Logistics

ANALYSIS

Shifting E-Commerce Landscape Calls for New Look at Network Strategy

February 1, 2021

A massive channel shift driven by COVID-19’s e-commerce escalation demands a reexamination of facility locations and network strategy — as both have a growing impact on supply-chain profitability.

ANALYSIS

Five Smart Ways to Ride the Surge of E-Commerce Returns

February 1, 2021

Craig Leifeld, SCB Contributor

Forward-thinking companies go beyond treating returns as a necessary evil and embrace them as a critical element of competitive advantage and brand promise.

ANALYSIS

Connected TMS Technology Is Reaching Mom-and-Pop Carriers

February 1, 2021

Ryan Camacho, SCB Contributor

Transportation management technology remains a new frontier for many small trucking companies — those with 50 or fewer trucks — who make up 99% of U.S. for-hire carriers.

Last-Mile Logistics: 7 Trends to Watch in the Next 12 Months

January 31, 2021

Bobbie Ttooulis, SCB Contributor

As e-commerce booms like we’ve never seen before, so will growth in the final-mile sector. Here’s what we can expect.

Freight Firms Reject 1-in-5 Cargos Shipped From France to U.K.

January 29, 2021

Bloomberg

Freight companies are rejecting one in five contracts to take goods from France to the U.K. as border rules put in place after Brexit added to delays in moving goods across the English Channel.

Amazon Keeps Buying Pricey Jets to Meet Customer Demand

January 28, 2021

Bloomberg

Despite creating algorithms to anticipate shoppers’ needs and opening all those warehouses, Amazon can’t meet its one- and two-day shipping pledge to customers without an ever-expanding fleet of pricey jets.

DHL Unveils New Transportation System for Safe Bulk Liquid Transportation

January 27, 2021

SupplyChainBrain

DHL Global Forwarding, Deutsche Post DHL Group’s air and ocean freight specialist, has announced the launch of a new bulk liquid transporter solution, a system of Flexitanks called DHL Reefertanks.

Online Sales Ignite in Corners of World Late to the Revolution

January 27, 2021

Bloomberg

Years from now when the pandemic’s impact on global business is analyzed, it’s likely that the most lucrative change will be how it pushed — or actually shoved — massive markets into the modern e-commerce era.

Richmond-Based UPS Freight Being Sold to Canadian Trucking Giant for $800 Million

January 26, 2021

SupplyChainBrain

UPS Freight, created in 2005 when Atlanta-based United Parcel Service Inc. purchased the former Overnite Transportation, is being sold to TFI International Inc., the companies announced.

Escalating AstraZeneca Spat Highlights EU Vaccine Fiasco

January 26, 2021

Bloomberg

The EU’s standoff with AstraZeneca over delayed vaccine deliveries has widened, with Germany taking aim at the U.S.

Logistics

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