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What Shippers and Retailers Need to Know for Peak Season Planning 2022

The Logistics of Logistics

Above-average holiday shipping seasons in 2020 and 2021 led to an above-average returns rate in the usual Quiet Season. Continued lockdowns over the emergence of new COVID variants left the Produce Shipping Season of 2021 in a panic. for the same period in 2021. over the 2021 cost, such as in the New England region.

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Navigating Uncharted Waters: SMB Importers, 2024 and Red Sea Crisis Lessons

Freightos

This is a significant shift from late 2021, when 93% faced serious disruptions. This ensured that today’s partial blockage of the Suez Canal, while disruptive, is still far less impactful than its far more meme-worthy 2021 relative in which the Evergiven blocked the canal.

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With Great Volumes Comes Great Uncertainty: A Guide to Navigating Peak Season 2021

Locus

E-commerce is among the most promising omnichannel retail strategies. According to McKinsey Consumer Pulse surveys undertaken by the firm, close to 75% of people that are using digital channels for the first time will continue to do so even after normalcy is restored. share of chain retail sales by 2023, up from 30% in 2021.

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Real-Time Transportation Visibility: 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant Results Revealed

CH Robinson Logistics

According to the 2020 Gartner Future of Supply Chain Survey of more than 1,300 supply chain professionals, “87% of respondents plan investments in supply chain resiliency within the next two years.”. Instead, they’ve become pillars of modern supply chain strategy. Request a demo of Navisphere Vision today.

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Embracing Strategic Digitalization to Stay Ahead of Tech Obsolescence

Locus

billion in 2021, and is expected to reach $288.87 If we consider the average cost of a new car in the United States was approximately $40,000 in 2021, this increase is equivalent to almost 4 billion new cars. billion by 2031. Let’s try to visualize this $157.35 billion increase.

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[Chart of the Week] Shippers take to the sky as ocean shipping congestion grows: Maneuvering past the bottleneck

FreightWaves SONAR

Normally, spot rates in this lane fall to their lowest points of the year in the winter months of January and February, but that has not been the case so far in 2021. . If more production were to move to Europe, as the survey suggests, Los Angeles could fade as a hub for freight activity as imports enter through the East Coast.

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Freight Document Processing: Dos and Don’ts

RPA Labs

When asked about this for the 2021 MHI Annual Industry Report , 53% of the supply chain professionals surveyed said they are investing in robotics and automation technologies, while 54% are investing in cloud computing and storage. Create a Better Freight Document Processing Strategy With RPA Labs.