Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 4, 2022

Supply chain logistics B2B platform provider project44 produces a series termed Supply Chain Insights by project44 which extracts select data from the provider’s tracking of global transportation and logistics flows. State of Global Transportation and Logistics.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 11, 2022

In this particular assessment, we reflect on our prediction that cost inflation trends that occurred among global logistics and transportation modes last year, would be unsustainable, and would drive remediation efforts. Mid-Year Global Transportation Assessment. Additional Thoughts and Perspectives.

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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.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

percent for its LTL Freight unit, beginning in January 2023. percent rate increase initiated for this year, along with ongoing fuel and other surcharges added for respective parcel or freight movements. However, the market forces of global transportation are such that in times of industry wide excess capacity, rates often tend to fall.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 22, 2022

The retailer’s overall inventory levels reportedly increased more than 33 percent during the first quarter, a reflection of what was described as an aggressive buying strategy amid supply chain disruptions. percent due to higher discounting and the selling of more grocery items at lower margins.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Supply Chain Matters once again highlights some positive news for global supply chain management teams, specifically transportation and logistics related teams.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 17, 2023

Part Three of this series shared our fourth 2023 prediction that was focused on different priorities for supply chain talent, skills retention and employee retention strategies. In this update, we focus on our fifth prediction which is focused on global transportation and logistics services sectors.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Resilient to supply chain disruption. The most significant role of a control tower is to provide a live view into the vitality of the complete chain, across many functions – manufacturing, inventory, demand planning, logistics, customs clearance, etc. Live market freight rates? End to end data transparency.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 26, 2023

Additional Thoughts and Perspectives As Supply Chain Matters has pointed out in our various highlights of this and other labor contract negotiations involving global transportation, logistics and other supply chain related support services, we are in a period of higher labor activism.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 6, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights the occurrence of multi-day disruptions occurring among key U.S. The most significant news in global transportation and logistics circles late last week and this week are U.S. The Wall Street Journal indicated in May an atmosphere of rising tensions between companies and workers.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

There is another report of a cyber-attack involving a large-scale asset-light global transportation and logistics services provider for maritime and air freight shipping tendering and services. The situation is evolving, and we are working with global cybersecurity experts to manage the situation.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 5, 2024

Bloomberg also observed a related trend, namely that higher rates are now impacting related modes of transcontinental freight movements, specifically that rail rates from China to Europe with an expectation that Silk Road focused Europe bound rail rates are likely to have a spot-rate increase exceeding 20 percent.

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