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Governments grapple with Supply Chain Disruption

Logistics Business Magazine

Another of the report’s key findings is that unprecedented price inflation, exacerbated by the Russia-Ukraine war, but also an enduring legacy of COVID-19-related shutdowns and the resulting prolonged shortage of key manufacturing components, has awakened governments to the importance of global supply chains to national interests.

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Global Logistics Market Analysis: 2022 Summer Edition

MTS Logistics

We experience such diverse supply chain disruptions that tracking the data on U.S. Government regulators, however, have not yet agreed on whether or not shipping alliances are against anti-monopoly/competition policies, after regulators receives many complaints from various parties. The shipping ecosystem is ever-changing.

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[WHITE PAPER] FreightWaves SONAR: Full shipment lifecycle market data vs TMS vendor and paid-only forecasting

FreightWaves SONAR

Data has become an integral part of the supply chain network’s daily operations and is inseparable from the modern processes that govern procedures involved in transportation. Anything other than up-to-date, near-real-time freight data will make the work of the management team all the more difficult. Request a SONAR Demo.

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Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD): Addressing the Entire Value Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Nonetheless, the direction of travel of European governments is clear: companies need to do more to identify their exposure to unethical practices, human rights abuses, and significant adverse environmental issues , across their value chain. The EU CSDDD has had a difficult journey, facing delays, changes, and hurdles to overcome.

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Data key to tackling forecasting challenges

FreightWaves SONAR

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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Coupa Leverages Community Intelligence to Power AI

Logistics Viewpoints

This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, sourcing, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting. The public cloud gives Coupa visibility to $6 trillion in transactional data that passes through their platform. “15 The best data makes for the best AI.

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New Flexport report takes a deep dive into post-Covid demand shifts

Logistics Management

Entitled the “Post-Covid Indicator,” Flexport said that this report leverages the company’s copious amount of data related to the movement of merchandise through the global logistics system as input, while not having as much of what it called a lag compared to government data and statistics.

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