DAT Solutions

MARCH 30, 2020

COVID-19 has become one of the most disruptive events to hit supply chains in our lifetime, and the DAT Analytics team is publishing regular reports to track its impact on freight markets.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2018

More than a year into a freight capacity crisis that shows little sign of weakening, it’s time for all parties involved in logistics and freight transportation to meet this issue head on. Freight Capacity Crisis: How Did We Get Here So Quickly? The seeds for this current market were sown in the aftermath of the Great Recession.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In fact, the event that we now call Halloween was based on the Celtic festival of Samhain, marking the end of summer. Today, British children dress in costume and carve pumpkins in what many regard as an imported American event. Clearly, events change over time. Same event, but an entirely different effect in each market.

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MIT Supply Chain

AUGUST 5, 2021

In this article, we introduce the seven core capacities that are the building blocks of resilient supply chains. These are plans to restore lost capacities, independent of HOW the operational capacities were lost. In other words, while the sources of risk are unlimited, the outcomes of risk events are not.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The original intent may have been for shippers to secure capacity at agreed-upon rates and for carriers to ensure they have enough volumes to keep their trucks loaded and moving. At the same time, a retailer whose product demand drops sharply has less need for transportation capacity and therefore tenders lower volumes to contracted carriers.

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DELMIA Quintiq

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The lack of available workers is noted as the biggest challenge manufacturers face when it comes to retooling operations for new products or additional capacity to meet customer demands. In fact, nearly half of respondents are set to place an increasing emphasis on lean manufacturing due to pandemic-related events.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 19, 2021

Busy times for all of us and in particular supply chain managers who are dealing with capacity constraints, delays, the rise of e-commerce, forecasting in this crazy environment, identifying and analyzing data, and putting the data to use in strategies. I’ll be following the event as I support home-town-based Manhattan Associates.

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o9 Solutions

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Improving on-shelf availability is a constant struggle, and capacity planning is largely managed with manual spreadsheet driven processes. . To align capacity with demand, retailers are using flow plans that forecast at 90-day, 21-day, and daily intervals. Daily planning is also a necessity, considering near term capacity restrictions.

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Stord

MARCH 24, 2020

How do you prepare your supply chain for events that you can’t forecast? So how do you prevent inventory stockouts when your demand forecasting didn’t allow for an event like COVID-19? Access a flexible supply chain network Emergency events require urgency -- there usually isn’t much lead time to prepare.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

With Apple’s big event last week, the company claimed that the new Apple Watch will be carbon neutral. Not surprisingly, the company’s largest competitors announced that they too will be kicking off the holiday season with a fall sales event. At full capacity, the company said, the factory will employ 500 human workers in Salem.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

And agility is about reacting quickly and hopefully effectively to the actual disruptive event. But the event might not be disruptive at all if you had planned for it. That variability might be in the areas of manufacturing, distribution, or transportation capacity. What if we could get suppliers to share their capacity?”

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Turvo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The extraordinary cascade of events triggered by the pandemic led to a severe container shortage. The post Tight container market creating capacity issues for shippers appeared first on Turvo. Record-high shipping rates are affecting the world economy.

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NC State SCRC

JULY 31, 2020

In the current environment, the big push for production and the biggest shortfalls in capacity is for test kits. This chain of events will of course eventually result in a domino effect, because most of the big manufacturers like Glaxo and Sanofi do not manufacture their own products.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

It can move quickly from a situation where there is too much capacity in the market and buyers having the whip hand, to a situation where shippers are begging carriers to take their loads at almost any price. That processing event determines when the goods need to be delivered to the next stop. The freight market is mercurial.

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MercuryGate

APRIL 15, 2020

The new coronavirus, COVID-19, has become one of the most disruptive events to hit supply chains in our lifetime. […]. The post How is COVID-19 affecting capacity and freight rates? MercuryGate integrates seamlessly with several DAT products including DAT load boards, RateView, CarrierWatch and OnBoard.)

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Buying organizations use this technology to monitor and analyze supplier risk events in real-time. These are big data platforms that monitor news sources and assorted databases from governments, financial institutions, ESG NGOs, and other sources to detect when a negative event has occurred or may be about to occur.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

Your organization’s ability to anticipate disruption, adapt to events, and build resiliency is rooted in how you maintain operational continuity. A wide range of events could prevent your supply chain from operating normally, but not all events have an equal impact. Capacity constraints and transportation delays.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 26, 2022

Throughout the past six months, rates and capacity have been highly volatile as the industry deals with other ongoing challenges. A vast majority of shippers still use spreadsheets and emails to conduct Request for Proposal (RFP) or bid events. One solution is to host more frequent bid events with a broader range of carriers.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 4, 2021

Disruptions were caused by a wide range of issues, including shutdowns driven by country/state/regional requirements or shutdowns due to health events at the supplier’s site. Market volatility describes a stage at which volume and capacity availability are misaligned.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2024

Unexpected events occur. There can be surprises that offer a better upside—demand is higher than expected, it is possible to raise prices without affecting demand based on what is happening with competitor products, technology has allowed manufacturing capacity to ramp up faster than expected, etc.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2021

Your organization’s ability to anticipate disruption, adapt to events, and build resiliency is rooted in how you maintain operational continuity. A wide range of events could prevent your supply chain from operating normally, but not all events have an equal impact. Capacity constraints and transportation delays.

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DELMIA Quintiq

APRIL 6, 2020

Capacity, for example, needs to be reserved when additional production is required for best-selling items – something which becomes visible in such an analysis. So, if production capacity bottlenecks for one resource, turn to tactical planning for visibility on alternative solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 9, 2023

A multi-enterprise supply chain network provides visibility to upstream and downstream events that can affect a company’s supply chain. As the new events that have occurred are analyzed and a new plan is created, the financial implications can be seen. Visibility to Events. Event Intelligence.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Capacity Constraints Continue to Arise. Capacity constraints continue to come under microscope as shippers look for a better understanding to the state of the market. Top causes of capacity constraints include: . Capacity constraints within truckload and parcel have led to spillover within the LTL market.?

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ToolsGroup

JULY 26, 2022

Prestigious award presented by Microsoft at the Inspire event. It was announced at Inspire 2022, the annual event dedicated to the Microsoft partners ecosystem. About ToolsGroup.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

While this creates tremendous value , it also br ings the inevitable risk that certain event s can have far-reaching consequences that influence supply chain s more than ever before. Most often , these events force demand and resource usage to fluctuate. Ready to equip your team for resilience? .

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 16, 2023

Real-Time Retail connects the JustEnough planning and execution solution with Inventory Hub ® – a dynamic data unification platform – to collect near-live data from siloed systems and serve that information immediately to Allocation, Replenishment and Fulfillment applications to: Track events and changes to inventory across selling channels.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 10, 2024

While the supply chain pressures that have built up over the last two years continue to abate as transportation capacity problems ease and consumption shifts from goods to services, newer challenges and opportunities lie ahead. 2021 was the trough with in-person events severely limited.

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Veridian Solutions

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Unfortunately, warehouse capacity around the country is tight, but available capacity is only being used at rates shy of 70 percent. How can warehouse capacity be both tight and utilized less than 100 percent? Warehouse Capacity Is Tight Warehouse managers have made great strides in implementing systems that utilize automation.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 19, 2023

His primary goal has been leveraging Coyote’s proprietary technology, people, and capacity to solve pressing customer challenges. Coyote provides multi-modal solutions, including full truckload, less than truckload (LTL), intermodal and other capacity or asset solutions, to more than 15,000 shippers around the world.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

This ensures the secure, high-capacity, and bi-directional transfer of essential information such as master data on products, customers, production-distribution infrastructure, transactional data on sales, inventory status and position, transportation execution data, external data e.g. competitor pricing, weather, recommendations, action triggers.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

APRIL 13, 2018

Catching an angry earful at a recent industry event where carriers and truck drivers gathered for the opportunity to voice their frustrations directly with him, FMCSA chief Ray Martinez listened intently and sympathized, but made no promises to change the newly implemented ELD mandate and Hours of Service regulations. Here’s the story.

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DELMIA Quintiq

MARCH 30, 2023

With MCT, DELMIA enables root cause analysis by detecting and triggering corrective actions, empowering manufacturers to effectively mitigate the impact of disruptive events. Identify and investigate issues: Investigate disruptions through the 3D virtual world by replaying past events in the context of real-world data to identify issues.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 6, 2021

With demand for drivers often exceeding availability, shippers find themselves forced to pay more to secure capacity and drivers across many industries. Leveraging a 3PL’s relationships, people, processes and technology helps businesses balance supply and demand volatility and secure reliable and consistent capacity.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The past two years of volatility have many logistics leaders evolving from an annual Request for Proposal or freight (RFP) event to quarterly or more frequently to accommodate the changing supply chain landscape. Include technology, managed transportation capabilities, reliable capacity, and value-added services. Capacity strategy.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In his current role as the Senior Director of Customer Strategy, Brad leads a team focusing on Solutions Architecture and Implementation Strategy whose mission is to work directly with shippers to bring efficiency to the capacity procurement process through technology.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

At its annual event, Apple unveiled the new iPhone 15 lineup. In other Amazon news, the company has adjusted its Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) seller capacity for the peak season. As part of its preparation, it offers most sellers higher estimated capacity limits for October. And now on to this week’s logistics news.

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