Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Companies knew this, which is why 93% of senior supply chain leaders surveyed in May 2020 by consulting firm McKinsey planned to increase inventories of key products and materials while also diversifying their supply base and localizing or regionalizing both supply and production.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

Earlier this week, the company announced that it will acquire Italy’s Bomi Group, which provides global healthcare logistics services. Including Bomi, UPS Healthcare has doubled its global footprint since 2020. By June 2020, it had ballooned to a $3.4 billion on grocery delivery, down 26 percent from 2020. percent to 38.7

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Women in Trucking

JULY 21, 2020

The data sheds a light on the degree of disruption and to what initiatives dollars are being reallocated. Download the full Adapting to a Pandemic: Freight Market & Priority Shifts in 2020 report More about DDCWith 30 years of business process outsourcing (BPO) experience as part of The DDC Group, ?DDC North America ?and

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Penske Move Ahead

MAY 9, 2022

Report authors surveyed nearly 250 U.S.-based Among that group, nearly 85% report that their use of clean vehicle technologies will grow over the next five years. National average prices at the pump were 19% higher in 2021 than in 2020. Battery-electric vehicle demand is ramping up despite supply chain delays and high costs.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The most recent McKinsey Global Survey on AI shows a 25% increase in use by companies over the prior year, a trend that shows no signs of slowing. This development is so promising that McKinsey predicts demand for what they call AutoML practitioners to be double that of data scientists. At this pace, have we entered the Age of AI?

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 22, 2022

This past Monday marked the first normal Boston Marathon since 2019, as the 2020 marathon was canceled due to the Covid pandemic, and the 2021 marathon was shifted to October with a smaller field. And what a race it was. This is a full five years ahead of the original target of 2030. GW to 10.4

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Material Handling and Logistics

JULY 29, 2018

A study by Wharton Business School found that this group is mainly interested in supporting brands that are ethical, caring and strive to do the right thing. And here are the top 10 brands of these two groups combined. . Media Type. Privacy Settings. anonymous user. DataTable subpages. Media Image. transactionID. Media Type.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

MAY 24, 2020

I am fairly confident that people entering the shipping and freight industry in the next decade will be told that 2020 was the year that saw the beginning of the end for the paper “ Bill of Lading ” and the year in which the switch to “ Electronic Bill of Lading ” ( eBL ) began in earnest.

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World Food Programme Logistics

OCTOBER 31, 2019

A group of woman participate in a focus group with WFP in the South East department of Haiti in August 2019. If nothing is done, the situation is expected to worsen, and new areas could be in Emergency (IPC Phase 4) in 2020. Copyright: WFP/Augustin Jeanty.

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247 Customs Broker

OCTOBER 4, 2018

A new survey by Drewry Supply Chain Advisors has found widespread concern among shippers and forwarders about a lack of transparency as to how fuel costs are calculated as the International Maritime Organization’s global sulfur emissions cap approaches. When the cap kicks in on Jan.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In 2020, gender diversity is more than just a buzzword. As this stands almost half of those surveyed would not have a programme in operation by 2022 of which some may take many years to start having a tangible impact. A further study by the benchmarking firm Hackett Group found that, on average, supplier diversity programs can add $3.6

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In 2020, gender diversity is more than just a buzzword. As this stands almost half of those surveyed would not have a programme in operation by 2022 of which some may take many years to start having a tangible impact. A further study by the benchmarking firm Hackett Group found that, on average, supplier diversity programs can add $3.6

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WorkWave

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

AI allows you to auto-populate data and uses calculation tools to automatically calculate costs and billing on the spot. In 2021, the average number of cyberattacks and data breaches rose 15.1% For this reason, it is increasingly important that businesses invest in cybersecurity to keep their data safe from threats.

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World Food Programme Logistics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Addressing climate change, taking meals to 300 schools In the dry and chronically impoverished Karamoja region, WFP targets the most vulnerable groups and households, preventing hunger and malnutrition especially in lean seasons, while building livelihoods, resilience and human capital. Results will be available in early 2020.

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Locus

DECEMBER 22, 2021

World Economic Forum, The future of last-mile ecosystem, Jan 2020. – World Economic Forum, The Future of the last-mile ecosystem, Jan 2020. – Boston Consulting Group, Climate Action Pays Off in Transportation and Logistics, July 2020. World Economic Forum, The Future of the last-mile ecosystem, Jan 2020.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 17, 2024

Stage 3: (2011-2020): The rapid growth of e-commerce in China has created a high demand for warehouse management, pulling China’s local suppliers to grow rapidly. According to several surveys, less than 1/3 of the companies active in the WMS market focus on WMS as their main product. in order to have a competitive advantage.

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Automotive Logistics

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The finished vehicle sector in Europe is dealing with some major challenges at the moment, including an increasingly serious driver shortage, severe fluctuations in capacity demand because of the new emissions test that came in this September, and the introduction in 2020 of a global cap on sulphur content in marine fuels of 0.5%.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

When the COVID-19 pandemic began wreaking havoc in global supply chains early in 2020, many companies realised that they didn’t have the resources, personnel, or computing infrastructure to deal with the disruptions. percent between 2020 and 2027. 4PL companies often contract 3PL providers to carry out logistics services for them.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 26, 2018

Some of the main concerns expressed by ports surveyed by Automotive Logistics include finding more storage and handling capacity, especially given the growth that some of the bigger car handling ports are seeing, and at times when there are sudden spikes in volumes. . Where to put it all . Last year, GBA handled 1.8m

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 12, 2021

ARC Advisory Group and DC Velocity magazine have closed our joint survey on the changes logistics operations have experienced in the upheaval of the Covid-19 operating environment in 2020; and the expectations these same executives have about their operating environment in 2021. Throughput Volumes.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

“Although a number of surveys show consumers say they want sustainable products, only a small percentage of them are actually willing to pay more to buy sustainable products,” Sheffi notes. The documentation can be useful historical data for any future endeavor. Don Benson.

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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. This Sunday is Father’s Day, and consumers across the country are apparently ready to celebrate. And to celebrate, they will spend.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 19, 2018

As you noted, however, this time the placement was for “IoT Platforms,” a category of software tools from a good number of vendors to manage connectivity, data communications and more with IoT-enabled devices in the field. The documentation can be useful historical data for any future endeavor. Don Benson.

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 17, 2018

vehicles last year, an increase of almost 9% compared with 2016, and the forecast for 2020 is for 5m units. Meanwhile, domestic sales are climbing to the 2m mark towards 2020. Mexico made 3.8m The SUV and premium segments are on the increase, and the majority of its output is exported: of total production, 3.1m

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 11, 2024

Synchronizing people, processes, and data is core to concurrency, so that the supply chain can be rebalanced to affect what is happening, with the impact of any change being immediately reflected across the entire network at once. Historically these roles are siloed, focused on their own functional metrics. Has that changed?

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 8, 2023

National carriers like FedEx and UPS grabbed a larger share of volume from regional delivery providers on the busy shipping week of Black Friday than last year, according to emailed data from Shipium. That data’s from a survey by the return logistics company goTRG. Imported primary aluminum and cansheet are critical to the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The American Trucking Association (ATA) , along with three state trucking associations and a number of groups representing various facets of the supply chain, have sued the Biden Administration over its employer-based COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Preliminary data from last Monday – October 31 st – reported Eurozone inflation running at 10.7% Companies that can monitor downstream demand signals and use that data to make more frequent forecasts will see their forecasting accuracy improve much faster than companies using traditional forecasting methods. for October.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 15, 2015

as: Connected, intelligent products that communicate with users, new digital business models that harness collected data to offer additional services and as-a-service products, products on the assembly line that tell shop floor machinery how they are to be processed. According to Accenture, they define Industry 4.0 Revolution.

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