Shippers are starting to see the incredible advantage that can be gained through the strategic management of ecommerce, especially as logistics professionals move out of their silos and into the c-suite - three industry experts further contend that walls will continue to be torn down before this disruption reaches an advanced and fully evolved stage.
Crafting an annual rate forecast has never been easier, with soaring inflation, tightening cargo capacity, and a shrinking labor market, one thing adds up for today’s global logistics managers - the triple whammy.
The Ever Given container ship that has spent the last week wedged across the Suez Canal is under way again after being successfully refloated yesterday, ending the blockage of traffic in the strategic waterway that disrupted global trade and impacted international markets.
Last-mile delivery strategies have never been more important and can make the difference in keeping a customer or having them take their business elsewhere.
Two recent industry surveys indicate that China’s many diverse markets remain resilient as the recent pandemic recedes, but some prominent industry experts remain skeptical.
A wave of digital disruption surfaced in the freight forwarding sector a few years ago, with startups, suppliers, and even shippers using new technologies to develop a variety of innovative trade solutions, but the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic poses the ultimate challenge to these new models.
In this exclusive interview, Jonathan Wright, Global Head Cognitive Process Re-engineering at IBM, shares his views on a new report on how companies should use technology to leverage emerging patterns during supply chain disruptions.
The Port of Oakland’s cargo division has expressed its concern and has ongoing meetings with all stakeholders scheduled to take place this fall.
Leading tech, telecom, pharma, beverage and manufacturing companies collaborate with IBM and Chainyard to streamline supply chain management using a new blockchain network; Anheuser-Busch InBev, Cisco GlaxoSmithKline, Lenovo, Nokia, Schneider Electric and Vodafone to tackle supplier information challenges.
A new survey of 3,000 digital consumers and 800 online merchants conducted by ecommerce platform BigCommerce indicates that more than half of online shoppers have stopped shopping with retailers due to a negative shipping experience.
Those who meet the standards are eligible to apply for the ASCM Enterprise Certification, a designation that demonstrates supply chain excellence and transparency - a growing consumer value as they become more and more educated about supply chain practices supporting a circular economy.
The inexorable advance of Amazon is creating new challenges for logistics managers who must meet heightened shipper expectations while navigating today’s complex third-party logistics, 3PL marketplace.
According to a report by Avison Young, last-mile and ecommerce logistics are fuelling demand for build-to-suit distribution centers that are fully automated and reliant on technology to create supply-chain efficiencies.
The DHL Resilience360 report examines last year’s major supply chain challenges and identifies trends that will shape the risk landscape in 2019.
Ecommerce and logistics companies claimed a larger share of the 100 largest industrial-and-logistics leases signed in 2018 than they did a year earlier, underscoring the growing influence of those companies on U.S. warehouse construction, according to a new report from CBRE.