Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This article is from Patrick Byers, DevOps Engineer at Lucas Systems, and looks at fortifying warehouse and distribution centers against cybersecurity attacks. The warehousing and distribution industry is highly reliant on technology for its operations. Why are warehouses and DCs so vulnerable to cyberattacks?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2021

” Accurate transit time predictions have become more crucial than ever given customer demands and expectations, the cost impacts of late shipments, and dynamic nature of today’s supply chains. Increased lead time accuracy reduces risks involved in transportation and logistics, improving your overall supply chain.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 24, 2022

Retailers also took steps to contain costs and preserve margins as they reoriented toward e-commerce like never before, including putting solutions in place to more effectively navigate carrier capacity caps and improve the visibility, accessibility, and mobility of inventory.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 25, 2021

Including CO2 emissions as a key criterion for carrier selection and using logistics technology to reduce or eliminate empty miles are the biggest opportunities to make an immediate difference. In many organizations, freight shipping has become static: companies use air cargo because that’s what they’ve always done. In the U.S.,

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 25, 2024

Managing yard and warehouse operations has long been one of the thornier aspects of transportation logistics. Yards are a choke point between transportation and warehousing — and wherever you have choke points, you have a higher risk of inefficiencies that drive up labor costs, detention fees and delivery commitments.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 31, 2022

If there is a tradeoff between cost and a sustainable project, is the higher cost/less sustainable project ever selected? It increases site productivity, reduces the usage of raw materials by up to 50%, but also leads to a more comfortable building. Is real progress being made? Do green projects have a lower hurdle for approval?

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 10, 2021

Following their fourth quarter results, top executives talked about their supply chain and omnichannel strategy at a high level. This new infrastructure will allow the retailer to expand ecommerce assortment while reducing both shipping time and cost. Walmart is also investing pickup and delivery capacity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Walmart is reducing its requirements that suppliers’ shipments to them arrive on-time in-full. Walmart fines suppliers whose goods arrive late or who have not shipped everything that they committed to ship. The fines, Uber Freight reports, vary by the costs of the products being sold to Walmart.

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Freightos

APRIL 25, 2024

e-commerce customers’ love for free shipping. ‘de minimis’ rule, which exempts imports under $800 from customs and makes brokerage fees minimal, they have shipped massive volumes via air cargo. rates soared to about $13/kg due to pandemic-driven demand and reduced capacity. Utilizing the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Rather than just offering consumers the choice of buying online or buying in the store, a retail omnichannel strategy involves a lot more paths to fulfill an order or to process a return. The need for new omnichannel capabilities – particularly curb pick-up and ship-from-store – soared. Then came Covid.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The long and unpredictable peak shipping season continues to challenge supply chains. A 2021 Peak Shipping Season survey conducted by Edelman Intelligence found hiring to be a strong concern among supply chain decision makers with 90% having a strong need to increase hiring to account for peak season and beyond. Higher freight volumes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 2, 2021

Weisenberger is leading their digitally enabled shipping initiative, she works in distribution operations rather than transportation. This consumer goods behemoth has driven ongoing supply chain productivity through their FORCE (Focused On Reducing Costs Everywhere) program. What made Ms. billion over the last 10 years.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 12, 2024

Autonomous supply chains can help businesses by enabling faster and more accurate demand forecasting, optimizing inventory levels and distribution networks, automating warehouse and delivery operations, and enhancing customer service and satisfaction. Degree two: Remotely controlled ship with seafarers on board.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

These facilities produce and ship 150,000 order lines per day. Like many companies, the French multinational produces a significant amount of its products in low-cost nations. For the first few years, the company created regional models to determine how to maintain or improve customer service levels at lower cost.

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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. Unloading times are double and costs are triple. Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. Design an Over-Arching Strategy and Building Blocks.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

As a result, my client became a pawn to eliminate as he drove to his goal of supply chain improvement. I was promoted to run the warehouse, and at the time, I had no experience in distribution, but was asked to run the largest distribution center in the system. A warehouse is the tip of the spear for dysfunction.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Centralized information eliminates data silos and strengthens information sharing through real-time communication (instead of point-to-point data transmission). Robotics enabled with AI and ML augment the work of humans in warehouses and distribution centers. Artificial Intelligence AND Machine Learning.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Just two days before Thanksgiving, FreightWaves reported an “all-time-high 93 ships” were waiting there. Consumer expectations for cheap and fast shipping continue to climb, and consumers increasingly want to order across borders , only compounding the problems. They face higher costs. and distribution points across a network.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 30, 2024

For retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, the busy shipping season came early. However, over-the-road transportation costs remain low. As companies look ahead to the next three to six months, they’re weighing costs, risks, and demand as they plan and adapt their inventory strategies.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 15, 2023

Nathan is the EVP of Strategy and Transformation at STACI-US , a leading provider of supply chain end-to-end solutions. Nathan is currently pursuing his doctorate in business administration with a concentration in strategy and innovation at Columbia International University and has Masters Degrees in Business and Public Administration.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

On top of the insatiable desire for everyone to buy online fueling ecommerce growth in DCs, the high cost and scarcity of warehouse labor is crushing to many DC operators. The warehouse automation market is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of approximately 14% and be worth USD 30 billion by 2026. In-Warehouse Travel Optimization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 31, 2022

With gasoline prices reaching record highs , transportation managers must make smarter decisions that minimize road miles and associated costs. The energy crisis in China and the European conflict are bringing additional chaos in the form of production shutdowns, raw material shortages and blocked shipping lanes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 25, 2021

A storm may leave roads closed, warehouses shut down, utilities lost, and employees stranded. Global trade regulations and conflicts, as well as tariff threats as a political tool, could cut off sources and markets and push your business plan into the red. The average cost of a data breach reached $3.86

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 2, 2023

FourKites, for example, can tell one of their shipper clients how long carriers are sitting on average at their warehouses and how this compares to the industry average; Or they can tell a shipper client the appointment reliability at one of that shippers customer’s distribution centers. The solutions reduce fines.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Fewer labor resources are available to meet the rising demand in both the warehouse and in transit. ? Talent shortages, especially limited drivers, will exacerbate the capacity crunch and result in shortages across warehousing and transportation simultaneously.? . Increasing fuel costs also play into the available capacity woes.? ?

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

FabFitFun Warehouse in Chino, CA FabFitFun is an interesting retailer with a complex supply chain. They have assembled a set of hardware and software solutions to enable huge surges in shipping. This is an interesting retail niche, but it comes with a supply chain that has huge surges in shipping. Mr. Van Erlach explained.

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ToolsGroup

APRIL 4, 2023

By land, by air, by sea – transit organizations know the competition is fierce for retaining customer loyalty, requiring inventory management strategies that balance consumer needs with sustainability initiatives and business goals. Many airlines have their own warehouses that feed “stations,” or stocking hubs, at the airports themselves.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Even consumers find making online returns a pain, having to repack, print shipping labels for and drop off unwanted online purchases. Online consumers today have come to expect cost-free and hassle-free online returns policies. Reverse logistics is difficult and costly. For retailers and carriers, sending a package is easy.

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ToolsGroup

OCTOBER 10, 2022

For manufacturers, the overall health of the supply chain is one reason inventory control is so critical; it has a direct impact on profits through an income statement item called cost of goods sold (COGS). Rising Costs of a Tight Labor Market. Inventory Control: 7 Strategies to Ensure High Service Levels and Maximum Profit.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Following the cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline, GlobalTranz technology leaders weighed in with some perspectives and insights for how supply chain partners can help customers reduce the risk of cyberattacks with the right technology and preventative strategies. #4. Peak Shipping Season Update: What’s Driving Change in the Industry?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, reported its best quarter in 117 years, posting a $5.9B Ships continue to hold in the west coast harbors of LA and Long Beach, and the west coast warehouses are full. Much of the inventory on the ships at sea will miss the essential seasonal windows.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 21, 2024

The challenges brought about by the pandemic made many rethink strategy when it came to inventory, stock on hand, secondary options and the ability to guarantee supply and resiliency. Cost and Efficiency – The most obvious factor to consider when deciding whether or not to pursue self-distribution is cost.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Third, what are the big trends in warehouse and transportation management? For the warehouse, the biggest trend is to maximize the pace and speed to meet customer service level agreements. Finally, a real focus on cubing – not shipping lots of extra air and packaging – is all focused around sustainability. WMS and TMS Trends.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 21, 2024

bans exports by Oregon freight-forwarder in warning shot to industry Container losses fall to record low Warehouse wages rise to average of $18.99 bans exports by Oregon freight-forwarder in warning shot to industry Container losses fall to record low Warehouse wages rise to average of $18.99

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 17, 2022

GlobalTranz works with manufacturing shippers every day to move their goods and streamline their logistics strategies. Here are the challenges we’re seeing across the industry, and what they mean for your supply chain and your shipping processes. But with every challenge, there is an opportunity to innovate and grow.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 14, 2022

The available talent pool of drivers, warehouse associates and other employees is small, which creates staffing volatility. And their operating conditions are extremely challenging and unpredictable, from skyrocketing fuel costs and tariffs to blocked shipping lanes and ongoing geo-political conflict.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 7, 2022

According to the results of a study published in Computers in Human Behavior, determining ideal transport routes in combination with a higher fill level of the trucks can lead to a significant mileage reduction. These vehicles can enable operating companies to reduce their number of required vehicles and lower cost structures.

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