The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2024

The number of alternative and dual-fuel propelled container ship orders out numbers the traditional ICE only engines for new ship orders. Aeronautics engineering innovation is sadly only paddling forward in comparison to the ship building industry. This is big money and infrastructure is working to accompany the change.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2024

The company sources goods from 36,000 suppliers out of 30 nations. The goods flow through 3 import centers, 14 strategically located distribution centers in North America, 106 final-mile shipping hubs, and nearly 1,700 branch locations. But we recognize that the industry is moving to even more speed!

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 22, 2023

freight and logistics industry continues to mitigate recessionary conditions including the April 2023 Logistics Manager Index reaching its lowest level lowest level in six years and one-half years. freight, logistics and parcel movement industry. The industry consensus right now is that container volumes will decrease upwards of 2.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 31, 2022

Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. Source E2open Shipping Index). The reinvention of planning is needed, but it is hard to unwind the industry. I have been an industry analyst for two decades. What to do? The reason?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 9, 2021

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said it was essential to prevent Tokyo, where the highly infectious Delta COVID-19 variant was spreading, from becoming the source of another wave of infections. Container shipping prices skyrocket. chief executive of Bassett Furniture Industries highlighted just how bad the problem has become.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Overall lead times from North America to Asia took 17 days longer than from Asia to North America, or 25% longer. Source E2open Shipping Index). The reinvention of planning is needed, but it is hard to unwind the industry. I have been an industry analyst for two decades. What to do? The reason?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 29, 2021

But refractories are used in a wide variety of industries, particularly manufacturing industries with high temperature or corrosive production processes. They also have 20 sourcing locations across North America from which they can ship make to stock products. Monolithics are unshaped refractory products.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In North America, according to an IHL research report sponsored by Blue Yonder , retail loss due to out-of-stocks increased by a huge 17.7% As I mentioned earlier, shrink leads to empty shelves and out-of-stocks due to theft are much different than out-of-stocks due to a sell-through of what was shipped to the store.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 26, 2022

This week, in conjunction with General Motors reporting of Q2-2022 financial performance, the auto maker disclosed that it had secured strategic supply agreements to support one million electric powered vehicles in North America by 2025. Some Broader Context. GM’s Latest Financial Performance.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 29, 2020

Over the past several months, China has been the main source for PPE. For a closer look at how China’s regulations impact PPE shipping, check out our recent PPE exporting video featuring our director of product development, Vincent Wong. As you might imagine, this has drastically changed normal market conditions for air shipping.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

Planners in China rely on different data sources and operate with different business practices than those in North America. For example, for a yogurt company, decision of where to ship a short lifecycle product coming out of a factory is done daily because “demand can shift in very short time frames.”

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SupplyPike

JANUARY 21, 2019

Freight and parcel shipping. In 2017 alone, over $1 trillion in goods were moved by freight across North America, with truck continuing to be the most heavily utilized mode at $721 billion. Freight is a vital foundation for virtually any industry that relies on the transportation of goods. Image source.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

The work done by Terra Technology, in my opinion, is one of two accurate sources of benchmark data on forecasting in the industry. There are many forecast benchmark studies in the industry, but most have a tragic flaw. In the study, new products represent 17% of total cases shipped. Tougher in Europe.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2024

Prime Membership: Amazon Prime – Subscription service offering benefits such as free two-day shipping, access to Prime Video, Prime Music, and exclusive deals. Source Amazon Product Range One of the key drivers of Amazon’s success in logistics is the sheer breadth of its product range.

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QAD

MARCH 31, 2020

It’s a niche industry, but also one of the cornerstones of discrete parts manufacturing. ANCA builds their machines in Australia but these precision components are sourced from around the world. Dealing with suppliers in Europe, Asia and North America from their Southern Hemisphere location, this was particularly appealing.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 7, 2023

The July report narrative specifically indicates: “ We continue to see very different outcomes for the overall economy and the logistics industry. Operating profit for the global wide shipping services provider fell by more than half in the latest quarter, reportedly a result of sharp declines in ocean and air freight demand.

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SCMDOJO

MAY 13, 2022

Each year around 700 million TEUs are shipped across the world keeping global trade and businesses running and more than eighty percent of global goods trade volumes are carried by sea, with about a sixth of that volume in shipping containers. Source: project44 Monthly report. To combat runaway inflation, which reached 7.9%

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters March 23 rd edition of our COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict News Capsule, we provide updates to ongoing industry supply chain developments and disruptions of concern to our reading audience. American Shipper reported last week that the number of container ships calling on major U.S. Canadian and U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 18, 2018

Financial reengineering focuses on the optimization of short-term results that are usually based on a functional analysis of source, make, or deliver. Few consultants understand the interrelationships between source, make and deliver. Let’s take a look at Figure 1 which is a summary of cash-to-cash for the semiconductor industry.

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Turvo

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The top trucking influencers will remain a valuable source of information. During difficult times, the trucking industry still carries the bulk of loads and products, and during good times, the industry becomes even more critical for everyone. As a result, the trucking industry hauled 72.5% billion tons.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JUNE 18, 2021

Unlike the Suez Canal incident or other recent port issues, which have impacted a more limited number of regions and trade lanes, the Port of Yantian is a major export hub for multiple large markets like Europe, North America, Latin America and Oceania. Final thoughts.

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NC State SCRC

MARCH 17, 2021

Today’s Wall Street Journal article on the impact of the Texas winter storm on the petrochemical industry highlights many of the challenges that exist with this supply chain, that has been overlooked for perhaps too long. The delayed impacts of the petrochemical industry was urgent after the freeze.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 6, 2017

Maersk, Alibaba team up to offer online booking of ship places (Reuters). Shipping Alliances Shore Up Industry, Unsettle Customers (WSJ – sub. It could also have tracking and payment options to speed up the entire shipping process. Amazon’s robot army grows by 50 percent (The Seattle Times).

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Source Wikipedia. As the bricks and mortar retailer is attacked by eCommerce pure plays—Amazon in North America, Alibaba in China, and Flipcart in India—assortment and excitement in the store become paramount to lure customers. Definition: Brass tacks are a type of pin or nail. In the 1990s suppliers had channel power.

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Locus

JUNE 3, 2022

In fact, it will not be a stretch to say that climate change is currently the biggest threat that global supply chains are facing today and is responsible for shortages and disruptions in several industries. Source: Statista.com. The latter was so severe that cargo ships had to run at half their usual capacity. Download Now!

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2013

XPO Logistics to Acquire 3PD, the Largest Provider of Heavy Goods, Last-Mile Logistics in North America. Source data is a combination of reference and benchmark data from third parties as well as econometric models and formulas. HighJump Software Acquires Evenex. SAP Announces Second Quarter and First Half Results 2013.

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3PL Insights

JUNE 15, 2020

This physical exchange presents enormous challenges for the industry in a post-COVID environment. According to a Thomas survey of 878 North American manufacturers, 64% reported they were likely to bring production and sourcing back to North America. This goes far beyond the supply chain industry.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

In this article, leading experts from various sectors in transportation industry will discuss transportation trends you should take a closer look. Related to shipping, international port infrastructure has been expanding - perhaps too rapidly - and it will be interesting to see whether these investments pay off. In the U.S.,

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 14, 2022

In this regular edition of our featured column, Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , we provide highlights of two noteworthy supply chain management focused technology development efforts which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based multi-industry supply chain readership.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Con-way Truckload and Con-way Multimodal Join Forces to Launch New Intermodal Service for North America. CombineNet and Transplace Extend Partnership in Delivering Advanced Transportation Procurement Solution to North America. FedEx Helps Small Businesses Streamline Shipping with fedex.com Integration Manager.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2020

Containers are piling up in ports, international shipping has been hammered, Western companies are battling to source products from traditional suppliers, and disruptions are being experienced throughout the global supply chain. COVID-19 Impact on Shipping. The Automotive Industry. Other Industries.

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Zipline Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2021

According to a Logistics Management survey of industry professionals, “there is a strong sentiment that the 2021 Peak Season will be more active than it was a year ago, with 79% of respondents indicating that will be the case, with 16% contending it will be similar to 2020, and 5% expecting it to be less active.”.

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Jaggaer

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Corona v irus could wreck the global auto industry.’. Coronavirus could wreck the global auto industry.” . Since the outbreak of SARS in 2003, the last major epidemic to hit China, the country has become even more important as a source of key components and materials as well as finished consumer goods. Heavy industry.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2024

The solutions, as with so many supply chain industry inefficiencies, lie in digital transformation, process reengineering and collective action — of all the links in the chain, yards are one of the least digitized. Some have automated, gateless check-in; some direct the drivers to check in with the shipping office.

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Locus

DECEMBER 22, 2021

2021 may not be a year for the logistics industry to cherish, but it was a year filled with a lot of takeaways. Logistics industry was experiencing capacity constraints, driver shortages, sudden upticks in e-commerce demand, new technologies, different fulfillment models , delays, port congestions, canal blockage etc. .-

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Gravity Supply Chain

JULY 9, 2020

Imagine a time when shipping routes get fully optimized, the evaluation of carrier performance levels is simple, levels of cargo security get significantly improved, and potential risks to your supply chain reduce substantially. Our products support industry needs, spanning areas such as: Sourcing. Purchase Order Management.

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Supply Chain Matters

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Thoma Bravo has other noted investments in supply chain tech providers, including end-to-end transportation and logistics provider project 44 and aerospace industry Cloud platform provider Exostar. Locus further announced the acquisition of Waypoint Robotics , a provider of industrial-strength, autonomous, omnidirectional mobile robots.

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