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2021 Logistics Outlook: Truckload Freight Market Forecast

GlobalTranz

To help shippers prepare, we will examine contributing factors that will play a significant role in the 2021 truckload freight market. Consumer Spending Shifts Will Continue To Impact The Truckload Freight Market. Developing long-term relationships will be essential to securing capacity from carriers facing challenges.

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Supply Chain Risk Management : The Challenges Driving Increased Interest in Managed Service

GlobalTranz

Let’s take a closer look at an examination by Industry Week , “Beyond the immediate impact on PPE Suppliers and Raw Materials for Hand Sanitizers, the pandemic gave a view of the degree to which many manufacturers were vulnerable to suppliers. Traditional Inventory Replenishment Strategies No Longer Work. Cybersecurity Concerns Remain.

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[e-Book] The Essential Guide to Inbound Freight Management

GlobalTranz

How Big Is the Problem Of Inbound Freight Management? Inbound freight management is receiving a lot of attention as businesses continue to look for ways to manage shipping costs. A more efficient inbound freight program can minimize delays, save money and even reduce confusion. It is complicated, that’s why.

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How to create a reliable supply chain with effective forecasting and inventory management

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Ask manufacturing leaders what changes they plan to make in the next three years in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, and they will likely say their use of technology will deepen as more and more players in their supply chains come to rely on digital connections for daily interactions. Managing Inventory. Talent gaps: ?

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One Type of Inflation is Caused by Supply Chain Issues (And That is a Good Thing)

Logistics Viewpoints

But SHIFEX, the freight forwarder rate index, recently recorded the lowest ocean freight rate between China and the port of Long Beach in 24 months —a rate of $3,500 to move a 40-foot container. Economists are beginning to speak of “immaculate disinflation.” This is an 80% drop year on year drop. This is an 80% drop year on year drop.

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Supply Chain Risk Management: 7 Challenges Driving Increased Interest in Managed Service

Logistics Viewpoints

Disruption has been the name of the game for more than a year as supply chain leaders have been dealing with changing buyer behaviors, inventory management challenges, labor shortages, weather and pandemic-related uncertainty, cyber security threats and capacity constraints that continue to create significant supply chain volatility.

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COVID’s Supply Chain Ripples: the SME Business Perspective

Freightos

Take Conner, the manufacturer of FORT, a magnetic pillow fort. But then global freight kicked in. . It really got tricky when we hadover thousands of unitsin production and were starting to book freight and suddenly realized that the cost of freight was almost 4 or 5X what we had budgeted. It’s suddenly about the economy.