Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 15, 2023

This technology is coming to a supply chain near you, and the sooner you understand it and get comfortable with it, the better positioned you will be when hits the industry in full force. The best course of action is to learn more now. Make no mistake. Generative AI Explained The technical term for it is “ generative AI.”

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 4, 2020

Arecent survey by the International Association of Ports & Harbors (IAPH) shows a mixed picture at ports around the world. “35% Arecent survey by the International Association of Ports & Harbors (IAPH) shows a mixed picture at ports around the world. “35% The question of traceability then becomes a more critical issue.

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Freightos

MAY 22, 2017

Of course, phones shifted from being cutting edge, as did Dial-a-Truck, which became the trucking technology powerhouse known as DAT. In a newly-published survey, nearly seventy freight forwarding managers gave us their thoughts on that. And for an industry sometimes portrayed as change-averse, their response came as a surprise.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 11, 2021

As semesters unfolded, students saw course syllabi come to life in news headlines. These Generation Z graduates are strengthening an existing trend – 50% of millennials surveyed in an APICS report cited a strong corporate environmental responsibility program as a key factor in choosing an employer.

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Morai Logistics

OCTOBER 18, 2018

In fact, a staggering 88% of consumers who participated in the 2018 Global Consumer Insights Survey , confirmed they would pay more for ‘same-day or faster delivery’. Over the course of the past several months, Morai Logistics has highlighted a significant rise in e-commerce shopping. Delivering to E-commerce Markets. Trillion by 2021.

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Freightos

APRIL 27, 2023

The article presents findings from a survey conducted across over 200 global supply chain professionals to highlight how the pandemic has increased the need for freight market intelligence and how it continues to be relevant even as supply chain issues resolve. This was, of course, an extremely popular use case for market data.

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Freightos

JULY 23, 2019

Intrigued, here’s our summary of the key highlights – of course, we couldn’t help ourselves from expanding on them a bit. The report concluded, unsurprisingly, that digital platforms are enablers removing inefficiencies long plaguing the industry. Ti also ran a survey on the take-up of the new platforms and marketplaces.

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Your products are different, your sales cycle might be longer or shorter, your customers are different — so it’s useless to compare your conversion rate, for example, to an industry average. Of course, what you say is just as important as how you say it. Anywhere from 15 to 98 characters and 3 to 9 words seems to be okay.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 14, 2021

So, a hypothetical 1% improvement in freight spend would yield annual pre-tax savings of nearly $4 million. Of course, that’s easier said than done, but we have a few ideas of how CPG companies could leverage FreightWaves data and the SONAR SaaS freight platform to effectively manage their freight spend.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

Even before the emergence of COVID-19, next-day and same-day delivery promises from mega retailers, as well as new delivery models such as store pick-up, were driving increasing customer expectations — not just in retail, but in every industry. In fact, the on-demand industry was estimated to account for $75 billion in 2018. [1]

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Freightos

JUNE 15, 2021

When that stopped, the industry found itself in a crunch and within just months, prices took off by some 400%. And, of course, when anyone buys goods in a store, part of that cost is freight. Even if you don’t care about world economics or how the logistics industry operates, this is important. And it’s not just ocean freight.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 29, 2023

And, over the past three years, the continuing aftershocks of the COVID pandemic, combined with geopolitical factors and an economic downturn, have caused significant upheaval for shippers, cargo receivers, service providers, brokers, freight forwarders, carriers – and of course consumers.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JANUARY 23, 2018

Shippers and third-party logistics providers work hand in hand and they tend to agree on most things when it comes to the freight industry. The survey reflected a market in rapid transition from a two-year downturn to more dynamic growth and tightening capacity,” The JOC said. Tightening the Belt on Capacity.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Road transport is a heavily regulated industry so there are naturally several mandatory training requirements, depending on the work being carried out. With this in mind it’s important to make sure you’re willing to get the most out of your Driver CPC training courses, as if not you’re missing out on vital upskilling opportunities.

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GoShip Blog

JULY 7, 2021

According to the Institute for Supply Management , 75% of the 600+ businesses surveyed in the United States experienced supply chain disruptions. The best course of action to successfully assess risk and prepare for these disruptions is to get support from a logistics and supply chain expert. .

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Freightos

MARCH 17, 2019

Technology rewrote industry rules and improved our listening to music. The same phenomenon has been replicated across other industries as well, from hotel booking (Priceline giving way to Airbnb) to glasses (LensCrafters to Warby Parker). So we asked them by conducting a survey in November 2018.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 1, 2022

Over the past two years, many things have changed fundamentally in the industry, including purchasing and consumer behaviour. Let’s stand together to tackle everything the industry faces in terms of new customer requirements, market conditions and technological issues. That is why we have conducted extensive surveys and analysis.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JUNE 13, 2022

Over the past two years, many things have changed fundamentally in the industry, including purchasing and consumer behaviour. Let’s stand together to tackle everything the industry faces in terms of new customer requirements, market conditions and technological issues. That is why we have conducted extensive surveys and analysis.

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FLS Transport

JANUARY 20, 2021

Industrial volume jumps will add to capacity crunch. Even after a surge in retail volume, overall truckload volume is down 4% year-over-year because of lagging industrial freight. This means increased freight volumes and of course, price. New surveys show that 50% plan to identify backup suppliers to avoid disruption.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

APRIL 1, 2020

IMO has echoed shipping industry calls for governments to keep shipping and supply chains open and grant special travel exemptions to seafarers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Let’s take a quick survey shall we.?? In a Circular Letter No.4204/Add.6 In a Circular Letter No.4204/Add.6

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Blue Grace Logistics

MAY 29, 2018

“Digital” has become one of the biggest buzzwords in the transportation and logistics industry. Procurement services and digital platforms are being created, revised, and improved at a pace that the industry is completely unaccustomed to. The Survey By the Numbers . Everything, it seems, is going through a digital revolution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Events and disruptions are par for the course in supply chain, so we need tactics to kick in for problem resolution. Global Network, 48% of the supply chain professionals in their 2023 survey on Next Generation Talent did not feel the technology at their company helps them do their job efficiently and effectively. Ask the questions.

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WorkWave

MAY 20, 2022

Pest control has always been a highly competitive industry when it comes to staffing, with different companies within the same region often looking to hire from an overlapping pool of qualified technicians. While most states recognized pest control as an essential industry, many instituted restrictions on issuing new licenses to technicians.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 27, 2021

51% of the respondents in a global Reuters survey felt that the most perplexing challenge is the unpredictable nature of consumer demand. Of course, these sophisticated automated models will not give the full picture either, especially in a market run by the pandemic. Predictive analytics is used in every industry.

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IoT World Today

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Indeed, according to the 2020 IoT World Today IoT Adoption Survey, 51% of respondents said the virus spurred the need for new digital initiatives. We have an opportunity to revolutionize that industry for a lot of our customers that want to dispatch into neighborhoods in a cost-effective and environmentally effective way.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The American and Canadian militaries believe that the balloon was for surveillance, while the Chinese government said it was a civilian meteorological research airship that had blown off course. In its January survey of grocery executives and consumers, Grocery Doppio, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In fact, two-thirds of the companies surveyed characterized their omni-channel fulfillment performance (relative to peers in their industry) as average or below, with 30 percent characterizing it as below average. Source: “Omni-Channel Logistics Leaders: Top 5 Inventory Insights,” Adelante SCM & LEGACY SCS.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Hamburg-based startup driveMybox more than doubled its sales in 2021 compared to the previous year and is on a strong expansion course. A recent customer survey proved that driveMybox is seen as a strong and reliable partner that can react flexibly to requests, even in times of strong fluctuations and disruptions in the supply chains.

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Material Handling and Logistics

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Our annual salary survey reveals that the typical material handling and logistics professional earns $93,697. The single biggest challenge facing the industry is lack of qualified workers in all aspects of logistics.” As the results of the MH&L 2018 Salary Survey indicate, the size of the paycheck has become almost as important. “If

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Blue Grace Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Shippers, of course, have higher expectations of their service providers and third-party providers have responded by increasing not only their service offerings but also their innovations when it comes to overcoming challenges within the current market environment. The logistics and freight industry is in a state of flux currently.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Infrequent data collection and lacking an IoT data strategy leaves many businesses surveyed struggling to extract full value from their IoT data. Accelerating IoT adoption over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the fact that many businesses’ data sharing strategies are not yet as advanced as they need to be.

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Penske Move Ahead

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The majority of respondents taking part in the 2019 Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals/Penske Logistics Young Professionals Survey, which surveyed more than 100 supply chain professionals under age 30, said they enjoy working in the supply chain and that it makes them content.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The recently released National Retail Security Survey shows that total shrink in 2021 reported by retailers is now almost a $100 billion problem. The nationwide vacancy rate for industrial real estate was 3.2 The truck driver shortage continues to be a hurdle for the industry. percent in the third quarter, down from 3.8

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 16, 2015

The frustrating feeling, that government regulators aren’t listening to you, is a common one within the freight industry. The higher the minimums go, the more difficult it may be for small and medium sized carriers to survive, especially since the industry was already hit hard by last year’s freight broker bond increase.

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Automotive Logistics

MARCH 19, 2019

CLdN said it would release more details of these plans in due course. The port of Santander is strategically well located, being connected via toll-free roads with a number of Spanish industrial centres such as Madrid, Barcelona and Zaragoza.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MARCH 10, 2022

64% of companies in one Gartner survey stated that lack of tech talent was their most significant barrier to the adoption of new technology. If you don’t have the internal IT staff to spare, you might consider contracting out those services for the course of your new software implementation.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 21, 2022

Despite the accelerating speed of IoT adoption over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, improvements are still needed to draw the optimum benefits from the technology. Inmarsat ELERA, our industry-leading narrowband network, is ideally suited to the rapidly evolving world of IoT.

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