The Corona pandemic has had a profound impact on worldwide commerce and adjusting to the new normal will be critical in your company’s market placement planning. The complexly of the intertwined nature of a global supply chain is sensitive to disruptions in any part of the network. Trauma in one area has a trickle-out affect through the entire network.
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We are hearing about 5G everywhere these days. What does it mean and how will it affect our industry? 5G is the 5th generation mobile network. It is a new global wireless standard after 1G, 2G, 3G, and 4G networks. 5G enables a new kind of network that is designed to connect virtually everyone and everything together including machines, objects, and devices.
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Ever since the term “Logistics” replaced the “Transportation” business it has become more complicated. Today it is indeed a science. With the cataclysmic rise of e-commerce around the globe, innovative capabilities for last-mile delivery, reverse logistics, warehousing and technology will all be increasingly important. Investing in new capabilities is complicated, which makes finding the right third-party logistics providers for your needs more essential than ever.
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The digital supply chain has been in some form of patient implementation for several years. Covid changed that pace and ramped up implementation.
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The U.S. economy is improving after the destruction caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This cautiously positive outlook is based on experts' reviews of the key economic indicators, including gross domestic product (GDP), unemployment, and inflation. Analysts also have taken a hard look at interest rates, oil and gas prices, jobs, and the impact of climate change.
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Warehouse technologies can directly impact one of the most critical strategic goals and differentiators for logistics organizations; warehouse efficiency. If warehouse operations run inefficiently , the business is forced to increase its workforce and overhead to maintain high service levels.
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We have written about the emerging technologies affecting worldwide business and financial transactions for years now. Increasing technology innovations are making big waves across industries. Logistics and the supply chain may be one of the most impacted sectors. Notorious for its heavy use of manual processes and large amounts of data stored in different ways and in different places, the logistics industry has perhaps the most to gain from implementing new technologies and following the most innovative Supply Chain and Logistics technology trends. Enter the digital supply chain.
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Things are slowing opening back up. Hopefully, the trend continues with no significant spikes in infection rates. That being said let’s look at some industry trends we should all be aware of in 2021.
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The effects of the Covid-19 virus are yet to be accurately measured in terms of human life and global economic impact. Hospitalizations have begun to level out in parts of the country with the vaccine rollout. It is the universal expectation that the U.S. economy and the world will slowly recover from this pandemic. Perhaps as early as Mid-2021. Now is the time to formulate your organizations recovery plan.
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Given the turmoil of 2020, with the pandemic, the tense election cycle and public protests, we are all clamoring for a surer sense of what is to come. The real issue is not whether the economy will be strong, but rather how strong. We’re all cautiously optimistic that things are going to return to some semblance of normal some time In 2021. We may be wearing masks and social distancing for some time to come but the American economy is resilient. We will find a way to adapt and prosper in our new environment.
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