Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2023

Closer to home for supply chain professionals, driver shortages continue to plague the industry. Freight rates have plummeted, brokerages are struggling, and the industry is still bloated with excess inventory. With the right data you can reduce your overall transportation costs, both accessorial costs and overall freight spend.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 2, 2024

Doing so, we enable our customers’ digital journey with new capabilities to help counter increasingly complex challenges and satisfy customer-centric requirements, while managing more frequent supply chain disruptions and rising costs. Those savings and efficiencies have continued to grow.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 7, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights additional developments, evidence and added signs that reinforce that there will be no peak holiday focused surge in transportation and logistics in the latter half of 2023. This dichotomy is most clearly seen in employment figures. So, we have to be very cautious on that.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I just returned from the Automotive Logistics and Supply Chain Conference in Detroit. This annual event explores supply chain management and how logistics can succeed in a fast-changing environment. Illuminating the Network – The magnitude and frequency of disruptions are increasing.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience. Every industry sector and every business across the board, in APAC and around the globe have been impacted by the Great Supply Chain Disruption over the last two years, causing a blow out of transportation costs and continuous delays at every stage of the channel.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

We now add highlights of March and Q1-2022 key global transportation and logistics indices. March and now Q1-2022 data point to continued disruption, added cost inflation and elongated transit times continuing to be manifested in the months ahead. . Global and Domestic Transportation and Logistics Indices. US Logistics Index.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 10, 2022

As the logistics industry continues to recover from pandemic-era supply chain disruptions, shippers are adjusting quickly to the expectations of a new normal. With peak season approaching in a dynamic logistics industry, here is a weekly roundup of news and trends shaping global supply chains.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 20, 2022

… Authorities have now imposed restrictions on Beijing, while the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a gateway for air freight, also limited the movement of people in May.” Since China is home to seven of the world’s 10 biggest container ports, lockdowns could disrupt supply chains well into the foreseeable future.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

Canadian Pacific is the sixth-largest North America freight railway, and in December 2021 completed an agreement to acquire U.S. Upwards of 3,000 rail workers reportedly returned to work yesterday to resume rail operations across North America after a breakdown in labor settlement talks occurred last Saturday.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 23, 2021

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Supply chain disruptions such as the US – China trade war, increased demand during the pandemic, and most recently, the Suez Canal lockage, has caused an international shortage of shipping containers. It will be on highway and surface streets, hauling actual freight.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 2, 2022

Global consumer product goods provider Nestle in its latest report of quarterly financial performance indicated that despite being able to raise prices for a wide variety of marketed products, higher costs for commodities, freight and energy continue eroding profit margins. percent in North America.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2022

The good news is that the supply chain industry has finally “got religion” about digital transformation technologies — an important silver lining after two years of seismic supply chain disruptions. Yet end-to-end supply chain visibility continues to be a challenge, for many reasons.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

How the Supply Chain Crisis is Impacting Businesses and Consumers. 66% of consumers are concerned that supply chain issues will never end ( Chain Store Age ). 82% of people have concerns that the supply chain will ruin life plans, such as birthdays, vacations, holidays, and the purchasing of necessary items.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

JULY 22, 2020

Lockheed Martin raised its full-year outlook after the defense contractor overcame supply chain disruptions in the second quarter. The I ntermodal Association of North America says international intermodal container volumes fell 13.2% Logistics Management). Paul Page is editor of WSJ Logistics Report.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. As a first of its kind agreement in the US, FedEx Express will develop plans to test Elroy Air’s Chaparral autonomous air cargo system within the company’s middle-mile logistics operations, moving shipments between sortation locations. Amazon workers in Staten Island vote to unionize.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Supply chain woes accelerate reshoring, nearshoring trend. Logistics companies are reversing their hiring binge. The trend is borne out in the 2021 State of North America Manufacturing Report produced annually by research and publishing firm Thomasnet.com.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 13, 2022

And now on to this week’s logistics news. Kraft Heinz wants to solve its supply chain problems — in the metaverse. Ford expedites freight to alleviate supplier disruptions in China. Shortages of formula began to take effect last summer amid supply chain disruptions, product recalls and inflation.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 8, 2022

At our recent customer conference Blue Yonder ICON , we heard first-hand the chronic and new challenges supply chain, logistics, and commerce executives are facing and their strategies and implementations to realize the next visions. supply chain disruptions?, A North America?n

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

MAY 4, 2021

Brands supplying those stores and delivering directly to consumers found themselves overwhelmed. These ecommerce trends aren’t going away, and shippers will continue to face the challenge of moving smaller quantities of freight at a higher frequency while navigating capacity issues. You need a Plan B at all times. One of the ways C.H.

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Global Trade Management

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

With this increased sourcing agility comes the increased risk of delivery failure due to a supply chain disruption and, concurrently, the increased importance of visibility into each step of the supply chain. • Poor training for handlers throughout the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 26, 2023

Tentative Deal Reached This morning, industry supply chain teams across the U.S. This contract is characterized as the single largest private-sector collective bargaining agreement in North America. This effort is bound to increase labor tensions.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In North America, 4 million workers left their jobs in April. In North America, a record 632,000 frontline workers left their retail jobs having been exposed to increased levels of danger while facing low levels of pay, while white collar workers got a taste for remote work and found it made their lives easier to manage.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 31, 2023

Supply Chain Matters provides yet another news capsule update focused on what is turning out to be rapidly changing developments impacting global and U.S. transportation and logistics services activity. Transportation and logistics services firms are now increasingly acknowledging the reality of this trend.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 24, 2020

Apart from the panic buying are there Supply Chain lessons that we should learn from the Coronavirus pandemic to improve the robustness of Supply Chains in the future? Supply Chain Disruptions … So Far. Don’t Overlook the Role of Reverse Logistics. Italy locked down the country.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Carriers, freight forwarders, and shippers that were dealing with the China to North America trade lanes were already operating in crisis mode. While rising gas prices drive up the price of transportation, rising natural gas prices also affect global supply chains. “More than 190,000 firms in the U.S.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

This was a busy week for supply chain and logistics news, so let’s go straight to it. Kintetsu to Buy Neptune’s APL Logistics for $1.2 XPO Logistics Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2014 Results. Menlo Logistics Unveils Innovation Speaks. Billion ( BloombergBusiness ).

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Resilinc

JANUARY 15, 2024

If the attacks continue, this crisis could trigger inflation due to higher global freight and insurance rates, along with supply chain disruptions. #5 based manufacturer and marketer of home appliances, is keeping a vigilant eye on logistics issues in the Red Sea, the Suez Canal, and the broader region.

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