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Use Gartner’s Global Logistics Index (GLI) for Capacity and Pricing to Plan Logistics Strategies

Published: 16 July 2024

Summary

Whether boom or bust, global logistics markets are always changing. Supply chain professionals must predict and anticipate how these changes will affect their global networks. Logistics leaders can use this Capacity and Pricing Index to navigate changes, plan strategies and make better decisions.

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  • Gartner’s Global Logistics Index reflects an expectation of reduced pressure for logistics across all regions during the next six months. Although this is likely, disruptive events of today show that pressure will not be equal across the period.

  • Disruptive events taking place today were not foreseen. Red Sea impacts, combined with changes in trade flows, regulatory policy, nearshoring and dual-sourcing strategies, mean that we enter 2H with significant stress in the ocean market.

  • Respondents recognize that the trends across the different components (air, ocean, road and warehousing) of Gartner’s GLI require different strategies from logistics organizations.

  • Many of the component indexes now

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Brian Whitlock Amit Tayal Kimi Mirani

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