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How Brands Can Navigate Peak Season Supply Chain Challenges

Stord

Rising container rates, shortages of truck drivers, limited warehouse capacity” are impacting companies across the board as reported by CNBC. Other markets like Reno, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and surrounding markets are filling up rapidly, with leases and warehouse space going away quickly.” This topic is being covered daily.

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Blue Yonder’s Chief Product Officer Shares Insights Into Innovative Solutions to Revolutionize Your Supply Chain Performance

BlueYonder

Following ICON 2023 in Las Vegas, Blue Yonder’s Chief Product Office Gurdip Singh shared the key product innovation takeaways from the event during a Blue Yonder Live session. The fundamental aspects of flow paths, lead times, constraints, execution capacity – be it in the warehouse or in the logistics center – are all unknown.

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Calling Reverse Logistics Startups – RLA to host Startup Competition

Cathy Roberson

The increased investments were attributed to supply chain disruptions such as raw material shortages, delays at ports, labor shortages, lack of warehousing space, and tight capacity across all modes of transportation. In total, McKinsey estimates that $80 billion in funding was made in logistics startups in 2021.

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Resilience Post COVID-19: Planning to Win the ‘New Normal’

BlueYonder

Besides demand-side analytics, consider impacts from workforce safety and operational configuration mandates that will affect factory capacities and throughput. Continuous predictions and real-time order, inventory, and logistics tracking will support scenario planning for market dynamics, supply, and operational disruption.

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Enabling S&OP through Advanced Analytics

Logility

At the Informs Business Analytics Conference in Las Vegas last year, I spoke about the potential to enable S&OP / IBP through advanced analytics. A network simulator can actively display demand projections, facility and lane capacities, and other user-defined information for a selected time horizon. Supply Optimization.

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Contracts, Cancellations, and Closures: Persistent Trends Leave a Pre-Peak Season Logistics Industry on Edge

Intelligent Audit

Speaking at a recent event in Las Vegas, Patton said, “ This business model is hurting to a degree where my company individually has to see change from FedEx Ground,” according to reporting from SupplyChainDive. So the shortage will continue, but for some sellers, the problem will be too much inventory.”. Cash-Strapped U.P.S.

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Getting Smarter About Logistics and Sustainability

BlueYonder

In a panel discussion at ICON Las Vegas 2023, Chinmay Jaju, Senior Manager of Strategy for Uber Freight, summed up the tough challenge facing logistics professionals today. Dynamic tasking, dynamic slotting and real-time inventory management maximize resource efficiency. But on many occasions, it doesn’t have to,” he explained.