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Flexibility in the Face of Uncertainty

Freightos

The interesting shift here, though, is that there’s a whole world of alternative shipping routes. The traditional China-Northern Europe route alternative banked on sea freight to Dubai, followed by air shipping to the final European destination. For a full shipping container, that results in a full $3,804 of savings, or a 17% savings.

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The Holy Grail of Modern S&OP: Multi-Horizon Integrated Business Planning 

Logility

Suppose you have one distribution center in Los Angeles. Your customer service and operational costs will always be impacted by your need to ship orders across the country.” 3 Ways to Pivot Faster with Multi Horizon Integrated Business Planning – Download a free recording here.

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WordPress Ecommerce Shipping: Scaling Your Online Store Through Shipping

ShipBob

With over 60 million downloads, WooCommerce grew from a simple WordPress plugin to a fully customizable ecommerce platform. Even more, WooCommerce offers flexible shipping options and settings, including the opportunity to work with tech-driven order fulfillment companies and other platforms that can help you grow your business.

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Holiday shopping has started early amid fears over shipping delays

Ware2Go

When products are available, shipping has gotten choked up due to historically heightened demand , COVID-related port shutdowns and storm-created chaos. Seventy-three cargo ships await unloading at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Saturday, a record. Port closures and shipping container shortages.

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Why Hasn’t the Music Industry Supply Chain Responded to the Vinyl Resurgence?

Kinaxis

However, one thing that we need to really think about is this: If people want to buy LPs, what is the established supply chain to get the LPs produced, packaged, and shipped to these listeners? In an article by Vish Knanna on Pitchfork , he talks about one in particular: Rainbo Records in Los Angeles, California.

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Moving Logistics Forward from the Great Bottleneck of 2021: Part 1

USC Consulting Group

are filled to the brim with container ships, backed up like a logjam because there are no trucks available to transport those containers to where they need to go. Shipping containers pile up at the Port of Los Angeles. But even when the cargo arrives, ports on both coasts of the U.S. Rethink foreign supply chains.

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What is Demand Forecasting? Importance and Benefits of Forecasting Customer Demand

ShipBob

Between shipping new collections for wholesale earlier in the year and Q4 madness for direct-to-consumer sales, we’ve been able to get through our heaviest seasons while staying ahead of production using ShipBob’s forecasting tools — even as order volume more than quadrupled in a year.” Our B2C and B2B order volume changes month to month.