Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2023

million shoppers hit the stores and the internet to capitalize on Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, according to a survey by the National Retail Federation. million people in 2022 to 121.4 million through the Food Supply Chain Guaranteed Loan Program. In fact, to kick off the holiday shopping season, a record 200.4

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 13, 2022

As corporations become increasingly focused on ESG initiatives, their supply chain and logistics partners respond with tools and services designed to help them grow sustainability and other goals. Jun 13, 2022. Here’s how many companies are turning to their supply chains to meet their ESG goals.

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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. With demand forecasting being complex, it is easy to lose supply chain visibility. The presence of data throughout the supply chain is vital to its evolution. billion by 2022.

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Freightos

JANUARY 15, 2024

It took time for the situation to normalize, especially for complex products like semiconductors that require a lot of moving parts in the global supply chain. Just when it seemed that 2024 would be a very welcome year of “normal” supply chains, the Red Sea crisis proved that for global supply chains, there is no such thing.

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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. Sustainable supply chains. Sustainable supply chains. Addressing unsustainable retail supply chains.

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3PL Links

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Predictive Analysis in Logistics and Supply Chain: How to Apply | Image source: Pexels In logistics, predictive analysis is simply the process of identifying and forecasting patterns, trends, and behaviors in both human and machine learning approaches, data, and algorithms. This ratio increased to 54% in 2022.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 13, 2022

Twenty-seven percent of supply chain leaders have conducted a climate change risk assessment to identify their most critical supply chain risks, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. According to the survey, 44% of respondents have a general sense of potential climate change risks based on previous events.

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Now, That's Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Then, orders are delivered late, customers are unhappy and supply chains stagnate. At the end of August, for example, 44 container ships were stuck outside of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in California. In surveying the global ocean market right now, Bennett says there’s not much additional tonnage available.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2020

While there’s no doubt progress is being made – 33% of board members in FTSE100 companies are now made up of women – women-led businesses remain significantly underrepresented across global supply chains. Supply chain diversity today. This is a loss for more than just slogans or quotas. Extending beyond CSR.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 3, 2020

While there’s no doubt progress is being made – 33% of board members in FTSE100 companies are now made up of women – women-led businesses remain significantly underrepresented across global supply chains. Supply chain diversity today. This is a loss for more than just slogans or quotas. Extending beyond CSR.

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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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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 19, 2022

Indeed, it was at a recent event organised by the Institute for Government, that the chief executive of Food and Drink Federation announced that the UK food supply chain is around half a million workers short. IMHX 2022 takes place from 6th-8th September at the NEC, Birmingham. This represents some 12.5%

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

Companies have fewer experienced employees who are knowledgeable about their operations, processes, and safety procedures to lead by example. And it seems that employers agree: 64% of chief supply chain officers felt that generational differences in employment preferences would have a long-term impact on labour availability.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 21, 2022

The study, conducted by Economist Impact, surveyed executive-level participants representing businesses in 26 major countries across the globe. For example, 42.5% of executives surveyed in South America and Africa respectively identified higher transport costs as the top limitation for increasing exports. This compared to 19.9%

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

network this year after its initial success at select facilities in 2022. network this year after its initial success at select facilities in 2022. The rate rose to $8,607 on April 1, 2022, from $3,174 a year earlier. In its January survey of grocery executives and consumers, Grocery Doppio, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based

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Trinity Logistics

JULY 29, 2021

All industries are currently facing challenges with their logistics and the supply chain. As it continues to rise, the needs for their supplies have increased, creating a surge of flatbed demand that’s weighing on the supply chain. Census Bureau’s Small Business Pulse Survey , 59.7 RISING FUEL PRICES.

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Now, That's Logistics

DECEMBER 27, 2022

billion loss for 2022 and that industry-wide profitability will emerge at some point in 2023. “We When passenger planes were grounded during the pandemic, for example, air freight capacity shrank accordingly. Talk of a possible recession emerged midyear and got a bit louder and more emphatic as we progressed through 2022.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 1, 2022

In the run-up to the recent LogiMAT event, Bernard Biolchini ( pictured ), Executive Vice President EMEA at Dematic , one of the world’s leading manufacturers of integrated automation technology , software and services for supply chain optimization, spoke about the new era. Q: Can you give some specific examples?

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Trinity Logistics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Recently, a Grand View Research study shows that the cold chain market was estimated at USD 233.2 billion in 2022. Cold chain improvements have seen growing importance even outside the food and beverage industry. One example is UPS Healthcare developing a system and opening facilities to move medicines safely.

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CH Robinson Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Robinson Director of Research and Market Intelligence: The truck driver shortage is top of mind for many as supply chain disruptions continue, port backlogs persist, and the gap between inventory supply and sales demand widens. A note from Steve Raetz, C.H. A few caveats about these data are in order.

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Trinity Logistics

DECEMBER 29, 2021

After yet another unpredictable and unstable year, many hope 2022 will bring more stability back to the industry. What will we see going into 2022 and beyond? Cold chain improvements have seen growing importance even outside the food and beverage industry. Part of their plan includes using reusable cold chain packaging.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

A recent customer survey proved that driveMybox is seen as a strong and reliable partner that can react flexibly to requests, even in times of strong fluctuations and disruptions in the supply chains. Moreover, driveMybox provides more flexibility and transparency in container trucking and that even free of charge.

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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. Pallet and bin shuttle systems for automated storage and retrieval are a prime example.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In 2022, Prologis announced a goal, which will be submitted to the Science Based Targets Initiative for validation, to achieve net zero emissions by 2040. The report highlights the importance of stakeholder engagement and quantifies the social impact of the 74 projects surveyed.

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ShipLilly

MARCH 20, 2023

Another critical issue to watch out for The failure of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank has caused some concern in the global supply chain, especially in the USA, which seems to be the epicenter of this crisis. Reaction from the market The reaction was exemplified by New York Fed’s Global Supply Chain Pressure Index.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 11, 2022

As we close in on the end of the year, supply chain professionals are already planning for what 2023 will bring. o9 Solutions’ supply chain experts and leaders are sharing their insights on the trends that could become prevalent in 2023 and beyond. Supply chains will become the strategic drivers of business.

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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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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Things are changing in supply chain management: while cost-cutting has been at the top of the agenda for many executives for years, in future they will be increasingly concerned with the shortage of skilled workers, sustainability and resilience. Supply Chain as a Service becomes crucial to competition 6.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 28, 2023

According to the Business of Sustainability Index , despite intense inflation since 2020, 66% of general US customers and 80% of young adult (ages 18-34) US customers surveyed in 2022 are willing to pay more for sustainable products/companies that embrace sustainable practices. Clearly explain cause and effect. We hope you do!

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

At the end of September, I attended FourKites Visibility 2022 in Chicago, IL. I was also fortunate to moderate a panel that explored a partnership approach to supply chain optimization. When it comes to measuring customer loyalty, the Net Promoter Score survey is typically a best practice. And that can only lead to.

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3PL Links

APRIL 26, 2023

Many of these external factors have contributed to supply chain resiliency reaching new heights in the public perception. Delays in supply chains have dominated the news internationally, and the problem has increasingly made its way onto the agendas of major corporations. Read also: What is Lean Logistics?

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Now, That's Logistics

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The art of designing and managing supply chains, facilities, warehouses, transportation and distribution for organizations that don’t specialize in logistics management, contract logistics encompasses a broad range of services that allow companies to do what they do best: grow their own businesses.

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Locus

MAY 25, 2023

Since the start of 2023, we have been witnessing two news stories in the world of supply chain and logistics. 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. The total annual inventory value is the total monetary value of inventory.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 5, 2021

After experiencing an incredibly challenging two years in the global logistics industry, I think we can let go of any expectation that the supply chain landscape will ever return to “normal.” By that, I mean that extreme uncertainty on both the demand and the supply sides will continue for the foreseeable future.

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Locus

JUNE 21, 2022

The last leg of the supply chain, also known as the last mile or the final mile, has grown increasingly important in the wake of this popularity. It is only one part of the entire supply chain ecosystem. The three legs of the supply chain are the first, middle and last mile. What is last-mile delivery?

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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%. Google Analytics, exit surveys, customer service contacts, search terms and social engagement can all help identify areas that cause friction, frustration, or confusion. Anywhere between 0.2%

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Trinity Logistics

AUGUST 13, 2021

As disruption after disruption has interrupted supply chains, shortages are now messing with shipping and demand. 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. They are near impossible to find.

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