Month: September 2022

Peak season is something that most retailers and third-party logistics providers have learned to handle in their fulfillment centers after years of experience, often by hiring temporary warehouse workers to help out with the higher volumes.

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.

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.