IFS Blogs

MARCH 17, 2025

Boosting Sales in the Logistics Industry: Proven Strategies for Growth In todays competitive logistics industry, increasing sales requires a combination of strategic planning, advanced technology, and a customer-centric approach. Below are key strategies to enhance sales and drive revenue in the logistics sector.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Forum For Founders, our pre-seed program, provides founders with $100k in funding and 15 intense weeks of talks, events, mentorship and 1:1 guidance focused on go to market and fundraising. Forum Seed, our seed fund, backs exceptional SaaS startups at the seed-stage both from within and outside of our pre-seed program.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 19, 2025

This article outlines key factors driving supply chain change, the limitations of outdated strategies, and how Walmart is restructuring its supply chain using AI and automation. Warehouse automation is a key part of Walmarts strategy. Consumer demand for ethical sourcing is also influencing corporate procurement strategies.

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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. Let’s look at five proven strategies that can help you create a more resilient supply chain.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2023

His latest books include The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy Beyond Covid-19 (2020) and A Shot in the Arm: How Science, Engineering, and Supply Chains Converged to Vaccinate the World (2021). Future trends in world supply chains and economies. His latest book, The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, A.I.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 26, 2025

Let’s examine Amazon’s approach as well as the limitations of traditional supply chain planning, the operational benefits of AI, and the necessary steps for implementing AI-driven strategies. Organizations examine past sales trends, apply seasonal adjustments, and make forecasts based on historical models.

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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. Playing the Waiting Game.

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Blue Grace Logistics

MAY 2, 2024

Are you ready to grow your business beyond borders and develop a nearshoring strategy? If so, this is an event you don’t want to miss. What You Will Learn: How to optimize your supply chain through technology and capitalization of a nearshoring strategy. How to pick the correct partner for a nearshoring strategy.

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Log-hub

JANUARY 8, 2025

From new tech breakthroughs to changing customer expectations and unexpected global events, businesses need to stay flexible and ready to adapt. Thats why its more important than ever to focus on strategies that work and make them part of your plan moving forward. This isnt just a trend, its a shift in how people shop.

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CH Robinson Logistics

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Making the most out of today’s challenging supply chain trends requires a deep understanding of the market and timely information that helps you achieve a competitive advantage. Q1 2022 Supply Chain Trends and Hot Topics. There were several popular questions that we didn’t have time to address during the live event.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 4, 2016

As we head into a new year it is a good time to take a look at the coming year and see what it may hold in the way of trends. We kick off today a month-long focus on trends in the following categories: Manufacturing, Manufacturing Technology, Supply Chain, Logistics, and Transportation Management. Do you have the right people in place?

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

For business leaders, understanding these emerging trends is crucial to navigating the complexities of the modern supply chain and maintaining a competitive edge.” By fostering closer relationships with suppliers and partners, businesses can ensure a more agile response to unforeseen events.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Dematic invites food retail professionals and experts to its upcoming hybrid event, “What’s in Store for Europe’s Food Retail” on Thursday, 26 October at Dematic UK headquarters in Adderbury (90 minutes from London). The event kicks off with a look at current trends and where food retail is heading.

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Bringg

AUGUST 1, 2018

As a result of this, there’s a growing trend of creating ‘dark kitchens’ by both restaurant chains and food delivery companies. Owners of restaurant chains will need to adapt to this new reality – whether by joining the trend of establishing satellite kitchens, or by improving deliveries using their existing infrastructure.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JULY 11, 2024

Whether it’s the seasonal spikes or sudden increases due to events, being able to predict and adjust to these fluctuations is key. Grasping Demand Dynamics In food and beverage shipping, demand can vary significantly based on factors like seasons and events.

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Logistics Business Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The series includes a mix of live content formats to keep viewers engaged, from webinars to panel discussions, all focused on industry trends, technological advancements or workflow strategies, and includes a Q&A session to facilitate additional tailored discussions during live streams.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Thanks to disruptive events over the past two years, supply chains have become central to business success, forcing CEOs and other business executives to spend a much larger portion of their time and strategies focused on this once afterthought of their operations. What has changed?

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Editor's Note: Today's blog is from our friend Kevin Hill with Quality Scales Unlimited who shares his expertise regarding the key trends in supply chain and transportation management. . 6 Key Trends in Supply Chain. 6 Key Trends in Supply Chain. When an event occurs, the most important thing is to be able to bounce back.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 30, 2025

Overlaying a dynamic layer on top of the WMS can sometimes be the the best and most efficient strategy. By analyzing real-time data such as order trends, equipment availability, and associate performance, these systems can dynamically adjust workflows.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Data can also be used to generate reports and insights that can help distributors improve their business regarding everything from pricing and product selection to marketing and sales strategies. The ability to analyse returns is important to identify trends in returns for particular items which could indicate quality issues.

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EazyStock

JANUARY 18, 2019

Are you interested in expanding your knowledge on the latest trends and technologies within the supply chain industry? Wondering where to find the leading events in your local area? EazyStock has complied a new list of the top 2019 Supply Chain events that you can’t afford to miss. Live Americas 2019 by SCM World. Feb 3-7, 2019.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Let's take a look at what logistics technology trends will become the dominant factors of the logistics industry for 2016. GreyOrange Butler Robot - Logistics Technology Trend for 2016. Now, it's easy to think of technology as being a manufacturer-only realm. At first, this doesn't seem like it would logically save any fuel costs.

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Logistics Business Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The event, which ran until the 24th October, showcased a wide range of innovations aimed at addressing the growing challenges in these sectors, such as increasing parcel volumes and the need for faster, more sustainable operations. The trends seen at the Parcel+Post Expo reflect the logistics industry’s rapid evolution.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

MAY 2, 2024

ERP trends 2024 – achieving business success through the use of innovative technologies Now that Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are firmly established, we expect to see a massive take-up of these technologies by manufacturers in 2024. The other emerging area around AI in ERP focuses on trend analysis and forecasting.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The toilet paper shortage was one of the COVID era events that taught people what the term “supply chain management” meant. The trend toward automation has never gone away. Multinationals knew that events could occur that could cost them tens, or hundreds of millions of dollars. Risk management had been a hard sale.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 8, 2017

While this example may still be a few years off, it is important that you understand how the top emerging trends in automation will shape supply chains and transportation processes in the coming years. Another trend in automation involves robotics. They can be used to manage inbound and outbound processes and strategy.

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ECW

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Our discussion spanned various critical areas, including the distinguishing features of these commodities, the impact of global supply chain dynamics, and the essential strategies for managing risks and operational challenges. Were all dealing with the same issuesgeopolitical instability, economic fluctuations, and extreme weather events.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Aside from the new administration, Amazon’s supply chain continued push deeper into new and existing markets will define additional trends in the supply chain throughout the coming year. Fortunately, these five trends may alleviate some of the strains of competition by giving supply chain partners an advantage in the global market.

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Blue Grace Logistics

JANUARY 24, 2024

Floral logistics can be a thorny path to navigate, but with the right strategies, your business can truly blossom. Did you miss our LinkedIn Live event? How to stay ahead of the curve by understanding the latest trends in the floral industry and how they impact logistics. Do you have more questions about this logistics topic?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

Your organization’s ability to anticipate disruption, adapt to events, and build resiliency is rooted in how you maintain operational continuity. A wide range of events could prevent your supply chain from operating normally, but not all events have an equal impact. The average cost of a data breach reached $3.86

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3PL Links

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Here are seven proven strategies every supply chain manager should explore to streamline operations, boost efficiency, and drive profitability. Example: Companies like Costco capitalize on bulk purchasing and shipping strategies, enabling them to pass savings on to their customers. Cost Saving Tips for Every Supply Chain Manager 1.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 11, 2016

In this first post of a two-part series, we will expand beyond our 6 general manufacturing trends we predicted would shape 2016 to now laser focus on the manufacturing technology trends that will impact manufacturers in 2016. These manufacturing technology trends are leveraging various technology in the pursuit of the same. .

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

However, the rapid shifts that companies are going through given the aforementioned trends, progressive companies are laying a robust data foundation and enabling a digital twin of the physical supply chain so they can conduct Design exercises on demand with increasing frequency. Wanted to share these thoughts here. He received his Ph.D.

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IoT World Today

AUGUST 26, 2019

Kicking off on August 19, the event lasted five days. As of August 26, the event’s jury had not decided which team will win the contest. . The team decided to leverage multiple sensor-enabled pallets, carriage carts that store the produce in transit and measure moisture and temperature trends in real-time.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

As a result, big data may need to be isolated to specific events to ensure data collection does not reflect extraneous factors. . Why Should I Be Looking at This Tech Trend? The amount of information collected by a single cash register can exceed the farthest imaginations of past civilizations.

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Shipchain

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Overdrive specializes in trucking needs, offering the latest trends and statistics on the trucking industry, new technologies, regulations and more. The More Than Shipping blog is a comprehensive resource for shipping trends, supply chain planning, project and specialized cargo and more. More Than Shipping. Logistics Viewpoints.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 20, 2021

Whether it’s a pandemic, severe weather events, trade disputes and tariffs, economic upheaval, or even unexpected surges in customer demands, you can’t prepare for every eventuality. Large companies with a supply chain risk strategy already in place couldn’t fully cope with the impact of the pandemic.

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