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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

The Failure of Existing Demand Planning Solutions. During the pandemic, supply chain leaders turned off their demand planning solutions. Re-implement demand planning, trade promotion management, and revenue/price management together to improve the baseline demand signal. Lessons Learned. The reason?

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Increased Demand and Reduced Capacity Prove a Challenge for Air Freight Market

CH Robinson Transportfolio

After an extremely volatile first half of the year, the challenges in the air freight market look set to continue into 2021, requiring both foresight and forward planning from businesses. A turbulent six months for air freight. This caused an overheated market, with the price of air freight increasing by as much as 400%.

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Is Inventory Optimization a Key to Omnichannel Survival?

ToolsGroup

That’s never going to compete with Amazon—not only its existing footprint, but in light of its new investments in logistics that include localized fulfillment sites, global trade services, and even sea and air cargo transport—like its May 5 announcement of plans to double its fleet of leased Boeing 767 freight jets for package deliveries.

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Keeping Your Business on Track During the Coronavirus Outbreak

CH Robinson Transportfolio

It’s important to note that any cargo from the Wuhan, Hubei Province (the origin of the outbreak), and other quarantine zones, are restricted from leaving the province, which includes full container loads (FCL), less than container loads (LCL), as well as air freight. Planning ahead in production. Chongqing Municipality.

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Towards AI-driven Congestion-Free Ports and Terminals

ThroughPut

The shipping industry contributes to 25% of America’s total GDP with the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach being the busiest, handling more than 40% of all inbound cargo shipped to the U.S. Port operators therefore need to plan how they will meet supply with demand and match cargo schedules on a real-time basis.

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7 Benefits Realized Utilizing Big Data to Optimize Supply Chains

GlobalTranz

Improved Demand Planning – still another benefit is that you can really predict and meet demand. With big data, you can predict and determine what items are going to be needed as it pertains to demand. This is great for companies that work with larger amounts of cargo and have issue with receiving too little or too much.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

Supply Chain Planning (demand planning etc) is important as it determines how much cash is tied up in inventory, how much stock becomes obsolescent and how DIFOT is affected by stock availability. That might mean diverting from Los Angeles/Long Beach to Canada or Mexico.