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 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.”. A Positive Example.

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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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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 7, 2020

This is evidenced by the “Branchencheck Flurförderzeuge” (“Industrial Trucks Sector Check”), an extensive market survey conducted by Vogel Communications Group. Particularly well represented in the survey were logistics services providers and the mechanical engineering and automotive sectors.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 27, 2021

In my Logistics Viewpoints article in April 2021, Building Profitability with Agility while Digitally Transforming the Supply Chain , I mentioned that we will continue to explore here the concrete steps in the digital journey and examples of determination from the top in addition to logistics operations. The payoff is well worth it.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

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.” According to the survey results, only 33 percent of small carriers have fully integrated ELDs into their fleet. and part of me says “This is so scary!”

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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. The health care supply chain is a perfect example. Nearly 75% of U.S.

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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. Prasad cites an example where the system’s data has enabled a driver to run the same loop for almost two years. Others are societal. DROP AND HOOK.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 17, 2021

In 2020, 23% of all truckloads were spot shipments. A survey from the International Road-transport Union (IRU) revealed that women and youth have had their misgivings with joining this industry. Due to this, they seek employment that has opportunity for growth within the organization, such as promotions to an office job, for example.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic that has engulfed 2020 has certainly changed Thanksgiving planning this year, but the reality remains the same: Thanksgiving logistics are still a headache. According to a survey by NCSolutions (NCS), 80 percent of Americans still plan on celebrating Thanksgiving this year. This year, these events have pivoted.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

According to Youssef, other factors driving uncertainty include the ongoing global energy transition, structural shifts in economies (China for example) as well as shifts in global supply chain development. “If Most of the new orders are for delivery in 2020, when BIMCO expects more than one million TEU of new capacity to be delivered.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 26, 2016

is on track to surpass Chinese manufacturers by 2020, reports Chris Mathews of Fortune magazine. For example, a manufacturer may be able to produce 1,000 units of a product in China at a fraction of the cost of domestic manufacturing. What Needs to Be Accomplished to Help America Reach #1 in Manufacturing by 2020?

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Its Active WMS Solution is marketed as “the last WMS you’ll ever buy” ( see interview in Logistics Business, September 2020) and with nearly $600M in R&D spend over the past decade, it has the heft to back up the claims. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take measures to reduce our dependency on, say, one country, for example.

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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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IoT World Today

MARCH 27, 2020

Manufacturing companies that have relied on China for production materials are feeling the blowback of this dependence; some retailers source more than half their inventory from China, according to 2020 Statista data. In order to build a correct demand plan, one-off events have to be identified and accounted for,” wrote Ralf W.

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Now, That's Logistics

JULY 13, 2021

After putting businesses through a battery of strategic-resilience tests in 2020, the pandemic continues to place new pressures on many organizations in 2021. Defined as the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties, resilience has become a core mission for companies across most industries right now. Don’t Go it Alone.

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Automotive Logistics

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

For example, with regard to infrastructure to build capacity, Florida’s port of Jacksonville is currently adding 40 hectares of processing and storage space at the Dames Point Marine Terminal to increase overall handling by 25%, equal to a vehicle-handling capacity of 50,000 units within the next three years.

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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. Richards explains that the visibility tool sits on top of the TMS (and is provided by the same technology company) and overlays other world events, including weather patterns, to employ predictive analytics.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Certainly no company could have foreseen the shutdown of the global economy in the early months of 2020 — or the continuing effects of COVID-19, such as port closures, throughout 2021. While some recovery has been made, employment levels are still short of February 2020 levels by 33,000 jobs. And with good reason.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

Gilmore Says… In a great example of the balance in this book, Sheffi notes the actual evidence of consumer preference for Green products is tenuous at best. In fact, after reading Sheffi’s examples, I’m surprised more companies haven’t been forced to be zealous advocates.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 19, 2018

An off-cited analysis from McKinsey in late 2017, for example, found automation could destroy as many as 73 million US jobs by 2030, about one third of all jobs in the country. For example, in a story I remembered that we ran in 2014, a company called Parkdale Mills had recently re-opened a factory near Gaffney, SC that now produces 2.5

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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. One example is the shortage of citric acid, as it’s often used in vitamin or electrolyte drinks, even in soda. MATERIAL AND PRODUCT SHORTAGES. AND LOGISTICS DELAYS.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Honda’s actions provide one example of this. Multinationals knew that events could occur that could cost them tens, or hundreds of millions of dollars. But these events were not predictable. And many individual events that could occur were so rare they were labeled “black swan events.”

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