Logistics Business Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2024

This includes a new carbon calculator it has developed and from which it will share learnings as TIMCON embarks on a similar initiative to help its membership meet increasing sustainability obligations. Watt said surveys for the market report’s next edition would be issued to the membership much earlier, during February this year.

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We are continuing to monitor the situation and communicating with other industries and the government to ensure keep the supply chain updated.”. Also at the meeting, TIMCON launched its annual UK Wood Pallets & Packaging Market survey for 2020, which it publishes jointly with the Forestry Commission.

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Penske Move Ahead

MAY 20, 2024

Now in its fifth year, the State of Sustainable Fleets 2024 Market Brief sheds light on an industry meeting the moment of an active transition. Fleets using CNG met 70% of their fueling needs with renewable natural gas (RNG) on average in the annual State of Sustainable Fleets fleet survey.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

I read earlier this week that pressure on the supply of critical materials will continue to mount as road transport electrification expands to meet net-zero ambitions. In a recent report, IEA indicated that global battery and mineral supply chains need to expand ten-fold to meet projected critical minerals needs by 2030.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 21, 2018

Key Trends Driving Change. Driver shortage is a major concern for companies striving to improve the performance of their fleet, according to a 2018 global benchmark study , conducted by Descartes, that surveys fleet managers from a wide array of industries and logistics providers. Technology Boost.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JULY 10, 2023

This includes sourcing materials, working with vendors, managing warehouses and transportation, and coordinating with retailers to ensure they can meet the changing demands of consumers while remaining profitable. The company’s survey of Fortune 100 companies showed that 77% have implemented hybrid work schedules. workers in 2023.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JUNE 5, 2023

Short-term planning is much easier: Internal sales numbers and weekly survey or scan data tell us what immediate demand is doing, and it can be a relatively simple task to adjust freight flows up or down in response to those demand signals. Will ports experiencing congestion remain clogged or will they clear up before peak season?

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Logistics Business Magazine

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Ralf Duester, board member of the Bochum-based SCM software specialist Setlog, shows which trends will be important in 2024. At a glance: The top ten SCM trends in 2024 1. Open-source software is increasingly convincing In detail: The ten most important SCM trends in 2024 1. Skilled labour shortage forces action 2.

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Blue Grace Logistics

AUGUST 2, 2018

Despite these issues, the economy is enjoying a period of solid growth for the start of the third quarter, but according to a series of surveys conducted by the government, we might be looking at a hard cap on performance in the future.

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ShipLilly

JULY 24, 2020

Other companies have also joined the trends in human-less transportation and storage. For instance, about 85% of companies surveyed by the Japan Truck Association in 2019 reported staff shortages and associated logistical bottlenecks. Even the government is pushing this as a means of reducing infections from pandemics such as COVID-19.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Although at Cerasis we provide services for transportation management for shippers in North America through technology and services , the aim of our blog is to provide a well rounded perspective of valuable content beyond best practices and trends of our niche focus on the supply chain, logistics, and transportation areas.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2018

More than a year into a freight capacity crisis that shows little sign of weakening, it’s time for all parties involved in logistics and freight transportation to meet this issue head on. Just as few, if any, saw the severity of the current capacity crunch coming, it’s equally unclear just how long this trend will last.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Employment reports issued by the government and commentary from news outlets over the past year indicate an economy humming on all cylinders and pumping out jobs like a fire hose. Louis FRED website shows the historical trends over the past decade indicating significant growth in jobs requiring a high school diploma or less.

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247 Customs Broker

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

In today’s press release he said: “We are gaining traction around the world in market segments from finance to healthcare and government to logistics. Blockchain Meets Supply Chain. ” Hyperledger is a multi-project, multi-stakeholder effort that includes 10 business blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.

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247 Customs Broker

JANUARY 31, 2018

Richa Gupta , senior analyst for AutoID and data capture at VDC Research, says in 2017 she’s seeing “a bit of a downward trend” in the markets she covers, which include bar code scanning and printing. Overall market trends. Top 20 ADC suppliers. Total 2016 Revenues (in millions).

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In a 2015 TED talk, Bill Gates warned about the spread of a potential virus and that organizations and governments were not prepared for it. In 2021 we find governments and organizations now grappling with these predictions and how best to deal with the outcomes of these predictions. New trends in supply chain management.

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Blog on Log

NOVEMBER 27, 2006

C-TPAT survey gives members chance to sound off Are companies who participate in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism really achieving tangible efficiencies by partnering with the U.S. government to secure their international supply chains? CBP turned to the University of Virginia to help design and conduct the survey.

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Conger

JULY 28, 2022

Government Warehouses. Government Warehouses. The United States Federal government leases or owns 90 million square feet of warehousing space across 19,000 buildings. Federal government uses up 15% of all warehousing space in the country. Some of the top users of government warehousing include the: U.S.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 8, 2015

However, 70 percent of respondents within the survey saw Reverse Logistics as a burdensome cost for the business. Unfortunately, businesses have gotten into the slump of ignoring this trend for much of the past few decades. Government Regulations. Businesses tend to forget about how a single issue may impact an ecosystem.

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Automotive Logistics

APRIL 26, 2018

Some of the main concerns expressed by ports surveyed by Automotive Logistics include finding more storage and handling capacity, especially given the growth that some of the bigger car handling ports are seeing, and at times when there are sudden spikes in volumes. . Where to put it all . ” – Joerg Tuitjer, EVAG.

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247 Customs Broker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

According to PwC’s annual forecast of Canadian real estate trends, “Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2016 – Canada ,” investment in warehouses and fulfillment centers tops the list of smart real estate investment decisions. Innovative logistics providers can now offer customized solutions to meet a business’s precise needs.

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247 Customs Broker

APRIL 5, 2018

. Let’s start with a basic but critical fact: for physical product companies, “sustainability is intimately connected with supply chains, the complex economic structures formed by companies that are using the global supply of natural resources to meet worldwide demand,” Sheffi notes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists was for a shortfall of $70.8 While test makers such as Abbott Laboratories, Quidel, and LumiraDX are scaling up production to meet rising demand, boosting test output will take weeks to months. Survey respondents also lowered their expectations for future transportation capacity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Before executives do that, it is worth reviewing the top trends that will be impacting supply chain management for the coming year and beyond. What follows are the top trends executives need to be paying attention to before their strategic planning meetings commence. In the US, consumer prices were up 9.1 ESG Compliance.

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Material Handling and Logistics

AUGUST 14, 2018

Attendees at the Customized Logistics and Delivery Association (CLDA) annual meeting said the industry struggles to meet skyrocketing demand, especially in the face of the frontal assault on independent contractors, which adds to costs. Other observers are not so sanguine.

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Automotive Logistics

JULY 17, 2018

We’ve seen growth in auto exports to China and we hope that trend will continue.” The effort made by the Mexican government to control theft and vandalism, which was rife in the Bajio region, has actually resulted in a migration of the problem to the area around Veracruz. More on North America’s ports.

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Material Handling and Logistics

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Every year, in our annual MH&L Salary Survey , we ask readers to identify the biggest challenge they face in their jobs, and every year they tell us the same thing: finding, developing and retaining talent. and other countries will need a “government guaranteed income” for all working age citizens. Automation, Robots and AI.

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