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This Week in Logistics News (August 10 – 16)

Logistics Viewpoints

The international inbound transportation service is only available to Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) sellers that source or manufacture goods in China, and all cargo must be shipped from Yantian, Shanghai, or Ningbo ports. are then directly transported to a Walmart fulfillment center. according to the Walmart Marketplace website.

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When We Don’t Have Answers, We Need to Work Quickly To Build Them

Supply Chain Shaman

Let’s Start With a Discussion on Inventory. When we look at table 1, we see burgeoning inventories in some industries and extreme shortages in others. We are not good at inventory management. Inventory Levels Over the Quarters of the Pandemic. Companies struggle to have the right inventories. The end result?

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You Should Be Worried. Supply Chains Are Not OK. Let’s Lock Arms To Drive Change

Supply Chain Shaman

Background on Ocean Transport. When the ball drops on Times Square to welcome in 2022, the employees at the Port of Long Beach will celebrate moving 9 M TEUs in imports: a 26% increase year-over-year. Get Good at Inventory Management. Be smart in the management of intransit inventory. of the countries’ GDP.

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When The Chickens Come Home To Roost

Supply Chain Shaman

Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. Inventories in the chemical industry are at record lows: a forerunner of bad days ahead. Much of the inventory on the ships at sea will miss the essential seasonal windows. Retail shelves are increasingly empty.

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Logistics GDP share rose in ’24, not likely to drop: CSCMP report

Freight Waves

The CSCMP report calculates the USBLC as the total of various segment expenditures as well as other activities, such as inventories. The biggest contributor to the increase in the total figure last year was the cost of water transportation, up 93.1% That’s an increase of $77.9 billion a year earlier.

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The Story Continues…. Let’s Don’t Sugar Coat the Real Issue

Supply Chain Shaman

The people on the ground–my contacts in the 3PL, freight forwarding and transportation industry–know that the labor strife is only a part of the larger story. Unloading at the western ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been an issue for many months. This is not going to be pretty.

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Unease Remains in U.S. East and Gulf Coast Labor Talks

Supply Chain Matters

While multi-industry logistics, transportation and customer fulfilment teams might have languished with a sigh of relief, they are likely to be aware that this new contract is not a done deal yet. Yet, there is still a reported lag times related to movement of containers to intermodal inland rail or surface trucking transportation.