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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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Our three member group of peer reviewers for leading journals, senior science editors with 2. rn Editage served five hundred authors get published in best journals like Elsevier, Wiley and Character, in the final 1 yr. rn*Disclaimer: All 3rd-party trademarks (like logos and icons) of journals / publishers, and so forth.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 27, 2023

I once again shared my commentary for this month in a brief Transporeon Journal Market Update. Read more The post Across the Pond: The European Transportation Market (March 2023) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2018

If you’ve ever paid $10 for an Uber ride to the cocktail lounge in the evening and then a “surge priced” $50 for the same distance Uber ride back to your home only a few hours later around closing time, you understand the dynamics troubling shippers in today’s capacity constrained transportation market.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The Great Driver Shortage was already starting to weigh on the minds of carriers and shippers early this year as experts predicted tightening capacity, said William B. Cassidy of the Journal of Commerce (JOC), and the continued climb of the stock market alludes to an imminent, modern-day Industrial Revolution. Gross of the JOC.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 23, 2021

Journal of Commerce ,? While COVID-19 had a significant impact on the current state of the LTL market, capacity was already constrained prior to the pandemic as carriers right-sized their fleets and were challenged with the ongoing driver shortage. State of the LTL Market. As reported by the? Data-driven planning.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

I like the quote from the European Journal of Operational Research on JW Forrester’s work: “The trouble with systems thinking, is it allows you to misjudge a system. The supply chain has two important buffers–inventory and capacity. The sizes of buffers and other stabilizing stocks relative to their flows.

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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.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Throughout 2020, disruption took center-stage, leaving companies and shippers scrambling to find resources and strategies that will enable the survival of the coming peak season shipping capacity crunch. And the logistics industry is on the cusp of the biggest peak season in history—giving rise to tighter capacity and extended lead times.

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Intelligent Audit

JUNE 3, 2021

According to a recent report by The Wall Street Journal , FedEx is struggling to deliver packages on time. The problem goes back to how both FedEx and UPS are still over capacity in their networks. The past months have given rise to a series of changes in how parcel carriers accommodate shippers’ needs. cent increase to 1 oz.

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Intelligent Audit

JUNE 3, 2021

According to a recent report by The Wall Street Journal , FedEx is struggling to deliver packages on time. The problem goes back to how both FedEx and UPS are still over capacity in their networks. The past months have given rise to a series of changes in how parcel carriers accommodate shippers’ needs. cent increase to 1 oz.

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SCM Research

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The Journal of Supply Chain Management has recently announced the winner of the 2015 Harold E. Fearon Best Paper Award, which is the award for the best paper published in that journal. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 51 (3), 61-86 DOI: 10.1111/jscm.12081. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 51 (4), 3-28 DOI: 10.1111/jscm.12085.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

MAY 26, 2015

With economic growth increasing demand for trucking capacity and an aging population of drivers not being replaced by the younger generation disinterested in trucking as a career option, something is going to have to give. The post 3 Strategies for Locking In Trucking Capacity appeared first on UltraShipTMS.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In today’s Wall Street Journal , I was interviewed regarding a case that was just filed against Amazon by a large robotics , claiming that the e-commerce giant backed away from promises made early in the Covid-19 pandemic to support the supplier with millions of dollars in new purchases.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The shipping capacity crunch is not a new topic, but the end of 2017 is shaping up to reveal an unprecedented crunch, reports Chris Brady of Logistics Viewpoints. Moreover, according to Dustin Braden of the Journal of Commerce (JOC), the driver shortage is worsening in tandem. Subscribe Here! Email Address. becomes more of the fact.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A report by Nikkei Asia Technology indicates that Apple contract manufacturing services provider Foxconn is planning to incrementally expand iPhone production capacity within India. This facility is further reported to be the equivalent of a $1.54 billion facility, which is massive and implies more than just smartphone assembly.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 13, 2021

SMI involves external market research identifying information on key suppliers, available capacity, technology trends, price and cost data and trends, technical requirements, environmental and regulatory issues, and any other data that is available.

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DAT Solutions

JULY 30, 2015

Jeff Tucker 's guest column in yesterday's Wall Street Journal pointed to the pivotal role of technology, including DAT Load Boards , in freight logistics today. Freight brokers consume data directly and they combine information from numerous sources, from the owners of capacity and the owners of cargo.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

She started her journalism career as a financial reporter in Beirut, Lebanon. In the podcast interview, Emma describes how the explosive growth of ecommerce has transformed the once sleepy last mile space into a booming market that has shippers searching for partners and capacity. About The Business Insider.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Emerge’s award-winning marketplace provides access to direct capacity and live market conditions helping shippers and carriers make the strongest, most beneficial decisions when procuring domestic freight. Emerge , based in Scottsdale, AZ, is one of the fastest-growing startups in the U.S.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 5, 2018

Like a screwdriver turning a screw, bit by bit, trucking capacity continues to tighten. “By By the end of last week, just one truck was available for every 12 loads needing to be shipped, according to online freight marketplace DAT Solutions LLC,” reported the Wall Street Journal this week. 30, a 3½-year high, DAT said.”.

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SCM Research

MAY 1, 2017

I am pleased to announce that our new article, The Human Factor in SCM: Introducing a Meta-theory of Behavioral Supply Chain Management , which I co-authored with Timm Schorsch and Carl Marcus Wallenburg, has now been published by the International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management. Schorsch, T.,

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Some of the tightest of the previous capacity crunches have occurred within the last two decades. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, capacity hit a breaking point. Gross of the Journal of Commerce (JOC). Increased Freight Rates Can Tone Down Capacity Crunches. Think about. Consolidate. Consolidate. Consolidate.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 10, 2024

We further called attention to a published report at the time by The Wall Street Journal indicating that Apple was aiming to eventually produce one quarter of iPhone production within India.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 22, 2017

The electronic logging device (ELD) mandate compliance date is around the corner, and shipping capacity is tightening at a phenomenal rate. As the shipping industry prepares to face these challenges, figuring out how to take advantage of available shipping capacity can be challenging. Click Here.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

We introduce our latest educational e-book ( we have several more here ): The Great Capacity Crunch: The Current State, Future Outlook, and How Shippers Can Thrive in Any Capacity Crunch. Moreover, according to Dustin Braden of the Journal of Commerce (JOC), the driver shortage is worsening in tandem.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 30, 2013

The recent press in the Wall Street Journal and other papers on Walmart’s fire in Bangladesh is raising the ire of corporate responsibility groups and human rights groups alike. Who wants to end up on the front page of the Journal?

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2023

However, in its reporting, The Wall Street Journal cited retail industry analysts as observing that shoppers continued to hold out for the best bargains with Saturday, December 23 as likely being the largest shopping day, topping that of Black Friday.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 4, 2023

However, recent activity suggests that capacity has been overbuilt by some large e-commerce providers –leading to select project cancellations and postponements. In fact, retail and other verticals such as logistics providers (parcel) experienced rapid growth from 2019 – 2021. percent four-year CAGR. Plans for the 2.8

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The reasons behind this were well chronicled in a recent Wall Street Journal article. While implementing a technology solution, a lot of time is spent on cleaning the master data including assumptions around capacities, lead times between nodes, yields and such. I used lead time as an example here.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

Brett Biggs, an executive vice president at Walmart, summarized the investments by saying the retailer is spending on increased fulfillment capacity, supply chain, automation, and technology. Walmart is also investing pickup and delivery capacity.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 10, 2018

In today’s age, full truckload is in-demand, and rates are rising much faster than this time last year, by 25 percent in some markets, explains the Journal of Commerce. Decreased Full Truckload Capacity Tightening capacity is the dominate problem in the shipping industry, regardless of mode. Full Truckload White Paper Series.

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CargoBarn

JUNE 3, 2022

CargoBarn is adding capacity at ports in anticipation of what’s to come in the fall. Nearly every media outlet – from The Wall Street Journal to the Gwinnett Daily Post – is talking about Chinese ports shutting down due to recent COVID flare-ups and China’s strict COVID policies. The current slow-down of ships coming into U.S.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The Wall Street Journal reports, “Local officials have forced factories in China’s Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces to curtail operation hours or shut down temporarily as officials try to rein in energy use, according to company filings and interviews with company officials by The Wall Street Journal.”[4]. ”[4].

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Since then, other reports including that of The Wall Street Journal have followed. Clark joined Flexport in June 2022 days after he announced his departure from Amazon , after it was clear that online retail platform provider overexpanded its customer fulfillment capacity and resources.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

According to the reporting by The Wall Street Journal (Paid subscription) , Maersk’s profitability decline has more to do with new ship capacity coming into service this year as a result of ship acquisitions initiated during the prior 2-3 years. Maersk is not the only global wide carrier bringing on added new ship capacity this year.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Carriers responded by canceling capacity, but demand was back by July, and importers found themselves scrambling for equipment. . When capacity was cut, so too was the empty supply of containers back to Asia. Image source: American Journal of Transportation. Covid-19’s Impact on the Global Container Shortage.

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