Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

However, if your role is managing the movement of widgets from point A to point B, or multiple points, the freight procurement task before you can be labor intensive and time consuming — unless you use a technology solution specifically designed for transportation sourcing. Freight is unique. Relationships matter.

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3rdwave

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In today’s turbulent trading environment, strong global transportation management capabilities deliver exceptional benefits and value. In 2014, a Supply Chain Council survey found that managing global supply chain complexity was among the top 5 major issues. 10 global TMS functions that will make your life easier.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Global Trade Authority Rob Garrison, CEO and Co-Founder of Mercado Labs, shares insights from over 30 years of supply chain experience working with a variety of Fortune 500 companies. Here, he explains what caused current global supply chain disruptions, and shares the five steps needed to overcome today’s supply chain issues.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 7, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights additional developments, evidence and added signs that reinforce that there will be no peak holiday focused surge in transportation and logistics in the latter half of 2023. The Danish company reduced its workforce by an equivalent 1,900 workers in the latest quarter. Moeller Maersk last week.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Today, trucking, shipping, air shipping, and other logistics services are all experiencing disruption: As consumer expectations evolve, businesses are constantly pressured to deliver high-quality goods in the shortest amount of time. Technological solutions are helping many companies keep up and adjust to ever-changing consumer expectations.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 2, 2024

This is an example of what one of our valued customers is saying about our solution: “We first implemented Blue Yonder’s transportation management platform in 2006. The logistics landscape has changed significantly since then, but Blue Yonder’s capabilities have evolved along with it.

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Elementum

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Today, trucking, shipping, air shipping, and other logistics services are all experiencing disruption: As consumer expectations evolve, businesses are constantly pressured to deliver high-quality goods in the shortest amount of time. Technological solutions are helping many companies keep up and adjust to ever-changing consumer expectations.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 15, 2016

“Logistics in Motion” was the theme of Descartes’ Evolution 2016 Global User & Partner Conference , and it adequately describes the dynamic nature of the logistics industry as well as the company. TM+ should enable both planning, execution, & performance management.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

As shippers of all sizes expand their global sourcing, manufacturing, and distribution operations, they have to navigate the complexities involved with global transportation management. What are the main challenges global shippers face today? Live Episode: Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 12:00 pm ET.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

About Tim Higham Tim Higham is a leading visionary in the logistics and transportation field, running the highly successful InMotion Global, Inc. In August, 2017, a national, publicly traded bank holding company bought a minority stake in InMotion Global and AscendTMS. After selling his company, IRC, Inc.,

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TransAudit

JANUARY 12, 2023

To find savings, you’ll want to work with an experienced global transportation post audit services provider. A professional team will pore over your transportation activity to identify and recoup overpayments and overbillings. When things get tight, companies often have to make tough decisions about where to save money.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 11, 2022

In a previously published Part One look back commentary , we noted how outlooks for the global economy and for business uncertainties have significantly changed at the mid-year mark as the global economy shows definitive signs of uncertainty and lowered momentum. Mid-Year Global Transportation Assessment.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 28, 2022

In a prior posting, we highlighted recent financial results and perspectives for the 3M Company. Samsung Electronics can often provide a meaningful bellwether for ongoing conditions across global semiconductor, high tech and consumer electronics supply networks. In this posting , with focus on Samsung Electronics.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

He writes, “Companies mean different things by the term ‘digital supply chain transformation.’ ’ For some companies, it means replacing manual, paper and pencil processes with digital data and process support. In the simplest terms we are entering the age of the Digital Supply Chain! .”

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 15, 2022

In a reported effort to cut additional costs and increase needed cash flows, the provider announced intentions to cut upwards of 800 jobs within its North America support teams and eliminate its company operated warehouses. based manufacturing strategy, with a decision to source manufacturing at a CMS provider located in Taiwan.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2021

And now to this week’s logistics news. UN plan would raise $5 billion from containership companies to stop emissions. Pandemic has ‘forever altered’ need for logistics space. With the third vaccine authorized, these manufacturers are pressing for more companies to be authorized to ship the vaccine.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights the increasing realities of declining global trade and freight rates that are occurring in the first-half of 2023. Background Global wide transportation and logistics costs increased at unprecedented rates during 2021 and 2022. billion in 2022, the company estimated.”

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The report’s opening statement indicates: “ An exceptionally profitable period in the shipping industry is coming to an end, during which companies such as Maersk have benefitted excessively from sky-high freight rates.”. However, what remains are the implications of what has occurred since the start of the global pandemic.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 19, 2021

Prior to the pandemic, supply chains were already growing in complexity due to increased globalization, data sources, and customer demands. If they weren’t already aware, your company’s leaders now clearly understand how critical the logistics and supply chain operations are to the bottom line and success of the organization.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 6, 2022

The company’s products have reportedly been in high demand but outpacing available supply. Elevated transportation and logistics costs and longer transit times have impacted profitability, despite ongoing price increases imposed on products. For the quarter ending May 31, total revenue decreased one percent to $12.2

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 5, 2018

The Influence of IoT: How it’s Transforming Global Logistics|Transportfolio. More specifically, it’s impacting the logistics world and global supply chains. IoT will enable companies to have a wider reach, without all the costs associated with the multiple platforms we needed just a few years ago.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Supply Chain Matters provides a brief update to our prior posted commentary highlighting FedEx’s unexpected and stunning warning of a quarterly revenue and profitability shortfall that uneased both company investors and the broader Wall Street financial community. The carrier has now announced plans to hike shipping rates 6.9 percent to 7.9

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DynaSys

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Data analytics is widely explained in three approaches and also have helped thousands of companies in all industries gain visibility across the supply chain, collaborate with partners, and better understand risks and opportunities. Sourcing and supplier performance. Transportation and Logistics.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 28, 2022

Further reported was the highest profitability performance in a decade in the midst of high inflation and disrupted global transportation and logistics networks. The company further initiated added charges related to apparel returns. All of that stated, the global fast fashion retailer faces continued challenges.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 9, 2022

After a tumultuous two years of pandemic-driven supply and global transportation disruptions, the stakes are obviously high that both parties can reach a timely resolution to this period of contract renewal. As The Wall Street Journal noted in its reporting: “ The risks have seldom been as high as they are this year.”.

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o9 Solutions

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Over the past 18 months, companies in the APAC region, like many areas across the globe, have faced volatility and disruption across their supply chains. For example, rising commodity and energy prices are causing global transportation disruptions and delays. One of the most obvious benefits of AI/ML technology is financial.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 6, 2022

While developed regions have managed to sustain some production momentum, there are growing concerns related to continued high levels of cost inflation and added global transport disruption. Source: JP Morgan and S&P Global, March 2022. This index’s March value fell to an 18-month low of 53.0, down from 53.7

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 9, 2022

Clark, a twenty-three-year veteran at Amazon, was a member of the most senior management body, the “ S-Team ,” and has been credited with architecting the online provider’s logistics, warehousing and customer fulfillment capabilities, including two-day and same-day shipping fulfillment. The company’s valuation was pegged at $8 billion.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The notions of an unanticipated global-wide pandemic, unprecedented disruptions in supplier lead times, global transportation, and the burden of a sevenfold increase in ocean container shipping rates have tested prior product business strategies and supply chain practices.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 19, 2015

Author’s Note: I was completely unplugged on vacation last week, so it wasn’t until I returned to the office on Monday that I learned Infor is acquiring GT Nexus (a Talking Logistics sponsor). Brooks Brothers: “SAP is our internal ERP system, @GTNexus is our external (supply chain) ERP system” #Bridges2015 #logistics #SCM.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 16, 2022

The Logistics Managers Index for May indicated that inventory costs are now one-third higher than they were last year. An added factor to be weighted is continued extended supplier and global transportation lead times, meaning how much of material needs can be managed as just-in-time or augmented by just-in-case considerations.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 17, 2022

Labor Tensions on Rise Across Global Transportation Networks. The subsequent multi-year grounding of this aircraft forced the company to have to painfully undergo a financial lesson as to the consequences of having to restore its reputation in savvy and uncompromising engineering design. Added Manufacturing Disruption in China.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 25, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights a significant joint announcement from global shipping lines Maersk and MSC that should garner the interest to supply chain management transportation and logistics management teams. Discontinuing the 2M alliance paves the way for both companies to continue to pursue their individual strategies.”

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 1, 2022

The latest incident comes after continued reports of a significant cyberattack incident involving large-scale asset-light global transportation and logistics services provider Expeditors International that occurred on February 26. © Copyright 2022, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Of added concern, staffing levels among Chinese manufacturers reportedly fell for the fifth consecutive month as a number of firms cited company downsizing actions due to lower volumes of new orders. From our lens, they telegraph the likelihood of more declining global supply chain activity levels extending to the end of 2022.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 17, 2023

In Part Two of this blog series , we provided highlights our third prediction, that supply chain management teams will continue to exercise more direct control of direct materials sourcing, and these efforts will be a prominent element of business strategy for CSCO ’s and CPO ’s this year. Prediction Background. Prediction Implications.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 30, 2017

Breaking into Global Markets, One Tesla at a Time | Transportfolio. When a 100-year-old toy company collaborates with a leading automotive and technology manufacturer, the possibilities are limitless. But when that mix is powered by a comprehensive logistics solution, it can really go the distance.

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