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• Ships from China to Europe are fully booked.• Lack of air freight capacity.• Rates are sharply rising – for sea, rail and air freight transports. (Bochum, 12/03/2020) No matter the size of the company, companies throughout Europe that purchase goods in Asia and especially in China are struggling with supply bottlenecks and rapidly growing […]

• Munich based fashion specialist opts for SCM platform “Made in Bochum“. • Complete control over the supply chain from the suppliers to the central warehouse.  (Bochum, 9/22/2020). The fashion specialist Hallhuber has established a reliable, global network of suppliers for several years. In order to make Hallhuber‘s supply chains more transparent, the company is now […]

• Freight rates for sea and air freight from Asia are rising.• Setlog’s SCM experts advise early planning and digital communication. (Bochum, 9/17/2020). Experts forecast capacity bottlenecks in the coming weeks and the associated rise in freight rates for goods transported from Asia. The reason for this is the Chinese national holiday on October 1, […]

Turkey overturns quarantine regulations for foreign truck drivers.  Air freight rates for Chinese imports are falling, but are still three times higher than before Covid-19.  Rates for rail transport on the new Silk Road are relatively stable. (Bochum, 06/05/2020) Light at the end of the tunnel: The transport market for the fashion industry is recovering. […]

Delayed mass deliveries from Asia trigger container congestion. Higher logistics costs and discount battles threaten the financial situation of companies. Drayage doubles to twelve days on average. (Bochum, 05/04/2020) A flood of late arriving goods from Asia is currently putting the fashion industry under pressure. Since the logistics centers have been full due to the lockdown, […]

Clothing reaches Germany up to 30 days later. Production and transport delays are only just beginning. Fashion industry cancels or postpones production of more than 800 million ordered garments. (Bochum, 3/31/2020) The consequences of the coronavirus pandemic are increasingly affecting the supply chains of the fashion industry between Asia and Germany. After fashion brands had […]

Clothing providers are rebooking more than 60 percent of airfreight shipments into ocean freight. Spot market rates for ocean freight double. Six million empty containers piled up in China. (Bochum, 3/25/2020) Full brake and roll backwards. Even the announcement by the German government that shops would have to be closed due to the pandemic caused […]

Coronavirus: Delivery delays of 20 days on average in the fashion industry Forecast predicts delayed deliveries of up to 50 days. Spot market freight rates for air cargo more than quintupled in some cases. (Bochum, Germany, March 17, 2020) The rapid spread of the Coronavirus is already having an impact on the German fashion industry. […]

• US fast-fashion specialist opts for SCM software “Made in Germany”.• Complete control over the supply chain from suppliers to customers. (Bochum, Germany, January 31, 2020) The New York-based company Jump Design Group has decided to implement the supply chain management software OSCA to make the global supply flows of the fast-growing clothing specialist transparent. […]

Bochum-based software house Setlog presents predicted lead times use case with Deutsche Telekom at Hannover Messe from April 1-5.  SCM and IT experts from Setlog explain advantages of the system at the International Data Space (IDS) booth in Hall 8 / C25.  (Bochum, Germany, April 1, 2019) How can companies increase their delivery reliability and […]