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What’s going on with global supply chains: A primer for the casual consumer

Freightos

We can trace the beginnings of the container crunch back to COVID lockdowns when people started spending a lot more on goods instead of experiences and services. But the surge in demand for goods, including unprecedented e-commerce growth, is what really seeded today’s challenges. More freight costs, higher consumer costs.

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3PL Warehousing Trends for 2022

Camelot 3PL Software

If you can even get a reservation, dining rooms are half open and service is lacking. Warehousing has been hit harder than other industries. Although online spending accounts for less than 15% of total retail sales, consumers have grown accustomed to the convenience and speed of shopping online. It’s everywhere.

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Sustainable transport: What are the choices for shippers?

Transporeon

These days, consumers are thinking carefully about environmental and sustainability issues when making their purchasing decisions. They want to find out whether each product complies with accepted societal standards and has been produced using environmentally friendly or “green” methods.

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2020 Trends in Freight Transportation, and the COVID-19 Impact

Logistics Bureau

Now the entire freight transportation industry, across air, ocean, road, and rail sectors, is awash with disrupted expectations and has retreated into survival mode. As countries closed their borders, airlines cancelled flights en masse. Using passenger airliners to provide cargo-only services.

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Metrics and Issues to Consider in SQM (Supplier Quality Management) By 5 Big Industries

GlobalTranz

In the first post our long tme guest blogger, Chuck Intrieri of The Lean Supply Chai n, gave us 5 core metrics to evaluate supplier performance using supplier quality management and a 4 step process to execute. Consumer Goods. Review of SQM Metrics and Issues Across 5 Core Industries. #1: 3: Consumer goods.

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Sustainable transport: What are the choices for shippers?

Transporeon

These days, consumers are thinking carefully about environmental and sustainability issues when making their purchasing decisions. They want to find out whether each product complies with accepted societal standards and has been produced using environmentally friendly or “green” methods.

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The Future Of Supplier Collaboration: 9 Things CPOs Want Their Managers To Know Now

GlobalTranz

And buyers aren’t collaborating with suppliers merely as providers of materials and goods, but as strategic partners that can help create products that are competitive differentiators. Look at the Apple Store as a prime example of collaboration en masse. Recently, I heard from an acquaintance who is a CPO of a leading services company.