Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

To examine supply chain management priorities, performance, and anticipated trends, APQC conducted its 10 th annual Supply Chain Management Priorities and Challenges research, including a survey of more than 350 supply chain professionals from around the world and across multiple industries. For more information on the research, click here.

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Freightos

MARCH 23, 2023

In the debrief department, Sea Intelligence’s Alan Murphy shared data confirming that – of course – surging demand was the trigger for the unprecedented ocean situation. Conversations with major BCOs also pointed to interest in these types of better contracting solutions, even if the industry is still in the early days of this shift.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Prior to 2020, they were paying around ten cents a mask. During 2020, Cooper was paying up to a $1.50 2020 it was just a scramble for PPE,” Dr. Runkle explained. “We Buying organizations use this technology to monitor and analyze supplier risk events in real-time. We had to go off contract and find our own.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 3, 2021

SONAR data show that the freight market for inbound Detroit loads is highly volatile based on auto production trends – inbound Detroit loads should be less expensive when OEMs are sourcing a lot of components as assembly volumes ramp up. The volatility in the auto industry has wreaked havoc on the Detroit freight market. .

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 8, 2022

At that time, I wrote about the COVID pandemic, and how similar events occur that elevate the uncertainty of the market. These events make accurate forecasting very difficult. Review of Prior Impactful Events. Their analysis showed which industries tend to have large swings in capital expenditures subsequent to economic shock.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

If your company’s supply chain survived 2020 and the disruptions of early 2021, it’s safe to say it has passed the supply chain resiliency test. There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. The average cost of a data breach reached $3.86

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Parade

OCTOBER 21, 2020

,, The 3PL Value Creation North America Summit 2020 is a distinct strategic event where C-level 3PL executives, investment community leaders, and technology innovators virtually network to assess the current and future outlook of the third-party logistics market and explore strategies for value creation.

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Parade

OCTOBER 21, 2020

,, The 3PL Value Creation North America Summit 2020 is a distinct strategic event where C-level 3PL executives, investment community leaders, and technology innovators virtually network to assess the current and future outlook of the third-party logistics market and explore strategies for value creation.

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Airfreight Logistics

MARCH 19, 2020

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air freight markets showing that demand, measured in cargo tonne kilometers (CTKs), decreased by 3.3% in January 2020, compared to the same period in 2019. The air cargo industry started the year on a weak footing. year-on-year in January 2020.

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WorkWave

JUNE 27, 2024

According to the American Trucking Association, the industry faced a shortage of over 80,000 drivers in 2021, projected to grow to 160,000 by 2030 if current trends continue. Current State of Driver Availability Statistics The trucking industry, which is pivotal to the economy, is grappling with an unprecedented shortage of drivers.

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CH Robinson Logistics

JANUARY 14, 2021

The year 2020 was a year unlike any other, and supply chains were more front and center than ever before. This is especially true in the retail space, as a surge in ecommerce and pandemic-driven demand volatility increased the rate of change in an already rapidly evolving industry. Our retail and CPG customers, both at C.H.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 27, 2020

The diamond and gold, tea and coffee, beverage, food, and automotive industries all have participants with blockchain applications under test, operating as pilots, or implemented as digital solutions to improve supply chain operations. It appears that the tea industry, in particular, has a problem with counterfeiting.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Geopolitical events. Prior to 2020, every supply chain in the world was challenged by increasing levels of demand unpredictability and market volatility. In fact, IT spend as a percent of business capex crossed over the prior ~10 year average in 2019 and we see that trend extending in early 2020.”. Natural disasters.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JULY 24, 2023

As the industry struggles to recover from the unprecedented global events of 2020, recognizing budget limitations is essential for industry growth and success. In most industries, supply chain logistics account for 5% to 50% of a product’s total cost.” Think about this. Disruptions are inevitable.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Latest release of DCSA’s Just-in-Time Port Call Programme provides interface standards and API definitions for all 50 port call event timestamps. The interface standards allow carriers, ports, terminals and other service providers involved in a port call to exchange event data in a uniform way, enabling automated data exchange.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The number of accidents in the trucking industry is up, and so are insurance premiums. As an example, from data taken from the ATRI report, in 2020 a small fleet of fewer than 20 trucks would have paid about three times as much as a large fleet with more than 1,000 trucks. Agencies Advocate Tort Reform. Can you lower it?

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3PL Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The American Trucking Association is the largest trade association representing the trucking industry in the U.S. This article shares details on the Truck Tonnage Index, how the data reflects the overall economy, and other ways to interpret the data. Data Collection. compared to the same time frame in 2020.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

With all the disruptions in the supply chain since 2020, the last mile has been in a constant state of flux. Whether that is electric vehicles — FDC had hoped to be all electric by next year, but she said that will be delayed — or finding ways to recycle packaging materials, FDC is working to move the last-mile industry forward.

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FLS Transport

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) – which measures the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry – is up 2.5% Inside the news sectors such as manufacturing, utilities and mining are seeing accelerated growth… It’s another data point that verifies the economy is coming back to life. from April lows.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 5, 2021

With the havoc 2020 caused, can shipping trends get any worse? Yet they can be prepared for these transformative events; ready in such a way that they can even thrive on anomalies in a way that the competition will struggle to keep up with.” But with the wave that was 2020, 2021 could show an exciting scenario for those applying.

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ShipLilly

OCTOBER 14, 2021

26, according to shipping data compiled by Bloomberg. The customary hurdles include events like the Chinese New Year which disrupts supply chains. The customary hurdles include events like the Chinese New Year which disrupts supply chains. The Pacific hurricane season can be deadly and disruptive to the industry.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

It is vital that the industry is aware of the trucking industry safety tech that can aid in decreasing the amount of freight damages, but more importantly decrease the amount of human damages. Trucking Industry Safety Tech: What Data are We Seeing? A Deeper Dive into Current Trucking Industry Safety Tech.

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WorkWave

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The WorkWave User Conference is always an exciting time of year, giving users the opportunity to meet with the WorkWave team directly, attend a wide range of informative sessions, network with their peers in the industry, and have plenty of fun along the way. So don’t delay—register for WorkWave User Conference 2020 today !

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Now, That's Logistics

MAY 4, 2021

Coming off the worst year for air cargo demand since the International Air Transport Association (IATA) began tracking such trends in 1990, the commercial air freight industry is slowing beginning to emerge from the debacle that was 2020 and find its way in the “new normal” operating environment. in 2020 compared to 2019.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 1, 2021

As supply chains become more impacted by market disruptions and unpredictable events, they’re also becoming more critical to a company’s customer experience levels and bottom line. Creating a data-driven supply chain tracking important transportation metrics helps shippers respond and adapt as quickly as possible to known and unknown events.

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Freightos

JANUARY 8, 2019

As we enter a new year, it’s a great time to look back at how far we’ve come as an industry, set our next goalposts, and map out where we should be as an industry by 2020. It should come as no surprise that we are running out the clock until Amazon competes with more aspects of the logistics industry. Amazon is coming.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In 2018 a Forbes magazine published an article entitled “Every company is a data company” in which the authors urged all companies to use data as a core asset. That is now becoming a reality as businesses come to realize that data is the most significant asset they possess. What is IoT and IIoT? Growth of IIoT.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

Weather events might also be factors. Above-average holiday shipping seasons in 2020 and 2021 led to an above-average returns rate in the usual Quiet Season. Today, the shipping peak season is still a march toward the holidays, but that march is now at a breakneck pace and subject to massive volatility. Q2: The Produce Shipping Season.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 13, 2021

There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. Your organization’s ability to anticipate disruption, adapt to events, and build resiliency is rooted in how you maintain operational continuity. The average cost of a data breach reached $3.86

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

If 2020 and if 2021 proved anything, it’s that the omni-channel selling environment is here to stay. But, as we know, supply chain conditions were far from perfect in 2020 and 2021. As just one example, Nike’s online sales grew by 75% in 2020 — but its profit margins fell from 45.5%

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2021

Plus, extreme weather events and changing storm patterns challenge seafaring vessels. as of January 1, 2020 [3]. A data capture facility scores the vessel on a variety of different measures, including environmental factors. Marine optimization process technology provides end-to-end visibility and data capture.

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MTS Logistics

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By and large, the holiday shipping season has been smooth and problem-free compared to 2020 and 2021, with supply chain issues easing. But that issue was not the result of a supply chain crisis, shortage, shortfall, or systemic issue – it was a result of a natural event. Department of Commerce data showed the U.S.

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Now, That's Logistics

JANUARY 4, 2022

The issues started in 2020 and then quickly rolled over into 2021. And while industries experienced supply chain fragility before the COVID-19 pandemic, GaN Systems’ Jim Witham says the current scale and diversity of impact are unprecedented, with shortages in critical medical equipment, consumer electronics, cars and even lumber.

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Blue Grace Logistics

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Seasonal events such as holiday shopping, black swan weather events, geopolitical tensions, and, in the case of 2020, a global pandemic. Before COVID-19 broke loose, most industries haven’t really felt the need to test their supply chain resiliency, or at least not to the extent that it is being tested now.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Fast adaptation has been the theme of 2020, as COVID-19 disrupted supply chains and shifted consumer demands at a pace we’ve never seen before. With it, business sharks are able to rapidly shift their operations in response to new threats, unforeseen external events, and changing market needs.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The findings indicate and reinforce an industry-wide consensus of the decline in the lustre and appeal of Black Friday and Cyber Monday (BFCM) e-commerce events among consumers. In Europe, there was 70% parcel volume growth in 2021, a significant dip from 94% experienced in 2020.

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IoT World Today

APRIL 18, 2019

Larry De Shon, president and chief executive officer of Avis Budget Group, which owns Avis Car Rental, Budget Car Rental and car-sharing firm Zipcar, among others, has a fresh perspective on the car rental industry. ( How did you transition from the aviation industry to the car rental industry?

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