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The Great Decoupling refers to an exodus of production from China as businesses seek to improve supply chain resilience, these circumstances have been beneficial for a variety of other countries in Southeast Asia, including India, Vietnam, and Malaysia, among others.

Shares of the delivery giant sank 21% Friday, wiping out $11 billion in market value, and dragging the broader market to its worst week since June, as the results fueled concern of weaker e-commerce and business-to-business activity.

The cost of a rail strike is seen at $2 billion a day; ‘there aren’t enough trucks to handle that volume’ - for several days, the prospects for preventing a railroad strike or lockout rested with a handful of leaders from labor, industry and government, whose marathon talks led to a tentative agreement Thursday.

If the Inflation Reduction Act is to meet its goal of reducing carbon emissions by 40% by 2030, the industrial real estate sector will have a part to play.

As warehouses spring up nearer to residential properties, those residents have begun to push back with a battle cry that’s hardly new to commercial real estate professionals: “Not in my backyard!”

Although the global supply chain has shown signs of improvement in recent months, years of supply chain volatility have created a lasting impression on industrial real estate.

While e-commerce fulfillment might dominate headlines and account for the largest portion of demand, other business types also require the industrial real estate to operate.

Finding a 3PL that treats you as a strategic partner instead of just another customer will help to ensure a positive customer experience for both you and the online shoppers that support you.

Though industrial has positioned itself as an undisputed leader in commercial real estate since the pandemic hit, even this sector feels the impact of labor shortages, this article will discuss how The Great Resignation has affected industrial real estate.

Three of our top parcel industry sources offer their respective takes on one of the most ubiquitous parts of freight transportation and logistics - parcel and last-mile delivery, and with providers and carriers continuing to have the upper hand over shippers, they suggest to leave no stone unturned when it comes to carrier selection and leveraging partnerships.

With so many companies feeling the urgency to build resilience and better manage risk, with all the growing pressure to operate sustainability and with greater transparency on how and where products are manufactured and sourced, and with today’s ease and ubiquity for connectivity and information at one’s fingertips, what is preventing supply chain visibility?

The eCommerce industry is constantly evolving, and this year hasn’t been any different.

To combat recruitment and retention problems in fulfillment, many shippers have turned to their third-party logistics partners.

DHL CEO Scott Surredin sits down with Yahoo Finance Live anchors Seana Smith, Dave Briggs, and Rachelle Akuffo to talk about the state of the supply chain, progress made in hiring and automation, and inventory in warehouses and ports.

It’s great to talk about resilient and sustainable supply chains, but what do they look like in practice? And how do you achieve those goals?

Many of today’s modern enterprises are stuck having at least one full-time employee who lives and breathes the central email box, and their job is solely to open every email that comes into the enterprise and try to figure out what exactly the customer might be asking for.

Amazon is building fully-electric drones that deliver packages under 5 pounds to customers in less than an hour - watch how they rigorously test every aspect of the technology they build, learn from it, and update the system to keep improving the safety, reliability, and scalability of their delivery service.

Today, visibility is not just a convenient systems upgrade, it’s part of a greater movement to adopt a more unified perspective of the supply chain, however, despite growing complexity, there’s still a lack of end-to-end visibility.

British startup Market Dojo revolutionizes procurement standards by offering a 100% cloud eSourcing solution.

Companies are too often nearsighted when it comes to identifying challenges, business transformation isn’t about managing the gaps - it’s about preventing them.