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This Week in Logistics News (January 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Retailers are reviving an old playbook to manage their inventory levels after four years of struggling to find the sweet spot of holding enough merchandise but not too much. The Panama Canal has faded from the headlines amid all the focus on the Red Sea. But fallout to global supply chains from Panama’s drought is far from over.

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2024 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Prediction One

Supply Chain Matters

The increased cost of working capital and supplemental inventory levels to mitigate fulfillment risk is likely to revert back to just-in-time inventory management. Other businesses across industry sectors will seek to achieve 2024 growth by seizing added market share. Truck and rail transportation movements across the Mexico and U.S.