Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

If your company’s supply chain survived 2020 and the disruptions of early 2021, it’s safe to say it has passed the supply chain resiliency test. Your organization’s ability to anticipate disruption, adapt to events, and build resiliency is rooted in how you maintain operational continuity.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 17, 2023

Good intentions aren’t enough Three years on from Covid-19 caused widespread economic and social disruption, the new Board Planning Transformation Benchmark Survey asked 2,450 decision makers across the UK, US, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Australia and Singapore how they are faring in light of a series of economic ‘unprecedented’ events.

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3PL Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This article shares details on the Truck Tonnage Index, how the data reflects the overall economy, and other ways to interpret the data. Data Collection. The ATA creates the tonnage index through a series of surveys of its members. The index uses seasonally adjusted data and non-seasonally adjusted data.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 1, 2021

As supply chains become more impacted by market disruptions and unpredictable events, they’re also becoming more critical to a company’s customer experience levels and bottom line. Creating a data-driven supply chain tracking important transportation metrics helps shippers respond and adapt as quickly as possible to known and unknown events.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

Weather events might also be factors. Above-average holiday shipping seasons in 2020 and 2021 led to an above-average returns rate in the usual Quiet Season. The survey also found that although many companies have arranged international shipments early this year, most continue to rely on the spot freight market to move goods.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Geopolitical events. Prior to 2020, every supply chain in the world was challenged by increasing levels of demand unpredictability and market volatility. In fact, IT spend as a percent of business capex crossed over the prior ~10 year average in 2019 and we see that trend extending in early 2020.”. Natural disasters.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

2020 was full of surprises. We put together a survey with our partners at Districon to better understand these challenges and offer ideas for improvement. Industries that deal with lots of daily fluctuations were among the most heavily represented in our survey. Namely, manufacturing, food, and healthcare.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

2020 seemed a world away just a few years ago and yet, here we are. This promises to be a very eventful year. Dubbed YAFO, the modeling tool also helps users understand how forests will adapt to a changing climate, drawing on data from multiple European countries. . What’s on the horizon for supply chain professionals?

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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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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MARCH 21, 2022

SCM solutions provide oversight of materials and products, and their associated data, as they move through the supply chain from supplier to consumer. By gaining access to the data in these processes, businesses are better able to coordinate workflows, improve efficiencies, and ensure that customers get the product they ordered.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2021

Your organization’s ability to anticipate disruption, adapt to events, and build resiliency is rooted in how you maintain operational continuity. A wide range of events could prevent your supply chain from operating normally, but not all events have an equal impact. The average cost of a data breach reached $3.86

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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. But, as we know, supply chain conditions were far from perfect in 2020 and 2021. As just one example, Nike’s online sales grew by 75% in 2020 — but its profit margins fell from 45.5%

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

2020 was full of surprises. We put together a survey with our partners at Districon to better understand these challenges and offer ideas for improvement. Industries that deal with lots of daily fluctuations were among the most heavily represented in our survey. Namely, manufacturing, food, and healthcare.

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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’. According to United States Census Bureau data , advance estimates for U.S.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

There is hope for the high-street with nearly two-thirds (63%) of British shoppers will return to stores post-pandemic if they have a positive experience with a brand online, according to latest data. Fieldwork was undertaken between 30th October -2nd November 2020. The survey was carried out online.

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Blue Grace Logistics

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Seasonal events such as holiday shopping, black swan weather events, geopolitical tensions, and, in the case of 2020, a global pandemic. According to a March survey conducted by the Institute for Supply Chain Management, nearly 75% of U.S. Supply chain disruptions are just a part of doing business. Nearly 75% of U.S.

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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. This represents some 12.5% of the total workforce required.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Data and predictions have been all over the map. This week, for example, CCJ reported that “60 percent of fleets running between 1 and 100 trucks have yet to adopt ELDs, according to a recent survey conducted by CarrierLists.” Data from transportation procurement events mirror these results.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

Data from the U.S. year-on-year in 2020 with a 39% increase in Q1 2021. 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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Logistics Manager

JANUARY 17, 2020

The milestone was announced by Port Executive Director, Mr. Gene Seroka at the annual State of the Port event hosted by the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association on January 16 th , 2020. In 2020 the Port will continue to explore locations for off-dock chassis yards.

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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. When 27% of security/access is listed as user errors, and 9% are mistakes but 18% are malicious, users are twice as likely to intentionally harm data than make genuine errors.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

Capacity can be easily ramped up or down due to product seasonality, holidays and of course global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In a McKinsey surveyed, 59% of participants stated that a lack of executive vision was a significant obstacle to the digital transformation of their organization. [2] The payoff is well worth it.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 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. is at the forefront as it builds a data-driven, multi-party network that lets shippers, carriers, and freight brokers connect more efficiently.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

MARCH 18, 2020

26 tugs; 9 pilot boats; 2 pilot helicopters; 7 work boats; 4 dredgers; and 3 survey boats. While having an open economy is a good thing, it does expose the country to greater volatility as the economy is influenced by global events and economies to a large extent. using below key resources *. Information from Transnet website.

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FreightWaves SONAR

DECEMBER 4, 2020

While logging into a shipping data analytics engine like FreightWaves SONAR is an excellent way to keep tabs on the market, there’s another opportunity to stay in the know without being tied to a desk. Great Quarter, Guys covers the state of freight from a data driven research powered approach. “ WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Freightonomics.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Most of the new orders are for delivery in 2020, when BIMCO expects more than one million TEU of new capacity to be delivered. As we usher in 2019, many industry analysts are telling logistics managers to begin planning for a major transformational event coming into play for the ocean cargo sector a year from now.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2022

When the pandemic started in 2020, no one could foresee the impacts of the global supply chain disturbances would last this long. We can say things have changed, and the pandemic is not just an anomaly event after all. Data cleansing and data robustness. Network bottleneck identification. Response to disruptions.

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IoT World Today

MARCH 27, 2020

Bouncing back more quickly, said experts, will require supply chain managers to turn to new ways of managing the supply chain, including using Internet of Things (IoT) data, analytics and machine learning (ML). An AI system needs to be fed data sets to learn how to behave and react.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 18, 2021

Data as recent as the end of June 2021 show that inventories remain below 1.3 In a subsequent Whitehouse.gov blog post, titled ” Historical Parallels to Today’s Inflationary Episode ” the authors’ conclusion stated, “ No single historical episode is a perfect template for current events. percent increase from July of 2020.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 23, 2018

billion in operating cashflow by 2020, compared with the $700m forecast for Delphi Technologies over the same period. It is key to us because not only does it optimise the flows but it gets us our data, so that we can then go back and precisely re-engineer our crossdock locations and our network to really get the cost out.”.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 29, 2022

The hands-free gadgets send and receive data over the internet. Last Friday was Earth Day , an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. The proprietary Truckload Demand Indicator hit 58 — the lowest since June 2020. That’s all for this week.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

But for that special class of disruption, the low-probability, high-impact events like natural disasters, epidemics and other upheavals, organizations don’t know how to mitigate the risk and successfully manage their supply chains, and are now trying to find their way through the minefield of issues and challenges with no clear solution.

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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

And, as reported in our recent North American ports survey , the US state of Pennsylvania has invested $93m in the port of Philadelphia’s finished vehicle terminal, to more than double annual import capacity there to 350,000 vehicles. The post Bigger vehicles, bigger challenges appeared first on Automotive Logistics.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 13, 2021

Intelligent solutions based on modern technologies can assist in automating order flows using accessible data, as well as the supply chain’s potential and restrictions. According to the survey, only 2% of organizations said that they were well prepared for the pandemic. Data Visibility. Risk Mitigation. Risk Mitigation.

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Automotive Logistics

JANUARY 31, 2018

vehicles last year, an increase of almost 9% compared to 2016, and the forecast for 2020 is for 5m units. Barcoding and passive RFID have been around for a long time but there are now smart and active (and more expensive) systems coming into play that link the RFID data to the IoT via handheld and vehicle on-board technology.

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CH Robinson Logistics

JANUARY 27, 2021

With the Chinese Lunar New Year approaching in late January 2020, global shippers planned to order stock from Chinese suppliers ahead of the celebration as factories and ports would shut down for two weeks. All these events caused major supply chain disruptions to some of the biggest brands in the world.

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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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