Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 3, 2025

The facility aims to reach full production capacity by the end of 2028. Novonix is also collaborating with local educational institutions to create STEM-focused training programs and offer employment opportunities to disadvantaged groups.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 19, 2024

They have invested heavily in developing a cloud infrastructure that offers elastic capacity, security, and resiliency, ensuring that their clients can scale their operations seamlessly and securely1. In addition to their robust TMS, 3G emphasizes the importance of continuous innovation and customer-centric solutions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

It might highlight logistics jams, manufacturing capacity, quality issues, or procurement cost trends. This allowed us to plan our manufacturing capacity more effectively. When the chief supply chain officer wants to review the performance of the supply chain, we start with the KPI dashboards. This is so much more than a control tower.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

This initiative comes as the logistics industry in Japan faces various challenges, including transportation capacity shortages and climate change concerns, and all companies are being urged to undergo significant transformations to further improve logistical efficiency and create an attractive work environment.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Separately, PJM advanced another proposal that would expedite the transfer of capacity interconnection rights from retiring plants to new ones, aiming to enhance reliability. The post Supply Chain & Logistics News Round Up (October 7th-11th 2024) appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Real-time Market Insights: DAT provides real-time data on spot market rates, capacity availability, and lane-specific trends, enabling informed decision-making. Advanced Analytics Tools: DAT offers sophisticated analytics tools to help users analyze market trends, identify opportunities, and optimize their freight operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 14, 2024

For a fulfillment plan, the dimensions of the pallets and the trucks, the number of trucks available, and the capacity of a warehouse must be current and accurate. If the amount of material a supplier can provide changes, the platform must know that immediately. Second, plans must be intelligent.

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DELMIA Quintiq

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The lack of available workers is noted as the biggest challenge manufacturers face when it comes to retooling operations for new products or additional capacity to meet customer demands. Featured below are excerpts of key findings and observations from the report: Operational challenges in the face of disruption.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2025

Some companies are using machine learning to refine their supplier selection processes, considering not only cost and quality but also resilience factors like geographic diversity, financial health, and capacity flexibility.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

For example, if a promotion plan has not been correctly modeled for the warehouse, there may not be enough storage capacity, dock doors, or workers to execute the days work. The same disconnect can happen in the warehouse and in transportation.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Many major challenges of 2021—capacity constraints, ecommerce growth and driver shortage—are rolling over into 2022 and, in addition, the environment and machine learning are becoming more important for logistics and supply chain professionals. This is clearly an opportunity and challenge for retailers and last mile logistics companies.

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Freightos

APRIL 2, 2024

Schedules were quickly disrupted and capacity shifted to China – Europe and North America lanes to accommodate the longer voyages. These changes made ocean capacity (and empty containers) scarce, sending container rates out of India spiking. That reached air cargo quickly.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The Ryan Air CEO Michael O’Leary said in his 30 years in the industry he has never seen capacity constraints to the current extent. For example, Ryanair was supposed to get 20 deliveries before the end of December. They will probably come now in January and February.

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This relative stability in September – though these rates, even with elevated volumes, are still partially facilitated by significant capacity restrictions by carriers – could point to the consistency in volumes projected by the NRF and the possibility of a moderate but sustained peak through October. kg since early August.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JANUARY 7, 2025

With a real-time connected network of 12 million drivers, OneRail matches the right vehicle for the right delivery so brands lower expenses and increase capacity to rapidly scale their businesses. This people-plus-platform approach features a 24/7 USA-based exceptions team who maintain a 98% on-time delivery rate.

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Taken together with reports that utilization levels are over 90% to the West Coast, though closer to 80% to the East Coast, spot rates still above contract levels and likely above break-even mean carriers – for now – are managing transpac capacity successfully. Freightos Air Index data show Asia – N. Europe rates of $3.70/kg

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

These initiatives also lead to cost savings by maximizing load capacity and reducing fuel consumption. Green Logistics: Optimizing transportation routes, consolidating shipments, and employing energy-efficient vehicles to reduce emissions. Advanced route optimization tools further support these goals.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Businesses’ top concerns include meeting customer demands, optimizing capacity to navigate volatility, meeting sustainability goals and finding skilled labor. The products and material deliveries are planned without taking real-world transportation constraints into account, such as truck capacities, schedules or incompatibilities.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 19, 2023

But with alternative routes and plenty of excess capacity available, operations should continue reasonably well, and freight rates are unlikely to spike to extreme highs. Together with ZIM, these carriers represent five of the top ten largest carriers and 56% of global capacity. But this time there is excess capacity to step in.

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Freightos

JANUARY 15, 2024

Despite these efforts, to date the attacks continue, pushing most major carriers representing over 60% of global container capacity, to alter their routes. In other words, while demand was dropping, supply of capacity was increasing. In other words, this is a far cry from 2021 and its dramatic capacity shortage.

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Network Analytics: Shippers gain granular visibility into capacity, helping them optimize sourcing and manage their transportation network more efficiently. RateView Analytics: DAT helps manage transportation costs with accurate market data, allowing shippers to set realistic budgets and adjust rates during volatile conditions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Discover capability gaps and create sourcing events Seek and discover what capabilities the organization may be lacking, such as vulnerabilities or inefficiencies in transportation or supplier capacity. Supply chain design can help identify and flag such capacity and capability gaps.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Teams are constrained by their physical resources, like trucks, inventory, and labor capacities, as they seek to resolve a disruption. For most supply chain and logistics teams, their execution options are not limitless. They are also limited by their supplier, carrier, and trading partner networks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

We didn’t know how long COVID-19-related shutdowns, and the ensuing port congestion and crunch on carrier capacity, would last. It now seems that port congestion and capacity issues will persist throughout the year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 23, 2024

Situation Companies are increasingly confronted with complex planning scenarios due to predictable events such as mergers and acquisitions, category expansions, supplier changes, and distribution evolution, as well as disruptive events including demand volatility, material shortages, capacity constraints, and logistical surprises.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 10, 2024

Supply Planning Supply planning systems create models that allow a company to understand capacity and other constraints it has in producing goods or fulfilling orders. Fulfillment constraints can include how long it will take to deliver goods to a destination, warehouse capacity, and warehouse labor requirements. Medium-term planning.

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Freightos

MARCH 19, 2024

.” – Zvi Schreiber, CEO, Freightos Group A true ocean freight eBooking instantly locks in a confirmed rate against actual capacity on a specific sailing, and these, much to Schreiber’s frustration, currently are the large minority of ocean bookings.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 30, 2023

Not only were factories shut down, but ocean ports were congested, vessels sat offshore for weeks waiting to unload, capacity on ships and planes. It was a scary time for the entire world but incredibly overwhelming for those working hard to keep global supply chains running.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Processes include yard check-in and check-out, asset presence and location, dock door scheduling and capacity management, and yard task and activity management. A fourth benefit is the ability to maximize throughput capacity of the yard. As mentioned above, the yard management system needs to be part of an integrated ecosystem.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 8, 2023

They haven’t done roughcut capacity planning.” Roughcut capacity planning is also called supply planning. Immature customers do roughcut capacity planning in a manner that is not at all accurate. I asked Mr. Botha of UST how the parameters in the roughcut capacity plan and production get set.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In other Amazon news, the company has adjusted its Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) seller capacity for the peak season. As part of its preparation, it offers most sellers higher estimated capacity limits for October. However, most sellers will also see lower estimated capacity limits for November. “In

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The integrated business plan is at the heart of balancing projected demand with the capacity needed to meet that demand. The critical master data for supply chain management includes sales orders, shipments, inventory, lanes, and manufacturing capacity. But then stuff happens.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

There’s an older term now being applied to supply chains for this capacity: antifragility. If organizations expand their capacity to learn they grow stronger with each crisis. Technology enables learning together and increases organizational capacity to make the best decisions across the chain, not just for their link.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 3, 2024

A supply planning solution may only be able to achieve rough-cut capacity planning for a large, complex supply chain. For example, if a promotion plan has not been correctly modeled for the warehouse, there may not be enough storage capacity, dock doors, or workers to execute the day’s work.

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TransAudit

MARCH 25, 2025

Bipartisan Infrastructure Laws Impact The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is driving improvements in freight infrastructure, including: Expansion of port capacity to accommodate increasing container traffic. Labor and Capacity Shifts As more freight moves through regional networks, driver demand shifts accordingly.

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