Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2023

Following the Covid-19 pandemic, 91% of consumers reported to taking the supply chain into consideration when making a purchase, an increase from just 45% before 2020, according to an Oracle survey. Instawork’s 2022 survey, found that 73% of warehouse operators couldn’t find enough labour.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 5, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll walk through some of the obstacles to medium-term demand planning, consider how high-frequency supply chain data can help fill the informational gaps that companies are grappling with, and then look at a real-world example of how the data in FreightWaves SONAR can give insight into the goods economy.

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CH Robinson Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As a researcher at Michigan State’s Broad College of Business, I will explain how I arrived at this figure, based on available data. With these assumptions about demand made, I will now turn to the available data on employment. Analysis of employment data. Recommendations for navigating driver shortages.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Research by McKinsey found that US consumers’ holiday shopping is starting earlier and lasting longer this year, with most starting in October or earlier and 40% intending to start in November, compared with 35 percent in 2022. So, it’s all hands to the pumps – except there aren’t enough available hands. year on year (YoY) increase.

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Trinity Logistics

JULY 29, 2021

Census Bureau’s Small Business Pulse Survey , 59.7 The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) released a survey recently showing 93 percent of more than 1,400 respondents reported higher costs for materials, parts, and supplies. As mentioned earlier, there is currently more demand than there are trucks available.

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Ship Monk

MAY 18, 2023

Stat 1: “Porch pirates stole from 49 million Americans in 2022.” Stat 4: 74% of 1,000 consumers surveyed said they’d experienced a product or service problem in the past year. Example Customer Complaint: “Hello, I received an email saying my package was delivered, but I haven’t received it yet.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 11, 2024

And when we feel uncertain, humans tend to look for examples of what others in our situation have done. We’ll give you some examples of social proof, and we’ll even rank them in terms of trustworthiness. Social Proof Examples, Ranked Social proof can take many forms, and they’re not all equal. What is Social Proof?

eCommerce 89

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CH Robinson Logistics

MAY 10, 2022

According to a 2020 survey by ATRI , 20.6% To achieve this, you need better insights into available loads to plan routes that reduce the empty miles. Robinson offers drop trailer programs that over the past four months (January 2022-April 2022) has averaged over 40,000 available loads and in 2021, moved nearly 500,000 power only loads.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

To ensure that more truck drivers are back home in the evening, for example, the forwarding association Elvis wants to set up a meeting network for full truck loads. The best of the best also differentiate their recruitment strategy – for example, according to generations or potential groups such as newcomers or foreign workers.

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3PL Links

APRIL 26, 2023

The multi-shoring method, for example, is an effective way to accomplish this. According to a survey, 71 percent of those involved in the supply chain agree fully with this observation. Finally, 2022 demonstrated the underlying inefficiencies that persist in global supply systems today.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For example, a big-box retailer that started to build out its pickup services, it delivery services, and so on, so that when the world pivoted, and stores were closed, but people still wanted this retailer’s products, it already had all of that investment there. Consumers are looking for more durable products.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Raw materials and component shortages, labor shortfalls, port closures, rising fuel costs and other forces will continue to exert enormous pressures on global supply chains in 2022. Robotics and task automation make the most of limited human resources, while also freeing available employees to focus on strategic work instead of manual labor.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 19, 2024

Ecommerce Store Builders and Shopping Cart Options For ecommerce business owners who want to go the ecommerce storefront route, there is plenty of help available. More features are available with upgraded plans. Here is a starter list of ecommerce marketplaces available. Amazon — the largest U.S. marketplace with 2.5

eCommerce 89

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Ship Monk

AUGUST 30, 2023

According to an ongoing study of 3,036 Shopify stores, the average conversion rate (visits that resulted in purchases) in 2022 was 1.3%. If the same item is available at a brick-and-mortar store nearby, high shipping costs will result in an abandoned cart. Converting browsers to buyers is incredibly difficult. Anywhere between 0.2%

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Locus

MAY 25, 2023

In a survey conducted in 2022 of US consumers, 55% of them stated that direct delivery to home is the biggest driver of online purchase. Example of Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) Say that a retail clothing outlet sells 2,000 formal shirts for men, women, and children.

Inventory Reduction 52

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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. Say you do have a truck available.

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 17, 2018

Roberto Zavala says the lack of empty, available bi-level rail cars was an issue. According to Kerrigan, off-site yards are useful for staging exports but there still needs to be space available to bring them in for loading; that is in short supply at Veracruz. Congestion and available space are an issue for Long Beach.

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