Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

More than four out of ten (41%) of European supply chain executives expect this year’s peak retail season to be more challenging than that of 2022, with only 18% believing it will be less difficult. The relative impact of peak season is growing too, with Amazon Prime Day now considered a peak event by 62% of respondents.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

“According to the Körber 2023 State of Complexity Survey, 71 percent of supply chain professionals say that supply chain operations have become more complex in 2022, with only one in five able to stay ahead of their most pressing challenges.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2022

Solace , a leading enabler of event-driven architecture for real-time enterprises, has affirmed its ongoing Event Horizon commitments with the unveiling of a new set of product enhancements, partnerships and foremost an expansion of the popular EDA Summit Program, devoted to the advancement of event-driven architecture (EDA) in business.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 19, 2022

With the high cost of human labour prompting more and more logistics companies to seek ways of working that rely less on people, interest in automation is greater than ever at this year’s IMHX , says Event Director, Rob Fisher. IMHX 2022 takes place from 6th-8th September at the NEC, Birmingham. This represents some 12.5%

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Shipping and Freight Resource

JUNE 23, 2022

. ” These are some of the key takeaways from the 2022 update of the “ Containers Lost at Sea ” report by The World Shipping Council (WSC). Since 2011, the World Shipping Council (WSC) has undertaken a survey of its members to accurately estimate the number of containers that are lost at sea each year.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2024

The need for quality data on the business from within the industry was also highlighted by Guy Watt of John Clegg Consulting, who presented the findings of the UK Wood Pallets & Packaging Market in 2022. Watt said surveys for the market report’s next edition would be issued to the membership much earlier, during February this year.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2021

These include security surveillance tasks at ports, critical infrastructures, border control and oil and gas industry as well as (intra)logistics, surveying, and asset inspections. ship-to-shore delivery), environmental monitoring and surveying grounds and buildings. structured and repeatable data collection), to delivery (e.g.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 24, 2023

With recent events at Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse rocking international finance systems , the experts at global supply chain risk management solution Resilinc are urging UK businesses to collaborate with suppliers to reduce uncertainty.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2023

Women’s History Month is an annual declared month that highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. And while this definitely points to an industry making strides, a recent Procurious survey found that 75 percent of women in supply chain experience gender-based adversity.

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Locus

OCTOBER 21, 2022

According to McKinsey’s latest consumer pulse survey, Spending in March 2020 was down by 18% as compared to two years later. Now almost two years since the black swan event, the trend continues, evolving into much grander, ‘revenge festivities’. retail and food services sales for September 2022 stood at $684.0

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

One survey found that 64% of businesses across materials handling, distribution, or fulfilment had forgone business worth more than 25% of their revenue in 2022 because of staffing issues. For the reasons mentioned, recruiting new employees to replace the logistics workforce has proven extremely difficult.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2022

ContainerPort Group , a top-10 drayage provider in the United States, announced its owner operator network grew by nearly 20% during the second quarter of 2022, pushing the burgeoning CPG fleet to more than 1,300 strong. Nearly a third of these applicants joined the CPG team.

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MTS Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2023

One of the biggest impacts of decoupling in the supply chain is that it helps minimize the impact of unexpected events. Spreading production across multiple countries or regions can mitigate the risk of production halts due to unexpected events. Country of Origin 2020 2021 2022 2023 (first 9 months) CHINA 9.80 M VIETNAM 1.86

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Change can creep imperceptibly, so sometimes it takes a major event to wake us up. A year later their survey revealed that companies were more likely to have increased inventory than originally planned and less likely to have made other planned changes to suppliers and networks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

Last week, Clint Reiser published an article highlighting our 2022 supply chain predictions. Preliminary results from a Lucas-commissioned survey of 350 companies in the US and UK found that the majority of the companies are already employing AI in one way or another within their warehouses and distribution/fulfillment centers.

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ShipLilly

MARCH 20, 2023

Elsewhere, the Bank of Canada business survey for the 4th quarter of 2022 indicated that there were still price adjustments pending and that many of these relate to previous supply disruptions. When the New York Fed launched its index, it was at the beginning of 2022, around peak time for the economic strains.

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FLS Transport

MARCH 3, 2021

This hasn’t been a two day event, it’s turning into a two week… plus… event. A new survey from IBM says that’s about to change. And the new ELD enforcement will not go into effect until then… which is expected to be sometime in 2022. Now that the storms have cleared there’s a huge rebound in volume. Take a look here.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

To better understand the state of European supply chains, FourKites , the real-time supply chain visibility platform, partnered with Reuters Events to survey over 450 supply chain leaders across the continent, with particular emphasis on the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands. Sustainability is a priority.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

network this year after its initial success at select facilities in 2022. In addition, as part of its mandate to improve safety, GroundCloud’s platform also incorporates video telematics for driving event detection and verification, enabling companies to leverage the insights it generates to inform reactive training programs.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 1, 2022

In the run-up to the recent LogiMAT event, Bernard Biolchini ( pictured ), Executive Vice President EMEA at Dematic , one of the world’s leading manufacturers of integrated automation technology , software and services for supply chain optimization, spoke about the new era. That is why we have conducted extensive surveys and analysis.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In February 2022 I ordered a lovely midcentury modern table. Events and disruptions are par for the course in supply chain, so we need tactics to kick in for problem resolution. The issue wasn’t poor planning – they had the inventory. The failure was in supply chain orchestration – connecting planning to execution.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Over recent years, the seasonal peak in demand for many sectors has stretched into what has become known as the ‘Golden Quarter’, which runs through a series of festivals including the seemingly ever-growing event of Halloween, the post-Thanksgiving shopping extravaganza that is Black Friday and on into Christmas. year on year (YoY) increase.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

DECEMBER 15, 2021

SYSPRO listens to different perspectives at two events in Kenya – one the CIO view and the other the CFO view on Digital Transformation – both November2021. 51% said they expect full recovery by end of 2022. 41% of surveyed companies have not enumerated their ROI from digital investments. Here we shared our experiences.

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CH Robinson Logistics

APRIL 19, 2021

Historically, seasonal events bring demand. In a market where base market tension is higher than average, the market can expect to experience tension at higher than average levels during each event period. Seasonal events that cause the market to tighten each spring. Seasonal events that cause the market to tighten each spring.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Extreme weather events, political crises, pandemics: As general conditions for the economy have changed in recent years, the priorities of supply chain managers have also shifted. If it exists, managers can recognize more quickly which part of the chain is affected by an external event.

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Locus

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A survey predicts that e-commerce sales in India will hit the $100 billion mark for the first time in 2023. Delivery exceptions are circumstances where packages are temporarily delayed in transit due to unexpected events. Unanticipated events. These unanticipated events are out of human control and confined to a region.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 13, 2022

Jun 13, 2022. Some changes are environmental—greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other factors contribute to climate change and an increase in severe weather events that impact the supply chain. Inbound Logistics. Sandra Beckwith. Others are societal.

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Trinity Logistics

AUGUST 13, 2021

According to a June survey of 84 National Association of Chemical Distributors, nearly 85 percent of distributors report at least one imported item as out-of-stock. Since March 2020, a perfect storm of events has been putting severe strains on the supply of plastic raw materials, base plastics, and compounded plastics.

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CH Robinson Logistics

MAY 24, 2018

According to the Commercial Carrier Journal (CCJ) Economic Outlook 2018 survey, driver availability was the top concern amongst all respondents, for-hire carriers and private fleets, with regulation being their second concern. When a natural disaster such as a hurricane occurs, it can set off an unexpected chain of events and delays.

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CH Robinson Logistics

MAY 24, 2018

According to the Commercial Carrier Journal (CCJ) Economic Outlook 2018 survey , driver availability was the top concern amongst all respondents, for-hire carriers and private fleets, with regulation being their second concern. When a natural disaster such as a hurricane occurs, it can set off an unexpected chain of events and delays.

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CH Robinson Logistics

MAY 24, 2018

According to the Commercial Carrier Journal (CCJ) Economic Outlook 2018 survey , driver availability was the top concern amongst all respondents, for-hire carriers and private fleets, with regulation being their second concern. When a natural disaster such as a hurricane occurs, it can set off an unexpected chain of events and delays.

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3PL Links

DECEMBER 3, 2023

A 2017 survey on the supply chain and logistics sector by MHI and Deloitte found that just 30% of supply chain managers employed software to facilitate data-driven decision-making. This ratio increased to 54% in 2022. To forecast future events, these algorithms are applied to fresh data.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 27, 2023

And it follows the company’s announcement in April 2022 that it would bump up annual salaries for truck drivers to up to $110,000 and launch the 12-week development program for supply-chain associates in Dallas, Texas, and Dover, Delaware, to earn their commercial drivers licenses.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 17, 2022

According to the annual consumer survey released today by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics, approximately 76 percent of US adults are expected to celebrate Father’s Day. One-quarter of consumers plan to give “gifts of experience” such as tickets to a concert or sporting event.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Raw materials and component shortages, labor shortfalls, port closures, rising fuel costs and other forces will continue to exert enormous pressures on global supply chains in 2022. We will never have the capability to sense a global pandemic, or an event like the Suez Canal blockage, in advance. And with good reason.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The chip shortage has been one of the hottest topics in 2022. said its survey of 13 malls and outdoor shopping centers it manages across the U.S. Amazon showed off its next-generation drone at a recent event near Boston to highlight the future of delivery. I read an article earlier this week that broke it down pretty succinctly.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

On Monday, Roku announced its 2022 fall product lineup: a revamped version of its entry-level streaming adapter, selling for just $30, and a new, smaller subwoofer priced $50 below its existing model. And it looks like consumers could benefit from inflationary devices this holiday season.

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