The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) is out with its 2018 State of Logistics Report, looking at 2017 data.

The headline news: after declining in 2016 in both absolute and relative terms, logistics cost were back on the march again in 2017 – to no one's surprise. What the report started calling last year United States Business Logistics Costs (USBLC) were up 6.2%, driven by especially sharp increases in Q4 – which have obviously carried on into 2018.

Last week, SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore produced his written summary of the report (see State of the Logistics Union 2018).

Below, Gilmore and Supply Chain Television Channel anchor Jim Stephens provide a video summary of key data in the report,  an excerpt from our weekly Supply Chain Video News broadcast with CSCMP.

Please take a look.