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In this edition: It’s not your mama’s bid season this year; Shippers are on the hook for carbon emissions; and UPS tries to get customers back on their side. The post Check Call: Bid now, don’t wait appeared first on FreightWaves.
Consulting firm Kearney recently released its 34th annual Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) report, “State of Logistics 2023: The Great Reset.” A major theme of the report is the great rebalancing from the carrier-dominated market of the past two years to a shipper-focused one as freight volumes fell against a backdrop of higher truckload capacity. The report notes that total U.S. logistics costs rose 19.6% in 2022 to a record $2.3 trillion or 9.1% of U.S. gross domestic p
Amazon cements its place as a supply chain leader amid uncertainty Retail giant holds onto first place FreightTech 25 title despite pandemic woes An Amazon Air jet gets loaded at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) secured first place in the 2021 FreightTech 25 — a position it has held for the past three years. The Seattle-based disruptor — known most widely for its lightning-fast shipping — seems to have a hand in just about every part of the logistics industry at this point. It is not surprising to see this und...