The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Lynch and his team leverage data intelligence and strong industry relationships to help clients uncover transportation savings, build scalable supply chain strategies, and ace retailer compliance programs.

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TransAudit

MARCH 25, 2025

This article explores the key drivers of reshoring, the rise of regionalized freight networks, evolving market trends, and how companies can optimize logistics strategies in this new landscape. Labor and Capacity Shifts As more freight moves through regional networks, driver demand shifts accordingly.

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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

APRIL 10, 2025

Resilience is the ability to respond to disruption while maintaining core operations, and more companies are shifting their strategies accordingly. First, overreliance on a narrow group of suppliersespecially those in politically sensitive regionsexposes companies to risk when trade relationships shift.

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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

MARCH 21, 2022

Blue Yonder recognized the need to transform into a Partner First organization as part of its core growth strategy. I talked with Umar Ausaf – Blue Yonder’s General Manager for North America Partner Success and Bill Beecher – VP for Global Alliances at Blue Yonder – about this change to their strategy. The transition is not easy.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2025

When you have consistent, high-volume flows, you can establish more regular shipping schedules, optimize your loading patterns, and even negotiate dedicated capacity with your carriers. In reality, even medium-sized businesses can create volume leverage through smart strategies like consolidation points or participating in buying groups.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Successive governments have determined that applying zero duty on wine is the best strategy to help winemakers keep producing and selling. 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. They will probably come now in January and February.

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Talking Logistics

MAY 31, 2023

Transportation executives have always been tasked with developing annual strategies and execution plans. And since the transportation market is cyclical, with swings in demand and capacity, every year presents new challenges. 2023 is no exception.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 7, 2021

Lynch and his team leverage data intelligence and strong industry relationships to help clients uncover transportation savings, build scalable supply chain strategies, and ace retailer compliance programs.

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Airfreight Logistics

MARCH 6, 2020

The first delivery of 2020 batch accomplished, recent 777F touched down at its operational home base Cincinnati DHL continues strengthening its intercontinental network by the renewal of its long-haul aircraft fleet State-of-the-art aircraft also supports the Group’s goal of improving its carbon footprint.

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Blue Grace Logistics

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Consumer purchasing is spiking weeks earlier than historical levels, and increased demand for last-mile delivery has put pressure on capacity, service and pricing. A trending shift from “just in time” to “just in case” inventory management is further straining capacity as shippers order goods earlier and in greater quantities.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In mid-2015 his employer opened one of the first industry “Innovation Labs” – a loosely structured group with the single purpose to research and test early-stage supply chain innovations. The Expedited segment primarily provides truckload services to customers with high service freight and delivery standards.

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Freightos

JUNE 3, 2024

From early 2020 to mid-2022, digitization among airlines grew from 9% to 35% of global cargo capacity, reaching 50% by 2023. Airlines have seen a potential 25% increase in revenue from improved capacity procurement and a 15% increase when selling capacity. The tangible impact of this digitization on revenue is noteworthy.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Some carriers have announced blanked sailings in response to the congestion, but may also be adjusting capacity to the lower, post-peak season volumes. As long as Red Sea diversions continue to absorb capacity on an industry level, prices may not fall much further than seen back in April.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

National business supplies and services provider, OT Group – which includes the OfficeTeam, Office Depot UK & Ireland, Zen Office, and Spicers Ireland brands – has relocated to its new headquarters in Ashton-under-Lyne. The post OT Group opens new centralised hub appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Grouping together products that tend to be ordered simultaneously can dramatically reduce overall picking times, reports Shelf Plus. Group like orders together to optimize pick tickets. of Distribution Center Management. Create an “Internal Warehouse.”. In addition, it can help you reduce shelf time for products as well.

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Stord

MAY 8, 2024

Deploying Modern E-Commerce Strategies Leveraging modern e-commerce strategies like pre-orders, influencer marketing, order consolidation (combining multiple orders into a single shipment), bundles, and upsells is currently a major operational and technical challenge for most DTC brands.

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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. In other words, while demand was dropping, supply of capacity was increasing. In other words, this is a far cry from 2021 and its dramatic capacity shortage.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2024

They design their supply chain on a continuous basis and focus on ecommerce retailing strategies that segment their customer base according to buying behavior. By implementing an adaptive supply chain solution, the manufacturer gains real-time visibility into supplier forecasts, capacity, and delivery schedules. Nari Viswanathan is Sr.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 2, 2022

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. Bengt Tuner is the Group Chief Executive Officer at Locanis. and they fail, again and again and again.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

With peak season now behind us, transpacific rates nonetheless continued to climb moderately from their October lows last week as carriers seek to keep vessels full by reducing capacity. Despite the recent transpacific uptick, oversupplied carriers like FedEx are looking for strategies including shifting pilots to the passenger market.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2024

Situation Companies are increasingly confronted with complex planning scenarios due to predictable events such as mergers and acquisitions, category expansions, supplier changes, and distribution evolution, as well as disruptive events including demand volatility, material shortages, capacity constraints, and logistical surprises.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The AZA Group, which has been strengthening the logistics strategy of its subsidiary AZA Logistics, has opened an ambitious logistics warehouse in Sagunto (Valencia) with a capacity for 45,000 pallets thanks to AR Racking ’s industrial storage solutions. The industrial racking installed is 19m high.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Descartes Systems Group, a leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that U.K.-based Using the solution to improving picking efficiency and accuracy, AYBL has doubled its fulfilment capacity with existing staff and can seamlessly scale to fulfil over 70,000 orders a day during peak season. “To

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Freightos

MAY 28, 2024

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

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Freightos

AUGUST 11, 2024

Similarly, today’s global ocean carriers are still playing with “wooden rackets” and layups —relying on outdated tools for rate and capacity management in an era demanding agility, real-time data integration and changing customer expectations. What’s Behind The Gradual Shift?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 24, 2021

Route optimization plays a critical role in increasing the effective capacity of existing drivers and in helping to keep them. Driver productivity should be the first place fleet operators look to increase their capacity. Making delivery routes more efficient increases driver productivity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Home delivery strategy, tactics and performance is one of the most hotly-debated areas of logistics. If you think that being better than most when it comes to delivery performance is an “OK” strategy, the survey results are clear: consumers don’t agree. These two charts paint a picture of how consumers are thinking and acting.

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Locus

AUGUST 6, 2024

Peak and holiday seasons are typically when retailers have to scale their capacity to meet the demands. However, with large volumes of orders and manual capacity planning methods, decision making takes a hit and ultimately leads to unnecessary increase in vehicles to accommodate load which leads to increased cost.

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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. Control costs and improve efficiency through reliable capacity networks.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Leveraging extra capacity: Digital workers can automatically collect data from partners and outside sources, helping teams expand their abilities in auditing, note-taking, reporting, and more. Centralizing data without IT integrations: Digital workers dont need standardized documents and information.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Let us examine these: Implementing a ‘China Plus One’ strategy: Part of the resiliency comes from having alternate sources of supply. Dr. Madhav Durbha is the Group Vice President of Industry Strategy at LLamasoft, a Coupa Company, where his team helps customers and prospects solve various supply chain challenges.

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Locus

MAY 15, 2023

Brands need to adopt the latest supply chain and last-mile logistics solutions to make the D2C model a successful business strategy. They don’t care about capacity or fleet issues that brands are having; they just want their orders to be delivered on time and in a predictability way.

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