UPS capacity restrictions may provide some longer-term logistics takeaways - Logistics Management
An article in The Wall Street Journal this week explained that freight transportation and logistics bellwether UPS “imposed shipping restrictions” a few large retailers like Gap Inc., LL Bean, Nike, and a few others should not come as a total surprise.
The reason for that, as we all know, is that with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic leading to a major increase in online shopping, parcel networks have been constrained and restricted, in terms of the amount of available capacity they have, like never before. That is as plain as day.
What’s more, this frenetic e-commerce activity is going to remain fully intact through the holiday season and into the new year, too, when factoring in the impact of reverse logistics operations driven by returns, no surprise there. If you need more proof of that, then consider this statistic from the National Retail Federation that was included in the WSJ article: “The National Retail Federation estimated that online shopping jumped 44% over a recent five-day stretch that included Black Friday and Cyber Monday.” That is astounding but not entirely surprising either, given the world we are living in these days.
An article in The Wall Street Journal this week explained that freight transportation and logistics bellwether UPS “imposed shipping restrictions” a few large retailers like Gap Inc., LL Bean, Nike, and a few others should not come as a total surprise.
The reason for that, as we all know, is that with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic leading to a major increase in online shopping, parcel networks have been constrained and restricted, in terms of the amount of available capacity they have, like never before. That is as plain as day.
What’s more, this frenetic e-commerce activity is going to remain fully intact through the holiday season and into the new year, too, when factoring in the impact of reverse logistics operations driven by returns, no surprise there. If you need more proof of that, then consider this statistic from the National Retail Federation that was included in the WSJ article: “The National Retail Federation estimated that online shopping jumped 44% over a recent five-day stretch that included Black Friday and Cyber Monday.” That is astounding but not entirely surprising either, given the world we are living in these days.
