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What These 7 Warehousing Stories Mean for 2019

Stord

Now is a great time for shippers to take stock of what happened in 2018 so they can prepare for what’s coming in 2019. This new strategy is the company’s latest step in a series of initiatives to optimize its network and improve service. FedEx pursued both strategies in 2018. FedEx’s news release 2. Walmart’s announcement 3.

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DHL Express Presents its New Strategy 2025

Airfreight Logistics

DHL Express has presented its new Strategy 2025 on the occasion of the opening of its € 123 million state-of-the-art hub at Cologne-Bonn Airport. The many new technologies at our Cologne hub are just one more example of this, and it shows the basis of our new Strategy 2025 as well,” explains John Pearson, CEO DHL Express. “As

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Cutting Emissions Through Better Transportation Planning

Logistics Viewpoints

A transportation management system (TMS) allows a shipper or carrier to plan the most cost-effective set of shipments that meets service level goals. Derek Gittoes, a vice president of supply chain management product strategy at Oracle, said “this is very much an estimate. That is more than any other sector.

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The Give and Take of Multi-Carrier Parcel Shipping Technology

Logistics Viewpoints

e-commerce sales increased again in 2021, up 14% year-over-year (YoY), and by more than 50% compared to 2019. Merchandising can also tap into fulfillment data to function more effectively by checking inventory strategies against parcel shipping data to ensure the right product mix is in the right locations. Meet the basic needs.

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The Retail-Logistics Revolution

Now, That's Logistics

Driven by the booming e-commerce market and an ever-shifting business environment, these moves are helping retailers react faster, increase customer touchpoints, and meet the needs of the on-demand buying evolution. From a market perspective, we’ve seen such strategies really produce positive ROI for these companies.”.

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3 Warehouse Insights for Supply Chain Leaders from the Wall Street Journal’s Industry Analysis

Stord

Driven by problems of scale, pricing, and flexibility, these new solutions help shippers reach key markets, meet holiday demand, and ultimately gain a competitive advantage. Scalability is a huge component of alternative strategies. Alternative warehouse strategies help enterprises, but also small and midsize businesses.

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Why is freight data a powerful weapon in the era of COVID-19?

FreightWaves SONAR

For example, as seen in scenario A1, the global unconstrained demand for air cargo will fall by 14% of pre-crisis volumes in the second quarter of 2020 and will not rebound to 2019 levels until around mid-2022.” When planning for the future, industry players should thus use insights from commodity-based modeling.

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