As COVID-19 continues to strain global supply chains, real-time visibility – coupled with timely communication – is more critical than ever. We’ve previously discussed the importance of proactive customer communication; an equally important piece of this...
Food shipments decline over 10% in the last month due to supply disruptions and plant shutdowns We saw it first in consumer packaged goods. When governments began instituting shelter-in-place orders, the news of toilet paper shortages and frantic runs on hand...
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt global supply chains, trucking capacity is more unpredictable than ever. Many non-essential businesses have halted production for several weeks, which has resulted in increased empty miles. At the same time, some companies...
As New York City has emerged as a leading epicenter in recent weeks in the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, the public sector has joined forces with the private sector in a number of ways to help mitigate some of the worst possible outcomes of the crisis. While much of...
New interactive tool provides advanced visibility into port and border delays to optimize supply chain operations during the pandemic CHICAGO, April 29, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — FourKites®, the #1 real-time supply chain visibility platform, announced today the...
Real-time visibility is still an emerging software category in many ways. Because of this, there’s still a lot of misunderstanding around what a quality solution looks like, what kind of results you can expect within a certain time frame, and even what constitutes a...
As the COVID-19 health crisis continues to force the supply chain to grapple with unprecedented logistical challenges, no region has been more impacted than New York. FourKites has been closely following volume trends impacting supply chains in four of the most...
Warehouses are busier than ever, with inbound and outbound shipment variation and demand peaks leading to headaches for warehouse managers and carriers alike. High shipment volumes make it difficult to adhere to appointment schedules, even as the importance of these...
Tracking ocean freight, even under normal circumstances, can feel intimidating. Toss in rapidly changing container-traffic volumes, closed ports and blank sailings, and it can feel insurmountable to keep track of your containers and take action toward improving...
Coronavirus has caused bottlenecks, but they don’t have to last. To the untrained eye, the second half of March looked like the toilet paper rapture. No one could find a single roll, let alone a 12-pack. Shelves sat empty in bodegas and Costcos alike; even Amazon ran...
