Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

These come from using gasoline for driving a car or coal for heating a building, for example. For example, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law a year ago this week. The instances of extreme weather events continue to grow on a yearly basis. Clearing land and cutting down forests can also release carbon dioxide.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 13, 2024

And as climate change triggers an increased number of extreme weather events, organisations today rely on weather condition data to ensure their supply chains continue to run smoothly. Without the capacity to then quickly reroute vessels to reduce delays in trade routes, these events become increasingly difficult to overcome.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Buying organizations use this technology to monitor and analyze supplier risk events in real-time. These are big data platforms that monitor news sources and assorted databases from governments, financial institutions, ESG NGOs, and other sources to detect when a negative event has occurred or may be about to occur.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MAY 18, 2021

The right battery charger plays an important role in preserving the capacity of traction batteries in the intralogistics sector. For operators of electrically-powered forklift trucks, capacity and reliability are key factors because the availability of the forklift truck fleet is essential to smooth and efficient operation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

And agility is about reacting quickly and hopefully effectively to the actual disruptive event. But the event might not be disruptive at all if you had planned for it. That variability might be in the areas of manufacturing, distribution, or transportation capacity. What if we could get suppliers to share their capacity?”

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ShipLilly

MARCH 5, 2020

Perhaps many of the carriers will opt to repeat the tight capacity management approaches that were used in 2019 for purposes of maintaining a specified floor on rates. Early indicators are that many of the ocean carriers will seek to maintain rates by managing their capacity effectively. 2020 carrier strategy.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A notable example of greenwashing is when McDonald’s introduced paper straws to reduce plastic pollution. With Apple’s big event last week, the company claimed that the new Apple Watch will be carbon neutral. At full capacity, the company said, the factory will employ 500 human workers in Salem.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2018

These events also caused supply chain disruptions — although not all the effects may have been fully realized yet,” he said. Hurricane Maria, which slammed into Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, is a prime example of a catastrophe that reverberates through supply chains. Economic situation can cause product or labor shortages.

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ShipLilly

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Some carriers find themselves reviving old pricing tricks to surf this problem, despite capacity withdrawals and increased vessel utilization rates. There is a severe issue of rate-cutting happening which means that shipping lines won’t realize the full benefit of any capacity reductions going forward. Industry standards.

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FreightWaves SONAR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

These major weather events affect transportation markets in the days leading up to the event and following the events in different ways. Major weather events hamper transportation markets from both the demand and supply sides of the market. The demand side of the market is an easier impact to understand.

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Transporeon

MARCH 8, 2018

Lack of loading and unloading staff at the dock is a frequent carrier complaint that can increase delays and idle time on site, contributing to carrier capacity issues in the long run. But in an era when shippers are looking to contain costs, they are not always willing to increase labor resources, even to safeguard capacity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

It can move quickly from a situation where there is too much capacity in the market and buyers having the whip hand, to a situation where shippers are begging carriers to take their loads at almost any price. That processing event determines when the goods need to be delivered to the next stop. The freight market is mercurial.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

Machine learning also makes it possible to make more granular forecasts – for example, instead of forecasting demand for the company’s products in the Eastern Region of the U.S., Instead of monthly forecasts, for example, a weekly forecast can improve agility. forecasting product sales at 10,000 stores. This sounds obvious.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 13, 2016

However, inconsistencies in service levels, including the use of inaccurate data, an economy that hinges on the state of foreign markets (think China), and changes to regulations and labor requirements are continuing to impact the capacity of the shipping industry. Capacity Is Tight, Not Impossible. Capacity of today’s fleets is tight.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

This ensures the secure, high-capacity, and bi-directional transfer of essential information such as master data on products, customers, production-distribution infrastructure, transactional data on sales, inventory status and position, transportation execution data, external data e.g. competitor pricing, weather, recommendations, action triggers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 18, 2022

This was my first in-person event in over two years, and it did not disappoint. You could feel the energy in the air as 450+ people seemed to really enjoy being back at an in-person event. This includes weather events, port strikes, capacity shortages, and unexpected demand spikes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

For example, we can have “Texas Small Volume” customers and “Florida Peak Season” customers, or “East Coast High Margin” customers and “Carolinas High Priority” customers. For example, a model for a company with twenty distinct customers with unique buying patterns, who are located all around the world, might not require aggregation at all.

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WorkWave

JANUARY 29, 2024

Delivery businesses operating in cities, for example, with consistent traffic patterns and stable delivery routes, rely on static routing to maintain predictability and allocate resources efficiently. While this approach offers stability, it may not adapt well to dynamic changes in the transportation environment.

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Now, That's Logistics

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Unfortunately, there’s yet one more disruptive event to get through before that can happen: Chinese New Year. For example, East-West came up with this rule to help account for CNY delays: For orders normally received in March, take 50% of the volume and receive it in January. Receive the other 50% of that volume in February.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 9, 2021

And my impression from discussions with users, and from the discussions at a 2021 Mass Robotics event , is that heterogeneous operating requirements are a reality, therefore making interoperability a top priority. The bots will communicate location, direction of movement, capacity, and battery load. Trail Blazing and Bushwhacking.

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MTS Logistics

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Blank Sailings In order to manage the capacity overage, carriers practice the blank sailing scheme where they skip some certain port of calls or completely suspend some certain service loops. Chinese New Year is a one-week event, but most factories are closed for a month which means the interruption of new orders.

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CH Robinson Logistics

APRIL 2, 2021

This year’s produce season is felt after a series of events impacting transportation. What’s more, is that these are likely not the last of the events to disrupt transportation. Historically, produce season is an event that impacts not only refrigerated markets, but all modes in and out of produce regions.

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247 Customs Broker

MAY 29, 2018

Shippers know all too well that the strain on truck capacity and supply chain resources continues to have an impact, and the overall capacity issue will remain for the long-haul. There is no magic bullet to overcome the challenges associated with the capacity crunch. So what can be done to best navigate this new normal?

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10xLogistics

JUNE 12, 2013

Today I want to explain this through an example which highlights the risks of letting your 3PL buy the transportation and then charge a "mark up" over the rate to you (with no transparency this is a disaster with some transparency it is just not good). We can see this in the "Capacity Crisis" issue. They convince you and you pony up.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2021

Here are some examples of such use cases. Based on this intelligence, they can in turn collaborate with sourcing to create events in consideration of supply chain needs. Such sourcing events can be in the context of direct materials or logistics capacity.

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Logistics Business Magazine

MARCH 21, 2022

Toyota Material Handling is the sponsor of a brand new feature at the Health & Safety Event 2022 – this year’s largest gathering of professionals responsible for running safe and efficient workplaces (NEC, Birmingham, 5-7 April 2022). For example, as long ago as 1999 we launched our iconic SAS – System of Active Stability.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 28, 2021

This includes port data, social media, news, event and weather (SNEW) data, weather data (to some degree), traffic data, and other available sources to provide an accurate ETA to warehouses, stores, and end consumers. Ocean ETAs, for example, are much different because the macro-factors are a lot different than over the road.

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ShipLilly

AUGUST 12, 2021

For example, the Drewry World Container Index showed that the current spot rate of $9,371 per FEU is nearly seven times what it was in 2019. At that time, there were no significant capacity problems from a global perspective. Impact of congestion on effective capacity. Other data supports these patterns.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This example illustrates why supply chain visibility isn’t enough. And the impact doesn’t stop there, since trade-off decisions will be required to answer questions like which customer is most important to satisfy with the limited bolts in inventory and if production capacity should be reallocated. Agility to act on transparency.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

While accidents are part of the reason, the complete explanation also includes rising medical and litigation costs, catastrophic losses, an escalation in inexperienced truckload capacity entering the market, and nuclear verdicts—all of that plus the economic performance of the industry itself. Next, take a look at your deductible.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In fact, the lack of any meaningful evolution predates events such as the war in Ukraine, the energy crisis, and even the pandemic. Yet, these events have only highlighted the importance of seamless transportation to continue delivering goods globally. So why is it being neglected? So why is it being neglected?

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AIMMS

MAY 22, 2018

New import tariffs being introduced across the globe, extreme weather events, Brexit… The list goes on and on. For example, we don’t know where the next tsunami or hurricane will hit. Let’s consider some examples. What happens if one of my manufacturing plants goes down due to an unforeseen weather event?

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 8, 2022

Emerge has an interesting new platform to deal with the problems shippers are having procuring truck capacity. For example, if a shipper needs to ship goods from Chicago to Detroit, the TMS will have a record that on this lane, the transportation planner should contact Carrier A first. Emerge is that kind of company.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

While this creates tremendous value , it also br ings the inevitable risk that certain event s can have far-reaching consequences that influence supply chain s more than ever before. Let’s explore some example s. . Most often , these events force demand and resource usage to fluctuate.

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Dedola Global Logistics

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

General Average applies liability for the loss proportionally to all shippers according to the percentage of the overall ship’s capacity. Some examples of incidents that may cause loss of cargo include: Fire. Shippers have a lot on the line in the event of cargo loss. Mechanical engine failure. Ship running aground.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

China, for example, only produces 14% of their total units, only 3% of those units end up being exported to the United States and 2% to EMEA. A regional supply chain does not mean supply chain operations are not impacted by global events. Much of the world’s fabric is produced in Asia, for example. This will be about a 1.2

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 9, 2021

As a result, transportation fleets must leverage truck utilization data daily as well as load percent capacity, driver wellness and other KPIs to monitor the efficiency and optimization of each unit. As seen with the recent weather turmoil, that can amount to recognizing when freight movements are likely to tighten capacity.

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