Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Near the end of 2021, I had the chance to make the early call on Logistics Viewpoints on what 2022 would look like across five major logistics themes. Unlike the folks projecting election results these days, I was a little more accurate and the 2022 projections have set the stage for what will happen in 2023. Pretty much nailed it.

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Locus

APRIL 1, 2022

It gives us immense pleasure to announce that Locus has been listed as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Supply Chain Network Design Tools. Market trends also continue to evolve faster than ever. Strategic sourcing – Optimizing sourcing costs and procurement processes using data intelligence.

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Blue Grace Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2022

BlueGrace’s data analysis platform provides future value and decision-making support using supply chain data, scorecard metrics, artificial intelligence tools, and engineering processes that lean on leading market indicators. To speak with a BlueGrace Logistics supply chain analyst, click here.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JULY 10, 2023

Businesses are prioritizing the speed of data propagation within their supply chains. According to Gold, NRF members have made significant investments in data analysis to improve their ability to predict consumer demand to prevent bloated inventory levels that many large retailers experienced around this time in 2022.

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CLX Logistics

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In 2022 and beyond, shippers are moving away from the concept of a lean supply chain to prioritize agility. This blog looks at how the agile supply chain management paradigm has shifted in 2022 and how you can adapt to the changes. Building an Agile Supply Chain in 2022. What is Agile Supply Chain Management?

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Now, That's Logistics

MAY 4, 2021

Coming off the worst year for air cargo demand since the International Air Transport Association (IATA) began tracking such trends in 1990, the commercial air freight industry is slowing beginning to emerge from the debacle that was 2020 and find its way in the “new normal” operating environment. in 2020 compared to 2019.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 25, 2021

And the overall industry trucking trends imply an absolute need to grow more strategically. It is a challenge for many shippers and carriers to know where they should put their focus and where the data directs them to go. Why outdated data hurts carriers in the short- and long-term. billion in 2022.”

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 24, 2022

It uses sensor data from the physical entity to emulate its state and to enable the modeling of future changes, improvements, risks, and weaknesses. Technicians monitored real-time data from sensors on the production line using the plant’s digital twin and applied predictive analytics to assess the impact of filling-process adjustments.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Based on data from the FBI and Google Trends, package theft is big business. billion in 2022. Beyond the use of technology, consumers can reduce the threat of package theft by using tools at their disposal from shippers. This makes the season a prime target for package theft. Since 2020, online shopping has hit $1.7

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EazyStock

JANUARY 6, 2023

As we step into the unknown of 2023, here are some key trends and issues affecting supply chain management to help you prepare your strategies. The averted US rail strike in December 2022 would have been catastrophic for US residents and the wider supply chain. Machine learning analyses trends, recognizes anomalies and offers insights.

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EazyStock

JANUARY 6, 2023

As we step into the unknown of 2023, here are some key trends and issues affecting supply chain management to help you prepare your strategies. The averted US rail strike in December 2022 would have been catastrophic for US residents and the wider supply chain. Machine learning analyses trends, recognizes anomalies and offers insights.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

by 2022 to $27.23 Low code can drive innovation by giving development tools to those with creative skillsets. It seems that low code/no code is here to stay for a while longer than just a fashion trend and the one thing that we can all agree upon is that it is a disruptor.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 10, 2024

Often times at Logistics Viewpoints, we like to look to the future and highlight the key trends that we see in a given market, or make predictions about what technologies will emerge as game changers in the new year. As we turn the page on 2022 , I’d like to make five supply chain predictions about what to expect for 2023.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 17, 2023

However, many issues limited the potential of supply chain and procurement practices to source effectively: Lack of visibility to key data such as supplier risk and performance, forward pricing, market index impacts, demand fluctuations, available supply, and supply constraints in the market.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

At the center of many of these changes is a re-tooling which has seen the integration of key digital technologies designed to help businesses cope with changing demands and climates. This automatic feedback ensures businesses are up-to-date with trends and ensures the correct inventory is stocked at the correct times.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The European FMCG market will likely experience an unparalleled ‘twin peak’ of consumer demand in the fourth quarter of 2022 as a winter football World Cup and Christmas arrive back-to-back for the first time. Data management to predict how our operations must adapt to pressures not by the day, but by the hour, is critical.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 19, 2023

This trend is going to be repeated across a whole range of industries. To help businesses to monitor their suppliers’ costs and negotiate pricing with them, INVERTO has created its Value Protector tool. This tool allows buyers to independently assess the costs of all their suppliers’ inputs across the locations in which they operate.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 22, 2023

This trend is going to be repeated across a whole range of industries. To help businesses to monitor their suppliers’ costs and negotiate pricing with them, Inverto has created its Value Protector tool. This tool allows buyers to independently assess the costs of all their suppliers’ inputs across the locations in which they operate.

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MAY 2, 2023

To provide a comprehensive overview, the author draws from various academic studies, reports, and surveys to shed light on the latest trends and best practices in supply chain management. Will blockchain emerge as a tool to break the poverty chain in the Global South? Journal of Business Research, 113, 372-379. Kshetri, N.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

Of those surveyed, just 39 per cent of respondents felt they could accurately predict trends and activity for the holiday season. Unfortunately, 2022 was not a year for predictability, and 2023 is already continuing on a similar trajectory. Uncertainty throughout supply chains over the 2022 peak holiday season has continued into 2023.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 27, 2021

Improving predictability in outcomes is valuable, but ensuring your supply chain is nimble enough to act on the data is even more so. We explore how predictive analytics and big data with human sentiments can add value and amplify their supply chain strategies. The presence of data throughout the supply chain is vital to its evolution.

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Locus

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Between the Covid-19 waves, a trend emerged in the US and the rest of the world that earned the popular name of ‘revenge shopping’. 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

JANUARY 25, 2023

In terms of major trends within the supply chain environment, the report observed that thefts from hijacking have fallen as a proportion of cargo theft from 24.4% Food and beverages remain the most commonly stolen commodity and the report highlighted that this has increased considerably in 2022, increasing share by 2.8%.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

WRITTEN BY CELINE CLAYTON / POSTED ON MAY 19, 2022. Transportation service providers look for new and innovative tools, technology, and processes to improve delivery solutions while staying competitive. Retail delivery solutions continue to change to keep up with market trends.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

High freight volumes across all industries in the trucking market are expected to continue into 2022.? Download the White Paper: Over the Road Freight Management Trends. A stimulus on the horizon further increases the risks of a higher trend in consumer purchasing. Enabling Data-Driven Decision-Making. ?Access

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Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

MARCH 26, 2022

The impact of this new trend has been so significant that it will no longer be considered an adaptation technique for the circumstance we found ourselves in during the epidemic; instead, e-commerce will become a permanent business strategy. In 2016, Mercadona decided to relaunch its online shopping business.

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FLS Transport

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Here’s what’s happening this week: Class 8 truck orders up 91% YoY as carriers plan for 2022 Transportation jobs increase by 47,000 in latest BLS report Capacity continues to dip as freight prices soar Three factors defining the freight industry right now Global asset slowdown won’t ease until volumes drop.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 4, 2022

The SCRM tool is continually reading hundreds of thousands news sites, social media, and other sources to search for these terms. Machine learning is also being used to update other forms of master data that are key inputs into the plan. Most companies use shipment history as the key data for forecasts.

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

This will grow to 37% by 2022. This will grow to 37% by 2022. At AIMMS, we recognized this trend several years ago. More investment in data science . While data science talent is scare, o rganizations today are also more willing to invest in these skills. To do this, many are relying on prescriptive analytics.

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AIMMS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

This will grow to 37% by 2022. Prescriptive Analytics platforms , as defined by Gartner , “primarily focus on creating optimization solutions,” providing “data prep, prescriptive model building, model management and model deployment in various business processes.” At AIMMS, we recognized this trend several years ago.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

. “In order to be able to control production and transport, we wanted to bring transparency into the supply chain with the help of a central tool. Koellner and the supply chain management team looked around for tools at the end of 2021. The forwarders enter transport notifications and tracking data into OSCA.

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Locus

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As we are beckoned into 2022, customers are getting their shopping lists ready. The many benefits of technology include increased speed of identification, reliable, accurate and quick data gathering, processing, analysis and transmission. zettabytes of data per year. Robots, automation and 3D-printing will generate around 79.4

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FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 1, 2023

Connecting demand signals, order flows and inventory data across those chains enables new algorithmic decision-making that can optimize Walmart’s supply chain for flexibility and responsiveness. When Walmart started, customers came to stores, and they bought general merchandise and consumables,” Furner said.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Hamburg-based intralogistics company STILL is already planning a continuation of the hybrid talk show format for 2022. Where we will set up the bar again and which theses we want to discuss will be announced in 2022,” says Müller. Globalisation, digitalisation, environment, automation and security. ten Hompel.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Calls are increasing for a return to just-in-case (JIC) policies, with some citing this trend as a risk. Because switching from JIT to JIC is at best only a tool to address short-term problems and risk. Finance just “ prayed for margins ” in the hopes that visible top-line data would result in the profitability needed.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Following COP26, 90% of world GDP is now covered by net-zero commitments for 2030, and according to Forbes, “sustainable, resilient operations” are the number one business trend for 2022. With that has come a more informed and holistic understanding of the environmental impact of accessing goods. Track and Trace.

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Morai Logistics

JANUARY 24, 2019

By 2022, global statistics forecasts that spending on ‘the technologies and service that enable digital transformation’ will reach USD 1.97 Before a supply chain executes digital transformation, they must understand the trends shaping the need to transform. Digital Transformation of Supply Chains. Employee Support.

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