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2023 Mid-Year Check-In: Current Status of Supply Chains and What’s Next?

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In February 2023 I wrote the article What Does 2023 Have In-Store for Global Supply Chains? It introduced the survey we had just launched to determine the perceptions, priorities, and strategic initiatives of today’s supply chain and logistics executives. Meanwhile, labor constraints are as binding as ever.

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Top 15 Logistics Stories of 2023

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Just last week, my colleague Clint Reiser wrote an article about the top logistics and supply chain conferences to attend in 2024. So, I want to take this opportunity to reflect on the top 15 most popular logistics stories from 2023 and see what our readers found to be the most interesting.

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What Does 2023 Have In-Store for Global Supply Chains? Resilience, Efficiency, Responsiveness, or Widespread Dysfunction?

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The Conference Board ( conference-board.org ), a well-known, global business membership organization, conducted its C-SUITE OUTLOOK survey in the fall of 2021. Its survey results showed supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and rising inflation to be 3 of the 5 high impact external factors on the minds of CEOs.

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NRF 2023: Empowering the Customer

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A crowd of nearly 37,000 people flocked to the Javits Center in New York City to see what new solutions and innovations software suppliers had in store for 2023 and beyond. Throughout the conference I met with a number of software and hardware suppliers to get a glimpse of what they were showcasing. The big piece here was the OMS.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 27 – February 2)

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The jobs reduction will save $1 billion this year, Tomé said on an earnings conference call with analysts on Tuesday. The retailer plans to double the number of sites in the coming years and currently operates more than 55 dedicated same-day sites across the U.S. billion worth, the survey found. The shares fell as much as 7.6

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This Week in Logistics News (June 10 – 16)

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At the same time, the Celtics finished with the second-best record in the Eastern Conference. The data also signaled that supply chain leaders expect ongoing increases in operating costs, as 6 in 10 respondents expect operating costs to be 10 percent to 20 percent higher this year than in past years.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 18 – 24)

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Last week I attended the Blue Yonder ICON conference. The bank said Friday that it is launching new “Supply Availability Indexes” via a blog posting on Monday that going forward will feature as part of its regular monthly surveys of regional business activity. in March, which was the first year-on-year increase since January 2023.