Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The fourth quarter is typically a busy one for retail and logistics service providers, but as Paul Berger reported on August 29 in the Wall Street Journal, “this year’s peak shipping season is arriving with a whimper as merchants and consumer-goods suppliers continue to burn off excess.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

A December Labor Department report shows that the price of consumer goods increased by 6.8% Reduced workforce: The December jobs report was quite weak. Americans’ concern over rising prices is at a record high, according to a recent survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. And these worries aren’t unfounded.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2021

As such their closest peers who report their earnings are C.H. In a conversation with me on 2/25, Mr. Farrell of GlobalTranz reports that they are increasingly dealing with chief financial officers and even chief executive officers when it comes to managed trans deals. Robinson and Echo Global Logistics. That makes C.H.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides a further global supply chain assessment in the highlights and added insights on reported November 2023 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Global Wide Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. reported in October. in November.

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Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 10, 2020

As the world moves toward near-sourcing, instantaneous commerce and automated logistics, these are the steps companies are taking to build efficient supply chains.

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides a further global supply chain assessment in the highlighting and added insights on reported October 2023 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Global Wide Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. value reported for September.

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BR Williams Supply Chain Management

MARCH 10, 2023

It has been a couple of years since TK Bardwell and I partnered to publish an industry report. Because demand for consumer goods exceeded supply during early 2022, the manufacturing outlook was more a function of capacity to meet demand than demand itself. A Preface (from our CEO ) Happy New Year 2023!!!

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ToolsGroup

JULY 27, 2021

On the surface, it seems like the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry performed better than most during the COVID pandemic. Consumer goods e-commerce sales for example increased 91% year over year according to a NielsenIQ analysis. Anticipate Consumer Demand and Supply Chain Uncertainty with Probabilistic Planning.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Our previous posting in this series of global wide manufacturing PMI highlights was in early January summarizing both December and Q4-2022 reported indices data. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® report, a composite index produced by J.P. value reported for the end of 2022. value reported for December 2022. increased 0.4

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

This weekend, I edited the Supply Chains to Admire report. The report was scheduled to publish in the summer of 2023, but life got in the way. The full report publishes this week. I laugh that writing the report is like a root canal. With surgery, I just never got to the report finished. Writing it takes weeks.

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Zipline Logistics

MAY 25, 2021

Everything from food and beverage products to home improvement items saw a significant consumption bump as buyers, sidelined by pandemic restrictions, diverted their purchasing habits from experiences to consumer goods. Data pulled from the previously mentioned FMI report. ** Some of the companies featured in the report.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 21, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters posting, we highlight reports of muted sales growth for this year’s 618 online shopping festival across China along the implications for industry supply chains. Various published reports indicate that the 618 festival that occurred this past weekend had disappointing sales volumes. percent in April.

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Logility

AUGUST 30, 2022

a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, and The Parker Avery Group, a leading retail and consumer goods consulting firm, announced that they have formed a strategic partnership. s current Form 10-K and other reports and documents subsequently filed with the SEC. NASDAQ: AMSWA).

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MIT Supply Chain

JULY 20, 2021

The finding, contained in the 2021 State of Supply Chain Sustainability report , puts companies on notice that they ignore the sustainability of their supply chains at their peril. This year’s report is sponsored by BlueYonder, C.H. more than double the number received for the previous report.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 19, 2018

The report identifies several concepts that look to have high impact across the next decade: uberization of freight; blockchain; fully autonomous trucks; artificial intelligence applications; truck platooning; electric vehicle fleets; autonomous mobile robots; and drone and unmanned aerial vehicle delivery systems. trillion, or 7.7%

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 5, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of reported February 2024 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Overall, global activity reportedly showed signs of increased production output for consumer goods production levels but continued muted growth for intermediate supply network and investment goods production levels.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2023

An initial estimate of this year’s retail holiday spending indicates a mixed bag, depending on either retail industry, consumer goods producer or logistics and transportation industry perspectives. Reuters , in its reporting of this week’s Mastercard estimate included a chart which contrasted this year’s estimated 3.1

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 23, 2021

Environmental journalist Matt McGrath ( @MattMcGrathBBC ) reports, “The world produces over two billion tons of municipal solid waste every year, enough to fill over 800,000 Olympic sized swimming pools.”[1] McGrath reports Americans only recycle 35% of their solid waste. Humans create a lot of waste. ”[8].

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The supply-chain problems are helping drive stronger inflation, the WSJ’s Gwynn Guilford and Anthony DeBarros report , as rising transport and other logistics costs flow through to the cost of consumer goods. Paul Page is editor of WSJ Logistics Report. Follow the WSJ Logistics Report on Twitter at @WSJLogistics.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 14, 2022

Today’s consumer picture is even more confusing as a result of low unemployment rates (which generally means higher demand) and rising inflation (which generally means lower demand). Nominal income gains were reported by survey participants, but half of all families anticipated reduced real incomes next year. ”[3]. .”

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SupplyShift

JUNE 5, 2023

STANDARD ASSESSMENT THESIS for Retailers The Sustainability Insight System (THESIS), created by The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) and powered by SupplyShift, is a science-based performance management system helping retailers transform the consumer goods industry to deliver more sustainable consumer products.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In this Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-up posting, we highlight new information regarding our previous posting highlighting a disclosed cyberattack directed at consumer goods producer Clorox. Further communicated was an expected operating loss of upwards of $150 million for the quarter. million to resolve.

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Supply Chain 24/7

OCTOBER 1, 2019

This report discusses what goes behind the strategic decisions of Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) companies, and how modern network optimization solutions can help improve them.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 8, 2023

According to the published report by The Wall Street Journal ( Paid subscription ), the Chinese online commerce giant has lost its lead in terms of market value and capitalization. PDD Holdings reportedly has attracted retail consumers with a combination of entertainment offerings and more affordably priced goods.

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Sourcemap

JULY 23, 2017

In 2016 alone, reports of food fraud in cheese, olive oil, beef and seafood highlighted the business risks of opaque supply chains, and the growing consumer demand for knowledge. In May of 2017, 36 million pounds of imported non-organic soybeans were reported to have obtained “organic” labels for domestic sale in the US.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 17, 2022

Global retailer Walmart reported Q1-2022 financial performance this week and described the current retail business profitability environment as unexpected and unusual. For the recently completed quarter, the retailer reported overall revenue up 2.4 For the recently completed quarter, the retailer reported overall revenue up 2.4

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 5, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides readers a further installment in our global supply chain assessment series in providing highlights on reported March 2024, and Q1-2024 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. reported for February, and a 2.6 Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® ended March on an optimistic footing.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

BOPIS, sometimes referred to as “click and collect,” is popular with most omnichannel consumers. Journalist Agatha Aviso reports, “While BOPIS had been offered even before the onset of COVID-19, it is the pandemic that boosted it a remarkable 106.9% .” That’s true across the retail sector. during 2020.

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Alloy

JANUARY 24, 2019

IDC Study: Industry Trends and Why a Demand-Driven Organization is Critical Alloy recently commissioned IDC for a Market Spotlight on the future direction of consumer goods companies, which you can read here. Thus, the supply chain becomes a “critical competitive weapon,” according to the report.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 12, 2022

As I write the report, I am reflecting on how can companies be resilient in a market that is volatile? To make the point, let us start with a discussion on Consumer Products manufacturing. Comparison of Industry Players Within Consumer Goods for the Period of 2012-2021. In Table 1, we share the overall industry trend.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Only 2 % stated they don’t use any technology and 5 % reported not having a process in place. . Drilling down per technology type, 47% of respondents who use spreadsheets reported being dissatisfied (rating between 1 and 4). Only 32% of them reported being satisfied with this toolset. . Only 25.7%

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 21, 2021

KPMG notes in a recent report, that only 6 percent of companies said they had full visibility over their supply chains.” ” Marina Mayer ( @MarinaMayer ), Editor-in-Chief of Supply & Demand Chain Executive, reports that visibility isn’t the only area in which companies are lagging. ” Concluding Thoughts.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides a monthly highlights of reported January 2024 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. reading reported at the end of 2023. While production rose among consumer goods producers, it reportedly was unchanged among intermediate and investment goods sectors.

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Supply Chain 24/7

AUGUST 9, 2019

In this report, we describe how Locus provides automated sales beat plans to optimize the mobile workforce for increased profitability, resource efficiency, and time savings.

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Locus

JULY 25, 2023

Historically, consumer goods shopping was restricted to in-store visits to supermarkets or malls in the Middle East. A recent report predicts that by 2030 , the share of smartphone connections in the Middle East and North African (MENA) regions will reach 92 percent from 76 percent in 2022.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 7, 2024

Hence, to cope with inflation, fast moving consumer goods firms would often resort to shrinking the product size to avoid raising prices.’ ”[2] Liberto adds, “The effectiveness of shrinkflation as a pricing strategy appears to vary across different types of goods and markets. Air-filled bags of chips.

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Provenance

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

70% of consumers are most interested in transparency about products, rather than the companies who made them. Last week Futerra and The Consumer Goods Forum released a report showing how product transparency is the most important factor for building shopper trust. Source: Futerra ).

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