The value of granular supply chain market intelligence to mainstream investors was made infinitely clear with this week's announcement that S&P Global will acquire Panjiva, Inc. to enhance its prominent role in the world's economy.
A.P. Moller-Maersk intends to “transform” its logistics and supply chain model to compete with package delivery behemoths like UPS and Fedex. Industry analysts are skeptical.
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 · Rafael Duarte Alcoba and Kenneth W. Ohlund
Third party logistics providers are constantly fighting for competitive advantage. In a fragmented industry, having an edge is critical to success. Our thesis research sponsor company, a leading 3PL, gains that edge through a proprietary software.
Global supply chain managers seeking to understand the current construction sector may wish to consult the latest “market monitor” recently issued by Atradius – a consultancy specializing in trade credit insurance, surety and debt collections.
Commerce reported that its advanced estimate of U.S. retail and food service sales for January were down 0.3% compared to December at $492 billion but were up 3.6% on an annual basis. NRF data pointed to a 0.26% decline in retail sales from December to January, with annual…
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 · Gary Forger, Special Projects Editor
It's easy to think of technologies such as virtual reality, data analytics and autonomous mobile robots in the future tense. But that would be a mistake in 2018. Here's where those and other NextGen technologies are already at work in the warehouse or knocking on the…
San Francisco-based Prologis released its third annual Logistics Rent Index recently, drawing on data from Prologis' global portfolio and examines rental growth in critical logistics real estate markets throughout the world.
With the flourishing of e-commerce, product returns have become even more nettlesome for today's global supply chain managers. At the same time, however, new revenue streams are being created in the 3pl and warehousing sectors.
Logistic and supply chain giants DP World Australia and DB Schenker have announced the creation of a consortium, facilitated by blockchain startup TBSx3, using blockchain technology.
The index ISM uses to measure non-manufacturing growth—known as the NMI––headed up 3.9% to 59.9 (a reading above 50 indicates growth) in January to a new all-time high. This reading indicates non-manufacturing growth has now been intact for 96 consecutive months, with…
Demographics in our workforce are changing. Baby boomers are walking out our doors into retirement and Millennials are walking in for what could be 40 years in our industry.
The International Air Transport Association recently released full-year 2017 data for global air freight markets showing that global demand grew by 9.0%. This was more than double the 3.6% annual growth recorded in 2016.
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