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2023 Supply Chain Priorities, Perceptions, and Initiatives – Preliminary Results

Logistics Viewpoints

In addition, the Board asked executives what steps they were taking in response to the war in Ukraine. Inventory shortages/stock-outs was the factor with the second highest negative impact potential for 2023 in our preliminary survey results. Earlier this month in the post titled What Does 2023 Have In-Store for Global Supply Chains?

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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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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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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.

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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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Making Supply Chain Planning Agile With Modular Planning Technologies

Logistics Viewpoints

Our lives became more interesting with the onset pandemic, followed by labor shortages, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, rising oil prices, and the oncoming recession. In the meantime, the inventory data quality has evolved, and the supply planning teams have been reorganized in some countries.

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2022: A Look in the Rearview Mirror–Part I

American Global Logistics

We had a hangover from the pandemic: Which led to continued inventory shortages, closures of manufacturing plants in China, congested ports, and underemployment. Cargo planes could not fly out of or into Russia or Ukraine. Likewise, ships could not sail into or out of Russia and Ukraine. It also led to inventory excesses.