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Supply Chain Operations in 2028: Let’s Consult the Crystal Ball

Logistics Bureau

I have no crystal ball, of course, but instead I will tap into my consulting experience, add a dash of research, and fire it all up with some imagination to try get a picture of how the supply chain environment may look in eight years’ time. By 2028, offshore production could all but be eradicated. Welcome to the Robotic Future.

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Supply Chain Crystal Ball Gazing: Let’s Look Ahead to 2028

Logistics Bureau

Sometimes I just like to live on the edge, which is definitely a qualifying status for anyone bold enough to make predictions about the future of supply chain operations and management—but I just can’t help myself. I have no crystal ball and if I did, I wouldn’t know how to get a picture on it. Robots Run the Warehouse.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 16 – 22)

Logistics Viewpoints

The majority of positions are for in-store workers while others roles are for the company’s supply-chain facilities. We have been planning early and leveraging investments in our people, infrastructure, transportation and technology made possible by the Delivering for America plan.

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The Supply Chain has Big Aspirations for Blockchain

Enterra Insights

By 2028, Gartner projects blockchain will become fully scalable technically and operationally.” Hailey Lynne McKeefry ( @HaileyMcK ) writes, “Supply chain professionals are talking a lot about blockchain, and how it can be applied to address the increasingly global and complex nature of the supply chain.

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Top Considerations Around Reshoring in Today’s Supply Chain

QAD

Benefits such as low-cost labor, raw materials, cheap transportation, favorable regulations and proximity to suppliers were too good to pass up. Suddenly, it became all too apparent that a consolidated global supply chain reliant on a single nation for many raw materials and finished products wasn’t such a good strategy after all.

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In Logistics, the Last Few Feet are as Important as the Last Mile

Enterra Insights

If you’ve never heard that term (or simply don’t understand it), off the chain means out of control — like having your pit bull getting off the chain in the back yard and tearing through the neighborhood. 5] Staff, “ Rise of the Hyperlocal Fulfillment Center ,” Supply Chain @ MIT , 26 April 2018. [6]

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This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech- August 9 2024

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters features our latest full edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a compilation of funding, partnership and other noteworthy financial announcements related to supply chain technology providers. Lineage has reportedly acquired 116 businesses since its founding in 2028.