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What Shippers and Retailers Need to Know for Peak Season Planning 2022

The Logistics of Logistics

In addition, retailers are struggling to move inventory initially ordered in the first quarter of 2022 to make way for back-to-school and holiday merchandise. Further, Ukraine supplies more than one-half of the world’s neon gas necessary for printing circuits on computer chips. Bottlenecks from future COVID-19 variants are possible.

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Winning strategies for distributors and manufacturers during an economic downturn

EazyStock

As the global world economy has continued to recover completely from the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, and with a subsequent war with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rising inflation, many stock-holding companies are having a hard time. There are several advantages to keeping inventory costs down and lowering inventory value.

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ICON 2023: Manufacturing’s New Tomorrow

BlueYonder

ICON 2023 is Blue Yonder’s annual customer conference and premier supply chain event, where practitioners and decision-makers exchange insights about their transformation journeys If you are in the manufacturing field, why should you attend this year’s event? And doing it with customer service in mind, as well as profitability.

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How Does Inflation Affect Supply Chain Profitability?

QAD

Instead, geopolitical, inflationary and environmental forces have created new challenges for manufacturers and their supply chain partners. Supply chain planning is more important today than ever before and there’s good news: Manufacturers have options for mitigating global supply chain risk and keeping costs in check.

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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the following economic sanctions spiked energy prices and created new sourcing challenges for certain agricultural products and raw materials. Returns management involving the implications on inventory and reverse logistics is emerging as an integral part of the end-to-end supply chain planning challenge.

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Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

With the crisis in Ukraine and sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation, fuel and energy prices are now soaring. And this was before the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. In fact, global freight rates have increased tenfold since the start of the pandemic. GLOBAL CRISES DRIVE PRICES SKY-HIGH. BE READY FOR THE NEW NORMAL.

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Two Indices of Supply Chain Activity Noting Supply Chain Volatility Trending

Supply Chain Matters

Our stated takeaway from for the Q1 data was that indices were no longer reflecting the optimism indicated in February, and instead that of growing headwinds and added geopolitical concerns related to effects of the Ukraine conflict and China’s potential economic stumble as a result of a strict COVID-19 isolation policy. s major retailers.