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2021 Logistics Outlook: LTL Industry Trends

GlobalTranz

Many LTL industry trends, such as capacity constraints , rising rates, and changing consumer buying patterns, will continue through 2021. Let’s look at top LTL industry trends for 2021. Four LTL Industry Trends Shippers Should Prepare For in 2021. E-commerce sales boomed in categories such as groceries and retail.

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Reimagining Logistics: Focusing on What’s Ahead, Not What Happened

Logistics Viewpoints

Challenges drive dramatic shifts in supply chain and logistics. Across many of our industries, conventional wisdom about best practices for supply chain operations and logistical networks is being challenged. Hallmarks of successful logistics transformation.

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Inventory Management in Service Logistics Industry

Talking Logistics

For Logistics the focus is on high inventory turns. Not really because each industry is different, and so are organizations within the same industry and even different divisions within the same organization have their own unique drivers and constraints. The answer varies from function to function in the supply chain.

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The Counter to Constant Supply Chain Volatility Is Pervasive Visibility and Industry Collaboration

Logistics Viewpoints

There is now a robust and growing market for real time transportation visibility solutions, which help shippers, carriers and the entire ecosystem run more cost-effective and efficient logistics operations. Until we have this kind of pervasive visibility, inventory management will continue to be largely an exercise in futility.

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DB Schenker – Singapore: A Vital Node in Singapore’s Logistics Ecosystem

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

With such dramatic reductions in flights, Singapore’s status of a logistics hub was put severely at risk. With broad-based support packages, targeting hardest-hit industries like aviation, coupled with support of a strong logistics ecosystem, reinforced by global players such as DB Schenker. supply chain.

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Editor’s Choice: 8 Supply Chain Planning Challenges Retailers Will Face In 2022 And Tips To Overcome Them

Logistics Viewpoints

The ongoing chip crisis since last year affecting 100+ industries is the best example: supply couldn’t meet the increased demand, which led to rising prices and shortages in computers, cars, and pretty much any other electronics product with chips. this experience has changed how we dress and exercise.

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Big Data, Analytics, and Industry 4.0

Enterra Insights

Despite years of discussion about the fourth industrial revolution (aka Industry 4.0), the revolution remains in its infancy. They write, “Industrial production was transformed by steam power in the nineteenth century, electricity in the early twentieth century, and automation in the 1970s.”[1] ”[3] In the Industry 4.0