FreightWaves SONAR

MAY 18, 2021

Packaged food companies are raising prices to offset (at least a portion of) the rising costs. In this report, we discuss the numerous datasets contained in the FreightWaves SONAR platform and associated use cases for packaged food companies and other refrigerated shippers. FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW TO ACCESS A COPY OF THE WHITE PAPER.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In a survey of retailers and wholesalers conducted from mid-March to mid-April, 81% said sales in the perimeter had increased over the previous 12 months. Today’s grocers are capturing copious amounts of transactional data in interactions with customers both online and offline. The Challenges of Grocery Retail Supply Chain.

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Logistics Business Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2022

Escher , a global leader transforming postal operators and couriers, has published the results of its fifth annual Future of Posts survey. This survey came as businesses were emerging from pandemic operations and makes it clear that Posts continue to focus on the opportunity presented by e-commerce and customer-focused priorities.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This survey-based research gathers quantitative data as well as information on practices or performance drivers. This survey focuses on the current state of key practices in last mile logistics, spread across multiple industries and over 1,100 respondents. This is due to the rising instances of “porch pirates.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2023

million shoppers hit the stores and the internet to capitalize on Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, according to a survey by the National Retail Federation. The top gifts were clothes and accessories, which about half of those surveyed purchased, and toys, which nearly a third of people surveyed bought.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JULY 28, 2021

Last year, FreightWaves estimated that the top five paper and packaging companies in the U.S. Despite revenue declines across the industry in 2020, we estimate that freight spend was as high as pre-pandemic levels due to growth in packaging demand and elevated freight rates. FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE WHITE PAPER.

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Logistics Business Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The food and drink ‘reformulation revolution’ continues apace in the UK’s supermarkets, according to Christmas supermarket survey figures released by CHEP UK & Ireland. Other survey findings. Bryan Roberts, an industry contributor to the Store of the Future toolkit, added: “The final quarter of 2022 is all about data collection.

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AIMMS

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

We put together a survey with our partners at Districon to better understand these challenges and offer ideas for improvement. Industries that deal with lots of daily fluctuations were among the most heavily represented in our survey. The survey shows that volatility may have something to do with this staggering disparity.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JUNE 23, 2023

Mark Derks, BlueGrace Chief Marketing Officer June 23, 2023 In the dynamic and ever-evolving logistics landscape, having access to accurate and timely data is essential. Updated quarterly, the LCI has become an important resource for shippers seeking to maximize data forecasting as part of a predictive and prescriptive analytics model.

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Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2024

Collaboration between different sector organisations is increasingly important to achieving shared targets for the timber industry, according to John Dye, President of the Timber Packaging & Pallet Confederation (TIMCON). These relationships help us establish and communicate shared positions and achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. .”

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WorkWave

AUGUST 4, 2020

In the grand scheme of things, data analysis falls into the categories of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive. While descriptive data presents existing figures, predictive data allows you to draw insights from trends in your descriptive data in order to make an educated guess about what might happen next.

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Material Handling and Logistics

JANUARY 10, 2018

These standards define how IoT devices will communicate, and how data will be collected, processed, handled, stored, and summarized. Strong players in the market will emerge as platform providers to aggregate the IoT data and provide key insights into that data that drive better business decisions in 2018.

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Shipping and Freight Resource

JUNE 29, 2020

As per a Statista survey, eighty per cent of consumers say they’d return a product they received that was damaged in shipping. With the right packaging, strategy, and tools, you can cut shipping costs by as much as 60%. Choose Packaging and Pallets Carefully. Make Labels Clear.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MAY 17, 2018

In a recent survey, 32% of online retailers expected logistics and delivery to be their biggest cost this year. The main solution – and greatest hope for companies engaged in shipping activity – is data analytics. What To Do: It’s All about Data Analytics . Smaller companies feel the pinch the most. Bringing in the Experts.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2023

Every year, the National Retail Federation conducts a survey on St. Patrick’s Day, up from 54 percent in 2022 and the highest in the history of the survey. Amazon began delivering packages with the vehicles in July, and Rivian last month touted 10 million packages delivered via the vans. Patrick’s Day spending.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 1, 2021

Creating a data-driven supply chain tracking important transportation metrics helps shippers respond and adapt as quickly as possible to known and unknown events. Actionable data is one of the most critical business drivers. Only 34% of survey respondents named saving money as a priority.”. Why Monitor Transportation Metrics.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2022

A recent survey of 200 supply chain management professionals across companies with 500+ employees, conducted by Edelman Intelligence, has found market insights, confidence levels and trends for this peak season and beyond. Even with that in mind, 85% of those surveyed have a positive view of how their revenue will look in the next year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 7, 2022

Oracle’s recent global survey, No Planet B: How Can Businesses and Technology Help Save the World? Difficulty tracking their ESG progress due to a lack of data. Complexities integrating data from across global supply chains. But the challenge of figuring out where to begin leaves business leaders stuck at the starting line.

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Transporeon

MARCH 6, 2018

" Download the Survey Results “The North American Over-the-Road Transportation Survey: Q1 2018 Capacity & Pricing Update" to see how market forces are shaping the trucking businesses and carrier capacity today. . "In Now is the time to take action to combat carrier capacity issues.

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Blue Grace Logistics

AUGUST 7, 2024

Order-level Management: The tracking of orders from inception to fulfillment, and the management of the people, processes and data connected to the order as it moves through its lifecycle. This includes transportation costs , handling fees, packaging expenses, and any other relevant expenditures.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

First, in the early 2000s, advancements in data analytics, RFID, and localized supply chains fueled the rise of “fast fashion.” million tons of chemical waste, and 3 million tons of packaging materials. Both companies use the “de minimis” rule, which exempts packages valued under $800 from tariffs, raising concerns.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 15, 2021

Inflationary pressure continues to be one of the largest headwinds for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, which are uniquely exposed in the current environment. However, leveraging freight market data can mitigate freight spend and lead to a more efficient supply chain. FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE WHITE PAPER.

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Logistics Management

MAY 21, 2019

A recent report issued by Zipline Logistics, a Columbus, Ohio-based 3PL focusing on retail and consumer products, continues to drive home the importance of logistics for consumer packaged goods (CPG) shippers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 17, 2023

Instead, online shopping experience, product packaging, and delivery times were the primary determinants of the customer experience. ARC developed a survey in Q1 of this year and solicited responses from practitioners to obtain additional insight from the market. But the results of the survey do identify some trends.

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Logistics Management

MAY 21, 2019

A recent report issued by Zipline Logistics, a Columbus, Ohio-based 3PL focusing on retail and consumer products, continues to drive home the importance of logistics for consumer packaged goods (CPG) shippers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 19, 2024

We have also seen autonomous bots on our sidewalks, college campuses, and public ways, most notably those from Starship, delivering packages to homes and apartments around the world. Humans put on the finishing touches and package the meals for customers to pick up. And now, restaurants have begun to employ robots as well.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Yet, peak season does seem to be less stressful than last year, and a recent survey of 200 supply chain management professionals across companies with 500+ employees, conducted by Edelman Intelligence, has found some surprising facts about the coming peak season. Supply Chain Confidence Remains Strong Despite Slight Setbacks .

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

European pallet and packaging manufacturers are repairing more wooden pallets for reuse than ever, according to a survey by European Federation of Wooden Pallet & Packaging Manufacturers (FEFPEB). million pallets were repaired in 2019, an increase of 25% on the previous survey carried out three years earlier.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Neil Adcock, Managing Director at Bis Henderson Consulting , reveals how to unlock the value hidden in returns data. To determine the appropriate returns strategy retailers need to understand what is going on and tapping into returns data may unlock some important insights. Getting hold of the data. Product feedback.

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Trinity Logistics

AUGUST 13, 2021

According to a June survey of 84 National Association of Chemical Distributors, nearly 85 percent of distributors report at least one imported item as out-of-stock. Food packaging, automotive components, clothing, medical and lab equipment, and countless other items rely on them. MATERIAL AND PRODUCT SHORTAGES. AND LOGISTICS DELAYS.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

per package during the first surcharge cycle. per package, will begin October 3 and run until Jan. Additional handling charges are imposed when a package does not conform to FedEx’s processing profile and must be handled differently than others. The first cycle of surcharges ends October 2. FedEx will charge $3.45 percent to 38.7

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CH Robinson Logistics

AUGUST 19, 2021

Prior to the pandemic, supply chains were already growing in complexity due to increased globalization, data sources, and customer demands. It offers global TMS technology and third party expertise, all in one package. Gartner, 2019 Digital Talent Gap Survey. Gartner, Supply Chain Brief: U.S.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

FedEx Package Pickup and Drop-Off Now Available at More Than 7,500 Walgreens Locations In All 50 States. Data and predictions have been all over the map. This week, for example, CCJ reported that “60 percent of fleets running between 1 and 100 trucks have yet to adopt ELDs, according to a recent survey conducted by CarrierLists.”

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3PL Insights

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Another autonomous machine is the Automated Packaging Solution from Neopost. There a lot of benefits to using this machine but the main one is that it reduces packaging labor by 88% which helps to fight the labor crisis. Plus, they can work at night, survey the warehouse multiple times and compare results for a more accurate picture.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Products come back in dribs and drabs, not in nearly packaged batches. When marketing sees why products are being returned, it can improve product features like quality, packaging, and usability. It would be tempting to think of reverse logistics as forward logistics done backwards. Tempting, but wrong. Almost everything can change.

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Logistics Business Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Seventy percent of supply chain leaders are planning to invest in the circular economy in the next 18 months, according to a recent survey by global research firm, Gartner. The post Supply Chain Firms Planning Circular Economy Investment, Says Survey appeared first on Logistics Business® Magazine.

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Trinity Logistics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Mitigating your risk comes down to using technology to make better decisions faster by using better data. You must use a network of data to measure yourself against the current market and your peers. Technology allows shipment data like tracking and more to your customer in real-time using methods like APIs or geofencing.

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