Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 12, 2021

ARC Advisory Group and DC Velocity magazine have closed our joint survey on the changes logistics operations have experienced in the upheaval of the Covid-19 operating environment in 2020; and the expectations these same executives have about their operating environment in 2021. Throughput Volumes. Labor Restrictions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 11, 2021

It’s one thing to read an assigned article on the bullwhip effect; it’s another to encounter it repeatedly in your daily life. Students want to know that your company understands the trends and challenges that were already reshaping supply chains and has a vision for how to address them. Do you know where you are going?

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Freightos

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This article provides an overview, based on a survey of over 1,200 small businesses, of how small and midsize businesses have weathered the storm, and how a changing – and potentially recessionary – market is impacting their outlook. His Kickstarter campaign launched in January of 2021 and raised over $3 million dollars. .

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 8, 2021

A few week ago, I wrote an article about the transformative nature of the plant-based meat supply chain. The median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists was for a shortfall of $70.8 percent for 2021, and by 5.9 Survey respondents also lowered their expectations for future transportation capacity. percent to $73.3

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 5, 2021

As I write this in the fourth quarter of 2021, there’s just no telling what the new year will bring in terms of emerging logistics challenges. Certainly no company could have foreseen the shutdown of the global economy in the early months of 2020 — or the continuing effects of COVID-19, such as port closures, throughout 2021.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

In my Logistics Viewpoints article in April 2021, Building Profitability with Agility while Digitally Transforming the Supply Chain , I mentioned that we will continue to explore here the concrete steps in the digital journey and examples of determination from the top in addition to logistics operations. The payoff is well worth it.

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Blue Grace Logistics

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Actionable advice from 2021 Top Companies for Women to Work For in Transportation. Oct 29, 2021. One of the most common trends among WIT’s Top 100 companies was the establishment of employee resource groups (ERGs), often employee-led voluntary committees that represent a specific group of individuals. FreightWaves.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JULY 10, 2023

However, based on first-quarter earnings calls, many companies, including manufacturers, retailers and transportation companies, missed the mark on their forecasts as they struggled to become more agile in adjusting their resources to align with evolving consumer and economic trends. Big-box retailers like Best Buy, Walmart Inc.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

If 2020 and if 2021 proved anything, it’s that the omni-channel selling environment is here to stay. According to a recent article in Forbes , 48% of consumers today prefer a hybrid shopping model that combines online and in-store components. of all e-commerce sales in the US during 2021.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A year before, in 2014, a Harvard Business Review article pointed out that supply chains were becoming increasingly global and complex and consequently more at risk than before. In 2021 we find governments and organizations now grappling with these predictions and how best to deal with the outcomes of these predictions.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

However, growth is expected to normalise from 2021 onwards. And the trend towards online shopping continued, with the company reporting that online sales for the financial year ending June 2020 grew by 18.1 The market is also growing across a wide range of commercial sectors, including the following: 1) Food and Perishables.

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GoShip Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This article discusses how small businesses can protect themselves against fraudulent returns without pushing away honest customers. A survey by the National Retail Federation (NRF) found that about 16.6% of retail sales in the US were returned in 2021, and up to 10% of these returns were fraudulent.

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247 Customs Broker

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

As the Wall Street Journal reported recently, a survey of 1,310 supply chain managers in Europe carried out by the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply finds that one in 10 company executives in the UK fear that their enterprises could go bankrupt if Brexit causes Customs delays of just 10 to 30 minutes. Compliance to U.S.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 31, 2018

Between 2016 and 2021, VDC is expecting 4% and 5% growth in those sectors, respectively, with sales of rugged mobile devices reaching $3.189 billion and bar code hardware growing to $4.301 billion over the next four years. Overall market trends. Top 20 ADC suppliers. Total 2016 Revenues (in millions). AutoID ma rket analysis.

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