Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2024

For example, in the UK, duty on a bottle of wine is currently £2.23, and on top of that, there’s a 20% VAT. For example, Ryanair was supposed to get 20 deliveries before the end of December. The Ryan Air CEO Michael O’Leary said in his 30 years in the industry he has never seen capacity constraints to the current extent.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Or they may have expertise in manufacturing processes and have flexible capacity to allow contract manufacturing for new product introduction. An example of this is Vendor Management Inventory and Capacity Collaboration for contract manufacturing. Nari Viswanathan is a six times SDCExec Supply Chain Pro to Know award winner.

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TransAudit

MARCH 25, 2025

Bipartisan Infrastructure Laws Impact The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is driving improvements in freight infrastructure, including: Expansion of port capacity to accommodate increasing container traffic. Labor and Capacity Shifts As more freight moves through regional networks, driver demand shifts accordingly.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Many rented extra storage capacity and hired additional trucks and delivery drivers as goods leaving the warehouses came in wave after wave. For example, a system such as the 3D vertical sorter from Libiao Robotics enables retailers to handle exceptional volumes of items even at peak times.

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The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 9, 2022

When “trams” (coal carts) were in short supply, for example, the “trammers” would horde carts to optimize their team’s performance at the expense of other teams being limited by the number of carts available. .” The system was not without its problems, however. This all changed shortly after WWII.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2025

First, overreliance on a narrow group of suppliersespecially those in politically sensitive regionsexposes companies to risk when trade relationships shift. For example, AI-enabled systems can monitor global trade activity, policy changes, and even weather patterns to flag emerging risks before they impact operations.

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Freightos

MAY 23, 2024

Air cargo for example, though continuing to make digital strides, is still behind – and is often compared to – passenger travel where digitized capacity, pricing and online bookings have been around for decades and is in some ways the digitalization template air cargo is referencing.

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Freightos

JUNE 4, 2024

With demand stable in those months though, carriers still had just enough capacity and equipment to keep the market balanced and rates elevated but level. Judah Levine Head of Research, Freightos Group Judah is an experienced market research manager, using data-driven analytics to deliver market-based insights.

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Freightos

JUNE 4, 2024

Dive deeper into freight data that matters Stay in the know in the now with instant freight data reporting Sign up for Free Analysis Ocean peak season’s early arrival together with Red Sea diversions straining capacity and schedules continued to result in worsening congestion, equipment shortages and elevated prices this week.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 1, 2024

Top Challenges Faced by Companies: Customer Preferences: Example: An online fashion retailer faces the challenge of constantly changing customer preferences. Supply side shifts: Example: A global coffee manufacturer experiences disruptions due to a natural disaster affecting one of its key suppliers in Brazil due to dry weather.

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3PL Links

DECEMBER 24, 2024

For example: we have the traditional warehouse and the cold storage warehouse. Using automated picking systems, for example, can speed up the product-picking process compared to manual picking, reducing the time needed to prepare shipping orders. Which Type of Logistics Warehouse is Right for Your Business?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 7, 2021

For example, the Delta variant of COVID-19 may cause an increase in infection and disruptions to business in the fall. 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.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 2, 2022

I have seen a lot of scary examples where a company wants to stay in the old box and connect new technologies and innovation…….and To improve your supply chain capacities, you must embrace emerging and disruptive digitalization technologies in a structured and intelligent way; one way is to change how you operate.

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Now, That's Logistics

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

For example, East-West came up with this rule to help account for CNY delays: For orders normally received in March, take 50% of the volume and receive it in January. We’re adding capacity, reopening dormant intermodal facilities, and adding incentives to get freight during nonpeak hours.”. Make Your Move Now Versus Later.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Discover capability gaps and create sourcing events Seek and discover what capabilities the organization may be lacking, such as vulnerabilities or inefficiencies in transportation or supplier capacity. Supply chain design can help identify and flag such capacity and capability gaps.

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Freightos

MAY 1, 2024

Some West Mediterranean ports , for example, are now being used as transshipment hubs for East Mediterranean-bound containers, leading to some congestion there, and terminals in Colombo, Sri Lanka are also facing some backlogs as volumes have increased there for transhipment to the Middle East. America rates climbing 14% to $2.88/kg

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Many major challenges of 2021—capacity constraints, ecommerce growth and driver shortage—are rolling over into 2022 and, in addition, the environment and machine learning are becoming more important for logistics and supply chain professionals. This is clearly an opportunity and challenge for retailers and last mile logistics companies.

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Freightos

JANUARY 15, 2024

Despite these efforts, to date the attacks continue, pushing most major carriers representing over 60% of global container capacity, to alter their routes. 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.

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CH Robinson Logistics

OCTOBER 28, 2021

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. For example, at C.H.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

At some companies, these relocations involved moving groups of different sizes from different offices with hundreds of possible destinations. The groups themselves were non-homogeneous with people of different ages and interests. We will consolidate their characteristics to create representative groups.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 6, 2023

However, there have been a handful of examples of Israeli owned vessels diverting from passage through the Suez Canal and Red Sea in favor of sailing around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope, including two car carriers, two container vessels operated by Maersk , and at least one by ZIM.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 28, 2022

Michelle Sodomka, Senior Director at Open Sky Group. Shortages of drivers is just one of the contributors to the difficulties shippers are having in securing the truck capacity they need. Open Sky Group is focused on consulting and implementation of Blue Yonder ’s warehouse, labor, and transportation management solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 31, 2022

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to speak with Bengt Tuner, Group CEO of Locanis. Fourth, can you provide some specific examples of information captured and utilized, and how Locanis uses this information to improve productivity. Information Processing Examples. But the information goes beyond these attributes.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Dive deeper into freight data that matters Stay in the know in the now with instant freight data reporting Sign up for Free Analysis Ex-Asia ocean rates climbed across the board last week on early-month GRIs and further capacity reductions. Freight news travels faster than cargo Get industry-leading insights in your inbox.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

This ensures the secure, high-capacity, and bi-directional transfer of essential information such as master data on products, customers, production-distribution infrastructure, transactional data on sales, inventory status and position, transportation execution data, external data e.g. competitor pricing, weather, recommendations, action triggers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes. The processing units in an oil refinery, for example, operate at high temperature and high pressure. One example of the value of machine learning in demand planning comes from Mahindra & Mahindra. These constraints need to be understood.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This example illustrates why supply chain visibility isn’t enough. And the impact doesn’t stop there, since trade-off decisions will be required to answer questions like which customer is most important to satisfy with the limited bolts in inventory and if production capacity should be reallocated. Agility to act on transparency.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Ocean carriers hoped to push rates up by reducing capacity even as seasonal volumes decrease, but Asia – US West Coast and Asia – Mediterranean prices are now about even with mid-October levels. Asia – US East Coast rates, however, are 7% higher than in October and Asia – N.

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The Lean Thinker

DECEMBER 21, 2017

On the one hand, the practice has become more sophisticated as people explore and learn application in contexts other than the original industrial examples. That book provides working examples of vertical linkage between organizational strategy and shop floor improvement efforts. Check Equipment Capacity. This makes sense.

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MTS Logistics

AUGUST 10, 2020

Less than Container Load (LCL) is a term used to describe the transportation of small ocean freight shipments not requiring the full capacity of an ocean container. In other words, a group of shipments are put together to be transported as a single shipment and freight is charged using a unique rate. What is an LCL shipment?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 10, 2024

ARC Advisory Group has been covering the Supply Chain Planning ( SCP ) market for 17 years. Supply Planning Supply planning systems create models that allow a company to understand capacity and other constraints it has in producing goods or fulfilling orders. So, for example, a manufacturer knows what it has sold to a retailer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 26, 2024

Developers could work in smaller, more specialized groups to improve a software component without risking the entire application. Blue Yonder, for example, has created a microservice for transportation optimization. Manhattan Associates, for example, has been gradually releasing microservices-based applications.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2021

Here are some examples of such use cases. Such sourcing events can be in the context of direct materials or logistics capacity. Collaborating with suppliers on demand forecasts, inventory, and capacity: Supply chain teams can make optimal projections of material and capacity needs by supplier.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

If Supply Chain and Procurement teams are not working hand-in-hand, the orgaizations can be caught off guard by bad press, for example if a supplier is caught engaging in employing child labor or releasing pollutants into the water bodies surrounding their facilities. As an example, the new administration in the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

There’s an older term now being applied to supply chains for this capacity: antifragility. Two divisions had similar access to tools and technology, but one group was far more successful than the other because of its knowledge network — they were well-connected and willing to help each other with information.

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Freightos

APRIL 25, 2024

This shift, which relies on the de minimis US customs regulation that waives direct to consumer packages worth under $800 dollars, is pushing air cargo rates up, and has significant implications for capacity, and regulatory landscapes. rates soared to about $13/kg due to pandemic-driven demand and reduced capacity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2024

Patrick Arnold, a research analyst at ARC Advisory Group, says that suppliers of industrial solutions are responding by investing in new product design and incorporating 5G into their portfolios. “5G” For industry, the ability to better connect machines, objects, and devices is what is driving excitement for this technology.

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