Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 5, 2022

The ongoing pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions, along with the Russia-Ukraine war, limited available supplies of cocoa, edible oil, and other food ingredients. With the new partnership, retailers will fulfill orders from inventory in their stores, and a Flex delivery driver will pick them up from the retailer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This is leading to an inventory pile-up of processors and memory chips used in PCs. Some retailers are learning to love bulked-up inventories. The companies building their inventories are looking to ensure they have items on hand at the right moment. Walgreens takes its delivery service round the clock. The largest U.S.

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American Global Logistics

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The ongoing wars in Ukraine and Israel/Gaza continue to disrupt trade, inflation drives consumer behavior shifts, and extreme weather events. That creates uncertainty about delivery times and inventory levels. Enhanced Visibility and Traceability Lost containers, delayed shipments, and missing inventory fuel the VUCA fire.

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Synovos

MARCH 11, 2024

Take the surge in energy prices and inflation since the onset of war in Ukraine, for example. In the UK, for instance, recent government legislation restricts the promotion of pre-packaged food that is high in fat, salt, or sugar (HFSS). This affects manufacturing methods in terms of both production and packaging.

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QAD

JANUARY 24, 2023

With a war raging in the Ukraine, ongoing COVID restrictions in China, and the holistic repercussions that are still being felt from the pandemic, the traditional supply chain is quickly undergoing a digitization revolution for more visibility and control.

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Clogged ports, a shortage of raw ingredients, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, fires, and floods have all served to challenge the smooth flow of goods. Feeling far from bubbly? Get the insights beverage companies need to meet today’s biggest supply chain challenges. Key Takeaways. Supply Chain Disruptions Affecting the Beverage Industry.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 9, 2024

1] They explain: “ Over the last couple of decades, many supply chains have become linear global chains, stretched to their limit in pursuit of efficient, mass production with low-cost countries, just-in-time inventory and limited inherent resilience. This means fewer suppliers and components, which lowers the exposure to disruption.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 29, 2022

Economic order quantity is one of the “most commonly used inventory-control techniques”. The objectives and advantages of Economic Order Qty (EOQ) are to minimize inventory carrying costs and ordering costs while simultaneously limiting the probability of stock out to avoid any lost sales or customer loss. S = Cost per order.

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QAD

APRIL 27, 2023

But in the last few years since COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war, we have seen an unprecedented multi-crisis unfold that has put the availability of products and the mitigation of supply chain risks in order to ensure supply continuity at the top of the list. You want to balance your inventory levels.

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Resilinc

APRIL 5, 2022

“Companies, especially tech companies, are questioning the orthodoxies of the past 50 years [especially] seeking out the lowest-cost manufacturer, no matter how distant, and never carrying surplus inventory or parts.”. With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—and China’s tacit support—the imperative to re-design supply chains has sharpened.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2022

The US’s ban on the import of Russian oil after the invasion of Ukraine has put a squeeze on diesel. The US also keeps lower inventories of diesel and has been exporting more of the fuel to Europe in recent months to help reduce the continent’s reliance on Russian fuel. That’s all for this week.

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QAD

JULY 5, 2022

Packaging Materials. The war in the Ukraine has impacted multiple markets like grain and basic agricultural commodities. One interesting factor here is not simply to get consumers products the next day but the need to redeploy inventories from different warehouses and DC’s to match the source location. Transportation Issues.

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Intelligent Audit

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

According to reporting from CNN Business , “ 350,000 Teamsters work at UPS as drivers and package sorters out of a global workforce of 534,000 permanent employees. million packages daily. But during the early months of the COVID pandemic, products for which they had held a two-year inventory ran out in two months. ”.

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ThroughPut

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

What’s more, increasingly frequent disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic to semiconductor shortages, the Suez Canal crisis, and the Ukraine war have bared the fragility of supply chains around the world. Why is Decision Intelligence Important in the Supply Chain? Let’s take the example of an Aerospace sensor company.

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QAD

MAY 23, 2023

This sounds simple enough, but we all know it’s a very complex issue and that’s partially because ESG concerns touch every part of the value chain, from the field or mine where raw materials are sourced to the packaging and transport modes used to bring your finished product to market.

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Elementum

JUNE 30, 2022

Over the last 2 years, Supply Chain teams have been struggling to procure and manufacture enough inventory. Global supply constraints have come from (1) supply-side disruptions like China’s Zero-COVID policy and the Russia / Ukraine conflict and (2) from demand pressure as federal stimulus flooded the market with extra cash in 2020 and 2021.

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Intelligent Audit

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The sudden demand for residential deliveries overloaded last-mile delivery networks and resulted in increases in such surcharges as residential, additional handling, large and oversize packages, and the introduction of COVID surcharges — which, by the way, are still in existence today but renamed demand surcharges or non-seasonal peak surcharges.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 11, 2016

To anticipate and respond to high customer demand, a modern Transportation Management System (TMS) needs to optimize inventory allocation. A TMS with inventory allocation enables shippers to monitor shipments down to the package level. Tajikistan. Tanzania, United Republic of. Timor-leste. Trinidad and Tobago. Turkmenistan.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 25, 2023

But, the global wide Covid-19 pandemic that began in 2020, and drove a significant spike in demand for pandemic related goods in 2021, exposed the vulnerabilities of global wide sourcing under a just-in-time inventory management premise. The WSJ quoted Ted Doheny, the CEO of packaging company Sealed Air Corp.

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RFgen

MARCH 22, 2023

Meanwhile, turmoil in Ukraine is here to stay for the time being. And if you haven’t already, make sure you have mobile barcoding integrated into your inventory handling processes to ensure resilience and agility when it comes time to pivot. Look to proven mobile solutions that enhance digital inventory transformation.

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Intelligent Audit

JANUARY 26, 2023

We see more and more how global conflicts like the war in Ukraine, labor issues like the potential of a strike during negotiations on the West Coast, and other socioeconomic factors impact supply chains around the world. It allows you to track and manage packages from when you ship them until they arrive at their final destination.

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Elementum

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

We’ve also seen geopolitical instability, with Russia and Ukraine, and how suddenly, because of sanctions you couldn’t move goods into Russia, or get your goods out of Russia very easily. 11B to support semiconductor technology and advance packaging R. it’s such a huge cost. in grants to accelerate the U. This is a $3.5B

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Elementum

AUGUST 31, 2022

We’ve also seen geopolitical instability, with Russia and Ukraine, and how suddenly, because of sanctions you couldn’t move goods into Russia, or get your goods out of Russia very easily. 11B to support semiconductor technology and advance packaging R. it’s such a huge cost. in grants to accelerate the U. This is a $3.5B

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