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 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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FreightWaves SONAR

APRIL 7, 2023

Tailor a mini-bid strategy that plays to your strengths and protects your weaknesses. And while contract rates are more stable, prevailing market conditions will affect routing guide compliance and the available capacity of contracted carriers. Truckload spot prices can move up or down by 40% within a single calendar year.

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Trinity Logistics

JULY 22, 2021

It’s not a secret that capacity remains tight and freight rates stay high. Yet, produce shippers that take the time to think about the situation and what they can do to push through will have a better chance at finding capacity and keeping costs manageable. The challenges with finding capacity during produce season aren’t new.

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CH Robinson Logistics

JUNE 10, 2021

In today’s market, knowing where to evaluate and adjust your LTL capacity strategies can feel overwhelming. But making faster, meaningful improvements to your LTL supply chain strategies and operations can be a seamless process that makes a positive impact on your business. Diversify your capacity network.

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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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CH Robinson Logistics

APRIL 21, 2021

Air freight has been in nonstop peak-season mode despite pandemic-induced capacity decline, while other disruptions, such as the Suez Canal blockage, drove even more demand to air. Though vaccine distribution is increasing, and we are seeing a spike in passenger travel, capacity relief is not on the horizon. Flex your creative muscles.

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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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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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Transporeon

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Shippers are feeling the effects of scarce carrier capacity. The driver shortage is affecting available trucking capacity. With luck, the shipper may find and contract with another carrier that has available space despite the driver shortage and scarce capacity. Scarce available trucking capacity leads to higher shipping costs.

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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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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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CLX Logistics

JANUARY 12, 2021

With extensive international transportation management and logistics experience and state-of-the-art strategies and equipment, we simplify processes, enhance supply chain efficiency, and reduce costs for our partners. To help our customers, we have created an ISO Tank Capacity Guide to help with your Intermodal needs. SG x 8.34 = lbs.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Unbelievably, the capacity crunch is back the shipping headlines. Cassidy of the Journal of commerce (JOC) noted shippers were expecting a forthcoming slight capacity pinch, but that was before hurricane season arrived. Capacity Crunch Factors Include Increased Deadhead. Fewer Drivers Reduce Available Capacity.

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3PL Links

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Unlocking Customer Satisfaction: Is Your Fulfilment Strategy Aligned with Expectations? Labor, inventory accuracy, and split shipping are a few examples. Unlocking Customer Satisfaction: Is Your Fulfilment Strategy Aligned with Expectations? Let’s start with inventory deployment and demand forecasts.

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Locus

JUNE 23, 2023

So, knowing more about order fulfillment, its importance, process, and strategies is critical. Read Also: 5 Ways to Ace Last-mile Reverse Logistics What are the Order fulfillment strategies, and which is right for your business? So there is no fixed rule for selecting the order fulfillment strategy. Let’s fill in!

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Treating suppliers as essential partners in the field of direct spend management—almost like customers—can be a key component of a successful company strategy. Or they may have expertise in manufacturing processes and have flexible capacity to allow contract manufacturing for new product introduction. Nari Viswanathan is Sr.

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CH Robinson Logistics

JUNE 29, 2021

But how does this translate to an optimal FTL cross-border strategy? I’m outlining below 3 success factors shippers should consider incorporating in their FTL cross-border shipping strategy for an effortless shipping experience. Access to reliable and consistent truckload capacity every day.

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Dedola Global Logistics

AUGUST 9, 2024

Current Situation Capacity Constraints: Carriers operating out of Southeast Asia, particularly from Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia, are experiencing full capacity. Adaptation Strategies: To navigate these challenges, importers should diversify their shipping strategies.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 5, 2018

Develop a comprehensive truckload strategy so you’re prepared to handle just about anything. Building the right truckload strategy for your business. The key to a great truckload strategy is aligning capacity communities with attribute segments of your freight portfolio. Your best bet to avoid unexpected trouble?

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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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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

AUGUST 29, 2024

Packing efficiently is essential for maximizing storage capacity and minimizing waste in the warehouse. Another key strategy is right-sizing cartons to match the specific dimensions of the products being shipped. This leads us to the idea of Dynamic Slotting , an essential strategy for space optimization.

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CLX Logistics

JULY 26, 2021

Let’s look at the facts – the percentage of supply chain managers using new analytics tools and services to develop better bidding strategies has increased from 17% in 2017 to more than 30% in 2020. Next-generation supply chain management tools like CLX LaneLogix are a perfect example of the type of system. Service Level Benchmarking.

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ShipLilly

MARCH 5, 2020

Perhaps many of the carriers will opt to repeat the tight capacity management approaches that were used in 2019 for purposes of maintaining a specified floor on rates. 2020 carrier strategy. Early indicators are that many of the ocean carriers will seek to maintain rates by managing their capacity effectively.

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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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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 22, 2017

The electronic logging device (ELD) mandate compliance date is around the corner, and shipping capacity is tightening at a phenomenal rate. As the shipping industry prepares to face these challenges, figuring out how to take advantage of available shipping capacity can be challenging. Click Here.

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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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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Horizontal integration has become the go-to value chain strategy over the last two or three decades, to the point where companies that insisted upon remaining vertical became the outliers in a global field of distributed organisations. This is a good example of how vertical integration does not always have to be achieved by asset ownership.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 22, 2018

Capacity is a very real problem impacting companies in all verticals, especially those who ship density-based freight that present further challenges. It’s no secret that the growth in the economy coupled with shortage of drivers and the ELD mandate has led to a serious capacity crisis in Less than Truckload and Full Truckload freight.

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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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Airfreight Logistics

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

DHL Express has presented its new Strategy 2025 on the occasion of the opening of its € 123 million state-of-the-art hub at Cologne-Bonn Airport. million liters holding capacity and 18 kilometers of piping ensures the hub stays cool in the summer and warm in the winter. An ice energy storage system with over 1.3

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 30, 2018

If you’ve ever paid $10 for an Uber ride to the cocktail lounge in the evening and then a “surge priced” $50 for the same distance Uber ride back to your home only a few hours later around closing time, you understand the dynamics troubling shippers in today’s capacity constrained transportation market.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 6, 2017

While these approaches can certainly deliver a significant return on investment (ROI), other strategies that can positively impact their transportation network are often overlooked – for example, thinking more strategically about capacity. Big or small, capacity solutions are not one-size-fits-all.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Current and future capacity crunches are often analyzed for impact in the U.S., All modes of transit feel the effects of capacity crunches, but those that suffer the biggest effects tend to involve ground-transit, including less-than-truckload (LTL), full truckload (FT) and parcel shipping. but they exist around the globe.

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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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Locus

MAY 25, 2022

Take last-mile deliveries for example. Here are seven key strategies that they have used to make it happen. Some of these include: Prediction of traffic restrictions Vehicle capacity limitations Driver skill sets Distance to be covered Maximum speed Time windows Service hours Breaks Vicinity and so on. – Statista, U.S.

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