Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

In 2023, Amazon experimented with new logistics strategies and technologies to quickly fulfill and deliver orders, and these changes paid off big. Amazon shipped last-minute Christmas gifts faster in 2023 than in 2022, according to data from analyst firm Momentum Commerce. products on the platform warned it would ship after Christmas.

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American Global Logistics

MARCH 5, 2024

Specifically, we covered the threats, impacts, and mitigation strategies disrupting supply chains. Persistent Red Sea Risks Continue to Disrupt Critical Trade Route The ongoing conflict in Yemen has created several shipping risks in the Red Sea. In particular, there is a risk of Houthi rebels laying mines in the shipping lanes.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 18, 2023

The high stock levels are the result of retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers stockpiling everything from beer to DIY tools, chemicals and clothes as COVID-19 lockdowns snarled supply chains and shut factories. But the process has been much slower than expected and may drag into next year. 11 release.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 26, 2023

store operations by 9 percent over the past year, slashing hundreds of millions of dollars of goods from their balance sheets and suggesting space is opening up in their jammed supply chains. Target’s inventories at the end of the last quarter were 16 percent lower than the same period a year ago and Walmart cut inventories in its U.S.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog provides both perspectives and self-rating observations regarding our January 2024 published Research Advisory- 2024 Predictions for Industry Global Supply Chains. Supply chain teams benefitted from such actions.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Elenjickal noted that over the last 36 months, supply chains have become more complex than ever before. This leads supply chains to continue to operate in silos, rather than in a connected manner. As a result, supply chains continue to be wasteful when looking at time, inefficiencies, and emissions.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This blog was co-written by Chirag Modi , Corporate Vice President, Industry Strategy – Supply Chain Execution and 3PL Global Lead, and Jen McQuiston , Product Marketing Director. Under normal operating conditions, the Panama Canal handles 36 to 38 ships per day. Wait times to cross the canal have increased from 2.5

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JANUARY 19, 2022

Massive supply chain disruptions are being experienced around the globe, and the causes are many and complex. Factors affecting the supply chain. When China shut down operations in a bid to contain Covid-19, supply chains ran out of material. Shipping challenges. The pandemic.

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Freightos

JULY 5, 2017

Logistics Technology Q2 2017 Roundup. Logistics Technology Trends. For enterprise forwarders and carriers, the marching orders for Q2 appeared to be freight visibility, as a number of companies unveiled solutions to enhance cross-supply chain visibility of shipments. Download the full report now. DOWNLOAD REPORT NOW.

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

JUNE 21, 2022

Contrary to general opinion, the causes of the supply chain disruptions currently being experienced worldwide were prevalent long before the Covid-19 pandemic. . This has created long lines of container ships waiting for berths creating delays that never existed before – from days to weeks.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 31, 2024

Learn the best practices for supply chain risk management in 2024 from Resilinc, the gold standard for supply chain resiliency. As risk managers audit their vendors and programs at the start of the year, it’s also time to clean up old strategies and supply chain practices.

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TMC

DECEMBER 8, 2016

New Panama Canal Options: Running the Numbers with a TMS.Connect by TMC. When the expanded Panama Canal opened this June, a new set of routes became available for shippers and beneficial cargo owners (BCOs). As described in my previous blog post , the enlarged Panama Canal can handle container ships up to 13,000 TEUs in size.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Supply Chain Matters provides our latest update regarding the Red Sea Transport disruption impacting transport movements to and from European and Asian ports. Further, Japan based shipping line Mitsui OSK Lines indicated a belief that this disruption could extend thru the balance of 2024. percent to 4.5

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Supply Chain Matters

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides our latest news capsule edition follow-up relative to updating our readers to prior industry supply chain management developments that we have shared on this blog. Increased automation of fulfillment services is cited as a further reason.

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Supply Chain Matters

JANUARY 3, 2024

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group through its affiliate the Supply Chain Matters blog shares samples of individual prediction snapshots that will be included in our Annual 2024 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains Research Advisory publishing later this month.

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The Network Effect

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Last month the world’s largest container ship, the MSC Oscar , set sail from a South Korean shipyard. It’s hard to comprehend just how large the ship is… here are some examples of what it can carry: 19,000 shipping containers. These massive ships are also behind the current project to widen the Panama Canal.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 13, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog highlights a recent technology provider survey indicating that there appears to be little signs of traditional second-half peak period demand for container shipments. Background In a prior Supply Chain Matters commentary published in May , we highlighted that the U.S.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

Opinion Editorial by Wolfgang Lehmacher, Operating Partner at Anchor Group and Mikael Lind, Senior Strategic Research Advisor at Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) and Professor at Chalmers University of Technology. Shipping Routes: Clydebank Declaration. In the works is a global maritime taxation system targeting bunkers.

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Precoro

MARCH 22, 2023

A smooth-functioning supply chain is vital to meeting buyer expectations. Despite your best supply chain planning, supply chains get disrupted – sometimes moderately and at other times massively. The supply base, no matter how meticulously put together, depends on numerous external factors.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 13, 2016

The shipping industry saw growth and expansion in 2014 when compared to the state of the industry since 2008. The economy was on the road to recovery, and more technology was being developed and deployed to increase the productivity and efficiency of fleets. Expansion of the Panama Canal Will Increase Incoming Ocean Freight.

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Abivin

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Passages, capes, and straits are defined as geographical areas through which international shipping routes must transit. Chokepoints commonly have shallow, constricting depths, which hinder navigation and place restrictions on ship capacity. Potential for closure or interruption. Gibraltar and Suez during World War II).

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 10, 2023

The Ferrari Research and Consulting Group thru its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog, provides a reassessment of our prior prediction related to supply chain ESG strategy and action plans over the next 2-3 years. However, economic and manufacturing recession conditions are now being observed.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 13, 2017

I’m on borrowed time this morning, so let’s go straight to the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: DAT Freight Index Hits All-Time High in September. One Network Delivers New ONE Chain™ Solution. The Panama Canal’s Big Bet Is Paying Off (WSJ – sub.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 19, 2015

It’s the last Friday of school and my kids are showing off their work this morning, so as I fill my coffee mug and get ready for the walk to school, let’s go straight to the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: Amazon’s Next Delivery Drone: You (WSJ – sub. The $50 Billion Question: Can Uber Deliver?

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Freightos

JANUARY 28, 2016

Parcel delivery has been transformed by technology and the impact of e-commerce on last mile delivery. Expect drones, robotics, augmented reality to impact lower down the supply chain. Forwarders have their innovation heads in cloud technology, so that they move data as well as they move freight. Like reach (e.g.

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Freightos

JANUARY 28, 2016

Parcel delivery has been transformed by technology and the impact of e-commerce on last mile delivery. Expect drones, robotics, augmented reality to impact lower down the supply chain. Forwarders have their innovation heads in cloud technology, so that they move data as well as they move freight. Like reach (e.g.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Supply Chain Trends in 2016: A Year of Defining Change.Transportfolio by C.H. From the Panama Canal opening to a record year in ecommerce, the happenings of 2016 have kept everyone on their toes. This is in large part driven by supply chain visibility needs and technology changes. Year of Global Revolution.

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DELMIA Quintiq

AUGUST 30, 2016

A clash of planning capabilities in shipping. Now let’s switch to the shipping industry and the places where congestion occurs the most – in ports and canals. Take the example of the crossing of Panama Canal. Complexities in achieving planning precision. Precision in planning is not given the attention it deserves.

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MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

When shipping product into a country as large and complex as Brazil, the choice of transportation routes has a critical impact on supply chain costs. Some 800 factories supply goods to around 10,000 delivery points worldwide, requiring the organization to make more than 100,000 deliveries monthly. It is a tough challenge.

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Supply Chain Opz

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

James Winebrake, Dean of College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology There are a number of important trends happening in the freight industry, spanning all modes of transportation: trucking, shipping, rail, pipeline, and air. In the U.S.,

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

JULY 21, 2014

.   The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are vital to the LA economy, not only because they provide a significant number of jobs in the shipping and logistics industries, but also because they give the city itself a competitive edge with regard to shipping times and transportation costs when it comes to operating a global businesses here.

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MIT Supply Chain

MARCH 5, 2015

But the implications of this standoff between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association go beyond idle ships and stranded freight containers. First, over the next several years, new shipping options will become available to US companies.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 22, 2024

The CFC, which consists of transportation stakeholders across the trucking and motorcoach industries, says that policymakers must address these cost concerns and infrastructure hurdles to make an electrified supply chain function smoothly for the American economy. Intel wins $19.5

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 5, 2014

For example, the widening of the Panama Canal will change the conditions here in North Carolina, as enormous container ships will be circumnavigating the globe. And in Panama a huge transshipment area will grow where they will will do break bulk, put cargo onto smaller ships and send to North America.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Infrastructure growth is a major issue for companies who ship a lot, especially those like CAT who ship heavy permit loads from the ports. The developed a tool to assist with decision-making. Global Distribution Global Supply Chain Logistics Supply Chain Strategy Transportation Planning Working Capital Management'

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Resilinc

MARCH 5, 2024

Navigate the top climate change issues set to impact the supply chain in 2024. As temperatures continue to rise, the intersection of climate change and supply chain resilience demands increased attention from businesses worldwide. In April, the Panama Canal Authority will reevaluate water levels.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 15, 2024

The tolls that ships pay are now around eight times more expensive than normal. Ship operators fear that their crews could be imperiled on the journeys through the Red Sea by missile or drone attacks from a Yemen-based rebel group. Cargo volumes through the Suez and Panama canals have plunged by more than a third.

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