GlobalTranz

MARCH 16, 2017

The freight capacity crunch has dominated supply chain and logistics since 2014, and many shippers fear it will arrive sooner than many experts believe. However, the capacity crunch may be less severe than anticipated, and it could easily reflect growing pains in the industry. The Freight Capacity Crunch Has Not Yet Reared Its Head.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2023

These are questions ARC Advisory Group will seek to answer in our online survey research of supply chain executives over the next few months. Is supply chain resilience still a priority for C-level executives? Or have these concerns been replaced with cost-price inflation and compressed profit margins?

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A 2021 Peak Shipping Season survey conducted by Edelman Intelligence found hiring to be a strong concern among supply chain decision makers with 90% having a strong need to increase hiring to account for peak season and beyond. Tight capacity and high rates. Download the Report: 2021 Peak Shipping Season Survey.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 21, 2023

It introduced the survey we had just launched to determine the perceptions, priorities, and strategic initiatives of today’s supply chain and logistics executives. This post was subsequently followed by two articles that discussed some of the findings from the survey. One executive simply stated that it’s “an easy variable to address.”

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

This post is from a press release sent to us regarding the recent survey of the 3PL industry. This survey continues to point towards the success 3PLs are having for their clients. Survey Points to Continued Success of Shippers and the 3PL Industry. No matter what type of 3PL there is, each brings value to their customers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

UPS is seeking alternative strategies for its truck brokerage business, which has seen sales plummet amid a freight recession marked by declining rates and over capacity. percent of returns, or $101 billion worth, were fraudulent last year, according to a survey by Appriss Retail and the National Retail Federation. percent, or $24.5

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ThroughPut

JUNE 22, 2021

Gain Control Over Your Production With Effective Capacity Planning. Perhaps, a process that matches your production capacity with sales demand can be the solution in this case. Capacity planning is the answer you’re looking for. Now to answer the basic question, what is capacity planning? Of course, it will!

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ThroughPut

JUNE 22, 2021

Gain Control Over Your Production With Effective Capacity Planning. Perhaps, a process that matches your production capacity with sales demand can be the solution in this case. Capacity planning is the answer you’re looking for. Now to answer the basic question, what is capacity planning? Of course, it will!

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Shipper demand and carrier availability have come back into balance after several years of excess capacity. But there are a number of ways you can prepare to lessen—and possibly avoid—the impact of fewer drivers and the resulting capacity crunch. Business has been improving for the U.S. trucking industry. That means you have a problem.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2023

However, GEP And S&P Global publish the GEP Global Supply Chain Volatility Index based on data derived from S&P Global’s PMI surveys. A value above 0 indicates that supply chain capacity is being stretched and supply chain volatility is increasing.

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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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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 30, 2021

New Survey Highlights Confidence in Supply Chain Operations Despite Challenges. New Survey of Supply Chain Leaders Highlights Peak Season Expectations, Workforce Demands and COVID-19 Concerns. Without further ado, here are GlobalTranz’s top posts of 2021: #1. 7 Tips For Building Supply Chain Resiliency.

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Logility

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Dan Gilmore at Supply Chain Digest has some interesting survey numbers that may light a fire under some demand planning teams. The demand planner is a critical role in any supply chain—these people can commit a company to millions of dollars in inventory or capacity. Is Demand Planning just a stepping stone?

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Supply Chain Collaborator

JANUARY 26, 2017

Were there issues with capacity, and did they lead to more delays in 2016? These probing questions and more were part of the North American Supply Chain Survey to which more than 2,200 shippers responded. The North American Supply Chain Survey, produced by Averitt Express yielded the following interesting data points.

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Logility

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Dan Gilmore at Supply Chain Digest has some interesting survey numbers that may light a fire under some demand planning teams. The demand planner is a critical role in any supply chain—these people can commit a company to millions of dollars in inventory or capacity. Is Demand Planning just a stepping stone?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 23, 2022

This is due to the limited capacity on trucks and boats as capacity has shrunk and demand has surged. It is a lot harder for many companies to find capacity on boats. At the end of 2021, I participated in a survey to examine the transportation visibility market. Real-Time Visibility Data.

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FLEXE

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

As a result, we hear a lot of stories about capacity, inventory peaks and the search for the ideal extra space. So, this summer we commissioned a Warehouse Capacity Economics and Trends Survey. </p> <p>The survey also sought to understand what kind of solutions were brought to bear on these issues.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We decided to survey over 5,000 consumers across Europe to gauge their sentiments around home delivery. If you think that being better than most when it comes to delivery performance is an “OK” strategy, the survey results are clear: consumers don’t agree. These two charts paint a picture of how consumers are thinking and acting.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Disruption has been the name of the game for more than a year as supply chain leaders have been dealing with changing buyer behaviors, inventory management challenges, labor shortages, weather and pandemic-related uncertainty, cyber security threats and capacity constraints that continue to create significant supply chain volatility.

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FLEXE

JUNE 15, 2017

In mid-2015, FLEXE conducted a survey of supply chain professionals across multiple industries to identify and understand what key industry trends affect inventory and capacity fluctuations. We conducted the same survey, which closed in early 2017 and targeted the same audience to see how and if conditions have changed.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 15, 2022

OneRail is among the last mile technology vendors surveyed in the report, which focuses on optimizing fleet operations. The report surveys 20 current last mile technology vendors, and provides a column-by-column comparison of features. Looking to take a platform approach to vehicle routing and scheduling, but unsure where to start?

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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. For the study, Coyote worked with a 3rd party research firm to survey over 500 supply chain decision makers. Businesses ranged in size from $250M to over $5B in annual revenue. 81% were from the U.S.,

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 28, 2024

Late last year, the staff at Digitate released the results of a survey entitled “AI and Automation: Laying the Foundation for the Autonomous Enterprise.” The survey found, “90% of IT decision-makers plan to deploy more automation, including AI, in the next 12 months.”[1]

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Logility

JULY 7, 2021

Using IBP, sales leaders can study traditional sales data, such as history and forecasts, juxtaposed with inventory projections and manufacturing capacity. Celebration gives way to a fight for capacity. Analysis might reveal capacity opportunities with other product families. For example, IBP should include Sales.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 28, 2023

A survey conducted in the United Kingdom by the Institute of Directors (IoD), a 120-year-old British political organization, found that the larger a company is the more likely it is to be adversely affected by geopolitical tensions. The risks run the gamut from trade wars to actual wars.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In a survey of 150 global manufacturing executives, 47% committed to improving supply chain visibility and tracking. According to the Global Supply Chain Disruption and Future Strategies Survey Report, this goal was the top-ranked planned tool investment. Agility to act on transparency.

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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. This survey-based research gathers quantitative data as well as information on practices or performance drivers.

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Supply Chain Brain

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The survey showed that the extent to which supplier capacity went underutilized was higher in October 2023 than it was in September and August.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2023

In a survey of 54 senior executives, only about one in four believed that the processes of their companies balanced cross-functional trade-offs effectively or facilitated decision making to help the P&L (profit and loss) of the full business.” They haven’t done roughcut capacity planning.”

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

According to the Venture Beat staff, “Sixty-nine percent of global enterprises have already adopted or plan to adopt quantum computing in the near term, according to a new survey of enterprise leaders commissioned by Zapata Computing. ” Greater Computing Capacity.

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FLEXE

JUNE 15, 2017

In mid-2015, FLEXE conducted a survey of supply chain professionals across multiple industries to identify and understand what key industry trends affect inventory and capacity fluctuations.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

Therefore, produce ready for shipping may be stalled due to a limited supply of equipment and trucks (hindering capacity procurement ), fewer drivers, and the pressure everywhere to move things faster, save money, and get it done without impacting the customer experience. But back to the overarching point.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A recent Gallup survey reported that 46 million American patients are so financially insecure that they cannot afford to follow their healthcare provider’s recommendations to the fullest extent. In addition, one in eight surveyed adults cut back their spending on necessities such as food, clothing, and utilities to pay for them.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This survey-based research gathers quantitative data as well as information on practices or performance drivers. This survey focuses on the current state of key practices in last mile logistics, spread across multiple industries and over 1,100 respondents. This means not having extra capacity that is going to waste.

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Freightos

JUNE 15, 2021

So to meet capacity, airlines started to convert passenger planes into cargo planes at scale. Ships that WERE sailing were stuck in backlogs before unloading due to COVID outbreaks at the ports and not enough capacity to handle record container volumes at the ports. A third of all cargo is carried in passenger planes.

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

After an off-the-charts 2021, our research lead is joined by Accenture’s North American supply chain principal to explore 2022’s freight rates and capacity, and peak season preparation by BCOs, forwarders, and carriers. The Elusive 2022 Peak Season. Watch Peak Season Webinar. The Freightos Air Index. Signup Now.

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