Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

For stakeholders navigating this environment, understanding key industry drivers, challenges, and future trends is critical for crafting effective strategies. Predictive analytics tools enabled by AI are helping organizations optimize inventory management, reduce downtime, and improve demand forecasting.

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Ship Monk

JULY 18, 2024

Today we’re going to look at some of the consumer trends that might affect your preparations for peak season 2024, and strategies to maximize them. 2024 Consumer Trends Early this year, HubSpot released its 2024 Consumer Trends Report. Trend #3 More than half of consumers are being more careful with spending.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 29, 2024

Steve is the Founder and Managing Director of iDev Partners a boutique leadership, business strategy and turnaround consulting firm. About Steve Elwell Steve is the Founder and since 2010 Managing Director of iDev Partners a boutique leadership, business strategy and turnaround consulting firm located in Farmington Hills, MI.

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The Logistics of Logistics

AUGUST 28, 2023

She brings almost 20 years of supply chain and benchmarking experience to DAT, where she is focused on providing actionable insights to shippers through DAT’s Benchmark Analytics and Rateview benchmarking tools. The platform offers a wide range of features and tools to help shippers find available carriers and carriers find available loads.

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3PL Links

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Image source: iStocks | Top 7 Most Impactful Logistics Trends to Watch in 2025 As another year comes to an end, managers and business owners are dedicating themselves to a crucial stage in the success of any business: evaluating what worked and what can be improved in their operations.

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3PL Links

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Image source: Pexels | Shipping Trends for 2025: What Will Change and How to Adapt The logistics industry is continuously evolving, and as we move closer to 2025, businesses will face a range of transformative changes. At 3PL Links, we prioritize tools that simplify route management, reducing delays and ensuring on-time deliveries.

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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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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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Blue Grace Logistics

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Automated systems like warehouse and transportation management tools improve load management and route optimization. Navigating urban areas, handling narrow delivery windows and meeting higher customer expectations require new strategies and investments in technology.

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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. Market Intelligence: Suppliers often have access to valuable business and supply market intelligence, which can inform a company’s strategy especially in the area of direct spend.

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The Logistics of Logistics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

As honorary visionary of BasicBlock, Taylor has a demonstrated history of identifying trends and accurately predicting market strategies in both payments and transportation. Taylor Monks is the Co-founder and CEO of BasicBlock, which is a complete payment platform for carriers that makes getting paid faster, easier, and better.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Anthony transitioned to a Corporate Economist & Consultant, advising CXO leaders and Fortune 500 companies on economic analysis, industry trends, and internal strategy. Anthony started his career in tech as a Commercialization Associate, where he identified and evaluated emerging technologies and innovations.

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Trinity Logistics

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Many of today’s manufacturing trends are in line with the industry’s goals to improve processes, create more efficiency, and meet consumer demand. Let’s dive into the latest manufacturing trends. WHAT ARE THE LATEST TRENDS IN MANUFACTURING? Diversifying the workforce is a trend that goes in hand with employee recruiting.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 21, 2019

Top trends shaping e-commerce in 2019: Improved shopping experience on mobile devices. Social media is one of the main strategies driving e-commerce. Various means of communicating with customers include social media, chatbots, and other virtual tools. Their expertise in these areas guarantees strong performance. Social media.

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Blue Grace Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2024

This session dives into the tools, strategies, and market shifts that are transforming cross-border logistics, offering valuable insights into the future of the industry.

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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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WorkWave

MARCH 27, 2025

With a strong business intelligence foundation in place, businesses can enhance their strategies and ultimately drive growth through informed decisions. Data-Driven Strategy Formulation Organizations can leverage deeper insights to shape their strategies and operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 15, 2025

Balancing Cost-Efficiency with Ethical Sourcing and Compliance Cost-efficiency remains a primary driver for supply chain strategies, but it must be balanced with ethical sourcing practices. Key transparency initiatives include: Supply Chain Mapping: Using digital tools to trace the journey of products from raw materials to finished goods.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2022

Logistics strategy as an enabler of new business models. They promoted logistics to the level of core process and enabler of new business models and now view a thought-through logistics strategy as an opportunity to stand out by offering a better service level to their customers, such as same-day delivery. Automation as key for growth.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MAY 15, 2023

They talk about the growing popularity of podcasts in the logistics industry and how podcasting can be a helpful tool for professionals to stay up-to-date on industry trends and insights. 00:17:09] Evergreen content strategy. [00:23:14] Blythe Brumleve and Joe Lynch discuss the state of logistics podcasting.

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Log-hub

JANUARY 8, 2025

Thats why its more important than ever to focus on strategies that work and make them part of your plan moving forward. Lets explore the key strategies that can keep your business ahead of the competition in 2025. AI-driven tools are helping businesses minimize errors and make faster, smarter decisions. Why it matters?

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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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FreightWaves SONAR

MARCH 12, 2021

Carriers must have state-of-the-art tools and technology to track and manage unusual and inconsistent activity in near-real-time. But what are these tools? And part of that means tracking real-time truck location, gauging market trends and much more. Download the White Paper.

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FreightWaves SONAR

JANUARY 28, 2021

Adjusting current logistics strategies demonstrated the second great challenge of the pandemic. Embracing new and improved logistics strategies remains the best way to adapt to clients’ changing demands in 2021 and beyond. Strong and versatile logistics strategies depend on this data. Download the White Paper.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 26, 2022

The business world has had little choice but to adapt to the new normal that called for more stringent business continuity and risk management strategies. So, what are the major ERP software trends and how will they unfold in the coming year? The post Tech trends transforming ERP in 2022 appeared first on SYSPRO Blog.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 9, 2022

Mid-market manufacturers need a tool that’s tailored to their needs. The BI tool needs to be able to easily pull all this data together for analysis. BI tools integrated within your ERP can pull your data into a data warehouse through predefined ETL (extract, transform and load) tools using a web interface.

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MTS Logistics

JANUARY 29, 2020

With heightened levels of consumer demand not looking to slow down any time soon, this article by business packaging experts, No1 Packaging , will provide you with three key logistics trends you need to be aware of in order to stay on top of future global supply chain management methods. Sustainability. Partnerships.

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Ship Monk

JULY 25, 2024

The partnership not only provides vendors greater access to buyers, it follows the trend of selling channel expansion across the ecommerce landscape. Target’s Motivation So why would a large enterprise like Target make such a pivotal pivot in its selling strategy?

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Supply Chain Brain

AUGUST 8, 2023

The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the supply chain management industry.

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Ship Monk

JANUARY 9, 2024

We can’t predict when joggers will go out of style (never, we hope) but we are pretty good at predicting ecommerce trends. ShipMonk nurtures relationships and facilitates integrations with shipping companies, as well as providers of third-party tools and systems that enable ecommerce businesses to thrive.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

Global Trade Compliance Is Not Showing Signs of Slowing Down Any Time Soon The Global Trade Compliance market is experiencing steady growth and is expected to continue this trend over the next five years. AI tools become more valuable when users can comprehend how the AI model arrived at its decisions.

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ECW

MARCH 5, 2025

Without a robust logistics strategy, this could have led to warehouse bottlenecks, delayed deliveries, and product spoilage. Industry Trends & Challenges While the industry is evolving with new advancements, businesses also face significant obstacles in maintaining efficient temperature-controlled logistics.

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WorkWave

MARCH 4, 2025

Understanding their trends is crucial for maximizing marketing ROI and driving business growth. One of the most powerful yet underutilized tools for achieving this is decile data analytics. By categorizing customers this way, businesses gain insights into overarching trends and identifiable behaviors within specific client groups.

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