The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 16, 2021

Escalating freight rates and severe capacity crunch. Air freight rates have sky-rocketed to 7-10 times higher during Covid-19. These new air freight rates will come down but will remain at a significantly higher percentage to pre-Covid-19 rates. This effect is caused by a loss in global air freight capacities.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 25, 2021

Ikea’s Singapore operations called it a “global transport crisis” and estimates 850 of its 8,500 products are affected by shipment delays. Compared with last March’s low prices, freight rates from China to the U.S. The shortage is further exacerbated by limited air freight capacity. rates are up 145% year over year.

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 27, 2022

E-commerce continues its march toward overall retail dominance. According to Total Retail , “A shift in digital presence meant sellers also had to pivot their marketing and advertising strategies to stand out in a crowded online space. More major brands are turning to e-commerce to expand their marketplaces and add revenue.

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 27, 2022

E-commerce continues its march toward overall retail dominance. According to Total Retail , “A shift in digital presence meant sellers also had to pivot their marketing and advertising strategies to stand out in a crowded online space. More major brands are turning to e-commerce to expand their marketplaces and add revenue.

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2018

These examples are from retail, but I sense that the same customer empowerment phenomenon is happening broadly across everything we do at Amazon and most other industries as well. Consumer retail may have taken the first hit, but customer expectations are upping the ante in every vertical. Let’s Talk About Boats, Ships, and Trucks.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 28, 2013

ATA Releases Latest Freight Forecast, Projecting Strong Trucking Growth. Trucks Transported 60.6% Retailers and small and midsize businesses (SMBs) – the two market segments supply chain and logistics software vendors are hyper-focused on these days. According to the forecast, overall freight revenue will grow by 63.6

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 4, 2016

Second, we just released our second Talking Logistics YOUniversity course, Building a Strong Transportation Management Foundation. MNX Global Logistics Acquires Specialty Aviation 3PL Aero Express Logistics in Singapore. DOT Releases 30-Year Freight Projections. JDA Achieves Key Competitive Wins and Sees Strong Cloud Growth.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

OHL Launches Freight Consolidation Services Offering. The service is part of Google Express, which partners with retailers in some U.S. Google says it will make deliveries directly from its existing retail partners…In San Francisco, Google will deliver from Costco Wholesale Corp., UPS Enhances Flex Global View.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 22, 2016

These futuristic driverless pods will run on Singapore’s roads by end of the year ( Mashable ). eBay Enterprise and Innotrac Become Radial to Prepare eCommerce for the New Retail Reality. Droids Not Drones Are the Future of E-Commerce Deliveries ( BloombergTechnology ). Trucker Profits Fall on Weak Demand ( WSJ – sub.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 14, 2022

Supply chain planning technology provider ToolsGroup announced the acquisition of Onera , a provider of real-time inventory availability and fulfillment software solutions catering to retail industry needs. Reportedly, ToolsGroup will add Onera ’s inventory availability and fulfillment technology to its retail planning suite.

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Supply Chain Network

OCTOBER 9, 2018

See below aerial shot of the Port of Pasir Panjang, Singapore where the red dots indicate a vessel stop at berth. Most of us in the major retail, import/export, freight and global transportation businesses are “From Missouri” and like to be shown the proof around major breakthroughs like this.

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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

Transport Intelligence, the well-respected U.K. So much so that it is split into seven topics – aircrafts, airports, capacity and demand, carriers, freight trends, traffic and viewpoints. Transport Topics. American Journal of Transportation. Ocean freight is split into 14! Ti Logistics Briefing. ACWmagazine.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

”[1] To bolster his assessment, Ryan cites a statement by Jonathan Gold, Vice President for supply chain and customs policy at the National Retail Federation. ”[5] Deborah Elms, Executive Director of the Singapore-based Asian Trade Center, adds, “Delta is likely to significantly disrupt trade in Asia. ”[4].

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

This challenge has been also impacted by the growing discontent on the part of retailers and customers who are unhappy with the trend towards larger slow-steaming ships, which leaves more inventory on the water for a longer period of time. It is also interesting to note that many of the major retailers seem to be shipping early this year.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 17, 2018

initiative set to encourage commercial investment and an upgrade to the transport infrastructure imminent, there may be no time like the present for enterprises in the ASEAN region to expand ecommerce operations into this fast-developing nation. Statistic: 72% of consumers will shop more with a retailer that offers a simple returns process.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Transport for London to accelerate workforce planning with Quintiq. UltraShipTMS Becomes PeopleNet Certified Integration Partner. Version 11.0 of Continuous Move Planner (CMP) and Paradox Routing Tool (PART) Now Available. UNIT45 and Globe Tracker Partner on Smart Refrigerated Container Offering.

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Intelligent Audit

MARCH 7, 2022

According to eMarketer , global e-commerce retail sales will rise to $5.542 trillion this year and surpass $7.391 trillion by 2025. The new peak surcharges for FedEx Express parcel and freight services, effective March 7, 2022 , are as follows. Parcel and freight exports from Japan to Europe, MEISA, LAC 4 – Increasing $0.10

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Techgistics

JANUARY 3, 2017

Here's what I will be looking out for in 2017: Automation and Robots eCommerce has revolutionised shopping, but due to the complexity of picking eCommerce orders, retailers need to employ armies of workers to get orders out the door. China, Singapore, and Sweden. In the U.S., Trials have already started in the U.S.,

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 21, 2019

But these same disruptions are also causing serious challenges to the transportation industry in China and Asia at large. . Consumption is weakening and retail sales are down. Unfortunately, moving factories west also creates extra expenses for inland freight as well as added transit time from the port terminal.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 22, 2022

Körber acquires enVista’s omni-channel and global freight audit and payment services. The market for drone deliveries continues to heat up, as more and more drone operators, and more and more retailers, look to make deliveries from the sky. Customers in Singapore will also benefit from increased European inbound capacity.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2019

Rakuten Super Logistics, a division of Japanese online retailer Rakuten Inc., The big efficiencies come from machine learning,” Bradley Jacobs, XPO’s chief executive, said in an interview last year when the company announced it was deploying AI-equipped robots from Singapore-based robotics company GreyOrange Ltd.

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Elementum

AUGUST 2, 2017

Logistics, the complex operation involving the movements of people, facilities, and supplies, is applied in every industry from manufacturing to retail to trade. In 2015, the Asian-Pacific region dominated the industry with significant impact from China, India, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, and Malaysia. Hunt Transport Services, C.H.

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Requis

MARCH 10, 2021

Historically, people who know this industry know that it was very much “gut based”, where you would just make a few calls and then set the freight rates. One way you can think about it when you go down to the shop and buy something is that there is a high likelihood that the item you want was transported by Maersk.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

In the meantime, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Volvo Trucks presents future transport solution with autonomous electric vehicles. Digital Freight Startup Convoy Raises $185 Million, Surpasses $1 Billion in Value (WSJ – sub. Singapore Exchange leads US$44.4

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Shipchain

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Now our customers can be in any industry– food, pharma, retail, oil, the list goes on and on, so long as they have a supply chain and are looking to increase visibility, accountability, and transparency. Our biggest goal is to ensure that we are getting in front of the right people, our future customers.

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