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Widespread, Yet Cautious Optimism for 2021: ARC’s Order Fulfillment Research Findings

Logistics Viewpoints

COVID-19 caused a global upheaval in order fulfillment processes throughout 2020. At the beginning of 2021, ARC Advisory Group, in partnership with DC Velocity magazine, anticipated factors such as a subsequent surge when we crafted our survey of warehouse practitioners. Meanwhile, caution is prevalent as well.

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Order Fulfillment Upheaval: Understanding the Rapidly Changing Fulfillment Environment

Logistics Viewpoints

But all bets were off in 2020 as variability went off the charts. Questions are structured to assess baseline (2019, pre-Covid), 2020 (Covid), and 2021 (progression to new normal). Click link below to take the survey. Respondent privacy is assured, and only aggregated data will be published. Note: Image chart data from St.

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The U.S. Supply Chain Needs You!

Logistics Viewpoints

Just last month I noted that warehouse labor productivity was hindered extensively by COVID-19 and that 80 percent of ARC’s warehouse survey respondents anticipate an increase of order throughput volumes in 2021. However, the wage increase for the transportation and material moving occupational group was up 4.2 million workers to 11.3

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The Pandemic Order Fulfillment Upheaval: The 3PL Experience

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC Advisory Group and DC Velocity magazine have closed our joint survey on the changes logistics operations have experienced in the upheaval of the Covid-19 operating environment in 2020; and the expectations these same executives have about their operating environment in 2021. Throughput Volumes.

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The Weekly Freight Report for November 27, 2020

FLS Transport

A recent survey shows consumers and retailers are feeling confident about holiday fulfillment. Check out the survey results here. Survey indicates optimistic view for the manufacturing sector. when the same group was surveyed back in May. Cass Freight Index shows V-shaped recovery. Get the full details here.

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Supply Chain Sustainability Gathers Steam

Logistics Viewpoints

The airline lobbying group Airlines for America announced in March that its member carriers will all go green by 2050. Though corporations are starting to pay attention to supply chain sustainability, less than half of those surveyed in the CSCMP report know how to make their processes more sustainable. That’s starting to change.

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Energy Efficiency Is Key to Better Logistics

Material Handling and Logistics

The result is that companies must balance the expectations of these groups with the need to make a product that consumers want and are willing to pay for. About 11% of carriers have vehicles that use a fuel other than diesel or biodiesel blends, according to a 2016 survey by ATRI. FedEx also has ambitious goals. In the U.S.,