Inflation

This whitepaper explores how businesses can effectively combat inflation by leveraging data-driven pricing strategies, emphasizing the superiority of value-based pricing for maximizing ROI and providing actionable steps for implementation.

Inflation remains a key factor influencing the freight market, with current trends showing depressed demand and low rates benefiting shippers.

The global manufacturing economy is expected to see slow growth in 2024, expanding by just 0.6%,

At a time when freight demand remains depressed, coupled with excess truckload capacity and pricing remaining firmly in shippers’ favor, one can point to any number of economic metrics to come up with opinions, or estimations, as to what is driving market conditions. To be clear, though, the metric leading that list still is very likely inflation, as it has been a major talking point in freight transportation and logistics circles for nearly two years, going back to when the...

Blue Yonder’s annual survey finds cost of materials and transportation being impacted; disruptions remain.

Study finds that 45% of SMBs are concerned with inflation as they seek to improve their supply chains.

Did the fear of product shortages contribute to the rapid price increases?

The Services PMI, at 53.4 (a reading of 50 or higher signals growth), was up 2.9% in January, growing, at a faster rate, for the 13th consecutive month. This marks growth in 43 of the last 44 months, with December 2022 being the one month with a decline over that period. ISM added that the overall economy, like the January Services PMI, saw growth, at a faster rate, for the 13th consecutive month as well.

Many businesses expect operational expenses to continue rising amid a muddy economic future.

In this podcast, Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman interviews Matt Muenster, Chief Economist for Green Bay, Wisc.-based Breakthrough, an innovator in transportation management, dedicated to creating transparent and fair strategies for the world’s leading shippers.

In this podcast, Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman interviews Matt Muenster, Chief Economist for Green Bay, Wisc.-based Breakthrough, an innovator in transportation management, dedicated to creating transparent and fair strategies for the world’s leading shippers.

Report from Catena Solutions finds the average investment has nearly doubled year-over-year.

Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman recently spoke with Chris Jamroz, CEO of Downers Grove, Ill.-based Roadrunner, a national less-than-truckload (LTL) services provider, with a focus on long-haul metro-to-metro shipping. Jamroz provided his insights on the state of the freight economy, the current less-than-truckload landscape, and Roadrunner's future plans, among other topics.

In this podcast, Logistics Management and Peerless Media Supply Chain Group News Editor Jeff Berman interviews Jon Monroe, president and founder of Jon Monroe Consulting.

Third Annual State of Procurement survey finds majority say spending increases are planned.