The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Source: IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Supply Chain 2022 Predictions — APEJ Implications. IDC’s March 2022 Future Enterprise Resiliency & Spending Survey showed that almost 50% of finance organizations are prioritizing consistent ESG practices and/or policies when considering industry ecosystem design and partners.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The Retail Trends Shaping How We Shop in 2022. Data source: eMarketer. As cited in Placer Lab’s Report on the Top 10 Retail Brands to Watch in 2022 , these smaller stores (down to 32,000 sq. Image source: Bring Me the News. eCommerce Purchases and “The New Normal” Retail Categories. Trust Google to have the answer.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Facilities sourcing and construction contracting were centralized in the procurement department. They add accounting information and where it should be shipped to. She came to BU from a different university in the Boston area in 2022. The post Boston University’s Sourcing Transformation appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

On February 3, 2022, Amazon announced its first price increase since 2018. What Is the 2022 Amazon Prime Increase Effective Date? The Amazon Prime price increase effective date will begin on February 18, 2022 for new members. Increased Labor Costs (Plus 2021 and 2022 Pay Increases for Amazon Employees).

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 18, 2023

As consumer spending fell, the days of escalating ocean freight and extreme shipping variability eased this year. In the spring of 2022, Asia/US ocean container rates resumed pre-pandemic levels and congestion eased in November 2022 into California ports. Build in-market sourcing.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

On top of that, some retailers are developing sustainability scorecards for items, allowing consumers to see hoe sustainably sourced and delivered their order is. Too often, warehouses use boxes to ship items that require a lot of additional packaging. Ocean shipping can play a big role in sustainability and energy transition.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

Continuing Disruptions in Transportation and Sourcing Materials After the pandemic, retailers are faced with new challenges and disruptions due to global conflicts, trade restrictions, and now recessions. In March 2022, online shopping was up 27% over the previous year. In 2022 overall, U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 12, 2024

Ongoing attacks on vessels in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthis continue to disrupt shipping lanes in the chemical industry’s supply chain, according to Al Greenwood, chemicals expert and deputy editor at ICIS. shipping containers and stacking them up to six high. shipping containers and stacking them up to six high.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2022

Shift in the centers of gravity of the demand: As of the beginning of April 2022, about four million Ukrainians have left the country for neighboring countries such as Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary and Moldova. Then I will also make specific recommendations for organizations to tackle these disruptions. This further adds to lead times.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 31, 2023

In the spring of 2022, Walmart created a new position among the roughly 15,000 employees who work at its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. Many experts are concerned that the formula shortage of 2022 could easily happen again, even with those changes. America shipped, received and returned 21.2 By 2028, annual U.S.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Procurement, activities such as strategic sourcing, are one of the main processes in the supply chains that can generate a positive impact on companies by giving them a competitive advantage in the market. Strategic sourcing can help supply chain leaders identify potential risk factors and develop procurement mitigation plans.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Today, more than 1% of the world’s container ships are stuck off major ports. Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. Too few companies have a holistic approach to embrace the plan, make, source, and deliver together.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

2022 Realities vs 2023 Predictions. 2022 was, undoubtedly, another tough year with many disruptions happening outside the four walls of enterprise – extreme weather, natural disasters blocking access to resources, port or border congestion delaying transit, panic buying artificially inflating demand, suppliers going out of business.

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 6, 2022

Predicting demand was never easy (with or without an astrologer), and, looking ahead, the challenges of global supply chain disruptions continue in 2022. Here are the top five lessons learned from 2021’s supply chain challenges, with tips you can apply to uncover success in 2022. Lesson #5: From Shipping to Stocking, Process Matters.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 28, 2024

The company disclosed the total of single-use plastic across global operations for the first time in 2022 after investors sought more details on plans to reduce waste. Almost all customer deliveries for Prime Day this year, which happens next month, will contain plastic no air pillows, according to Amazon. percent decrease from 2021.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Supply chain management The international sourcing of automotive components is now a common practice but it can still present challenges. To avoid this, distributors need an ERP that gives them visibility across the supply chain by tracking materials from source through to final destination.

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QAD

APRIL 5, 2022

QAD is excited to announce the general availability of QAD Adaptive ERP 2022, the latest version of QAD’s next generation ERP solution that includes the Adaptive User Experience (UX) and the QAD Enterprise Platform. QAD Adaptive ERP 2022 Highlights. The post Introducing QAD Adaptive ERP 2022 appeared first on QAD Blog.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The countdown is officially on for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Retailers turning to specific-day delivery over speediest shipping. Companies are coping with rising costs to source and produce goods in China and other Asian locales. In 9 days, the host country will take on Ecuador in the first match of the group stage.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 6, 2022

Empty shipping containers stack up at US port depots. UPS plans to implement its smart package initiative at 100 facilities in 2022, which will involve using RFID tags on packages to speed up throughput. There has been a lot written about the need for shipping containers. Industrial Market Update – Q1 2022.”

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 14, 2023

Vizion’s remarkable success led to Series A funding in summer 2022, and its API is now utilized by companies worldwide. Vizion changes the game by providing multiple data sources that are already connected, offering instant-on capabilities. Vizon provides multiple data sources for tracking containers across ocean and rail.

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ToolsGroup

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Image source: Bloomberg. Higher container costs , resulting in container-by-container decisions on what to ship. Image source: American Journal of Transportation. Macro Supply Chain Issues Caused a Ripple Effect. Container availability , leaving importers scrambling to find space. The Lack of Supply Chain Resilience, Exposed.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 22, 2022

I’m not talking about how shipping and logistics are key in keeping the supply chain connected during global health crises so we can keep essential supplies like medicine, food, and toilet paper moving. How Shipping Can Help Save The Planet. LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – March 2022. by Tim Foote, Founder of Susymbio.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 5, 2022

He explains, “In 2022, it’s going to be important that supply chain technology companies can really provide solutions that enhance connectivity and visibility.”[1] For example, the price to ship a container skyrocketed. For example, the price to ship a container skyrocketed. billion by 2027. .”[7]

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Global shipping is national news with most stories covering the symptoms. When the ball drops on Times Square to welcome in 2022, the employees at the Port of Long Beach will celebrate moving 9 M TEUs in imports: a 26% increase in year-over-year volume. meters, to accommodate ships with 20 rows of containers) and 15.2

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 30, 2022

as of April 2022 compared with a low of 1.09 At the beginning of June 2022, a 40-foot ocean container cost about $10,000 to ship from southeast Asia to Northern Europe This is compared to about $1,500 for the same route about 2 years ago. Now this begs the question of how retailers should prepare for the 2022 holiday season.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

are reporting that they are being inundated with requests from importers seeking to use provisions such as the “321 de minimis” rule, which allows goods worth less than $800 to be shipped to the U.S. Southeast Asian countries, Taiwan and India have become alternative manufacturing locales or sources of supply. This practice is illegal.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 22, 2022

The war for talent, has long been fought in Asia, as the region continues to be a power source of global growth, and as a result demand for talent often outstrips supply. How Shipping Can Help Save The Planet. LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – March 2022. This is an important strategic need for an organization to address.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Such real-time data and visibility functions allow for supplier comparisons as well as overall emission source contributor identifications, which can be focused on for improvement. In one case the fuel and emissions per kilogram shipped was actually halved for a customer! LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – February 2022.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 19, 2022

The ongoing impact of the pandemic brings greater challenges and obstacles with increased consumer demand, limited resources, shipping congestion, and labor shortages. This data is combined with other sources to always know the location of the shipments and the condition of the cargo, facilitating rapid, real-time action if problems arise.

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Logility

MARCH 10, 2022

In our ongoing commitment to deliver relevant insight into global markets and the supply chain, Logility executives offer key takeaways from NRF 2022 and what they should be considering to address today’s market challenges more meaningfully. Watch Logility’s webcast of the key takeaways from NRF 2022 here.

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River Logic

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Events over the past 18+ months (COVID-19, Brexit, Suez Canal blockage, India-China border conflict, natural disasters, cyberattacks on pipelines and shipping lines) forced companies to find new ways to deliver goods and services, secure alternative sources for needed materials, and simply determine how to survive.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 22, 2022

One Network’s NEO Platform handles supply chain forecasting, sourcing, planning and execution (with routing and logistics optimization) for what may be the largest supply chain control tower deployment in the world. Identify the source of the problem and fix it. Understand and Verify Sources and Origins.

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Unleashed

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

We’ve read the market reports, trawled the internet and identified key areas of change, and here we break these down for you with 10 of the major trends we expect to see in this industry in 2022 and beyond. Any B2B business that still relies on sales reps, in-person meetings and phone calls may see itself fall behind as we move past 2022.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 25, 2022

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group shares a Part Two commentary addressing our mid-year assessment of previously published 2022 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains published at the beginning of 2022. Restoring More Direct Control in Materials Sourcing.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

We can help business leaders by providing insight on the environment benefits or disadvantages of their different sourcing options to start with, but after that comes the physical moving of goods. Train, ship and airline technologies are lagging behind, but there are steps happening. This is the realm of the logistics professional.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Digital transformation will lead to the evolution and digitization of key procurement processes, from source-to-pay. This way, if one supplier is impacted by a disruption, you can source goods from another supplier. Teams should also revise expectations for tier-two and tier-three suppliers, shipping and freight partners.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 20, 2022

More than 80% of goods – by volume – are moved by ocean freight globally, so shipping costs directly impact the price level of imported goods. Sources: U.S. the Fed’s 2% per annum target, with the rate of inflation nearly doubling from September 2021 to June 2022 following the freight rate peak.

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