ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 14, 2020

ToolsGroup’s GM of North America, David Barton, sat down for a video interview with Robert Bowman, managing editor at Supply Chain Brain , to share anecdotes and advice for supply chain planners in a year no one could have planned for. What’s your top advice for supply chain companies for the rest of 2020?

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 28, 2023

UPS is the largest parcel delivery company in North America. A protracted work stoppage would have caused widespread supply chain disruptions across the U.S. The contract should be viewed only as an important first step because the phase in is gradual and it does not include air conditioning in their warehouses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2022

There have been massive supply chain disruptions since the pandemic began. These disruptions have driven up prices and led to shortages of goods. Congestion at ports has certainly played a role in these disruptions. While conditions have eased in North America, port congestion has gotten much worse in China.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 2, 2024

Doing so, we enable our customers’ digital journey with new capabilities to help counter increasingly complex challenges and satisfy customer-centric requirements, while managing more frequent supply chain disruptions and rising costs. Those savings and efficiencies have continued to grow.

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FLEXE

AUGUST 10, 2017

Between inventory fluctuation and seasonality, making it all fit when it needs to, and general supply chain disruptions, there’s a lot to plan throughout the year. Roger also knows the right answer is not to invest in more fixed assets or warehousing space, as it’ll leave him with too much capacity after the first of the year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 2, 2023

For supply chain “digital champions,” investments in advanced supply chain capabilities pay off in an average of 22 months, and these companies see higher returns relative to other companies and “digital novices.” For example, imagine your company moves 10,000 containers a year with an average contents value of $75,000.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The North America segment incurred an operating loss of $0.2 The North America segment had sales of $315.9 North America segment operating loss amounted to $2.8 There is now an added emphasis on increased efficiencies and automation within the online retailer’s customer fulfillment warehouses.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 7, 2023

While 209,000 workers were added in June, 14,000 freight and parcel carriers were cut and 6,900 warehousing and storage jobs were lost. In the past we would expect to see transportation and warehousing ramping up hiring in late summer ahead of peak season. ” warehouse workers in June of 2022. There were 1.96

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Supply Chain Game Changer

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Through these services, you gain the expert logistical and supply chain support your company needs. You also gain access to a variety of physical assets, such as warehouses, distribution centers, trucks and technologies. How do you respond to supply chain disruptions? Why is freight management important?

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BlueYonder

APRIL 3, 2023

Bayer Crop Science’s Johnny Ivanyi discusses the results his company has achieved with our TMS: “Blue Yonder’s transportation management solution is increasing visibility and helping Bayer make fact-based, strategic decisions in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. million miles traveled in Brazil alone.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 20, 2022

Since China is home to seven of the world’s 10 biggest container ports, lockdowns could disrupt supply chains well into the foreseeable future. Supply chain concerns, however, don’t focus solely on the movement of consumer goods. Hospitals from the U.S. Hospitals from the U.S. ”[4].

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Strategic relationships, improved collaboration with logistics providers, and the possibility of bringing 3PL/4PL in-house to reduce transportation and warehouse costs and gain more control over logistics operations are all strategies to enable supply chain resiliency. This has a substantial impact on their EBITDA margins.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 7, 2022

Data published at the end of March indicates that for movement of ocean container shipping transit from Asia to North America , the average time had declined to 108 days, upwards of 15.4 and Warehousing Prices (90.5) Warehousing Capacity also hit a record in March, reaching an all-time nadir of 36.1 this month. ’.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 23, 2022

Canadian Pacific is the sixth-largest North America freight railway, and in December 2021 completed an agreement to acquire U.S. Upwards of 3,000 rail workers reportedly returned to work yesterday to resume rail operations across North America after a breakdown in labor settlement talks occurred last Saturday.

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 10, 2022

As the logistics industry continues to recover from pandemic-era supply chain disruptions, shippers are adjusting quickly to the expectations of a new normal. Falling ocean rates and volatile fuel costs have logistics professionals across the supply chain searching for innovative efficiency solutions throughout their operations.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Reshoring to the US and Europe Accelerating, Now Also Serving CO2 Emission Reduction Objectives by Luc Kremers , Vice President – Asia Pacific, BCI Global Reshoring is accelerating as American and European companies want to de-risk their supply chains from geopolitical developments and supply chain disruptions.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 15, 2022

The saga of fitness hardware and services provider Peloton Interactive took yet another turn last week with an announcement of the pending closing of the company’s owned North American warehouses and the shedding of field customer support teams, along with other moves.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 18, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides highlights and perspectives regarding SAP SE’s 2023 annual Sapphire and North America ASUG customer conference held this week both as an in-person and live streamed event. Partner has broad implications relative to collaboration, transparency and skin in the game.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 3, 2020

Some ports in China are clogged with arriving containers of iron ore, while warehouses are choked with goods that cannot be exported due to lack of trucks. In South Korea , Hyundai announced the suspension of its production lines due to supply chain disruptions in China. Other Industries. Coping with the Crisis.

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Locus

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The bullwhip effect on small-sized turkeys was a result of pandemic restrictions, shortage of truck drivers, essential workers, lack of grocery store associates and warehouse associates. The rising turkey prices due to supply chain disruptions have led their retail prices in grocery stores to shoot up.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 18, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters blog we provide highlights and insights regarding SAP SE’s 2022 Sapphire ASUG Now customer conference held last week in Orlando, Florida. . Enterprise Cloud software provider SAP SE conducted its 2022 North America Sapphire Now customer conference last week.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 2, 2022

percent in North America. Company executives cited good progress in addressing the previously acknowledged overbuild of customer fulfillment and warehousing capacity while overall number of employees was reduced by 6 percent. The company’s organic sales grew 8.1 percent and volume growth of 1.7

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 1, 2022

In 2021, 87% of Americans were negatively impacted by the supply chain. 75% of companies felt negative or strongly negative impacts on their business due to supply chain disruption ( Accenture ). In Fortune 500 earnings calls for Q3 of 2021, “supply chain” mentions were up 412% from Q3 in 2020.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 9, 2022

But given more than two years of incessant and unprecedented supply chain disruptions, we may never see “normal times” again. Is it sitting at the warehouse yard, or has it reached the store? Inventory management is challenging enough in normal times. So, what is it going to take to enable better inventory management?

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Unleashed

JANUARY 18, 2021

However the industry will continue to face headwinds, as a result of supply chains disrupted by the pandemic, increased competition and increased regulatory oversight. Beyond rising domestic demand, exports to the likes of North America and China are expected to support revenue growth. UK legislation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 22, 2021

IKEA warns supply chain disruptions likely to last into 2022. Truck driver shortage worsens supply chain backlog. No more room at the logistics warehouse inn, Prologis says. IKEA’s stores in North America are the hardest hit by product shortages, followed by Europe. percent and 96.75

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BlueYonder

MAY 15, 2023

Survey Says: Companies Face Four Key Challenges Blue Yonder’s survey revealed that companies continue to face four critical challenges in optimizing their end-to-end supply chains. These top challenges are: Ongoing supply chain disruptions.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 8, 2022

Supply chain digitalization is helping PepsiCo succeed in an increasingly adverse transportation environment that includes soaring on-highway diesel fuel prices?, supply chain disruptions?, Digitalization of Warehousing Operations. A North America?n billion a year.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Ramp Up Digital Planning to Drive Agility and Thrive Despite Disruption. Imagine you’re managing inventory in a long supply chain. Your inventory consists of raw material (the tree) to the finished product in your warehouse. And at any given time, much of your inventory could be stuck in transit.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 8, 2022

Mexican factories gain in supply chain revamps. Employees at an Amazon warehouse on New York’s Staten Island voted late last week to join a union, which is a painful defeat for the e-commerce giant that has aggressively fought unionization efforts in recent years. Jokr prepping world’s first carbon-negative grocery delivery.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic followed by supply chain disruptions around the world has sparked a resurgence of companies bringing sourcing and manufacturing back to the United States or closer to U.S. Amazon has ‘over a thousand’ Rivian electric vans making deliveries in the US. trade with Asia.

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BlueYonder

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In North America, 4 million workers left their jobs in April. In North America, a record 632,000 frontline workers left their retail jobs having been exposed to increased levels of danger while facing low levels of pay, while white collar workers got a taste for remote work and found it made their lives easier to manage.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 26, 2023

Tentative Deal Reached This morning, industry supply chain teams across the U.S. This contract is characterized as the single largest private-sector collective bargaining agreement in North America.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 15, 2024

If the attacks continue, this crisis could trigger inflation due to higher global freight and insurance rates, along with supply chain disruptions. #5 7 Chemicals and Fertilizers Chemical fertilizer in a warehouse waiting for shipment, as a result of the Red Sea ship attacks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 28, 2023

The UPS-Teamsters contract is the largest collective-bargaining agreement involving a private employer in North America, and a strike could have harmed the supply chains of many companies. Interact Analysis research indicates warehouse construction is showing signs of recovering following a slowdown in 2022 and 2023.

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