Freightos

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Peak Season, GRIs, and Data Transparency. That’s why I recently dove into millions of Freightos Index data points. Take a look at the data. After each spike on the graph, the percentage against baseline slides during the course of the month, invariably finishing lower than baseline. By Noam Frankel. On average, 9.0

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 20, 2023

billion after a funding round. Data is stored just like you might sketch ideas on a whiteboard. Those insights are driven from data connections across the vast amounts of data these companies have access to. But, of course, over the course of a month the demand and supply pictures change.

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Ship Monk

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Appropriately Prep for All Major Sales and Promotions Black Friday, Cyber Monday, the sale space in between, and the final Christmas countdown are four key periods your ecommerce brand must prepare for. After all, it is not going to help your cause for Black Friday if you place orders from the manufacturer the Friday before.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Labor management systems break the work down into very granular activities, set targets for doing those tasks in an allotted period of time, and measure how workers do against the time standards over the course of the day. Risk management had been a hard sale. These solutions were proven to increase productivity significantly.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

If you can only say “No”, I will not be surprised, because many companies have never drilled down into the costs involved in selling specific SKU categories, individual SKUs, or providing particular services connected with those sales, to specific customers or customer categories. And that is the sole purpose of cost-to-serve analysis.

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3PL Links

JANUARY 31, 2023

Imagine launching a successful marketing campaign and seeing sales orders pour in, only to discover that the product is actually out of stock. After that, you confirm that there is enough stock on hand. In the end, this will result in increased sales, happier consumers, and profit maximization. We briefly mention them here.

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FreightWaves SONAR

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Of course, that all depends on seeing the activities that are occurring, benchmarking current carrier operations and continuously improving. Streamline data capture and analysis. Data for the sake of data is meaningless without proper, automated analysis and data capture. Know your operating ratio .

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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 29, 2021

The pandemic has sent the retail industry on a K-shaped trajectory — the final straw that has sent many retail chains into bankruptcy while also contributing to a surge in sales for many of the leading chains. Using SONAR data in contract negotiations with carriers and 3PLs. . SONAR data can identify tight relationships such as U.S.-bound

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UL EHS- Sustainability

APRIL 2, 2020

You need to create personalized learning paths and automatically push training out based on a variety of employee data points – time employed, job role, department, or anything you can pull from an HR/employee system. Or if they complete a certain course, another course appears to that learner as optional training.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 11, 2023

It’s taking semiconductor firms more than twice as long as their peers in other industries to hire personnel such as technicians or mechanical engineers, with the typical process stretching to about three months, according to an analysis of the top 50 chip producers in the US by Revelio Labs, a labor-market data analyst. FedEx, the U.S.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 7, 2023

Even after the long series of contract rate cuts that began in July 2022, transportation managers and supply chain leaders still have a cost-reduction role to play in 2023. The reason they’re doing this is that they lack granular market data on contract and spot rates and prevailing service levels. Let’s look at some data.

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 7, 2023

To kick off our brief guide, we’ll look at the challenge of managing inventory effectively across multiple sales channels. Multicha nnel Sales Complexity: Organise, Organise, Organise Does your company operate in the ecommerce sphere? So what can you do to ensure your inventory management meets the challenge of multichannel sales?

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

While high, the shipping costs typically paled in comparison to the lost sales due to inventory shortages. Including, of course by leveraging global freight tech for BCOs. This shaped the way BCOs approached 2022 and will likely continue to see supply chain; a new drive to ensure global freight shipping reliability at all costs.

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Ship Monk

JULY 27, 2022

We’re talking, of course, about demand forecasting, or the process of predicting customer demand for a product or service. Put simply, demand forecasting uses a variety of data to foresee customer demand and inform major business decisions, from launching new products to finding the perfect 3PL partner. What is Demand Forecasting?

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Because it’s so immediate, SMS should be used sparingly, for time-sensitive information, such as prompts to revisit an abandoned cart, or notifications of a sale starting or ending. Of course, what you say is just as important as how you say it. Like email, if abused, customers quickly learn to say STOP.

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Logistics Bureau

MAY 24, 2021

After years of focus on just-in-time shipping and inventory minimization, few companies were ready for the chaos that COVID-19 wrought on their supply chains. You can’t rely on it entirely, because it doesn’t account for seasonality , or other peak and quiet periods during your company’s year of sales. inventory turnover days.

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Ship Monk

JUNE 16, 2021

Sales slumps can happen to the best of us. Whether it’s after the major winter holidays or during the hazy summer months, a temporary halt in momentum is a challenge for even the most established of brands. Grab your favorite pair of sneakers and allow us to run you through six suggested courses of action. Ready, set, go! #1.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 19, 2023

But high data quality is not the only crucial factor. Equally important for the data models are the experiences of people and the requirements of consumers. Of course, we have already dealt with LLMs (Large Language Models) at Witron. More sales through better communication with the customer or lost sales?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 1, 2024

A customer can of course buy goods in a store. By looking at the historical data on an ongoing basis on what is achieved – by carrier, by lane, by mode, by pick rate at a fulfillment location, by day of the week or season of the year, and so forth – the system can be autoconfigured to make accurate promises for earlier deliveries.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 11, 2022

Even if your transportation management system ( TMS ) is ingesting carrier EDI information directly, the data you receive is often hours after that fact, leaving you to “best-guess” actual delivery times. It collects and stores data from a variety of sources. Customer satisfaction suffers. You don’t know what you don’t know.

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Ship Monk

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The week after Christmas typically sees the largest number of returns, around 17.9% of total holiday sales in 2022. holiday sales last year, according to the National Retail Federation. of total sales. of total sales. “Let’s hear it for peak return season!” said nobody, ever. But it’ll be upon us before we know it.

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EazyStock

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Did you have frequent stock-outs after adjusting your forecast? Uncertainty is all but guaranteed in 2021 – the best course of action is to mitigate whatever risks you can. Digitalized supply chains also ensure data accuracy and centralize information for transparency – doubly important for businesses expanding into eCommerce.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 30, 2023

Tender acceptance can range from 98% to just 75% over the course of a freight cycle, causing disruptions to supply chains that result in charge-backs, stockouts and lost sales. How bad is the problem for shippers?

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Stord

JANUARY 11, 2022

More partners require significant overhead and capital to maintain." - Sarang Damle, Group Product Manager, Orders & Inventory Data and Service Capability Silos "Supply chains are too often built in and operate from silos. There are silos responsible for "manufacturing" and "inbound planning" (international/customs).

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10xLogistics

MAY 16, 2023

Of course, we should not be surprised at any of this. So, what is the data that points to the fact that we are back to basics: Disciplined Capital Allocation: We read in the Wall Street Journal Logistics Report how Venture Capital Money is getting tight for logistics and supply chain start-ups.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

For example, the reverse logistics process includes the management and the sale of surplus as well as returned equipment and machines from the hardware leasing business. Any process or management after the sale of the product involves reverse logistics. If the product is defective, the customer would return the product.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In a move to reduce the size of its sprawling delivery operation amid slowing sales growth, Amazon has abandoned dozens of existing and planned facilities around the US. Amazon said that its solar installations will come back online after inspections are completed. Ocean shipping rates have plunged 60% this year. As of Sept.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Edward Napier-Fenning, Sales & Marketing Director of leading supply chain software company Balloon , explores five key areas that can boost performance – including route planning, picking, labour management reporting and data entry. Quite suddenly, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere.

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MTS Logistics

MAY 27, 2022

We experience such diverse supply chain disruptions that tracking the data on U.S. Maxx and Marshall’s owner TJX reported sales that were below estimates in May. Of course, we may still experience more factories in Asia not operating at 100 percent capacity, further trucking shortages, port issues, etc. Furthermore, T.J.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

In this article, written by Markus Kammerhofer, Director Sales Retro, TGW Logistics Group , we look at the most important factors for a successful retrofit intralogistics project. Expansions are particularly important for companies that experience strong growth after go-live. Of course they have to budget for it.

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WorkWave

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Over the course of four days from November 9-12, 2020, we’ll be bringing you all of the things you love about WorkWave User Conference, from value-added training and thought leadership roundtable sessions to captivating speakers and exciting contests. So don’t delay—register for WorkWave User Conference 2020 today !

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ShipLilly

JUNE 28, 2021

Use of Data and Information. Having a centralized location for data processing can help to handle returns cheaply and liquidate any inventory that is left behind. Having a centralized location for data processing can help to handle returns cheaply and liquidate any inventory that is left behind.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 11, 2021

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… oh, numbers and data. Take a few deep breaths, and join us for a crash course on eCommerce metrics: what they are, why you need them, and how they can help you “ Stress Less, Grow More.” Sales Conversion Rate. To calculate, simply divide the number of sales by the total number of site visitors.

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Forto

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Because one thing is certain: These days are an excellent opportunity for you to boost your sales and compete with your rivals. After all, these two days are only two of the biggest sale days in the e-commerce. billion in online sales in 2018. billion in online sales in 2018. That is an uplift of 23.3

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Logistics Bureau

APRIL 4, 2022

The answer is to benchmark your freight, of course. At Logistics Bureau, we capture, analyse, and exploit freight benchmarking data to help us when we provide freight contract negotiation services for our clients. So how can you be sure you’re getting the best freight rates possible? Freight Benchmarking: How to Do it Right.

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LandLink

JANUARY 15, 2020

Nailing down exact numbers on return rates is notoriously difficult, but compiled data from separate sources paints a bleak portrait, especially for online retailers. In fact, how you deal with returns, before and after purchase, can differentiate your brand, create a competitive advantage and even make you more profitable. In the U.S.

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10xLogistics

MARCH 9, 2013

Well, this was the week we have all been waiting for if you are one of those who did not abandon the market after the last downturn, stayed the course (Borrowed from Vanguard®), and rode the wave to new heights. Interesting that sales of durables are up however the inventory has grown faster than sales. But I doubt it.

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