Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2025

Optimizing fulfillment requires a series of steps to get a shipment from its source to the end customer. These steps include sourcing and receiving inventory, storing inventory, order processing, picking and packing an order, shipping the order, and returns management.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

If you are a product manufacturer, you know all too well the perils of shipping products from your factory or warehouse to a DC or retailer. Packaging and product damage during shipping is extremely common. Unfortunately, some retailers reject entire loads of merchandise if they see some packaging damage on more than one pallet.

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ShipBob

JUNE 20, 2025

Table of Contents ** Minutes What is product sourcing? Where can I source products from? This makes it essential that buyers understand where they are sourcing their products from and how that ultimately affects their brand. What is product sourcing? Where can I source products from?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

Retailers know firsthand how quickly the market can change. Continuing Disruptions in Transportation and Sourcing Materials After the pandemic, retailers are faced with new challenges and disruptions due to global conflicts, trade restrictions, and now recessions. The retailers feel the impacts of the recession fast and deeply.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

With retailers (and streamers) alike finding new ways to compete, that $20 increase could have a bigger impact than Amazon executives would like to believe – and open the door for competitors. ” Sourcing and retaining talent has also led to offering its employees increased pay. Shipping and Transportation Costs.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 2, 2021

Driver dwell is a key source of driver dissatisfaction and contributes to the driver shortage. Weisenberger is leading their digitally enabled shipping initiative, she works in distribution operations rather than transportation. This is one of the company’s first steps to their digital transformation in shipping. What made Ms.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The forecast can be compared to what actually shipped or sold. Shippers’ end-to-end supply chain predictions are based on applying AI to OpenWeb searches, import/export records, data from sourcing platforms like ThomasNet, federal logistics records, and other data. Autonomous trucks will revolutionize logistics.

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EFT

JUNE 3, 2025

Channels: Technology Supply Chain Logistics CEO Focus Freight eCommerce/Retail CSCO Focus Hi-Tech Industrial Logistics 3PL Tags: supply chain logistics shipping freight sourcing procurement reshoring nearshoring suppliers Event Date: Tue, 2025-11-04 to Wed, 2025-11-05 Event URL: [link] Event Location: Houston Number of attendees: 200 Programme URL: (..)

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

In episode six of Be Ready for Anything, ToolsGroup’s Pre-Sales Manager for Europe, Birger Klinke, talks about what retailers should expect in 2021 and how they can leverage probabilistic forecasting and automation to adjust to a changing marketplace. What do you predict will be different for retailers in 2021? Transcript.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 5, 2018

An omnichannel retail strategy is the new norm in today’s supply chains. Therefore, an omnichannel retail strategy must become the new standard business model for companies wanting to remain competitive. This is most obvious in business models allowing for ship-to-store and curbside pickup of online orders. In fact, 78% of U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2024

Ongoing attacks on vessels in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthis continue to disrupt shipping lanes in the chemical industry’s supply chain, according to Al Greenwood, chemicals expert and deputy editor at ICIS. Until July 18, Walmart is offering Walmart+ memberships for $49 a year, or half off the usual $98 fee.

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Freight Plus

JANUARY 15, 2025

Shipping packaging materials comes with its own set of challenges that can disrupt operations and impact profitability. Negotiate Carrier Contracts : Lock in stable shipping rates with carriers to mitigate unexpected cost spikes. Heres a breakdown of the most common obstacles and practical ways to navigate them effectively.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 11, 2025

There’s alot of content noise so I find it useful to understand the market by reading what retailers are directly saying each quarter. Look for another article later this week and part 4 of the What Retailers Are Saying Series on May 18. 🙏 Retailers Tractor Supply Q1 ending March 29. Christopher J. Christopher J.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

Last week I attended the annual National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show in New York City. The usual themes were still very present as solution providers and retailers alike were more than happy to talk about omni-channel, mobility, robotics, and machine learning, to name a few.

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Freightos

APRIL 23, 2025

It creates a single source of truth for your rate management, automating RFQs and streamlining the entire procurement process. Our platform can be deployed alongside your current solutions, providing immediate value without disrupting established workflows.

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Freightos

JUNE 10, 2025

China’s ports are likely still working through some of the backlog of ready to ship goods created during the April-May lull in China-US demand. Carriers are planning additional transpacific GRIs of $1,000 – $3,000/FEU for mid-June and again on July 1st.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

More and more retailers are giving consumers choices for how they want an order delivered, and part of this is to show the environmental impact of the option that they choose. On top of that, some retailers are developing sustainability scorecards for items, allowing consumers to see hoe sustainably sourced and delivered their order is.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Source Wikipedia. During the next decade, the power shifted to the retailer. Consumers became more loyal to retail brands, and retailers increased the number of products manufactured and marketed as house brands. In the 1990s the supplier won at the expense of the retailer. My Letter to the Retailer.

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Freightos

APRIL 29, 2025

The Red Sea crisis demonstrated how quickly shipping routes can be compromised, forcing immediate rerouting decisions. When a single tweet can change tariffs on global trading partners, or when conflict in the Middle East impacts shipping lanes, logistics teams need comprehensive visibility and control, not in weeks or days, but in hours.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 25, 2023

Last week I returned to the National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show for the first time in 3 years. The usual themes were still very present as solution providers and retailers alike were more than happy to talk about omni-channel, mobility, and machine learning, to name a few. This is essentially continuous optimization.

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 26, 2025

Developed under the auspices of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the Convention mandates that ships at the end of their operational lives must be recycled in a safe and environmentally sustainable way.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Global shipping is national news with most stories covering the symptoms. Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers. Since 1990, the size of ships increased 3X, but the design of the west coast ports remained largely unchanged.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Three months into 2025, we have seen a barrage of on-again, off-again tariffs that have supply chain and logistics teams reeling, as they must rethink everything from next weeks shipping route to their foundational network models. The Ukraine-Russia conflict is ongoing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2025

Meanwhile, LogiSYM Asia Pacific, a well-established event with over a decade of history, brought together professionals from supply chain, logistics, and shipping sectors for strategic discussions on resilience, digitalization, sustainability, and global trade dynamics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2022

I was hoping the retail chains carrying this brand had some in their stores, but after checking 10+ retailers, to my surprise, it was nowhere to be found, and the only website that had it was charging $200 more than the MSRP! Here we are, two years after the start of the pandemic, and we are still very much feeling the effects.

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BlueYonder

JANUARY 23, 2025

Getting shipments from the production facility or warehouse to the retail store or the consumers doorstep is a lot more complicated than it used to be. But theyre also costly causing damage to sales numbers, retailer and consumer relationships, and the brand reputation. So what are the top reasons for shipping delays?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2022

The world’s fleet consists of approximately 6,000 ships. These ships carried nearly 150 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containers last year. Last October, over 100 ships, including 70 container ships, were waiting at anchor or in drift zones to unload at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

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Freight Plus

MAY 13, 2025

If you’re shipping into big-box retailers, retailer scorecards are an essential part of doing business. This blog breaks down what retailer scorecards are, what they measure (including OTIF), how they vary by retailer, and how you can improve your performance to avoid costly penalties.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The wonderful world of retail. The Retail Trends Shaping How We Shop in 2022. The Retail Trends Shaping How We Shop in 2022. From a digitally-transformed shopping experience to global supply chain disruptions and a pandemic that refuses to quit, there’s one thing retailers can count on: People are always going to shop.

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Cathy Roberson

MAY 25, 2025

A busy week in retail earnings! 🙂 Part 6 of the What Retailers Are Saying Series will be posted on June 1. 🙏🙏🙏 Retailers Home Depot Q1 ending May 4. Reported May 20 Let me take a moment to comment on our global sourcing strategy. As a result, we now have tremendous sourcing flexibility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2024

The international inbound transportation service is only available to Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) sellers that source or manufacture goods in China, and all cargo must be shipped from Yantian, Shanghai, or Ningbo ports. And with that, I bid you adieu, and let’s move on to this week’s logistics news. Cargo imported into the U.S.

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ToolsGroup

JULY 19, 2023

With the advent of true “single source of truth” inventory visibility , a digital twin is a more feasible goal than ever before. Check out The Case for Real-Time Perpetual Inventory Signals in Manufacturing → Or perhaps you’re a retailer and you’re expanding your omnichannel network. Don’t let your bottom line bottom out.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Chad is the Co-founder and Chief Digital Officer of BoxC , a logistics startup out of 500 Startups Batch 6 that simplifies the complexity of international parcel shipping by bringing together logistics and compliance resources from around the world into a single platform. It’s frictionless. It’s flexible.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JUNE 23, 2025

Subscribe Building Your Dream Space: How Shipping Containers are Revolutionizing Architecture! Have you ever had a latte served from a repurposed shipping container in the heart of Times Square? Shipping containers in New York. Why Shipping Containers? And at the core of many of these new cafes? Yes, they’re unique.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, reported its best quarter in 117 years, posting a $5.9B Retail shelves are increasingly empty. Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. Build Strong Supply Chain Sourcing Development Practices.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2022

Last year, retailers started encouraging holiday shoppers to shop early. You might be thinking, “Well, but what about growing retail inventories? The retail inventory to sales ratios have trended up in the recent past, with these ratios standing at 1.18 Retailers are already cutting orders in anticipation of reduced demand.

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3PL Insights

JUNE 16, 2025

However, recent years have tested the industry with persistent global disruptions, including pandemic-related slowdowns, raw material shortages, labor constraints, and international shipping delays. Here’s how. These insights enable manufacturers and suppliers to make informed decisions, forecast demand, and respond quickly.

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