Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Companies knew this, which is why 93% of senior supply chain leaders surveyed in May 2020 by consulting firm McKinsey planned to increase inventories of key products and materials while also diversifying their supply base and localizing or regionalizing both supply and production.

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FLS Transport

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

For example, 56% of beer in the US comes from the largest brewery in the world, located in Nava, Mexico. The 2022 Retail and Sustainability Survey published by CGS shows how much MORE customers are willing to pay for sustainable products and services. Check out our FREE Carrier Portal. Like getting all your news in one place?

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ShipLilly

JANUARY 13, 2022

For example, you may want to consider how your operations have gone over the last 12 months. Key challenges that might mark 2022. For example, container costs have risen ten-fold when compared to statistics recorded two years ago. Unfortunately, 2022 could be as challenging or even more challenging than its predecessor.

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Ship Monk

MARCH 11, 2024

And when we feel uncertain, humans tend to look for examples of what others in our situation have done. We’ll give you some examples of social proof, and we’ll even rank them in terms of trustworthiness. Social Proof Examples, Ranked Social proof can take many forms, and they’re not all equal. What is Social Proof? Some of it?

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Freightos

JANUARY 15, 2024

For example, the Freightos Baltic Index indicates a 69% increase to North America’s East Coast and a staggering 226% to Northern Europe since the crisis began. It took time for the situation to normalize, especially for complex products like semiconductors that require a lot of moving parts in the global supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

At the end of September, I attended FourKites Visibility 2022 in Chicago, IL. When it comes to measuring customer loyalty, the Net Promoter Score survey is typically a best practice. For example, the Philipines might have been 2 months while France took over 4 months. Those were certainly three things that happened.

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ShipLilly

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The same patterns were reported regardless of whether one used August 2022 or August 2021 for comparison. American ports managed 2,220,331 twenty-foot equivalent units of imports in October 2022. For example, Long Beach was down by 2.7% That is a vastly different take from September when things seemed ominous. Volumes were 7.2%

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 28, 2024

The company disclosed the total of single-use plastic across global operations for the first time in 2022 after investors sought more details on plans to reduce waste. Of the 12 daily problems drivers – both men and woman — highlighted in the ATRI’s survey, women dealt with 11 of them more frequently than men.

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Ship Monk

APRIL 28, 2023

According to the Business of Sustainability Index , despite intense inflation since 2020, 66% of general US customers and 80% of young adult (ages 18-34) US customers surveyed in 2022 are willing to pay more for sustainable products/companies that embrace sustainable practices. Consider the clothing industry as an example.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 13, 2022

Twenty-seven percent of supply chain leaders have conducted a climate change risk assessment to identify their most critical supply chain risks, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. According to the survey, 44% of respondents have a general sense of potential climate change risks based on previous events.

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TransAudit

MARCH 15, 2023

Early 2022 was a time of incredibly high trucking demand and prices to match. Year over Year: Compared to February 2022, spot load posts were 73.8% From December 2022 to March 2023, flatbed rates have dropped each month, going from $2.77 In 2022, the industry was short about 78,000 truck drivers. lower in February 2023.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 12, 2024

According to a survey by McKinsey, 93% of supply chain executives plan to increase their investments in resilience, and 47% of them consider automation and digitization as the top priority. The Yara Birkeland is an electric autonomous 80 m 120 TEU Norwegian-flagged containership launched in Spring 2022.

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CH Robinson Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

My preferred measure of demand for truck transportation is an index I’ve developed with my colleague Yem Bolumole at the University of Tennessee that uses data from the Census Bureau’s and Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ Commodity Flow Survey to calculate implied demand for truck transportation.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 19, 2022

Meanwhile, a recent survey conducted by the trade association, Logistics UK, noted 13% of respondents report severe warehouse staff shortages, with a substantial decline in the availability of forklift drivers cited as a major problem. IMHX 2022 takes place from 6th-8th September at the NEC, Birmingham. This represents some 12.5%

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Now, That's Logistics

DECEMBER 27, 2022

billion loss for 2022 and that industry-wide profitability will emerge at some point in 2023. “We When passenger planes were grounded during the pandemic, for example, air freight capacity shrank accordingly. Talk of a possible recession emerged midyear and got a bit louder and more emphatic as we progressed through 2022.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 21, 2022

The study, conducted by Economist Impact, surveyed executive-level participants representing businesses in 26 major countries across the globe. For example, 42.5% of executives surveyed in South America and Africa respectively identified higher transport costs as the top limitation for increasing exports. This compared to 19.9%

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Stord

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

According to a survey by the National Retail Federation, retailers can earn approximately 20% of their annual sales during the Black Friday to Christmas shopping period. billion 2022: Continued expansion to $11.3 BFCM by the Numbers Data from 2023 showed a record-setting turnout of 200.4 million shoppers during Cyber Week in the USA.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2023

Following the Covid-19 pandemic, 91% of consumers reported to taking the supply chain into consideration when making a purchase, an increase from just 45% before 2020, according to an Oracle survey. Instawork’s 2022 survey, found that 73% of warehouse operators couldn’t find enough labour.

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Trinity Logistics

JULY 29, 2021

Census Bureau’s Small Business Pulse Survey , 59.7 The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) released a survey recently showing 93 percent of more than 1,400 respondents reported higher costs for materials, parts, and supplies. Lumber shortages continue to be a significant problem nationwide. According to the U.S.

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Penske Move Ahead

AUGUST 27, 2024

The National Private Truck Council's 2024 Benchmarking Survey found that shipments and volume increased last year as private fleets positioned themselves as a value-added transportation solution. Tracking Key Performance Indicators NPTC's Benchmarking Survey, which is sponsored by Penske , provides metrics in several operating areas.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

For example, how might preferences relating to the convenience, cost and speed of delivery affect different consumers? For example 80% of 18-34 year olds are likely to take some form of action against a delivery problem – this could include complaining in detail on TikTok, or telling family and friends to avoid a particular brand.

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Trinity Logistics

DECEMBER 29, 2021

After yet another unpredictable and unstable year, many hope 2022 will bring more stability back to the industry. What will we see going into 2022 and beyond? One example is UPS Healthcare developing a system and opening facilities to move medicines safely. For example, the congestion at U.S.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This article provides an overview, based on a survey of over 1,200 small businesses, of how small and midsize businesses have weathered the storm, and how a changing – and potentially recessionary – market is impacting their outlook. By the time they peaked in June 2022, they were over 30% higher than pre-COVID.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

A recent customer survey proved that driveMybox is seen as a strong and reliable partner that can react flexibly to requests, even in times of strong fluctuations and disruptions in the supply chains. Heilig and Spandehra anticipate significant revenue growth in fiscal 2022 based on expected macroeconomic and industry-specific conditions.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 27, 2021

51% of the respondents in a global Reuters survey felt that the most perplexing challenge is the unpredictable nature of consumer demand. billion by 2022. According to a report issued by Zion Market Research, the compound annual growth rate is at 21% between 2016 and 2022. Simple Examples of Predictive Analytics.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 5, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll walk through some of the obstacles to medium-term demand planning, consider how high-frequency supply chain data can help fill the informational gaps that companies are grappling with, and then look at a real-world example of how the data in FreightWaves SONAR can give insight into the goods economy.

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3PL Links

APRIL 26, 2023

The multi-shoring method, for example, is an effective way to accomplish this. According to a survey, 71 percent of those involved in the supply chain agree fully with this observation. Finally, 2022 demonstrated the underlying inefficiencies that persist in global supply systems today.

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Kanban Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Available North Carolina warehouse space The current state of warehouse vacancy in the burgeoning eastern North Carolina region – where Kanban Logistics is located – remains low, though not at the historic lows seen in 2022. The Charlotte region, for example, currently has a warehouse vacancy rate of 4.3%.

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Now, That's Logistics

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Citing Ti’s Global Contract Logistics 2022 Report, AJOT says the global contract logistics market expanded by 8.7% For example, DB Schenker covers all stages of the supply chain—from supplier to customer delivery, reverse logistics to aftermarket support and healthcare services to cloud logistics.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This can be clearly seen in the returns of online purchases by category in the UK in 2022, as shown by Statista Global Consumer Survey published in May of this year. For example, pallet racking can be configured with a single pallet bay level and shelving above to provide locations for unpalletised ‘returned to stock’ items.

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Logistics Business Magazine

APRIL 26, 2024

Companies have fewer experienced employees who are knowledgeable about their operations, processes, and safety procedures to lead by example. One survey found that 64% of businesses across materials handling, distribution, or fulfilment had forgone business worth more than 25% of their revenue in 2022 because of staffing issues.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JULY 1, 2022

That is why we have conducted extensive surveys and analysis. Q: Can you give some specific examples? Spatially constrained warehouses in urban environments, for example, rely on high scalability of picking systems. And so we are especially excited about LogiMAT 2022.

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Locus

APRIL 29, 2022

– Organizations perceiving CX as a competitive differentiator worldwide 2021, Jan 2022. Example: A meat company has a steady base of demand for the delivery of its processed meat. – Main challenges in optimizing customer journey for CX in the United States 2021, Jan 2022. In 2021, 44.5 Makes communication efficient.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

To ensure that more truck drivers are back home in the evening, for example, the forwarding association Elvis wants to set up a meeting network for full truck loads. The best of the best also differentiate their recruitment strategy – for example, according to generations or potential groups such as newcomers or foreign workers.

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Trinity Logistics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

billion in 2022. One example is UPS Healthcare developing a system and opening facilities to move medicines safely. For example, a recent study showed categories such as meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy with significant spending declines in 2022 as consumers sought more shelf-stable and affordable items.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 13, 2022

Jun 13, 2022. Nearly two-thirds of businesses responding to the 2020 Gartner Sustainability Survey said they were pressured by customers to invest in sustainability initiatives while 48% said pressure was coming from investors and 48% cited regulators. Inbound Logistics. Sandra Beckwith. DROP AND HOOK.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In 2022, Prologis announced a goal, which will be submitted to the Science Based Targets Initiative for validation, to achieve net zero emissions by 2040. The report highlights the importance of stakeholder engagement and quantifies the social impact of the 74 projects surveyed.

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