BlueYonder

DECEMBER 1, 2022

To help uncover the latest consumer trends from this weekend, Blue Yonder surveyed over 1,000 consumers who shopped during one of the five shopping days (Thursday, Nov. Regardless of the volume of online transactions, holiday shoppers expect real-time availability and accurate commitments before check-out. 24-Monday, Nov.

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Freightos

APRIL 15, 2024

It’s not just supply chains. The cinematography blew people away but now, we don’t bat an eye when bullet time slow-motion pops up in a battle scene. Blog " * " indicates required fields Email * Email This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. But those successes deserve to be celebrated.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 21, 2023

It introduced the survey we had just launched to determine the perceptions, priorities, and strategic initiatives of today’s supply chain and logistics executives. This post was subsequently followed by two articles that discussed some of the findings from the survey. Meanwhile, labor constraints are as binding as ever.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 7, 2024

In late 2023, we conducted a survey of 1,000 supply chain and logistics decision-makers across North America and Europe across three sectors: manufacturing, distribution and retail; carriers; and logistics services providers. Only 5% said they were facing no shortages and just 19% characterized shortages in their organizations as little.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 23, 2023

At the time, one of the people (let’s call him Noel) that I great respect for in the industry called me to say, “Lora, I don’t get it. In 2012, I published an article on Sales and Operations Technology (S&OP) Maturity. (I I never republished the report, because not enough has changed to warrant it.)

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2023

million shoppers hit the stores and the internet to capitalize on Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, according to a survey by the National Retail Federation. The top gifts were clothes and accessories, which about half of those surveyed purchased, and toys, which nearly a third of people surveyed bought.

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Freightos

AUGUST 14, 2023

First off, AI is gradually making its mark, and the buzz isn’t just empty noise. A full 96% believe they will leverage the tech (and when was the last time you saw such consensus from both shippers and forwarders? This teased a future that could make energy cheaper, levitate trains and solve algebra problems. I dove in too.

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BlueYonder

JULY 2, 2021

To help uncover the latest consumer trends for Amazon’s annual shopping event, Blue Yonder surveyed over 1,000 consumers who participated in Prime Day to explore the impact of out-of-stocks, competing retailer deal days and more. However, Prime Day is no longer just for Amazon.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In some sort or another, Punxsutawney Phil has been predicting the weather since 1890, and let’s just say that his record is iffy at best. ” I assume that Phil tries to ignore the pomp and circumstance of how his shadow would determine the upcoming weather pattern, and just wants more sleep (like the rest of us on a cold winter’s day).

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 7, 2022

Having an effective supply chain practice has always been a difficult balancing act, even in relatively stable times. The survey’s results suggest a series of misalignments where gaps in process, technology and information flow can be a drag on productivity and optimization. However, the last few years have been defined by disruption.

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Demand Solutions

JUNE 26, 2015

“In times of change, when experimentation tends to be rampant and results are still far from conclusive, one source of guidance can be to look at the companies who are succeeding, and discover what they are doing differently.”. This year’s survey focused on the readiness of today’s workforces to deal with tomorrow’s supply chain challenges.

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Demand Solutions

JUNE 26, 2015

“In times of change, when experimentation tends to be rampant and results are still far from conclusive, one source of guidance can be to look at the companies who are succeeding, and discover what they are doing differently.” Among Followers, those numbers sink to just 34% and 41%. That’s it. Two metrics.

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Logility

JANUARY 12, 2024

Accurate forecasting is key to ensuring merchandise is in the right place at the right time, directly impacting inventory management, cost reduction, and customer satisfaction. This approach is significant, especially considering a Deloitte survey that found 79% of companies with efficient supply chains see better revenue growth.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Opinion of just-in-time (JIT) as a practice has taken a battering and inventory is rising. Calls are increasing for a return to just-in-case (JIC) policies, with some citing this trend as a risk. My great-aunt Ione, who lived to be 103, quit smoking at 97, which prompted the question “why now?”

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SCM Research

AUGUST 26, 2021

Survey research is one of the most important methodologies in our discipline. Over time, the demands on survey research in SCM have increased – for good reasons. In particular, the design of survey research must reduce the risks of both common method bias and respondent bias. It contains some polyadic [i.e.,

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 28, 2024

Late last year, the staff at Digitate released the results of a survey entitled “AI and Automation: Laying the Foundation for the Autonomous Enterprise.” The survey found, “90% of IT decision-makers plan to deploy more automation, including AI, in the next 12 months.”[1] ”[1] These trends are not new.

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Logility

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Is Demand Planning just a stepping stone? Dan Gilmore at Supply Chain Digest has some interesting survey numbers that may light a fire under some demand planning teams. In the same survey as few as 5% of companies ranked their demand planning capabilities as excellent while nearly 20% of companies rated themselves “below average.”

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Logility

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Is Demand Planning just a stepping stone? Dan Gilmore at Supply Chain Digest has some interesting survey numbers that may light a fire under some demand planning teams. In the same survey as few as 5% of companies ranked their demand planning capabilities as excellent while nearly 20% of companies rated themselves “below average.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 29, 2021

Preliminary results from a Lucas-commissioned survey of 350 companies in the US and UK found that the majority of the companies are already employing AI in one way or another within their warehouses and distribution/fulfillment centers. On the surface, that’s a bit of a surprise. But not when you dig a little deeper.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2023

However, GEP And S&P Global publish the GEP Global Supply Chain Volatility Index based on data derived from S&P Global’s PMI surveys. The chart below shows that the index decreased to a value below zero earlier this year, for the first time since 2020. The last few years have been anything but typical.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

He writes, “The period from late summer into fall is usually the busiest time of year in supply chains, as retailers rush clothing, electronics and holiday-season decorations to consumer markets and freight operators look to boost profits on the surging demand. Inflation is slowing and coming under control. of all balances.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

Process latency, the time for an organization to make a decision using a traditional S&OP process, is two-to-six weeks. The traditional leader values cost reduction but is blind on how to value time. Over four-hundred days of war in Ukraine. Growing tensions between China and trading partners. Unrest in Sudan. What is normalcy?

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2021

ARC Advisory Group’s warehouse labor survey has shown that 35% of warehouses have a seasonal surge in the number of workers they employ of over 20%. That is because it is not just the contract logistics sector that hires labor for their warehouses. By 2018, the year of the survey, this number fell to between 2 and 5 applicants per job.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

Economics reporter Ann Saphir explains, “Americans borrowed more than ever on their credit cards in the [second quarter of 2023], with balances surpassing $1 trillion for the first time even as overall household debt loads were largely unchanged. Credit card balances rose by $45 billion to $1.03 credit card debt surpassed $1 trillion.[2]

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 10, 2024

Often times at Logistics Viewpoints, we like to look to the future and highlight the key trends that we see in a given market, or make predictions about what technologies will emerge as game changers in the new year. While we look ahead to the future, I think it is also important to look back on the year that was.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 28, 2023

A survey conducted in the United Kingdom by the Institute of Directors (IoD), a 120-year-old British political organization, found that the larger a company is the more likely it is to be adversely affected by geopolitical tensions. The risks run the gamut from trade wars to actual wars. 4) Create a Baseline for your Cost-to-Serve.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 16, 2024

A full 99% of companies Talend surveyed recognize that data are crucial for success, but 97% face challenges in using data effectively, and a third aren’t even using data to make decisions. They report, “Only 9% of supply chain organizations expect to achieve revenue gains due to uncertainty, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 23, 2022

The rise of visibility solutions at the container level is helping to drive the transportation execution market to new heights, with real-time visibility as a major growth driver. Real-time visibility tools are generally most effective for over-the-road shipments. These changes can add significant time to the ETA.

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Demand Solutions

JUNE 30, 2015

In my last article , I introduced Deloitte’s supply chain survey report and shared Deloitte’s concept of what it takes to be a supply chain Leader. It’s clear to me from the survey results that Leaders become Leaders because they have superior talent. So, how do they develop that talent? This question has never been more relevant.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

According to the Venture Beat staff, “Sixty-nine percent of global enterprises have already adopted or plan to adopt quantum computing in the near term, according to a new survey of enterprise leaders commissioned by Zapata Computing. Experts accept that the world has gone into the ‘Quantum Decade’.”[2]

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 4, 2021

Just last month I noted that warehouse labor productivity was hindered extensively by COVID-19 and that 80 percent of ARC’s warehouse survey respondents anticipate an increase of order throughput volumes in 2021. Warehouse labor constraints were acute at that time, but the overall US unemployment rate was at a historical low of 3.8

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AIMMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Evaluating different scenarios helps you gain much-needed network flexibility in these times of stress and can help you prepare for a resilient future. The good news is many of the survey’s respondents recognize the potential of more advanced optimization solutions. Read on for common use cases. .

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 14, 2023

With constrained and somewhat erratic demand and supply – not just of products and materials but also capacity with carriers of all modes – rates have been extremely volatile. Paying lower rates is useless if transit time reliability is less than optimum.

Optimal Sourcing 130

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Freightos

APRIL 27, 2023

The article presents findings from a survey conducted across over 200 global supply chain professionals to highlight how the pandemic has increased the need for freight market intelligence and how it continues to be relevant even as supply chain issues resolve. Real world, meet data. But even since July 2020, much has changed.

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