MARCH 20, 2023

Integrating purchasing and inventory control is critical for forward planning and forecasting in today’s economic climate. Planning and forecasting To begin, purchasing should play an active role in planning and forecasting within the supply chain. This is why forecasting is so important from the beginning.

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E2open

AUGUST 24, 2018

So when store supplies for the company’s retail partners are out of synch with production forecasts it can have a very real impact on the $20.8 For years, Kimberly-Clark relied on historical data to guide forecasts, but that changed in 2007 when the company began a complete end-to-end overhaul of its supply chain and invested.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2022

The Normalcy Index calculated weekly by the Economist projects that North America is 67% of the way back to normalcy from COVID, but globally, it is lower at 50% with many flare-ups. Yet, few are willing to raise their hands and admit that current demand planning processes of forecasting based on order or shipments do not work.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 23, 2023

This agreement has been characterized by The Wall Street Journal as being the largest collective bargaining agreement involving a private employer in North America. UPS adjusted its forward-looking performance downward, now indicating 2023 revenues of $93 billion compared to an earlier year forecast of $97 billion revenues.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MAY 27, 2015

The West Coast port congestion in North America proved to be a game changer for businesses, with preparation being the winning factor. How do you avoid spending additional millions to cover extra inventory costs and shipping delays? Improving demand forecasting. Get your copy and see page 32. Let’s face it.

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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. Greener Shopping and Shipping: The Rise of Carbon Neutral e-Commerce Delivery. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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o9 Solutions

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Mammoth ocean shipping vessels, lumbering trains, cars and trucks, construction equipment, and large factories are made of the same products they produce and deliver. Kloeckner’s 2025 vision includes “the goal of becoming the leading digital one-stop-shop platform for steel, other materials, and processing services in Europe and the Americas.”

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

OCTOBER 1, 2018

What’s Happening in the Transatlantic’s Ocean Shipping Lane | Transportfolio. Certain trends in capacity, rates, and tariff activity have conspired to create an especially dynamic holiday season for ocean shipping in the Transatlantic lane. Understanding the Transatlantic’s Ocean Shipping Lane.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 3, 2019

You can’t just turn around a giant cargo ship. And when shipping to volatile countries, it becomes even harder. companies with global operations, one of the most effective ways to mitigate risk is to ship smarter. Once cargo has shipped, there are no “backsies.” Shipping Overseas. supply chain professional.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

As the bricks and mortar retailer is attacked by eCommerce pure plays—Amazon in North America, Alibaba in China, and Flipcart in India—assortment and excitement in the store become paramount to lure customers. It needs to be an accurate signal reflecting real-time changes as orders are shipped throughout the day. Drive a difference.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It’s important to encourage the 90% of America [who have concerns about climate change]. 2] Seth Borenstein, “ The likelihood that Earth briefly hits key warming threshold grows bigger and closer, UN forecasts ,” The Associated Press, 17 May 2023. [3] 7] Stephan Liozu, “ The Sustainability Ship Has Sailed.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

Foxconn Forecasts Challenging Operating Environment This Year. Canadian Pacific is the sixth-largest North America freight railway, and in December 2021 completed an agreement to acquire U.S. American Shipper reported last week that the number of container ships calling on major U.S. East Coast Ports the Likely Next Test.

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