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The battle for the last mile is in the cloud, but which one?

Cathy Roberson

Cloud providers are working with partners and connecting platforms to create supply chain ecosystems in which carriers, logistics providers, and shippers collaborate. As supply chains take a more circular approach, the last-mile and reverse logistics have become critical additions to ecosystems.

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UPS fights for volumes

Cathy Roberson

I’m also helping out the Reverse Logistics Association as a research manager, and at JOC , I help out as a research analyst and write a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, Freight Forward , summarizing JOC & other published articles and providing an outlook for the week ahead. Heading to Las Vegas next week?

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The Overlooked Supply Chain Issue in Biden's Latest Executive Order - Repairs

Cathy Roberson

Repairs are one of the three major pillars of reverse logistics - returns and disposition are the other two. A quite telling quote from the Vox article, “the system encourages people to throw [electronics] away and replace them,” creates another reverse logistics problem - the proper disposal of such items.

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Q3 Parcel & Last Mile Market and the Q4 Outlook

Cathy Roberson

If you’d like to receive these, just let me know by subscribing to this newsletter. I’m also helping out the Reverse Logistics Association as a research manager and at JOC I help out as a research analyst and write a weekly LinkedIn article, Freight Forward , summarizing JOC articles and providing an outlook for the week ahead.

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Expectations for the holiday season

Cathy Roberson

I’m also helping out the Reverse Logistics Association as a research manager, and at JOC , I help out as a research analyst and write a weekly LinkedIn newsletter, Freight Forward , summarizing JOC & other published articles and providing an outlook for the week ahead.

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Retailers and brands get on the resale wagon

Cathy Roberson

😉 **So, after I wrote this, a good article from Bloomberg was published on venture firms investing in reverse logistics start-ups. How resales help with returns management and its impact on supply chains will be closely watched.

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Top 8 E-commerce Trends in 2022

Vinculum

Customized emails and newsletters to fetch the customer’s behavior towards it. Logistics. The online business sellers must be prepared to handle the return stuff in easy to go way with the help of reverse logistics. The reverse logistics helps minimize the cost of return over the cost of shipping the products.