Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Each year I go to the Consumer Goods and Technology (CGT) conference where speaker-after-speaker talks about retail/supplier collaboration. It is for this reason that I sit on the back row at most conferences watching, listening, and smiling. We would love your input as we close the survey. I am a disbeliever.

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Cathy Roberson

AUGUST 1, 2022

“The problem is, as we go into the holiday season, they’ve got the wrong stock in the warehouse,” Moore said. Retailers with store-front will push this option and curbside pickups to offset high shipping costs. FedEx and UPS expect mixed volumes Some carriers such as FedEx appear to be expecting more subdued volumes.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 20, 2018

To gain insights on that question and more, Adelante SCM and BluJay Solutions conducted a web survey of supply chain and logistics professionals in March 2018. A total of 137 respondents completed the survey from Manufacturing, Retail, Logistics Service Provider, and other companies in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.

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ToolsGroup

MAY 28, 2019

Here are a few places these themes popped up at the conference and how we can tie them back to a subject we love here at ToolsGroup: supply chain planning. All this complexity can’t possibly tamed even by an army of planners–80 percent of businesses surveyed are now automating processes, and it’s not just in the warehouse.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 14, 2021

The creation of the Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) and an increasing number of startup challenges, incubators etc. Warehouse automation was in full swing and maritime apps were suddenly mushrooming. An attendee poll at a recent conference of The European Freight and Logistics Forum hints at some cultural challenges.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Free-Shipping Offers Abound This Holiday Season, According To Shop.Org. Earlier this week, for example, I commented on the partnership between Amazon and P&G , where Amazon has set up operations inside P&G warehouses to fulfill online orders. As a result, the answers to “What is a warehouse?” percent last year. .

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 27, 2015

You may want to introduce some checks or surveys throughout the year rather than waiting till the end of the year to find out if you’ve achieved your objective. This is a SMART objective and can be measured – provided you think about how you are going to measure it when you put your stakeholder communications plan together at the start.

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ShipBob

MAY 21, 2020

The data is aggregated from over 3,000 ecommerce merchants who collectively ship out millions of items every month through ShipBob’s fulfillment centers. Employees who can work from home are most likely spending their work days on video conference calls. Despite unemployment rate jumping to 14.7

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2023

I attend this conference every year, but this time, strolling the exhibition floor and surveying the 110+ technology providers’ latest wares, I was struck by a dichotomy. Breaking down those silos was the focus of a panel discussion Rob Haddock and I led at the conference. Here’s his real-world template for going about it.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2023

Throughout the conference I met with a number of software and hardware suppliers to get a glimpse of what they were showcasing. This will make loadings and unloadings more efficient within the yard and warehouse. The customer can change the shipping address, the timing of the delivery, or cancel the order up until delivery time.

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Cathy Roberson

JANUARY 25, 2022

The International Post Corporation (IPC), a consortium of national postal service operators, conducted a survey of 33,594 frequent online shoppers in 40 countries and found that 32% of cross-border shoppers purchased more from online retailers in other countries in 2020 and that 51% expect to do so more often in the future.

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BlueYonder

JULY 15, 2015

When ChainLink did our annual Business Priorities survey we noted that Manufacturers rated revising their ecommerce strategy just as highly as consumer facing companies – see chart 1 below. And supply chain conferences are filled with Omni-channel sessions, the attendees of which are logistics people. That is very telling.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2023

At the same time, the Celtics finished with the second-best record in the Eastern Conference. The failure will affect the movement of people and goods, he said Monday at an annual conference of the American Council of Engineering Companies in Washington. It seemed like a run to the Stanley Cup was inevitable.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Last September, a jury at Southwark crown court in south London found Amazon guilty of shipping dangerous goods by air. In Amazon’s case, the company stated “We ship millions of products every week and are confident in the sophisticated technologies and processes we have developed to detect potential shipping hazards.”

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Cathy Roberson

JANUARY 17, 2022

Many retailers’ inventory ear-marked for the holiday season sat on a ship, in a container waiting to be picked up, or was snapped up quickly by consumers ahead of the 2021 holiday season. However, the JP Morgan - Chase survey noted that 48% of respondents stated that they were allocating more funds to move goods.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The organization is not clear on accepting special requests and expedited shipping policies, often resulting in a lower margin. Many of my clients talk about a customer-centric supply chain but rely on useless metrics from an annual survey or a net promoter score. Late-stage assembly in the warehouses enables five-day delivery.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 24, 2013

Macy’s had been bragging at conferences about their work on cross-channel fulfillment with progress made in using their stores to ship directly to customers. Macy’s requested that I ship the damaged bowls back. With the introduction of Amazon Prime with free shipping, why do customers need to enter a physical store?

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Cathy Roberson

JUNE 6, 2022

A Pitney Bowes/Cipher Research survey of 168 US retailers found that the two largest obstacles were technology integrations (42%) and risk of losing volume discounts (39%). Along with the ability to integrate with TMS, OneRail’s platform can also integrate into warehouse management systems (WMS).

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

However, members of the shippers and providers panel at the CSCMP press conference stressed that the tradeoff is a welcome improvement to safety now that drivers cannot cheat on their logbooks. Warehousing is one link in the supply chain that needs to take a more active role in embracing technological innovation, according to the researchers.

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Precoro

AUGUST 31, 2023

Calculate the minimum level of stock you absolutely must have available in the warehouse and how quickly you can replenish it in case of an unexpected rise in demand. Shipping logistics Companies can reduce transportation costs by improving logistics and shipping processes.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2016

planes and ships ); Iran and North Korea and their nuclear ambitions; ISIS exporting its brand of terrorism around the world; and China building islands in the South China Sea (and reportedly putting weapons on them ). Cyber risk and security is getting more attention from the ocean shipping community too. What’s next for SCONs?

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Every year, in our annual MH&L Salary Survey , we ask readers to identify the biggest challenge they face in their jobs, and every year they tell us the same thing: finding, developing and retaining talent. The current limitation with drone technology use in warehousing is it’s only a two-dimensional scanner.

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