Remove Freight Remove Packaging Remove Shipping Remove Ukraine
article thumbnail

Modern Ways Technology Provides Transportation Management & Freight Spend Visibility

Intelligent Audit

It has always been essential to have visibility into freight spending. Freight audit & payment (FAP) providers have long paved the way to gaining this visibility by looking at shipping invoices and breaking down freight spend. What Is Freight or Transportation Spend Management?

article thumbnail

The Proactive Revolution: How Real-Time Visibility is Transforming Parcel Shipping

Intelligent Audit

We see more and more how global conflicts like the war in Ukraine, labor issues like the potential of a strike during negotiations on the West Coast, and other socioeconomic factors impact supply chains around the world. It allows you to track and manage packages from when you ship them until they arrive at their final destination.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Digital Megatrends – Shaping Supply Chain Innovation

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The road ahead remains bumpy, with the pandemic still dominating the news and Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine threatening global stability and supply chains. The country is a key node in the world’s semiconductor pipeline, accounting for 13 per cent of global chip assembly testing and packaging.

article thumbnail

Labor Tensions Running High on Many Fronts as Peak Season Approaches

Intelligent Audit

As fall quickly approaches, shippers are busy preparing for the stressors of the peak shipping season. According to reporting from CNN Business , “ 350,000 Teamsters work at UPS as drivers and package sorters out of a global workforce of 534,000 permanent employees. million packages daily. Loomis Express Narrowly Avoids Strike.

article thumbnail

Challenges Abound as Peak Season Approaches

Intelligent Audit

The slowdown in Q1 only partly reflected the impact of the conflict in Ukraine, which broke out in late February. per package for its SmartMail products, depending on shipping speed and distance, ” according to SupplyChainDive. Billions at Stake as Freight Railroads and Unions Fail to Find Common Ground. says the WTO. .

article thumbnail

Will the Inflation Reduction Act Reduce Supply Chain Costs?

Intelligent Audit

The sudden demand for residential deliveries overloaded last-mile delivery networks and resulted in increases in such surcharges as residential, additional handling, large and oversize packages, and the introduction of COVID surcharges — which, by the way, are still in existence today but renamed demand surcharges or non-seasonal peak surcharges.

article thumbnail

Supply Chain Market Report – July 2022

Elementum

Global supply constraints have come from (1) supply-side disruptions like China’s Zero-COVID policy and the Russia / Ukraine conflict and (2) from demand pressure as federal stimulus flooded the market with extra cash in 2020 and 2021. Suppliers will continue to ship orders in an effort to get the inventory off their books.