Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Carrier capacity tops the list of parcel shippers’ challenges. E-commerce order volume keeps climbing, straining carrier capacity with shippers sending more parcels outbound and receiving more returns inbound. Carrier capacity management strategies ease the crunch. Widening our view of carrier capacity management.

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Dedola Global Logistics

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Diversified Port Strategies : DGL identifies and utilizes alternative port options to keep your cargo moving. By building flexibility into our logistics strategies, we can redirect shipments to less-affected ports, minimizing delays. This proactive approach helps you avoid costly delays and keep your operations running smoothly.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

. • Payload Limitations: Drones have low payload capacities, restricting them to lightweight packages, while autonomous vehicles can transport larger loads. Each technology is therefore confined to a particular subset of logistics needs due to its payload capacity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

That strategy can lead to thousands of scenarios, and still no number of scenarios will answer all questions. Another strategy is to dedicate resources and build the best algorithm for demand forecasting. For example, Colorado should be serviced by the plant in Texas in certain months and by the California plant during others.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 16, 2025

Just as your body needs multiple defense mechanisms to fight off illness, your supply chain needs various strategies to handle disruptions, whether they’re local supplier issues or global crises. Common examples of Supply Chain Disruptions So what are the main reasons that you need to consider supply chain resiliency in the first place?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2022

Take the transportation management system (TMS) market, for example. Blue Yonder recognized the need to transform into a Partner First organization as part of its core growth strategy. Recently there was a meeting in Dallas where executives from Blue Yonder were sharing their strategies around WMS and TMS with the partners. “We

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Understanding what consumers want With billions of dollars of orders poised to test the capacity of retailers’ shipping operations this peak season, minimizing fulfillment uncertainty and transforming customer confidence through optimized last mile delivery becomes priority one.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

Flexible warehouse systems support modular scaling, allowing warehouse operators to add capacity incrementally without significant downtime. Clear goals ensure that investments in flexibility and throughput align with broader business strategies. Scale for Growth As businesses expand, their logistics operations must keep pace.

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Blue Grace Logistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Consumer buying behavior has tightened capacity in all modes of transportation. In a 2021 study by Inbound Logistics, logistics technology providers said that 58% of their shippers were concerned with capacity constraints, triggering 68% of shippers worried about how they were currently optimizing their transportation resources.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Successive governments have determined that applying zero duty on wine is the best strategy to help winemakers keep producing and selling. 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.

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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 22, 2021

In this edition of “SONAR Indices & Insights,” readers will learn about FreightWaves SONAR’s Weighted Rejection Index (WRI) to monitor trucking capacity in the freight market and the impact rejections have on shipping rates. For example Atlanta’s OTMS value is 4% and outbound rejections increased from 3% to 5% over the past seven days.

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Now, That's Logistics

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

As shippers either figuratively or literally flipped the calendar page over to 2022, the hope was that at least some of the capacity crunches, driver shortages, labor issues and freight rate increases that took hold in 2021 would begin to heal themselves and create a more balanced transportation marketplace. Unfortunately, this didn’t happen.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 3, 2025

Warehouse capacity: The storage capacity and utilisation of existing facilities. Throughput rates: The processing capacity of distribution centres. Competitor intelligence: Distribution strategies and network designs of your competitors. Route data: Transportation routes, distances, and transit times.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Insights from Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020. Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Supply Chain Strategy, 2020 offers some guidance. In the report, you will find capabilities across five categories: technologies, competencies, frameworks, operating model strategies, and organizational models. Firefighting is the norm.

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3PL Links

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

It is more common in giant companies with a large capacity and breadth. While in the previous strategy, the functions are focused on a more practical, day-to-day aspect, focused on the transaction, in a 4PL approach the partner already takes care of integration and optimization tasks. The scale goes from 1PL to 5PL.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2018

For example, an analysis carried out by AIR on the potential impact of Hurricane Harvey on regional manufacturing found that, based on percentage of the total potential revenue loss, the top three subsectors are petroleum and coal products manufacturing (37%), chemical manufacturing (13%), and oil and gas extraction (12%).

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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. Online buying will fuel home delivery growth, challenges and new strategies.

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CLX Logistics

MAY 3, 2024

A resilient and agile supply chain strategy is not just a prudent choice—it’s a necessity, especially within the context of chemical supply chains. Challenges in Supply Chain Strategy Planning Designing a resilient and agile supply chain organization is not without its challenges.

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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. They design their supply chain on a continuous basis and focus on ecommerce retailing strategies that segment their customer base according to buying behavior.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2024

service, profit, capacity) of a small number of demand scenarios (e.g. The digital twin, for example, can be subjected to numerous stress tests that mimic real-world conditions and observe how different variables interact and impact the entire network. Conventional what-ifs only evaluate the outcomes (e.g.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 13, 2024

In our picking example, you would begin by analyzing the entire warehouse to identify where the bottleneck or constraint occurs. One example in the warehouse could be optimizing the path taken by pickers. There is likely capacity on non-constraint processes that needs to be better allocated.In

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 20, 2021

Large companies with a supply chain risk strategy already in place couldn’t fully cope with the impact of the pandemic. It’s the result of a deliberate strategy that may require tradeoffs compared to other approaches. This strategy requires greater investment and inventory carrying costs but enables continued production.

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3PL Links

DECEMBER 24, 2024

For example: we have the traditional warehouse and the cold storage warehouse. Accordingly, other models and strategies can be adopted depending on the type of business, geographic location, operating costs, and even market demands. Which Type of Logistics Warehouse is Right for Your Business?

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WorkWave

MARCH 27, 2025

With a strong business intelligence foundation in place, businesses can enhance their strategies and ultimately drive growth through informed decisions. Data-Driven Strategy Formulation Organizations can leverage deeper insights to shape their strategies and operations.

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Trinity Logistics

MAY 9, 2022

Managing transportation costs is a top challenge for shippers, while another challenge that goes in hand is sourcing consistent and reliable capacity. Some believe the spot market is the way for shippers to save money and stay on top of capacity, while others think it’s contract. Here enters the contract and spot markets. Pickup date.

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Logistics in War

MARCH 11, 2025

While some aspects of this article may be dated, the article speaks to a range of issues directly relevant to national security in a post-National Defence Strategy age. The ability of a military to conduct operations independent of anothers aid is intrinsically linked to the capacity to move, supply and support that force.

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MTS Logistics

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It’s well-known that the growth and development strategies of countries either develop or complicate the commercial activities of the companies operating in that region. One of the examples of this that positively affects world trade is the National Transport and Logistics Strategy announced by Saudi Arabia about two years ago.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Alex Pradhan, Product Strategy Leader John Galt Solutions, told me that “all planning vendors have bold marketing around AI.” 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.

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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

MAY 4, 2021

These ecommerce trends aren’t going away, and shippers will continue to face the challenge of moving smaller quantities of freight at a higher frequency while navigating capacity issues. Here are three key strategies shippers should consider now to prepare for your next peak season. That’s just one example.

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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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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2024

Scott Fenwick, Senior Director Product Strategy for Supply Chain Planning at Manhattan Associates. A supply planning solution may only be able to achieve rough-cut capacity planning for a large, complex supply chain. The announcement came on May 15th at the company’s annual user conference, Momentum.

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CH Robinson Logistics

DECEMBER 15, 2021

However, with this year’s volatility, I was also given a front-row seat to a new level of hyper collaboration – including individuals going out of their way to help each other, more strategy sessions between shippers and forwarders, and continually leaning into historical data and current market insights to find smarter solutions.

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MTS Logistics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

For example, a one-day shutdown could see as many as 20,000 containers stuck on ships, unable to be unloaded, leading to cascading effects in the retail and manufacturing sectors. In this article, we will explore various alternative strategies that businesses can employ to navigate challenges and strengthen their resilience.

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Now, That's Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2021

During a year when e-commerce sales skyrocketed, the global pandemic impacted supply chains around the globe, and transportation capacity contracted across most modes, while companies worked to get their logistics strategies realigned with this “new normal” operating environment.

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ShipLilly

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The coming months are going to be a real test of the shipping industry in terms of how it can manage capacity and coordinate to meet the needs of customers. Chinese factories are facing challenges of meeting excessive orders that are way beyond their current capacity. The statistics are startling.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2022

Retailers also took steps to contain costs and preserve margins as they reoriented toward e-commerce like never before, including putting solutions in place to more effectively navigate carrier capacity caps and improve the visibility, accessibility, and mobility of inventory. More to give the organization.

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