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How to Navigate Your Supply Chain During Market Swings

Blue Grace Logistics

How to Navigate Your Supply Chain During Market Swings Show Submenu Resources The Logistics Blog® Newsroom Whitepaper Case Study Webinars Indexes Search Search BlueGrace Logistics - November 21, 2023 Market conditions play a crucial role in shaping challenges professionals face when managing their organization’s supply chains.

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How to Prepare for Global Logistics in 2022

CH Robinson Logistics

At year-end, we typically see a jump in demand as shippers meet quarter-end quotas and prepare for the upcoming Lunar New Year, during which many factories in China shut down. Overall, this increased our container capacity by 25% in Southern California. Seek creative solutions across the entire supply chain. If you import into the U.S.,

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How to Cut Costs and Move Your Freight More Efficiently Across Europe

CH Robinson Logistics

In a fast-moving world which has been shaken by a global pandemic, ongoing geopolitical challenges, and an untold capacity shortage, shippers are trying hard to stay on top of the game keeping their supply chains moving without sacrificing on their delivery promises. Control costs and improve efficiency through reliable capacity networks.

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How to Best Use a Spot Market Strategy During This Market Shift

CH Robinson Logistics

The research is clear – meet your planned/communicated cadence for RFPs and awarded freight. These indicators suggest some fluidity in the spot market’s small carrier capacity community as this community faces the greatest pressure from the spot market changes and are most involved in purchasing used equipment.

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Top 3 challenges facing manufacturers and how to overcome them

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

In a SYSPRO-led research study 37% of businesses agreed that their business systems lacked those basic planning tools that could adjust to day-to-day changes in the environment. An ERP system can support this by allowing businesses to analyze forecasted demand, accurately predict production targets and meet demand levels.

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Today’s Freight Capacity Crisis: Where Do We Go from Here?

Talking Logistics

More than a year into a freight capacity crisis that shows little sign of weakening, it’s time for all parties involved in logistics and freight transportation to meet this issue head on. Freight Capacity Crisis: How Did We Get Here So Quickly? There are No Crystal Balls.

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Back to Basics: Improve Your Customer Experience while Reducing Costs

Supply Chain Brain

As demand for faster fulfillment surges, the sweet spot where customer experience meets cost efficiency gets smaller. Ballooning trip volumes, LTL capacity crunches, increasing fuel consumption, lack of driver availability and the need to scale self-service type delivery models pose significant operational challenges for 3PLs/carriers.