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How is the Logistics Economy Holding Up?

Logistics Viewpoints

These are questions ARC Advisory Group will seek to answer in our online survey research of supply chain executives over the next few months. Global Manufacturing PMI Global Trade as a Barometer Clearly domestic business activity is much larger than international trade. Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Indexes The J.P.

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Agility and Resilience in Supply Chain Execution: Imperatives in an Unpredictable World, Part 1

BlueYonder

The sudden onset of COVID-19 in 2020 only reinforced a lesson that supply chain professionals had already realized: uncertainty is the only real certainty. While lean manufacturing and just-in-time were game-changing concepts when they were introduced, in 2020 and heading into 2021 they must be taken to an entirely new level.

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Truck Capacity Shortage: The Past, Present and Future

Talking Logistics

From the last half of 2017 through today and beyond, a slew of market forces, some predictable and some unexpected, have combined to create a very real truck capacity shortage in the United States. The past, present and future market forces causing today’s extreme truck capacity shortage include: Strong Economy. Holiday Season.

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Adelante SCM and PINC Launch the First Annual State of Yard Management Report

PINC

This year’s report focuses on the impact of digital yard management on enterprise transportation costs and capacity. The COVID-19 pandemic has made agility, flexibility, and responsiveness even more critical for supply chain success.

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A Radical New Way to Think About Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

It is not just continually changing demand and material and equipment constraints across a company’s value chain that matters. It is these changing constraints, transportation capacity, and bottlenecks across an entire ecosystem that matters. Sherman points out, “are realizing that their supply chain is not really a chain at all.”

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Profitably Delivering eCommerce with Consumer-Centric Priorities

Logistics Viewpoints

Every day, retailers and manufacturers are challenged to balance ambitious customer service promises with profit margin protection. Extending visibility of available capacities in the market enables a more effective result, often delivering win-wins for collaborative trading partners. How great can the impact be?

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Ease the Burden of Labor Shortages and Increase Supply Chain Resiliency 

Logility

resigned from their jobs in durable goods manufacturing. Food supply chains already heavily damaged by the effects of COVID-19 have received yet another blow from labor shortages. How Labor and Talent Shortages Affect Supply Chains. Supply Chain Resiliency in the Face of Labor Shortages: A Two-Pronged Approach.