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New Year, New Horizons: Transportation Industry Gets Ready to Take On 2023

Intelligent Audit

As the transportation industry waves goodbye (and good riddance) to 2022, innovative logistics professionals are already working hard to make 2023 a banner year for the global transportation industry. If they are not already being impacted by the cost-of-living crisis, they are afraid that they will be. ”.

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Competing in a diverse parcel market

Cathy Roberson

Meanwhile, FedEx reported that overall revenue for the quarter ending February 29 declined 2.3% “Amazon Business supports integrations with Coupa and over 100 other procurement, payments, and ERP systems. Catch my weekly column on air cargo, freight forwarding, and the express markets on Air Cargo Next.

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Omnichannel is another Word for Complexity

Enterra Insights

Consumers now take the digital path to purchase more often than not; but, they don’t care what retailers call their shopping journey or what strategies companies use to make the shopping journey a seamless one. ” Once a consumer completes his or her digital path to purchase (i.e., ’ They simply just shop.”[1]

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Parcels' role in Intermodal Rail

Cathy Roberson

Shippers are scrambling to make contingency plans while other transportation modes – air, trucking, and perhaps barge – prepare to handle additional volume should there be a rail strike. This figure also includes the shipment of e-commerce purchases and other small parcel shipments.

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146 days until Christmas - Are you ready?

Cathy Roberson

This collaboration helps carriers plan capacity needs, temporary seasonal labor requirements, third-party transportation purchases, and more down to the zip code level. For retailers, a 2021 RIS report found that shoppers’ average BOPIS order increased by one to two items during pickup. I wear a number of hats these days.

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Defining visibility

Cathy Roberson

Many talk #supplychain #visibility as to transportation, which is really #TrackaAndTrace. James Coombes @thisjamesc Visibility as things are happening rather than after the fact, so one can act Vinayak Ramesh @vinayakxr End-to-End (Sorry, I cringe at using this phrase…) I differ here. Plus #warehouse. we want to see adjustments.

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Last mile costs rising fast

Cathy Roberson

Last-mile costs are outpacing overall transportation and warehousing costs, a trend likely to continue through 2022. In comparison, transportation and warehousing PPI increased 17.844 points for the same period, index based on 2006=100 and not seasonally adjusted. Year-to-date through November, retail sales are up 18.3%