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The Impending Ocean Carrier War on Last Mile Fulfillment

Freightos

Late 2021 saw Maersk continue to shift towards vertical integrations, with acquisition of Senator, a German freight forwarder for $644 million dollars. While Facebook is looking at virtual reality, Alibaba and Amazon are looking more at freight. More on Maerskā€™s transition to an end-to-end provider can be found in this 2020 report.

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FedEx Partners for Visibility, New CEO Focuses on Quality

Intelligent Audit

Time will tell if these efforts will be enough as daily revenue averages for FedEx Express, FedEx Freight, and FedEx Ground display negative year-over-year KPIs. . as ā€œDB Schenker announced in January that it purchased two transport companies in Spain as part of a plan to build out its European network.ā€. year-on-year.ā€

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Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Continue to Stabilize in March and Q1-2023

Supply Chain Matters

However, we discern some added signs excess inventories and of production sourcing shifts. Further concerning was that the volume of warehouse finished goods inventories rose to the greatest extent in four months. percentage point increase in March while the Inventories sub-index dipped to the contraction value of 47.5,

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This Week in Logistics News (April 22 ā€“ 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

US homes 8 retailers keeping Earth Day alive through a commitment to sustainability Ground parcel delivery costs reached a record high in Q1, although pricing discounts from carriers softened the blow, according to the TD Cowen/AFS Freight Index. British supermarkets source peppers exclusively from Spain during the winter months.

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YARD MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Questionnaire

The Lean Supply Chain

The other software companies that sell YMS below, sell it in conjunction with a Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Transportation Management System (TMS) so there is no way to gauge those YMS sales as they could be with, or without, the YMS system depending on the customerā€™s needs. YMS vendors : High Jump. Red Prairie. C3 Solutions.

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What Are the 5 Biggest Supply Chain Issues Today?

Stord

While the rest of the world adopts cloud technologies to help them break down silos and integrate communication, companies continue to use disparate applications and tools for managing orders, evaluating inventory, and shipping goods. In fact, Brazil, Spain, and Japan saw the largest increases in online sales during the COVID pandemic.

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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Optimising the Manufacturing Supply Chain

Unleashed

Being able to get traceability on the material, understand when the available dates are and whether it’s in the warehouse, whether it’s due or not ā€¦ these are all the big things for us that create bottlenecks.ā€ Often, we end up asking the partner in Germany or Spain or somewhere, ā€˜Can you air freight this?